September 6, 2024 • 59 mins
I think this could be Episode 781 of a series with that title. Here's the latest reason why, followed by -- among many other things -- a live performance by Jimmy Weber before this month's fundraising event for Warhawk PTSD Service Dogs.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott Vordies. Yesterday or a couple of days ago, I
posted something on Facebook, Lucy, and it has been derided
as hateful and misinformation, vile and crude, with a tinge
of sexual obsession attached to it. And I thought, is
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that the bucket of ice that I posted? It's not
the bucket of ice picture and all the story about
all of that. I think it's this post. Now here's
what I wrote. There's a new indicator of whether a
house welcomes swingers. Pineapples are out now. It's a white
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sign with a blue circle. You'll find them mostly in
midtown Omaha. Now apparently there are some actually on a
Facebook page devoted to those who are full of blue
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dot energy bde yes, I know what else that stands for.
I'm the one obsessed with sex. There's a Facebook page
devoted to those with blue dot energy who say that
the sign with the white background in the blue circle
does not mean an invitation to stop by and request
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to swing. Instead, it has to do with Nebraska Second District,
Omaha area being a blue dot against a red conservative
canvas that we paint here in the Electoral College of Nebraska.
I'm happy to get this information. So people have said,
you need to clarify this post, clear up the misinformation,
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you need to apologize for it, and then you need
to quit and throw yourself on a hand or.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Sword, short sword, long sword.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
I don't have a sword. Oh well, I'm not allowed
to do that. I'm not allowed to bring weapons into
the studio. Step to course for Jack Johnson and Thomas
O'Leary here. So all right, clarify. There's a new indicator
of whether a house welcome swingers. Pineapples are out now,
it's a white sign with the blue circle. You'll find
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them mostly in midtown Omaha. I think the clarification begins
with whether or not pineapples are in or out. There
are those who say that an upside down pineapple displayed
near the front door is a wink wink, nudge, nudge
nod to those who you know to say, hey, we
have a certain lifestyle here in this home. Stop by
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and have a chat with us, and let's see where
it goes. As here's your eighties movie reference, Dot and
I are swingers in to swing. There's your eighties movie
reference for this segment of the radio program Ghostbusters Raising Arizona.
Mind you don't cut yourself there, Mordecai.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
I'm gonna put it on my list.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
You what never seen? Raisin Arizona I have. That's what
I need to do. Raisin Arizona two I have.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
But I need to put it on my list of
frequently used movies.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Yeah. Now, the baby from Raising Arizona, who would be
nearly forty now is you know, has a grandma and
grandpa there Holly Hunter and Nicholas Cage, and we could go.
We could do that. We could do that. So I
tell you my other idea for a good movie update
a new parenthood movie where the Buckman kids are now
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old like our age and doing all the stuff the
Steve Martin, Rick Moranis, and Mary stem Virgin and the
rest of the cast was dealing with at that time.
You could update it with what parents go through today,
and you could have Steve Martin and Rick Moranis as
the grandparents. This is a great idea. Rick Moranis doesn't
want to do movies anymore, but I'll talk him into it.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Well, I was thinking about that before you even brought
up the parenthood thing. If you did, if you redid
Raising Arizona and had Arizona as the adult. Now, now
she could be taking care of Nicholas.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Cage he as a baby.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Well, I did see it.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
I just didn't remember we had a baby. Now high
everything's changed. I'll be taking these huggies whenever cash you got.
Don't sidetrack me. I'm trying to clarify and apologize. So
the first clarification is whether or not pineapples signify anything
related to swinging, and whether they're in or out. Admittedly
I don't know. Remind me to come back to that though.
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In fact, I'm gonna write this down because I'll forget
pine apples all right. So first clarification as to whether
a pineapple decoration either upside down or right side up
is a clarification or is a is an indication or
a request or a wink wink, nudge nudge. I don't
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know that. Now. The white sign with the blue circle,
this is where I have to admit my misinformation in
the post. I do admit I knew when I posted
that it had to do with the blue dot, Nebraska
second district potentially going blue for Tony Vargas and a
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bigger electoral college picture. Kamala Harris I also admit that
I knew that it didn't mean it was an invitation
for swingers when I posted that. This is what is
known in some circles as a joke. And I'm starting
to look at some of my other Facebook posts to
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see what else I need to clarify is a joke.
In fact, I don't have to go back any further
than last weekend, when after Nebraska beach utep I said, clearly,
we're the best team in college football this year. The
question is will this go down as one of the
greatest college football teams of all time? I have to
clarify on this one too. I admit I didn't firmly
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believe either of those things yet now I'm willing to
believe and keep watching. I'll be glued to the TV
set if I can't get in the stadium for tomorrow
night's Nebraska game against Colorado. I may have posted it
in that phrase just to tweak the haters as again
a playful joke meant to elicit a Hey, what do
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you think you think you're funny? You know, no, I
don't think I'm funny. Sometimes I think I'm mildly amusing
at best. But it's been a long time since I
think I said anything that came along those lines. Is
there any other posts I need to clarify going back overay?
So we'll just go those two examples. See those are
those are? There are pieces of men's information that I
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clearly put out there knowing what I said was a
bald face lie, and for that for those of all
political persuasions. And I say that because I know there
was some conservative people who took that very seriously. There
was one young woman on there who posted a screed
as to how dangerous was in terms of swinging, not
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just for one's relationship and marriage, but also the spread
of sexually transmitted diseases, and she was very very serious
about all of this. I chose to ignore that comment.
And then there are those who are more liberal leaning
who either thought that I was being serious and thought
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I was inviting people to stop by their houses to
request to swing with them, or they knew it was
an attempt at humor. And they've made this very clear
to me, in no uncertainty that they don't think I'm funny,
and I appreciate them letting me know so, because there
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have been dozens and dozens of people if not hundreds
of people online both on Facebook and on Twitter x
who have had to call out my unfunny misinformation post.
They have taken time out of what I'm sure is
a very busy schedule to tell me and tell the
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world that I'm not funny, and number two not telling
the truth about this, And because I'm sure they were
taking time away from their busy lives, I apologize for
taking their time. Honestly, do we have so many more
things to keep us busy in life? We don't have
time to be fighting each other online now. I spent
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after I watched Beetlejuice Beetlejuice last night, came back and
watched the second half of the Chiefs Ravens game. Great game.
There's a political tinge to this story as well. We'll
get to that here in a moment. I didn't forget
about pineapples either. This is still the same thought. But
I spent most of the fourth quarter just going through
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on that Blue Dot Facebook page, just replying to people.
Example of the replies, I didn't post anything like hey man,
so's your face or you know, or you know up yours?
Speaker 3 (09:26):
You know.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
I didn't do any of that. An example of the
tone of my replies is I think best exemplified by
a woman who said kfab lies and spreads misinformation all day,
and I said, we're also on at night. And then
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someone else who had expressed displeasure with me earlier in
the string, admitted that my comment there was funny. She
still vehemently dis agrees with me on everything, which is amazing.
I don't know that she's heard my thoughts on everything,
but be that as it may, she's still let me
know she disagrees with everything I stand for, but she
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thought my comment was funny. I'll take the win where
I can get them. And then some people are like,
how did Scott Vorhees get on this post? And I
thought about replying your mom invited me, but see that's
the kind of thing I didn't post on there. So
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I spent some time last night just replying to people,
just trying to be lighthearted, because I'm kind of a
unicorn in this whole political spectrum right now. It's a
very anxiety riddled and very passionately charged political campaign here.
I don't know if you've noticed, both sides apparently hate
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each other's guts and they think the other side should
be completely silenced. Now over here, I'm on a conservative
talk radio station. I understand how we get pigeonholed no
matter what I say, what I believe, or how I
espouse my views. Again, my overriding thoughts on everything is,
I honestly don't care for whom you vote. I care
how you treat people who vote differently than you. I
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honestly believe that. Well, then how can you post something
like this swinger's post? Because because I thought it was funny,
I did that bit on the show the other day.
I got some great feedback in the inbox. I thought
I'll post something on Facebook, and I knew that some
people would not think it was funny, which is fine.
I don't need them to think I'm funny. So I
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still believe that it would be absolutely awful to silence
the other side. Now you have passionate discourse about how
we should deal with various things political disagreements we have
related to tax policy or border control, foreign policy, or
military fully funding lawn enforcement and giving figures an authority
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the opportunity to do something meaningful when it comes to punishment,
and supporting parents when they try and do the same thing.
There are different ways we can argue these things, but
I don't take them personally, and I'm not interested in
silencing the other side. The post I was doing on
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that very blue Facebook page here in Omaha last night
was giving me incredible joy. I love people with different
opinions than I have. As I've said, when I met
this girl I'm now married to, she had just got
done working like volunteering for Ralph Nader's presidential campaign in Lawrence, Kansas.
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It doesn't get more progressively liberal than that, which brings
me to my wife. Because when it was first brought
to my attention last night that we got out of
this movie finally saw the Beetlejuice sequel, I'm all amped up,
gotta go home and watch the Chiefs game. Got a
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Husker weekend here. I'm feeling good. And then I was
giving a heads up that there are a lot of
people on Facebook who hate my guts, and I was like, Ah,
that's never any fun when that happens. But you know,
I got a weird job. Let's see what's going on.
And I was reading all this stuff, and so I
was staring at my phone, which I really try not
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to do at night, unless I'm doing the wordle and
then my wife says, what's the problem And I said, well,
I posted the thing about the She's like, what did
you say? I said, well, what I said was there's
a new indicator of whether a house welcome swingers. Pineapples
are out now. It's a white sign with the blue circle.
You find them mostly in midtown Oma. And she said,
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what's the pineapple thing? I said, Oh, there's always been
this joke that you put a pineapple out by your
front door and it's a kind of a signal to
others that you, as a couple are interested in having
fun with other couples. And she said a pineapple, I said, yeah,
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or like a little like a pineapple statue or something.
She said, Scott, have you ever looked outside of our
front door?
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Like?
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Yeah, she says, what is as you're walking up to
our front door, what's just to the left over there? Like,
don't you have a plant over there? She says, yeah,
there's a plant, And then there's something else like we
got it. I forget if we got it from my
grandma or if it was something she picked I don't,
I don't remember. But it was coming into picture as
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she was saying it, and what it is is like
a little lantern. You put a candle or you put
a lantern inside. And the shape of this encasing for
a lantern is a pineapple right outside my front door.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
It's okay as long as it's upright.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
That's what I said. I said, well, I think it
has to be upside that. My wife said, are you
telling me we have I said, I I wonder why
the neighbors always stayed away from our block party invitations.
