New Polls Show Trump Waxing, Kamala Waning

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I enjoyed. I enjoyed the weekend, got to do some
play by play, called some volleyball for U and O.
That was fun. That was good. That's fun. Yeah, that's exciting.
I hadn't called play by play for a single sport
since like March or April of March or April of
twenty twenty three. Probably trying to think I may have

(00:21):
only done like the last thing I could have would
have done in Des Moines for play by play may
have been girls basketball state tournament. That'd have been like
late February. So it's been It had been a while,
is what I'm saying. It felt good to get back
in the saddle. Big thanks to the people over there
at you and O for having me. I'll be there
on Friday and Saturday as the MC for the on

(00:42):
ice contests and whatnot on Friday and Saturday. So the
regular season started in earnest. They knocked off top five
ranked Minnesota in a wild game in Vegas over the
weekend two. How about that, Hey, Creighton ranked in the
top twenty. They were ranked fifteenth to start the season
in the ap Ple for me basketball, My guy, is
it is it not like an awesome time to be here.

(01:04):
You got you and O's hockey team doing all sorts
of great stuff. You got you know, and they have
high house for this season. You have Crayighton Nebraska basketball.
I guess we'll find out. But what nebraskketball. Yeah, how
we say that around? You say, that's how you say that. Yeah,
that's how we say it. That's how you say it around.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
So we'll see how the women line up and how
that looks on Creighton and Nebraska side, Creighton top fifteen
like and then Nebraska football, which of course should be
headlining at this time of the year, and they are.
I mean one went away from eligibility. I don't want
to say that too loud, but yeah, remember what happened
last year. It does get a little trickier as the

(01:49):
season wears on, but you know, grab a couple more
wins here. It'd be great to knock off unbeaten Indiana.
Think about that sentence. I just said, unbeaten Indiana. Yeah,
you're going into the lions Den known as Bloomington. Yeah,
who's ever said that. That's the first time anybody's ever
said that. Anyway, it was nice to have the bye week.
I think just to kind of get prepared for that game,

(02:09):
knowing what's on the line there and knowing how hard
it gets later in the season. By the way, USC like,
are they even good anymore? Well not since they joined
the Big ten? Welcome to real football? Yeah, Lincoln Riley,
the pac Man twelve was Is it not what it
turned out to be? Yeah? Well? And other and other headlines.

(02:32):
How about Arizona State looking awesome in the Big twelve?
What does that say? Does anybody know anything anymore?

Speaker 2 (02:39):
Now?

Speaker 1 (02:40):
Got a few speaking of not knowing a darn thing.
We have a few national polls here that were done
by some major, major people out there, major people is
in Like when I say poll, it was like the
first what's the first? Uh, what's the first group that
comes to mind? Quite a piac. That's a good one.
That's a good one. It's a really good one. I

(03:02):
also a fifteen seed. I feel like Quinnipiac is a
fifteen seed sometimes. Yeah, I'm sure they've made it there
at some point. They are not involved here, you know.
I was thinking IPSOS was maybe the first thing that
you would have pulled there, NBC News and CBS. So
it's the three that have have slapped together a new

(03:23):
poll and it was they were national polls. So again,
this is the thing in a national poll, this is
not how they vote, This is not you don't just
vote on this. But I think popular vote wise, the
Democrats always win popular vote these days, right, Like, if
you're talking just vote for vote, they win the general election.

(03:45):
That's just a fact. There are more people in urban
areas who vote Democrat and there's less people in rural areas.
But what evens it out is the Electoral College takes
into account the rule areas with a greater meaning than
say the popular vote would indicate. So if the popular
vote's pretty close, you can kind of make a pretty

(04:05):
good determination that the Republicans have a really good chance
of winning. It's kind of my point. Again, we don't
vote like this, so the practice is kind of pointless.
But it's just to give you an idea in a snapshot,
so we know what to expect on election day. If
that makes sense, Yeah, and you might you might want
to fire up the phone lines for this. ABC IPSOS
poll says Kamala Harris up fifty to forty eight percent.

