WTF on WTA

I break the news to Trump about a couple of things, dwell on this Winner Take All topic a bit longer, then scold you for what you're watching on Netflix.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here was the statement yesterday posted to truth Social by
Donald J. Trump. He said, I would like to thank
Governor Jim Pillen of Nebraska for trying to help the
Republican parties simplify the complexity of the state's electoral map.
It would have been better and far less expensive for everyone. Unfortunately,

(00:26):
a Democrat turned Republican question mark state senator named Mike
McDonald decided for no reason whatsoever, to get in the
way of a great Republican common sense victory. Just another
grand stander who knows perhaps one of the other two

(00:47):
Republicans that were a no vote will change their minds
in the meantime. Thank you to Governor Pillen and Omaha
mar Jean Stothart. And then he says I always preferred
a winner take all allocation of Nebraska's electoral votes in
quotes after Stothard's name, So thank you to Governor Pillen

(01:08):
and Mayor Stothard for their hard work and effort. I
love Omaha and won it in twenty sixteen. Looks like
I'll have to do it again, okay point number one, Yes, yes,
you'll have to in running for election. You'll have to
do it again. Win Omaha you'll have to win Pennsylvania,

(01:29):
You'll have to win Florida, you'll have to win Arizona. Yeah,
these are things you got to do again. That's I know,
he knows that. He said as much. Two, these are
the two bits of information that someone's gonna have to
break to Donald Trump, and I guess I'll do it.
Number one. I don't know how to tell you this,

(01:52):
mister President, but Mayor Stothart is not a big fan
of yours. Over the years, when asked, hey, what do
you think about Trump? Which is the best and laziest
question to ask any politician these days, but generally makes
for good conversation, her answers have ranged from I'm voting

(02:16):
for John McCain. That was a write in vote that
she wanted to do in twenty sixteen, I'll be writing
in John McCain. John McCain wasn't on the ballot, to well,
I'm a Republican and I support the Republican. That's put
a sign in your yard support right there. So she's

(02:36):
not a big Trump fan, and there are some people
who look at that as some sort of flaw. There
are some people who look at that as good for her.
And then there are some people, let's call them democrats,
who it doesn't matter what she says other than he's
the worst and needs to be put in jail for good.

(02:57):
No matter what she says, it's not going to be
good enough for them. Amazingly, all of these people have,
in a couple of city elections since we entered the
trumpet sphere, have elected re elected her to a mayor
of Omaha. So number one when saying, you know, I
thank you to Mayor Stothard for their hard work and effort.

(03:18):
Here's the other thing. Mayor Stothard hasn't said anything about winter.
Take all. She hasn't said anything about winter. Take I
should stop for a second, give Lucy's brain a chance
to catch up. It's early, we had rain this morning,

(03:38):
it's overcast. I don't want to come at you here
with you know, both fists in the air, all full
of that and vinegar.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
Why not you usually do?

Speaker 1 (03:48):
I know? I'm just giving you a chance here, all right,
just for those Hey, Jim, come in here, Jim Rose
is passing by, came here. I got a question for you.
I know you can answer, because I don't have the
mental resources to come up with it. So while he's
getting ensconced, getting re ensconced. The electoral winner take all thing,
this is where Nebraska, unlike every other state in the

(04:10):
country except Maine, awards their electoral college votes. We have five,
that's it, just five. We award them two to the
popular vote winner. Across the entire state. We have three
congressional districts. Each of the three congressional districts awards that
one vote to whoever wins that district. In Nebraska, it's
known as the blue dot. It's Nebraska's second district around Omaha,

(04:32):
and that one vote might go to Kamala Harris in
a red state. No other state except for Maine, does
it this way. So that's why there's so much attention
to winner take all and Nebraska. That's why you see
the blue dots signs to grab Jim Rose here for
a second, Trump and everyone else, and you've cited him
as well. Coming down on State Senator Mike McDonald, he's

(04:53):
not the only so called Republican in this alleged nonpartisan
legislature who is a who is not a yes on
Winner take All? The other ones are who McCallister, he's
not a Republican. He doesn't count.

Speaker 3 (05:05):
Jana Hughes from Seward and Tom Brad from Plattsmouth.

Speaker 1 (05:08):
What's their problem?

Speaker 3 (05:09):
Uh, haven't really come out with it. They haven't been
in the spotlight because they have been established Republicans, whereas
McDonald is a recent Republican.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
Why is McDonald getting all of this heat from Trump
and everyone else?

Speaker 4 (05:20):
Ah?

Speaker 1 (05:20):
And not a great.

Speaker 3 (05:21):
Question, because he could exactly he could be thirty three.
They figured if he flips and says yes, I'll do it,
the other two will come on board and make it happen.
They don't want to be the only one. So now
they have three that aren't if there were, if there
was one more than was, such as McDonald, then they
would fall in line, you think more so they were closer.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
Are these people the weekend? Are these people leaders? Or
are they just.

Speaker 3 (05:47):
Made It's a good question. I don't know, honestly. The
motivation is this. The political wins have been swirling in
Nebraska for the last year or so because because we've
had some folks take big shots and come up empty.
Ie tax reform, I remember that, and they're afraid. In

(06:07):
some cases they just want to take their hand off
the rail for a while and say you know what,
I'm going to stay out of the spotlight for a while.
I'm going to keep my head down, no major changes
till we get back to a legislative session. That's one motivation.
The other one, remember, they also had this bill come
up in the legislative session and it was not even close.
But they're thinking, Okay, we're going to have a fresh

(06:28):
new fifteen faces next January. Let's start over, turn down
the political heat. But the main thing is they think, hey,
doesn't look good if you're trying to change the rules
forty five days from the election.

Speaker 1 (06:39):
Who are these people?

Speaker 3 (06:40):
Brant Jana Hughes from Sward and Tom Brant from my
friends in low places tell me they were the other
wobbly ones.

Speaker 1 (06:47):
We don't know this. This is your sources.

