In this episode of Buyers and Co, the hosts delve into important newsworthy events and discussions from recent headlines. With a focus on a tragic mid-air collision involving an American Airlines flight and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter, along with various political updates, the episode presents a comprehensive overview of current affairs.
Key Topics Discussed
Tragic Air Collision Incident
- Accident Overview: Last night, a regional jet collided mid-air with a helicopter near Reagan National Airport, resulting in severe casualties. The American Airlines flight was carrying 64 passengers, including members of the U.S. figure skating team returning from a championship.
- Search & Recovery: Search efforts are currently ongoing, with initial reports indicating multiple fatalities and ongoing searches in the cold waters of the Potomac River. Experts warn of hypothermia risks complicating survival chances in these frigid conditions.
- Public Reaction: The hosts express shock and sympathy, reflecting on the tight-knit nature of the ice skating community impacted by this incident.
Political Landscape
- Health & Human Services Nomination: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faces contentious discussions regarding his past comments on vaccines, highlighting the ongoing debates surrounding healthcare policies and public trust in medical data.
- Legislative Changes: The recent passage of the Lincoln Riley Act expands deportation powers for immigrants charged with crimes, setting a controversial tone in immigration policy discussions.
Public Sentiment & Reflections
The Experience of Tragedy
- Cultural Impact: The discussion shifts to how collective tragedies resonate differently across communities, often becoming more poignant when they involve figures from the public eye or relatable professions, such as teachers and athletes.
- Media Consumption: The hosts reflect on the evolution of news consumption over the decades, considering how technology alters public response and collective consciousness during tragic events.
Light-hearted Commentary
- Weather and Local Updates: The episode provides a lighthearted take on local weather forecasts, encouraging listeners to prepare for upcoming rain and cold temperatures while managing everyday life.
- Sports and Entertainment News: The show wraps up with discussions about recent sports updates, including rumors in the F1 racing community and ticket giveaways for local events, keeping a balance between serious matters and community engagement.
Closing Thoughts
In conclusion, the 013025 episode of Buyers and Co offers insightful reflections on significant current events while blending serious discussions with local warmth and humor. The hosts encourage listeners to navigate the complexities of public life with understanding and curiosity.
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This is a Fox News Alert. They keep looking for, but not finding, survivors near Washington DC. I'm Dave Anthony. After an American Airlines regional jet about the land at Reagan National Airport last night collided in mid-air with the U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter. They exploded and went down into the Potomac River. One of the most tragic things was I saw them pull the body out. It was flag drinks.
I assume that was one of the military personnel. He lives nearby. There are reports of multiple bodies recovered. No one found alive yet. There were 64 people on the plane, three on the helicopter. Fox's Rebecca Castor close to the search in the river. The water temperature is at about 40 degrees overnight. It was about five degrees colder. So when we're talking about water temperature, that is that cold hypothermia sets in in about 15 to 30 minutes. And experts say, you know, once that hypothermia sets in,
The body really has about an hour, hour and a half before it shuts down. The plane was coming in from Wichita. Senator Jerry Moran is from Kansas. We're praying that our responders are safe and the folks who are on that flight.
are recovered. Some of those on board remembers of the U.S. figure skating team athletes and coaches flying back from U.S. figures getting championships in Wichita, Kansas. President Trump posted on Trues Social. Why did the helicopter go up or down or turn and why did the control teller tell it what to do calling it a bad situation that looks like it could have been prevented.
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Good morning and welcome to the Thursday edition of Buyers and Company. We'll check in with Paul Osborne, City Hall Insider, Mark Tupper and Tupper on Sports,
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Good morning. Thank you for that forecast, even with the rain. Sounds pretty good looking pretty good for the next week temperature wise watching this mid air collision and all the news coverage in and around that last night into the early morning hours today. And you just man, there's things you just don't understand how can this possibly happen and evidently this plane. I didn't realize I don't watch a lot of ice skating, you know,
unless it comes to maybe the winter Olympics, but I guess evidently in Wichita, they just literally had the United States ice skating championship. Yeah, which is the biggest deal here in America, you know, for that sport for the year. And there were people coming back from that, including some former Russian champions that have lived here since the late 1990s. I don't think we have a totality of the list of all the people involved.