(04:29):
Last month, they did a poll Kamala was leading by
six that six point lead is down to two. It's
within the margin of era. Now, CBS and Yugov did
a poll Harris up fifty one to forty eight percent.
She's up three. In their poll from September she had
a four point lead, So it's back within the realm
of I mean, it's still on the edge there at four.
It's about three and a half is the percentage points

(04:51):
here of the margin of era. And then an NBC
poll says it's tied forty eight apiece. Harris was leading
last month forty nine to forty five. So what does
this mean, Matt, is that I think we're now starting
to see in the polling that there is some true
movement back to the mean. When Kamala took over, I

(05:12):
think Democrats and anybody who was leaning Democrat, or anybody
who's never Trump who was a little disenfranchised by Joe
Biden looking like a zombieond national television all of a
sudden had a living, breathing candidate again, and they were like, hey,
you know what, Actually, I'm back on I'm back on board.
And there was this wave of momentum. But then as
we were able to start poking holes in the fact
that she cherry picks what interviews she does and doesn't do,

(05:34):
the fact that Tim Walls seems to be a little
bit more of a I don't know he's There are
a lot of question marks about his past in China,
There's a lot of question marks about some of his
political viewpoints. There's some question marks about how much he's
even been honest about the stuff that he's done in
the past. All of those were kind of founded, especially
after the debate, the vice presidential debate. What was that

(05:58):
a couple of weeks ago now, and then you have
you know, the following kind of how do I say this?
The regression to the mean that was already likely to
happen anyway, once that honeymoon excitement kind of started to
wear off. In a perfect world, the Democrats wouldn't have
made this announcement until right at the Obviously this would

(06:19):
have been even more crooked than it ended up being
in the first place. But they wouldn't have made this
announcement until right at the convention, and then they could
have swelled that up. They could have told Tim Walls,
you know, maybe not to do that vice presidential debate
and try to you know, be a little bit more
on the lying low plan, much like Kamala is. Maybe

(06:40):
that's one of the things that could have gone the
other way, But as far as we can see from
right now, it seems like there was enough time, as
early voting has begun in several states to see this
kind of come back to where we kind of expected
it to be in the first place, which is pretty
darn close within the margin of error on both ends
for you know, pretty much every single polling agency out

(07:03):
there now again. Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Georgia, Nevada, Arizona.
Those seven states are the most important because those states
are the ones that we're just not sure who's gonna
win that those are up for grabs as far as
we know, and there are so many people doing polling

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in all of those states, all seven of those states,
a lot of demographic polling, a lot of different things
that you know, might raise an eyebrow here or there.
And that's the thing that I guess we're just gonna
have to wait for November the fifth, because most of
that seems to be very back and forth. There just
doesn't really seem to be a whole lot of rhyme
or reason to the trends this late in the game,

(07:45):
it just kind of seems like, do you get lucky
enough to get the right kind of people as to
do that poll? If you got thoughts on what we're
talking about here, nationwide polls showing that Donald Trump is
cut into whatever lead Harris had and making this a
lot closer than usual, and that's a popular vote situation.
Does that mean that you know, you feel better about
his chances in November? You can call us a four

(08:07):
h two five five eight eleven ten and we'll start
taking calls next four h two five five eight eleven ten.
News Radio eleven ten, kfab Emery Sunger on News Radio
eleven ten, kfab Rick, Welcome to the show What's on
your Mind?

Speaker 2 (08:26):
I'm just gonna tell you. I'm on a gambling site
and the gambling side has Trump minus one, which means
they believe he will when yeah, the election, and then
in Arizona he's minus two forty five. Oh wow, so
that should be a lock on Arizona.

Speaker 1 (08:44):
Yeah, that's that's a good point. You can can you
cite the book? Do you know which book it is
that you're looking at them?

Speaker 2 (08:50):
Florida is minus twelve hundred.

Speaker 1 (08:52):
Right, right, what's the sports book that you're looking at
for that?

Speaker 2 (08:56):
What's that? What's that?

Speaker 1 (08:57):
What's the sports book? Like the the where you're going
to those lines?

Speaker 2 (09:00):
Oh, it's called that sonic.

Speaker 1 (09:03):
Okay, all right, I just wanted to double check.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
Yeah, he's winning Georgia too. It looks like yeah, I
mean he's doing pretty well. Michigan's even New York he's losing.