We are going to have some music on this radio
program and on a Facebook live stream in about an
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hour from now. Jimmy Weber is coming in here. The
Great the Chords for Canine event is two weeks from
last night, so Thursday, September nineteenth, Benson Theater. This is
a fundraiser for the Warhawks PTSD Service Dogs organization, and
we'll have Kevin from Warhawks in here to tell the
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story about what they're all about, and local singer, songwriter,
male model Jimmy Weber is going to be in the
studio to sing. When we did this a year ago,
I don't remember if it was on the air or
just on the Facebook stream, but I sang a song
with him, and it has been requested that I never
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do that again.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
So we'll remember that.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
We'll see. Yeah, we sang the uh. We sang the
Hippie Chick song, which is one of his his original songs,
and he was surprised, not as much as I was,
that I knew the lyrics to his song. It's one
of my favorite songs. In fact, if I may, and
let me check, I may, Okay, So if I may,
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the Hippie Chick song honestly goes along with what I
was talking about earlier about you know, people in this
certain Facebook page who have already figured out everything about
me without knowing me or ever listening to this radio show,
just have already determined who I am, what I'm all about,
what I think about everything, and that I'm a vile,
disgusting pig. I'm not saying they're completely wrong, but I
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would much rather live the Hippie Chick song that engage
in the battle of who can yell I'm right, you're
wrong louder than the other side. See cause I'm an adult,
and I realized that looking at how the political winds
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swing around in this country, don't say swing all right, okay,
you're right, based on what we talked about earlier, that's bad.
Based on how the political winds blow in this country,
the pendulum rocks back and forth. I realized that sometimes
the country is like, hey, we think this, and sometimes
the same country is like, we also think that. Sometimes
it's all on the same night. I give you Election
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night twenty sixteen, when America woke up absolutely hung over
the next morning, going, man, I was so out of
it last night, what did I do? They're like, oh, America,
you were freaking crazy, dude. You voted for Trump as
the President of the United States, but you kept a
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Democratic majority in the House with Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Dude,
it was it was insane. You were all over the place.
America's like, oh my god, I know that was crazy. Like, so,
I understand, at no point is everyone going to be
on the same page about anything. And you know what,
since I can't do anything about it, you just choose
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to enjoy it, revel in it, not take it personally.
You fight for your side, but it's got to be fair,
reasonable discourse, and if someone wants to be a true
douche hole, then you know, you just deal with that accordingly.
But no, point. Am I going to fight this useless
battle of yelling I'm right, you're wrong louder than the
other side. Which brings me back to Jimmy Weber's song.
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He wrote a song called the Hippie Chick Song, and
I don't think that's the actual title of the song.
He can correct me in an hour. But it has
to do with a man with strong conservative roots who
fell in love with a progressive liberal, green peace tree hugging,
granola chewing hippie chick and they roll their eyes at
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each other. They have a great time and they're totally
in love. I'm all about it, dude. Now, Chiefs game
last night, Lucy Crazy game. I'm sure you stayed awake
and hung on every last second of that game. What
a win for Kansas City over the Baltimore Ravens. I
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thought that touchdown was good and then they looked at
us like, ah, he was towing the line like that
early eighties song Forget toeing the line song.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Oh you mean the Tommy shn No, No, it's a
oh Tommy James boy.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
If I bust out the name of the guy who
sang Rocky Burdette, I think sang a song called tied
to toe in the line. There is a really good beat.
It sounded just like that anyway line was on, his
line was on the foot, his toe was on the line,
and the referees said no touchdown. Game's over and Arrowhead
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Stadium in Kansas City went yay, and then they all,
you know, went off into the night. It was it
was great, great way to start the season. But we
have controversy, and it's not just about whether or not
the receiver was in or out of bounds in the
back of that end zone. It has to do with
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who was in what skybox at the stadium last night
in Kansas City. Some of you may have heard last year,
but there's a a singer songwriter named I think is
Tyler Swift.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
I think you're close, but I think it's Tyler Smooth.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Tyler Smooth. No, wait, I have the story. Oh Taylor Swift,
we got closed. Oh okay, I've heard of her. So
there's a singer songwriter named Taylor Swift and apparently she's
dating a member of the Kansas City Chiefs. He's none
other than tight end Travis Kelcey. Again, maybe you just
only heard this news. It got a little bit of
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attention last year. Yes, I'm being sarcastic. So Taylor Swift
would go to all of these games, home and away games,
and she'd always be up there, and the cameras would
always show, like Jim Nance on CBS go, there's Taylor
Swift supporting her man another Chiefs touchdown, and she's up
there hugging and being real expressive, and she's hanging out
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with Patrick Mahomes' wife, Britney Mahomes. This was all last season.
These guys were chummy, chummy, best buds. But something happened
since the Chiefs won another Super Bowl and now we
started off another NFL season. It was an instagram like
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Trump or the Trump campaign on Instagram had their outline
of the twenty twenty four GOP platform, having to do
with border security and jobs and bringing down inflation and
projecting a strong image not just for our allies but
against our enemies around the world. And amazingly, it didn't
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say anything about Project twenty twenty five whatever. Anyway, Trump's
Instagram post outline the twenty twenty four GOP platform and
this twenty nine year old wife and mother, Britney Mahomes,
wife of Patrick Mahomes liked the post. Now what you
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can't do that? Yeah, In case you're wondering, like, if
you like a post, are there only seventeen people that
like a post? There's got to be hundreds of thousands,
if not million, Yes, there are, so one would not
necessarily have to scroll through all of those who liked
it to try and find someone they can out. But
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I wouldn't put that past them to put in that
kind of effort. But I think if you're already connected
to someone on Instagram, occasionally it pops up like this
person like this, that person liked this, And I think
that's how someone noticed that Brittany Mahomes liked Trump's Instagram post,
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and the Internet just went, well, you know, that's her business,
wouldn't that be?
Speaker 5 (23:42):
Now?
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Of course, not firestorm of backlash. She shouldn't be allowed
to like that. Patrick Mahomes needs to be fired by
the Kansas City Chiefs. He's not that good at quarterback anyway.
And then it quickly turned into you've been hanging out
with our queen. You've been hanging out with Taylor Swift.
Taylor Swift has stood up for a couple but a
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few you know here and there democratic causes, though she
has yet to fully endorse anyone in this campaign, who
do you think she's gonna endorse? And by the way,
if Taylor Swift comes out today and she's welcome to
call in, well, I'd love to talk with her. Her
song Breathless a cover of the better than Ezra's song.
It's one of my favorite songs and I think I
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might even like it better than Kevin a better than
Ezra's version of it. Don't tell Kevin. I said that
the nineteen eighty nine album Solid Start to finish Solid album.
So if Taylor Swift wanted to call in, we can
talk music, and then she could say, by the way,
I wanted everyone to know I support Kamala Harris and
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her ambitions to be the next president of the United States.
We would gasp and I never saw that coming. Well,
thanks a lot for the call, Taylor, Tyler, Taylor, have
a great weekend, and then you know, go chiefs. I
don't know that anyone who's inclined to vote for Trump
is suddenly going to be like, well, I just I
only just heard Taylor Swift supports Kamala Harris for president.
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I think I'll vote for her. You know, I support Taylor.
Maybe I don't know. She's got a lot of influence,
but I think most of the people are already and
have inclined in a certain demographic direction in terms of
the political persuasions. But multiple fan pages dedicated to Taylor
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Swift demanded that she stopped hanging out with Britney Mahomes
Patrick Mahomes's wife, now Britney Mahomes. Shortly after she liked
Trump's Instagram post, responded to the criticism on her Instagram
and said, quote, I mean, honestly, to be a hater
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as an adult, you have to have some deep rooted
issues you refuse to heal from childhood. There's no reason
your brain is fully developed and you hate to see
others doing well unquote, which is kind of an unusual
way of putting it, and as has been my experience
as well, telling the haters they're not allowed to hate
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you because they're acting like children does not cause any
one of them to say, you know what, You're right,
And I'm glad someone was man enough to put it
to me like that. Thank you very much for showing
me the light. I feel better about every It turns
out that they don't end up seeing things your way.
So she posted another message and here's what she said.
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She said and I quote, contrary to the tone of
the world today, you can disagree with someone and still
love them. You can have differing views and still be kind.
Read that again, unquote. So I don't know whether Taylor
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Swift and Patrick Mahomes's wife Brittany have had any conversations
of a political nature. I don't know what those text
strings look like. I am no longer on those text strings.
I muted them. There were just so many back and forth.
I'm like, girls, I'm trying to watch the super Bowl, please,
and Taylor's sending me sexy pictures. I'm like, I'm married.
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I know the pineapple is out front. I'm totally mistaken
as to what this is all about. It doesn't mean
what you think I mean, but please. So I don't
know if these two women have discussed any of this.
And I don't know. Maybe it was purely coincidence, but
it was noted by several people that for last night's
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Chiefs Game, these two girls that used to be arm
in arm, jumping up and down, cheering, all excited. We're
not sitting next to each other. They were not in
the same luxury suites either. Taylor was over here. I
think she was with Travis Kelsey's mama, and Brittany Mahomes
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was over there totally different suite, adding further fuel to
this fire. You know, he couldn't help himself. President Trump
weighed in on this. He said, quote, I want to
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thank the beautiful Brittany Mahomes for so strongly defending me
and the fact that MAGA is the greatest and most
powerful political movement in the history of our now failing country.
With crime and illegal immigration totally out of control, inflation
ravaging all Americans, and a world that is laughing at
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this stupidity of our hapless leaders. It's nice to see
someone who loves our country and wants to save it
from doom. Great couple, See you both at the Super Bowl.
Unquote They've asked Patrick Mahomes, do you want to say
He said, no, no, I don't do you support again nothing.
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I'm not gonna say a word about it. I will
talk about our next opponent. How things look in the
AFC West for us this year, our ambitions to get
back and try and go for three, as far as
all the political stuff. I'm good I have as far
as you're concerned, zero opinions on the matter, which is
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some might say cowardly, some might say refreshing. I think
he's focused on an NFL season ahead. Jim email Scott
at kfab dot com with a picture of Bruno, Bruno
Kirby's character from one of the greatest movies ever, Good
Morning Vietnam, saying in my heart, I know I'm funny.