64 passengers, I can crew members, I believe are the latest number, three aboard the Black Hawk helicopter and just looking at early morning shots there in the Potomac as they are trying to find survivors and God, you would hope that hold out maybe miraculously there could be some, it's awful. When I was not in, maybe sophomore in high school, freshman in high school,
They had that Air Florida flight that hit that bridge into the Potomac. Do you remember any recollection of that? Well, I don't. I don't remember it as like a thing, but I've studied it or learned of it. Sure. Yeah. It's a very similar. These scenes in the Potomac there, uh, just tragic, uh, uh, God. And I know the water temperature there is cold and there's a lot of people out there doing what they can. It's just hard to imagine how something like this can happen.
with today's technology. You know, in 1982, we'd probably be shocked to learn how planes were coming in and they can take you off or helicopters and, you know, with radio communications and yet it did just horrible awful. Yeah. I mean, just being a training mission for the helicopter, darkness possible. Who knows what's going on with communications and just
human elements too. It's just terrible. And that was, you know, hard is to say this, Snowy January, day 43 years ago. A long time. This is the worst air accident there in DC since then. And it did bring back those memories. You know, we consume things so differently in 1982. Yeah.
You know, we did, you know, the challenger was just the anniversary was maybe yesterday or the day before. And in Auschwitz, and the reason I know this is we have like a daily announcement at school. Okay. And here, you know, here's what happened in history today. And you start to think about all the different things. And I actually thought about how you consume it. Cause the students are like, are you bringing up the challenger? I'm like, you don't understand that it was one of the very few moments where the whole country stopped.
and looked at the thing that was happening. It was tragedy in its own and all the things not to take away from it, but the cultural significance of that sort of thing. And now, this would stand out. This is standing out in that way, but at the level that it does today, because everything can kind of stand out. But if this happened isolated 15, 20 years ago, this would be another one of those moments, probably, where we look at that and go,
Oh my goodness. But we can kind of consume things and move on from them. It's just a different way of consumption. Yeah. But it's, it's just not. It wasn't as readily available. And there were 700 channels and ways to sort of consume the information. January 28th, as you just said, was the anniversary of the shuttle in 1986. I remember where I was clearly that day. Do you?
I was seven because I was probably at enterprise. Did you learn about it at school or did you find out about it for sure? It was part of my life, but not at the moment. The only there's two that I remember watching in TV during school and one was the I want to say it wasn't Desert Storm, but I think it was Desert Shield like the very
beginning stuff, school kind of leaned into that. And then OJ, I remember the AV cart getting reeled into a biology class to watch the verdict. The AV cart, for me, for both of these things, the challenger would have been later, but Reagan being shot, you know, like coming out of the hotel. They did that at school?
It happened in the afternoon or after a luncheon. And I remember it being announced that then it was probably more at home after, you know, turning on ABC news or whatever. Are they announced it in school? I believe so. Yeah. Yeah. And the challenger, I was at Richland Community College, but not the Richland Community College you think of. It was the Richland Community College that was literally at Park 101.
Which is where our buddies at star silk screen live that used to be the temporary home for Richland, right? And it was one of those things where they would have a TV and you got to go back to 1986 it didn't look like it looked today with big screens everywhere and all that kind of stuff I mean it was like there might have been a TV right and just all the people congregating around that and
as that tragic news was unfolded. That was me at Milliken for 9-11. Yeah. Was it the huddled TV, the singular TV? And that was that was sort of that. I'll tell you, I can kid you not. I think on 9-11, there was a black and white TV still in the newsroom, like hanging in a corner, you know, like it had never been changed. Wow.
How crazy is that? Oh, it just heartbreaks with families and people involved and people just not knowing and all that. But it looks like this was a large, if not all, big chunk of the ice skating sort of family, that kind of circuit kind of thing, whether you're from other countries, it has to be a fairly tight knit kind of group that moves together, travels together.
They all go to this thing in Wichita. So, you know, I just can't even imagine what they're feeling this morning. No, and I've been in airports. This usually happens more either in Atlanta or LA, LA because of the proximity of where the people are in Atlanta because it connects to everywhere else. But I've been in terminals where like you look and it's like a fiber, a fiber up to eight or 10.
bands getting ready to go to an Australian show, like all together. Or here's the entire contingent of this. And you think about it. It's like close knit and it's it's almost everybody, you know, and there'll be tracksuits or whatever, you know, like you'll see college teams. Right. And when you think about something like that, we're like just with the snap of the fingers, an entire community of some sort. So I don't mean just ripped apart. Yeah, it's just wiped out. Yeah.
