Perusing the Prez Polls

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Let me crack oupen my uh doctorzva, which is my my stevia
plant, the sugar substitute soda thing, and cheers to you on this here
a Thursday Thursday that hits the spot. I like polls. I like polls

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for a lot of reasons. There'sno doubt that polls are inexact science.
They are not one accurate. Infact, a lot of times they are
inaccurate. And that's totally okay withme. You know why, because we
know that going in, I don'tlook at poles and I don't say this
is gospel. I don't as muchas I would love to have some clue

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as to what is going to happen. This is why we do this kind
of thing over and over and overagain. In fact, the poll I'm
about to talk to you about isa Fox News poll, which I follow
pretty regularly. They have made thesekinds of polls for This is the tenth
one in the last eleven months.So they tells you about the amount of
time that this has taken place.So with that being said, what does

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the poll say? Came out yesterday? I didn't get to it by the
end of the show, but I'mweird ready to go. I'm been looking
at this bad boy for a whilenow, and there are some things that
I think are worth talking about.First and foremost the overall. Hey,
if there are two choices, Bidenand Trump, who do you pick?

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And Trump has had to lead thelast five times they've done this poll.
It hasn't been by a lot.It's been fifty to forty six, fifty
to forty six, forty nine toforty seven, fifty to forty five.
Last time he did the poll wasback in March. It was forty eight
to forty nine percent. Sorry maymy mistake. It was May forty nine
to forty eight percent, Trump barelyahead of Biden, and obviously that's basically

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a dead heat, because let's thinkabout this in a more serious manner.
This is a plus minus three pointson the margin of error, and they're
asking just over one thousand people eachtime. This is not a poll that
is, you know, wide swaththe one hundred thousand people are taking part
in it. So there's going tobe a bit of a gap, probably

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on a pole to pole basis,could be an outlier one hundred percent of
the time. It's never going tobe legitimately accurate. But Joe Biden has
retaken the lead forever. That's worthin the head to head fifty to forty
eight percent. Fifty to forty eightpercent. Now fifty percent is is Havevesi's
right, forty eight percent almost havesThe's The other two percent of people still
apparently have not made a choice.If those who are the options, they

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did expand the idea. So ifwe add third party candidates, what does
this look like. Biden in thatquestionnaire also takes the lead after being behind
marginally, not by a lot,but it's forty three to forty two percent
now in favor of Joe Biden,again well within the range of the margin
of era. But what is surprisingto me? I guess surprising might not

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be the right word. It's prettypredictable, to be honest. But it's
unfortunate. And this is what IThis is why it's unfortunate. Third party
candidate Robert F. Kennedy Junior,who just a few months ago was pulling
at roughly fifteen percent in nationwide polls, well they have him down to about
ten percent. This is why Ithink this is tough. And by the

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way, if Jelstein and Cornell Westare also included, they're each at two
percent. But I look at thisthing on a basis of straight up American.
I'm thinking America. I'm not tryingto look for they're into it.
I'm not thinking about political parties.I'm not thinking about one way or the
other as to like, oh,yeah, this is definitely the way that

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we should be doing things, orno, we have to protect these people.
I'm not trying to think in thatway. I'm trying to think in
a way of hey, you know, I think America deserves the opportunity to
hear what these people out to say. Now random third party candidates like whatever
libertarian you know for whatever's name isthe Green Party, Jill Stein. You

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know, if no labels would havehad somebody, it'd probably be very very
minute, right, those I get. I can understand. If they're pulling
one or two percent on a nationwidepull, that's not enough to justify giving
them a ton of TV time.It's not enough to justify having you know,
if America really is looking for anotheralternative, and that's the amount of
support that these people are getting,then Americans need to do their due diligence

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to figure out if those are thecandidates for them. But that's such a
small number, I can understand notneed to include them in the debate setting
or give them excessive television coverage forliterally one percent support. And let's be
honest, what less than ten percentof people probably are completely unaware of who
they're going to vote for. Mostpeople in this survey just decided to pick

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somebody. I don't know if thembeing part of the survey change that or
what, but that's exactly how thispoll turned out. But RFK Junior support
after the debate next Thursday, whichagain is just one week away. First
debate pretty early. But it givesus something to talk about, something to
do. He is going to falloff a cliff, I think pretty closely

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thereafter. And I tell you why, because both political parties have done such
an effective job of cozying up withmainstream media on either side. This goes
for Fox News, this goes forCNN, MSNBC, any of the major
news networks like ABCCBSNBC. Those twopolitical parties, they need both political parties.

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They might be leaning one way orthe other in the way that they
cover things, but the ratings comebecause the other side exists. So they're
not trying to get people to eliminatethe other side. They're just trying to
get people to have a reaction oran opinion about the other side. And
they're effective in doing that. Itcan be toxic at times, as we

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know, but they're effective in doingthat. When you throw an independent who's
not attached to one of these politicalparties, that can chase away those ratings.
You don't want people to actually learnabout these candidates, right, You
don't want to actually hear about issuesnecessarily, you want to see the show.
That's what these networks are telling you. So to see a viable I

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mean he's viable. I don't carewhat anybody says. Enough people have talked
about wanting to support him in eventhe Democratic Party for me to say,
I think that this guy deserves tobe on a stage and talk about the
issues with the those two other guys, and then America can make their decision
deciding that we're going to silence somebodybecause they are not affiliated with our political

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party or we're afraid that they're goingto cost our political party in election.
That is so Unamerican and that's justhow I see it. But again,
CNN's not in the America business.They're in the money business. They're in
the ratings business. The political partieswant to protect the ground that they have.
The last thing they need is athird political party, even if they
start as independence, a third groupof people to kind of siphon in and

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mess with the balance because now allof a sudden, they have two opponents
to worry about instead of just one. That even though for America it'd be
great, it would bring the twosides much closer together because they would have
to talk about things on a verymoderate basis in a lot of ways,
and even if you wanted something moreconservative or something more liberal, you'd have

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to have a lot more discussions incompromising with that, which means you actually
be cordial with one another. Ifeel like a lot of the hostility that
American politics has right now could besolved by a third party rising up and
being a major player. But bothpolitical parties are the two entities along with
these networks that want A versus Bthere're the ones that are stopping that from
happening. We can't let them forgetthat. We know that, not that

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we have any power to do anythingwith it, because we take it hook
line and sinker. Unfortunately, that'sjust the way that it's probably going to
be forever. But you see RFKJunior support Dwindling. It's not necessarily that
he did anything. It's that he'sjust nowhere to be found. The TV
stations aren't giving him the same typeof coverage. And as far as his

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campaign goes, because he's not affiliatedwith a political party, he has to
go out and get himself on theballot in each and every state, and
according to the rules they have,he hasn't done enough to this point.
So since he's only on like eightysomething points of the electoral college in states
that make up like eighty something points, he's well short of the two seventy

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that they made the rule. He'sgot to be eligible right now for two
hundred and seventy electoral votes. AndI can understand maybe that idea if you
don't think that he's going to beon enough ballots to even be eligible to
win the presidency. At the sametime, I still think it's an important
argument to be heard and have thesetwo guys that are the A and B
candidates react and rebut against some ofthe stuff that he is saying and force

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him to do the same. Unfortunately, that's just not the America we live
and that's just the way that itgoes. And RFK Junior, I think
after this debate next week, Ithink you're going to see even more people,
two or three more percent just falloff on him and he becomes less
and less relevant as a candidate,which both political parties, the major political
parties, they really want to seethat because then that makes it a more

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controllable, less variable situation as towho is voting for RFK Junior and who
would they have voted for if theyvoted for one of the two major political
parties. There's a lot more inthis poll I'm going to get to and
if you've got thoughts on it,you can go ahead and call us.
Four oh two five five eight toeleven ten. Four h two five five
eight eleven ten is the number onnews radio, eleven ten kfab. The
reason I bring a lot of thisup is because I think we kind of

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get ourselves trapped into these thoughts of, well, we just know what American
voters want, we know what Americanneeds, right, well, we know
what we want, and that doesn'tnecessarily mean that we know what a bunch
of other people who are all overthe country, because this is a nationwide
poll, what they want. AndI think, more than anything, the

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reason I like to talk about thisstuff is because it illustrates different people that
aren't like us and what they're thinkingat different points. For instance, who
likes Trump, well, men.Trump is a fifteen point lead among men,
So that tells you that Biden iscarrying a huge women's vote rule voters,

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which we figure, you know,rule this is plus seventeen for Trump.
Anybody that's in rural areas generally moreconservative white men without a degree a
plus thirty, which again they alwaystry to bring education into this, and
I can understand why they want todo that because it's an additional demographic,

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but it just like what kind ofeducation like without a degree? Okay,
so these are people who have goneinto trade schools or these are people that
had apprenticeships. It doesn't mean thatthey're not like good functioning members of society.
So I never quite understood that,especially considering that most of the colleges
that we talk about that have peoplewho are generally politically active are in urban

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areas. So obviously those are thekind of schools that have had these Palestine
rallies and stuff like that. Ofcourse, that's going to have a connotation
where the people that don't have thedegrees are generally going to be more along
with rural America and people with degreesare going to be with urban America.
That doesn't necessarily mean that there's acorrelation between I mean, white men without

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a degree and Republicanism as much aswhite men without a degree in rural America.
That's where I think the bigger correlationis, even if the numbers are
strong and obviously white Evangelical Christians fortysix point lead not a surprise there.
More and more we have had peopleof the Christian faith who really say there's

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only one place to vote, andthat is to the right. It really
wasn't that long ago. It didn'tfeel like where a lot of people who
are Christians were voting Democrat because theyseparated kind of their religion to their politics
in a way, because they didn'tquestion the backgrounds or they didn't question the

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feelings of the people that were runningin the Democratic Party. But nowadays,
especially the last decade or so,when politics in America became a spectator sport,
that became really a big talking pointtoo, is that these people not
only do they not believe in Goda lot of times, these these atheist
leftists, but they also are areincredibly rogue and rude in arrogant when discussing

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religion with people that do have faith. And that's why I find it kind
of interesting that, you know,we talk about evangelical Christians, they all
vote to the right, but it'sso frequent that you hear people of like
an Islamic faith voting on the leftbecause they apparently feel harbored in the United
States. Despite the fact that mostof the people that Christians have an issue

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with. Those are people that activelyare supporting other religions besides Christianity and Judaism,
especially now. But you get whatI mean, you get my drift.
Biden, who would see one bigwith white women with a college degree,
shaker there urban people women who wealready told you he's winning big time.

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He's also winning with voters a justsixty five and over by fifteen points.
That surprises me. Obviously, thiscould be an outlier. I told
you this is not a gigantic poolof possible voters, but there's that going
on. And then obviously the urbanvoting numbers plus twenty three for Biden as

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well, So those are kind ofthe demos that we're seeing. I was
fascinated because they asked, what aboutthe convictions of Donald Trump and Hunter Biden?
And how has that affected the waythat you were looking at this election,
and based on the numbers on thisparticular poll, it's not affecting anything

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at all. They were asked,Okay, so has Hunter Biden's conviction led
you to reconsider who you will besupporting for president? And the answer for
Hunter Biden was no, I didn'treconsider my support ninety six percent. Only
four percent of people in this pollsaid Hunter Biden's conviction made them go one

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way or the other. Two percentsaid it made them want to support Trump.
Two percent said it moved them toa third party. That's such a
small number. On the other side, what did Donald Trump's conviction do to
reconsider? To help you reconsider whoyou're voting for for president? Ninety four
percent said it's not changing a thingfor me. It's only six percent of

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people actually changed their mind. Onlytwo percent of those said they're going to
vote for Biden now, three percentsaid they go to a third party,
and one percent was the people thatwe've talked to. They said, you
know what, I never thought i'dsupport Trump, but a vote for Trump
is going to tell our government thatthey can't tell us who we should and
shouldn't vote for through the justice system. And that's you know, one percent

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of people in this poll. It'snot nearly as much as I think either
side has anticipated, at least basedon this polling. Right here. Another
thing, what are the most importantissues that are plaguing Americans right now?
And you might think the economy orimmigration. Dare I say the Israel and

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Amas war or gun control. Thoseare some real topics that we know these
people will be running on in November. But you'd be wrong, because the
most important thing, according to thispoll was people fearful about the future of
American democracy. Sixty eight percent ofpeople in this country in this poll in
our country, registered voters said that'sextremely important more than anything else. Another

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twenty percent of those people said it'svery important. So that's eighty eight percent
of people that say, at worst, it's very important about the future of
American democracy. And that tells methat both sides have been incredibly successful in
fear mongering the other side to thinkthat we are going to if our side
loses. Ladies and gentlemen, thisis the end of America as we know.

