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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's a tough thing, man, It's tough to talk about.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's tough to feel like, you know, that's a reality
that we have to live with in our society. We
had a lot of great discussion, which you can find
on the Emory Sunger podcast page, kfab dot com in
the free iHeartRadio app. However, I look forward to being
able to talk about fun stuff, stuff that's exciting, fun
that fun, things that you know, make us feel good
(00:25):
when we have the opportunity to do so. And we'll
get into more serious stuff later, including a seeming endorsement
of one of the two political candidates by Vladimir Putin.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Why does that matter? We'll get to that later. But
you know what, Matt, Matt Case, you know what today is? Why,
today's Thursday? You know what's tonight? You know what is
happening tonight?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
I do.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
It's the first NFL game of the season. Oh man,
how about that? Huh? Are you excited? Who is it?
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (00:54):
The are the Chiefs in that one?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
They are? They are They're taking on the Baltimore Ravens. Ah,
that's right, it's a good one. It's a good one
to start season.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Huh.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
Yeah, that'll be a tone setter.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
I like it right.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
The Baltimore ended up having the best record in the
NFL last year, however, lost in the AFC Championship game
to the Chiefs, who eventually went on and won the
Super Bowl for the third time in four years. I
already have people saying go Chiefs in my email inbox,
and right, anyway, I'll deal with it. It's fine.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
I just like football and that the football is back. Right.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
No college games tonight, but there are more college games
tomorrow as we get into the week. However, NBC is
doing the game.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
You know that.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Who is going to be broadcasting that game? Then as
the broadcaster NBC, who's Mike Rico? Mike Drico, you got it?
And he's going to be joined by everyone's favorite Chris
collins Worth.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Oh, Chris collins Worth.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Sure, And I think Melissa Stark is is Melissa Stark?
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I think is the sideline reporter.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
There is Chris still sliding into the broadcast. No, no,
when Michael's left, the slide went away. Because Mike likes
to do double shot on intro. He doesn't like to
do a solo intro. Al Michaels like to do a
solo intro and then they zoom out and bring in
the second guy. Mike Rico's more of a let's just
hey when we get shown on cameras just the two
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of us together right away, that eliminated the slide. Anyway,
seven to twenty kickoff, Well, guess the line? Where's the line?
Where is it at? Is it Baltimore, Kansas? It's in
Kansas City. It's in Kansas City. So there's your context.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
I you know, probably Kansas City favored by five points
three three club. I was gonna say three, but I
felt like that was too obvious. Yeah, No, it's Kansas
City by three.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
So Mike Trico, he's got to be one of the
best play by play broadcasters.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
Right, Yeah, he's been doing it for a long time.
He's he's definitely one of those voices you hear and
you know who just who it is?
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Who else? Who else?
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Give me a couple more that are like, you love
play by play guy?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
What's his name? Like the famous best play by play guys?
Speaker 5 (03:04):
The famous Well, my favorite of all time is of course,
and they've both passed on. But Pat summerl and.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
John Madden, Right, I'm talking like the current day though, right,
something like guys that people will listen to.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Now, I would need to hear the options. There are
some out there. Hey, what's what's that name? He was?
He was on a lot of calls for Fox. I'm
blanking on his name, Joe Buck, not Joe Buck. But
he's got one of those voices I just love to hear.
It just sounds like football to me. He's got kind
of his hair is a little bit silly. He's got
silly hair.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Oh, let me look it up. All right, Well, what
do you like? Do you like Kevin Harlan?
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (03:40):
I do.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
He's got a great voice.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
He's good.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
What about Iron Eagle? You like Iron Eagle? I think so.
I'd have to listen to his voice.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
All right.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Well, these are all great guys and the reason I
bring them up. Joe Buck, Iron Eagle, Kevin Harland, and
Mike Tarico all were on a new version of The
Sports Reporters from ESPN, hosted by Jeremy Shaff. The Sports Reporters,
of course, a legendary program, were very famous sports journalists,
mostly writers or radio personalities or television personalities, all kind
of get together and just discuss things about stuff that
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they're observing in sports and it got canceled a few
years back as part of ESPN just losing the plot
on sports coverage, but it got brought back as a
YouTube show. And it's forty five minutes of Jeremy Shapp
talking to Joe Buck, Iron Eagle, Kevin Harland, and Mike
Tariko about the NFL, the NFL season starting and some
of their stories about getting into broadcasting and certain things.
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But there's another thing that they talked about pretty early
on here, and I'm going to let Jeremy Shapp introduce
the question. Jeremy Shapp the host of the Sports Reporters,
and he's speaking to Joe Buck, Iron Eagle, Kevin Harland,
and Mike Trico. And here is Jeremy Shapp explaining something
that I think is fairly profound and kind of relates
to a lot of the news that we read throughout
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the day.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Cerison, you guys have all mentioned the heightened scrutiny. When
you guys started doing this calling the NFL, there was
no such thing as social media. It literally did not exist.
And now we talk to athletes. You guys talk to
athletes every week who tell us their mental health is
adversely affected by the negativity they see on social media platforms,
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and certainly announcers calling the most popular sport in the
country the most.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Popular league are not immune to that.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
How do you process that, how do you avoid it
when you need to? And how does it inform the
way you do your jobs?
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Now, Kevin, So he's going to throw to Kevin Harlan here,
I mean, Matt, did you hear that? Yeah? It's a
world that you and I even live in now right.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Yeah, It's a world that everybody who does anything public
lives in. That includes kids in school to an extent,
because they have outlets, not even just to have that
stuff be said about them, but for them to channel
that into the atmosphere. Things that especially behind anonymous or
burner accounts on certain social media apps, they can protect
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their own identity by saying things that could end up
being harmful to the mental health or really to the
physical health in some regards at a certain point of
people they do not like. Now Here is the anecdote
shared by Kevin Harlan. And I'm sure if you watch sports,
you're going to recognize his voice when he starts talking.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
If you don't know who I'm talking about and.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
This is an incredibly powerful story he's going to say
about another broadcaster who's an incredible legend, and how he
felt about hearing or seeing some of this scrutinty in
the real world.
Speaker 7 (06:42):
Well, we're all girl dads, right, so our daughters will
tell us, hey boy, they're really getting on you today, or.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
You've made a mistake.