And I don't know if that's the only passengers that were aboard or not, but that's, you know, what's being reported this morning. So thoughts and prayers clearly to all the family members and people who are associated with that. You know, life is just, you know, things happen and mistakes happen and sometimes they're tragic and in the result of loss of life. And just I think about cold water and that's such a
I don't know. It's hard to wrap your head around, right? I mean, a plane crash is horrible. Yeah. Think about over cold water and so, you know, hypothermia can kick in pretty quick, pretty quick, but even quicker than that is losing dexterity and you get stiff and things like that. So you're not even with your full faculties after like two, three minutes.
Plus the panic. It's man. It's tough awful. Just awful. Anyway, we will keep those folks and if there's any news breaking, stay tuned. We'll have news at the bottom of the hour at the top of the hour as they continue. They only confirmed people that I know and the confirmation was from Russia, not from the US. There was a pair.
of skaters that were from a while back. I think they're more like coaches and people that are in the community today that have been living in America for a very long time, but came to fame as Russian athletes. Two figure skaters were the only ones that have been identified by Russia that were on board that plane.
But it's thought to be that there was a much larger contingency from the ice skating world and some of those folks who were not on that flight or, you know, commenting on social media and offering their thoughts and prayers and stuff. So clearly that community has been devastated overnight and into this morning. We have a whole bunch that we need to get to here today. I said Debbie Bogle and she told me the other day she's not going to be. And I think they have a presentation or something this morning.
So I had a meeting with her yesterday. Mike, my calendar feels all screwed up in my head this week. I don't know why. I just feel off. Oh, well, yeah, this, this week does feel like today at times yesterday felt like today was going to be Friday. Yeah. But it's clearly not. It's Thursday. Another one to do. We have a whole other one to do tomorrow. So we met, I met with them yesterday, which was weird because I know
Yeah, it's a lot of stuff going on. A lot of conversations going on. A lot of things happening this week. I do want to get to some TV stuff. I do want to get to these ridiculous rumors swirling around F1 over the last 24 hours about Max Verstappen and Fernando Alonso swapping cars. I don't know if you've seen this pop up.
it is now kind of it was a slow trickle. And now it's a I guess a drum beat. I don't know that it's histriotic yet or fireworks, but it's a drum beat. Yeah, I hadn't seen it with any sort of credibility. So I had seen the trickles over the last however long and
I also did see that Ferrari got crashed. Thankfully, Lewis is OK. That's the most important part. Sorry. Welcome to the club. You got to get one in sooner or later. That's right. So crash that red machine. They're all going, oh, the expense. But yeah, that that happens. It's not going to be the last one. No, probably not. Probably. But Lewis is OK. That's the good news.
As long as he's been driving it's probably as usual as it can be just because of his breadth of experience Yeah, but it still has to feel weird to do that much money damage to something I think this one is weird for him because it's the first time but I think it's he's probably mentally conditioned and I know what the audio sounded like Sorry guys. Yeah, sorry me
I mean, that's just soft and short and sweet. Always. I mean, that's as far as you're going to hear them go and they mean it. But you kind of know there's still counting dollars in their head. Oh, yeah. Long as you're okay. That's right. I mean, he has nothing more to offer. I wrecked a car. I mean, there's no reason to go. I lost the steering. I mean, it's just, I'm sorry. Moving on.
So there are people that are speculating and it is all speculation. And if you follow the sport at all and you read the day to day reports in and around F1 and especially when there's a vacuum.
You know, during the silly season or during the off season, you know, where there are some weeks where there's not really news other than Lewis wrecking the car, you get a lot of this stuff. I mean, a lot of it. Oh, yeah. And you get a lot of it during the season as well, but it seems to get sillier when there's no raises going on. Well, the difference is they can mix it in with what happened at the race or what's happening at the next race right now. That's all they got. Yeah.
So I'm reading this thing and Mark Hughes, who writes for motor sport, which is a fairly, you know, decent size publication, whatever we call them today, would have been a magazine, you know, years ago.
that the rumors of this team swap involving Max Verstappen going to Aston Martin and Fernando Alonso going to Red Bull are gathering pace is how they put it. And they're all tracking this about new week, you know, leaving and how maneuvers are going on. Can you possibly see this? I mean, what would be the advantage for Red Bull? I mean, not that they would have even maybe a choice if that's what Max determines he wants to do, but
buy. If OK, so if you're Red Bull, I guess you maybe like the veteran who's maybe a little more willing to work with your young guy, maybe. And then you know he's not going to be there long, so you can bring in your next young guy. You start your team over and you assume you're losing max anyway. OK, so that that's I guess how Red Bull could wrap their head around it. Aston Martin's like, of course, let's bring in the top driver in the world. And my son can just continue to be there. And I still can compete for not for world championship.