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And I know, I know I'mprobably going to get a ton of
angry emails and maybe even some angrycallers here. But the idea that with
our or legislative branch basically split downthe middle, this is almost the exact
same number of Republicans and Democrats servingin the United States legislature. The fact
that the presidential the one person electedin the executive branch in a system that

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we have between two guys who havealready been president, the idea that American
democracy or our constitutional republic, ifyou want to be exactly accurate, instead
of the way they worded it inthe survey, These people are afraid that
if the other side wins, there'sno way to know if we're going to
make it out of this. Andas the same country, yeah, the

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country that has gone through everything we'vebeen through, this is going to be
the Strawlett breaks the camels back,and these are what these people are most
afraid of. I have more thoughtson that specifically, And there's another thing
in here about normalcy that people hadan opinion on, and I'll tell you
about what those numbers look like andwhy those numbers may be high as well.
And that's all coming up. Ifyou want to call in, you

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can four h two five five eighteleven ten four oh two five five eight
eleven ten News Radio eleven ten KFABand Ray's songer on news radio eleven ten
Kfab just becrum best friends. Yeah, And I got this Fox News nationwide
poll and it's very interesting. Bidenhas pulled back ahead of Trump, uh,
just barely. It's within the marginof error, so it's really basically

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just considered a dead heat. Butit's really more interesting for me to see
the demographics of the people who aresupporting each of these people and what they
think the biggest issues are. Moreon that in a second, but I
want to take your thoughts as wego through this, and you can call
in at any point. Four ohtwo, five five, eight eleven ten.
Four oh two, five five eighteleven ten. We have Larry on
the line. Larry, welcome tothe show. What do you think about

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this? Oh? Good morning.Well, you know, polls can be
slamming, so the questions take themto the answers they want. Sure,
So all through your life and I'meighty one now, I have not necessarily
believed ah poll. Right. However, it is fairly clear following all the
news that we have lost not ourdemocracy, but our constitutional republic. To

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be accurate in the founding parts wordsa unique compound constitutional republic, not a
democracy. Right. I'm just quote, Larry. I'm just I'm just quoting.
Get upset when people use the wordour democracy, Larry, Larry,
I just want to clarify for anybodylistening, I'm using the language that was

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used in the poll. So thatthat's why I'm using the word democracy,
because that's the language they used inthe poll, and that's the question that
they were asking for. You shouldproperly reject that word. Okay, but
but Larry Larry, that's not Larry. I'm trying. Okay, Larry Larry,
I really appreciate the call, butI'm not here to talk about democracy

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versus constitutional republicause that's not the point. I'm talking about the poll and the
results of the poll. I know, I'm with you. I don't trust
a lot of polls either, butI think it's important to note polls in
polling trends as we move along.That way, we can go back when
we see the results of the election, we can see what was or wasn't
true. I do think that's importantfor us to note that for the next

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time. Now, as far asthe democracy and constitutional republic, you're preaching
to the choir, my man,I totally understand what you're saying, but
I am quoting what the poll says. The poll asked the people of the
poll what is most important, andthey gave them a laundry list of things
one by one and said, isthis extremely important, very important somewhat important
or not at all important. Andone of the questions was what do you

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feel about the future of American democracy? That was the quote used in the
poll. And that's only the onlyreason I'm using it is because that's what
they ask the people in the poll. You copy me on that, Larry
with that? Okay, but Ican't, Larry, What am I gonna
do? Call up the people whodid the poll and say you did it
wrong. Thank you. This iswhat I Okay. I hate getting super

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animated here because I love people likeLarry calling in me rejecting a word that
is used in the poll. WhatI mean. What I'm gonna do.
I'm gonna call up the people ofthe poll and say, hey, hey,
you did it wrong. It's actuallythe American constitutional Republic. Maybe a
different conversation should be had about this. And you think that's going to change
the results of the poll, Idon't think it has anything to do with

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the way people. It is entirelyinaccurate to say we are democracy. I
get it, but using the termdemocracy is a synonym for constitutional republic,
or maybe even more importantly, usingthe term democracy as kind of a synonym
for the system of government that wecurrently have. That's the kind of thing

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that we're talking about here. We'renot asking people, we're not telling young
people that we have a democracy here, we're talking about in a constitutional republic.
I understand, I get it.But what I'm saying is, I'm
just quoting what is on the poll, and I'm not rejecting what was said
on the poll, because I wantthe proper context of the poll to be

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what we talk about. Not well, they should have said this, and
this may have changed the results.That's all I'm here to talk about anyway.
Future of American democracy Indeed, waswhat was number one on this literally
number one. Sixty eight percent ofpeople said it's extremely important to them about
the future of American democracy. Twentymore percent said it's very important. So

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basically, what I learned from thatis that eighty eight percent of Americans are
fearful that if the other side wins, they're afraid of what democracy or constitutional
republic, most importantly, what theAmerican government looks like after that happens.
And to me, that's what we'retalking about here, the fact that the

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fear mongering on both sides of theaisle that the other side is going to
destroy America and our governmental system aswe know it. That to me is
incredibly alarming. John's on the phoneline of four h two five eleven ten.
Hello, John, Welcome to theshow. What's on your mind?
Well, I, you know,I agree with your last argument totally about
democracy blah blah blah blah. Butin this Paul, I'm not surprised because

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you know, since our one electoralCollege vote is up, we're getting all
these ads that very few people haveare not seeing unless you're in these these
specific districts, and this is whenwhen elections are won or lost, and
these effective ads that Biden putting outbasically just putting a negative connotation on Trump

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as being a criminal and use theword democracy. I understand that. I
understand all that, but and thisis I'm not surprised because this is when,
you know, like I said withpeople, I mean, I can't
stand Trump as a person, butI agree with what he's doing and all
that stuff. But you know,I said with them, my friends that
were all diehard Trumpians last time,I said, well, Trump is so

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smart, and there's all this electionfraud. Why didn't they have a bunch
of elect people sitting there. Basicallyit was predictable. There was if there
was proud or not. But itwas predictable with the things that were going
on. Somebody should have been watchingthe polls. Somebody should have been watching
where they're taking it election. Sothe actually had a valid point right now,

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he's he's going to lose the electionbecause Biden and those ads and the
people back on those ads or areframing Trump as unelectable. And I think
it's going to work well. Andto your point, John there, I'll
get to that in a second.As far as because they ask people about
the like some of the reasons whyyou would vote for somebody and and why

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you wouldn't vote for somebody, AndI'll get to that because I think that's
important too. But what you're sayingis exactly right. If you're running on
the idea that if we lose,it's rigged, you're not going to win
the independent voter, and and that'sit's unfortunate because I understand why some people
would feel like we have to lookout for voter fraud, an election fraud,
and whether or not an election islegitimately u one that we can trust.

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I can understand that and every statehas their own rules on that,
and I'm trying my best to tryto keep track of all fifty states,
especially these swing states, and whattheir election rules are. But I got
to tell you, it does puta little bit more of that whole.
These people don't care about our governmentalsystem when both sides are basically preparing themselves
to say it was rigged and itwas cheated if they lose, and we're

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going to hear that one way orthe other. That's just the unfortunate reality
that we live in right now.I agree, totally agree. Thanks John,
appreciate the call man you can callinto four H two five five eight
eleven ten. Four H two fivefive eight eleven ten. I got more
here about people and what they wantand what they're looking for and what they
think is most important in this election, and some of the startling numbers on

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that coming up next on news Radioeleven ten. Kfab Emery's songer back to
the discussion that we were having,as I was just stunned that the most
important thing, at least as faras what people said is extremely important for
this election, is the future ofAmerican democracy, and the number two thing

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is the economy. Which I wouldimagine should be number one, And if
you include the number of people whosaid it's very important and not just extremely
important, then it is technically themost important thing by a hair But number
three stability and normalcy. Stability andnormalcy. People I think are sick of

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what politics are like in America.Now, congratulations to those of you who
wanted to see it burn to theground, but we are going to do
everything that we can to get itback to normal. That's fifty eight percent
set it's extremely important, twenty eightpercent set it's very important. What does
this tell me? It tells methat Americans at large, maybe not us,

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that really like to live within thenews cycle most days and talk about
the news on a point by pointbasis and really break it down and unhinge
everything that is happening. But theaverage American person is sitting out there saying,
I am trying to avoid this circusat all costs. I am going
to vote for whatever feels the moststable, the most normal. I am

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going to vote for somebody who Ithink is going to protect our system of
government, whether they incorrectly call ita democracy or not. But here's here's
where I sit. On this.The Democrats with their mud slinging negative advertising
in these winnable districts for them,and that includes Omaha and the Omaha District

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district too in Nebraska, which isa separate electoral vote than the rest of
the state. They're trying to getthat vote to Joe Biden. They're positioning
Trump as the unhinged one. Youknow what, even though you might have
some questions about the age and theabilities and the cognitive mindset of somebody like
Joe Biden, will just remember thatit's either him or Trump, and you

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don't want to vote for Trump.Do you remember democracy? Remember this is
a convicted criminal. Now, that'swhat the ads say. That's what they
want you to think, and that'swhat they're going to get independent voters to
think. Unless the Trump campaign couldcome up with a good rebuttal or he
has an incredible performance at these debates. Again, we talk about the rules

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of the debate. They're not gonnabe able to interrupt each other. The
microphones are off outside of when it'syour turn to speak, and there's no
audience to kind of play to.Like. Donald Trump is the master at
He can really get people moving oneway or the other and get people reacting
to him. There isn't going tobe any of those variables here, So

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he's really going to have to showthe American public that these are not things
that you need to be worrying about. Now. If he goes and refuses
to respond to the idea that heis going to be a dictator, they
won't even ask him because they wantto just be able to say it.
They don't want him. He's goingto have to say it himself. I'm
not trying to be a dictator.I'm not trying to change the way that
our constitution is written, and I'mnot trying to stay in office until I

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die Putin style. I'm literally justtrying to make America great again. He
says something like that, Okay,I think I think they're independent voters in
America will be like meh okay.I needed to hear that from him,
because all of these ads that I'mgoing to be seeing and the Democrats are
going to be paying for in allthese swing states, in these competitive districts,

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and the fact that your stability iswith the Democrats, your normalcy is
going back to the Democrats. Youknow how to get rid of the craziness
that is Donald Trump. Well,we got to beat him again, That's
what they're going to keep saying.And that's based on this, Based on
these numbers, I'm looking at threeof the Two of the three most important
things as far as where people aremost concerned by going to the election coming

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up in November is the future ofour government system and stability and normalcy in
our country. And if that doesn'ttell you that they are positioning themselves to
just mustling Donald Trump into the abyss, then you're not seeing the entire picture.
Some of the other things that poppedup. Healthcare actually did on equal

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footing with immigration, which again isgoing to be a win for the Democrats
because they're going to talk about universaltype healthcare making things a lot cheaper for
people in general, even though thatwould come at an increase of taxes and
a lot of other side effects thatthat came through with you know, you
talk about Obamacare in that era,but they're going to be lot leaning on

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that as well. An abortion endedup right behind immigration. Immigration is down
like like in the muck underneath here, and obviously most people think that the
economy and immigration are going to bestrongholds for the Republicans. Well, Trump
only won by nine and five pointsin immigration in the economy, respectively in

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this poll. So if that doesn'ttell you that there's something worth keeping close
track of and keeping an eye on, is the fact that Donald Trump isn't
super far out ahead, at leastby these polling numbers in the stuff that
you would think are slam dunks forthe Republicans and so many things based on
the people that were polled here.And this is a Fox News poll,
so it's a small number, andit could be an outlier poll. There

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could be a lot of Democrats thatare involved here, even though the race
is a dead heat when they talkabout Trump or Biden, but the issues
that they're saying are important are playingright into the hands of the Democrats and
what their game plan is going tobe for the next few months, especially
in their advertising. We're gonna seeabout that as time goes on. And
if you got any thoughts on whatwe've just talked about, you can go
ahead and call us at four ROHtwo five five eight to eleven ten.