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Relation to what I was talking about earlier in the
program with my Facebook post that some people didn't like
involving swingers, only says my grandson loves to swing. I
think that's different, And Sarah says Scott, others might find
you horrible, but you make me laugh every show. Don't
change a thing, and your personal pineapple story is now
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my favorite. Thank you, Sarah. I don't want to talk
about this because it sounds judgmental and hateful. Well, I
guess I have to now, all right. The only thing
on this is I'm one of these crazy lunatics who
when there's a situation like we had in Omaha the
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other day, he had a guy who has such a
bad criminal history drugs, firearms, gang activity that the Omaha
Police Department said we need to get him, and we're
going to use the no knock search warrant to be
able to enter his home and get him. They did
it at a time when they were reasonably assured apparently
that he was in the home alone. That way, if
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things got really bad, then it would be okay. Now
people hear no knock warrant and they think cops just
go in there shooting. We know what happened to Breonna
Taylor in Memphis, and now we know what happened to
Cameron Ford here in Omaha. The cops just use this
as an executioner's tale to be able to go in
there and freely kill whoever they want and say, well,
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you know he didn't surrender, so I killed him. Now
I understand, I honestly, this isn't me being glib. I
understand where people might think that. You think about how
would you react if suddenly you have people coming through
the door and windows like in some movie, you know,
guys coming down the chimney and all the rest of
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this stuff, and they're youlling, please get on the floor,
show me your hands. You know, all this stuff, and
you have to split second think Are these the cops
or are these rival gang members? Or are these the
neighbor kids playing a trick? Tony? Is that you know
you're got all these competing thoughts like do I need
to defend myself? Do I run? What do I do?
In in a split second, suddenly you get shot because
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you haven't already complied. And people think that's what happens
in these scenarios. Here's the reality of it. The Omaha
police officer, Adam Vale is his name, who I think
is still on leave. There's still some investigation going on here.
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But yesterday Douglas County Attorney Don Klein deemed that Officer
Veil's use of force in this instance was legal. Therefore
he was not going to press charges people who already
hate cops. In fact, one of the groups that spoke
out against this is literally named ftp Omaha, and they say, oh,
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it means for the people with a wink and a nod.
I know what it means. We all know what it means.
You know what it means than the last two words
are the police. I have that album too. So they're all,
of course really upset about this, and they think that
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this officer should be charged with murder and all the
rest of the stuff. All right, So let's say let's
look at this officer. This guy not only in this instance,
knew that the danger that this man presented was an eighty.
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I don't know if one hundred is the top of
the scale and you think eighty doesn't sound that bad.
It's like a bus as we talked about the other day,
when Omaha police when determining whether or not there's going
to be a warrant for your arrest, they determine a
threat level assessment, and if you score a twenty five,
that's where they get the swat team involved. This guy
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scored an eighty. That's a lot higher twenty five. I'll
do the math for the recent public school graduates. So
he's got a lengthy criminal history firearms, gang activity, drugs.
The search warrant was for firearms and drugs in his home,
which he wasn't supposed to have, by the way. In
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his home they found firearms and drugs, including eight hundred
and sixteen fentanyl pills, as well as forty six grams
of suspected fentanyl. I don't know how much you know
about fentanyl, but you can hear that just one little
itaty bit of it, like a little like a speck
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of salt worth of fentanyl can kill a person. How
many people's lives were saved by police going after this guy?
Now to the specific charge of cops are just going
to go in there and just murder this guy. This
particular officer led a team into the house. He had
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law enforcement members behind him as he went first into
the home, knowing he was dealing with the guy who
was a very, very dangerous threat. He went first. Is
this the first time this guy ever did this? And
he got scared saw the guy. The guy didn't immediately
show his hands, shot him. Officer Vail has done this
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the no knock search warrant kind of thing, leading teams
into homes one hundred and twenty two times. Did that
get an eyebrow raise out of anyone else?
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Now, I'm communicating silently.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
I wasn't gonna relay your emotions, but sometimes I use
Lucy's face as a barometer for how the audience might
react to things I say, So is your face? Lucy
slept through most of the first hour. It was a
bad barometer. So's your face? Yeah? I said that in
Lucy's eyebrows raised. Mine can't. Too much plastic surgery. Plus
(36:12):
the eyebrows very large, very pronounced, very heavy, can't can't
lift them, don't have the forehead muscles. But if I could,
they would have raised. When I read that too. Now
I've been scouring the interwebs looking for the one hundred
and twenty one other times when this officer went into
a house with this license to murder and just killed
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people in Omaha. And maybe I haven't. I mean, I
admittedly got sidetracked. Last night I saw the Beetlejuice movie.
I is the Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Movie the greatest movie I've
ever seen? It isn't. Did I love it anyway? I did?
I love Michael Keaton and with nota Ryder and Tim Burton.
(36:57):
Catherine O'Hara was perfect, or Tega is great. I love
the Wednesday series on Netflix. I would have loved to
have talked to Tim and said, what if we did this,
and what if instaid this? Maybe we do this, shorten this,
bring it right, But you know, no one asked. So
did I love it anyway? Absolutely? And by the way,
I'll be giving away tickets to Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice Tomorrow when
(37:20):
I'm live at Broncos one hundred and twentieth in Pacific
from eleven AM to one pm tomorrow, We're serving Buffalo Burgers.
Nebraska's playing Colorado tomorrow. Get it. So that's tomorrow morning,
eleven to one, Broncos one hundred twentieth in Pacific. Now
where was I? I got sidetracked last night? I was
trying to find the one hundred and twenty two people
(37:40):
dead from this murderous police officer. I got sidetracked by
the Beetlejuice movie. Then I was watching the Chiefs game,
and there are a bunch of people on social media
hate my guts. I was kind of having fun playing
with them. And admittedly I didn't click on every single
web page on the Internet, so maybe it's still out there.
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I don't know how to access the dark web. Someone
else is gonna have to look. But I haven't found
any evidence that this officer, who has led these no
knock search warrants one hundred and twenty two times, has
used this as an excuse to just go in there
and kill a guy or shoot a guy. So the
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regular voices that come out, and I always exclude the
family of the person who's dead. It doesn't and honestly
doesn't matter to me whether the person who's dead, whether
this is a good guy, a bad guy, a guy
deserves to be dead and we're glad he's gone. I
don't I don't assign any of that judgment to the
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reaction from the person's family. I really again, I know
I don't get the benefit of the doubt, but I
am serious here. They're allowed to say anything they want.
They just lost a family member. There's no telling what
I would say or what you would say. Anything they
say is you know, I'll allow it. But there's also
a reason why we don't let them decide the punishment
for in this case, the police officer. We have outside
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parties do that so family can say whatever they want.
Some of these community activists with organizations like FTP the
police Omaha, I already know what you're gonna say. You
want all the police officers gone. Let's see how that
works out. I'll be up in Minneapolis next weekend. I'll
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let you know so you know when you're coming out
saying this officer, you know, just use this as an
excuse to kill a guy, well, amazingly, he's never done
that before. In fact, as far as I'm concerned, if
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the Douglas County Attorney takes a look at this and
found his use of deadly force to be legal. The
police chief, touchmatr It says, looks a tough job we
have to do. We feel sorry for the family. We
would prefer things didn't happen this way. I believe him.
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But when some of these community activist voices come out
and they say things like, well, this guy who was
killed by the police, he didn't stand a chance. Now,
I know they're talking about the sudden bursting in of
law enforcement. You're in a small hallway, it's probably not
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real perfectly lit, there's a lot of confusion. Everyone's yelling.
You can't see the guy's hands. You're trying to determine
what the police. You know, even though they've yelled five times,
very loudly and clearly what they want you to do,
you're not doing it. You're still trying to figure out
what's going on. Look, I get it. In that instances,
the cops do have an advantage, don't they. Maybe it's
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why they do it that way with dangerous people, But
to say he didn't stand a chain. I know you're
talking about that moment, but what about this guy's life.
I'm sure that there are any number of things that
have happened in his life. Maybe someone wasn't there for him,
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Maybe someone provided him a path that he thought was
the easy way out. He got hooked on things, he
found an easy way to make money, dangerous way to live,
and maybe we but growing up here in America, you
can have any number of people who have had the
same cards dealt to them in life, good, bad, whatever,
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and you'll have dramatically different outcomes. You have one person
that was like, oh well I was lured by this
and I didn't have this in my life, and you know,
no one ever said this to me or whatever. You'll
find people who have that same backstory. Some of them
go on to do amazing, great things. They rise above it.
Some of them end up surrounded by drug and guns
(42:02):
and gang paraphernalia. Dead. And I don't know that you
can look in someone's history and say, well, you know,
and you grow up like this, this is bound to happen. No,
it's not. Because America affords you the opportunity and every
turn with all of the attention paid, all of the
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the opportunities, whether it's it's school, whether it's athletics that
try and get people on a better path, whether it's counselors,
whether it's programs. People. I mean, there are people standing
by right now on hotlines. If you call them up
and say I need to get out of the life
I'm in, how can you help, you will see them
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absolutely bend over backwards for your life. So to say
like he didn't stand a chance, Yeah he did. And
I hope that, you know, I'm I'm not reveling in
the fact that he's dead. What I'm hoping is others
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who are on that same path take a look at
this and go, hmm, that's a possibility of what could
happen to me in my life. I wonder if there's
anything else I can do with my life. He stood
a chance. Senator Vance, you know he's running for vice
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president with Donald Trump. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (43:28):
I've heard that something about that.
Speaker 1 (43:29):
Yeah, yeah, school shooting in Georgia the other day, and
they talked to Senator J. D. Vance about it. And
here I'll tell you what he said in a moment.
But first, here's what the Associated Press said in their headline,
headline said, quote jd Vance says school shootings are a
fact of life, calls for better security. What's the impression
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you get from that headline?
Speaker 2 (43:55):
Ah, They're just gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (43:56):
Yeah, yeah, Oh is it Tuesday? Yeah? You know, hey,
stuff happens. What do you want me to do about it? Right?
You know, the headline gives the impression that jd Vance
shrugged off the school shooting because well, you know how
they are. That's a fact of life. What do you
want me to do it? But let me tell you
(44:17):
what jd Vance said, Terry Terry just a fact of life.
You know, I don't I don't know what me to
do it. Well, it's kind of the same thing Terry
lahy Lee Terry kind of and I have the same voice.
It's always been my hope that both of them could
be in the studio have this conversation with one another here.
(44:40):
You know that that'd be good. Here's what jd Vance said, quote.
I don't like that this is a fact of life.
But if you are a psycho and you want to
make headlines, you realize that our schools are soft targets
and we have got to bolster security at our schools.
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We've got a bolster security. So if a psycho wants
to walk through the front door and kill a bunch
of children, they're not able. Unquote the Associated Press that JD.
Van said school shootings are a fact of life. After
he said that, now I know we all have our
biases and opinions, don't we Some people hide it better
than others. And when rush Limbaugh famously referred to the
(45:23):
drive by media for so many years, this is the
kind of bias he's talking about. Here's another one that
has been corrected. I don't say her name on the
radio because some of you are listening to the station
via your smart speaker, and we love it so easy
to do. Just ask her politely by name, Please play
kfab on iHeartRadio, comes right out of your schmischmecksha smart speaker.
(45:49):
But this is what's going around on social media. Earlier
this week, people asked Alexi why should I vote for
Donald Trump? And she said I don't get involved in politics.
