Fantasy Debate Ball

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
So we're going to fin We got to talk about
what has happened in Omaha today real quick, and we're
going to do that. But I'll tell you all the
details about that after we do this, because it's important news.
You heard it at the top, you heard it in
our teas. There was a shooting at Northwest High School

(00:20):
today in Omaha. Shooting inside the school roughly twelve twenty
three pm. Officials confirmed that the school was on lockdown. Thereafter,
a suspect that is believed to be the suspect I
guess a person believed to be the suspect was taken
into custody about a half hour later twelve fifty eight
this afternoon. Now, the person who was shot was injured,

(00:43):
a fifteen year old boy. He critically injured rushed to
the hospital. I have no update on his condition right now.
Authorities do say that there was believed to be an
isolated incident here between these two specific individuals. Also, according
to KTV in Omaha, Marian High School and ron Cally

(01:05):
Catholic High School also placed on lockdown while this was happening.
Amaha police on social media went on and said this
school was secure. About one oh six PM, which is
just over an hour ago, and reunification area for parents
of students will be at the football stadium west of
the school. Lockdown was lifted roughly a little over thirty

(01:27):
minutes ago at one thirty four. We're not a week.
It's not been a week since the shooting down there
in Georgia where a fourteen year old kid shot and
killed four people injured nine others, and we spent an
entire show talking about that this is not the same

(01:47):
thing as that it doesn't sound like this believed to
be an isolated incident between two specific people that were
involved in this dispute or whatever happened. I don't have
enough evidence or details to even kind of guess as
to what this was or why this happened at a

(02:10):
school during the school day, especially. I think more than
anything this specific topic I touched on this probably I
don't know, a couple of days ago, like at the
end of last week or whatever. Our problem is that
we reach for the gun. Okay, Matt Case is my producer.
He is alongside We went to high school about the

(02:32):
same era, the mid two thousands, yeah, early two thousands.
For me, yep, I was winning to a few brawls
I got to see. I went to a bigger high
school than you did, but I saw a lot of brawls.
I saw guys arguing and then they'd start throwing hands
or something, and then there would be, you know, the

(02:52):
ability to break them up. We never had anything close
to somebody even talking about doing this. What about you?
I mean, violence in schools is just it's not a
new thing. It's just a saf deadly force weaponry. Being
brought into or near even near a school just feels

(03:14):
wrong to me, especially considering what has been happening over
the last twenty years. Same experience for me. Yep, you know,
And I hate being this guy. I just don't. We
talked about it for four hours. There are a lot
of different solutions that we could talk about. What can
be done, What can we do to make sure all
of the other hundreds of kids that were in Northwest

(03:36):
High School this afternoon. I mean, imagine being a parent
here in Omaha and your kid goes to Northwest High School.
Imagine being a parent of a kid in high school
anywhere right now. I just couldn't imagine. Now, we're taking
positive steps in many school districts, many states, many localities.
They're taking positive steps in a lot of different ways
to try to understand why this is happening, what we

(03:58):
can do to help stop again. This To me, it feels,
based on the information we have, this is not the
same thing as an angry fourteen year old going into
a school just shooting people. This, it sounds like, is
a dispute that in our day, at least the schools
we went to, if you had this big of a
problem with somebody, your thrown hands and somebody was coming
and breaking it up, you guys would get suspended for

(04:19):
a few days, you'd come back to school. You might
be mad at that guy still, but the situation seemed
to be over at that point. Yeah, maybe a guy
got a bloody nose or a black eye or something
like that. That stuff has been happening for centuries. Okay,
bringing a gun to school and deciding to shoot this
person fifteen year old, by the way, isolated incident. A

(04:41):
fifteen year old boy was the target of this. I
don't know what the background is, so I'm not even
going to try it to speculate. Not the same thing,
but I just it's the thing that is the connector
here is the fact that instead of handling this situation
in a different way where loss of life or I mean,

(05:02):
I never once feared that I was going to get
you know, Looney Tunes style pulled into a big old
cloud of punches being thrown, right, I mean, I never
once feared for my own safety watching a couple of
other people get into a fight. Okay, this firearm to
have discharged or missed, the person missed the target or something.

