October 2, 2024 • 39 mins
"The Problem with People" is not only the name of Paul Reiser's latest film, it's most voters' assessment of the state of politics these days. But was that really what was on display during last night's debate?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott Vordies. I have yet to see Hill Billy Elegy,
even though I'm still apparently one of the last conservative
people who still has Netflix. After their CEO came out
and endorsed Kamala Harris, a lot of people are like, well,
that's it for Netflix. Then I'm done until Stranger Things
next season comes out, and then a lot of us
(00:21):
will be like, you know, but maybe just for a
few more days, and then I'm done, you know, So
I still have Netflix. I did. Does the CEO of Netflix,
who's a big Kamala Harris supporter, does he still allow
on his platform the movie based on jad Vance's life
and book, He'll Billy Elgy? Is that still on that
(00:42):
streaming platform? I'll wait for an answer. Lucy Chapman, good morning.
I hadn't seen that, and I watched his speech at
the convention a little bit of it, and it was fine.
I thought, all right, guy's fine. But you know, I
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kept hearing people go, I don't know about jd Vance.
I don't know why he picked him. He calls women
childless cat ladies, and that's really bad and really bad,
you know. So I went into it last night not
knowing a whole heck of a lot about the guy.
(01:24):
I can tell you this, I really like him. Now,
not only do I like him, let me tell you
something else that might blow your mind a little bit
because that last comment, like, wow, conservative talk radio host
kind of likes the Republican senator from Ohio who happens
to be on the ticket with the Republican presidential candidate.
(01:45):
Mind Blown's gotta tell you something else. You know who else?
I kind of like Tim Watts That blow your mind
a little bit.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
In a comical kind of way.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
No, I just he's just he's likable. I can hang
out with that guy. Some of his policies are absolutely asinine,
and don't worry. By the end of the forthcoming rant,
I will make it clear why I'm not a supporter
of his politically, but from a likability standpoint, because I
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don't base who I like who I'll talk to based
on their politics. There are a lot of people who
are very, very liberal. I love talking to them, and
by the same token, there are some people who are
rapidly conservative and I don't like talking to him. Some
people not you. Some people these are the people want
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to come up like do you you never talk about
illegal immigration, Like I literally talk about illegal immigration all
the time. You gotta talk more two hours a day, Like,
it's not gonna be two hours a day. You've got
to let people know, like people know. So you know,
I don't base who I like based on the politics
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of it. It's really based on whether or not they're
in a jerk hole. So you know what else I
liked about last night's debate. These guys got their punches in,
but it was largely civil and it just kind of
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felt like what I like to see in politics. You
make your case, you fight for your side, and then
at the end you find some common ground. There were
a lot of them going back and forth saying like,
I'm sure that he would agree. I agree with what
he said. I like what he said there. But the
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moment where Governor Tim Walls said that his son had
witnessed a shooting and JD. Van says, I didn't know
that your son witnessed that. Tim, That's terrible, very very human,
and I don't think it was robotically calculated. Was terrible
what happened to your son. Human empathy, empathy, empathy, empathy. Sorry,
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I was saying that I like those guys, and there
are a lot of people on social media saying, yeah,
I'm gonna vote for Trump and all that, but hey,
the Democrats switched their ticket, they took their person and
put them to the top. Maybe we shouldn't, which is
absolutely acidina ridiculous, but it does set up I think
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for those people who are kind of like, I don't
know if I can take four more years of Donald Trump.
Last night's debate I think drew a pretty stark contrast
between who these guys are politically, what these tickets are politically,
what this country has been through these last three and
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a half years versus four years of Trump. You don't
have to guess at what this track record will be
for the four years to come. You've got a proving
ground for both of these these well the candidates at
the top of the ticket, and you've got exactly who
the Democrats thought they were gonna get at Tim Waltz.
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Tim Walls, I think that he gave them exactly who
they thought he was, and they were probably, you know,
pretty happy with his performance. You know, I get the
emails and I see the social media post as well.
A big win for Tim Walls tonight, says the Nebraska
Democratic Party or whatever, like, wow, that's that went way
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out in a limb on that one, almost like you
wrote that at noon yesterday. But I think there were
a lot of people who were kind of like, I
don't know, I don't think I don't think Trump's gonna
win this one. I think he's a loose cannon. I
wish he would just shut up once in a while
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and just focus on the policies. And I don't know
who he surrounds himself with, And I don't know. This
guy Vance seems like a robot who was just put
there by Donald Trump's sons, and like, we like this guy. Okay, fine,
you know you want me to pick this buddy of
yours is my running mate? All right, boys, that's fine.
I'm not gonna listen to him anyway. I think there
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were a lot of people who were maybe not sold
on the Trump Vance ticket, who watched that last night
and thought, hmm, I like this guy did he write
down a single note there at the lectern last night?
Tim Walls was scribbling the entire time, except when he
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was jerking his head to the right to wide eyed
stare at JD Vance, almost like, how is he doing this.
Why isn't he just saying I'm sorry for everything and
leaving the stage and shame he hasn't written down a
single note. He seems to be doing it from the
up of his head. He's like it's almost like they
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didn't drill him. Like and Tim Wallas, he had a
couple of things he knew were coming, not because he
was given the questions in advance. You just know he's
gonna be asked about abortion, for example. And on those moments,
Tim Wallas was very strong, very strong answers. But then
there were some things he actually had to think about
and uh and uh and Israel and uh and uh
(07:23):
and October seventh but no, no, but and uh, you
know we're gonna have to There were a lot of
times last night where he just looked really flustered. And
jd Vance was smooth, polished, intelligent, had a couple of
good quips, threw a couple of upper cuts, but didn't
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make it personal. I really liked jd Vance last night
in what was an enjoyable to watch, likable debate between
two likable guys. There was one moment, though, for Tim
Walls that I got to hand it to the moderators.