Speaker 7 (06:49):
We could probably rely on our families, maybe more than ourselves.
I vern one Quist told me at one of the
seminars that I and I attended at CBS many years ago.
He said, I always thought that I was a pretty
you know, I had a pretty much locked down I
was a pretty good broadcaster. I thought I had a
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lot of answers. I thought I was kind of coasting along.
And then I made the mistake about peaking into the
world of social media, and I said, I was deflated.
I was heartbroken, and for him to say that, and
I was a younger broadcaster at the time, that resonated
with me.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
So I'm not on I'm not on social media.
Speaker 7 (07:32):
I do use it as a news source and a newsreel,
but I am I never go toward my own name
because of that fear that I have of what people what.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
I'm scared what people would say.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
And it goes on.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
But wow, what an interesting you know Verne Lundquist, right, Matt, Yeah, sure,
he called a lot of uh, you know, big football
games for CBS. He is known, I think for his
work in golf as well. He appears as the announcer
in Happy Gilmore and he's excellent in that movie as well.
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That is a relatable thought to I think every single
person who's on social media that has a job in
the president. And this isn't me trying to preach, and
it's not me trying to feel sorry for anybody with
a public job, because certainly, you know, I don't have
the kind of scrutiny that these national guys have. There
are people that say nasty things sometimes about me or
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to me. That's okay, it's part of the gig. I understand.
I totally get it, and people shouldn't feel like they
you know, my mom always told me, if you don't
have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
That's hard to do.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
I have a lot of bad things I like to say,
and I say him anyway. It's gotten me into a
lot of trouble.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
In my life. And that's okay. You know, we have
to live and we have to learn sometimes.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
But there is something profound about what he said about
these guys that seemingly are invincible.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
They have jobs.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Like I mean, if I was still in sports broadcasting,
I wanted to be like Vern Lundquist or Kevin Harlan.
I wanted to be able to call NFL games or
Final fours or Super Bowls. But there is that thing
about just knowing everyone's opinion that is somewhat destabilizing. And
this leads me kind of to the political realm. Not
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only you know, I know it's not exactly the same
experience for kids that are school age and they're just
on TikTok and Instagram and they're you know, sharing pictures
and all this stuff, and you know, it seems like
a place they can get a lot of misinformation, but
it also seems fairly harmless peer to peer, if you
don't know any better. But I'm also thinking about our
politicians and how much of what they do in this age,
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especially like post Donald Trump, who really had figured social
media out before any other politician had, how our politicians
use that kind of energy either in support of their
own work or against us, to try to manipulate us
to thinking one way or another. Those are the things
that I guess frighten me more than any other with
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social media. How easily our society can fall into these
pitfalls or these traps of well, it's on social media,
so it must be true, or it's on social media,
I'm going to share it so people know that this
is how I feel about something. And then the anonymous accounts,
especially being able to just feel like they can say
whatever they want, as damaging as it could be on
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any cam Reynolds shared a picture of her and I
at the Iowa State Fair and there were like four
or five immediate responses by completely anonymous burner accounts that
had no real identity to them, saying some really nasty,
mean things in the comments.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
I don't know if she reads them.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
I'm guessing because of her job, she probably tries to
stay away from that sort of thing for her own
personal mental health. But I looked at I was like,
how can anybody feel like they can say this thing?
Because they would never say this to somebody's face, And
it's because they can hide behind anonymous social media accounts.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
So just food for thought here on this Thursday.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
We'll have more on the way and if you want
to be a part of our conversation at any point
during the show. Hopefully going to keep it a little
more lighthearted today after the heaviness of yesterday's show. You
can call us at four h two five five eight
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Speaker 6 (11:17):
Emery Sunger on news Radio eleven ten. Kfab Dick did
retire a few years back. We're losing some of the
iconic broadcasters. I mean the fact that the sports reporters.
It's a forty five minute conversation with Joe Buck, Kevin Harlan,
Iron Eagle, and Mike Tariko.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Those are awesome guys.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
I mean, those are four maybe the four best I
could think of off the top of my head. I
know a lot of people would say Jim Nantz, but
I feel like Jim Nantz. I associate too much with
Kansas City Chief games these days, a New England Patriots
games before that, and I just don't like it.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Sorry, and I'm just I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Jim nance Is is the voice of the AFC dynas
these of the last twenty five to thirty years, and
I'm over it.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
I see, I'm right there with you. It's funny how
we associate voices with teams because when you say Dick Stockton,
I looked up Dick Stockton and then instantly, you know
what I thought of. I thought of Brett fav the
frozen tundra, green Bay Packers. Yeah, just that cold games
in Green Bay. Dick Stockton out there calling the game and.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
See North games for Fox for like, you know, ten
years probably of our childhood.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
Yes, Brett Farm out there with the long sleeved T shirt,
not even a thermal, just the long sleeve T shirt.
That's all my man needed.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
And every play unstrapping that chin strap.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
No, I'm with you.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
And it reminds you of the good days, the good times,
you know, the thoughts that you have around you know,
just trying to be as impactful of a person that
you can be, because all of our jobs in this
world are they have their purpose and for you know,
Matt and myself, you know, our job is a little
bit closer to these guys that we are reminiscing about
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right now. And it's interesting to hear them talk about
social media criticism and how Kevin Harlan refuses to go
on social media because he's afraid of what that'll do
to his mental health. I mean, that makes me feel
a lot better about the way I feel when I
see stuff that's negative about me, you know. But I'm
sure I'm just that's just going to conjure up some
snowflake emails, So I should probably.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Not do that, for whatever that's worth.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Anyway, who you got tonight?
Speaker 2 (13:26):
While we're on this topic, I just have like sixty
seconds before we hit the next break.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Who you got?
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Baltimore a three point dog in Kansas City against the
Super Bowl champions. Baltimore had a better record last year,
but obviously could not find a way.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
To defeat the Chiefs.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Chiefs, you could make the argument that their team is
no worse than it was a year ago.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Yeah, And I don't know, I.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
Just you know what Patrick mahomes. Look, I'm a Raiders fan,
so I'm no fan of Patrick, right, I'm not supposed
to be anyway, but he's kind of started to get
into that category again. I grew up as a New
York Knicks fan, but Michael Jordan quickly got into this
category as a kid where it's just kind of like,
how can I dislike him? He's just that good. I
think Pat Mahomes, you're sitting here like, he's already won
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multiple championships. You know, maybe he's ripe for a plucky
Baltimore Ravens team to get him in the first game.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Well you remember they lost to Detroit in the first
game last year. That's true. That is true. Now that's
good context because I'm just thinking, in was it in
Kansas City last year? It was okay?