And it's, I mean, it works, but the two way traffic, how those two things could coincide as a, as a thing is I, it seems not really feasible for me. It doesn't seem like they're sitting there, Red Bull and Aston Martin's talking about it. And then Fernando and Max, like those are four entities.
That's a lot of coordination. Okay. So Adrian new is the only, you know, wild card here for me. You know, he gets along very well with Max and he is, you know, the car designer. That's right. All car designers.
Excuse me, if you're new to the sport as I was not all the long ago or you're, you know, they're going into a new phase in 2026. They will have new cars, you know, because Formula One makes them on a regular basis, rethink the whole thing. And it's kind of a reset and some will come out of the gates and look how far we are ahead of the pack and some will be way behind the curve. So it keeps things interesting, even though it hasn't stopped.
Red Bull from dominating, you know, you've got money and smart people former Sadie's, you know, before that, certainly. But new week is given a lot of credit for that behind the scenes. Great car maker. Then you had the Christian Horner, all the stuff, whatever, fair or unfair, you know,
And then with Max, you've always got his dad. And this is the wild card that I'm watching this drama go on with the Miami heat with Jimmy Butler and Pat Riley. And then I think the only thing to make it worse is if Jimmy Butler's dad was there, you know, fueling the place. Jimmy got that cover, don't you? Just fine. All on his own. Third suspension of the month.
coming his way for walking out of practice. But I think do you want all that drama? And if you are committed, and I believe the Elder Stroll is committed to want to spend the money to want a winning team or a champion driver. But you also have, no matter what happens, his kids not going anywhere. So they're not ever going to run that team the way an actual team would run. I think no.
I disagree with that. I think Lance is just a second guy. And so you bring in a top heavy guy and he chips in that then they would cap Sergio Perez. I mean, if that's asked to mark, no, I met then Red Bull would have had their second guy who chips in that isn't going to help. But that's Red Bull. Red Bull doesn't do that, but does Max want to do that? Or does Max only care about the driver's champion?
The way I look at that, again, with the four different parties, the two car teams and the two drivers. And I guess we could even add the two older guys stroll and Mr. Verstappen, the six people there. I can make cases for all six of them why this would work. OK. I mean, in each one of them, except they don't have a car. No, no, no. I'm saying individually, each one of those things I can see, OK, I'm going to go build a new car. I'm going to be the top. You can build that. But how all six coordinated it wants to be on the same page and for it to just go,
Here's a few announcements happening independent. That doesn't even seem close to real.
I don't know. Do they coordinate together? Like do a trade? I don't know how that would even work. It doesn't make sense, but you can see where a Fernando wants to go to a winning team. I mean, you can even see I'd be fine. It's just sounds like what they call fan booking to me that more than anything. Okay. Maybe it is. I just see. I'm seeing more and more of it. And I think it's just because we're in the off season and there's less to right. But this guy that I read, you know, no, not at all. And he's laying out the case.
Now, if you're Max Verstappen, I can't believe even with Adrian Newey that going into that situation and then the dad, which is I don't even know how you factor that into it because they're not happy being a four time repeating world champion and winning everything and there's still drama. Well, maybe the two dads get along really well and Max goes
This place is toxic. I don't like it. I'll go over here. They're going to build me a car with the guy that knows how to build cars for me. I don't have to worry. I like Lance. He's an all right guy. I'm just going to go do my thing. I could see where he'd be. OK with that. I don't know that he would be and I don't. I can't speak for him, but I could see. Well, and here was the other connection that isn't as obvious just looking at it, but they've asked Martin is now with Honda and that was
If you go back, you know, it's hard to believe Max has been at Red Bull for 10 a decade. Almost, you know, I mean, it's because he started when he was just turned 18. That's right. And Honda, you know, and Red Bull's leaving Honda. And so the car and the engine that Max has had all of this success and all of these championships with is now at Aston Martin. We know that's a big deal because as Lewis was getting ready to fire up the Ferrari for the first time,
You can see the way that it was written was, oh, it's going to be very interesting to see Lewis fire a Ferrari engine up for the first time. Not drive a Ferrari car, but that engine meaning, hey, I'm used to this thing. And this might be an entirely different thing.
And so that is a pretty good connection and a good point that you just made. I didn't make it. Mark used to point it out. So anyway, there you go. I'm just, I'm thinking about this drama and it is going to be so crazy. We're just about 40 days out from the first race and there's going to be six new faces. Well, two have been around this year, a little bit with Oliver Beerman and, and in Colorado, but there's going to be a lot of new faces and things are going to look different.