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Four H two five five eight toeleven ten. Got some things to talk
about on this later on in theshow. But there are a couple other
emerging stories that I want to getto and we'll talk about a very strange
thing that they're messing with with theNCAA Men's basketball tournament. Talk about that
as well on news Radio eleven tenKFAB College World Series. First and foremost,
we have gotten ourselves down to thefinal two. It is Texas A

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and M and Tennessee. And they'reactually going to have Tomorrow off as well.
I misspoke. Is Thursday and Fridayoff. Saturday is the first of
the finals, first game of theFinals, and that is going to be
at six thirty pm viewed on ESPN. It's a best of three, so
got to win two to win thetitle. Both of these teams didn't lose

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on their way to the finals,so it's going to be a lot of
fun. Those are the two schoolsthat have been leading the way in the
Rocos Jello Shot Challenge. If you'vegone down to Rocos, which is just
kitty corner across the street from thestadium downtown, they are counting how many
jello shots for five dollars Each year. They send a bunch of that stuff

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to food banks. That a bunchof that money is for a great cost,
but it also not only is afriendly competition, but it's also the
kind of thing that when you arewatching it and watching and seeing how the
schools are performing in the jail Challenge, it kind of pretty accurately shows the
kind of fan support that has madethe trip up to Omaha from different places.

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And from day one it was Aand M and Tennessee. From day
one, Texas A and M andTennessee were dominating in the Jello Shot Challenge.
And here they are still with aton of fans in town, still
with a ton of people that areprobably going to make their plans to come
back up either today, tomorrow oreven on Saturday morning, going to be

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hanging around Omaha for the finals betweenTexas A and M and Tennessee for all
the marvels the national championship in baseball. It's been super fun to be here.
It's my first year being in townfor the entire College World Series,
and I can't tell you enough abouthow fun it was. Right. I
know a lot of people in Omahaare used to it. Some people forget

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it's even happening because it's just athing that happens every single year. But
it's somebody like me who just loveswhen things are going on, loves it
when big parties are happening, loveswhen anything is going on whatsoever that I
can be a part of and meetnew people and be around some action.
I want to be a part ofthat. And this was about as good
as it gets now. I ama huge Iowa State Fair fan, and

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I'm sure anybody who's been to theIowa State Fair can attest to this.
The Iowa State Fair is just aneleven day party of all different kinds of
things. Absolutely love the Iowa StateFair. But this is like Iowa State
Fair Baseball. Addition, you know, it doesn't have like all the rides
that it has. You know,a couple of stages for music, but
not a ton of stages for music. But just in terms of the atmosphere

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and the jovialness and people and theiryea's and their booze, and then the
fact you throw in a nationwide televisionaudience, there's all sorts of things that
are going on that are fantastic todo that. So when you talk about
the College World Series, I amsuper excited and we're super happy to super

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happy to let everybody in on everythingthat's going on with the College World Series
as we move forward. So whenthat with that being said, I think
all due respect to the College WorldSeries, one of the more generally paid
attention to sporting events is the NCAAMen's Basketball Tournament. And I tell you

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what, it's hard to get betterthan the way they have it set up.
Now. Speaking of the sixty fourteam bracket, now it's sixty four
team bracket with four play in gamesessentially, and so sixty eight teams technically
make the NC DOUBLEA tournament. Butpeople can't get enough of this thing.
They really can't. And you justwonder if the money is going to be

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just too lucrative for the NC DOUBLEA, which is all about money it always
has been. And I find itso funny that people around thee think that
college sports is about amateurism and aboutbeing a student first, when literally the
governing body is all about media rights, and not just media rights, I

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mean they talk about the money forthese facilities, and they then will prevent
athletes from being eligible pre nil ERAfor even just signing autographs and getting paid
a few bucks to do that.That was something that was completely illegal for
a collegiate athlete in the NC doubleA. Hard to imagine with antitrust laws

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in this country that anything like thatactually happened, but that's the way that
she goes Now. The NC DOUBLEA, thinking about more money, has officially
presented a plan to the conference commissionersin Division one that would expand the men's
and the women's basketball tournaments by fouror eight teams. That includes an option

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to leave the field at sixty eightteams. And of course this is going
to be voted on, and it'smoney, right, So now all of
a sudden, you're thinking about aseventy two team bracket or a seventy sixteen
bracket. And I'm guessing these additionalteams would come in and they would have
the ability to they would have theability to play their way into the main

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bracket. It would just be anadditional group of games on that Tuesday and
Wednesday for the men, and thenthe Wednesday and Thursday for the women ahead
of the first full round when sixtyfour teams are still in the main bracket.
But they're gonna call it the NCAATournament. And I think this is
going to the angle that they're gonnasell is that we can get more small
schools in here. But the answerto that question would be, well you

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could. You just don't give themany of the same type of respect that
a lot of the bigger schools get. I know, Virginia versus Indiana State
was kind of the big one thisyear where Virginia, who is a traditionally
solid in ACC team, they havegotten themselves lined up every single year to
be amongst the best in the country, and this past year they weren't very

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good. They were definitely a belowaverage ACC team, yet they were given
one of the last at large spotsinstead of a team that was exceptional in
a smaller conference in Indiana State.Indiana State, of course, is a
Missouri Valley Conference team, not alarge school representing Tara Hoes. Indiana.
Indiana not traditionally a team that isgoing to be threatening to be an at

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large team in the NCAA Tournament.But you know what, Virginia got in
over them because they were a biggerschool and their strength of schedule was better.
And even though everybody that is abasketball fan was really hoping to pull
for Indiana State to get in andhave a chance to be that Cinderella that
everybody cheered for. Instead it wasthe opposite. We're gonna put the boring

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choice, the school that has beenhere before, won a national title just
a few years ago, and givethem a shot because you know, big
schools. Yeah, and then theywere absolutely embarrassed at the hands of Colorado
State of all teams in the firstfour and everybody said, this is why
you should have let Indiana State in. Well, then the answer from a
lot of the other people were like, well, just make the bracket bigger.
Just make the bracket bigger. We'renot gonna say that Virginia should should

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get less than We're not gonna sayVirginia should get less opportunities than Indiana State,
despite how different the records look.But I think it's important that you
know, Indiana State gets a shottoo, So why not just expand the
bracket? And here it is soit looks like regardless, this is going

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to be additional play in games ifthey approve this, And again, this
is going to be more money andmore opportunities for schools to get in.
So I can't imagine these Division oneConference commissioners don't want to do this.
But the idea is that you justhave more play in games on the Tuesday
and Wednesday. That's more games towatch. So the networks are happy,
more media rights money, The NCAAand the conferences are happy. And then

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you throw in the amount of teamsthat can get in. The teams generally
are happy. My biggest issue withit is for the fans, how much
are we watering down just the ideaof getting into the NC DOUBLEA Tournament.
It used to be like a hugedeal just to get in. Now it's
not. I mean, the morewe expand it, especially if your favorite
team is like a Nebraska, Iowa, Iowa State, any any place like

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that that's in a power conference,those are going to be the schools that
if you don't make it, it'snot just a may we had a decent
year, but not a good enoughyear to win our conference, not a
good enough year to try to getinto the NC DOUBLEA tournament. Well now,
just being decent in one of thosepower conferences with a seventy six team

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bracket, I mean, it'll bean embarrassment if you don't make it into
the tournament. We'll see if theyput any parameters on that. And there's
like a certain number of teams fromeach like mid major or low major and
high major all that stuff. Idoubt that's going to happen because they want
to make it as at large aspossible, so they can control that.
But it'll be interesting to see,and of course there are a chance.

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There's always the chance that expansion justnever stops. They went from sixty four
to sixty five. Remember, andbefore sixty four it was just like Conference
champions. You go back to likethe eighties, this is a much smaller
bracket. Then they, you know, realize the power of having a large
bracket with the TV money and allthat stuff. So what ends up happening
is you have sixty four. Thenit was a sixty five. They just

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had the one playing game. Thenthey expanded that, you know, gosh,
almost a decade ago probably to firstfour, where now all of a
sudden, it's sixty eight. Andnow if we get to seventy two or
seventy six, what's stopping him fromgoing to ninety ninety two, And what's
stopping him then from eventually just makingan entirely new round one hundred and twenty
eight teams and we just add anothergame to everybody another game trying to get

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through this tournament, and everybody startson that Tuesday and Wednesday. We are
not that far away from that happening, I don't think. And again,
the networks, the schools, theconferences, the NC DOUBLEA, the fans
of all these schools. I'm sureit's just going to be like a big
celebration. But again, when overhalf of NC DOUBLEA Division one basketball is

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getting into the Big Dance, asthey call it, what really is being
accomplished? And you can send thatto real life. Right when everybody gets
to be special? Is anybody reallyspecial? Is a syndrome in the Incredibles?
When everyone has powers, no onewill have powers, or if everyone's
super, no one will be Imean, it's powerful stuff. Right,

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used to mean something. We talkabout this being a participation Trophy era.
This is nothing more than just anextension of that, except there's a ton
of money that can be made bymaking it as big as possible. You
got thoughts on this, you cancall in four H two five five eight
eleven ten. Four H two fivefive eight eleven ten. We are going
to move on to a interesting decisionmade by the Supreme Court. We are

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going to do that and tell youabout that, because there are going to
be many Supreme Court decisions that aregoing to come through the next week or
so, and we'll tell you aboutthe one that we saw today coming up
right after this on news Radio elevento ten Kfab Emrie Sunger on news Radio
eleven ten KFAB. All sorts ofthings that the Supreme Court has to be

(43:21):
thinking about over the next week orso. Their session to make these determinations
is ending at the end of themonth. We're going to be seeing the
presidential immunity case. The people I'vetalked to they think that could drop as
early as tomorrow with the full decision. But as far as we're concerned,
we're going to try to mention asmany of these as possible, that one

(43:42):
being the most important and newsworthy,probably on presidential immunity. But as of
right now, it's going to beinteresting to see what decisions do kind of
have a ripple effect based on whatpeople are seeing. Mostly a conservative court,
but one that has been pretty They'vemade controversial decisions, but it hasn't
felt like the decisions they've made arelike by most conservative people to be like,

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oh yeah, that that didn't makeany sense. Most of us would
be like, oh yeah, ofcourse, like that's what should be happening
from the judicial system. Mephipristone beingcontinuing to be made available last week was
kind of the big one that peoplewere like, well, that's interesting.
But when all nine of them agreeon it, it makes it very difficult
for us to be like, oh, yeah, no, they messed that
one up. Not that we wouldhave any room to say anything like that.

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Well, the Supreme Court today inone of their several is like a
couple dozen that they still had tomake a decision on here, and this
one that we saw today is rulingin favor of a Texas ex councilwoman.
She was thrown in jail in anact of political retaliation. So that's that's

(44:57):
kind of like the byline of this. But her name is Sylvia Gonzalez,
and they sued the mayor and theother officials of their city in Texas,
saying that they plotted to remove herfrom office for criticizing the city manager.
She says that's a violation of herFirst Amendment rights. There is a similar
case that's happening on an energy boardhere in Nebraska. We talked about that,

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you know, during I think itwas January or February. Don't have
an update on that one yet,but it's interesting because if somebody's in office,
they should have the ability to speakout and not have people going out
of their way to say, hey, by the way, hold on a
second, there, you don't havethe right to say any of that stuff,

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and we're going to remove you.This is the same thing that we're
talking about with you know, peoplelike Donald Trumper or whatever, you know,
going into to jail there so orgetting charged with these felony crimes.
So the Supreme Court saying basically thatthat is not allowed, that's important for
not just like the ruling that wewere talking about in Nebraska a few months

(46:00):
ago, but anybody in general whois in office, they speak up or
they are critical of something that ishappening, and then there's a retaliatory move
made by the people in the governingbody that they belong to to remove them,
and that, to me, it'sa dangerous thing to be doing.