Speaker 2 (14:32):
I mean Kadarius Tony dropped like two passes that probably
would have won Kansas City the game, and they cut
him before the game, so or before this season started,
so whatever that's worth.
Speaker 5 (14:43):
Yeah, I don't know. My inclination is that Kansas City wins.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
It, all right.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
I tend to agree. I think they're going to have energy. Look,
I don't dislike Patrick Mahomes as a player. He's fun
to watch, he's incredible to watch. I'm just sick of
him winning. You know, for every single Chiefs fan out
there that hated Tom Brady for twenty years, welcome to
the other side.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
I'm happy for you. For me right now.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
This isn't fun. I don't want to hear about you
and your three Super Bowls and how you Chiefs fans
deserve it. You know I'm going on this rant now
before they, you know, win another one. I'm just saying, like,
I'm a Bears fan, where's mine? Fair to ask, it's
been forty years since the Bears won Super Bowl forty
or Super Bowl twenty. Sorry you're telling me forty years
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isn't a long enough wait. I haven't watched my team
win once in my entire life. I know you know
how that feels, Chiefs fans. How about give somebody else
a chance? How about give us Bears fans something. How
about you be happy when Caleb Williams takes us to
the Promised Land in the.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Next few years.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
That's all I ask. I will remember the way that
you talk to me, you Chiefs fans. I'll I'm remembering it.
I'm filing it away anyway to twenty eight. We'll come back.
We got plenty more. I want to tell you about
Vladimir Putin because he has made an interesting conversationation piece
about who he would prefer to win the presidency. In
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November in America. I'll tell you that next on news
radio eleven ten kfab eh.
Speaker 6 (16:09):
Marie Son on news radio eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Fairly frequently rewatch some of the dog photos and videos
that I take because I love my dog so much.
But I also enjoy posting those things because I like
that other people enjoy it. They say that they like it,
they enjoy seeing them. It makes me feel good. It
makes me feel like I'm contributing to society in some way,
even if it's a small way, by having, you know,
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a few hundred people see my dogs in a photo
or a video. Now that's a relatively small scale, but
it makes a difference.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
I care about how everyone feels about me. That's probably
not great.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
That's probably a bad thing for somebody who lives in
the public world in some way. However, however, I think
it is important to note who does or does not
like or agree with you, especially when they are dignitaries,
and that leads me to politics. Endorsements have been as
big a part of politics in America since the first
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time people were campaigning to be in charge of parts
of the army, the Continental Army in the Revolution. It
predates our Constitution and the Articles of Confederation. It predates
maybe even that too. I mean, we have had a
representative styled government since sixteen nineteen on this continent that
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the Anglo Saxons have put together, all right, And of
course I have to go with that route because that
is documented stuff. Not that Native American tribes or any
other groups who were living on this continent before didn't
have some sort of hierarchy that represented certain factions within
their group. I'm saying most specifically the documentations that we
have from the people who were in the Jamestown Settlement,
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the first permanent settlement of people from England on this continent.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
What did that look like.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Well, it was people who were representing different plots of
land in this relatively small area getting together to help
make decisions for the betterment of the settlement. This was
empowering them by the guys, namely Edwin Sands, who was
one of the main guys who was in charge of
the Virginia Company who sent the people there to settle
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it in the first place. You can read about this
in a great book called sixteen nineteen. I think James
Horn is the author of that. Matt you want to
double check me on that. But the book sixteen nineteen
by I believe James Horn outlines that really really well
about how that came to be and how our government
style thereafter, even one hundred and fifty sixty seventy years
after that happened, when we were building our constitution and
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the foundation of our government as a new nation, that
in and of itself, right, that was a huge moment.
And when you think about how long it took to
really get to that point, I mean as long as
it took from us and I say us as people
from Europe settling on this continent, from the moment with
the permanent settlement that Jamestown was started to the American
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Revolution is about the same amount of time between now
and the Civil.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
War sixteen to nineteen Jamestown and the forging of American
document democracy. Wow, And that is by James Horn. Yes, bingo,
there you go, find that book. Excellent book.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
But think about that, as long as it feels like
the Civil Wars pretty ancient history, right, we don't think
about it hardly at all as something that is truly
effective right now. Right, Well, that's how long it was
between the settling of Jamestown and the American Revolution took
that long for that to happen, for it to devolve
into that scenario many generations of people.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
Right.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
I say that because the one thing that didn't change
was that the people on this continent felt like representative
republic politics, that is the way to govern, not a monarchy,
not having a king. At some point they were like,
you know what, we don't need them anymore. It is
important of who supports who. It makes a difference. So
when I see other world leaders have opinions about our elections,
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it catches my attention, especially one is polarizing, as Russian
President Vladimir Putin. Today, Vladimir Putin was questioned during the
Eastern Economic Forum, which was in Eastern Russia. He was
asked how does he view the upcoming United States election, and,
in kind of a jovial attitude, oh Lad basically said, well,
it's up to the American people to decide, and of
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course I can't do a good Russian accident. I'm not
going to pretend to and he was speaking Russian, so
I can't do that either, So apologies if you're looking
for an impression, But he says President Biden has backed
Harris and we will do the same.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
We will support her.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
She laughs so expressively and infectiously that it means that
everything is fine with her.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Now.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
I don't know if that's the direct translation right, But
according to a former DEIA intelligence officer and an author
who knows Putin pretty well, wrote a book called Putin's Playbook.
Her name is Rebecca Koffler. She said, Russians generally do
not endorse anyone, but when it comes to preference, Putin
and his regime prefer Kamala to deal with as a
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future US president. Putin believes that he can manipulate Harris easily,
unlike Trump, whom the Russians profiled as unpredictable and difficult
to read. By issuing these statements, the Russians are just
messing with us, specifically with the Harris team. It's a
classic influence operation, to unbalance your adversary by mocking, teasing,
and pleasing them, or rather appearing to please end quote, well, Matt,
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you're in that You're you're in a room over there.