Basically what she said, I don't have any political opinions,
And then they said, SCHMISCHMESI, no again, I can't say
(46:10):
her name of the radio. It will shut down your
speaker if you're listening to us, or it'll cause it
to pop off in the background like Eric Cartman did
in that episode of South Park A million times. They
asked her by name, LEXI, why should I vote for
Kamala Harris? And the smart speaker just lit up glowing, Oh,
Kamala Harris. Supporters say, Kamala Harris did this and this,
and she's going to do this, and she's great and
(46:31):
all this. Suddenly it had all these great reasons to
vote for Kamala Harris. And again you say, why should
I vote for Donald Trump? I don't have any political opinions. Now,
to their credit, they've fixed that, So now can I
tried it this morning? You asked your smart speaker and
it gives the same response both times you ask it,
(46:54):
why should I vote for Trump? And it tells you
why Kamala Harris is great? I'm kidding. It says I
don't have political opinions.
Speaker 2 (47:02):
So rather than fixing it to highlight some of the
good things that Trump has done, they just you're both in.
Speaker 1 (47:11):
Yeah, attention, right, But I and I think that's probably
the best way to go. All right, what are we
doing on Thursday, September nineteenth. It's an annual event here
called Cords for Canines, and it's a fundraiser for Warhawk
PTSD Service Dogs and it features that night at the
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Benson Theater none under than the Great and we'll hear
him sing first. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome local singer
songwriter Jimmy Weber.
Speaker 6 (47:41):
Thank you, my friend. I'm gonna do a song right
now that I wrote with my great friend, Handsome Jake Mayer.
We just recorded this down in Nashville. I hope you
enjoy it. Going out to Staff Sergeant Greg Wagner, Senator Scott,
Senator Thune, John Thune that he was a true son
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of the Prairie at a dedication we were both at,
and so we took that title and wrote a song
about it, Son of the Prairie.
Speaker 7 (48:22):
My heart is on fire like a ser sunrise. My
mind stretches out like a distant her horizon.
Speaker 8 (48:36):
I'm wound it soon, but I don't know why I
pull out my.
Speaker 7 (48:45):
Love till the day I die, Because I'm a song
of the Prairie from wide off legds she bading made
from God's own hands. Together, we'll walk where the sky
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never ends, and the speed red will lead us back
calm again.
Speaker 9 (49:18):
I want two be more, but I feel held back
by all that I've done and all I lack.
Speaker 1 (49:33):
There's a weed that seems right, but it's not all
always true. I wanta find redemption and share it with you.
Speaker 8 (49:47):
I'm sun on the prairie from wide off layd.
Speaker 7 (49:55):
She by the way him made from God's own hands.
Speaker 10 (50:02):
Together, who will walk where the sky nevers and the
speard we.
Speaker 3 (50:11):
Leave heed us back home again. Oh see, my people
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wander every warm on and man, just like the folks
before them, across this grasslid.
Speaker 7 (50:44):
We'll share each other's burdens, forgive each other's sins, Sons
and daughters of the prairie.
Speaker 1 (50:54):
That's all we've ever been.
Speaker 8 (50:58):
I'm a son a prairie from wide playing, She bad
win me.
Speaker 7 (51:08):
From God's own hands.
Speaker 10 (51:12):
Together, will walk wear the sky rinds and the spear
releve us Man came again.
Speaker 5 (51:30):
O.
Speaker 1 (51:43):
Beautiful, my friend. As always, I I love having you
come in here and do that. I just treat you
like my own personal jukebox, and I'll love you really
really good stuff. Let's move some microphones around here. You
can put the guitar down for a second. That is
Jimmy Weber here on news radio eleven kfab part of
the entertainment that would be provided on Thursday, September nineteenth
(52:06):
at Cords for Canines. This is for a local group
called Warhawk PTSD Service Dogs and Kevin Doncaster with Warhawk
is here and you're not alone here. Who else do
we have in the studio You can see on the
Facebook stream right now. Yeah, we got Lacey.
Speaker 4 (52:23):
She's my service dog, but we trained her to interact
with the public, so she's known as the People's service Dogs.
She got to meet everybody in the shop here.
Speaker 1 (52:31):
Tell me about your story, which leads into what this
organization is all about. Kevin, you bet you know.
Speaker 4 (52:37):
I've been blown up twice, shot in the back. I
don't like people feeling sorry about the shot, but you
know my plate caught it. But I've got a lot
of pain and I've seen a lot of horrible things.
I tell people that I've seen the worst that humanity
has to offer, and i want to be the best
that humanity has to offer.
Speaker 1 (52:52):
So you say that in such a way as some
people are like, I got it. A couple of minor
fender benders. It's not really. But you say you have
blown up twice and shot in the back in the
most nonchalant way possible. You're allowed to be a little
chalant about that. You don't have to be nonchalant.
Speaker 4 (53:08):
Well, I think I don't necessarily care so much about
myself as much as I do the men and women
that serve our country. I love my country, and I
don't care what side of the fence people fall on,
especially with an election year. I love my country because
of the people that I've served with and the people
that are still serving. On my right arm here, I've
got twenty five names of Marines that died with me
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in twenty ten. They're dark Horse Marines, third Marine behind
fifth Infantry Division. But what that story doesn't tell is
over two hundred and thirty of us were blown up,
and of those of that number, I don't know how
many are alive today. Most of them have taken their
own life. And this dog right here, she might be needy, charismatic,
a little bit of a drama queen, but she saved
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my life and she was gifted to me at no charge.
The guy said, hey, if you go to church, drop
a little election in the bucket, and so I did.
And two weeks after I received Lacey, almost six years ago,
a buddy of mine killed himself. And this is not
an untold story.
Speaker 1 (54:07):
We know about it. Twenty two a day.
Speaker 4 (54:09):
I think that's a number that could that's probably double
that today, especially after COVID. So I called him back
and I said, how do I do for what you know?
How do I do what you did for me for
a lot of people? And here we are today with
fifty six dogs complete in twenty two states, and we're
about to have another dog done in a twenty third state.
And it's all because of this community right here.
Speaker 1 (54:32):
A fun fundraiser to raise the money to be able
to do these things you're talking about. It's coming up
here on Thursday, September nineteenth at the Benson Theater right
there on Maple Street about sixty fifth ish yep and
Benson And it's a beautiful theater. Online at Bensontheater dot org,
theater r e Bensontheater dot org. Do a Google search
(54:53):
for Benson Theater, spell theater any way you want you'll
find this place. That's where you can get your tickets
online and the funds raised it this this event will
hopefully not have you adding to that total you gave us,
which is a sobering reminder that you go in there,
you serve your country, you leave the military. It doesn't
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ever really leave you, though, does it. No, it doesn't.
Speaker 4 (55:15):
It's been with me every day and I think that
this is the first year that I haven't had suicidal tendencies.
Even while I traverse this charity that we started, I've
wanted to die, and it's just because of the horrors.
I wake up with night terrors all the time. And
this dog right here gets me out of that, and
she just gives me a safe place, you know, and
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takes my mind off that. And that's what we do
for people. And you're right, it is a sobering experience.
But I'm grateful that we've been able to last as
long as we have, especially through COVID. I thought we
were gonna have to close our doors, and then this
community right here, the Omaha Council Bluffs area, has really
championed and rallied behind us. And let me just say,
(55:57):
to have a guy of this caliber Jimmy show up
for me like that, that's just a veteran thing.
Speaker 1 (56:02):
That's a brotherly love thing, and I'm grateful for him.
Jimmy Weber, Jimmy Weber is a god. Said, what do
you does it mean to you to be a part
of this event coming up on Thursday, September nineteenth.
Speaker 6 (56:11):
Well, it's a privilege and this is legit. A lot
of folks worry about charities. You know, where's some money go?
You can see it. It's a living breathing. To find
animals that qualify for this program, to train them and
then to place them with a deserving veteran is a
very costly but important function. And I love what Kevin's
(56:36):
doing here. The tickets in advance are thirty dollars. They're
forty dollars at the door. A lot of people are
gonna want to donate far more than that that evening,
and it's so worthy. We're excited about the show. As
a veteran of nearly twenty five years in the Air
Force band I got to travel to Iraq four times,
I believe, one time with Jolie Edwards as part of
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Stars for Stripes, got to go to the Middle East
with Wayne Newton as part of the USO, but five
times in uniform, so I got to see from the
outside looking in in uniform in these same zones what
he's talking about. I performed at a lot of hospitals
in Baghdad area, Afghanistan, and it really is you can't
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describe the sites you see. I was one of the
very blessed people who was never seriously injured overseas, and
for me, having seen some of the things he saw,
I can still not relate to them. But what I
can do is get involved with a program such as this,
and it's just a privilege. And we also have Brian
(57:43):
Legitt's going to be opening the show. I think Scott
Moorhees might even make an appearance.
Speaker 1 (57:48):
I hear these rumors. I get to MC the event
and then whatever else you want to do. Last year,
we sang a song together, we did event. We did.
People's ears are still ringing after my attempt at singing
one of your songs at this event.
Speaker 6 (58:01):
Well that's that was an honor in and of itself.
Speaker 1 (58:04):
Day someone singing my lyrics, and you know what, we
can maybe do that again this morning. And here's what's happening.
We're just about a time here in terms of the
on air portion of this. But if we want to
keep going on the Facebook live stream here in just
a moment, you want to you want to do that
song because I this is a way to get people
to try and go. If you're on Facebook, search Scott Vorhees.
(58:25):
Hopefully we're already connected there on Facebook. We do have
a live stream going. Thanks to Lucy Chapman for running that.
By the way, do you want to turn the camera
around on yourself so you can criticize how you look
later in a Facebook post? He's looking today? She always does,
but then she ends up on Facebook and she goes
back on there later and goes, who let me wear
that shirt? You know?
Speaker 5 (58:43):
So Lucy looks great. You can get a shot of
my beautiful barber. She's got a new jacket there. So
here's what we're gonna do. We're going to I'm gonna
we got to know the foe here with Jim Rows
and in fact, I'm gonna get done right now, which
kind of gives me an idea as to how much
time I have to wrap up this show and then
we will continue the party here on Facebook. I want
to tell you on the air though. Bensontheater dot org
(59:05):
is where you can get tickets to this event Thursday,
September nineteenth. It's a fundraiser for Warhawk PTSD Service Dog Organization,
Chords for Canine and Chords for Canines. And we'll see
you there. Kevin Doncaster, Jimmy Weber.