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And again I'm glad to say theSupreme Court ruled to try to prevent that
from happening in the future. Itis three twenty five, and we were
talking about the potential of an expansionto the NCAA Men's and women's basketball tournaments,
and Michael's on our phone line.Michael, welcome to the show today.
What do you think about this?Well, I think the saddest part

(46:44):
about this, besides the money hungryNCAA, is that the NIT Tournament,
the National Invitational Tournament, which isthe first tournament ever you know, I
mean preced just everything, yep.And then there's what there's two or three

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others that popped up yeap, AndI mean it's just going to kill them.
Oh oh no. And here's thething, Michael, the NIT itself,
there were guys that were opting outof doing the NIT and some of
the schools that made it this yearand they were getting in the transfer portal
even before their team played games.There were schools that opted out of playing
in the n I T this year. So that thing that it's you're right,

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the tradition is rich. You goback to the forties and fifties,
there were teams that were electing toplay the n I T over the NCAA
Tournament because that was the more prestigioustournament. But you're right, I mean,
if they even the expansion of seventytwo or seventy six teams here,
which is like a four to eightteam expansion, I mean, you can
just might as well eliminate that foranybody except the tiny schools that want to
have something to do, right,And isn't there a third tournament? Yeah,

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the Yeah, the College Basketball InvitationalCBI, and then there's the College
Insider dot Com Tournament. I thinkthis, but those have generally been reserved
for like low major schools, likereally small schools. Yeah, right right,
Yeah, So I mean I guessthat's sad thing about it. Yeah,
but it's kind of like it's kindof it's kind of like the the

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NCAA football playoff system now and howit's just kind of nullified any of the
importance that the bowl game's ever had, you know what I mean, it's
kind of the same idea, whichis really sad. Yeah. On a
happier note, I want to telleverybody that I am head and the Lincoln
to celebrate my mother's ninety nine birthday. Oh my, well, Michael,

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you have to on behalf of everyoneat KFAB. You have to say happy
birthday, incredible ninety nine that isa massive number. Yes, she sometimes
she doesn't think it's very good.She thinks God forgot about her. But
the one thing is he's definitely gother share of all of her work and

(48:57):
all of her Social Security dollars.Yeah, I know, collection sixty two.
So dang wow. Okay, wellthat is that's that's pretty awesome.
Yeah. So that, uh,well, congratulations to her. I mean,
that's awesome. I know that probablybeing ninety nine isn't an easy thing,
but man, that's that's quite anachievement. Man. Wish her well

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and thanks for calling in, Michael. We really appreciate it. Thank you.
Yeah, if you have anything youwant to call in talk about,
not just the basketball tournament, butmaybe the Supreme Court, anything else on
that docket, you can four twofive five eight to eleven ten four h
two five five eight to eleven ten. News Radio eleven ten KFAB The Truth
and Everything Important in Omaha and beyond. Emery Sunger on News Radio eleven ten.

(49:44):
KFAB did want to reiterate that theBay Viewing Party we are a week
away, like literally a week away. After my show's over, I'm going
to be heading out to Buffalo Wingsand Rings one D and twenty second in
l I believe is where that's located. Haven't been before, excited to be
there for the first time, checkingout this debate and what a debate watch

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party looks like. Haven't done oneof those either. I'm certainly excited to
see what the debate is because that'sjust we're Americans. If you care about
the news, you care about politicseven a little bit, debates are really
the fun. They are, rightlike, oh man, Like, if
you're one of those people, Ijust love watching c SPAN, congratulations,
congratululations. You are a better personthan me. I am much more likely

(50:30):
to Okay, I know what's onthe docket. I'm gonna wait for it
to happen, and then I'm goingto unpack any of the big sound bites.
I'm gonna let people who are expertsin that field tell me what actually
happened, and then kind of digin and if there's something I think it's
kind of interesting that kind of fellthrough the cracks a little bit, I'll
bring that up too. But thedebates, man play by play, let

(50:52):
me hear it. I love it. So a week from tonight, you're
gonna have a chance to hang outwith us here at KFAB. I don't
know who else is gonna be there. I don't want to speak for anybody
else, but yeah, I'm goingto be there at Buffalo Wings and Rings,
and we'll be watching this debate ninetyminutes. Glove's possibly coming off now,

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probably not, because they're muting themicrophones. They can't interrupt each other.
So we'll see how it goes.It'll be fun, though. I
can't wait to see you there.Another thing that is happening in the news
today, I saw this story.This is an interesting one. A school
that's a liberal arts college in theBoston area. Well, it's not in

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the Boston area. It's in Boston, and they have lost a ton of
people for the upcoming academic school year. Now the college, forgive me,
it's Emerson College. I haven't heardof you. I have no idea that
you existed. I would love tolove to learn more. I guess about

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it. I'm guessing it's mostly peoplefrom that area want to go to a
small liberal arts school that may notbe like Harvard or something like that.
Right, not that Harvard's end,boss, But you know what I'm saying.
Well, Emerson College President Jay Bernhardt. His job's been tough. I'm

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sure. I'm sure he's making aton of money being the president of this
tiny college, because that's how thatworks. I think it's how I've been
led to believe it works well.He said, multiple factors are going to
be prompting a significant shortage for incomingfreshman class. And this is what it
says. You can't believe what he'sgoing to be blaming this on, he

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said. And this is an internalstatement that got to the press, right.
This wasn't something that he just wentto the presis and said, hey,
give us attention. He said,we want to share with our community
that the size of our incoming firstyear class for fall twenty twenty four is
significantly below what we had hoped.We attribute this reduction to multiple factors,

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including national enrollment trends away from smallerprivate institutions and enrollment deposit delay in response
to the new fafts of rollout.Now, I want to talk about those
two things first before I get tothe next ones. The smaller private institutions
around the country, more and moreof them have either merged with other institutions

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or have closed. That is notsomething that is like when I was in
college. There was a few peoplethat came to our school from like a
Dana College. Dana is not faraway from here, right or was was
rest in peace. There was aschool in southeast Iowa called Iowa Wesleyan,
which was a very old institution.They almost closed five years before they actually

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did close. They got like abig pump from some donors to keep it
alive just long enough for it toofficially close its stores forever. They were
never able to fully recover. Alot of small private institutions and a lot
of places around the country are indeedhaving low enrollment numbers based on the fact

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that they're incredibly expensive. You comparethe price of like I could go to
Iowa or Iowa State if you're anIowa resident, or the University of Nebraska
or UNO, or you know insertname of public school here kind of thing
around the country and save a lotmore money, or even go to a
community college and get your gin ed'sknocked out in a much more reasonable manner

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financially. Then if you're paying topdollar to go to Emerson, let me
let me pull up on the oldGoogle machine here the Emerson College tuition numbers.
See somebody's got to be reporting onthis. They're a private institution,
about forty five hundred people in totalare in the enrollment, and then Emerson

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College tuition there we go. Tuitioncost enter fifty three thousand, two hundred
and thirty two dollars fifty three thousand, two hundred and thirty two dollars.
Fifty three thousand, two hundred andthirty two dollars a year. This was

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two years ago. By the way, there's no way it's gone down.
Fifty three thousand, two hundred andthirty two dollars for a school year to
go to Emerson College. Emerson College, Oh my, I mean that's just
shy of what Northeastern is costing,a much more notable institution in the same

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city. Fifty three thousand, okay, yeah, yeah. Why aren't people
going to your school because it costsfifty three thousand dollars a year to go
there? Well, forget about that, because that's not exactly the whole point.
The second point is an enrollment depositdelay in response to the new FAFSA
role out. Now, if you'renot familiar with FAFSA, this is every
kid's worth nightmare is fast a daywhen you and your parents would sit down

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and fill out the fafts of forms, because that's how you got your federal
suitent aid. Those are how yougot qualified for your loans that would help
pay for your school. Right now, I qualified for enough in federal aid
to just barely pay my tuition,which at my small private university in southeastern
Iowa, William Penn University, stillkicking. By the way that I mean,

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I had enough to pay for thatis like twenty five thousand when you
added like room and board, soit was like eighteen or so thousand plus.
I got a bunch of scholarships fromthe school. I got just enough
to cross me across the finish lineevery year, and maybe just a little
bit extra in a refund check,just maybe a couple hundred bucks, not
that much. I like that wasenough. There was no way I was
ever gonna be able to pay forsomething like that. So it's something fifty

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three thousand dollars to go to LiberalArts school, right Okay. So then,
so the new FAFSA rollout has slowedthings down. It got log jammed.
And then the deposit delay, whichthey that you get the student loan
money from the loan companies with thefederal aid. That money is supposed to

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go to the school, and that'show the school pays its people or puts
it into facilities or whatever the situationis. And that is created a delay
so the kids don't have the actualmoney it takes to actually pay the school
to go there. Okay, there'sthat too, And here are the other
bullet points as to why he blamesthis from happening. This again is from

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the president of Emerson College, JayBernhardt. He says, student protests targeting
our yield events and campus tours,and negative press and social media generated from
the demonstrations and arrests, and whatcan you say here except for hilarious.

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Right. I'm not rooting for anybodyto go out of business. I'm not
rooting for higher institutions of higher learningto go out of business either. There
are a lot of people who probablywent to Emerson College at the time of
their life, and I don't wantto be the guy that's like, oh,
yeah, no, we shouldn't betalking about Emerson College like this because
it's a liberal arts school or whatever. I don't support that sort of thing.
I don't care if people want togo there they want to spend their

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fifty three thousand, two hundred andthirty two dollars to go there. I
just I'm looking at an updated numbernow fifty five thousand, two hundred dollars
for next school year fifty five thousand, two hundred and then room and board
costs can get over twenty thousand dollarsper year. So if you throw those
in now you're talking seventy five thousand, two hundred dollars. I feel like
I'm on the price is right justto go to Emerson College. No disrespect.

(58:39):
I mean, let's look at avariety of factors, but the fact
that these kids that are spending upwardsof seventy five thousand dollars a year to
go to this school were subjected toor participated in these insane anti Israel protests
on a point by point basis throughoutthe spring, which tarkes gonna the yield

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events and campus tours for prospective studentswho are looking to come to the institution
and keep it healthy. I mean, they just should shoot theirselves in the
foot. Oh yeah, our FirstAmendment rights are super important, guys.
First Amendment rights. That's not whatthose are. The right to peaceful protests.
You shouldn't have a big issue withwhat's going on there, but they
obviously did, and they're gonna beeaten at. They're gonna be eating a

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lot of it. So as thisgoes on, the statement continues, we
will limit our staff and faculty searchesnext year and carefully review existing programs and
offerings for future savings. Finally,we will need to eliminate some staff positions,
both vacant and field, and potentiallyreduce some faculty positions. Holy smokes,

(59:46):
I mean just having a couple monthlong battle over the First Amendment rights
and encampments because you want to bethat hip institution that so many people have
across so many different ways, andnow your school might be an absolute danger

(01:00:07):
in peril to even stay afloat overthe next handful of years. Because this
is how it starts. This,I mean, this is how it starts.
We're gonna get we can get yourthoughts if you want to call in
here. I'm sure none of thisis super surprising, but you can call
it a four h two five fiveeight eleven ten four h two five five
eight to eleven ten, News Radioeleven ten KFA B e. Rais Songer,

(01:00:29):
this Boston University who named Emerson Collegenot Emory College, even though there
is an Emory University, and Idon't really have a lot to say about
that place either. But basically theprotests themselves, those anti Israel protests that
Emerson College is saying is partially atfault for the issues that they had trying

(01:00:54):
to recruit freshmen to come first yearstudents to Emerson College in the I'm not
going to get a lot of those, and they partially blamed not the fact
that it costs almost seventy five thousanddollars to go there, but the fact
that you know, these protests certainlyhad in the negative press of about these
protests had something to be hold forthat during I think it's important how did

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they the school respond at the time, and the answer to that question,
I have that right here. JayBernhardt, who was the president of Emerson
College, said this during the demonstrations. Emmerson College recognizes in respects the civic
activism and passion that sparked the protestat Boylston Place Alley in support of Palestine,
while also holding and communicating concerns relatedto the numerous ordinance violations caused by

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their encampment. We also understand thatclearing the encampment has significantly and adversely impacted
our community. So the idea ofthe way that this was handled was not
great because the SGA or Student GovernmentAssociation of Emerson College basically said straight up
that this was handled incredibly poorly.Basically their president, the Emerson College Student

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Government Association President, Nandon Nayer,I think is the way that you would
say this person's name said. Hehas routinely, and this is speaking of
the president, Jay Bernhardt, hehas routinely sent out in sensitive emails that
have not only portrayed the facts accurately, but also failed to express empathy and
failed to support the students that havebeen traumatized and affected by these events.

