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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I had a good time, got a lot of steps in,
which is great. It was a beautiful day. Nice. It
got me thinking, though, why is so many people, like
why do so many people feel anxiety around this election?
And I was trying to, like, as I was prepping
(00:21):
for my shows today, if you had to like diagnose
that from like a what would be like the you're
asked to give a short answer on like an essay
in college, and the question was why do you think
a majority of Americans feel anxiety about this election? What
would be your answer?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Because they've been told by many politicians or I don't
know how long it's been, but quite a while that
if their team doesn't win, that's it. It's over, baby.
See ya Sayonara, Well it was fun while it lasted.
I guess we might as well call ourselves South Canada
now because America's done. That's what they've been told.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
You might want to check the punctuation on that before
it gets graded by a professional, But Southern Canada, well
just not that that works. But anyway, you're right, it's
a lot of the other guys. When the world, as
you know it is changing. To my Democrat friends who
listen to this show. I know that we can't tell
(01:25):
the future, but we do know history, and I don't
remember the world ending as we knew it from twenty
sixteen to twenty twenty one, when Trump was no longer inaugurated,
but twenty twenties pandemic, which no politician really had much
control over, was about as close as it got to
us feeling like, hey, we have absolutely no control over
(01:46):
our lives right now. Do you absolutely, what one hundred
percent think anybody's going to be actively seeking to have
that level of control in our country again? I know
I'm going to have people who are Republicans say yes,
I know they will, to which case I would ask them, So,
do you feel like that's gotten worse somehow? Over the
last four years Democrats held the Senate, they held the House,
(02:09):
they held the presidency for the first two years the
Biden administration. If we weren't a communist country coming out
of that thing, then who's to say that we're going
to be? This is the thing that I think of.
I've already voted, so I can say this. I have
already done my part, and I talked to people who
want to talk about politics. It's part of my job. Obviously,
(02:31):
but like in a private matter, somebody wants to talk
a little bit about politics, we can. I generally try
not to.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
I talk about it enough at work.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
It's not really something that my wife and I, you know,
get drinks over, you know what. It's good to care,
but it's unhealthy to be very scared about an election
to the point where Jade Vance, who is the vice
presidential running mate, a guy for Donald Trump on the
(03:01):
Republican side. He's the kind of guy that I've been
very cold on until the last month or so. When
he was first given the keys to that job, I
felt like it was a missed opportunity to grow In
other ways, I felt like I personally felt like he
was losing Donald Trump's support based on some of the
stuff that he was saying, some of the memes that
(03:23):
were being created around stuff that Jade Vance was saying.
By the time we got to the vice presidential debate, though,
he seemed more polished, he seemed ready to go. He
seemed civil, and that was a good change up for me.
Now I'm mentioning this because this is something jd Vance
has been thinking about too. For a guy who has
been in the throes of it for I mean since
(03:43):
July when he was given the vice presidential nominee. I
want to play a thing that jd Vance said at
the end of last week. I will play that coming
up next just for clarification purposes. This is something I
think we all could listen to stick around for that
coming up next on news Radio eleven teen KFAB.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Emery's songer sharing It with Someone You on news Radio
eleven ten KFAB.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Last week on Thursday night, jd Vance did a town
hall essentially on News Nation, which is a news channel.
The News Nation is an interesting news channel. I don't
mind watching that too much. They have people from both
sides of the aisle. They have kind of an odd
couple that talk to each other at least a couple
times a week. Chris Cuomo, remember him from CNN? Who
(04:32):
is you know? Him? And his brother Andrew was the
governor of New York and then his brother got in
all this trouble and then Chris lost his TV job
and all this stuff and coming out of COVID, I
was just like, man, that's a that was quite a
fall from grace.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Well.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Chris Cuomo landed his own primetime show on News Nation
and twice a week. You'll never guess who he talks to.
Bill O'Reilly. Oh really, they have like a couple of
segments they do together. It's pretty interesting. So, I mean, like,
I don't mind. New Nation is like a kind of
a change up of some of the other mainstream news
that you're going to see. Well, they did a town
(05:06):
hall with jd Vance last Thursday. Jadvance was basically talked
about or asked specifically about relationship with people that you
disagree with politically, because we've made a big deal out
of that. Right, Well, I'm just going to play this
in full just under two minutes.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
This is jd.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Vance on the discourse of politics in our country leading
into this election.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Be the biggest threat to democracy is the rising tide
of censorship, the idea that we should be trying to
silence our fellow Americans rather than persuade them and talk
to them.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
That's always going to that's always going.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
To lead to people being pissed off because they don't
like to be told what to think or what to say.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
They like to talk to one another.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
And that's one thing that I'll always commit to, as
you know, your Vice president for the next four years,
I'll always try to talk to people. We'll go out
there and we'll do events with people who disagree with us.