(05:22):
That's kind of reminds me of the Kansas City Chiefs
Victory Parade, Remember where you had some gunfire and shots
being fired, and the big concern was that it was
the people they were shooting at. There were like hundreds
of other people nearby. Right, Just what society do we
live in that this is just like an okay thing
for us to be doing. It's like random people carrying

(05:43):
firearms with the idea that I'm going to shoot somebody today.
I cannot relate at all. Now. I don't want to
spend a ton of time on this today because there's
a lot of other things we need to talk about.
We can talk about. We're going to have fun later
in the show. In just over an hour, I'm going
to pack up my things, and I'm going to drive
over to sports bar and grill. I'm going to prepare
for a big night Creighton versus Nebraska volleyballs tonight. Did

(06:05):
you know Creighton is ranked in the top ten?

Speaker 2 (06:07):
Now?

Speaker 1 (06:07):
Nice, it's a top ten matchup between Nebraska and Crate. Look,
the debate is tonight, and I know a lot of
people are going to be super duper serious about that.
I think it's fun. I'm excited for the watch party
at REFS. I'm excited to have a lot of fun
around the entire country. I think people just you know,
fascinated by what's going to happen tonight in this debate.

(06:28):
I want to talk about that. So I'm not going
to spend a ton of time on this because I did,
literally within the last week, spend four hours talking about
firearms and schools and why specifically young people are reaching
for guns as a means to deal with their issues.
It didn't used to be this way. It just didn't.

(06:49):
Where did we go wrong in society generationally? Parenting? Is
it a generational issue? I mean, it really feels like
post Columbine this is becoming massive problem when it wasn't
a problem. Before before nineteen ninety nine, it very few
things like that had occurred. It feels like this it
could happen anywhere. So, just to reiterate, there was a

(07:11):
shooting injured a teenager critically at Northwest High School this afternoon,
just within the last couple of hours, seemingly an isolated incidents.
A fifteen year old boy is the victim. They have
the person they believe to be the suspect in custody,
and the school is no longer in lockdown. But it's
close to home. Man, it's close to home. Well, we'll

(07:32):
get ourselves through this and we'll move on. And I
got some emails coming in. I might read those if
they inspired me to talk about this a little bit more.
But yeah, it's just it's crazy to think about this
still happening, and this has happened here in Omaha two nineteen,
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Speaker 2 (07:47):
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Speaker 1 (07:54):
You're gonna have to make me sound good while I'm
in my car. Hopefully the connection is good. Are you
gonna go hands free?

Speaker 2 (08:01):
Like?

Speaker 1 (08:01):
How are you gonna do that? Yeah? I think so,
Although it does kind of annoy me when we have
people call in hands free, Now, you should do that
because it's better for safety, Like, and they're in their car,
they go hands free, you can hear like a lot
of background noise because you're hearing my car run. You're
hearing maybe like the air conditioner. You might hear me
not as clear. So we might have to like do

(08:21):
a little test before you actually throw me on the air,
so I can figure out if that's the right way
to do it. You know what would be hilarious if
you forget to turn your radio down. That'd be funny. Yeah,
it's interesting, But I'll need it to be up because
it's coming through the radio now, but it'll be on
a delay. No, So okay, so this is how my
car works. I got a new car, so when I'm

(08:44):
hands free, it comes through the radio. My like like
the show, Like, I'm gonna hear you talking to me
through the radio. The only way that my radio would
play a factor in this somehow is if I you
said you can't go hands free, you got to like
use the actual phone. I disc connect from the radio
and then turn the radio up while I'm holding my phone.
Then then we're gonna have an issue. But my plan

(09:07):
to this point, I hope the quality is good enough
and we'll test it while I'm in the car. But
you know, I'm gonna be totally hands free and I'll
be hearing you live as you're talking through the phone
through my radio. How about that for a science experiment.
It's not going to work. Yeah. Yeah, it would still
be delayed to people who are listening it to it
on the radio. Here's funny, this is this is funny thing.

(09:28):
If I decided to hang up on you after the
end of my segment, I could really quick flip on
the radio after I hang up and then hear the
last like fifteen seconds of the segment. Yeah, because of
the delay. Do we got his Guinness standing by? I
don't think the record people, now maybe we need record?
Are we breaking here? I don't know, But you know
there's some real pedantic records out there. Oh yeah, like

(09:50):
the guy who had the hiccups for like seventy years? Right,
how do you even know that? I think it was fake?
They put it in the book, But like, how how
does anybody know this? Did somebody like live with him
for all seventy years, was around him all seventy years
to know that he didn't ever lose to having the hiccups,
And we're thinking that this guy was hiccupping through the
night the whole time. He never lost the hiccups. Come
on now, but it's in the book. He got in