We talk about politics pretty regularly on this show. Do
you believe that vlad Putin would rather deal with Kamala
or is he playing some chess here trying to get
us guess in one way or the other.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
What would be his incentive to be honest.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
There isn't one like who in Russia actually cares about
who our president is besides the government Russian like the
Russian people, like, what do they have.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
To do with this? I there's He could have said anything.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
He could have said the cookie monster was a candidate,
and they'd probably have been like, that'd be probably kind
of funny, right, they don't just like we don't care.
I know that somebody's gonna say, well, they care. They
follow American politics just as close as they follow their
own politics. The reason they do that is because they
don't have their own politics. For the most part, unless
you're a radical, you can't even like oppose vlad Putin.
You can't, That's right, I mean, what's the He could
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tell them anything and they'd be like, oh, yeah, sure,
but govern meant though, right, like.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
That's well, that's what it's all about. So he said
that to the Russian people. This was in a council
in Russia. Yeah, he uh.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
This was at the Eastern Economic Forum in Eastern Russia.
The events moderator, I couldn't tell ya all the stuff
there is in Russia or Russian language. So my assumption,
I don't know enough about what the Eastern Economic Forum
would discuss, if it's only Russian economics or what. But
I I get the vibe that this was a Russian
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audience he was speaking to. And he says, we'll support Kamala.
She laughs so expressively and infectiously that it means that
everything is fine with her.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Is that the read? And you're telling me he's not trolling.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
I don't know, you know, I don't know, And you know,
the translation could be a little off, right, like what
he says could be translated as to not necessarily being
exactly what he said or the way he intended it
to come across. But I think we have a reasonable
right to be skeptical that he really means what he says.
But again, what's the what Like why would he feel
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like he needs to tell the truth like to whom
He probably knew that this would get aggregated in the
United States, and that's what he's doing. He's trying to
he's trying to get on our radar. Yeah, as if
people are going to like lean one way or the others,
like oh, Vlad Putin doesn't like or likes Kamala, we
should vote against Kamala. Is that the play or is
he really trying to get people to be like, you
know what, if that likes Kamala, then let's let's get
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Kamala in. I don't have any idea what if this
is going to have, but it definitely is a little
bit of a puzzling thing, right, Like, I'm not crazy
for thinking, like, Wow, I'm kind of surprised he said
this out loud.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
I mean, I highly doubt that he's saying the same
thing to the people who work in the computer rooms
behind the scenes with who control lots of bots and
like to manipulate news across the world.
Speaker 5 (24:23):
Yeah, why would he be telling them the same thing
that he's telling a camera, You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Yeah, yeah, you're right. We know how politicians work anyway,
So whatever, All right, fair enough? If you got thoughts
on this, you can shoot me an email Emory at
kfab dot com. We got an interview coming up at
the top of the hours. I'm afraid to take some
calls right now, but we'll get the calls eventually later
on in the show.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Right now, it is to forty seven to forty eight.
Stick with us.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
We're going to keep you happy, healthy, laughing, maybe crying,
but of laughter. Here on news Radio eleven ten Kfab.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Emery's songer on news Radio KFAB. You know, I've been
trying various energy drinks lately, and this really got into
the energy game. Man I have.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
Yeah, I'm worried about that slippery slope. So I'm trying
to just stick with one energy drink a day, but
this one, I don't think I'm going to return to
just being honest. Oh uh oh made me a little jittery.
Uh oh yeah, it's uh. The brand is C four.
Oh I love C four. Well, the flavor is popsicle.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Oh that's a good one. Oh well, I didn't like it. Interesting.
Do you have you had other C fours? I had
the Skittles flavor just the other day.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
See it's a strange flavor, but it's actually I think
it's good.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
It made me feel like I was a conduit of electricity.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
I think that's what the energy drink business is trying
to do. And isn't C four like an explosive anyway?
Speaker 1 (25:52):
I felt like I had ants in my pants.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
That's not what C Ford does se Ford like you
put C four in like a bunker and then you
can blow it up.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
I got the meat sweats, and I did not eat
any meat.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
That's not good. I feel like that's a different problem
you need to check out. I'm having a Bubbler, which
is an antioxidant sparkling water that boosts, energizes, and restores
balance with natural caffeine. The flavor is Triple Berry Breezer
and it's got raspberry, BlackBerry, and blueberry in it. I've
kind of gotten into these lately. They really made me
(26:25):
feel good. They're kind of they're vegan as well. They're
only five calories. Not that I am a vegan, but
you know, I'm a big fan of the less stuff
that's in stuff, the better probably for me mostly. I know,
vegans eat like plant based meat, imitation meat stuff right
with different stuff in it.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
To me, like, I'm just kind of across the board.
The simpler the item probably the better it is for me.
Does that make sense? Yeah, you know, I don't need
stuff that's got like eight hundred ingredients in it. You know,
kind of just trying my best to anyway. Cheers to you, Matt,
cheers mm and cheers to you out there, no matter
where you are or what you're drinking, even if you're
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not drinking anything.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
However, now that we roll along, I want we're gonna
talk more football at the top of the hour, because
you know what's the next segment is there, Matt, what it.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Is behind enemy lines?
Speaker 2 (27:25):
And you know what the you know what the person
is right, we have we have a big time head
football coach coming not on the show, but that we
need to talk about. And we're going to talk to
a guy named Brian Howell. And Brian has been covering
Colorado Buffalo football for a long time, so he's gonna
(27:45):
jump on as.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
We go behind enemy Lines.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
You ever watch those old NFL films with like John
Facinda doing the the voiceovers, Oh yeah, like like.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Autumn is a raider breathe.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Oh yeah, oh in just the poetry while you at
the slow mo nineteen sixties and seventies NFL highlights those
NFL films things, oh directly into my veins.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Please.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
NFL season is back tonight. We're gonna talk Huskers next.
As we talk to Brian Howell, who covers the Colorado buffaloes.