We'll answer questions from people who don't always see eye
to eye. But I think if we at the tone
at the top, the leadership of this country is all
about communicating with one another. I think that's how we
start to heal the divide. But we all have a
(06:08):
role in it. And one final point I'll say about this,
and you know, don't get too personal all the time,
but you know, one of the things I've seen, especially
from you know, some of my my wife's friends and
some of my friends, is that they disagree with us
on politics. Sometimes they'll get very personal about it. And
if you're discarding a lifelong friendship because somebody votes for
(06:29):
the other team, then you've made a terrible, terrible mistake
and you should do something different, like don't don't has
to die. Like most of my family obviously is going
to vote for you know, Donald Trump and JD. Vance
and if they they they're not actually I need to
talk to them. But but I've got friends who like
me personally, acquaintances who aren't necessarily going to vote for me.
(06:52):
That doesn't make them bad people, and you can't. We can't.
This is my most important advice. Whether you vote for me,
whether you vote for for for Donald Trump, whether you
vote for Kamala Harris, don't cast aside family members in
lifelong friendships. Politics is not worth it. And I think
we followed that principle Wihill of the divide in this country.
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Do we even need to say anything else in that
or does that pretty much cover it? This is a
guy that's on the ticket straight up telling us we
need to take this a lot less seriously with one another.
You want to know where this anxiety is coming from.
It is we have been told by the media. We've
been told by the candidates themselves in a lot of ways,
Jade Vance, maybe not specifically, but the candidates on both
sides about how bad it's going to be if one
(07:34):
side of the other side wins. And I have eight
the last eight years of my life, I had Donald
Trump specifically in the White House for four of those years.
I had Joe Biden in the White House with Kamala
Harris as his VP for four years. Almost by this point,
I had a worldwide global pandemic that basically shut the
country down in the middle of all of that, and
(07:55):
I'm still here. I still went to the pumpkin patch.
I still saw a bunch of families having on and smiling.
I still saw a bunch of people enjoying wearing their
costumes out and about over the weekend at different events.
I was able to hang out with my wife, I
watched some football games. Stuff may costs a little bit
more now, you might be right. I've noticed it. My
energy bills are a lot higher now than they were
(08:15):
five years ago. I get it. I understand where we
might be with illegal immigration, or what we think might
happen overseas with a potential global conflict. Who knows, there's
a lot of hostilities in the Middle East that would
lead a lot of people to feel pretty anxious about
what might be happening next. But you know what I'm
not gonna do. I'm not going to go to bed
(08:36):
on November fourth dreading waking up on November fifth. I'm
not going to watch television and listen to the KFA
BE coverage throughout the evening on November fifth and have
tear drops in my eyes if I'm hearing that one
of the races that I wanted to see a certain
person win. It's not going my way that night. It
will not put tears in my eyes. I'm going to
(08:58):
do the best that I can with the control that
I I have as a citizen of Omaha, citizen of
Douglas County, a citizen of Nebraska, citizen of the United
States of America, to do the best that I can
for what I think is right. I will not demean
the people that disagree with me, and I'm not going
to throw a pop in bottles party with the people
(09:18):
that agree with me. I just want my friends to
be my friends. My acquaintance is to be my acquaintance,
is my family to be my family, and feel like
no matter what happens on November fifth, and we wake
up on November sixth, in our country, you know we
have all these things that are happening. I want us
to feel like we're still living in the best country
in the world, because I truly believe that. And how
(09:39):
jd Vance talked about this, I mean the quote specifically,
don't cast aside family members in lifelong friendships. Politics is
not worth it. And I think we follow that principle.
We'll heal the divide in this country, so we heal
that divide. You want to know what I think, Matt,
You know what I think happens, what that anxiety level
among Americans goes way down. There's not that visceral us
(10:01):
versus them. You know how much anxiety? I felt a
lot less? Seriously, But when Jade and Daniels threw that
hail Mary pass against the Chicago Bears, my favorite teamlet yesterday. Yeah,
I mean for a solid, you know, like five minutes
of football, I was, I was nervous. I was feeling it.