And it's the last year of this configuration, meaning who knows what lives ahead for 2020. And there was a lot of different people that podiumed or did well last year. So the most ever. Yeah. So, you know, there's an opportunity to see something new every week, which I think is kind of fun. We'll see. It shall be interesting. At least I hope so. All right.
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Or is it literally pen to paper do to do do? I met in that particular case. He was just feeling it. And it's not a good. And they're just go for it. I just like, you know, when you look at the lyrics is do to do to in there. Yeah. Okay. Good morning. Looks like they're starting a press conference at Reagan National Airport from some of the folks there in Washington, D.C. will
give any pertinent information that comes out of that. So I headline in my Apple News feed. By the way, I don't get paid for this. There's no endorsement deal here. If you're not using the Apple News feed, I think you're really missing out on a way to get a lot of information right to your fingertips in one place that you can curate
any way you want to. There's a significant drawback is they pull from a lot of subscription services. Yeah, but if you look at them in the app for the most part, like I'll tell you some, yes, you will click on and you'll learn those very quick and you can just hide those or knock them out. You know, if you click on it, you go in and ask you to subscribe.
But what I have noticed, there's a lot of subscriptions included in the Apple newsfeed that you get without having to pay those subscriptions. So I think it works both ways. So like if I send a link in my email for us to talk about on the show and I try to open it on the PC and here, it won't let me open it. But inside the Apple newsfeed, I have full access. So I think that works both ways. Yeah, I don't have Apple news anymore.
And when I clicked on the most recent link, what it did was it sort of prompted me to sign up and all this. And now I'm getting Apple news alerts every single day. I'm sorry. It's not your fault. I used to get them. I stopped using them. They're like, oh, you want more? Here it is. Look, there's no perfect thing. I just like the fact that you can pick and choose. And it does the AI on their end works to me, I think, a little better in configuring what your interests are. You know what I mean?
like it feels as curated as anything else does to me. Not perfect for sure. Like I know the Washington Post. So I just don't follow it anymore because even in my feed, I click on it. I don't even get a free article. It's every single one. It's like, OK, well, you're not the only one reporting on this. I can find this information from some other source. But if you like something obscure, like F1, it will scour the world and give you all the F1 tidbits. Sure.
or whatever it is your, your interest might be. Uh, but anyway, I saw this headline. I say, and I almost clicked on it and I said, no, I'm not going to do that. I refuse to do it. Uh, because they're already giving me a story about the best and we're super bowl ads of this year. Yes. Yeah. I'm not clicking on it. And I know that's a thing and I know they're going to be available to watch on YouTube or whatever ahead of time, but doesn't that sort of take away from the experience for some for others that enhances. I'm one.
that it does take away from. So I don't watch them. I don't look at them. I don't. If I hear that to watch out for one, that's part of the experience. Like, Oh, I heard JLo is going to be in it. Oh, cool. I'm going to watch out for that. I don't want to see the actual JLo commercial. I don't want any of it. I just want to I want to take in that whole day without any sort of influence. But I understand people that
that like to know things and can't and like want to share it with their friends like, Oh, this is hilarious. You've got to see this. Make sure you're watching this one. I like that that's available to me after the fact. Sure. You know what I mean? But I feel like this is the one thing we have in this world today where it's still sort of a real time shared experience meaning the Super Bowl. It's I mean, it's the biggest. There are
But we used to have a lot of big ones. Yeah, it's just the biggest. There are still really big ones. I mean, we watched a game last week in 56. No doubt about that. I'm not saying it's the only. I'm just saying it's the big one where everybody. I mean, you did say it is the one. It's the biggest one. Yeah.
That's the big one that people gather, whether they're sports fans or not, whether they're football fans or not. And the numbers will be bigger than last week because there will be a lot of people that really are Kansas City fans or any other. I mean, they're just in for the experience. The food, the camaraderie, guest parties, whatever it might be. Now, I'd rather not do all that. I'd rather just be in my house and be comfortable. But I want to have the commercials come to me.
Sure. Just it's not being a lot. It's just nothing. Just let that happen. I did. I'm not stressing over this. I'm not running into these. I see the articles all the time. They're not spoiling it for me. I'm not clicking. I'm not stressing about anything. I'm just saying you're almost made to feel a little bit like old fashioned if you don't want to sort of pre watch all the thing that you want to see unfold.