(10:11):
the book, So I don't know. That's pretty pedantic to me. Yeah, anyway,
if you're just tuning in, we're going to keep you
post it as we learn as many things as possible.
As Omaha Northwest High School, there was a shooting. An
isolated incident is what the authorities are saying. Suspect was
taken into custody they believe perpetrated the shooting. Fifteen year

(10:31):
old boy was the victim. He is critically injured was
rushed to the hospital. That's all we know. We will
let you know more about this. The lockdown on the
school is over, was over about an hour ago. MA
reunification area for parents of students is at the football
stadium west of the school. I'm sure if you are
a parent of someone who is at Northwest High School,
they have told you this ahead of us even getting

(10:54):
onto the air here. But there's no doubt to me
that this is going to be something that we talked
about in the Omaha area. As it should be for
the next few days, is we try to understand what
happened and how this was allowed to happen somehow, and
what we can do to try to prevent some behavior
like this, regardless of what created this isolated issue between
these two students and why somebody decided to reach for

(11:14):
a gun and decided to solve their problem that way
instead of just doing it the old fashioned way. If
you really had that big of an issue, let's throw hands.
Could be a bigger issue, could be an issue that
involves people from outside the schools. It doesn't matter the
fact that this is still a thing that can happen
in our schools. That's a problem for me and I
think probably everybody else. Now. I did want to mention
this because this was stuff that came to light today.

(11:37):
There is a video that has released bodycam footage of
the FBI and police interviewing Colin Gray, which is the
father of Colt Gray, the shooting suspect of Appalachi High
School in Georgia last week. The bodycam footage has been
released from last year. It was last May. By the way,

(11:57):
it was May the twenty first three he was when
Colin Gray was being questioned by police and talked to
by police. Interviewed by police, Cold Gray at that point
was thirteen years old and apparently he had made threats
on Discord, which is kind of a gamer app Was
that an accurate way to describe Discord? I'm not on Discord.

(12:19):
I don't exactly know how you share information, but it
wasn't Discord where that like twenty three year old military
person got in trouble for sharing military confidential information. Pretty
sure that's right, Yeah, on Discord. So anyway, on Discord,
Cold Gray at thirteen years old said that he was
going to threaten you or he was threatening to shoot
up in middle school. People reported that the officers followed

(12:42):
the complaint, went to speak with whoever was there and
included Colin says he was watching golf tournament, opens a
drink and asked police, and the police asked him if
he has a sign, and officers explained why they were there,
and he horne that Colt is going to get all
red faced when they question him. I don't know what

(13:03):
that means, and I don't know. According to Colin Gray,
and the conversation just briefly, he said stuff like he's
going through a lot. It's very difficult for him to
go to school and not get picked on. He's gone
through a lot. He also said he struggled at first
with the separation and talking about him. I'm guessing the
divorce here. I've been taking him to school. He goes

(13:24):
to whatever middle school, and he's been doing really good.
I know this is serious. Colt just wants us to
have a simple life all that, Like he should be
excited about getting into eighth grade. It was just very
difficult for him to go to school and I get
picked on by you know. It went from one thing
to another, you know. And he's talking to a couple
of the friends he has saying something like he would
shoot up the school or whatever. So there's a long

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list of some of the stuff that they talk about here.
And it seems, based on the bodycam footage in the
interview here, this was a cordial conversation that the father
of this boy was seemingly aware that he had been
and it was having a hard time in life at
this point. Now, how and why he decided to give

(14:06):
him a firearm as a gift that Christmas is pretty
crazy to me, and the fact that it doesn't seem
we have no evidence to the contrary that he reached
out to any professionals to help get his son, which
seemingly was having all sorts of issues according to this
conversation he was having with police at the time and
made him feel like he was potentially in some mental

(14:28):
trouble here at thirteen years old. Sure enough, Fast forward, gosh,
what was that May of last year to September of
this year? What does that sixteen months? Sixteen months go by?
You don't do anything to get your kid help, but
you buy him a firearm, and then you're surprised that
your kid went to school and shot some people. Huh, yikes, yikes.

(14:51):
It's gonna be a tough one to explain, but at
least we're getting a little bit more context as to
what that interview and stuff was about last year with
this shooter. As we try to learn as much as
we can about what we're doing in this timeframe to
understand why shootings are happening. We'll give you more updates
on the Omaha Northwest High School shoting here in Omaha,
a little bit different of a situation, only one victim

(15:13):
here seemingly an isolated incident according to authorities, but as
we learn more, we'll give it to you here on
news radio eleven ten kfab.