Nebraska fans probably know what this feels like. When the
Huskers were down less than a touchdown in the fourth quarter,
(10:23):
had the ball, I think you got the throats beaten
pretty right right. We survived the end of those football
games because of football games.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Politics actually does affect our lives. But when a guy
who's in politics and a guy who seemingly understands politics,
I know he's new to him, but he's he's seeing
them from the inside now, and he's telling you politics
is not worth it to get this worked up about
people who disagree with you. That means something to me.
(10:50):
So I took inventory over the weekend that I'm making
a I'm making a pledge to myself. I'm going to
enjoy every last bit of this world, this country, life
that I have. Not a darn person in the White House,
not a darn person in in Congress, no political movement,
no political party, is gonna change that for me. I'm
gonna stimulate my local economy. I'm gonna go out and about.
(11:12):
I'm gonna have fun downtown. I'm gonna watch shows, I'm
gonna go to concerts. You know what I'm gonna do.
I'm gonna vote every time if there's an election, and
I'm gonna vote for the things that are important to me.
But I'm not gonna run away and hide because things
didn't go my way. I'm gonna do my best to
make them better. Keep notes of, you know, who's doing
a good job, who's not doing a good job, and
what happens after that, Well, you could probably make an
(11:33):
educated guess. The life that we get to live, it
goes on next fault. There's gonna be a pumpkin patch
day for me. Me and my wife were gonna go
to a pumpkin patch and we're gonna have fun drinking
cider and picking out pumpkins, and seeing all the families
from ages one to ninety nine smiling and laughing and
having a great time being around each other. I'm gonna
think about that. I'm gonna think about all the stuff
(11:55):
that I still get to enjoy being an American, that
some people around the world are a lot less fortunate,
don't have those opportunities in their lives. So yeah, and
do I care about the results of the election. Absolutely,
I'm going to be glued to the radio. I'm gonna
be watching the screens, going to be online all day,
all night, and even in the day's following, and we'll
be on the radio to talk about this stuff. Am
(12:17):
I going to approach it like if things didn't go
my way in a certain race, that it's the end
of my world. I'm not gonna do that, because, like JD.
Vance said, politics is not worth it. We can still
be teammates, even if we cheer for different political parties.
We are still all Americans.
I had a good time, got a lot of steps in,
which is great. It was a beautiful day. Nice. It
got me thinking, though, why is so many people, like
why do so many people feel anxiety around this election?
And I was trying to, like, as I was prepping
(00:21):
for my shows today, if you had to like diagnose
that from like a what would be like the you're
asked to give a short answer on like an essay
in college, and the question was why do you think
a majority of Americans feel anxiety about this election? What
would be your answer?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Because they've been told by many politicians or I don't
know how long it's been, but quite a while that
if their team doesn't win, that's it. It's over, baby.
See ya Sayonara, Well it was fun while it lasted.
I guess we might as well call ourselves South Canada
now because America's done. That's what they've been told.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
You might want to check the punctuation on that before
it gets graded by a professional, But Southern Canada, well
just not that that works. But anyway, you're right, it's
a lot of the other guys. When the world, as
you know it is changing. To my Democrat friends who
listen to this show. I know that we can't tell
(01:25):
the future, but we do know history, and I don't
remember the world ending as we knew it from twenty
sixteen to twenty twenty one, when Trump was no longer inaugurated,
but twenty twenties pandemic, which no politician really had much
control over, was about as close as it got to
us feeling like, hey, we have absolutely no control over
(01:46):
our lives right now. Do you absolutely, what one hundred
percent think anybody's going to be actively seeking to have
that level of control in our country again? I know
I'm going to have people who are Republicans say yes,
I know they will, to which case I would ask them, So,
do you feel like that's gotten worse somehow? Over the
last four years Democrats held the Senate, they held the House,
(02:09):
they held the presidency for the first two years the
Biden administration. If we weren't a communist country coming out
of that thing, then who's to say that we're going
to be? This is the thing that I think of.
I've already voted, so I can say this. I have
already done my part, and I talked to people who
want to talk about politics. It's part of my job. Obviously,
(02:31):
but like in a private matter, somebody wants to talk
a little bit about politics, we can. I generally try
not to.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
I talk about it enough at work.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
It's not really something that my wife and I, you know,
get drinks over, you know what. It's good to care,
but it's unhealthy to be very scared about an election
to the point where Jade Vance, who is the vice
presidential running mate, a guy for Donald Trump on the
(03:01):
Republican side. He's the kind of guy that I've been
very cold on until the last month or so. When
he was first given the keys to that job, I
felt like it was a missed opportunity to grow In
other ways, I felt like I personally felt like he
was losing Donald Trump's support based on some of the
stuff that he was saying, some of the memes that
(03:23):
were being created around stuff that Jade Vance was saying.