Speaker 1 (09:19):
Sure, sure, Well it's a good like. It's a good indicator, Rick,
to be on New Hampshire. It's a good indicator, Rick,
because I think most of what people you know are
thinking about is, you know, there are people out there
that like to bet on stuff like this, not just sports,
but also politics and Vegas is take like they move
the line based on where that money is coming from

(09:40):
and like how much money's going on both sides. So
if you're saying that in Arizona, which is a swing state,
everybody feels like, you know, that's up in the air.
If you're saying that Arizona is minus two forty five,
which in any way, shape or form that would be
a heavy favorite. That means that a lot of people
who probably are in the know are saying, well, Trump

(10:00):
is likely to win this state. So I think that's
pretty interesting news.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
Yeah, Georgia was too. I thought, yeah, I didn't think,
you know, I was another one. And I think Pennsylvania
he might have been a little bit ahead and there.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
But yeah, hey, it's all good. Rick, No, that's a
good point. Thanks for calling in and thanks for listening
to USA.

Speaker 2 (10:19):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (10:20):
Yeah, so you know, that's an underrated We talk about
the lines of like all the little prop bets for
these debates. It's an interesting way. And again we have
to a little disclaimer that that doesn't mean that it's imminent, right,
but it does feel like when you get close enough
to election day and you start seeing those trends, maybe
in Las Vegas sports books, of people taking money from

(10:43):
one side or the other and seeing that it kind
of tells you that, you know, maybe the trend is
a little bit further to the right than maybe the
polls would suggest in some of these states. I mean,
I think the Republicans would take it being even right
now in Vegas sports books from Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania is like
the prize that is up for grabs. There's a way
you can win without Pennsylvania, but you really would like Pennsylvania.

(11:06):
I also think that, well, I've heard this that the
typical Democratic Democrat voter or Kamala voter is more responsive
to when they get asked to fill out these poles. Yeah, sorry,
I've heard that as well then your typical Trump voter.
And so that in and of itself makes the poles
hard to trust and maybe even skew a certain way. Well,

(11:28):
and so like the margin of ra they say is
roughly in these poles, we're seeing between three and a
half to four percent, right, and that's a lot of points,
And so anything within four points you have to say.
You could say that that's close, right or like close
to a dead heat. Well you could also put like
at tax on that. Like what you're saying, is that
just the ability for a left leaning people to be

(11:49):
just a little bit more responsive. That also could lend
you know, it's like a home field advantage if you
will own these poles, and that could move in another
three or four points the other direction. So who's to
say in a popular vote setting or situation, it's even
closer than these polls would indicate. If it's fifty to
fifty let's just say popular vote is down the middle.
I would say overwhelmingly the Republicans feel like they would

(12:10):
win that election, because that would mean enough of the
rule people would have canceled out the urban people from
around America, you know, like Joe Biden got like nine
million more people in the popular vote based on the
results that we were given last election. Nine million, But
the electoral college is all that actually matters. He could

(12:30):
get every single soul in California to vote blue and
it would be a landslide on paper for the population
or the popular vote, but he could still lose in
a landslide in that situation, or in that scenario in
the electoral vote, which is the vote that we actually
used to count. So it's not a perfect way to pull,

(12:51):
especially this close to the election. But I do think
that it's worthy of noting that that's where it's sitting
right now, because three weeks out from an election, if
you are going to tell a Republican that, hey, you're
within the margin of error by every major poll on
a national level for the popular vote, I think most
people that are Republicans would be like, Okay, I'm taking

(13:11):
that all day, because I would if you're a Republican,
you're anticipating losing the popular vote. Haven't won a popular
vote in some time, but you're anticipating losing the popular
vote but still finding enough votes in those rule parts
of the states that are up for grabs and being
able to win you know, five of those seven states.
You're the president of the United States. A very realistic scenario,

(13:33):
like you can lose the popular vote by four or
five million, We're going to probably get a pretty solid
turnout here. I hesitate to say it's going to beat
the record of last time. People you would think are
as mobilized as ever. I just don't know if there's
quite as much visceral awareness as there may have been
during that COVID stricken year of twenty twenty. So I'm

(13:55):
not willing to say that I'm expecting record turnout across
the nation, seeing another eighty plus million versus another seventy
five ish million in that regard. But if you're a
Republican and you're within two or three million votes in
the popular vote, you got to feel good about your
chances to win the electoral votes and what will be
available to you. It's kind of where I'm at Yeah,

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(14:36):
Three weeks from tomorrow, is that that's right? Yeah, three
weeks from tomorrow. Three weeks from tomorrow. Wow, it's coming fast.
Early voting is out and about for most places around
the country, and we're talking about national polls now again.
I have to reiterate the national poll itself isn't necessarily
the end all be all here because we vote state