Speaker 3 (06:49):
My sources have been very reliable over the last year.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
Your friends are in very low places. That's where I
like them. I'm among them, all right, thanks, so please leave.
That's Jim Rose Phobe Morning News. Thank you very much
for that. I appreciate it. So the first thing you
have to break to President Trump is as he's thanking
Mayor Stothard for being this great supporter and huge Trump supporter,

(07:15):
huge Winner take All supporter at number one. She has
never said anything about Winner take All. She's never talked
to the governor about it, she's never talked to a
member of the legislature about it. She has nothing to
do with it. Now. Influence as mayor of Omaha, sure,
but in terms of stacking, counting, or voting any of

(07:36):
this stuff, she has nothing to do with it. And
she's not a big Trump person. She's not a huge
Trump detractor. She doesn't have Trump Derangement syndrome TDS. But
she's not exactly going to be out there campaign for
President Trump. Now when he's come to town, she has
been there to greet him. So that's that's one thing,

(07:59):
as he's saying, oh thanks, Jean Stothard, big supporter, not really.
And then the other thing is a bit more nuanced,
taking aim at Mike McDonald. Now take him out of
the equation. This is an unnamed individual who for his

(08:22):
basically his entire life, his voting life, his career, he
has been a strong Democrat. He's been a big labor
union supporter, Democrat. My daddy voted Democrat. His daddy voted Democrat.
And I'm gonna vote Democrat, and my kids will vote Democrat,
otherwise they ain't my kids, you know, big blue labor Democrat.

(08:47):
But there's also something else to that that which you
know your daddy and granddaddy voted and supported as Democrats,
seems to be lost in this new Democrat party. If
you're big labor, how in the world can you support
the party that is flooding the country with illegal immigrants

(09:09):
who are getting employed, taking up resources, taking up allocation
of tax dollars, public safety, and everything else in the
country that you're working really hard trying to build. You're
getting undercut for jobs, the cost of living is coming down.
This is not what big labor longtime Democrats have ever supported,

(09:33):
except when it comes to voting time. Then they go
vote for Democrats over and over again, Like, I know
you're doing all this stuff I don't like, but you know,
those darn Republican they just mindlessly have supported this. It's
not so mindless anymore. And then there's the abortion issue.
You've got someone who says, yes, I'm a pro labor Democrat.

(09:56):
I like the way they stereotypically whatever, you know, stand
up for the little guy, and all the rest of
this stuff. All those Republicans are a bunch of rich,
old white people at their country clubs, and I want
to fight for the little guy. But I also go
to church and I pray to God, and I don't
support what I see happening with abortion in this country.

(10:18):
And so you get someone like that for one to
both issue whatever, who says I guess you know, I
don't feel like I've left the Democrat Party, but the
Democrat Party has left me, and they change their voter
and political affiliation to Republican. And as soon as they

(10:38):
do this, we find someone who is now I say
we in terms of a President Trump Republican party. Republicans
find someone who's like, basically, come over to their tent. Hey, buddy,
good to have you here. Little late to the party,
but that's okay. There's a lot of party here. What

(10:58):
do you want to drink? Hang out? And then later
he's like, you know, I heard you guys all discussing
this one thing. Bear in mind, I'm only I've only
been a Republican for a few minutes. I agree with
you on this and this, and I think these are
the big issues, but on this one, I'm not sold yet.
Get out, Get out of this tent. What do you

(11:19):
think you're doing? You know, and they're and they're lighting
up up on social media and they're mocking him and
making fun of him and kicking him out. I got
two things to break it to Donald Trump on today.
Number one, Merris Doutors not not your big Winner take All,
big Trumpey supporter. And and and number two and this

(11:43):
is the bigger one, calling someone a grandstander for standing
up for his beliefs, and someone who's like really like
dipped not more than dipped his toe in these Republican
water he's in and you're catapulting him out. It's not

(12:05):
just one guy on one vote. There are a lot
of people who feel this way. I don't know if
I don't know how they feel about Winner Take All
and all the rest of the stuff. I don't know
if they see it this way. But I don't know
if it's a great strategy to look at potential would
be Trump supporters, Republican supporters and find ways that they

(12:28):
disagree with you. Of course they're going to disagree with
you on some stuff. They were a Democrat five hours ago,
and now they want to see what you got. And
you're like, no, we don't need that. Get out, grand
standard Republican and name only get out. I don't know
why you set your sights on them anyway, when you've

(12:50):
got others who have said I'm a Republican, they get elected,
they get elected as Republicans, and they can't find a
way to do what every other state in the country,
he does something that would be advantageous to Republicans. Nebraska,
they can't find Brandt and Hughes. They can't find a way.
They weren't people who were Democrats until like a week ago.

(13:11):
They've been Republicans. They got elected as Republicans. How come
Trump's not lighting them up? Why is McDonald getting all
this attention? And why are we finding ways to start
shooting in the back the guy who just came into
your tent. Now you're pushing him out and you're shooting
him on the way out. It just seems like a
terrible idea. And I hate to break it to you,

(13:32):
mister president, you're the one leading that bad idea. Charge
Please stop it there then ow to do it. Scott
atkfab dot com is the email address. Look forward to
your thoughts on this and so much more. We have
for you throughout the day. We have statements from the

(13:55):
aforementioned state Senator Mike McDonald, as well as others in
the state, both Republican and Democrat. A Democrat on this issue.
I'll tell you who said what next, Scott fores Mitch says,
can you imagine the Democrat Party giving up winner take
all in the first place? If this were a blue state,
if roles were reversed, can you imagine them not doing

(14:17):
the exact same thing if they thought they could win
the whole state, And of course they would, and they
would market this better, spin this more effectively, and require
their members and elected office to walk in line so
that this would pass. Amen, You're exactly right. That's why
I think it's laughable. As I have a list of

(14:37):
statements here from local officials, political peoples. We'll start with
the one here from the chair of the Nebraska Democratic Party,
our good friend Jane Kleb. Jane says, quote, Nebraska has
a long and proud tradition of independence. I can't even
read the whole statement without interjecting every single word. We

(15:01):
don't have a long tradition of winner take all. We
have about a thirty year tradition. As you heard, Governor
Nelson was the one who signed this back in the
early nineties. He was on with Gary and Jim this morning.
If you missed it, it'll be posted later this morning
on the kfab's morning news podcast link on kfab dot com.