Speaker 1 (59:19):
Don't leave. We're still continuing on Facebook. Clay and Buck
are coming up in just a moment. Scott Voices Mornings
nine to eleven, Our News Radio eleven ten KFAB
Scott Vordies. Yesterday or a couple of days ago, I
posted something on Facebook, Lucy, and it has been derided
as hateful and misinformation, vile and crude, with a tinge
of sexual obsession attached to it. And I thought, is
(00:22):
that the bucket of ice that I posted? It's not
the bucket of ice picture and all the story about
all of that. I think it's this post. Now here's
what I wrote. There's a new indicator of whether a
house welcomes swingers. Pineapples are out now. It's a white
(00:46):
sign with a blue circle. You'll find them mostly in
midtown Omaha. Now apparently there are some actually on a
Facebook page devoted to those who are full of blue
(01:07):
dot energy bde yes, I know what else that stands for.
I'm the one obsessed with sex. There's a Facebook page
devoted to those with blue dot energy who say that
the sign with the white background in the blue circle
does not mean an invitation to stop by and request
(01:29):
to swing. Instead, it has to do with Nebraska Second District,
Omaha area being a blue dot against a red conservative
canvas that we paint here in the Electoral College of Nebraska.
I'm happy to get this information. So people have said,
you need to clarify this post, clear up the misinformation,
(01:55):
you need to apologize for it, and then you need
to quit and throw yourself on a hand or.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Sword, short sword, long sword.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
I don't have a sword. Oh well, I'm not allowed
to do that. I'm not allowed to bring weapons into
the studio. Step to course for Jack Johnson and Thomas
O'Leary here. So all right, clarify. There's a new indicator
of whether a house welcome swingers. Pineapples are out now,
it's a white sign with the blue circle. You'll find
(02:27):
them mostly in midtown Omaha. I think the clarification begins
with whether or not pineapples are in or out. There
are those who say that an upside down pineapple displayed
near the front door is a wink wink, nudge, nudge
nod to those who you know to say, hey, we
have a certain lifestyle here in this home. Stop by
(02:51):
and have a chat with us, and let's see where
it goes. As here's your eighties movie reference, Dot and
I are swingers in to swing. There's your eighties movie
reference for this segment of the radio program Ghostbusters Raising Arizona.
Mind you don't cut yourself there, Mordecai.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
I'm gonna put it on my list.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
You what never seen? Raisin Arizona I have. That's what
I need to do. Raisin Arizona two I have.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
But I need to put it on my list of
frequently used movies.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Yeah. Now, the baby from Raising Arizona, who would be
nearly forty now is you know, has a grandma and
grandpa there Holly Hunter and Nicholas Cage, and we could go.
We could do that. We could do that. So I
tell you my other idea for a good movie update
a new parenthood movie where the Buckman kids are now
(03:44):
old like our age and doing all the stuff the
Steve Martin, Rick Moranis, and Mary stem Virgin and the
rest of the cast was dealing with at that time.
You could update it with what parents go through today,
and you could have Steve Martin and Rick Moranis as
the grandparents. This is a great idea. Rick Moranis doesn't
want to do movies anymore, but I'll talk him into it.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Well, I was thinking about that before you even brought
up the parenthood thing. If you did, if you redid
Raising Arizona and had Arizona as the adult. Now, now
she could be taking care of Nicholas.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Cage he as a baby.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Well, I did see it.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
I just didn't remember we had a baby. Now high
everything's changed. I'll be taking these huggies whenever cash you got.
Don't sidetrack me. I'm trying to clarify and apologize. So
the first clarification is whether or not pineapples signify anything
related to swinging, and whether they're in or out. Admittedly
I don't know. Remind me to come back to that though.
(04:44):
In fact, I'm gonna write this down because I'll forget
pine apples all right. So first clarification as to whether
a pineapple decoration either upside down or right side up
is a clarification or is a is an indication or
a request or a wink wink, nudge nudge. I don't
(05:05):
know that. Now. The white sign with the blue circle,
this is where I have to admit my misinformation in
the post. I do admit I knew when I posted
that it had to do with the blue dot, Nebraska
second district potentially going blue for Tony Vargas and a
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bigger electoral college picture. Kamala Harris I also admit that
I knew that it didn't mean it was an invitation
for swingers when I posted that. This is what is
known in some circles as a joke. And I'm starting
to look at some of my other Facebook posts to
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see what else I need to clarify is a joke.
In fact, I don't have to go back any further
than last weekend, when after Nebraska beach utep I said, clearly,
we're the best team in college football this year. The
question is will this go down as one of the
greatest college football teams of all time? I have to
clarify on this one too. I admit I didn't firmly
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believe either of those things yet now I'm willing to
believe and keep watching. I'll be glued to the TV
set if I can't get in the stadium for tomorrow
night's Nebraska game against Colorado. I may have posted it
in that phrase just to tweak the haters as again
a playful joke meant to elicit a Hey, what do
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you think you think you're funny? You know, no, I
don't think I'm funny. Sometimes I think I'm mildly amusing
at best. But it's been a long time since I
think I said anything that came along those lines. Is
there any other posts I need to clarify going back overay?
So we'll just go those two examples. See those are
those are? There are pieces of men's information that I
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clearly put out there knowing what I said was a
bald face lie, and for that for those of all
political persuasions. And I say that because I know there
was some conservative people who took that very seriously. There
was one young woman on there who posted a screed
as to how dangerous was in terms of swinging, not
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just for one's relationship and marriage, but also the spread
of sexually transmitted diseases, and she was very very serious
about all of this. I chose to ignore that comment.
And then there are those who are more liberal leaning
who either thought that I was being serious and thought
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I was inviting people to stop by their houses to
request to swing with them, or they knew it was
an attempt at humor. And they've made this very clear
to me, in no uncertainty that they don't think I'm funny,
and I appreciate them letting me know so, because there
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have been dozens and dozens of people if not hundreds
of people online both on Facebook and on Twitter x
who have had to call out my unfunny misinformation post.
They have taken time out of what I'm sure is
a very busy schedule to tell me and tell the
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world that I'm not funny, and number two not telling
the truth about this, And because I'm sure they were
taking time away from their busy lives, I apologize for
taking their time. Honestly, do we have so many more
things to keep us busy in life? We don't have
time to be fighting each other online now. I spent
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after I watched Beetlejuice Beetlejuice last night, came back and
watched the second half of the Chiefs Ravens game. Great game.
There's a political tinge to this story as well. We'll
get to that here in a moment. I didn't forget
about pineapples either. This is still the same thought. But
I spent most of the fourth quarter just going through
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on that Blue Dot Facebook page, just replying to people.
Example of the replies, I didn't post anything like hey man,
so's your face or you know, or you know up yours?
Speaker 3 (09:26):
You know.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
I didn't do any of that. An example of the
tone of my replies is I think best exemplified by
a woman who said kfab lies and spreads misinformation all day,
and I said, we're also on at night. And then
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someone else who had expressed displeasure with me earlier in
the string, admitted that my comment there was funny. She
still vehemently dis agrees with me on everything, which is amazing.
I don't know that she's heard my thoughts on everything,
but be that as it may, she's still let me
know she disagrees with everything I stand for, but she
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thought my comment was funny. I'll take the win where
I can get them. And then some people are like,
how did Scott Vorhees get on this post? And I
thought about replying your mom invited me, but see that's
the kind of thing I didn't post on there. So
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I spent some time last night just replying to people,
just trying to be lighthearted, because I'm kind of a
unicorn in this whole political spectrum right now. It's a
very anxiety riddled and very passionately charged political campaign here.
I don't know if you've noticed, both sides apparently hate
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each other's guts and they think the other side should
be completely silenced. Now over here, I'm on a conservative
talk radio station. I understand how we get pigeonholed no
matter what I say, what I believe, or how I
espouse my views. Again, my overriding thoughts on everything is,
I honestly don't care for whom you vote. I care
how you treat people who vote differently than you. I
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honestly believe that. Well, then how can you post something
like this swinger's post? Because because I thought it was funny,
I did that bit on the show the other day.
I got some great feedback in the inbox. I thought
I'll post something on Facebook, and I knew that some
people would not think it was funny, which is fine.
I don't need them to think I'm funny. So I
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still believe that it would be absolutely awful to silence
the other side. Now you have passionate discourse about how
we should deal with various things political disagreements we have
related to tax policy or border control, foreign policy, or
military fully funding lawn enforcement and giving figures an authority
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the opportunity to do something meaningful when it comes to punishment,
and supporting parents when they try and do the same thing.
There are different ways we can argue these things, but
I don't take them personally, and I'm not interested in
silencing the other side. The post I was doing on
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that very blue Facebook page here in Omaha last night
was giving me incredible joy. I love people with different
opinions than I have. As I've said, when I met
this girl I'm now married to, she had just got
done working like volunteering for Ralph Nader's presidential campaign in Lawrence, Kansas.
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It doesn't get more progressively liberal than that, which brings
me to my wife. Because when it was first brought
to my attention last night that we got out of
this movie finally saw the Beetlejuice sequel, I'm all amped up,
gotta go home and watch the Chiefs game. Got a
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Husker weekend here. I'm feeling good. And then I was
giving a heads up that there are a lot of
people on Facebook who hate my guts, and I was like, Ah,
that's never any fun when that happens. But you know,
I got a weird job. Let's see what's going on.
And I was reading all this stuff, and so I
was staring at my phone, which I really try not
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to do at night, unless I'm doing the wordle and
then my wife says, what's the problem And I said, well,
I posted the thing about the She's like, what did
you say? I said, well, what I said was there's
a new indicator of whether a house welcome swingers. Pineapples
are out now. It's a white sign with the blue circle.
You find them mostly in midtown Oma. And she said,
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what's the pineapple thing? I said, Oh, there's always been
this joke that you put a pineapple out by your
front door and it's a kind of a signal to
others that you, as a couple are interested in having
fun with other couples. And she said a pineapple, I said, yeah,
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or like a little like a pineapple statue or something.
She said, Scott, have you ever looked outside of our
front door?
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Like?
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Yeah, she says, what is as you're walking up to
our front door, what's just to the left over there? Like,
don't you have a plant over there? She says, yeah,
there's a plant, And then there's something else like we
got it. I forget if we got it from my
grandma or if it was something she picked I don't,
I don't remember. But it was coming into picture as
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she was saying it, and what it is is like
a little lantern. You put a candle or you put
a lantern inside. And the shape of this encasing for
a lantern is a pineapple right outside my front door.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
It's okay as long as it's upright.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
That's what I said. I said, well, I think it
has to be upside that. My wife said, are you
telling me we have I said, I I wonder why
the neighbors always stayed away from our block party invitations.