He'll take us behind enemy lines next. Stick around the
emery songer with you along with my friend Matt Case
and you're tuned in listening live and in living color
(28:41):
right here on Nebraska's news, weather and traffic station, news
Radio eleven ten KFAB
It's a tough thing, man, It's tough to talk about.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's tough to feel like, you know, that's a reality
that we have to live with in our society. We
had a lot of great discussion, which you can find
on the Emory Sunger podcast page, kfab dot com in
the free iHeartRadio app. However, I look forward to being
able to talk about fun stuff, stuff that's exciting, fun
that fun, things that you know, make us feel good
(00:25):
when we have the opportunity to do so. And we'll
get into more serious stuff later, including a seeming endorsement
of one of the two political candidates by Vladimir Putin.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Why does that matter? We'll get to that later. But
you know what, Matt, Matt Case, you know what today is? Why,
today's Thursday? You know what's tonight? You know what is
happening tonight?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
I do.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
It's the first NFL game of the season. Oh man,
how about that? Huh? Are you excited? Who is it?
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (00:54):
The are the Chiefs in that one?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
They are? They are They're taking on the Baltimore Ravens. Ah,
that's right, it's a good one. It's a good one
to start season.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Huh.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
Yeah, that'll be a tone setter.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
I like it right.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
The Baltimore ended up having the best record in the
NFL last year, however, lost in the AFC Championship game
to the Chiefs, who eventually went on and won the
Super Bowl for the third time in four years. I
already have people saying go Chiefs in my email inbox,
and right, anyway, I'll deal with it. It's fine.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
I just like football and that the football is back. Right.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
No college games tonight, but there are more college games
tomorrow as we get into the week. However, NBC is
doing the game.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
You know that.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Who is going to be broadcasting that game? Then as
the broadcaster NBC, who's Mike Rico? Mike Drico, you got it?
And he's going to be joined by everyone's favorite Chris
collins Worth.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Oh, Chris collins Worth.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Sure, And I think Melissa Stark is is Melissa Stark?
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I think is the sideline reporter.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
There is Chris still sliding into the broadcast. No, no,
when Michael's left, the slide went away. Because Mike likes
to do double shot on intro. He doesn't like to
do a solo intro. Al Michaels like to do a
solo intro and then they zoom out and bring in
the second guy. Mike Rico's more of a let's just
hey when we get shown on cameras just the two
(02:16):
of us together right away, that eliminated the slide. Anyway,
seven to twenty kickoff, Well, guess the line? Where's the line?
Where is it at? Is it Baltimore, Kansas? It's in
Kansas City. It's in Kansas City. So there's your context.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
I you know, probably Kansas City favored by five points
three three club. I was gonna say three, but I
felt like that was too obvious. Yeah, No, it's Kansas
City by three.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
So Mike Trico, he's got to be one of the
best play by play broadcasters.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
Right, Yeah, he's been doing it for a long time.
He's he's definitely one of those voices you hear and
you know who just who it is?
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Who else? Who else?
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Give me a couple more that are like, you love
play by play guy?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
What's his name? Like the famous best play by play guys?
Speaker 5 (03:04):
The famous Well, my favorite of all time is of course,
and they've both passed on. But Pat summerl and.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
John Madden, Right, I'm talking like the current day though, right,
something like guys that people will listen to.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Now, I would need to hear the options. There are
some out there. Hey, what's what's that name? He was?
He was on a lot of calls for Fox. I'm
blanking on his name, Joe Buck, not Joe Buck. But
he's got one of those voices I just love to hear.
It just sounds like football to me. He's got kind
of his hair is a little bit silly. He's got
silly hair.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Oh, let me look it up. All right, Well, what
do you like? Do you like Kevin Harlan?
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (03:40):
I do.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
He's got a great voice.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
He's good.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
What about Iron Eagle? You like Iron Eagle? I think so.
I'd have to listen to his voice.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
All right.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Well, these are all great guys and the reason I
bring them up. Joe Buck, Iron Eagle, Kevin Harland, and
Mike Tarico all were on a new version of The
Sports Reporters from ESPN, hosted by Jeremy Shaff. The Sports Reporters,
of course, a legendary program, were very famous sports journalists,
mostly writers or radio personalities or television personalities, all kind
of get together and just discuss things about stuff that
(04:10):
they're observing in sports and it got canceled a few
years back as part of ESPN just losing the plot
on sports coverage, but it got brought back as a
YouTube show. And it's forty five minutes of Jeremy Shapp
talking to Joe Buck, Iron Eagle, Kevin Harland, and Mike
Tariko about the NFL, the NFL season starting and some
of their stories about getting into broadcasting and certain things.
(04:32):
But there's another thing that they talked about pretty early
on here, and I'm going to let Jeremy Shapp introduce
the question. Jeremy Shapp the host of the Sports Reporters,
and he's speaking to Joe Buck, Iron Eagle, Kevin Harland,
and Mike Trico. And here is Jeremy Shapp explaining something
that I think is fairly profound and kind of relates
to a lot of the news that we read throughout
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the day.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Cerison, you guys have all mentioned the heightened scrutiny. When
you guys started doing this calling the NFL, there was
no such thing as social media. It literally did not exist.
And now we talk to athletes. You guys talk to
athletes every week who tell us their mental health is
adversely affected by the negativity they see on social media platforms,
(05:17):
and certainly announcers calling the most popular sport in the
country the most.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Popular league are not immune to that.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
How do you process that, how do you avoid it
when you need to? And how does it inform the
way you do your jobs?
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Now, Kevin, So he's going to throw to Kevin Harlan here,
I mean, Matt, did you hear that? Yeah? It's a
world that you and I even live in now right.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Yeah, It's a world that everybody who does anything public
lives in. That includes kids in school to an extent,
because they have outlets, not even just to have that
stuff be said about them, but for them to channel
that into the atmosphere. Things that especially behind anonymous or
burner accounts on certain social media apps, they can protect
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their own identity by saying things that could end up
being harmful to the mental health or really to the
physical health in some regards at a certain point of
people they do not like. Now Here is the anecdote
shared by Kevin Harlan. And I'm sure if you watch sports,
you're going to recognize his voice when he starts talking.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
If you don't know who I'm talking about and.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
This is an incredibly powerful story he's going to say
about another broadcaster who's an incredible legend, and how he
felt about hearing or seeing some of this scrutinty in
the real world.
Speaker 7 (06:42):
Well, we're all girl dads, right, so our daughters will
tell us, hey boy, they're really getting on you today, or.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
You've made a mistake.
Speaker 7 (06:49):
We could probably rely on our families, maybe more than ourselves.
I vern one Quist told me at one of the
seminars that I and I attended at CBS many years ago.