And it's not spontaneous. It's all played out. But your experience is that sit there on the couch handle whatever and go, oh, that was good or that was terrible or whatever and judge it as you go. Sure. I don't want people to tell me at a time which ones are good or not. I certainly don't want to see them. Sure. Yeah, don't let them. They've had these lists for a long, long time. Well, I remember, uh,
They've had the list. You've been able to see most of them for maybe 10 years, something like that. That's out about right. I mean, I mean, they've had the list of like, Oh, somebody's going to be in something, but the ability to actually watch them at it. It's not a list for years. I mean, you could watch all of the upcoming Super Bowl ones. There will be a few that that they that they either pull a swerve on, switch out a commercial, add a little something to it. But you've pretty well been able to see a bulk of the slate for several years at this point ahead of the ahead of the game.
But others that have gambling attached to them or contesting or something super secret or big reveals, you don't generally get all of that. You might get teasers. But yeah, we're just in that world at this point. No, I get it. I'm not. And if people like that, feel free. I'm just saying it tempted me. And then I went, oh,
I don't want to know ahead of time. Good. There you go. I want to have some surprises. I want to have trailers. I don't generally watch them anymore. I used to consume every drop of them. Oh, the third trailer, the red band trailer. And then I realized I just want to see it. I just want to show up, have the lights dim, and then boom, let's go. And so I try not to know anything.
All right. We've got a lot to get to here today, including City Hall inside of Paul Osborne, who will be in top of the hour a little later today, Mark Topper and Tupper on sports. And don't forget our line. I take it's for this weekend against Ohio State for tickets courtesy of the first mid ticket window. Do you watch any of the J or the arcade junior testimony yesterday? I saw a little bit in your studio and then saw some of the clips. And those I think I covered it.
I mean, I don't, I don't watch any of them. Like, you know what I mean? I'll, I just want to know where are the highlights or low lights? What happened? Did it happen? Is there confirmation? Is there, you know, but by and large, no, I don't watch any of them. I don't, I don't care about that. I don't care about the process. That's their job to do. Not me. I can't do anything about it. Get that totally. But sometimes it is an interesting window into people where we're getting usually presented on a stump.
or in front of a crowd or off a teleprompter or a preplanned speech or whatever it might be to see somebody answering questions sitting on the hot seat, you know, and not having to just, you know, give you the script. Right. It can be a fascinating look at personalities. Oh, yeah. And then people will curate that. And then I can watch it in 40 second bits or read about it. And that's good enough for me.
I am interested in what you just described, but I don't want to invest the whole day to wait for those moments to arise. I'd rather be doing almost anything else. I get that. I really do. It is hard for me to believe that we're even in this country having a conversation about putting this guy in charge of healthcare. I mean, it is almost impossible for me
And that he even has to go through the steps that he didn't just get to be put in there. No, no, no, no. I'm just saying that anybody, Republican Democrat, I mean, this isn't because whatever the party affiliation, whatever the office holder, whatever the whatever, that anyone would think this was a good idea. I mean, that's that is the will of I get it. But if you watched that yesterday,
And even if you didn't watch it, you just got the highlights or whatever you might, however you consumed it or not at all. You know, John Federman had raised some eyebrows by suggesting that he was open to listening to Mr. Kennedy. And that wasn't, you know, people didn't like the way that came off. Like, you know, what does that mean? Who said yesterday that it was disastrous?
and who said it was just a gentleman after saying ahead of time. I think it's okay to say that it's all right to listen. Yeah, but he got a lot of flack for that internally. You know, but but he signaled that he was open to you know, hearing from and whatever. And I think that's your I agree with you. That's there's nothing wrong with saying sometimes it might only take a second. Yeah. But I mean, look, if
If the will the people say that this is what we want, you have to at least hear it. Now, when you hear it, you can make your I don't know that I cannot for the life for me. Think of why a rational human being who consumed any of that yesterday, five minutes or two hours would come away with that thought I was listening to an infectious disease doctor last night who survived Ebola. Well, I mean, has been all over the world with this. And you know, and
Granted, he looks the part. He's got the scrubs on. You know what I mean? Like, but from a medical point of view, you know, and I've spoken to a lot of people that are medical professionals. I mean, this is what they do with their life. Highly educated people that have spent their life, you know, in this realm. It was just, and I think it was Bernie Sanders yesterday who had all his pictures of these onesies.
Now, you're a lot more familiar with a onesie today than you were a few years ago. Yeah. You know, what a onesie even is. That's right. I don't know what onesies cost. These were $75, which seemed kind of high for kids. But yes, a onesie. This organization that he helped out and these onesies were all about, you know, anti vaccine messaging on the onesies like no, no gray. I mean, all in.
about anti vaccine that were being sold through this organization. He started as he sits there and now tells you, well, my kids are vaccinated. I would have every year that it's unbelievable to me. Totally believable. Well, I mean, they told. I mean, this was not this. This is months in the making. This is what was said.