We are going to have some music on this radio
program and on a Facebook live stream in about an
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hour from now. Jimmy Weber is coming in here. The
Great the Chords for Canine event is two weeks from
last night, so Thursday, September nineteenth, Benson Theater. This is
a fundraiser for the Warhawks PTSD Service Dogs organization, and
we'll have Kevin from Warhawks in here to tell the
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story about what they're all about, and local singer, songwriter,
male model Jimmy Weber is going to be in the
studio to sing. When we did this a year ago,
I don't remember if it was on the air or
just on the Facebook stream, but I sang a song
with him, and it has been requested that I never
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do that again.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
So we'll remember that.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
We'll see. Yeah, we sang the uh. We sang the
Hippie Chick song, which is one of his his original songs,
and he was surprised, not as much as I was,
that I knew the lyrics to his song. It's one
of my favorite songs. In fact, if I may, and
let me check, I may, Okay, So if I may,
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the Hippie Chick song honestly goes along with what I
was talking about earlier about you know, people in this
certain Facebook page who have already figured out everything about
me without knowing me or ever listening to this radio show,
just have already determined who I am, what I'm all about,
what I think about everything, and that I'm a vile,
disgusting pig. I'm not saying they're completely wrong, but I
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would much rather live the Hippie Chick song that engage
in the battle of who can yell I'm right, you're
wrong louder than the other side. See cause I'm an adult,
and I realized that looking at how the political winds
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swing around in this country, don't say swing all right, okay,
you're right, based on what we talked about earlier, that's bad.
Based on how the political winds blow in this country,
the pendulum rocks back and forth. I realized that sometimes
the country is like, hey, we think this, and sometimes
the same country is like, we also think that. Sometimes
it's all on the same night. I give you Election
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night twenty sixteen, when America woke up absolutely hung over
the next morning, going, man, I was so out of
it last night, what did I do? They're like, oh, America,
you were freaking crazy, dude. You voted for Trump as
the President of the United States, but you kept a
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Democratic majority in the House with Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Dude,
it was it was insane. You were all over the place.
America's like, oh my god, I know that was crazy. Like, so,
I understand, at no point is everyone going to be
on the same page about anything. And you know what,
since I can't do anything about it, you just choose
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to enjoy it, revel in it, not take it personally.
You fight for your side, but it's got to be fair,
reasonable discourse, and if someone wants to be a true
douche hole, then you know, you just deal with that accordingly.
But no, point. Am I going to fight this useless
battle of yelling I'm right, you're wrong louder than the
other side. Which brings me back to Jimmy Weber's song.
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He wrote a song called the Hippie Chick Song, and
I don't think that's the actual title of the song.
He can correct me in an hour. But it has
to do with a man with strong conservative roots who
fell in love with a progressive liberal, green peace tree hugging,
granola chewing hippie chick and they roll their eyes at
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each other. They have a great time and they're totally
in love. I'm all about it, dude. Now, Chiefs game
last night, Lucy Crazy game. I'm sure you stayed awake
and hung on every last second of that game. What
a win for Kansas City over the Baltimore Ravens. I
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thought that touchdown was good and then they looked at
us like, ah, he was towing the line like that
early eighties song Forget toeing the line song.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Oh you mean the Tommy shn No, No, it's a
oh Tommy James boy.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
If I bust out the name of the guy who
sang Rocky Burdette, I think sang a song called tied
to toe in the line. There is a really good beat.
It sounded just like that anyway line was on, his
line was on the foot, his toe was on the line,
and the referees said no touchdown. Game's over and Arrowhead
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Stadium in Kansas City went yay, and then they all,
you know, went off into the night. It was it
was great, great way to start the season. But we
have controversy, and it's not just about whether or not
the receiver was in or out of bounds in the
back of that end zone. It has to do with
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who was in what skybox at the stadium last night
in Kansas City. Some of you may have heard last year,
but there's a a singer songwriter named I think is
Tyler Swift.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
I think you're close, but I think it's Tyler Smooth.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Tyler Smooth. No, wait, I have the story. Oh Taylor Swift,
we got closed. Oh okay, I've heard of her. So
there's a singer songwriter named Taylor Swift and apparently she's
dating a member of the Kansas City Chiefs. He's none
other than tight end Travis Kelcey. Again, maybe you just
only heard this news. It got a little bit of
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attention last year. Yes, I'm being sarcastic. So Taylor Swift
would go to all of these games, home and away games,
and she'd always be up there, and the cameras would
always show, like Jim Nance on CBS go, there's Taylor
Swift supporting her man another Chiefs touchdown, and she's up
there hugging and being real expressive, and she's hanging out
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with Patrick Mahomes' wife, Britney Mahomes. This was all last season.
These guys were chummy, chummy, best buds. But something happened
since the Chiefs won another Super Bowl and now we
started off another NFL season. It was an instagram like
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Trump or the Trump campaign on Instagram had their outline
of the twenty twenty four GOP platform, having to do
with border security and jobs and bringing down inflation and
projecting a strong image not just for our allies but
against our enemies around the world. And amazingly, it didn't
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say anything about Project twenty twenty five whatever. Anyway, Trump's
Instagram post outline the twenty twenty four GOP platform and
this twenty nine year old wife and mother, Britney Mahomes,
wife of Patrick Mahomes liked the post. Now what you
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can't do that? Yeah, In case you're wondering, like, if
you like a post, are there only seventeen people that
like a post? There's got to be hundreds of thousands,
if not million, Yes, there are, so one would not
necessarily have to scroll through all of those who liked
it to try and find someone they can out. But
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I wouldn't put that past them to put in that
kind of effort. But I think if you're already connected
to someone on Instagram, occasionally it pops up like this
person like this, that person liked this, And I think
that's how someone noticed that Brittany Mahomes liked Trump's Instagram post,
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and the Internet just went, well, you know, that's her business,
wouldn't that be?
Speaker 5 (23:42):
Now?
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Of course, not firestorm of backlash. She shouldn't be allowed
to like that. Patrick Mahomes needs to be fired by
the Kansas City Chiefs. He's not that good at quarterback anyway.
And then it quickly turned into you've been hanging out
with our queen. You've been hanging out with Taylor Swift.
Taylor Swift has stood up for a couple but a
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few you know here and there democratic causes, though she
has yet to fully endorse anyone in this campaign, who
do you think she's gonna endorse? And by the way,
if Taylor Swift comes out today and she's welcome to
call in, well, I'd love to talk with her. Her
song Breathless a cover of the better than Ezra's song.
It's one of my favorite songs and I think I
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might even like it better than Kevin a better than
Ezra's version of it. Don't tell Kevin. I said that
the nineteen eighty nine album Solid Start to finish Solid album.
So if Taylor Swift wanted to call in, we can
talk music, and then she could say, by the way,
I wanted everyone to know I support Kamala Harris and
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her ambitions to be the next president of the United States.
We would gasp and I never saw that coming. Well,
thanks a lot for the call, Taylor, Tyler, Taylor, have
a great weekend, and then you know, go chiefs. I
don't know that anyone who's inclined to vote for Trump
is suddenly going to be like, well, I just I
only just heard Taylor Swift supports Kamala Harris for president.
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I think I'll vote for her. You know, I support Taylor.
Maybe I don't know. She's got a lot of influence,
but I think most of the people are already and
have inclined in a certain demographic direction in terms of
the political persuasions. But multiple fan pages dedicated to Taylor
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Swift demanded that she stopped hanging out with Britney Mahomes
Patrick Mahomes's wife, now Britney Mahomes. Shortly after she liked
Trump's Instagram post, responded to the criticism on her Instagram
and said, quote, I mean, honestly, to be a hater
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as an adult, you have to have some deep rooted
issues you refuse to heal from childhood. There's no reason
your brain is fully developed and you hate to see
others doing well unquote, which is kind of an unusual
way of putting it, and as has been my experience
as well, telling the haters they're not allowed to hate
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you because they're acting like children does not cause any
one of them to say, you know what, You're right,
And I'm glad someone was man enough to put it
to me like that. Thank you very much for showing
me the light. I feel better about every It turns
out that they don't end up seeing things your way.
So she posted another message and here's what she said.
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She said and I quote, contrary to the tone of
the world today, you can disagree with someone and still
love them. You can have differing views and still be kind.
Read that again, unquote. So I don't know whether Taylor
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Swift and Patrick Mahomes's wife Brittany have had any conversations
of a political nature. I don't know what those text
strings look like. I am no longer on those text strings.
I muted them. There were just so many back and forth.
I'm like, girls, I'm trying to watch the super Bowl, please,
and Taylor's sending me sexy pictures. I'm like, I'm married.
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I know the pineapple is out front. I'm totally mistaken
as to what this is all about. It doesn't mean
what you think I mean, but please. So I don't
know if these two women have discussed any of this.
And I don't know. Maybe it was purely coincidence, but
it was noted by several people that for last night's
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Chiefs Game, these two girls that used to be arm
in arm, jumping up and down, cheering, all excited. We're
not sitting next to each other. They were not in
the same luxury suites either. Taylor was over here. I
think she was with Travis Kelsey's mama, and Brittany Mahomes
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was over there totally different suite, adding further fuel to
this fire. You know, he couldn't help himself. President Trump
weighed in on this. He said, quote, I want to
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thank the beautiful Brittany Mahomes for so strongly defending me
and the fact that MAGA is the greatest and most
powerful political movement in the history of our now failing country.
With crime and illegal immigration totally out of control, inflation
ravaging all Americans, and a world that is laughing at
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this stupidity of our hapless leaders. It's nice to see
someone who loves our country and wants to save it
from doom. Great couple, See you both at the Super Bowl.
Unquote They've asked Patrick Mahomes, do you want to say
He said, no, no, I don't do you support again nothing.
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I'm not gonna say a word about it. I will
talk about our next opponent. How things look in the
AFC West for us this year, our ambitions to get
back and try and go for three, as far as
all the political stuff. I'm good I have as far
as you're concerned, zero opinions on the matter, which is
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some might say cowardly, some might say refreshing. I think
he's focused on an NFL season ahead. Jim email Scott
at kfab dot com with a picture of Bruno, Bruno
Kirby's character from one of the greatest movies ever, Good
Morning Vietnam, saying in my heart, I know I'm funny.