(15:21):
And as far as being this long and proud tradition
of independence, now we're pretty red. We're pretty republican. So
much so that let's look at the United States Senate
race in this state. You've got two US senators running
for reelection. One of them is running against a retired
person who is only doing this because no one else would.

(15:42):
And he felt like, all right, I guess if no
one else will run for Senate against Pete Ricketts, I'll
do it because I don't want to see no one run.
So Preston Love is running. And in the other race,
Democrats could even field someone they couldn't even feeld a
candidate in a statewide race. Again, dev Fisher, you've got
the independent Dan Osborne. And if Nebraska has a long

(16:05):
and proud tradition of independence, I guess Dan Osborne will
be our next senator. Truth of the matter is, he
stands about as much chance of beating dev Fisher as
your mom does no offense. Dan, You're good, dude. But so,
Nebraska has a long and proud tradition of independence, and
our electoral system reflects that by ensuring that the outcome

(16:27):
of our elections truly represents the will of the people
without interference. Senator McDonald is standing strong against tremendous pressure
from out of state interests to protect Nebraskan's voice and
our democracy. In this election and those to come, Nebraskans
will continue to lead the way by electing leaders at
every level who stand up for the people and respect

(16:49):
our spirits of independence. Unquote there, I read the entire statement.
We don't live in a democracy. We live in a
representative republic. If we live in a democracy, then Nebraska's
blue dot would count for spit. It's the electoral college
system of this representative republic, this representative constitutional republic. Quit

(17:09):
calling it a democracy. The only reason they keep calling
it a democracy is either because they are ignorant or
because they want a popular vote. Now, if Jane cleb
Our good friend, and I'm not saying that sarcastically, I
actually honestly know sarcasm, I adore her people get so
mad when I say it. But she's awesome. So if

(17:34):
Jane Kleb really believed all of thistle that came out
of her mouth when she said all this, then she'd
go to California, in Pennsylvania and Arizona and all the
rest of these play well, especially the big blue one.
She go to California and New York and Illinois and
Oregon and say, you know, Nebraska's doing it right. Why

(17:58):
don't you guys portion out your electoral College votes by
congressional district the way Nebraska does. You know why she
won't do that because it would not work out as well,
nearly as well for Democrats as things are now with
winner take All. So she's saying, oh, Nebraska does it right,

(18:20):
all right, Go tell California New York to do it
that way. Oh no, no, no, they do it right,
but they do it opposite than how we do it,
and we're trying to do it like they do it
the way that you like it in those states. Well
that's fine for them, but not for us. Okay, okay,
Now I'll tell you who else has issued a statement.
We have statements here from Congressman Mike Flood from Senator

(18:42):
Pete Ricketts and state Senator Mike McDonnell himself. I'll tell
you what he said after a Fox News update.

Speaker 4 (18:49):
Next, Scott Byes Snooze Radio eleven kfab.

Speaker 1 (18:55):
We're talking here about the electoral college in Nebraska. Forty
eight states say win or take all. In our states
Maine and Nebraska say ah, we think we should give
one of these votes to whoever wins the congressional district
here in Nebraska. Well, that's where you get your blue dot.
And there are people who look at these maps and say,

(19:16):
you know, if Trump wins this and Harris wins that,
and it comes down it could come down to one vote.
Certainly could there is a way that that math works out.
Is it likely? No, We talk about this every four years.
It never comes close. But it could. And so therefore
you've got big time Republicans President Trump, Clay and Buck

(19:39):
Charlie Kirk. Turning point USA Senator Lindsey Graham, who was
on with Gary and Jim yesterday. You got people leaning
on the legislature of Nebraska get this figured out. And
even though there are three Republicans in this officially nonpartisan
legislature who are no votes on it, and you need
to have all three or you need to have a

(20:00):
Democrat say yeah, I think that the Republicans should win
Nebraska's second district. Like that's going to happen. It's funny
how they almost never, the Democrats almost never have a
situation like this, but the Republicans love the circular firing squad.
And so here we are, and it's Mike McDonald who

(20:21):
ends up being the one lit up on social media
by President Trump and others as being a grand stander.
Here's the statement we got yesterday from Senator Grant's I
mean McDonald. So he says, and I quote, elections should
be an opportunity for all voters to be heard, no
matter who they are, where they live, or what party

(20:44):
they support. For decades, Nebraska has tried to live up
to that ideal by allocating our electoral College votes in
a way that gives all Nebraskans an equal voice in
choosing our president. For Omaha, the city I love and
have called home for fifty eight years, brings tremendous national attention,
is impactful on our local economy, and forces presidential candidates

(21:06):
to make their case to all Nebraskans instead of just
flying over and disregarding us. In recent weeks, a conversation
around whether to change how we allocate our electoral college
votes has returned to the forefront. I respect the desire
of some of my colleagues to have this discussion, and
I have taken time to listen carefully to Nebraskans and

(21:27):
national leaders on both sides of the issue. After deep consideration,
it is clear to me that right now, forty three
days from election day this was yesterday, is not the
moment to make this change. I have notified Governor Pillen
that I will not change my long held position and
will oppose any attempted changes to our electoral college system

(21:49):
before the twenty twenty four election. I also encouraged him
and will encourage my colleagues in the unicameral to pass
a constitutional amendment during next year's session so that the
people of the Brassa can once and for all decide
this issue the way it should be decided. On the ballot.
This November, Nebraskans will have the chance to elect candidates
at every level who reflect their views, including on this issue.

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That's how it should be. Nebraska voters, not politicians of
either party, should have the final say in how we
pick a president. I want to thank the voters who
reached out to me for engaging in democracy and showing
America who Nebraskans are fiercely independent, filled with pride in
our great city of Omaha, and deeply devoted to the
promise of American democracy. Sign Mike McDonald, lifelong Democrat, recent Republican.