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I have to tell you, Ihave a hard time understanding how anybody in
their right mind could tell me fromfrom those we're only thinking about very few
people, and as far as theStudent Government Association president is, but of
course they are going to do everythingthey can to generate the ability for these

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people to know one specific just anyone specific group of people, not the
entirety of large groups or swaths ofpeople that are fully in legitimately represented by
the student body. And unfortunately,that's just the way that she goes when

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it comes to twenty one to twentytwo year olds that are in charge of
a liberal arts school student government association. And unfortunately, that's just that's the
route that we're looking at it fromthis vantage point right now. I don't
know if there's any obvious how doI how do I say this gently?
I don't know if there's any obviousperks for a group of people at Emerson

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College to say, nah, thisis a good place. I just think
we're misunderstood based on these specific happenings. But at the end of the day,
if Emerson College goes belly up becauseof the way they handled something like
this, in the way they handledtheir protests, and the fact that you
know, they're not operating as avery successful school considering the fact that you

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have fifteen, you know, percentdrop in their institution. Being able to
fund these things and being able tohave all the faculty that they can,
to be able to have all theactivities that they would like to have on
their liberal Arts schools campus, Unfortunately, all of that's going to have to
go by the wayside. Because guesswhat a bunch of kids for a couple

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months in twenty twenty four decided thatthey were going to protest. And it
is something that the president of theschool thinks has absolutely affected first year enrollment
numbers on their little, you know, campus of forty five hundred kids.
So it's happened before it'll happen again. Many private institutions around the country are
going to be feeling the wrath oflower enrollment for a variety of reasons.

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But this certainly didn't help Emerson andprobably a lot of other schools around the
and we'll just have to watch itburn to the ground. We'll call I
went into the four o'clock hour onyour Thursday Thursday, and have plenty more
for you to stick around. Weappreciate you for being a part of the
show right here on news radio eleventen KFAB. How about this the news
What a great story there from CraigEvans in the newsroom outlining the College World

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Series and the amount of bets thatare being placed by people who are like
just jont making a short little jauntacross the river into Iowa making bets with
Iowa sports books and then coming backand hanging out in Omaha for the for
the for the College World Series.Right, basically, the idea is you

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can literally just go I mean,you know this, there's a bunch of
casinos right on the other side ofthe river. You can just go over
to Iowa and gamble. Right,It's kind of like I grew up in
a small town in southeastern Iowa.It was like twenty five to thirty minutes
away from the Missouri border. Andwhen you went down the highway, there

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is a highway, it was Highwaysixty three that goes straight south out of
a Tumlah. And when you gostraight south out of a Tumlah, twenty
five minutes later, you're gonna hitthat Missouri border. And you know how
you got to Missouri because immediately uponcrossing that border and that says welcome Missouri.

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About six feet on the other side, there's about four different fireworks warehouses
that are just positioned right there.Because fireworks until the last few years completely
illegal in the state of Iowa.But you know better than that, right,
Like, people were still buying themfrom places they could, taking them

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back to Iowa and then firing themoff. And those places on that border
the Missouri border. Oh made akilling. They were crying, They were
crying tears when Iowa changed the rulesthat during certain windows of time during the
summer, you can sell fireworks andeven light them off in a lot of
places. Right, no matter howyou felt about fireworks and the nuisance they

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are outlawing them was obviously not working. People were still buying them, just
taking their money down to Missouri andthen they bring them back up and then
they'd have their shows. And nomatter how much you dislike them, you're
not gonna stop them from being ableto use it. Right, Oh,
you can call the police, soyeah, sure, sure, Margaret,
you can call the police and guesswhat's gonna happen. The cops will come

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and they'll say, you know,where did you hear the fireworks? And
they you know, they'd be like, oh, it's right over there.
It's like two houses down, andthen they'd go over there, and if
they saw them doing it, theycould give them a citation for you know,
maybe a couple hundred bucks maybe,or more likely, they're not gonna
actually see them because the people aresmart enough to know that there's a police
officer area and they wouldn't be launchingthem off. I lived in Des Moines.

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It's illegal to shoot them off inDes Moines city limits, but they
don't actually catch very many people doingit in the act yet. I talked
to one of the police officers overthere and said, yeah, on like
July the second, we got liketwo hundred and sixty calls from people about
fireworks that it is like really annoyingthem. And I tell you what,

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it's just a it's a tough look. Right, what are you gonna do?
They're breaking Yeah, they're actively breakingthe law. How are you going
to stop that? Well, it'sone of the things about the marijuana conversation
I don't want to rehash that.You know, marijuana for recreational purposes is
available in so many places. Youdon't think that they're bringing it back into
our state. You don't think peoplewho really want marijuana or buying it off

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the streets. There are ways todo that around here. I don't know
how to do it because I've neverdone it before, but I know people
who have it, so it mustbe happening. And everybody told me when
we had that conversation a few weeksago that well, we just don't want
that type of degenerative behavior in ourstate. Okay, well, how do

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you feel that Iowa is taking aton of potential revenue that could be used
in so many different ways for anythingand call us freedom loving Americans? Wouldn't
freedom loving Americans just want everything tobe legal. I don't know, that's
just me. Maybe that's just me. Well, anyway, Iowa eventually,

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as far as I'm concerned, kindof wised up and were like, you
know what, this sports betting thingsactually catch and holding a lot of places.
I think it's a good idea forus to get into the game here.
And they got in the game twentynineteen or so, and over the
last five years they're making millions millionsof dollars on sports gambling, and people
anywhere in the state of Iowa canuse their apps back. And I don't
know if they still have to dothis, but back when it first opened,

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you had to go in person toset up the account at the casino
and you would talk to like representativeswho would set you up, and then
after you would set they would setyou up. Then you would have the
ability basically from anywhere in the stateof Iowa to make bets on any sporting
event that that sportsbook would offer.And there are a ton of sports books.
I mean, there are like twentyfive sports books that you could be

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a part of, and some ofthem are like they have little things in
the casino that you can actually sitdown and watch the game from the casino,
like Vegas style, and it's alot of fun if you've budgeted properly.
It's like paying for you know,Zach Bryan was playing over at cchi
Hell Center, you know, thecountry music guy, and the tickets were
like one hundred and thirty bucks togo in. I'm not going to pay

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one hundred and thirty bucks to gowatch Zack Bryan. But you know who
did twenty thousand country eleven people ofOmaha instead. You know, I might
be more inclined to spend one hundredand twenty bucks on tickets to a ballgame
that might not be you. Youmean, be like, oh, why
would I do that? I meanpeople are paying thousands of dollars see Taylor
Swift, who knows like they're havinga lot of fun. But it in

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demand. Yet when somebody says,well my form of entertainment is to go
hang out, throw a few bucks, on a game, hang out with
my buddies, and try to makea little extra money. We just immediately
as a society in the past havejust said, well, that's just they
have a problem. That's not healthy. You shouldn't be willing to do that
with your money. We were sayingthat that's a problem to gamble because we've

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been told that through the generations,even though people have gambled since the beginning
of time. And on top ofthat, it has like a small percentage
of people who gamble regularly are problemgamblers. They budget money on a month
to month basis. A lot ofthese people that I know that that gamb
like they do the sports betting stuffall the time. It's just like,

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yeah, this month, they gota hundred bucks that I'm willing to throw
in there, and some months,guess what they end up with more than
they started with. And you knowwhat, some months they lose it all.
And you know what, if that'ssomething that they're willing to do with
one hundred dollars that they have nota lot. Iotted a place for instead
of you know, going and watchingshows or going to the orpheum, or
going to see a person like ZachBryan perform at cchi Heuson or Omaha.

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Then who are we to tell themhow they should spend their money if they're
using it for entertainment. Obviously,much like with alcohol or any of the
drugs that we have talked about,including marijuana, there are people that they
go a little bit too far withit, or they go way too far
with it and they don't know whento stop. Obviously, we need to
get help for those people. Butoutlawing it doesn't seem to be creating an
issue except for the fact that,hey, guess what, all these places

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that have sent teams from the QuadWorld Series almost exclusively have sports gambling available
to them. So with Iowa rightacross the way, so many people who
came up from Texas, came upfrom Tennessee, came up from Florida,
made their way over to Iowa tomake their sports bets, and the state
of Iowa is just going to becounting that dollar because you have to have

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io with sportsbooks to be able tomake those bets. And if those guys
lose or whatever, that money goesright into the Iowa casinos and then those
guys come back over to the Nebraskaside of things. Then you go over
there and you talk about the footballgames. Craig said, over eighteen thousand
Nebraskans, we're making football bets acrossthe river for Husker football games because we

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can geo catch where these people arefrom. I was getting all that money.
I was getting that money eighteen thousandtimes. Nebraska's crossed the state border
to place bets on the football seasonby itself. So why are we being
so uppitty about this thing in Nebraska? I know, I know somebody's gonna

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like, give me intelligence and tellme, you know, enlighten me.
That's the word I'm looking for.Enlighten me is to all of the perils
of sports gambling and the people thathave been polar opposite of my perspective and
said we don't want this in ourcommunity. Yet at the same time,
I'm seeing this Warhorse casino which isgonna be opening a permanent venue of a

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casino on August the sixth. Huh, So which side of the tracks are
we on here? And what arewe what are we doing? Like they
have that temporary facility in Lincoln obviouslythat Craig mentioned, and people aren't driving
to Lincoln. They're driving ten minutesto Council Bluffs instead of driving thirty five

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forty minutes to Lincoln if they're stayingfor the College World Series, because obviously
logistically that makes way more sense.But man, that's tough. Man,
that's tough. You have to goover there to set it up. They're
not gonna do that. They're gonnagive ie with that money. So I
guess we'll see, we'll see howthe narrative change is. Obviously, having
a legitimate casino from the Warhorse people, Warhorse Gaming people that will be opening

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this later on this summer is progressin that direction. You would imagine not
going to stop there. But justthink of the thousands, millions, hundreds
of millions of dollars potentially lost becausewe just, oh, we don't want
that degenerative stuff happening in our communities. You got thoughts on game gambling,
sports gambling specifically, you have thoughtson whether or not it should be legalized

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in Nebraska in the very near future. And the money that we have just
given to Iowa because of this,I'd love to hear from you. Four
oh two five five eight to eleventen four h two five five eight eleven
ten If you got an opinion onthis. You're listening to Emory Songer with
you on news radio eleven ten kfab, Emri Sung on news Radio eleven ten

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kfab, Roger Olson in the studio, and Roger, you've been here a
lot longer than I have in thiscommunity. Oh, actually, my whole
lot. There you go. So, what from your vantage point as somebody
who's kind of plugged in on thistype of conversation, what exactly has been
Why has this not happened earlier?Why why are we still just now kind

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of getting to the point where acasino with a possible sports book and the
growth of this industry in this statewhile Iowa has been making money hand over
fist for the last thirty years.Well Iowa, of course. Well,
the first intrusion into the gambling worldfor Iowa and how it impacts Nebraska is

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the fact that in the mid eightiesthe dog parks the dog tracks started,
and with those dog tracks, thenthey started putting her because they random so
much faster. They put a herdon xarbon and eventually contributed with the expanded
gambling to the riverboats and whatnot.Nebraska is just behind and trust me,

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this isn't anything new for a tonof money to be crossing the Missouri River.
I mean people from all over easternpart of Nebraska would go there,
and so it's always been a whyare we sending all of our money over
to Iowa? This has always beenan argument. Finally, there was a
strong lobby against gambling, and alot of it was led by Pat Luncher

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with the group Gambling with a GoodLife. And then of course coach tom
Osborne Athletic director, and I meanpeople in tom Osborne spoke because it was
trustworthiness. People are like, maybewe ought to think twice about this because
of some of the ills with it, and that kind of put the kebash
on us expanding until we had avoter initiative that was voted on. Was

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it four years ago? It's takenforever to get this, I think four
years ago years ago, and itwas passed. And so now they are
allowing the sports books and casinos togo in anywhere there's a racetrack, and
there are just a few racetracks OmahaHorsemen's Park, Lincoln and Grand Island and

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Columbus is still running. And that'sexactly how things and probably add more tracks.
That's that's how it moved in Iowa, and like in the Moiner area
with prairie meadows, is the exactsame thing where the horse racing kind of
got started first and got established,and then they were able based on the
legislation to get approved for having slotmachines, having blackjack and roulette tables,

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and eventually now full blown sports booksout the ying Yang all over the entire
state of Iowa. So I guessmy bigger, my bigger issue here,
and this is this is me thinkingas a millennial in a state that I've
lived in for less than a year. And You'll have to forgive me for
maybe being a little bit crass aboutthe way that I'm gonna say this,