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Relation to what I was talking about earlier in the
program with my Facebook post that some people didn't like
involving swingers, only says my grandson loves to swing. I
think that's different, And Sarah says Scott, others might find
you horrible, but you make me laugh every show. Don't
change a thing, and your personal pineapple story is now
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my favorite. Thank you, Sarah. I don't want to talk
about this because it sounds judgmental and hateful. Well, I
guess I have to now, all right. The only thing
on this is I'm one of these crazy lunatics who
when there's a situation like we had in Omaha the
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other day, he had a guy who has such a
bad criminal history drugs, firearms, gang activity that the Omaha
Police Department said we need to get him, and we're
going to use the no knock search warrant to be
able to enter his home and get him. They did
it at a time when they were reasonably assured apparently
that he was in the home alone. That way, if
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things got really bad, then it would be okay. Now
people hear no knock warrant and they think cops just
go in there shooting. We know what happened to Breonna
Taylor in Memphis, and now we know what happened to
Cameron Ford here in Omaha. The cops just use this
as an executioner's tale to be able to go in
there and freely kill whoever they want and say, well,
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you know he didn't surrender, so I killed him. Now
I understand, I honestly, this isn't me being glib. I
understand where people might think that. You think about how
would you react if suddenly you have people coming through
the door and windows like in some movie, you know,
guys coming down the chimney and all the rest of
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this stuff, and they're youlling, please get on the floor,
show me your hands. You know, all this stuff, and
you have to split second think Are these the cops
or are these rival gang members? Or are these the
neighbor kids playing a trick? Tony? Is that you know
you're got all these competing thoughts like do I need
to defend myself? Do I run? What do I do?
In in a split second, suddenly you get shot because
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you haven't already complied. And people think that's what happens
in these scenarios. Here's the reality of it. The Omaha
police officer, Adam Vale is his name, who I think
is still on leave. There's still some investigation going on here.
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But yesterday Douglas County Attorney Don Klein deemed that Officer
Veil's use of force in this instance was legal. Therefore
he was not going to press charges people who already
hate cops. In fact, one of the groups that spoke
out against this is literally named ftp Omaha, and they say, oh,
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it means for the people with a wink and a nod.
I know what it means. We all know what it means.
You know what it means than the last two words
are the police. I have that album too. So they're all,
of course really upset about this, and they think that
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this officer should be charged with murder and all the
rest of the stuff. All right, So let's say let's
look at this officer. This guy not only in this instance,
knew that the danger that this man presented was an eighty.
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I don't know if one hundred is the top of
the scale and you think eighty doesn't sound that bad.
It's like a bus as we talked about the other day,
when Omaha police when determining whether or not there's going
to be a warrant for your arrest, they determine a
threat level assessment, and if you score a twenty five,
that's where they get the swat team involved. This guy
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scored an eighty. That's a lot higher twenty five. I'll
do the math for the recent public school graduates. So
he's got a lengthy criminal history firearms, gang activity, drugs.
The search warrant was for firearms and drugs in his home,
which he wasn't supposed to have, by the way. In
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his home they found firearms and drugs, including eight hundred
and sixteen fentanyl pills, as well as forty six grams
of suspected fentanyl. I don't know how much you know
about fentanyl, but you can hear that just one little
itaty bit of it, like a little like a speck
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of salt worth of fentanyl can kill a person. How
many people's lives were saved by police going after this guy?
Now to the specific charge of cops are just going
to go in there and just murder this guy. This
particular officer led a team into the house. He had
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law enforcement members behind him as he went first into
the home, knowing he was dealing with the guy who
was a very, very dangerous threat. He went first. Is
this the first time this guy ever did this? And
he got scared saw the guy. The guy didn't immediately
show his hands, shot him. Officer Vail has done this
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the no knock search warrant kind of thing, leading teams
into homes one hundred and twenty two times. Did that
get an eyebrow raise out of anyone else?
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Now, I'm communicating silently.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
I wasn't gonna relay your emotions, but sometimes I use
Lucy's face as a barometer for how the audience might
react to things I say, So is your face? Lucy
slept through most of the first hour. It was a
bad barometer. So's your face? Yeah? I said that in
Lucy's eyebrows raised. Mine can't. Too much plastic surgery. Plus
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the eyebrows very large, very pronounced, very heavy, can't can't
lift them, don't have the forehead muscles. But if I could,
they would have raised. When I read that too. Now
I've been scouring the interwebs looking for the one hundred
and twenty one other times when this officer went into
a house with this license to murder and just killed
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people in Omaha. And maybe I haven't. I mean, I
admittedly got sidetracked. Last night I saw the Beetlejuice movie.
I is the Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Movie the greatest movie I've
ever seen? It isn't. Did I love it anyway? I did?
I love Michael Keaton and with nota Ryder and Tim Burton.
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Catherine O'Hara was perfect, or Tega is great. I love
the Wednesday series on Netflix. I would have loved to
have talked to Tim and said, what if we did this,
and what if instaid this? Maybe we do this, shorten this,
bring it right, But you know, no one asked. So
did I love it anyway? Absolutely? And by the way,
I'll be giving away tickets to Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice Tomorrow when
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I'm live at Broncos one hundred and twentieth in Pacific
from eleven AM to one pm tomorrow, We're serving Buffalo Burgers.
Nebraska's playing Colorado tomorrow. Get it. So that's tomorrow morning,
eleven to one, Broncos one hundred twentieth in Pacific. Now
where was I? I got sidetracked last night? I was
trying to find the one hundred and twenty two people
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dead from this murderous police officer. I got sidetracked by
the Beetlejuice movie. Then I was watching the Chiefs game,
and there are a bunch of people on social media
hate my guts. I was kind of having fun playing
with them. And admittedly I didn't click on every single
web page on the Internet, so maybe it's still out there.
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I don't know how to access the dark web. Someone
else is gonna have to look. But I haven't found
any evidence that this officer, who has led these no
knock search warrants one hundred and twenty two times, has
used this as an excuse to just go in there
and kill a guy or shoot a guy. So the
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regular voices that come out, and I always exclude the
family of the person who's dead. It doesn't and honestly
doesn't matter to me whether the person who's dead, whether
this is a good guy, a bad guy, a guy
deserves to be dead and we're glad he's gone. I
don't I don't assign any of that judgment to the
(38:45):
reaction from the person's family. I really again, I know
I don't get the benefit of the doubt, but I
am serious here. They're allowed to say anything they want.
They just lost a family member. There's no telling what
I would say or what you would say. Anything they
say is you know, I'll allow it. But there's also
a reason why we don't let them decide the punishment
for in this case, the police officer. We have outside
(39:07):
parties do that so family can say whatever they want.
Some of these community activists with organizations like FTP the
police Omaha, I already know what you're gonna say. You
want all the police officers gone. Let's see how that
works out. I'll be up in Minneapolis next weekend. I'll
(39:29):
let you know so you know when you're coming out
saying this officer, you know, just use this as an
excuse to kill a guy, well, amazingly, he's never done
that before. In fact, as far as I'm concerned, if
(39:51):
the Douglas County Attorney takes a look at this and
found his use of deadly force to be legal. The
police chief, touchmatr It says, looks a tough job we
have to do. We feel sorry for the family. We
would prefer things didn't happen this way. I believe him.
(40:12):
But when some of these community activist voices come out
and they say things like, well, this guy who was
killed by the police, he didn't stand a chance. Now,
I know they're talking about the sudden bursting in of
law enforcement. You're in a small hallway, it's probably not
(40:32):
real perfectly lit, there's a lot of confusion. Everyone's yelling.
You can't see the guy's hands. You're trying to determine
what the police. You know, even though they've yelled five times,
very loudly and clearly what they want you to do,
you're not doing it. You're still trying to figure out
what's going on. Look, I get it. In that instances,
the cops do have an advantage, don't they. Maybe it's
(40:54):
why they do it that way with dangerous people, But
to say he didn't stand a chain. I know you're
talking about that moment, but what about this guy's life.
I'm sure that there are any number of things that
have happened in his life. Maybe someone wasn't there for him,
(41:14):
Maybe someone provided him a path that he thought was
the easy way out. He got hooked on things, he
found an easy way to make money, dangerous way to live,
and maybe we but growing up here in America, you
can have any number of people who have had the
same cards dealt to them in life, good, bad, whatever,
(41:37):
and you'll have dramatically different outcomes. You have one person
that was like, oh well I was lured by this
and I didn't have this in my life, and you know,
no one ever said this to me or whatever. You'll
find people who have that same backstory. Some of them
go on to do amazing, great things. They rise above it.
Some of them end up surrounded by drug and guns
(42:02):
and gang paraphernalia. Dead. And I don't know that you
can look in someone's history and say, well, you know,
and you grow up like this, this is bound to happen. No,
it's not. Because America affords you the opportunity and every
turn with all of the attention paid, all of the
(42:23):
the opportunities, whether it's it's school, whether it's athletics that
try and get people on a better path, whether it's counselors,
whether it's programs. People. I mean, there are people standing
by right now on hotlines. If you call them up
and say I need to get out of the life
I'm in, how can you help, you will see them
(42:44):
absolutely bend over backwards for your life. So to say
like he didn't stand a chance, Yeah he did. And
I hope that, you know, I'm I'm not reveling in
the fact that he's dead. What I'm hoping is others
(43:05):
who are on that same path take a look at
this and go, hmm, that's a possibility of what could
happen to me in my life. I wonder if there's
anything else I can do with my life. He stood
a chance. Senator Vance, you know he's running for vice
(43:26):
president with Donald Trump. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (43:28):
I've heard that something about that.
Speaker 1 (43:29):
Yeah, yeah, school shooting in Georgia the other day, and
they talked to Senator J. D. Vance about it. And
here I'll tell you what he said in a moment.
But first, here's what the Associated Press said in their headline,
headline said, quote jd Vance says school shootings are a
fact of life, calls for better security. What's the impression
(43:53):
you get from that headline?
Speaker 2 (43:55):
Ah, They're just gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (43:56):
Yeah, yeah, Oh is it Tuesday? Yeah? You know, hey,
stuff happens. What do you want me to do about it? Right?
You know, the headline gives the impression that jd Vance
shrugged off the school shooting because well, you know how
they are. That's a fact of life. What do you
want me to do it? But let me tell you
(44:17):
what jd Vance said, Terry Terry just a fact of life.
You know, I don't I don't know what me to
do it. Well, it's kind of the same thing Terry
lahy Lee Terry kind of and I have the same voice.
It's always been my hope that both of them could
be in the studio have this conversation with one another here.
(44:40):
You know that that'd be good. Here's what jd Vance said, quote.
I don't like that this is a fact of life.
But if you are a psycho and you want to
make headlines, you realize that our schools are soft targets
and we have got to bolster security at our schools.
(45:00):
We've got a bolster security. So if a psycho wants
to walk through the front door and kill a bunch
of children, they're not able. Unquote the Associated Press that JD.
Van said school shootings are a fact of life. After
he said that, now I know we all have our
biases and opinions, don't we Some people hide it better
than others. And when rush Limbaugh famously referred to the
(45:23):
drive by media for so many years, this is the
kind of bias he's talking about. Here's another one that
has been corrected. I don't say her name on the
radio because some of you are listening to the station
via your smart speaker, and we love it so easy
to do. Just ask her politely by name, Please play
kfab on iHeartRadio, comes right out of your schmischmecksha smart speaker.
(45:49):
But this is what's going around on social media. Earlier
this week, people asked Alexi why should I vote for
Donald Trump? And she said I don't get involved in politics.