(14:57):
to state, and states except for Nebraska and main or
winner take all in that state, there are seven states
of the fifty that seem to be still very much
up for grabs. And you know, we have to count
all the early ballots as well, which will happen on
election day itself, and then we have to tally up
the electoral college in the different combinations in which are
Republican or a Democrat would then be able to win

(15:20):
with the deck as stacked as we think it may
be heading into the fifth of November. So we're taking
your calls and thoughts on this at four, two, five, five, eight, eleven, ten,
and Doug's on the line. Doug, Welcome to the show.
What are you thinking about?

Speaker 3 (15:35):
Hey, Matt, it's Emory here, but yeah, I mean, sorry you, Emory.

Speaker 1 (15:40):
It's all good.

Speaker 2 (15:41):
Hey.

Speaker 3 (15:42):
The only reason why it's starting to get well in
my opinion, okay, it's getting close to where in the
popular vote because Republicans haven't went to California, they haven't
went to New York and actually campaign. Yeah, right, because
they always say that why go there, why spend money there,
why do anything there? And Trump's changing that he's actually

(16:06):
going there because it doesn't matter where you live.

Speaker 4 (16:10):
Everybody's hurting right now.

Speaker 3 (16:13):
So that's why the popular vote in my opinion, is close.
You still have states like Oregon that for Lynde, Salem,
and Eugene. If you win those three cities, you win
the state.

Speaker 1 (16:25):
Well, I mean those three cities are like seventy percent
of that state's population.

Speaker 3 (16:29):
Yeah, but that's where all your yeah people that I
mean they don't trum Oregon originally, so I can say
what I want to say.

Speaker 1 (16:38):
Right well, and Doug, Doug, the same thing, you know,
really is for the New York's in California's as well
as just those urban areas in general. Right, It's like
Almaha is going to be the place in the second
congressional district that's going to have the most votes counted.
It's just how many of those votes will vote for
Don Bacon or say Donald Trump intent of the Democrats.

(16:59):
And that's It's an interesting dichotomy, right because Omaha is
so much more urban and attracts a more liberal mindset
for a lot of people who live here, whereas the
people even just down in Starpy County for the most part,
are even just a little bit into West Omaha and
Elcorn and Gretna. In those places, they feel differently about things.
It's very interesting how much urban versus rule is. Pretty

(17:21):
there's a pretty even correlation there from urban to Democrat
and rule to Republican at this point.

Speaker 3 (17:28):
Yeah, well, think about it this way. If every state
did what Maine and Nebraska do, how would you think
the difference would be.

Speaker 1 (17:36):
Oh, it'd be a lot. It wouldn't even be close.

Speaker 3 (17:38):
Yeah, that's right. And so if everybody did that, which
is what I think the founders really wanted, and I agree,
but I'm not one hundred percent sure. But if that's
what they did, it wouldn't even be close.

Speaker 1 (17:51):
Yeah, now, I'm with you, Doug. But that's the other
thing too, is every state kind of has the ability
to control that about them, right, and Nebraska tried to
make kind of a half hearted push to make it
winter take all to ensure that additional electoral college voe
goes to the Republicans. However, I do think, Doug, that
you're right. I think that it was meant to be
district by district and not win or take all with

(18:11):
all of these states, and that would make this race
way more complicated. That would make everything, every single election
would take on completely different twists and turns. Whereas now
it feels like, hey, we pretty much know eighty percent
of the states at least most of the time, Like
there's not a lot of you know, we have seven
states right now that we're kind of paying attention to.

(18:32):
I mean, it would be like every state would have
battleground spots for the two sides to fight over in
each and every district. I would love to see that happen,
but I'm sure we'll never go to that, Doug, as
much as it makes sense to us.

Speaker 3 (18:48):
I know.

Speaker 4 (18:49):
Thank you, thank you for your time today.