He said, I always thought that I was a pretty
you know, I had a pretty much locked down I
was a pretty good broadcaster. I thought I had a
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lot of answers. I thought I was kind of coasting along.
And then I made the mistake about peaking into the
world of social media, and I said, I was deflated.
I was heartbroken, and for him to say that, and
I was a younger broadcaster at the time, that resonated
with me.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
So I'm not on I'm not on social media.
Speaker 7 (07:32):
I do use it as a news source and a newsreel,
but I am I never go toward my own name
because of that fear that I have of what people what.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
I'm scared what people would say.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
And it goes on.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
But wow, what an interesting you know Verne Lundquist, right, Matt, Yeah, sure,
he called a lot of uh, you know, big football
games for CBS. He is known, I think for his
work in golf as well. He appears as the announcer
in Happy Gilmore and he's excellent in that movie as well.
(08:08):
That is a relatable thought to I think every single
person who's on social media that has a job in
the president. And this isn't me trying to preach, and
it's not me trying to feel sorry for anybody with
a public job, because certainly, you know, I don't have
the kind of scrutiny that these national guys have. There
are people that say nasty things sometimes about me or
(08:28):
to me. That's okay, it's part of the gig. I understand.
I totally get it, and people shouldn't feel like they
you know, my mom always told me, if you don't
have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
That's hard to do.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
I have a lot of bad things I like to say,
and I say him anyway. It's gotten me into a
lot of trouble.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
In my life. And that's okay. You know, we have
to live and we have to learn sometimes.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
But there is something profound about what he said about
these guys that seemingly are invincible.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
They have jobs.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Like I mean, if I was still in sports broadcasting,
I wanted to be like Vern Lundquist or Kevin Harlan.
I wanted to be able to call NFL games or
Final fours or Super Bowls. But there is that thing
about just knowing everyone's opinion that is somewhat destabilizing. And
this leads me kind of to the political realm. Not
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only you know, I know it's not exactly the same
experience for kids that are school age and they're just
on TikTok and Instagram and they're you know, sharing pictures
and all this stuff, and you know, it seems like
a place they can get a lot of misinformation, but
it also seems fairly harmless peer to peer, if you
don't know any better. But I'm also thinking about our
politicians and how much of what they do in this age,
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especially like post Donald Trump, who really had figured social
media out before any other politician had, how our politicians
use that kind of energy either in support of their
own work or against us, to try to manipulate us
to thinking one way or another. Those are the things
that I guess frighten me more than any other with
(10:03):
social media. How easily our society can fall into these
pitfalls or these traps of well, it's on social media,
so it must be true, or it's on social media,
I'm going to share it so people know that this
is how I feel about something. And then the anonymous accounts,
especially being able to just feel like they can say
whatever they want, as damaging as it could be on
(10:24):
any cam Reynolds shared a picture of her and I
at the Iowa State Fair and there were like four
or five immediate responses by completely anonymous burner accounts that
had no real identity to them, saying some really nasty,
mean things in the comments.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
I don't know if she reads them.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
I'm guessing because of her job, she probably tries to
stay away from that sort of thing for her own
personal mental health. But I looked at I was like,
how can anybody feel like they can say this thing?
Because they would never say this to somebody's face, And
it's because they can hide behind anonymous social media accounts.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
So just food for thought here on this Thursday.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
We'll have more on the way and if you want
to be a part of our conversation at any point
during the show. Hopefully going to keep it a little
more lighthearted today after the heaviness of yesterday's show. You
can call us at four h two five five eight
eleven ten four h two five five eight eleven ten,
two twenty is the Time. On news Radio eleven ten, kfab.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
Emery Sunger on news Radio eleven ten. Kfab Dick did
retire a few years back. We're losing some of the
iconic broadcasters. I mean the fact that the sports reporters.
It's a forty five minute conversation with Joe Buck, Kevin Harlan,
Iron Eagle, and Mike Tariko.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Those are awesome guys.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
I mean, those are four maybe the four best I
could think of off the top of my head. I
know a lot of people would say Jim Nantz, but
I feel like Jim Nantz. I associate too much with
Kansas City Chief games these days, a New England Patriots
games before that, and I just don't like it.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Sorry, and I'm just I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Jim nance Is is the voice of the AFC dynas
these of the last twenty five to thirty years, and
I'm over it.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
I see, I'm right there with you. It's funny how
we associate voices with teams because when you say Dick Stockton,
I looked up Dick Stockton and then instantly, you know
what I thought of. I thought of Brett fav the
frozen tundra, green Bay Packers. Yeah, just that cold games
in Green Bay. Dick Stockton out there calling the game and.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
See North games for Fox for like, you know, ten
years probably of our childhood.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
Yes, Brett Farm out there with the long sleeved T shirt,
not even a thermal, just the long sleeve T shirt.
That's all my man needed.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
And every play unstrapping that chin strap.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
No, I'm with you.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
And it reminds you of the good days, the good times,
you know, the thoughts that you have around you know,
just trying to be as impactful of a person that
you can be, because all of our jobs in this
world are they have their purpose and for you know,
Matt and myself, you know, our job is a little
bit closer to these guys that we are reminiscing about
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right now. And it's interesting to hear them talk about
social media criticism and how Kevin Harlan refuses to go
on social media because he's afraid of what that'll do
to his mental health. I mean, that makes me feel
a lot better about the way I feel when I
see stuff that's negative about me, you know. But I'm
sure I'm just that's just going to conjure up some
snowflake emails, So I should probably.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Not do that, for whatever that's worth.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Anyway, who you got tonight?
Speaker 2 (13:26):
While we're on this topic, I just have like sixty
seconds before we hit the next break.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Who you got?
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Baltimore a three point dog in Kansas City against the
Super Bowl champions. Baltimore had a better record last year,
but obviously could not find a way.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
To defeat the Chiefs.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Chiefs, you could make the argument that their team is
no worse than it was a year ago.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Yeah, And I don't know, I.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
Just you know what Patrick mahomes. Look, I'm a Raiders fan,
so I'm no fan of Patrick, right, I'm not supposed
to be anyway, but he's kind of started to get
into that category again. I grew up as a New
York Knicks fan, but Michael Jordan quickly got into this
category as a kid where it's just kind of like,
how can I dislike him? He's just that good. I
think Pat Mahomes, you're sitting here like, he's already won
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multiple championships. You know, maybe he's ripe for a plucky
Baltimore Ravens team to get him in the first game.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Well you remember they lost to Detroit in the first
game last year. That's true. That is true. Now that's
good context because I'm just thinking, in was it in
Kansas City last year? It was okay?