Basically what she said, I don't have any political opinions,
And then they said, SCHMISCHMESI, no again, I can't say
(46:10):
her name of the radio. It will shut down your
speaker if you're listening to us, or it'll cause it
to pop off in the background like Eric Cartman did
in that episode of South Park A million times. They
asked her by name, LEXI, why should I vote for
Kamala Harris? And the smart speaker just lit up glowing, Oh,
Kamala Harris. Supporters say, Kamala Harris did this and this,
and she's going to do this, and she's great and
(46:31):
all this. Suddenly it had all these great reasons to
vote for Kamala Harris. And again you say, why should
I vote for Donald Trump? I don't have any political opinions. Now,
to their credit, they've fixed that, So now can I
tried it this morning? You asked your smart speaker and
it gives the same response both times you ask it,
(46:54):
why should I vote for Trump? And it tells you
why Kamala Harris is great? I'm kidding. It says I
don't have political opinions.
Speaker 2 (47:02):
So rather than fixing it to highlight some of the
good things that Trump has done, they just you're both in.
Speaker 1 (47:11):
Yeah, attention, right, But I and I think that's probably
the best way to go. All right, what are we
doing on Thursday, September nineteenth. It's an annual event here
called Cords for Canines, and it's a fundraiser for Warhawk
PTSD Service Dogs and it features that night at the
(47:32):
Benson Theater none under than the Great and we'll hear
him sing first. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome local singer
songwriter Jimmy Weber.
Speaker 6 (47:41):
Thank you, my friend. I'm gonna do a song right
now that I wrote with my great friend, Handsome Jake Mayer.
We just recorded this down in Nashville. I hope you
enjoy it. Going out to Staff Sergeant Greg Wagner, Senator Scott,
Senator Thune, John Thune that he was a true son
(48:01):
of the Prairie at a dedication we were both at,
and so we took that title and wrote a song
about it, Son of the Prairie.
Speaker 7 (48:22):
My heart is on fire like a ser sunrise. My
mind stretches out like a distant her horizon.
Speaker 8 (48:36):
I'm wound it soon, but I don't know why I
pull out my.
Speaker 7 (48:45):
Love till the day I die, Because I'm a song
of the Prairie from wide off legds she bading made
from God's own hands. Together, we'll walk where the sky
(49:09):
never ends, and the speed red will lead us back
calm again.
Speaker 9 (49:18):
I want two be more, but I feel held back
by all that I've done and all I lack.
Speaker 1 (49:33):
There's a weed that seems right, but it's not all
always true. I wanta find redemption and share it with you.
Speaker 8 (49:47):
I'm sun on the prairie from wide off layd.
Speaker 7 (49:55):
She by the way him made from God's own hands.
Speaker 10 (50:02):
Together, who will walk where the sky nevers and the
speard we.
Speaker 3 (50:11):
Leave heed us back home again. Oh see, my people
(50:32):
wander every warm on and man, just like the folks
before them, across this grasslid.
Speaker 7 (50:44):
We'll share each other's burdens, forgive each other's sins, Sons
and daughters of the prairie.
Speaker 1 (50:54):
That's all we've ever been.
Speaker 8 (50:58):
I'm a son a prairie from wide playing, She bad
win me.
Speaker 7 (51:08):
From God's own hands.
Speaker 10 (51:12):
Together, will walk wear the sky rinds and the spear
releve us Man came again.
Speaker 5 (51:30):
O.
Speaker 1 (51:43):
Beautiful, my friend. As always, I I love having you
come in here and do that. I just treat you
like my own personal jukebox, and I'll love you really
really good stuff. Let's move some microphones around here. You
can put the guitar down for a second. That is
Jimmy Weber here on news radio eleven kfab part of
the entertainment that would be provided on Thursday, September nineteenth
(52:06):
at Cords for Canines. This is for a local group
called Warhawk PTSD Service Dogs and Kevin Doncaster with Warhawk
is here and you're not alone here. Who else do
we have in the studio You can see on the
Facebook stream right now. Yeah, we got Lacey.
Speaker 4 (52:23):
She's my service dog, but we trained her to interact
with the public, so she's known as the People's service Dogs.
She got to meet everybody in the shop here.
Speaker 1 (52:31):
Tell me about your story, which leads into what this
organization is all about. Kevin, you bet you know.
Speaker 4 (52:37):
I've been blown up twice, shot in the back. I
don't like people feeling sorry about the shot, but you
know my plate caught it. But I've got a lot
of pain and I've seen a lot of horrible things.
I tell people that I've seen the worst that humanity
has to offer, and i want to be the best
that humanity has to offer.
Speaker 1 (52:52):
So you say that in such a way as some
people are like, I got it. A couple of minor
fender benders. It's not really. But you say you have
blown up twice and shot in the back in the
most nonchalant way possible. You're allowed to be a little
chalant about that. You don't have to be nonchalant.
Speaker 4 (53:08):
Well, I think I don't necessarily care so much about
myself as much as I do the men and women
that serve our country. I love my country, and I
don't care what side of the fence people fall on,
especially with an election year. I love my country because
of the people that I've served with and the people
that are still serving. On my right arm here, I've
got twenty five names of Marines that died with me
(53:29):
in twenty ten. They're dark Horse Marines, third Marine behind
fifth Infantry Division. But what that story doesn't tell is
over two hundred and thirty of us were blown up,
and of those of that number, I don't know how
many are alive today. Most of them have taken their
own life. And this dog right here, she might be needy, charismatic,
a little bit of a drama queen, but she saved
(53:49):
my life and she was gifted to me at no charge.
The guy said, hey, if you go to church, drop
a little election in the bucket, and so I did.
And two weeks after I received Lacey, almost six years ago,
a buddy of mine killed himself. And this is not
an untold story.
Speaker 1 (54:07):
We know about it. Twenty two a day.
Speaker 4 (54:09):
I think that's a number that could that's probably double
that today, especially after COVID. So I called him back
and I said, how do I do for what you know?
How do I do what you did for me for
a lot of people? And here we are today with
fifty six dogs complete in twenty two states, and we're
about to have another dog done in a twenty third state.
And it's all because of this community right here.
Speaker 1 (54:32):
A fun fundraiser to raise the money to be able
to do these things you're talking about. It's coming up
here on Thursday, September nineteenth at the Benson Theater right
there on Maple Street about sixty fifth ish yep and
Benson And it's a beautiful theater. Online at Bensontheater dot org,
theater r e Bensontheater dot org. Do a Google search
(54:53):
for Benson Theater, spell theater any way you want you'll
find this place. That's where you can get your tickets
online and the funds raised it this this event will
hopefully not have you adding to that total you gave us,
which is a sobering reminder that you go in there,
you serve your country, you leave the military. It doesn't
(55:13):
ever really leave you, though, does it. No, it doesn't.
Speaker 4 (55:15):
It's been with me every day and I think that
this is the first year that I haven't had suicidal tendencies.
Even while I traverse this charity that we started, I've
wanted to die, and it's just because of the horrors.
I wake up with night terrors all the time. And
this dog right here gets me out of that, and
she just gives me a safe place, you know, and
(55:36):
takes my mind off that. And that's what we do
for people. And you're right, it is a sobering experience.
But I'm grateful that we've been able to last as
long as we have, especially through COVID. I thought we
were gonna have to close our doors, and then this
community right here, the Omaha Council Bluffs area, has really
championed and rallied behind us. And let me just say,
(55:57):
to have a guy of this caliber Jimmy show up
for me like that, that's just a veteran thing.
Speaker 1 (56:02):
That's a brotherly love thing, and I'm grateful for him.
Jimmy Weber, Jimmy Weber is a god. Said, what do
you does it mean to you to be a part
of this event coming up on Thursday, September nineteenth.
Speaker 6 (56:11):
Well, it's a privilege and this is legit. A lot
of folks worry about charities. You know, where's some money go?
You can see it. It's a living breathing. To find
animals that qualify for this program, to train them and
then to place them with a deserving veteran is a
very costly but important function. And I love what Kevin's
(56:36):
doing here. The tickets in advance are thirty dollars. They're
forty dollars at the door. A lot of people are
gonna want to donate far more than that that evening,
and it's so worthy. We're excited about the show. As
a veteran of nearly twenty five years in the Air
Force band I got to travel to Iraq four times,
I believe, one time with Jolie Edwards as part of
(56:58):
Stars for Stripes, got to go to the Middle East
with Wayne Newton as part of the USO, but five
times in uniform, so I got to see from the
outside looking in in uniform in these same zones what
he's talking about. I performed at a lot of hospitals
in Baghdad area, Afghanistan, and it really is you can't
(57:22):
describe the sites you see. I was one of the
very blessed people who was never seriously injured overseas, and
for me, having seen some of the things he saw,
I can still not relate to them. But what I
can do is get involved with a program such as this,
and it's just a privilege. And we also have Brian
(57:43):
Legitt's going to be opening the show. I think Scott
Moorhees might even make an appearance.
Speaker 1 (57:48):
I hear these rumors. I get to MC the event
and then whatever else you want to do. Last year,
we sang a song together, we did event. We did.
People's ears are still ringing after my attempt at singing
one of your songs at this event.
Speaker 6 (58:01):
Well that's that was an honor in and of itself.
Speaker 1 (58:04):
Day someone singing my lyrics, and you know what, we
can maybe do that again this morning. And here's what's happening.
We're just about a time here in terms of the
on air portion of this. But if we want to
keep going on the Facebook live stream here in just
a moment, you want to you want to do that
song because I this is a way to get people
to try and go. If you're on Facebook, search Scott Vorhees.
(58:25):
Hopefully we're already connected there on Facebook. We do have
a live stream going. Thanks to Lucy Chapman for running that.
By the way, do you want to turn the camera
around on yourself so you can criticize how you look
later in a Facebook post? He's looking today? She always does,
but then she ends up on Facebook and she goes
back on there later and goes, who let me wear
that shirt? You know?
Speaker 5 (58:43):
So Lucy looks great. You can get a shot of
my beautiful barber. She's got a new jacket there. So
here's what we're gonna do. We're going to I'm gonna
we got to know the foe here with Jim Rows
and in fact, I'm gonna get done right now, which
kind of gives me an idea as to how much
time I have to wrap up this show and then
we will continue the party here on Facebook. I want
to tell you on the air though. Bensontheater dot org
(59:05):
is where you can get tickets to this event Thursday,
September nineteenth. It's a fundraiser for Warhawk PTSD Service Dog Organization,
Chords for Canine and Chords for Canines. And we'll see
you there. Kevin Doncaster, Jimmy Weber.
Speaker 1 (59:19):
Don't leave. We're still continuing on Facebook. Clay and Buck
are coming up in just a moment. Scott Voices Mornings
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