Speaker 1 (18:51):
Absolutely man, thanks for calling in. We always love talking
to you. We've talked about that too, right where. I
think the electoral college was initially intended to be kind
of district to district, but now the country's gotten so
big it, you know, and why wouldn't Why would a
Republican spend any money in any like hardcore blue state.
It's a ways to resources as many like you're not

(19:12):
trying to win a popular vote. I think it's important
to like be competitive and get as many single votes
as possible. But there's ways to be super strategic. There's
a way that you could just abandon all of the
major like look at the top twenty five cities in America,
don't even bother campaigning in most of them, right, And
there's a way you could still win now at the

(19:33):
same time in the like the major cities in the
swing states like Milwaukee and Madison, or Detroit or Philadelphia
and Pittsburgh. Philadelphia especially very blue, right, But if you
for every vote that you can try to, you know,
kind of wrestle away from the Republic from the Democrats
in Philadelphia, that's going to give you even a better

(19:54):
shot at winning that state. Right you can actually mine
some of those possible votes of people that might not
be sure even though we assume all of Philadelphia is
mostly blue. If you can go in there and you
can you know, put up you know, thirty thirty five
forty percent of the votes somehow, that's gonna give you

(20:15):
a great chance, along with the rest of the rule
part of the state, to win that state all of
a sudden. So you can actually use those major metropolitan
areas against the Democrats if they're in a swing state
like that, you know, Atlanta. Yeah, you look at North Carolina,
Raleigh and Charlotte, you look over at Phoenix, and you
look at places like Reno. There are different types of

(20:36):
ways that you can get through a lot of this
stuff and win strategically without wasting resources in places where
you go in campaign in Los Angeles or you go
in campaign in Minneapolis right now, and it wouldn't make
any sense because even if you got you know, a
group of people to all of a sudden think that

(20:56):
they wanted to vote for you. You would need an
inordinate amount of those people in that state just to
flip a state that you are feeling like you didn't
already have and you don't need to have in order
to win. There are multiple combinations of these seven states
that we're not sure about that you can have and win,
and just push your chips into those seven tables. Like
those seven tables, don't worry about anything else. And if

(21:18):
you win five of those seven, you're the president of
the United States. Craig's on the line real quick, Craig,
thanks for calling in. What's on your mind?

Speaker 4 (21:27):
Yeah, my name is Craig, and I want to mention
combat dan Osbern. He's on these ads on TVs.

Speaker 2 (21:33):
You know.

Speaker 4 (21:33):
He says he's a big hero because he was a veteran. Yeah,
and well, I will tell you I'm an honorary discharged
veteran and decorator. I did two tourists overseas.

Speaker 1 (21:42):
Thank you for your service.

Speaker 4 (21:43):
Greg be a politician, Yeah, Well, like I said, my
veteran service does not make me a politician. Yeah, don't
make me anymore aware if that was important or not, Well, it's.

Speaker 1 (21:51):
Important Craig in the fact that I think there's a
responsibility that people kind of associate like like, hey, I'm
willing to sacrifice for my country kind of thing. And
that's why Tim Walls and JD. Vans, who both you know,
had differing levels of service that they provided to the country,
they tried to kind of lead with that in a
lot of conversations. Right, they want to tell people, Hey,

(22:13):
I was in the National Guard or I was in
the Marine Corps. They want to tell people that for
the exact same reason, right, Because there there is this
we associate military service with responsibility. We associate that with sacrifice,
We associate that with putting the country first. And I
think that it's important for people to see it that way. Plus,
we've had a lot of great military people be leaders

(22:34):
in this country in a variety of capacities. At the
same time, like you said, Craig, because you were in
the service, or because you were important in the service,
or because you had a certain rank or anything, that
does not mean that you're a good politician, nor does
that make That's my point.

Speaker 2 (22:50):
Yeah, you shouldn't.

Speaker 4 (22:52):
I mean, Dan husband shouldn't run on that facet A
loan I mean you know East like I said, I
mean yeah, I don't feel qualified for hold anything back office.

Speaker 2 (23:00):
I just wanted out.

Speaker 4 (23:01):
You share my message to your listeners.

Speaker 1 (23:05):
No, and I appreciate it, and thank you Craig for
your service as well. It is important, even if you're
not a politician, to celebrate those who have served for us,
and we appreciate you for that today.

Speaker 4 (23:14):
Okay, well, thanks for having me on absolutely.

Speaker 1 (23:16):
Before I move on, I want to get a little
you know, uh, we can get a little goofy here. Tracy
is on the phone line, and Tracy called in. I
didn't want to leave you on hold here, Tracy, but
we had a conversation last week about a food item
that we are kind of clamoring for here in the
Omahai area, the loose meat sandwich. And it sounds like
you're gonna help us with that.