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But I am such an economy I'mnot an economist. I am such a
fan of big economy. I'm fiscallyconservative to probably a big fault, and
I sit in a city where I'mgetting I feel like I'm getting kind of
gouged in tax money, not juston my property taxes, which everybody's talking
about. Obviously, I'm not theonly one that has that on my mind,

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but the idea that we are attackedso much in a place like Omaha,
which is a great place to live, a beautiful Midwestern place, so
many people. It's still way moreaffordable than so many other big cities around
the country. But man, itwould be perfect if we could get the
tax money kind of under hold.And I'm continuously told by people that,
well, they'll just they will neverlower our taxes. They're just gonna find

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new ways to spend the additional revenuethat we would get on recreational marijuana,
on gambling casinos, sports betting,and things of that nature that I've been
talking about. So if that's thecase, then how has Iowa somehow avoided
all of that while still having Theydon't have recreational marijuana, but they have
additional marijuana. Is there is theresomething that we're missing here on a variety

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of levels that Nebraska is just Andmaybe it's the Osbourne thing. Maybe it's
you know, because you know,somebody's the well, but ye know,
you have somebody that carries so muchinfluence like that anything that they say is
going to really sway public opinion ina lot of ways. But gosh,
at the same time, you justwonder, do we are we thinking to
two dimensional here instead of thinking aboutwhat the future looks like and the view

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that the honest to the matter offact honesty here is the fact that Nebraska
is behind Iowa on the gambling frontand has been sending a ton of money
over there, whether they meant todo with that or not for whatever reason,
as if that kind of thing wasn'tactually happening here in Nebraska. At
the same time, it's just sucha naive. It feels naive to me

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that we feel like that's not actuallyhappening and that kind of behavior isn't going
on because we're just outlawing it whenpeople are still going wherever they want to
go to buy their fireworks or tobuy, you know, their marijuana,
or go and make bets on theirsportsbook. Real quick, before we hit
the bottom, let's get to Mike. Mike, welcome to the show today.
What do you think about this?You know, well, I want

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it's a joke. Nebraska is soa backwards on so many things. And
then when they try to come upwith the reason, Okay, we're going
to have it instead of just lookingat a stage has done it successfully.
Oh, they got to rewrite allthe books. It's like, even with
this new thing that they're going tohave and you can only go to the
warhouse, the war horse or whenthey're gonna be open up on Q and
all that. You cannot bet onNebraska's teams, Joe. I mean I

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can go to any bar in Omahain place of that. I don't have
to go to a casino. It'snot like it doesn't happen. And you
know they sit there they want toreride everything. I was getting really aggressive
on tax reduction. Nebraska can andfigure out how to how to lower a
levy by him percent and you knowas far and it just translates to every

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aspect of the you know, theysay the vice taxes though, we got
to stop by the government cannot makeenough laws to legislate to protect you from
doing what you want to do.As far as you know, gambling,
smoking, weeds, Uh, youknow we can. We can drink to
or silly and go to work nextmorning. You have one, you hit
a bull on a Friday night andyou get in a wreck at work on

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Thursday, and oh you got weedin your system. Correct? And and
I don't smoke with a lot ofguys. No, yeah, no,
me neither, Mike. But buteverything that you're saying is one hundred percent
factual. And it's because our society, at least in this state has been
generally conditioned though, Oh well that'ssuper bad and all this bad stuff is
going to happen, and if wemake all that extra tax money, they're

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not going to try to do anything. I'm looking at iowill right now they're
doing that. How Why why couldn'tNebraska do that. I was living in
Missouri at the time when Missouri hadgambling there. And the big thing is
they're like, oh, they're goingto bring in, you know, all
the things we don't like. They'regoing to bring in prostitution. I'm like,
they got prostitution. Now, maybethey'll bring in a better talent.
Uh. It's just it's just moremoral. Legal legalizing or legislating moral issues

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never really work to a certain stand. You know. Yeah, either you're
going to do it or you're not. It's it's by the individual. Mike.
Mike, this was a great call, and you basically just said everything
that I'm thinking, and you didit way better than I could have.
I really appreciate you calling in man, really appreciate the time today. If
you want to call in on thistopic. You want to go the other
route, I'd love to talk withyou about it. If you never want

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to see gambling happen, even thoughit is going to be opening up a
casino here, but you want tolook more like Iowa, or you want
to look more like Missouri in differentways, or if you think that that's
bad, we shouldn't be going thatdirection. You can call in at four
o two, five to five,eight to eleven, ten News Radio eleven
ten KFAB, Emrie Sunger on newsRadio eleven ten KFAB. We're gonna shift
the conversation this time. I wantedto talk about something that I noted and

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this is in eastern Iowa, butit kind of relates to what Craig was
talking about with the mountain lion.This is an interesting deal. Eastern Iowa
now are conf the DNR of Iowaconfirming at least four black bears that have
been cited in eastern Iowa, upto potentially six of them, and they

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do say they are native to Iowa, but haven't had legitimate population in the
area because of losing at the turnof the from the eighteen hundred into the
nineteen hundreds and twentieth century, thepopulation was dwindling because of a variety of
factors including, you know, habitat, loss and things of that nature hunting.

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But now they're starting to get closerand pop back up, especially this
time of the year when they're inmating season. They don't anticipate people or
the bears to have babies right nowin eastern Iowa, but they very well
could end up doing that in thenext five or so years. What they
talk about and it got me tothinking, and you know me, I

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like to talk about different animals,and I kind of want to fancy myself
as like a Midwestern Steve Irwin doingthe best that I can to learn about
every possible animal and then go intothe wild and actually see them in person.
That'd be so fun, Like ifthat could be my job and I
can just go Finally, we talkedabout the porcupines up on the Nybrara,

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and you talk about like beavers around. I don't know if you're gonna be
finding any bears in Nebraska though,but now in Eastern Iowa, I kind
of want to go see one.Obviously, black bears aren't ultra aggressive.
They can weigh up the you know, six hundred and seven hundred pounds probably.
But you look at these these blackbears, they are a little more

(01:25:21):
gentle than your grizzly bears or yourbrown bears are going to be, or
your polar bears up there in thenorthern Canadian areas wouldn't be running into one
of those guys and having a lotof luck. Black bears, for the
most part, if you make alot of noise and you spook them,
they don't want to be anywhere nearwhere that action's happening unless you give them

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a good reason, which is,you know, you have dog food out,
or you have your trash can accessible, and they obviously have the weight
and the skill with their paws tobe able to open those kinds of things,
and they'd eat out of your birdfeeder, just you know, big
clumsy animals that also could be prettydangerous if you mixed it up with them,

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even though brown bears generally are notthat kind. But I was wondering,
is there is there there brown orblack bears in Nebraska somewhere? I
mean, that doesn't sound like somethingthat I would see here. But I
said that about the North American porcupineand all y'all just told me, Hey,
you go up to the Niabra,you're gonna be finding porcupines all over

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the place. I also saw somebodyin Iowa, and again, sorry,
my social media is full of Iowastuff too, doing a radio show in
Iowa every single day. But thethe armadillo thing that people were talking about,
that armadillos hop on like semi trucksand somehow make their way up to

(01:26:47):
the Midwest and they found an armadillolike unfortunately had been hit by traffic,
but there was an armadillo just liketo south of the Des Moines area,
and they were able to find itand identify it. I mean, that's
wild stuff to me, even thoughI know for a fact those guys aren't

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native to around these parts. Butthat doesn't mean that you may not be
able to see one or two ifyou're in the right spot at different times.
So if you've seen a black bearin Iowa or any weird stuff like
that in Nebraska, I'd love tohear from me and call in four two
five five eight eleven ten four twofive five eight eleven ten. As far

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as the mountain lion thing we talkedabout when I first got here. I
think that was one of the thingsthat was really one of my first fun
stories that it was fun. Iknow for a lot of people it was
like danger danger. But when thatmountain lion last summer was roaming through the
neighborhoods in Omaha and just the veryedge of town and people were seeing it

(01:27:54):
on their ring cameras and I don'tknow whatever happened to that one. We
never heard that it was found orcaught or shot or anything like that.
But there is a lot there's anobvious line, right, and for a
predator like a mountain lion, it'svery different than like a black bears per
se, when there's a mountain lionaround, you know that if you got

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a small dog or a cat,you know that that mountain lion looking for
some food is gonna do what ithas to do to be a predator and
get its food. That's that's acompletely different issue, I think than having
an animal like a black bear that'snot generally going to go after your pets
like that. But I tell youwhat, if I were to run into

(01:28:39):
one of those guys, that thatkind of get me a bit spooked.
There's no doubt that a mountain lionhas a little bit more needle mover,
kind of like, hey, youbetter watch yourself kind of thing that you
would feel like Steve Ver would runinto one of those guys, right,
just like, yes, you gotyou gotta stay your distance on that guy

(01:28:59):
because he can mess you and messup. You mess you up, you
can mess anybody else around you up. Go back to the phones, Chris
on our phone line four h two, five, five, eight to eleven
ten, Chris, you can helpme a little bit with this. Hey,
what's going on? Man? Areyou? I'm good? What's up?
Oh? So, I just wantedto share my experience. And I'm
not one hundred percent, but Itold everybody about it because I didn't think

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it was a raccoon or anything likethat. But I was delivering some railroad
ties about twenty years ago up inthe bluffs across the border over in Iowa,
and I drive down this road andI see this huge black ball behind
me go across the road, andI swort of got like it was a
cub or something. I told everybodyabout it. They're like, you're nuts,

(01:29:42):
there's no way, and I waslike, I don't know, man,
And then I hear you guys talkingon the air, and I was
like, I'm telling them that,Hey, well no, okay, so
let's okay. So if it's nota bear, what is it then?
Right, Like, I don't know, Kim, can we like, can
we tell these people that are questioningyour story? Can you give me some
some other options as to what thisthing might be? Because that's the only

(01:30:03):
way to answer this question, right, Because you saw a black ball walk
across the road. You didn't imaginethat, So what what else? What
else could it possibly have been?You know what I mean exactly? I
mean, like, I know whata porcupine looks like. It was way
too big for a raccoon, andthe way the thing moved it just I
was like, dude, that wasa bear. Like no, no,

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Everyone's like, oh, you're sofull of it, dude. I was
like, no, dude, forsure it was a bear. I'm not
even lying. And I hear youguys talking about it on the radio.
Yeah, so this is mostly ineastern Io whare they're seeing these guys,
But I can't you can't rule outthe fact that maybe like a little bit
more northern or even northwestern Iowa.Some of that stuff couldn't be possibly happening
if their numbers are increasing like theysay they are. Maybe a buffalo.

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Do you see a buffalo's around hereevery once in a while. No,
I've never seen a buffalo in Iowa. Man, But I guarantee you this
was This had to have been,like I'm ninety nine percent sure that it
was a bear, Like there's noother explanation. Not a raccoon, not
a porcupine, not a cow,nothing like there. Okay, all right,

(01:31:15):
well, Chris, I'm gonna hopefullythe beacons are lit. Anybody who
thinks they've seen a bear anywhere nearhere, anywhere in western Iowa or eastern
Nebraska, please call in. Now'sthe time to share your story. Four
h two five five eight eleven,San Chris, appreciate the call man,
Thanks for listening to us. Hey, thanks man, take care of you.
Bet got Brian on the line.Brian, welcome to the show today.
What do you got for me?Well, I've met the black bear

(01:31:35):
twice in the wild. First wasin the Montana, climbing up the side
of Mountain Missoula with a girlfriend andwe surprised the bear, and the bear
surprised us, and it took offthe other way, went up the mountain
before, so you didn't have toscare it away. It just kind of
ran up there by itself. WellI think, yeah, then by itself.

(01:31:56):
We didn't have to do anything.It was scared by us. Surprising
that, and it's you know.And the other time was a superior forest
in northern Minnesota. I was goingdown the trail one way and then oh,
suddenly there's this bear going down thetrail the other way. So I
banged on a tin plate I hadand said shoe, bear, shoe,
and it thought about it and turnedaround went the other way. Nice.