Speaker 2 (15:18):
Em Rie's songer on news radio eleven ten KFAB.

Speaker 1 (15:25):
These two individuals in the school somehow. The injured person
is a fifteen year old boy taken to a hospital.
We have no further information at this point about the
condition of that person. Suspect was taken into custody about
a half hour after the incident occurred, and the school
was secure at the top of the one o'clock hour

(15:46):
just thereafter, according to the Omaha Police social media post,
and there was a reunification area for parents and students
at the football stadium west of the school. I'm sure
if you are at all in close relation or responsible
for a child we have been at Northwest High School,
you would have been told that pretty early on. And

(16:06):
the lockdown of the school was lifted at one thirty four,
so just over an hour ago. So we're keepinging posted
on that. It's a pretty important day in politics. Beyond that,
Matt case is my producer, and Matt got a debate today.
Remember when we played that there's that thing that fantasy,

(16:27):
fantasy press conference ball or whatever. Now let's how about
on this Tuesday we do some fantasy debate ball. Okay,
now it sounds like no opening statements, which thank god.
You know what, First of all, can I get your
opinion on something. I want you to put yourself out there,
get as personal as you want. How do you feel

(16:47):
about these rules for these debates? Because I had some
people that are just like, no, this isn't good. No,
I don't like it not having a crowd because it's
the same rules. I don't like the idea of them
not having a crown. I don't like the idea of
the mic being shut off, you know, because some people
are just like, that's bad. We don't want the mics
to be shut off. We want to see, you know,
the candid situation, I think they could be good or

(17:08):
bad for either candidate. To be honest with you, If
Donald Trump was consistently jumping in and talking over Kamala
had makee him look pretty bad, well, he's kind of
protected by the fact that there's no mute, or the
MIC's mute. There's no way he can talk over. Doesn't
mean he won't still talk. Well, he didn't really in
the Biden situation, he stood there and only the one
time did they turn his mic on when it wasn't
his turn, and that's when they were arguing about golf scores,

(17:30):
a real thing that actually happened. Yeah, I like those
I think those are good things. You know. Same thing
for Kamala too, Right, she can't interrupt over at the
top of Donald So what do you think no notes,
they can't. They're standing, no crowd, no opening statements. Like
I mentioned, they didn't say specifically they were going to

(17:54):
be two breaks, but it's a ninety minute debate. I'm
guessing just two or three breaks. What do you think
those rules are? Do you miss the old days where
you had live studio audiences and everybody can talk all,
you know, at the same time and make it more
of a natural feeling discussion. Well, you know, when you can't,
well you know, it's kind of one of those things

(18:16):
like maybe they lost their privileges a little bit. I don't.
I just got to tell you those those debates, the
Republican debates that they had a year ago when there
was like seven or eight of them on the stage
and they are all trying to talk over each other
until one of them finally was able to break through
and just finish their thought. Incredibly frustrating to watch as
a person. Yeah, you act like a child, and you
kind of get treated like one at the end of

(18:37):
the day. Now see one v one, it's a lot
less of a problem, right because it's just two people.
But I also kind of feel like, I don't know,
I kind of enjoy the idea that I just get
to pay attention to one candidate at a time. What
are these debates for? Like, we already know what they
think about things, and Kamala Harris had has released her platform, right,

(19:02):
so we kind of know where their opinions on policies
are going to be. What are these four for the
undecided voters who maybe aren't as plugged in to kind
of hear what resonates with them most? I suppose it
has to be because I think both political parties feel
like they have their people now that there are people,

(19:25):
especially in the seven swing states that we continuously we've
been talking about. Which pop quiz, what are the seven
states ready to go? Pennsylvania, Michigan, or there's another in
the big ten Wisconsin? You got it? Okay? Uh might
want to be careful of using conferences though there's been
a lot of realignment lelo, I know, and they say
it's so confusing. I got so confused when I saw
the Big Ten had a Washington game on, and I

(19:46):
was like, what's going on. It took me a little
while and then all of a sudden, Oh, that's right
there in the Big Ten. Yeah, who would have fun?
I know. Uh So that's three of them, and there's
four others Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona, Nevada. Right, Okay, so
those states are close, really close. We don't know what's