Speaker 5 (23:33):
I'm gonna try, all right, hit me up.

Speaker 3 (23:35):
Okay.

Speaker 5 (23:36):
We're gonna take a pound of ground beef. We're gonna
brown that up, okay, and then we're going to take
two tablespoons of the drive plate onions. Okay, I want
one tablespoon of mustard.

Speaker 3 (23:48):
A little bit, just.

Speaker 5 (23:51):
Maybe a quarter of a teaspoon of sugar, salt and pepper.

Speaker 1 (23:55):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 5 (23:56):
Okay, we're going to take one beer, put it in
all that, and then we're going to reduce that to
almost nothing, and then we're gonna put it on how
buns that eat it?

Speaker 1 (24:03):
WHOA?

Speaker 5 (24:04):
But do you want you might want? You might want
some more mustard and some pickles at that into that,
you know, right right.

Speaker 1 (24:09):
But you're gonna you're gonna cook it in the You're
cooking it in the mustard, is what you're saying.

Speaker 5 (24:13):
Yeah, cook about of tablespoon in it with the dried
onion flakes and the beer, uh huh, salt and pepper
and the sugar, a little bit of sugar, not very much,
and then reduce it down. Even the smell when you're
cooking antle smell so good in your house.

Speaker 1 (24:28):
Mm yeah, now see I'm getting hungry, Tracy. Thanks for that.
It's a I have three more hours of radio I
have to do, so thanks for getting me all they
Thanks buddy, appreciate the call. Yeah, the good old loose
meat sandwich. If we did a poll on loose meat sandwiches,
I bet it'd win in a landslide. Would you like
a loose meat sandwich, or would you not like a
loose meat sandwich? I think the the eyes would have

(24:48):
that one pretty easily. Does a sloppy joe count as
a loose meat sandwich? It is, it is, it's but
it's not what we're talking about. Okay. A sloppy joe
is a loose meat sandwich by definition, but it qualifies
itself with the sauce that it's in as a sloppy joe. Okay,
A loose meat sandwhich is a loose meat sandwich, but
it's not a sloppy joe. That makes sense, Like it's

(25:09):
plain burger, right, we don't. We don't sauce it all up.
It's not as Yeah, it's less saucy, yeah, and less tangy.
Although if you put a ton of mustard in your
loose meat sandwich, maybe maybe you could get a little
about that tang Anyway, maybe you get a little crazy
and put some a one steak sauce in there. I
don't know if that tastes good, but I'm sure people
would try it. I'd try it. I like hay one

(25:30):
steak sauce. I'd try it, Yeah, I try it. Anyway.
My thought is how about we give away a pair
per day. Okay, does that track? I can be a
fan of that? Sure, all right, all right, so here's
the deal. We're gonna go ahead and do one right now.
Werewolf's what's a number that we can associate with a werewolf?

Speaker 3 (25:50):
Hmmm?

Speaker 1 (25:52):
What is a werewolf? Anyway?

Speaker 2 (25:53):
Hey?

Speaker 1 (25:53):
What was what? What was a what's his name? Michael J. Fox?
Michael J. Fox? What was his number in the on
the backasketball team in the movie. Wasn't it like forty
five or something like that? Well? That actually teen Wolf? Yeah,
look up Team Wolf and get some images and see
what the number he was wearing. I think it was
like forty five. I think it was a pretty high
number teen Wolf basketball. Yeah, Oh forty two. Forty two

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that's what it was. Darn Look at all that hair? Yeah,
how do they do that? How do they do that?
And by the way, I watched some highlights of that
movie one time, just like without context, absolutely and utterly ridiculous.
Like even like with context, it's already pretty out there.
Without context, it's like an acid trip. It really is.

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Not that I would know what that is, but you know,
maybe we need like an all star basketball team made
up of all of the ridiculous movie characters who played
basketball players like air Bud. Yeah, but Airbud, like, we
need five, right, like and we can make a bench
out of them. But like fictional basketball players, you would
also have to go to like movies like He Got Game,

(26:59):
Ray Allen Jesus Shuttlesworth in that movie at exactly That's
what I'm saying right about what be Goldberg. Okay, So
what you're saying basically is, could we like is the
the idea like we need five just absurd out there
in no way like realistic basketball players and make a

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lineup out of them?