(01:32:18):
Now, the other day, whenyou were talking about dangerous animals, I
was thinking about a grizzly bear,because a grizzly bear, if you had
a pistol and you were shooting it, they probably just knocked the pistol out
of your hand and bite your headoff. Yeah. Yeah, brown bear,
grizzly bear, they're not going toplay around, that's for sure.
Hey, Brian, that's good stuff. Thanks thanks for letting us know and
appreciate you calling in. Sure,black bear mainly have to worry about them

(01:32:41):
getting into your food and breaking anythingin the way. Of that. Yeah,
there you go. Yeah, it'sa little omnivore action. No.
I appreciate the call, Brian,that's good stuff. Hey, Brad is
on the phone line. Brad,welcome to the show. What do you
got for me? Hey? Iwas driving to the Moines one day and
at that rest area just west ofthe Moines there was a dad Armor dilo
on the side of the road.When was this This would have been like

(01:33:04):
two years ago I saw it.You know, see, like that's crazy,
right. They would have to havejumped on a truck to get here.
There's no way they would have hadto hit your ride on a semi
I would say, yeah, andjust like hang on, like dead arm
with that rest area west of desMoines. Did you take a picture of

(01:33:24):
anything of it? I did not. Yeah. Now see that's my thing
is I would have like I wouldwant to investigate. Now dead dead one's
a little tough, you know,it's because smelly and all the flies.
But yeah, that's that to me. That'd be an interesting thing to look
at for sure, Brad. Iappreciate the call, man, Thanks so
much for listening. You bet,thank you. Uh real quick, let's

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go ahead and get to Nick,Nick, welcome to the show. It's
on your mind. Oh so Ilived down here in Cass County and I
do some trap and uh so Ihave to identify a lot of animal traps.
And uh I've seen elk down here, I see mountain lion tracks down
here. But I really wanted tosay that that mountain lion that was spotted
one hundred and fourteenth and Q andbetween Q and Harrison. My mom lives

(01:34:09):
in that neighborhood and I used torun up and down that creek as a
kid. But uh my mom actuallyheard that cat three nights ago growling out
in the trade line. Ooh okay, so yeah, that would spook you
right there. If you could hearit, you couldn't see it, especially
at nighttime when that thing's active.That had scared the GB's out of me.
Hey, Nick, appreciate the infoman, Thanks so much for calling

(01:34:30):
in yep later all right, ifyou if you got any stories about seeing
some weird wildlife, including maybe amountain lion or a bear or an armadillo
anywhere around these parts, I'd loveto hear from you. You can call
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(01:34:53):
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(01:36:23):
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Be sure to stick around give usa call if you have anything on your
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(01:36:46):
eleven ten News Radio eleven ten KFABCollege World Series is gonna be wrapping up
in Tennessee and Texas. A andM who brought the most fans, I
think, probably pretty easily, andthey're gonna be hot up and around downtown.
It's going to be a lot offun to have them here for finals
weekend, and one of them isleaving with the ultimate prize, a national
championship. No games today, nogames tomorrow, first day of the best

(01:37:12):
of three finals taking place on Saturday. With that also being said other big
sports news. We talked about thisa little earlier in the show, wanted
to mention it again. The NCAAis actually handed over a proposal, or
at least some information about to thecommissioners of all the conferences in Division one

(01:37:32):
about potentially expanding the NCAA Men's andwomen's basketball tournament from the sixty eight team
brackets that we have now to seventytwo or seventy six teams, which again
more money for everybody, But arewe losing the plot on what it really
meant to even make the tournament?Now? The more we expand, the
more teams are just going to haveeven not very good seasons in their major

(01:37:56):
conferences and still make it to thetournament. I wonder what that looks like,
but the fact that that's on thetable potentially would not shock me.
If that's something that happens, andit could be good for additional venues.
I don't know how that would work, but you'd basically be adding gosh,
another eight nine games potentially. Idon't know. I didn't want to do

(01:38:18):
that math, but anyway, that'ssomething I'm paying attention to. And then
JJ Reddick, first time head coach, going to be coaching the LA Lakers.
It's an interesting gig and JJ Redickthis is an interesting idea. He
actually has been doing a podcast inthe last few months with Lebron James,
who is a free agent right nowand people are wondering whether or not he's

(01:38:38):
going to re sign with the Lakers. Well, certainly JJ Redick, who's
now hosting a podcast with him.I don't know how the podcast business is
going to go for JJ Redick nowthat he's going to be a coach,
but I'm sure that's going to meanthat Lebron James is going to go back
and play for the Lakers this year. So I guess we're going to find
out officially what that looks like andwhen free agency officially kicks off at the

(01:38:59):
start of next month. Anyway,the big news that I found that I
wanted to talk about, and wespent some time earlier in the show,
but for those who were just joiningus, I really want to get to
a couple of these points with you. A Fox News poll, a national
poll that dropped yesterday late afternoon.Didn't get to it yesterday, but it
shows Joe Biden leading fifty to fortyeight percent. That's a change from the

(01:39:21):
last several months. The last timeBiden was actually ahead of Trump in the
Fox News National poll was back inOctober and it was only forty nine to
forty eight percent. Now this isanother slim lead, but it's not again,
this is just over a thousand people. This isn't a monster sample size.

(01:39:43):
There's not a big pool of people, but it's different people every time,
and it is important, I think, to watch what these trends are
doing and why people are maybe shiftingtheir thoughts one way or the other.
Well, Biden ahead by two percent. That is within the margin of error,
so you can basically call it adead heat. But a couple of
things that I was really interested in, and that's with it's just one versus
one. When they add third partycandidates, it's basically the same in terms

(01:40:06):
of the difference. It's a fortythree to forty two percent in favor of
Biden, just over one percent.RFK Junior is down to ten percent support
in this poll, and I justI fear, and this is a fear
if you are an American who wantsto have full ability to have as much
information as possible before making your choice. RFK Junior seemingly a very viable third

(01:40:29):
party candidate not going to get thefair shake that I think he deserves as
an independent running for office with solidsupport, and I think the American people
deserve, because when you have aviable third party candidate, I do think
it's important to have that information infront of you. However, when you
look at it from a standpoint ofwhat brings in ratings, well, this

(01:40:50):
team versus that team, this guyversus that guy, good guys, bad
guys. Most of America has thatfeeling. There is a large chunk that
kind of goes back and forth orfeels differently from election to election that is
looking to truly get more information inhear what these candidates have to say when

(01:41:10):
debates happen. But RFK Junior isn'tgoing to be involved for a variety of
reasons, and they made very strictand stringent rules see and N did to
make sure he was not going tohave the ability to participate. And that
includes not just getting enough support innational polls, which he basically does,
but it's a matter of being onthe ballot in enough states that he could
achieve two hundred and seventy electoral votes, which is how you win the presidency,

(01:41:33):
and he has not quite achieved that. In fact, he's several states
away from being able to do that, and he's not going to be able
to do that within the timeframe becausethe deadline was I think tomorrow to have
a chance to be on this debatestage. But either way, he's not
going to be there. It's goingto be Trump versus Biden and RFK Junior.
I think is going to continue toslip in the public consciousness as a

(01:41:56):
third party candidate, and it's notgoing to be as big of a it's
still going to be a fact.I mean, there's no way less than
five percent of people probably aren't goingto vote for him. And then according
to this poll, there are stilltwo percent of people both supporting Jill Stein
and Cornell West. And then yougot a libertarian candidate that you could you
know, throw another you know,one and a half to two percent.
So realistically, there's only going tobe you know, eighty five eighty to

(01:42:17):
eighty five percent of voters that areprobably going to be available for Trump and
Biden, and a pretty solid groupof people that could vote for either of
them most of the time. Asfar as political parties are concerned, they
just didn't want to vote for Bidenor Trump again in this rematch. As
far as the demographics go, basedon these numbers, Trump dominant in rule
voters plus seventeen percent there, dominantamongst men plus fifteen there, and obviously

(01:42:44):
white men without a degree plus thirtythey. I have some questions about that.
I feel like white men without adegree. Those are you know,
your blue collar workers in a lotof rural areas. I think that doesn't
correlate necessarily to Republicanism as much asit correlates to rule voter. If you're
going to be in rural areas,that's going to be people who have gotten
apprenticeships, are working, you know, hands on jobs, being effective members

(01:43:08):
of their society and communities. SoI'm not sure why that continuously is getting
brought up as a demographic. Iknow they want as many demographics as possible,
but it just doesn't make sense tome because rule voters, white men
without degrees, those aren't going tobe that different in terms of where those
people are located. White evangelical Christiansalso a plus forty six. We've continuously

(01:43:30):
gotten more and more on the religiousfront for the Republicans, and they are
utilizing that. They're harvesting people offaith, saying that there is no faith
on the left, and that's true. There's a lot of atheism or a
lot of just apathy toward general religion. Although those are people that are going
to be pretty quick to defend youknow, Hinduism or Buddhism or Islam as

(01:43:54):
far as you know, the rightfor those to have places in America,
even though they don't feel the sameway about Christianity or Judaism, the you
know, the older and more wellestablished religions. But alas, that's how
you have to play the game.If you're going to be mad at the
establishment or mad at demand, youhave to find something to be mad about.

(01:44:14):
As far as what Biden did wellin voters aged sixty five and over,
that surprised me that voters who areovertirement age and older plus fifteen percent
in favor of Biden. Obviously,you won well in women and in urban
voters, and with white women witha college degree insert this exact same thing,
white women, college degree, urbanareas. That makes sense. That's

(01:44:34):
going to coick that those numbers aregoing to be correlated, not necessarily with
Democrats. I just think all ofthose numbers, all those demographics are in
the same place. Now if you'relooking at the big interesting factor that I
had was okay, so who votedbased on or who is making their decisions
based on these trials that were sohighly publicized in the last couple of months,

(01:44:59):
the Trump can and the Biden convictionHunter Biden not Joe Biden, of
course, And the answer is notmany people change their mind at all,
at least according to this poll,ninety six percent of people did not reconsider
their support of whichever candidate based onthe Hunter Biden conviction, and ninety four
percent didn't change their mind on theDonald Trump conviction. So those were I
mean marginal at best for anybody changingtheir mind one way or the other at

(01:45:23):
least based on this. And ontop of that, what are the main
issues? And this is where Ijust implored by this. I would say,
if you asked me what the numberone issue is, I'm saying the
economy, my pocketbook, energy costs, these are the things that really matter
to me, no disrespect to anybodyelse in their opinion. Immigration. I
know that's a problem. I know, one way or the other, it

(01:45:45):
needs to be addressed. I'm justnot sure we can do anything to resolve
the problem immediately. And that's asfar as the seven million people that have
been in this country illegally over thelast three years. But I just like,
that's not number one for me.It might be number two or three.
Potentially, you might talk about climatechange. A lot of Democrats point

(01:46:06):
to that as like, I'm votingDemocrat because I care about the environment and
climate change. Okay, I careabout the Israel Hamas war. Okay,
Well what do you think Number onewas? It was the future of American
democracy. And again I don't wantanybody to correct me and say we live
in a constitutional republic. It's notmy words. I'm using the words of

(01:46:27):
the poll. The question was askedthe people, I'm going to give you
a topic, and you tell meif it's extremely important, very important,
somewhat important, or not at allimportant. And they said future of American
democracy. Those are the exact wordsused in the poll, and sixty eight
percent of people said it's extremely important. Sixty eight percent. That's more than

(01:46:48):
any other topic of conversation. Theeconomy was a close second, and if
you include very important, that endedup doing the best overall in terms of
those top two Nonumber three A stabilityand normalcy. Now, I don't know
about you, but the future ofAmerican democracy and stability and normalcy, those
are the things that the Democrats arefear mongering independent voters into thinking. That's

(01:47:11):
what they need to be thinking aboutand why they shouldn't be voting for Donald
Trump or the Republicans. If youcare about not wanting a dictator, well
Trump's going to make himself a dictator. That's what they're saying in the ads.
You want stability, you want normalcy, you don't want us to be
viewed as a joke. Well DonaldTrump is a joke on so many levels.
And if you don't vote for theDemocrats, then you're giving the keys
to him, and you're not goingto have that normalcy you're looking for.

(01:47:32):
They are fear mongering independent voters tovote Democrat based on these numbers, and
it's working. If you've got thoughtson this, you can call in four
roh two five to five, eightto eleven ten. I'll finish up my
analysis of these numbers, and Igot a couple of wild and weird stories
coming up later on this hour.You're gonna want to hear, so stick
around if you want to call us. Four h two five five eight eleven
ten. Four h two five fiveeight eleven ten, It's News Radio eleven

(01:47:55):
ten. Kfab em Ry's songer,what are people voting on or what are
people saying are the most important issuesout there? And the future of American
democracy and stability and normalcy, asthe poll put it, are two of
the three most important things the peoplein this poll. And like I said,
the Democrats have positioned themselves well torun on those things, right.