(22:39):
He didn't sign it that way, but that's who he is.
He's right when he says, if Nebraska didn't do it
this way, Trump Harris, none of the presidential candidates would
give one rip about Omaha. They wouldn't care. And if
we want to feel like, hey, they care, they're talking
about us, then we should keep it this way. It

(23:02):
seems like an interesting way of looking at it. As
far as he says, like as far as the dollars
to our local economy, yeah, I guess they set up
some offices and bring in some politicians and plenty of
ads on media here. But I don't know that it
really makes that much of a bump in the local economy.

(23:24):
To have the presidential contenders and the major political parties
trying to influence Nebraska's second district certainly doesn't hurt. They
would ignore us. You'll notice there aren't a lot of
presidential contenders heading out to McCook hey. It's Nebraska's third district.
I'm Kamala Harrison. I want to introduce myself. Maybe we

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can get a blue dot out here. Blue isn't even
allowed out there. People don't wear blue or various shades.
Indigo is a popular topic out there, like is it purple?
Is it blue? Too close? Can't wear it? There is
no blue out there. You ever been out to Lake McConaughey.
It's green. So no one's paying the attention Nebraska's third district.

(24:12):
And that's how it'd be for Nebraska's second district except
for the congressional race. That wouldn't change. But for the
presidential electoral College, they wouldn't care. But while Mike McDonald
makes a compelling argument, it's an argument that forty eight
other states said, Eh, we're not gonna do that. And

(24:35):
if this is the way the game is played, you
can either sit over here on the sideline and go
I don't like how you're playing the game. Well, everyone
else is in there playing the game. You're gonna sit
on the sidelines and whin about it. Are you gonna
put on your big boy pants and go play? Because,
like has been pointed out, if this didn't work out
for the Democrats and Democrats were in charge of Nebraska

(24:55):
and there was a red dot against a blue background,
there was a chance Donald Trump could be the next
president if he got Nebraska's one vote in the red
dot here in Nebraska second district, this wouldn't even be
an issue. The Democrats will have taken care of it yesterday.
So you can sit over there and go or you

(25:16):
can go play.

Speaker 2 (25:17):
Lucy Chapman, I'm just encouraged that we're hearing from Democrats
that a vote actually might matter.

Speaker 1 (25:26):
That's a shot there from Lucy Chapman. Here are some
emails in the Zonkers custom Woods inbox Scott at kfab
dot com. Lucas says, good morning Scott. Nice balance and
commentary summed it up in a wonderfully refreshing and candid
statement yesterday. Wow, an elected official standing by his values

(25:49):
and stated positions. That's old school. That's from Lucas. And
then we have this kind of email from the concerned voters.
Is how it signed. It says it's not new Scott
take McDonald's our card back. We don't want him. How
much time have you spent on Mike McDonald's self promoting,

(26:13):
self serving, self arrogant, loving himself loving conflict kind of
fake union fan, I don't. I think you could have
probably ended that sentence with a different word. But I'm
not a Mike McDonald fan. I'm not a Mike McDonald detractor.
I don't. I'm not really. I tell you if I'm

(26:33):
a fan of somebody, and generally it's someone outside in
Nebraska politics. These people don't pay me to put on
a cheerleader's outfit and work for them, None of them.
When we have them on the program here locally, I
asked them questions so you can hear their response. I
don't work for these people. I go vote every election cycle,

(26:55):
and there are a lot of people I'm very proud
to fill in that oval for. But I don't sit
here and try and say, all right, election days coming up,
you need to vote for this, and you need to
vote for that person. You need to vote for this.
I trust you. I don't, but I'm going to tell
you I do because it sounds good. But I'm not
going to try and sit here and get everyone to
think exactly the same way I do. That would be

(27:17):
crazy and boring, and it's going to beat your head
against the wall trying to get that done. Too many
people now think that, hell, this is the way it
has to be. Everyone has to vote this way, and
if they don't, they're our enemy. I don't think that way.
You do what you gotta do. I don't care. I'm
just going to talk about you. You want to hear
another statement, This one's short. Senator Pete Rickets issued one yesterday.

(27:41):
He said, I'm incredibly disappointed by Senator McDonald's opposition to
win or take all. We should cast our five electoral
College votes with one voice, by switching from a system
that dilutes Nebraska's vote to a system that allows us
to elect a president for all Nebraskans. Mike Flood also
issued a statement. Actually, he was on CNN talking about this,

(28:08):
and he also pointed out if this system is so
fair in Nebraska, then why doesn't California do it? Why
doesn't New York do it? The reality is they're partisan
and they would never change to something like this, and
the majority of Nebraskans want to see Donald Trump elected.
He's going to win by twenty points. Is it too
much to ask to be like every other state besides Maine.

(28:32):
So there you have it, all the thoughts from all
these leaders, including the guy who seems to be I
don't know why Brant and Hughes other state senators who
have been elected as conservatives and they're not voting for this,
but they're not getting the same attention as Mike McDonald.
I guess they're not rumored to be running for mayor
of Omaha or Steward or Platt Smith, where Hughes and

(28:57):
Brandt are from, respectively. Stephanie points out that McDonald, if
he's truly pro life, pro Israel all, whatever his values are,
they should trump everything else he just said in that statement,
and he should support getting a Republican elected president by
any means necessary. That is a good point from Stephanie,
and Kyle says Lucy for the win. Thank you, Lucy

(29:19):
for stating the obvious so succinctly. Democrats want the popular
vote for the country, but not for Nebraska. Ugh. That's
from Kyle's Scott at kfab dot com, Fox and kfab
News Updates. Next, I have a series of stories about notorious, nefarious,
notable characters or characters, if you will. Goes back to

(29:42):
a knight of ill repute in my teenage years, when
there was a friend of ours who was acting a
fool around several girls. One of the girls said, someone,
get this Ben character away from me. Since then, character
has always been pronounced with a sound.

Speaker 2 (30:05):
Well, it is how it's spelled.