Speaker 2 (27:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (27:23):
Okay, So so any real basketball players or any real
basketball players who portrayed a basketball player in movies like Hustle, right,
like the main characters of Hustle, the Adam Sandler flick
from a couple of years ago. Anthony Edwards is in that. Ah,
his name's Kermit in that movie, which is funny, but
yeah that you can't pick him because you know, he's
actually really awesome at basketball. I don't know, Let's let's

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think on that. Let's let's revisit. Let's see if we
can't put together a Hodgepodge five of ridiculous and unlikely
basketball stars. But as for right now, let's go ahead
and give these away. We have two tickets for this
special screening for Bruce Crawford's charity screening of an American
Werewolf in London at the Omaha Community Playhouse. That's next Friday,
October twenty fifth at seven pm, and two tickets on

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the line. Will give it to caller number forty two.
Call her forty two. In honor of our friend teen
Wolf Michael J. Fox. What a flick that was. Forty
second caller is gonna win a pair of tickets to
an American Werewolf in London at the Omaha Community Playhouse
next Friday, the twenty fifth, at seven pm. Proceeds will
be benefiting the Omaha Parks Foundation as well, So if

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anybody is trying to get tickets and wants to go
and don't want to waste like wait to try to
win tickets, you can do that as well. Forty second
caller call us now four oh two, five five eight
to eleven ten. Four oh two, five five eight to
eleven ten is the number, and we'll get to that
as we move forward. And it's just gonna be a
good show. We're gonna have a lot of fun. We'll
talk Columbus Day, we'll talk about our five crazy basketball players,

(28:55):
more on the polls, and so much more coming up
on news Radio eleven ten kfab. This got us to
think you specifically, you mentioned that reminds you of teen Wolf,
you know, the were wolf played by Michael J. Fox,
who somehow was very good at the game of basketball. Now,
I'm not trying to not trying to say that it's
hard to beat that as far as the skill of

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a player that also is completely insane. But we you know,
let's make a five, like a starting five of basketball
playing characters that aren't actually good basketball players in real life. Yeah, okay,
so we got to start there with teen Wolf. He's
in there. Yeah, but he's got to be the teen Wolf,
right and he's a point guard, right, Yeah. He handles

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the ball, I mean, he's dribbling extraordinary. I mean you
see some of the passes that he laid down. The
guy knew what he was doing. Scott Howard, by the way,
is his real name. But then he becomes a werewolf
and turns out to be just this insane basketball player
and when he posts you up or like, what are
you going to be reaching in on that exactly? And
it's kind of gross, you know. Yeah, let's face it,

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you're okay, a couple things against you there. You're a
team and you're a hairy werewolf. Like that's somebody order
right there. Yeah, a little bit of degree. He's not
going to cover that, you know what I mean. Again,
the whole movie is just insane. If you haven't watched
Teen Wolf, go back and rewatch it, it's just insane.

Speaker 2 (30:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (30:16):
Yeah, so he's in there. I think we can agree.
Airbud's got to be in here. Airbud's kind of a
one trick pony, if you will. He's kind of a
menace defensively because he just runs around and goes after
the ball. If you're dribbling anywhere near him, he's probably
just gonna take it away from you, and you have
to go out of your way to kind of set
him up to score a bucket. He can't grab the ball.

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I think he's insane. The whole premise of actually playing
him in that playoff game that they show as the
climax of the movie. I gotta tell you some really
bad coaching you're telling me that there's not a two
handed kid on your team that you'd rather have out
there than this dog. I mean, everybody's got like a
team morale dog these days in every sport, right, But

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you're actually gonna play yours at a position that matters, right,
I mean, And they didn't stop there. He played wide
receiver in a football movie, and he played first base
in a baseball movie. He was first base. Like they
just put him down on the he was the base. No,
he was playing first base, okay, like he had like
they threw it and he would catch the ball and
then step on the bag to get the outs. They

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live like, yeah, well he can't throw, so first base
as if, like, okay, what happens if there's a grounder
to first, Like he fields the ball and then he's
just got to run over there in time. I guess
he's got four legs like that would give him like
an opportunity. He also plays soccer. He was more trying
to get it on in soccer than he was actually