(20:08):
going to happen in them. That basically means to these
two candidates that there are votes still to be one
to try to get over that finish line, to get
over the edge. Place like Omaha still theoretically could go
either direction. Although it is my all polling showing that
it's leaning blue, that doesn't mean that it can't surprise
on election day and end up being read right. So

(20:30):
there are people here that I think you're trying to
win over as well if you're these two candidates. However,
with these two specific people and what they are associated with,
I feel like ninety percent of America probably is pretty
comfortable knowing what the heck they're doing here, and they
are going to be talking to those middle people that
haven't figured out who they're voting for yet. So I
think the answer to your question is yes, I think

(20:51):
those are the people at This debate is far more
than any other whereas I think the first debate was
literally just set up to get Joe Biden out of
the White House. Oh excuse me, did I say that
out loud? That's what the debate is for, I would imagine.
And the ratings, I mean, come on, it's all about
the ratings too well, for the for the network, all
the networks they're simulcasting it. So for these networks, if
if it's just about the ratings for them, then you

(21:13):
want to make it as salacious as possible. Bingo. So
although David Muhr and Lindsey Davis, I don't, I feel
less inclined to think they're going to have a big
role to play. Then I thought Jake Tapper and Dana
Bash was on the CNN one and they ended up
not having any role to play at all except kind
of ushering Joe Biden out of the race. Well, they

(21:34):
their lack of involvement. Actually, while it was surprising and
also welcome, it also ended up not protecting Joe Biden
in a way that Biden ended up falling flat on
his face and was out of the race a few
weeks later. He's in a tough spot too, Jake Joe
Biden because you think about like, so, as we get
closer to November, Kamala Harris wants to maybe convince the

(21:57):
undecided voter that she not I'm going to take things
places that are better than now correct, but the last
four years have been you So how do you distance yourself? Right?
That's going to be something that they're certainly going to be.
You're gonna hear Trump mention that, but you're also going
to hear her try to differentiate whatever people might be
uncertain about with the Biden stuff because a lot of

(22:18):
the policy was going to be a losing policy. We'll
finish this conversation up, well, we're actually just getting started.
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Speaker 1 (22:34):
Anyway, just wanted to reiterate this, if you're missing or
if you miss the news. We're going to talk about
this more at the top of the hour when the
news hits. But Omaha Police responded to a shooting that
occurred at Northwest High School today. It was an isolated incident,
according to authorities. School was off of lockdown within an
hour or so of the incident occurring. It was a
person shooting a fifteen year old boy. Fifteen year old

(22:56):
boy was injured taken to a hospital. The suspect is
in custody. We'll give you more information when we find
out about that. There was a reunification area for parents
and students of Northwest High School at the football stadium
west of the school, according to Omaha Police. And the
lockdown has been done for an hour now. So that's

(23:16):
what's been going on. Something to keep in mind, and
we'll give you more information as we have it now.
I was talking about it like, is this debate going
to work? Is this debate tonight? And I'm gonna be
at rev Sportsbarn. Girl, I'm gonna get the car, drive
over there, do the show on my way there and
for the last two hours going to be there. And
I also have these tickets. You'll have a chance to

(23:38):
we're gonna have a box there and next Wednesday, September
the eighteenth, which is my birthday by the way, Next
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throughout the rest of my show. So there you go. Anyway,

(24:23):
let's say, you, Matt, what did you do you really think?
Are we gonna learn anything about this debate? Like? Out
of this debate? Are we going to learn about these
candidates in some way? Probably not right. We know a
lot who's going to learn about these candidates tonight? What
are we going to learn? I think there's gonna be
some takeaways. They may not be what the stated candidate

(24:45):
wanted people to take away sure, will it be policy
takeaways or will it be behavior takeaways? Will the will
there be a fly that's flying around? You know, there's
always something ridiculous. I mean, that fly stole that one debate,
remember that, I mean, Mike penns it was all about
that fly. Do you don't have to keep in mind
that there is a vice presidential debate. I don't think

(25:05):
it's going to be the needle mover. This is not
even close. But that's on August October the first, which
is after Pennsylvania starts early voting here in the next
week or so. So you know, I'm sure a lot
of people who already have made up their mind in
Pennsylvania are going to be watching just to reiterate that,
and they're going to be ready to stamp that early
ballot here in the next couple of weeks. We'll keep

(25:26):
talking about this debate. Night in America, ladies, gentlemen, More
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