This is what was intended and now it's just happening. I mean, it's totally believable. It's not totally believable to me that anybody with any serious side to themselves at all would listen to what has been said, what has been sold, what has been marketed, and then sit and listen to what he tried to say yesterday and reconcile those two things. Either you're just genuinely being dishonest and don't care. Or you're too afraid to do whatever.
But I don't believe anybody's brain above like a second grade level can look at those two things and go, well, yeah, you know, I thought the 75 dollar price tag for the ones that seem to have premium ones cost like 40 bucks, like premium, like high-end stretchy, breathable, the whole mind.
And I don't mean like Gucci, you know, I mean, like a really solid one. Yes. They're five bucks a Walmart. Yeah. Four dollars a Walmart. That's 75 bucks. So you could wrap your infant in a anti vaccine message. Yeah, that's a little high. If nothing else, onesie prices might go crazy.
That's 75 before this guy in office. I don't know. I don't know why the world you'd want to use your baby as a political message. But that's just me. Ron writes in that he was in grade school when the challenger exploded distinctly because it remembers it so well because one of the astronauts was a teacher and she was supposed to do some type of class for students. Yeah. Yes, that's exactly. Yeah.
And then I think that did have a way more human connection with people, not that people couldn't identify with astronauts, but astronauts seemed like way up here. There was a teacher there. Yeah, and that was by design. Yes, but I'm saying, but then I think that's why there was such even more sadness and a connection to that horrible thing because a teacher was there. Yeah, you know what? A lot of times we find things.
I read some language about the helicopter crash today. And one of the statements that were made was there are reports that no VIPs were on that helicopter.
And there's what they're saying is no dignitaries, no, you know, five star generals, not the president or whatever to their families or whatever. Those are VIPs. But collectively, we look and go, Oh, we lost three soldiers or whatever. And we kind of just go or even 60 passengers. Right. But but when we can think about the idea that it's a man, there's people that we enjoyed watching ice skater or a teacher or something, no doubt about it. It makes it feel like we lost one of us, even though those three
people in the military are the same. I don't even think it's anything that's wrong. It's human nature that you don't relate to Bob the insurance guy from Omaha. But if they were a figure skater or they were a teacher or something that is relevant in your life that everybody can relate to in the same sort of way, it does feel there's a deeper human connection and there's nothing
right about that. But I think that's exactly the way it is. And there's a level of connect, like, almost, well, if you sign up to fly in a spacecraft, you know, those types of things happen tragic. Nonetheless, we're sad about that. But you sort of can do, you can rectify it to a small degree cost of doing business. But what why is a teacher? You know, it's most people
are sad for the human being either way. But it also works the other way. They had that whole thing. It was called Teacher in Space Project. Her name was Christa McAuliffe. That related, they wanted to keep funding coming to NASA. And they wanted to sort of keep doing this. And how do you do that? Will you get broader interest? That's right. And you start a teacher program and then classrooms they're going to be talking about. So that connected in real life the way it did in real death.
Yeah, NASA, you know, growing in popularity and gaining momentum from all different walks of life and people wanting to do that. And there was a great reason. I have to look up that NASA documentary that I watched in the last couple of years that it was multi-part, but it had all of this, how all of that came about and why. And it was very, very interesting. So there you have it. But yes, Ron, you're exactly right. Those things have
They stand out and they stand out, I think more so from your past because there were just fewer channels and ways to, you know, everybody had a more shared experience around a certain thing rather than a thousand versions of it. That's right. That was kind of my point earlier, just about the Super Bowl, not the only thing, but it is the biggest thing where we still do that. Yep. That's okay. Complaining.
And more importantly, we do it at the same time. That's what I mean. Real time. I mean, that's a distinction that needs to be made in modern society. That's exactly right. Football fans enjoyed the Chiefs Bills game together at the same time. Yeah. Everyone or most everyone will enjoy the Super Bowl. That's right. At the same time and the same way. It's on Fox though. It's awesome. Is it?
They're, they're my least favorite. And when I say that, it's not a detriment at all. It's not a barrier to me. I, I just, I like CBS a lot better. I like Fox's presentation, like their graphics. I like Terry and, and Howie and Terry's kind of like there's people worried.