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playing the sport he was in. He was he was
looking for a lady. Yeah, they had puppies. That's where
the puppies came from. Oh, yeah, dude, things go real sideways.
I mean they were sideways in Airbud the first movie,
but at least there was a charm that you know,
you were meeting the dog and my heartstrings get pulled
in multiple directions during that movie. Like, I actually think
it's a pretty decent movie. The basketball logic in it

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is insane, and then when they start then they started
making the other movies, especially once they got beyond football,
and the main kid wasn't even in the movie most
of the time. Well, he was in the soccer one,
and he was also trying to get it on because
they were in college now. And then you know, no,
he was in high school then, and then he goes
to college and then he's just like there at the
beginning and the end of the movie, it's really about

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the sister. And then they do a volleyball one and
then all of a sudden they started doing air Buddies
and all the dogs could talk. All of a sudden,
it goes real sideways. Anyway, air Bud's got to be
on the team if we're talking about crazy. I think
I got the solid three three and d wing right there.
I mean, basically, when you described his game three. Indeed,
Cash you have to, like, you have to set him

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up to shoot a three. Yeah, teen Wolf could just
throw it over there and he could boop it off
his nose for three. And that's what that makes I mean.
I think, I think, I think his range is more
mid range. I think he's more of a mid range
guy air Bud, but so more of a DeMar DeRozan type.
I digress, I digress. Let's move on, all right. And
then you you mentioned Will Ferrell or Jackie Moon from

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Semi Pro. That's your down low player. He's he's playing
off the post. I think I don't know if he
has a long range game. Really yeah, I don't know
if he's got any game at all. To be honest
with you, he's the Rashid Wallace of that team. You know,
he's getting at least two to three technicals when when
he realizes who he has to play with, he's gonna
be down low asking for a pass from Airbud. I

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think he's not gonna get a technical. No, I I
Jackie wrestles a bear in the in the movie, so
you know, I'm not so sure I'm gonna throw Calvin
Cambridge in here. It's a little bow Wow when he
was a kid playing in the NBA. And that movie
is also just really stupid in insane. His best friend
than it is Jonathan Lipnikki. But they like they play

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off this idea that they're kind of both orphans and
they don't really have a whole lot and all this
stuff whatever. But low bow Wow was playing basketball at
a high level. But it was all the shoes he
was wearing, right, so we'd have to get the right
shoes for him. And the movie is called Like Mike,
and it's like a pair of Jordan's or something that
he's like that he puts on it transforms him into

(34:21):
a great basketball player. Michael Jordan makes no appearance in
this movie whatsoever? Huh. Yeah, I remember watching that. I
was just like, wait a second, I what Michael Jordan's
know where to be found in the movie. But that's
what they tried, and that's why they did it. It's
dumb anyway. And then lastly, here's mine you can override
me Lola Bunny from Space Jam. I like it going
fully animated here. Yeah, if we want to stay continuous

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with real characters instead of like real people, Yeah, how
about what Joana Man. Oh sure, okay, Johana Man's fine.
But if we're if we're playing a fictional basketball game,
who's to say we can't take Lola Bunny and do
like the opposite of what they did to Jordan, you know,
pull Joy Ordan into the Looney Tune land and instead
we go in there, we grab Lola Bunny and her

(35:05):
awesome mid range game and her sass and somehow get
her into the real world here. I don't know what
that look like. You're probably asking for a lot of trouble.
There's probably gonna be a lot of stalkers. I mean,
there's a lot of furries out there that'll probably be
like real interested in what Lola's got going on. We
probably have to like hire some security. This team is like,

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I mean, I don't know how you classify teen wolf,
but this team might be majority animal. You're talking to bunny,
a cartoon bunny at that, a teen wolf, a teen
were wolf, and a dog a golden retriever mix in
Jouana Man and Jackie Moon. I mean, did you imagine

(35:52):
Jackie Moon shows up? This is the king. This is
the King of the marketing, right, this king of marketing.
This guy knows how to sell and put like butts
in seats. He knows what he's doing, and he's looking
around the room and the team he's got to build

(36:13):
on is this mish mash of you know, we didn't
even throw in the fourteen year old orphan that knows
how to wrap, like, oh right, how's that gonna go? Right?

Speaker 2 (36:23):
Like?

Speaker 1 (36:23):
Oh man, yeah, needless to say, whoever they play against,
I don't know what team you've put them against, but
it's unlikely to go well. Yeah, oh man, that was
That was a fun exercise. Thanks for doing that.