Speaker 2 (14:32):
I mean Kadarius Tony dropped like two passes that probably
would have won Kansas City the game, and they cut
him before the game, so or before this season started,
so whatever that's worth.
Speaker 5 (14:43):
Yeah, I don't know. My inclination is that Kansas City wins.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
It, all right.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
I tend to agree. I think they're going to have energy. Look,
I don't dislike Patrick Mahomes as a player. He's fun
to watch, he's incredible to watch. I'm just sick of
him winning. You know, for every single Chiefs fan out
there that hated Tom Brady for twenty years, welcome to
the other side.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
I'm happy for you. For me right now.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
This isn't fun. I don't want to hear about you
and your three Super Bowls and how you Chiefs fans
deserve it. You know I'm going on this rant now
before they, you know, win another one. I'm just saying, like,
I'm a Bears fan, where's mine? Fair to ask, it's
been forty years since the Bears won Super Bowl forty
or Super Bowl twenty. Sorry you're telling me forty years
(15:30):
isn't a long enough wait. I haven't watched my team
win once in my entire life. I know you know
how that feels, Chiefs fans. How about give somebody else
a chance? How about give us Bears fans something. How
about you be happy when Caleb Williams takes us to
the Promised Land in the.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Next few years.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
That's all I ask. I will remember the way that
you talk to me, you Chiefs fans. I'll I'm remembering it.
I'm filing it away anyway to twenty eight. We'll come back.
We got plenty more. I want to tell you about
Vladimir Putin because he has made an interesting conversationation piece
about who he would prefer to win the presidency. In
(16:04):
November in America. I'll tell you that next on news
radio eleven ten kfab eh.
Speaker 6 (16:09):
Marie Son on news radio eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Fairly frequently rewatch some of the dog photos and videos
that I take because I love my dog so much.
But I also enjoy posting those things because I like
that other people enjoy it. They say that they like it,
they enjoy seeing them. It makes me feel good. It
makes me feel like I'm contributing to society in some way,
even if it's a small way, by having, you know,
(16:36):
a few hundred people see my dogs in a photo
or a video. Now that's a relatively small scale, but
it makes a difference.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
I care about how everyone feels about me. That's probably
not great.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
That's probably a bad thing for somebody who lives in
the public world in some way. However, however, I think
it is important to note who does or does not
like or agree with you, especially when they are dignitaries,
and that leads me to politics. Endorsements have been as
big a part of politics in America since the first
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time people were campaigning to be in charge of parts
of the army, the Continental Army in the Revolution. It
predates our Constitution and the Articles of Confederation. It predates
maybe even that too. I mean, we have had a
representative styled government since sixteen nineteen on this continent that
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the Anglo Saxons have put together, all right, And of
course I have to go with that route because that
is documented stuff. Not that Native American tribes or any
other groups who were living on this continent before didn't
have some sort of hierarchy that represented certain factions within
their group. I'm saying most specifically the documentations that we
have from the people who were in the Jamestown Settlement,
(17:53):
the first permanent settlement of people from England on this continent.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
What did that look like.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Well, it was people who were representing different plots of
land in this relatively small area getting together to help
make decisions for the betterment of the settlement. This was
empowering them by the guys, namely Edwin Sands, who was
one of the main guys who was in charge of
the Virginia Company who sent the people there to settle
(18:20):
it in the first place. You can read about this
in a great book called sixteen nineteen. I think James
Horn is the author of that. Matt you want to
double check me on that. But the book sixteen nineteen
by I believe James Horn outlines that really really well
about how that came to be and how our government
style thereafter, even one hundred and fifty sixty seventy years
after that happened, when we were building our constitution and
(18:42):
the foundation of our government as a new nation, that
in and of itself, right, that was a huge moment.
And when you think about how long it took to
really get to that point, I mean as long as
it took from us and I say us as people
from Europe settling on this continent, from the moment with
the permanent settlement that Jamestown was started to the American
(19:04):
Revolution is about the same amount of time between now
and the Civil.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
War sixteen to nineteen Jamestown and the forging of American
document democracy. Wow, And that is by James Horn. Yes, bingo,
there you go, find that book. Excellent book.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
But think about that, as long as it feels like
the Civil Wars pretty ancient history, right, we don't think
about it hardly at all as something that is truly
effective right now. Right, Well, that's how long it was
between the settling of Jamestown and the American Revolution took
that long for that to happen, for it to devolve
into that scenario many generations of people.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
Right.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
I say that because the one thing that didn't change
was that the people on this continent felt like representative
republic politics, that is the way to govern, not a monarchy,
not having a king. At some point they were like,
you know what, we don't need them anymore. It is
important of who supports who. It makes a difference. So
when I see other world leaders have opinions about our elections,
(20:07):
it catches my attention, especially one is polarizing, as Russian
President Vladimir Putin. Today, Vladimir Putin was questioned during the
Eastern Economic Forum, which was in Eastern Russia. He was
asked how does he view the upcoming United States election, and,
in kind of a jovial attitude, oh Lad basically said, well,
it's up to the American people to decide, and of
(20:29):
course I can't do a good Russian accident. I'm not
going to pretend to and he was speaking Russian, so
I can't do that either, So apologies if you're looking
for an impression, But he says President Biden has backed
Harris and we will do the same.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
We will support her.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
She laughs so expressively and infectiously that it means that
everything is fine with her.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Now.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
I don't know if that's the direct translation right, But
according to a former DEIA intelligence officer and an author
who knows Putin pretty well, wrote a book called Putin's Playbook.
Her name is Rebecca Koffler. She said, Russians generally do
not endorse anyone, but when it comes to preference, Putin
and his regime prefer Kamala to deal with as a
(21:11):
future US president. Putin believes that he can manipulate Harris easily,
unlike Trump, whom the Russians profiled as unpredictable and difficult
to read. By issuing these statements, the Russians are just
messing with us, specifically with the Harris team. It's a
classic influence operation, to unbalance your adversary by mocking, teasing,
and pleasing them, or rather appearing to please end quote, well, Matt,
(21:36):
you're in that You're you're in a room over there.