By the time we got to the vice presidential debate, though,
he seemed more polished, he seemed ready to go. He
seemed civil, and that was a good change up for me.
Now I'm mentioning this because this is something jd Vance
has been thinking about too. For a guy who has
been in the throes of it for I mean since
(03:43):
July when he was given the vice presidential nominee. I
want to play a thing that jd Vance said at
the end of last week. I will play that coming
up next just for clarification purposes. This is something I
think we all could listen to stick around for that
coming up next on news Radio eleven teen KFAB.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Emery's songer sharing It with Someone You on news Radio
eleven ten KFAB.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Last week on Thursday night, jd Vance did a town
hall essentially on News Nation, which is a news channel.
The News Nation is an interesting news channel. I don't
mind watching that too much. They have people from both
sides of the aisle. They have kind of an odd
couple that talk to each other at least a couple
times a week. Chris Cuomo, remember him from CNN? Who
(04:32):
is you know? Him? And his brother Andrew was the
governor of New York and then his brother got in
all this trouble and then Chris lost his TV job
and all this stuff and coming out of COVID, I
was just like, man, that's a that was quite a
fall from grace.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Well.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Chris Cuomo landed his own primetime show on News Nation
and twice a week. You'll never guess who he talks to.
Bill O'Reilly. Oh really, they have like a couple of
segments they do together. It's pretty interesting. So, I mean, like,
I don't mind. New Nation is like a kind of
a change up of some of the other mainstream news
that you're going to see. Well, they did a town
(05:06):
hall with jd Vance last Thursday. Jadvance was basically talked
about or asked specifically about relationship with people that you
disagree with politically, because we've made a big deal out
of that. Right, Well, I'm just going to play this
in full just under two minutes.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
This is jd.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Vance on the discourse of politics in our country leading
into this election.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Be the biggest threat to democracy is the rising tide
of censorship, the idea that we should be trying to
silence our fellow Americans rather than persuade them and talk
to them.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
That's always going to that's always going.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
To lead to people being pissed off because they don't
like to be told what to think or what to say.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
They like to talk to one another.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
And that's one thing that I'll always commit to, as
you know, your Vice president for the next four years,
I'll always try to talk to people. We'll go out
there and we'll do events with people who disagree with us.
We'll answer questions from people who don't always see eye
to eye. But I think if we at the tone
at the top, the leadership of this country is all
about communicating with one another. I think that's how we
start to heal the divide. But we all have a
(06:08):
role in it. And one final point I'll say about this,
and you know, don't get too personal all the time,
but you know, one of the things I've seen, especially
from you know, some of my my wife's friends and
some of my friends, is that they disagree with us
on politics. Sometimes they'll get very personal about it. And
if you're discarding a lifelong friendship because somebody votes for
(06:29):
the other team, then you've made a terrible, terrible mistake
and you should do something different, like don't don't has
to die. Like most of my family obviously is going
to vote for you know, Donald Trump and JD. Vance
and if they they they're not actually I need to
talk to them. But but I've got friends who like
me personally, acquaintances who aren't necessarily going to vote for me.
(06:52):
That doesn't make them bad people, and you can't. We can't.
This is my most important advice. Whether you vote for me,
whether you vote for for for Donald Trump, whether you
vote for Kamala Harris, don't cast aside family members in
lifelong friendships. Politics is not worth it. And I think
we followed that principle Wihill of the divide in this country.
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Do we even need to say anything else in that
or does that pretty much cover it? This is a
guy that's on the ticket straight up telling us we
need to take this a lot less seriously with one another.
You want to know where this anxiety is coming from.
It is we have been told by the media. We've
been told by the candidates themselves in a lot of ways,
Jade Vance, maybe not specifically, but the candidates on both
sides about how bad it's going to be if one
(07:34):
side of the other side wins. And I have eight
the last eight years of my life, I had Donald
Trump specifically in the White House for four of those years.
I had Joe Biden in the White House with Kamala
Harris as his VP for four years. Almost by this point,
I had a worldwide global pandemic that basically shut the
country down in the middle of all of that, and
(07:55):
I'm still here. I still went to the pumpkin patch.