Yeah, he's not at his best, but he's still pretty good. You know what I love is seeing what their footwear they're wearing. Did you see that at the game this past weekend? No, but I do generally look for like Jim Brown or James Brown. You know, he looked like he had like ug booties on. You know, he's got the suit and everything. But if you look at, it's like an aging rock band. Just look at the footwear. Joe Bucks been wearing like hocus or whatever for
man. Yeah. But this is just for cover. This is like just really old man shoes like that are or or it's like their Eskimos. I mean, you know, like these are my warm shoes or something. It's just hysterical. I didn't see that. Yeah. But I like Fox in general. I'm not, I'm not sold on the, they're 18. I don't love their 18, especially since Buck and Aikman left them. Um, and that's weird because I'm not a huge buck fan. Um, but I, I like their presentation better than CBS. See, we asked for you. Really? Eric to me.
Maybe it's an age thing. Maybe it's just feels more comfortable to me because it's been in place for, you know, Jim Nance has been that constant. He's better. Jim and Tony are better than Tom Brady and the other dude. Well, can you think of the other dude's name? It's just me. No, it's not. I can't either. Yeah. I usually get Greg Olson on my game, so I'm spoiled. They almost always assign him to the Falcons. So I get to hear that. They shut him out of the playoffs, right? I think so. They're messing up with him. He's the Emmy Award winner. OK.
best broadcaster, sports broadcaster of the year. You follow that a lot more than I do. And I only know that because I was like, what, how good is it? No, I'm saying you know way more about that. That's all I know. That's the only fact I have a barrier to me watching the Super Bowl at all. Oh, not at all. I just, and maybe it's my familiarity with CVS, just having met a lot of those people and, you know, it feels
little more user friendly to me. And I don't know why. And I'm sure that's even the phrase for lack of. I don't know how to eat the phrase that I would use. It feels a little more good morning America to me to where they do a little more of the fairway shots and stories with it. And Fox is a little more football centric. And I think that that's probably the difference. And I have no problem with either approach really. I don't either. I just say my preference and it rotates. That's the way it's always been.
Yeah. Does NBC do anything anymore? Mm hmm. Yeah. They have some games. Where are their games like Sunday nights? Or is that Thursday's Amazon? Monday's ESPN. Sunday's the NBC football in America or football night in America or whatever it is, right? Yeah, with the country song, Gary Brad. No, not care.
Yeah. It's a really. All right. So I told you about the golf, the golfiest golf injury of all time. Let's hear that. Okay. Scotty Scheffler, the number one player in the world. Okay. Okay.
he was hurt. I didn't. Here's how he got hurt. All right. He was trying in a rental house. Don't know if that means like at a tournament or just for the week ahead of attorney. Well, he missed the first two tournaments of the year because of this injury. He was trying to make homemade ravioli using a wine glass to cut the circles and broke the wine glass into his hand and wrist. Oh, man.
What other sport? What other sport would you get on the, the, the, the, the eye off for making homemade ravioli with a wine glass? Well, it's not the worst I've heard the
carrying groceries. Wasn't that Sammy Sosa or somebody that slipped their back? Yeah, but that's a normal injury. I could relate to slipping, carrying groceries, homemade ravioli with a wine glass at your vacation rental. I mean, it's the food. It is the golfiest golf injury ever. It's pretty food. I'll give you that. I want him to be okay. And I'm not rooting against him. And I like Scotty Sheffler. It just feels like, man, I would feel stupid admitting that. Yeah.
I will say he's shaping up to be one of the maybe all-time greats. I will see trajectory wise. He's got to play a lot more years. But his win percentage and his placement is man. He is really putting up numbers.
it that even close to a tiger was did i i mean so you just got to remember that he's not there no no we we do this with all sports we all do we do this in life it's just you know recency you see it yes guide chef was on but let me phrase it he's on track
could be if they can play another seven or eight years like this. And that's just not a given. Um, with the crazy thing about golf, uh, for the most part, I mean, you've got maybe five, six, seven players that have played careers. And then you've got people who play really well for eight period of time. Yeah. It's such a mental game. We'll see. I root for him. I've run against him with the ravioli with the one glass. That's a golf. That's a PGA injury right there. That's pretty funny.
And he warned people, uh, after doing it, that this is way more common than people thought and it can be a lot worse than what he had. Be careful with wine glasses. Oh, I thought he met ravioli injuries. I was like, come on, man. They're not that good. I don't think so at all. All right. Let's do this. Nick's got your three day forecast top of the hour coming up. Paul Osborne will join us. The city hall insider and don't forget at the end of the show, a light night tickets to give away courtesy of first minute.
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