Speaker 1 (30:07):
Yes, and we did get that Ben character away from her.
No one's seen him since. All right, we'll start with
this guy. When you get in the news stuff like this,
we don't name you. I don't. It seems like a
stupid stance to take, but you know, you show up

(30:28):
some places with guns to do bad stuff. If the
idea is you want notoriety, I'm not gonna give it
to you, which doesn't seem to stop anyone else to
ever do anything like this ever again. But like I said,
the stance has been made, the line has been crossed.
You'd think you're gonna go out and try and overturn
an election and get mentioned on this show. No, not

(30:49):
by name there. Sorry, let me do the story again,
this time not acting like a four year old. The
guy who camped out near what is referred to as
mar A Lago it's Trump International golf course where the
president plays a lot of golfing. Set up there, bivouacked

(31:13):
in the bushes near a fence. He had several weapons
and notes talking about his desire to assassinate Donald Trump.
Secret Service noticed him and fired shots. What we've been
wondering is did he fire a shot? Back? Was the
shots that were heard as Secret Service were going after

(31:35):
the President as he's lining up a birdie putt on
I think he was on the fifth hole there at
Trump International, and he's like, again, we just did this?
Is this a drill? As they heard the gun shots,
people were wondering, well, did that guy fire a shot?
In court yesterday it was determined that he did not.

(32:00):
He would be shooter, did not shoot a lot of
people have been wondering, why isn't he charged with attempted assassination?
Why is he just charged with gun crimes? What's the deal?
Why are they trying to give him a lesser sentence?
Is it because he tried to kill Trump and everyone
hates Trump and we got to get rid of him

(32:20):
some way, somehow, and we're not going to charge him
with assassination. To let the next people know, like, hey,
if you're thinking about it, go ahead. We don't really care. Well. See,
the law has a funny little sticking point, and that is,
in order to be charged with attempted assassination, I think
you actually have to fire a shot. That's part of

(32:44):
the argument here. I guess his attorneys are arguing, No,
he wasn't going to shoot trump birds, turkeys, dear, I
don't know whatever they have down there.

Speaker 2 (33:00):
Alligators.

Speaker 1 (33:01):
Yeah, he wanted to show the president his gun, but
he didn't fire a shot, which makes seeking the stronger
charge of attempted assassination difficult. I tell you, the guy
who has a problem with this is the one who
would have been the one shot. Donald Trump said, if

(33:25):
the DOJ and FBI cannot do their job honestly and
without bias and hold the aspiring assassin responsible to the
full extent of the law, Governor DeSantis and the state
of Florida have already agreed to take the lead on
the investigation and prosecution. Florida charges would be much more
serious than the ones the FBI has announced. Right now,

(33:46):
this guy has been charged with two gun crimes. Now,
that was before we learned that they found a note
where he talked about his intent was to kill Donald Trump.
Now we learned that yesterday the FBI and the Department
of Justice knew that when they fired filed the charges.

(34:08):
I don't know what this particular form of the Justice
Department will do in terms of how much punishment they'll
seek on the gun crimes against this guy. I know
that previous attempts to hold people responsible when they're felons
or mentally deranged individual, individuals with the firearms they should

(34:30):
not have generally get a slap on the wrist and
they're back out in the streets. I don't know what
they're going to do with this guy, but I'll tell
you who's not having it, and that's Trump. The prosecutor
said he was set up in a sniper's nest. He
was there for one reason and one reason only. He
was there to kill the former president of the United States.

(34:54):
Here's the note where he says as much, here's the
place where he's set up. Why in the world do
you think, Well, they might have a case, but right
now they don't have a charge. And Trump is saying
that the DOJ, the Department of Justice, and the FBI

(35:16):
have continued to be weaponized against him. By Biden and Harris.
I don't know. I know this was the dumbest part
of what we heard yesterday. The attorneys for as Trump
called him, the aspiring assassin, tried to make a case

(35:36):
to the judge that their client, again the guy in
the bushes with the guns, the guy with a record
of gun crimes and mentally deranged behavior going back twenty
some years. This guy, the guy with the note to
try and convince other people that if I fail, you

(35:56):
should try and take out Trump. His lawyers tried to
argue to the judge, our client is not only not
a flight risk, but he's not a danger to the community.
Oh well, why didn't you say so? Oh the guy

(36:18):
out there with all the guns, the guy out there
with the guns, in the assassination note, and the attempt
to tell other people, if I fail, you do what
I did, I'll pay you. That guy not a danger
to the community. Well, if you're a danger to one
person in the community, you're a danger to everybody in
the community. Trump's in that community, I think you can argue,

(36:40):
is a danger to Trump. Thankfully, this judge ordered the
defendant to remain in jail without bond until his upcoming
court hearing. I don't know how long it's going to
be before that guy gets the notoriety that other killers

(37:00):
have gotten. Have you been watching this on Netflix? You?
You sick freak? Have you been watching this? Will you
watch this next one? Talking about notorious people, the Menendez brothers.
Isn't it funny? Like there are people who I've dated

(37:25):
I don't remember recently. No, I go back, well, the
Menendez thing that was in the late, like the mid midnight,
early to mid nineties. There are people I went out
with in the early to mid nineties. I got a
chance to kiss these.

Speaker 2 (37:43):
Girls Menendez, no brother No, these girls. I'm saying, oh, well,
did you know them?

Speaker 1 (37:47):
I got a chance to kiss these girls, and I
am very thankful about that. I don't They're probably a couple.
I don't really remember their names. If you're listening right now,
going hey, not you, but you hear Lyle and Eric Menendez,
and suddenly everyone in the country who was alive at

(38:08):
the time was like, oh, the Menandez brothers. They killed
their parents, Lyle and Eric. Yeah, I know these guys
and this is the thirty years ago. I don't know
why they got to be the ones that we were,
so I don't know, engaged in this this weird thing.
So anyway, Netflix recently had a show on there called

(38:30):
Monsters the Lyle and Eric Menendez Story. I think it's
it just recently came out. It says here, it's the
number one show on Netflix in the United States. And
I'll tell you who has a problem with it. Lyle
and Eric Menendez like monsters.

Speaker 2 (38:50):
Hey, what are they talking about us?