We talk about politics pretty regularly on this show. Do
you believe that vlad Putin would rather deal with Kamala
or is he playing some chess here trying to get
us guess in one way or the other.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
What would be his incentive to be honest.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
There isn't one like who in Russia actually cares about
who our president is besides the government Russian like the
Russian people, like, what do they have.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
To do with this? I there's He could have said anything.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
He could have said the cookie monster was a candidate,
and they'd probably have been like, that'd be probably kind
of funny, right, they don't just like we don't care.
I know that somebody's gonna say, well, they care. They
follow American politics just as close as they follow their
own politics. The reason they do that is because they
don't have their own politics. For the most part, unless
you're a radical, you can't even like oppose vlad Putin.
You can't, That's right, I mean, what's the He could
(22:28):
tell them anything and they'd be like, oh, yeah, sure,
but govern meant though, right, like.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
That's well, that's what it's all about. So he said
that to the Russian people. This was in a council
in Russia. Yeah, he uh.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
This was at the Eastern Economic Forum in Eastern Russia.
The events moderator, I couldn't tell ya all the stuff
there is in Russia or Russian language. So my assumption,
I don't know enough about what the Eastern Economic Forum
would discuss, if it's only Russian economics or what. But
I I get the vibe that this was a Russian
(23:01):
audience he was speaking to. And he says, we'll support Kamala.
She laughs so expressively and infectiously that it means that
everything is fine with her.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Is that the read? And you're telling me he's not trolling.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
I don't know, you know, I don't know, And you know,
the translation could be a little off, right, like what
he says could be translated as to not necessarily being
exactly what he said or the way he intended it
to come across. But I think we have a reasonable
right to be skeptical that he really means what he says.
But again, what's the what Like why would he feel
(23:36):
like he needs to tell the truth like to whom
He probably knew that this would get aggregated in the
United States, and that's what he's doing. He's trying to
he's trying to get on our radar. Yeah, as if
people are going to like lean one way or the others,
like oh, Vlad Putin doesn't like or likes Kamala, we
should vote against Kamala. Is that the play or is
he really trying to get people to be like, you
know what, if that likes Kamala, then let's let's get
(23:57):
Kamala in. I don't have any idea what if this
is going to have, but it definitely is a little
bit of a puzzling thing, right, Like, I'm not crazy
for thinking, like, Wow, I'm kind of surprised he said
this out loud.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
I mean, I highly doubt that he's saying the same
thing to the people who work in the computer rooms
behind the scenes with who control lots of bots and
like to manipulate news across the world.
Speaker 5 (24:23):
Yeah, why would he be telling them the same thing
that he's telling a camera, You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Yeah, yeah, you're right. We know how politicians work anyway,
So whatever, All right, fair enough? If you got thoughts
on this, you can shoot me an email Emory at
kfab dot com. We got an interview coming up at
the top of the hours. I'm afraid to take some
calls right now, but we'll get the calls eventually later
on in the show.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Right now, it is to forty seven to forty eight.
Stick with us.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
We're going to keep you happy, healthy, laughing, maybe crying,
but of laughter. Here on news Radio eleven ten Kfab.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Emery's songer on news Radio KFAB. You know, I've been
trying various energy drinks lately, and this really got into
the energy game. Man I have.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
Yeah, I'm worried about that slippery slope. So I'm trying
to just stick with one energy drink a day, but
this one, I don't think I'm going to return to
just being honest. Oh uh oh made me a little jittery.
Uh oh yeah, it's uh. The brand is C four.
Oh I love C four. Well, the flavor is popsicle.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Oh that's a good one. Oh well, I didn't like it. Interesting.
Do you have you had other C fours? I had
the Skittles flavor just the other day.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
See it's a strange flavor, but it's actually I think
it's good.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
It made me feel like I was a conduit of electricity.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
I think that's what the energy drink business is trying
to do. And isn't C four like an explosive anyway?
Speaker 1 (25:52):
I felt like I had ants in my pants.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
That's not what C Ford does se Ford like you
put C four in like a bunker and then you
can blow it up.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
I got the meat sweats, and I did not eat
any meat.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
That's not good. I feel like that's a different problem
you need to check out. I'm having a Bubbler, which
is an antioxidant sparkling water that boosts, energizes, and restores
balance with natural caffeine. The flavor is Triple Berry Breezer
and it's got raspberry, BlackBerry, and blueberry in it. I've
kind of gotten into these lately. They really made me
(26:25):
feel good. They're kind of they're vegan as well. They're
only five calories. Not that I am a vegan, but
you know, I'm a big fan of the less stuff
that's in stuff, the better probably for me mostly. I know,
vegans eat like plant based meat, imitation meat stuff right
with different stuff in it.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
To me, like, I'm just kind of across the board.
The simpler the item probably the better it is for me.
Does that make sense? Yeah, you know, I don't need
stuff that's got like eight hundred ingredients in it. You know,
kind of just trying my best to anyway. Cheers to you, Matt,
cheers mm and cheers to you out there, no matter
where you are or what you're drinking, even if you're
(27:08):
not drinking anything.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
However, now that we roll along, I want we're gonna
talk more football at the top of the hour, because
you know what's the next segment is there, Matt, what it.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Is behind enemy lines?
Speaker 2 (27:25):
And you know what the you know what the person
is right, we have we have a big time head
football coach coming not on the show, but that we
need to talk about. And we're going to talk to
a guy named Brian Howell. And Brian has been covering
Colorado Buffalo football for a long time, so he's gonna
(27:45):
jump on as.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
We go behind enemy Lines.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
You ever watch those old NFL films with like John
Facinda doing the the voiceovers, Oh yeah, like like.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Autumn is a raider breathe.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Oh yeah, oh in just the poetry while you at
the slow mo nineteen sixties and seventies NFL highlights those
NFL films things, oh directly into my veins.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Please.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
NFL season is back tonight. We're gonna talk Huskers next.
As we talk to Brian Howell, who covers the Colorado buffaloes.
He'll take us behind enemy lines next. Stick around the
emery songer with you along with my friend Matt Case
and you're tuned in listening live and in living color
(28:41):
right here on Nebraska's news, weather and traffic station, news
Radio eleven ten KFAB
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