I still saw a bunch of families having on and smiling.
I still saw a bunch of people enjoying wearing their
costumes out and about over the weekend at different events.
I was able to hang out with my wife, I
watched some football games. Stuff may costs a little bit
more now, you might be right. I've noticed it. My
energy bills are a lot higher now than they were
(08:15):
five years ago. I get it. I understand where we
might be with illegal immigration, or what we think might
happen overseas with a potential global conflict. Who knows, there's
a lot of hostilities in the Middle East that would
lead a lot of people to feel pretty anxious about
what might be happening next. But you know what I'm
not gonna do. I'm not going to go to bed
(08:36):
on November fourth dreading waking up on November fifth. I'm
not going to watch television and listen to the KFA
BE coverage throughout the evening on November fifth and have
tear drops in my eyes if I'm hearing that one
of the races that I wanted to see a certain
person win. It's not going my way that night. It
will not put tears in my eyes. I'm going to
(08:58):
do the best that I can with the control that
I I have as a citizen of Omaha, citizen of
Douglas County, a citizen of Nebraska, citizen of the United
States of America, to do the best that I can
for what I think is right. I will not demean
the people that disagree with me, and I'm not going
to throw a pop in bottles party with the people
(09:18):
that agree with me. I just want my friends to
be my friends. My acquaintance is to be my acquaintance,
is my family to be my family, and feel like
no matter what happens on November fifth, and we wake
up on November sixth, in our country, you know we
have all these things that are happening. I want us
to feel like we're still living in the best country
in the world, because I truly believe that. And how
(09:39):
jd Vance talked about this, I mean the quote specifically,
don't cast aside family members in lifelong friendships. Politics is
not worth it. And I think we follow that principle.
We'll heal the divide in this country, so we heal
that divide. You want to know what I think, Matt,
You know what I think happens, what that anxiety level
among Americans goes way down. There's not that visceral us
(10:01):
versus them. You know how much anxiety? I felt a
lot less? Seriously, But when Jade and Daniels threw that
hail Mary pass against the Chicago Bears, my favorite teamlet yesterday. Yeah,
I mean for a solid, you know, like five minutes
of football, I was, I was nervous. I was feeling it.
Nebraska fans probably know what this feels like. When the
Huskers were down less than a touchdown in the fourth quarter,
(10:23):
had the ball, I think you got the throats beaten
pretty right right. We survived the end of those football
games because of football games.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Politics actually does affect our lives. But when a guy
who's in politics and a guy who seemingly understands politics,
I know he's new to him, but he's he's seeing
them from the inside now, and he's telling you politics
is not worth it to get this worked up about
people who disagree with you. That means something to me.
(10:50):
So I took inventory over the weekend that I'm making
a I'm making a pledge to myself. I'm going to
enjoy every last bit of this world, this country, life
that I have. Not a darn person in the White House,
not a darn person in in Congress, no political movement,
no political party, is gonna change that for me. I'm
gonna stimulate my local economy. I'm gonna go out and about.
(11:12):
I'm gonna have fun downtown. I'm gonna watch shows, I'm
gonna go to concerts. You know what I'm gonna do.
I'm gonna vote every time if there's an election, and
I'm gonna vote for the things that are important to me.
But I'm not gonna run away and hide because things
didn't go my way. I'm gonna do my best to
make them better. Keep notes of, you know, who's doing
a good job, who's not doing a good job, and
what happens after that, Well, you could probably make an
(11:33):
educated guess. The life that we get to live, it
goes on next fault. There's gonna be a pumpkin patch
day for me. Me and my wife were gonna go
to a pumpkin patch and we're gonna have fun drinking
cider and picking out pumpkins, and seeing all the families
from ages one to ninety nine smiling and laughing and
having a great time being around each other. I'm gonna
think about that. I'm gonna think about all the stuff
(11:55):
that I still get to enjoy being an American, that
some people around the world are a lot less fortunate,
don't have those opportunities in their lives. So yeah, and
do I care about the results of the election. Absolutely,
I'm going to be glued to the radio. I'm gonna
be watching the screens, going to be online all day,
all night, and even in the day's following, and we'll
be on the radio to talk about this stuff. Am
(12:17):
I going to approach it like if things didn't go
my way in a certain race, that it's the end
of my world. I'm not gonna do that, because, like JD.
Vance said, politics is not worth it. We can still
be teammates, even if we cheer for different political parties.
We are still all Americans.
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