Speaker 1 (38:54):
They have? According to Eric, he's issued a stay. Well. Actually,
and here's the dumb part. Because I'm thinking about this
guy who's gonna go to jail for something in relation
to the would be assassination of Donald Trump. I wonder
how long it'll be before some woman's like I can
change him and marry him in prison, because I think

(39:15):
both these guys got married in prison, didn't they, Because
the statement here comes from one of these dudes wives
who married them when they were in jail. He killed
his parents, but he was so cute when he did it.

(39:35):
So Eric Menendez in talking about those who put together
this Menendez story on Netflix, he says, how demoralizing that
one man, the person in charge of the production, with power,
can undermine decades of progress and shedding light on childhood trauma.
It's disheartening slander. He says that these brothers were portrayed

(40:00):
spoiled brats after their parents' money. But they've long argued
they killed their parents as a result of years of physical, emotional,
and sexual abuse. They even have a guy who was
in Minudo. Yeah, but who wasn't they had a guy
who was in minudo. In case you're of a certain age,

(40:21):
either older or younger than a proper gen xer, you
might not know what manudo is, Like, that's a it's
a food, right, Ricky. But yeah, Menudo showed up at
Ricky's birthday party in silver spoons. Menudo was the original
boy band.

Speaker 2 (40:39):
Yeah, Ricky living Levina Loca guy.

Speaker 1 (40:43):
Oh, Ricky Martin, Ricky Martin, you're talking about Ricky Schroeder
because remember silver spoons, the kid you know, born with
silver spoons in their mouth.

Speaker 2 (40:52):
Nudo came to the set.

Speaker 1 (40:54):
Yeah, because Ricky really liked a girl and he was
having a birthday party, and somehow she got it in
her head that Menudo should play his birthday party, and
so his rich father arranged it. So Menudo came and
played his birthday party, Silver Spoons, great show. Alfonzo Roberro
was break dancing on that show. Good stuff. Anyway, a
member of Menudo says, Oh, yeah, their dad assaulted me

(41:16):
when I was a kid. I don't know. I know
that there are resources available where you can leave the
home and go tell somebody, and things happen in a
different way other than you murdering your parents. So anyway,

(41:36):
Netflix now says we have a new show coming out,
and it comes out here in a couple of weeks,
called The Menendez Brothers. It says for the first time
in thirty years, and in their own words, both brothers
revisit the trial that shocked the nation. I don't know
that I was shocked. These psychopaths killed their parents. They

(41:57):
were found guilty of it, and they've been they're still
in prison. I was only shocked when girls, because these
guys are about the same age as I am, and
girls were going to meet them in prison and trying
to throw their panties through the telephone to talk to
them through the glass. And I'm about the same age, going,
how come I can't I can't get a girl to

(42:19):
talk to me. But these these murderers have got girls
lined up outside the prison. That's the only thing that
shocked me. So anyway, if you're one of these sick
weirdos that loves watching these true crimes or they're glorifying murderers, heh,
you'll be real excited on October seventh when the Menendez

(42:39):
Brothers comes out to Netflix. I don't watch that garbage.

Speaker 2 (42:43):
Why are you surprised?

Speaker 1 (42:45):
I just watch all the John Wick stuff, this kid,
I don't watch that either. What why am I surprised? What?

Speaker 2 (42:50):
Why are you surprised that you are not a bad boy?
And so you didn't draw women?

Speaker 1 (42:57):
I tried one day to be a bad boy.

Speaker 2 (42:59):
What happened?

Speaker 1 (43:03):
Well, I showed up with the I did the fingerless gloves.

Speaker 2 (43:07):
Oh no, yeah, and uh.

Speaker 1 (43:10):
I showed up all leather with the fingerless gloves and uh.
And I had like a little fu manchew mustache. And
I thought, I'm gonna be a bad boy. This is
what bad boys look like. And I did get a
lot of interest from a lot of guys. Scotty's News
radio eleven kfab went to the Blue Oyster Club. But
bu up, there's your eighties movie reference. For this segment

(43:33):
of the radio program, boy we don't do that one enough.
I'll take any in the series of this movie Trading Places,
no series of seven like Part one, Part two, Part three,
Part four, Part five, Rocky Police Academy. But good, guess
we have another character. This one's notorious or IIG, No,

(43:55):
not b IG. When I say notorious, I don't go
with the notorious b I G. My musical reference would
be more note note notorious. There's your eighties movie or
eighties music reference.

Speaker 2 (44:07):
New Kids on the Block segment of the radio.

Speaker 1 (44:08):
Program No, no, Christopher Cross, No, it's both.

Speaker 2 (44:13):
Duran's Oh, not just one durand No, it's both.

Speaker 1 (44:17):
It's Duran Duran. Okay, this one's more notorious. Her name
is Kim YEGI if I'm pronouncing her name correctly, I
don't recognize.

Speaker 2 (44:29):
How notorious could she be if you don't even know
how to say her name.

Speaker 1 (44:32):
I don't recognize the name. But you know who she is.
She's the one who at the Olympics this past summer
in Paris, she was the sharpshooter in the what's the
name of this particular competition? Sharp shooting shooting? I guess

(44:56):
the shooting competition pistol shooting. So she was the pistol shooter,
and she was the one who was like dressed in
all black. She had like this you know, cyborg like
shooting glasses and the hat sometimes turned backwards. If you
wanted to really do your best in arm wrestling, you

(45:17):
turn your hat backwards. There's your eighties movie reference for
the segment of the radio program. They're coming in hot
right now. If you want to win an arm wrestling battle,
all you do is turn your hat backwards.

Speaker 2 (45:28):
It's Sylvester Stallone.

Speaker 1 (45:29):
Yes, I can't over the top. Oh yes, my fourteen
year old son.

Speaker 2 (45:35):
It half a ding. You can't give me half a ding.