(01:48:15):
They don't have much on the economythat they could possibly tell us is going
to improve or be better, becausewe have four years worth of evidence that
Joe Biden and this Democratic administration isnot going to be able to accomplish anything
of positive note on that front,despite how big of an issue it has
become. Out of COVID nineteen.Healthcare is up there, immigration is up

(01:48:35):
there. We know that in immigration, Donald Trump is much better position,
and as far as the poll isconcerned, that is true. But by
only nine points, it's not asbig of a lead as you would think
for a situation like that. AndI wonder if that has something to do
with Joe Biden's executive order and howpeople say okay, well, at least

(01:48:55):
that might be solved. Same thingwith the economy, Trump is a five
point advantage, which again is notsurprising. He is considered a better candidate
for the economy for people who areinterested in most in the economy, but
it is surprising that the advantage isonly five points. Those independent voters definitely
are making a little bit more noisein different ways that make a big difference.

(01:49:18):
Now if you're wondering about what theythink is most important as far as
traits for the president, because that'sbeen a big conversation as well. We
have a guy we're not sure cancognitively handle another four years in president,
let alone the next four months beforethe election. You got a guy that

(01:49:39):
you think four more years is crazy. I'm not sure you can make it
four months to the election. Orwhat their integrity is or what their you
know, age and leadership skills andall that stuff. Well, this is
what the question was. What isthe most important one and the answer to
that apparently is the candidate's leadership skills. Sixty six percent said that's extremely important

(01:50:01):
to their vote for president, andtwenty six percent said it's very important.
Integrity was number two at sixty onepercent saying extremely important, and then third
was the candidate's age of mental soundness. We're only forty five percent said that's
the most important thing or an extremelyimportant thing to consider. Now as far

(01:50:21):
as the mental soundness is concerned,obviously Trump you would think would win,
but again he only won by sevenpoints in the poll. So I understand
us saying, you know, likethe poll might be loaded with Democrats,
the poll might be loaded with peoplefrom different geographical areas that might not be
friendly to Republicans. I can believethat. But enough people are a part

(01:50:43):
of this with these trends that ifwe're going to look at them and kind
of try to pinpoint some of thesethings that are happening and are being noticed,
this is a kind of ammunition thatcan totally get the Democrats off to
the right foot in really pushing beyondnext Thursday debate, because we have the
debate and we expect Donald Trump toprobably perform best. But they also asked

(01:51:05):
how important is the candidate's performance inthe debate to you making a determination on
who should run the country, Andonly thirty percent said that's extremely important to
them, and only twenty five percentsaid it's very important. It just isn't
as much of a needle mover asyou would think it is. And I
told you, like, it's gonnabe fun and it's gonna be a fun,
entertaining watch and that's why we wantyou to join us for the watch

(01:51:27):
party. We're doing next Thursday atBuffalo Wings and Rings. But that doesn't
mean that people are gonna make theirmind up on who should be the president
based on the debate performances and withthe variables completely taken out of the mix.
We know it's ninety minutes, weknow there's only two commercial breaks.
CNN's Jake Tapper and Dana Bash,who are very very left leaning in their

(01:51:48):
reporting, are doing the moderation.They are shutting the mics off for the
candidates when they aren't it's not theirturn to speak, so there won't be
guys jumping in each other. It'ssuch there's no audience, there's no studio
audience. This is going to besuch a controlled environment. Even if they
say there's no note cards or noteleprompters available to these candidates, which could

(01:52:13):
totally expose Joe Biden, there's noway he's not going to do anything for
a week. They say he's spendingan entire week preparing for this, so
whenever they got him ready to go, whatever he gets hopped up on to
make that happen. I'm sure withall the variables that are taken out out
of the mix to distract him ormake things difficult for him as long as
he gets the friendly questioning that wewould anticipate he is going to get from

(01:52:34):
the CNN moderators. And Donald Trumpis just Donald Trump, and the left
finds a way to make him looklike a buffoon for some reason, which
is what they have been trying todo since twenty sixteen. Then I don't
know that we're going to learn allthat much. And that makes sense as
to why people don't think it's worthpaying that close attention to make that determination

(01:52:58):
on who is going to be theirprice. But time is going to tell.
It's fascinating when new and interesting pollscome out and I'm surprised by some
of the results. I am goingto share those with you, even though
I know we shouldn't trust polling.I think it is important for us,
once we have the results of theelection or whatever the polling is for,
to go back and see if wecould predict what exactly happened based on the

(01:53:18):
trends of each poll and through themonths as we were noting them. Something
to keep in mind. I havea couple of ridiculous stories for you,
and you're going to want to hearthese. One about a neighbor poisoning in
neighbor's trees for a very strange reason, and a guy who is can't help
himself but to get physical in avery strange way with horses. Yes,

(01:53:42):
your imagination is going to go wild. I will give you those answers.
Momentarily. On news radio eleven tenkfab talked a lot about the news already.
I'm going to talk to you abouta couple of stories that popped up
in various news feeds for me thatI had to click on and I just
couldn't keep to myself. And Iknow it's going to be pretty exciting for
you in your car, or inyour house, or in your garage or

(01:54:03):
wherever you're listening, because these arenot just your typical everyday stories. Apparently,
in Maine, three years ago,there's currently a lawsuit going on,
and this is why this is comingup now, But three years ago,
apparently two neighboring millionaires who live inthe state of Maine are fighting in court

(01:54:27):
over accusations that one of them poisonedthe other's trees to improve their ocean view.
I'll let you think about that.So there are trees kind of along
the ocean on one of the coastshere of Maine, and there are trees

(01:54:51):
that are in the way of oneof their houses in their view of the
ocean. And I'm guessing at somepoint, based on the accusation here,
that there's like they're thinking to themselves, Man, how awesome would this view
be if those trees were out ofthe way and they slowly removed the like

(01:55:15):
they killed the trees and then removedthe trees, and now all of a
sudden they can see the ocean.So here's the story. And part of
this is because the the herviside thatwas used here is found now into the
public beach in this community along thecoast of Maine. And Lisa Gorman,

(01:55:40):
who her last name is maybe familiarif you're aware of Llban but president of
lb Elbean passed away a few yearsago. Leon Gorman, his wife,
Lisa, claims her neighbor applied herbicideto her oak trees without consent. In
twenty twenty one, the neighbor,her name's a A merely a bond offered

(01:56:01):
to split the cost to remove thosedying trees from the front of that home.
The next year, in twenty twentytwo, is the trees were dying.
Of course, then Bond got anunobstructed view of the bay and obviously
probably increased greatly the UH value ofthe house. I would gas. But

(01:56:27):
apparently that destruction spread next door intothe beach, right next door to it,
and residents were seen walking their dogsfive hundred feet away from the soil
where herbicide was detected, and thatobviously could be a danger to a lot
of people. Now again, thissmall town of Camden, Maine, this

(01:56:54):
has uprooted their trust in each otherhere because many people think finding this person,
this, this Arthur Bond and hiswife Amelia, they basically say,
we need to throw these people injail, like this is this is this
is too much for us. Anhere's a quote from a resident to the

(01:57:16):
Associated Press where I'm getting this story. Anybody dumb enough to poison trees right
next to the ocean should be prosecuted, as far as I'm concerned. So
the maximum find, according to themain Board of Pesticide Control, forty five
hundred bucks. The Gormans already havepaid that. I think they meant the
Bonds should have paid that. Butanyway, I just can't imagine, like

(01:57:41):
this is such a stupid thing.This goes back. Okay, so there
was a rivalry with the Auburn andAlabama football teams, and Auburn in there,
like on their main streets near campus, they have these incredibly historic trees
that are really like important in paramountinto the tradition of the school. And

(01:58:04):
apparently some Alabama fan thought it'd bea funny joke to go and poison those
trees too with herbicide, and thetrees died. I like, I don't
understand. And this person then islike like these Amelia bond in her husband

(01:58:25):
Arthur, right, these bonds ifyou will, how do you justify this
to anyone? How like? Whynot talk to them? Oh, we'll
split the coster re move your treesafter I've already killed them. Maybe that'll
make you feel better about this.What are we doing here? The idea

(01:58:47):
to destroy anybody else's property just becauseyou don't like the way that it looks.
That crosses a big line for me. Man. The same thing if
I decided to have like an overgrownlawn and I somehow was still within city
code because I don't have like typicalgrass, Like it's one of those like
echo lawns or whatever, and somebodydecided they were gonna come into my yard

(01:59:11):
and cut my plants for me becausethey didn't like how unsightly it looked to
them. Wouldn't you have a bigproblem with that? I certainly would,
And I just I these are millionairefamilies. It's hard to feel sad or
bad for millionaires, but finding themforty five hundred dollars, because that's nothing

(01:59:34):
for them. Forty five hundred dollarsis the worst they can do because they
went onto somebody else's property and notjust applied herbicide to kill these trees so
it would get out of their wayof their ocean view, but then did
that within five hundred feet of thebeach where people are walking around and kids
are swimming and dogs are running around. I really wish I could talk to

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these people and tell them what's onmy mind. You. I just hate
how insensitive people are to other people. But anyway that's going on, it's
gonna be it's gonna be interesting tosee if those people even have to move.
It wouldn't surprise me if they haveto get out of town. You
know what I'm saying, Because comeon, if I lived in this town,

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and this is going nationwide news.And I found out what happened here.
I couldn't look at these people thesame way. Get out of my
community, That's what I say.Speaking of getting out of your community.
I got a crazy story about aguy that likes to get physical with horses,
and I'll tell you exactly how,and you're not gonna believe this.
Coming up next on news radio eleventen KFAB. I had this story in

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the queue. I didn't want tospend too much time on it, and
so I limited myself accordingly, becausethis is the kind of thing that you
don't see every day, and Ihope never to see again in my life.
But again, too good not toshare. A man in a place
called far Texas, far Texas spelledpha ar r, he has been arrested

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for a fourth time for allegedly havingrelations of the sexual variety with a horse
deep breath. His name is CirilloCastillo, and he has been arrested on

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charges of beast reality and criminal trespass. This is not a young man,
this is an older man. Howdid this happen? Okay? And well,
how is this the fourth time?I have answers to both of those
things. And again, never inyour life would you ever think that you'd
hear something like this. An affidavitfor probable cause in the Hidalgo County Sheriff's

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office, Apparently a deputy responded toa resident nearby in this in this place,
this rural Texas, where the guyCastillo met with a woman. The
woman tore authorities that in the morning, she went out to feeder horses,
she saw Castillo in the stable andshe said, according to the affidavit,

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that she saw the man standing ona chair attempting to have relations with her
white mare. The horse, amare horse. This is not take that
literally. He's he's attempting to,you know, do the thing with a

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horse. Apparently in the affidavit aswell, this same guy has been on
the property before and was told heis not wanted on the property. I
don't know why he's there. Idon't know what he's doing. Maybe he
just fell in love with the horse, I don't know. Apparently this has
been a thing for her, tryingto get this guy off of her property

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because she feels like she's had previousencounters with him, trespassing, because he
wanted to, you know, getit on with this horse. His bond
is set at seventy thousand dollars andhe was booked in the jail two days
ago. Now about the four timesthing, In twenty thirteen, he pled

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guilty after doing it with a horsenamed India, and that was on video.
In twenty fifteen, he was arrestedagain after attempting to do the same
thing with a different horse. Duringthis incident, however, it didn't go
well. The horse declined to takeactive participation apparently, and kicked the guy

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and he crawled into the barn forshelter, where he would been hey had
They eventually found him and he toldauthorities that he was hit by a car
while he was in the barn somehow. I don't know how that's supposed to
work, but that's number two.And then in twenty twenty two he was
arrested after a homeowner realized that hewas leaving wooden benches and chairs in the

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horse stalls and they didn't know itwas this guy, but then they found
when they put video surveillance in there, noticing things were getting moved around.
On surveillance cameras, they found aguy laying on the floor of the stalls,
and they went to the stall tosee who it was, and they
caught him in the act, tryingto get it on with that horse,

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fumbling around with his pants. Thisguy's in love with horses. I don't
know what like this is crazy.This is a real thing. Anyway,
if you know somebody like that,call the police. They're not safe to
be in society. Anyway. Wehope you have a great rest of your
Thursday. They'll be back for afun Friday show two o'clock tomorrow. And

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enjoy yourself out there and stay safe. News Radio elevenon KFAB