Speaker 1 (45:40):
My fourteen year old son took a shot at the
old man. They are not going come on, dad and
challenge me to arm wrestling. What happened, no problem, but
more of a problem than the last time we did this. Yeah,
there is an end in sight for my reign as
arm wrestling champion, Little punk. Anyway, she turned her hats backwards,

(46:01):
and she had this really cool like pistol shooting style
where she just looked like and she's all black. She
looked like a cold hearted, like super cool assassin in
a movie. So much so that Elon Musk tweeted out,
she should be cast in an action movie, no acting required.
Hollywood noticed. And she's got a new movie coming out.

Speaker 2 (46:22):
And she sold her soul to the devil for it.
I don't know about that, not yet did make a
movie or two vers.

Speaker 1 (46:29):
Yeah, she's gonna be in a movie where she's playing
get this an assassin. Stretching out those wings a little bit,
and she'll be playing an assassin noted here, a fitting
gig for an athlete whose icy attitude has already earned
her comparisons to action heroes like James Bond and John Wick.

(46:50):
James Bond was not an icy assassin. He was a
super cool debonear debonair assassin.

Speaker 2 (46:56):
That's what made him so icy.

Speaker 1 (46:58):
No, he was.

Speaker 2 (46:58):
He didn't know how dangerous it was.

Speaker 1 (47:01):
Your favorite Bond.

Speaker 2 (47:02):
I've never seen a Bond movie, Sean Connery. I mean
that's what I meant to say.

Speaker 1 (47:11):
I will accept that maybe they're not your favorite movies,
but to have never seen any of.

Speaker 2 (47:16):
Them, Hey, let's talk about you.

Speaker 1 (47:18):
Maybe they maybe they should put some more out.

Speaker 2 (47:20):
That's exactly.

Speaker 1 (47:21):
If they put out another twenty James Bond movies, maybe
you'll see one.

Speaker 2 (47:25):
I'm just thinking, never seen one, going to find something
to do to get good at and next year I'm
going to be in the Olympics.

Speaker 1 (47:32):
Okay. Roger Moore, by the way, because he kind of
seemed like a guy that wakes up every morning with
a bad back, yeah, and still goes out like and
I'm skiing and I'm shooting and I'm jumping on to
a hot air balloon and I'm like, well I could
do that. I like Roger Moore. Sean Connery, he was
He was James Bond when I was a kid, so

(47:53):
he's my James Bond. I know Sean Connery was cooler.
But people aren't gonna like this. Not as good as movies.

Speaker 2 (48:03):
I'll take your word for it.

Speaker 1 (48:06):
I don't need an hour of building a character. Let's
just do Let's just chase cars, get chicks and shoot
stuff like. I don't need more action. I need more action.
And the Sean Connery movies too long, too boring. Some
of the movies were pretty good, some of them had
some great scenes and all that, but overall didn't like
them as much. Anyway, She's getting an action movie, and

(48:29):
you know what is most funny about this story? She
didn't even win the gold. She won silver, which means
there's a gold medalist right now going. Really, all I
had to do was put on a different outfit.

Speaker 4 (48:41):
Scott bordhees, where are you going? News radio elevenfab.

Speaker 1 (48:45):
You know how you go overseas and it seems like
everything is about thirty years behind in some of the culture.
Like I went to Paris years ago and they were
all dressed like it was the eighties, and I thought, wow,
they behind. And then like ten years later that kind
of style was in vogue here again in America, and

(49:06):
I thought, wow, as France behind the times there or
ahead of it, and my head exploded. Well, in Iran
it goes back even further to the nineteen forties. Iran
has never really had much access to anything that's been Western,

(49:28):
certainly not American, except of course, for the money that
President Biden and President Obama has given them. Other than that,
in terms of the entertainment, they don't get much, but
they just got something back. A radio program created by
CBS Radio in the late nineteen forties called Yours Truly

(49:51):
Johnny Dollar. It is the stereotypical radio detective on the case.
Why if I'm thinking about old detectives. There's only one
that comes to mind, and I imagine that this radio,
this series of episodes that was available to Iran back

(50:14):
in the sixties and seventies and then the Shah took
over as like no more American anything. Well, now they've
found some old episodes of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar, and Iranians,
especially older Iranians, are like, Johnny Dollar is back, and
they're just eating up this old radio series that most

(50:35):
Americans have never heard of, but they love it. One
guy in his seventies now said, it's amazing. Back in
the sixties and seventies, we didn't have any worries here
in Iran except for guessing how Johnny Dollar would find
the murderer. So they've got it back. Now. There is

(50:57):
a state radio broadcast in Iran, one that has nine
episodes and plans to air seventeen more of Yours Truly
Johnny Dollar, which, as I said, I imagine, sounds a
lot like this. It was midnight when it happened.

Speaker 5 (51:14):
I was parked in front of four Fingers of Bourbon
at the Swanny Club on Lebrae Avenue. Most ex fly
boys were making babies and buying refrigerators. But in the
aftermath of my pow experience, I had rekindled a relationship
with two old pals, Jack Daniels and Jim Bean. My
life was rapidly going down the porcelain convenience. I could

(51:34):
barely afford cigarettes, whiskey, and food. Looked like the food
was going to have to go. I had two things
in common with the colored patrons of the Swanee Club.
We all loved Nat King Cole, and we were all
fed up with white people. On that particular night, I
was dancing and cheek the cheek with a table top.

(51:55):
I lifted my head and she walked in. I was
a second for long legs. I wanted to shinny up
when I here's like a native boy looking for coconuts.
Here's the kind of blue eyed blonde that Hitler based
his racial theories upond statuesque like Lady Liberty.

Speaker 1 (52:15):
But I figured I'd be the one left holding the torch.
Ah the great chick hazard right there. Phil Hartman Saturday
Night Live begins their fiftieth season this coming weekend with
a bunch of people who I believe I'm obligated, obligated
as a gen xer to say, are some of the

(52:37):
most unfunny people that have ever been put together on television. These,
by the way, will also be people that a couple
of them in ten or fifteen years from now, I'll
look back and go, oh, they were actually pretty funny.

Speaker 2 (52:51):
When you compare.

Speaker 1 (52:53):
I know, but it takes me a while to warm
up to new SNL cast.

Speaker 2 (52:58):
Members, and some just aren't worth it ever.

Speaker 1 (53:02):
Right, Well, I'll tell you like one who I said,
that guy is not funny and I'll never find him funny.
Will Ferrell?

Speaker 2 (53:10):
You said that, Yeah, and you still think that.

Speaker 1 (53:13):
I thought the cheerleader's bit was so stupid, and I thought, well,
I guess that's all he is. No. No, I think
Will Ferrell in various movies, and in most of his
movies actually very very funny, whether it's Anchorman or Talladega
Knights semi pro. I do enjoy Will Ferrell.

Speaker 2 (53:31):
I really prefer Chad Smith.

Speaker 1 (53:34):
Chad Smith red Hot Chili Peppers. Who's Chad Smith drummer?

Speaker 2 (53:40):
Yeah, you've never seen them next to each other.

Speaker 1 (53:45):
Will Ferrell looks like Chad Smith. Yeah, there's a visual
reference that works great on radio.

Speaker 2 (53:51):
I thought you knew, No, I.

Speaker 1 (53:52):
Hadn't I know who he is. I don't know what
he looks like, but I guess he looks like Will Ferrell.
Gonna need more cow bell, But fifty years of SNL
starting this weekend, I'm gonna encourage Emery Songer. He's not
back this Friday, but it still worked for next Friday.
He does the Friday Four Like the four best whatever,

(54:16):
four best cast members in Saturday Night Live history. I
have a really hard time picking beyond the first one
because I'm like, well, I want to put him in,
but who I leave out? But the one, the only
one who is in every single one of my configurations,
the best four cast members in SNL history, The only

(54:37):
one is on there every time, Phil Hartman best cast
member in SNL history, In case you're wondering, dan Aykroyd,
Keenan Thompson, Jason Sedeaikis. But then I'm like, I put
Tina Feyan. There was she that versat all? Or she

(55:00):
really had funny? I'll tell you, I think it's Funny's
Kate McKinnon. But does she get to be in the
top four already? What about Gil Radner? Yeah? Then I
start I start doing all that, like do I do
I bounce Eddie Murphy from the list just because he
went on and was bigger than Eddie Murphy, saying with
Billy Crystal, I gotta look at just SNL Phil Hartman.

(55:25):
But what about Sandler, Chris Farley and Blushy, Mike Myers
and Dana Carvey. Dana Carvey, how do I see heart?
I don't want to do it. I'll make Emory do it.
I'll make Emory do it and see what you have
to say. Uh, maybe next Friday. I don't know what
he's planning on doing, but I'm gonna push for that.

(55:46):
Who says watching reality television is a waste of time?
This is a woman fifty three year old Canadian woman
who went missing for nearly four days during a what
was supposed to be a spiritual retreat in south west
Colorado last month, and on a hike, she decided, I'm
gonna go this way? Have you really? So she went

(56:08):
off on her own way and got lost with a whistle,
a water bottle, a space blanket in some matches, and
she was missing for nearly four days before she was found.
She says, I was I survived and I was kept
alive because I watched a lot of reality television shows

(56:30):
like Alive and Naked and Afraid. She built fires using
band aid rappers to try and attract attention. Kept her.
She kept herself motivated with popular songs like I Will
Survive by Gloria Gaynor. I'm guessing all by myself. Was
probably out here I go again on my own? Not

(56:52):
a great choice? Or what about this is the end
by the doors? Probably not? Anyway they found her. She's okay,
She says, I was following the sun, climbing a tree.

Speaker 2 (57:05):
Oh, I mean trying to go no singing seasons in
the sun, right, goodbye to you.

Speaker 1 (57:09):
Yes, the governor of Kentucky is a Democrat. He's Andy
Bashir and in Kentucky he just signed his own executive
order on banning the use of conversion therapy on minors.
Conversion therapy is well, it's not the same way. The

(57:31):
idea is is that you've you got a kid and
the kid is gay or leaning in that direction, and
you say, uh, no kid of mine is gonna be gay.
So like remember when your dad would catch you smoking
and he'd make you smoke the entire pack. I guess
that's not how they do conversion therapy. So it's a

(57:55):
practice where they just it's counseling and like talk you
out of being gay. I don't think they rub your
nose in it either. Anyway, it's a practice where they
try and talk you out of being gay. They try
and counsel you out of being gay. And the reason
why they say is they're basically saying no, no. In Kentucky,

(58:16):
we don't want anyone to force miners to do something
other than live the life the way that they were born.
In fact, one of these people, in supporting the governor's
action here says that the message to Kentucky's LGBTQ plus
kids and their families is you are perfect as you are.

(58:40):
Interesting that when Nebraska says, you know, maybe we shouldn't
do gender altering surgeries on miners. We think they're perfect
as they are. They were born male, born female, and
maybe doing this gender alter surgery on them where we

(59:02):
cut a little bit of this off, put a little
bit of this on. Does anyone have any speckle here?
Take that hood ornament over there, Let's put that on here.
Let's see you about this. Let's pump you so full
of hormones before you even go through adolescents. You don't
know up from down and left from right, that maybe
that's a bad thing to do to minors. It's funny
that the governor Basher Krowd says, oh, no, that's fine

(59:26):
to do to kids. But if you want to counsel
them and tell them Jesus loves them the way they are,
to try and get them maybe at the age of
eleven not to engage in certain relations that that's wrong.
One is surgery, the other one is counseling. They're arguing

(59:47):
against themselves and they say that this therapy again, it's counseling.
The medical community says it's wrong and hurts our children.
Is this the same medical community that says that gender
altering surgeries, puberty blockers, hormone therapies, that's all fine anyway.

(01:00:08):
They just signed that. In Kentucky. There's a little bit
of hard hitting social commentary from the talk radio host
who just moments ago was talking about how Will Ferrell
and the drummer from Red Hot Chili Peppers looked the same.
At least. Lucy said that I got a lot of
people here in the inbox going, oh, yeah, you got
to watch the Jimmy fallon bit where they do a
drum off and they look exactly the same.

Speaker 4 (01:00:29):
Scott voices mornings nine to eleven, Our News Radio eleven
ten Kfab