I mean, they didn't let him off the hook on
this one. Moderators from CBS hosted this vice presidential debate
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last night, and there was one moment where the moderator
asked him Walls very you know, just very pointedly about
something that he said he did that it turns out
later he didn't do, and they made him answer the question.
It was a really interesting moment last night. Here's that
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clip from last night's debate on CBS.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
You said that you ordered Lieutenant Kendrick to tell his
men that Santiago wasn't.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
To be touched.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Look, and Lieutenant Kendrick was clear on what you wanted. Look,
any chance Lieutenant Kendrick ignored the order, any chance he
forgot about it, Any chance Lieutenant Kendrick left your office
and said, the old man is wrong.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
Look if you gave an order that Santiago wasn't to
be touched, and your orders are always followed, and why
would Santiago be in danger?
Speaker 6 (08:59):
I grew up in small, rural Nebraska town of four hundred.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
Lieutenant Kindrick goord to the code, read Denny, because that's
what you told Lieutenant Kendrick to do.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
So this is about trying to understand the world.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
It's about trying to do the best you can for
your community, and then it's putting yourself out there and
letting your folks understand what it is, what the truth.
All I said on this was is I got there
that summer and misspoke on this, So I will just
order to cover I'm a knucklehead at times.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
That was strong work thereby the moderator on CBS last
night to try and get him to answer the question,
which there was a lot of people cross talking. There
had to do with Tim wall saying, oh, yeah, I
was right there in Tienneman's Square in that what month
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in nineteen eighty nine when there was an uprising. Let's
check the tote board. Major uprising where the people wanted
freedom from their communist Chinese dictators, and so they marched
on Tienaman Square int demanded freedom. That was in nineteen
eighty nine. Let's see how that went. How free is China? Well,
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it was a heck of a weekend, I'll tell you what.
And for Tim Wallas, I guess it was a heck
of a party. Several months later, when he says he
was there, he was, he made it sound like, I
went to China and I led those people in an
uprising against their communist dictators. Maybe you saw the picture
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of me putting a flower in the barrel of the
tank gun.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
That was me.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
I rallied around those people who longed for freedom, and
we got it. And that's why China is the free
capitalistic republic it is today. That's how he apparently characterized it.
Then they looked at it and said, you didn't go anywhere.
You didn't go to Asia, and Asia is a big place.
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You weren't even in Asia at the time. You said
you were at Tienaman Square. And he's like, wow, I'm
a knucklehead sometimes a knucklehead. Sometimes. This is not the
only time that Nebraska's own Minnesota Governor Tim Walls misspoke.
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Why would a guy say that he was there for
the uprising at Tienaman Square in China when he wasn't.
Why would a guy say that he carried I'm trying
to think of the exact phrase here. I got it
right here. He says he carried weapons of war that
he carried in war, weapons of war that I carried
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in war. He's talking about firearms. I carried guns in battle.
If firefight was going on. And no, I don't have
another movie clip that features Tim Walls, you know, in
Platoon or even Tropic Thunder, though that that would have
been pretty funny. I should have done that. Why would
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a guy say he was at Tieneman Square for the
uprising when he wasn't. Why would a guy say that
he carried weapons of war in war when he didn't.
Because Tim Walls is part of a mindset that we
see in this country. And it's not political figures. It's
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it's us. It's it's so many people here throughout America
who want to feel like they're part of something big
and important. Why else do people when America has I mean,
if you if you talk to your elders, and I
don't mean the people that my kids think are elders.
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The scariest thing I ever hear is when my son,
who's fourteen, almost fifteen years old, says like, yeah, some
old lady at the gym, and I'm thinking, how old
is she? Thirty six? So the not the people my
kids think are elders I'm talking about. You got to
find people who went through the civil rights movement in
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this country. Compare and contrast where we were as a
nation then versus where we are as a nation now.
And you're lying if you say we haven't. Not only
have we not moved forward, we've moved backwards. That is
such bull. We have race riots on the streets of
America over these last several years to try and try
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and convince you we haven't moved an inch since nineteen
sixty eight. Same with gay rights. People in the pandemic
are like, we all have to wear masks, can stay
inside forever. And people are like, you know, I had it,
I had the COVID. I don't know that it's as
bad as you guys say it is. I mean, I
don't mean to go out and start coughing on people.
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If I'm sick, I'll stay home, but I'd like to
go back to work. My kids should be in school.
I don't think that big of a deal. But you know, why,
why do people feel like they have to be a
part of something that's huge when it's not. Why do
people post on social media to show like, here's how
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great my life is because they want to feel like
they're special. They want everyone to know how special they
are and they're part of something great. If they bothered
to have the perspective we're the greatest country on earth.
So many people in this nation who are considered below
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the poverty level are also considered morbidly obese because they
have so much food to eat. There are people in
Ethiopia who are so thin. Not only can you see
their rib cage, you can see the rib cage of
the guys standing behind them and in their poor people
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in this country, I know how they feel. By the way,
if anyone has any ozebic, I tip the scales at
four seventy. That's what poverty, in too many instances looks like.
In this country. The houses we live in are almost
to a family and to a person, bigger than the
houses we grew up in. Yet we have storage facilities
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popping up all over because we still don't have any
room in our houses to store all of our crap.
And we've decided that we don't like a guy's personality.
We don't like his tweets, we don't like how he
speaks in hyperbole at these rallies. We don't like him.
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So we're content to live in a world with record inflation.
We're content to live in a world where Iran who
we give boat loads aircraft carriers of money to in
the Obama and Biden Harris administrations. Iran is then enriched
and emboldened to attack our ally. We live in a
nation where business owners are waiting to get robbed or shot.
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We live in a country where dock workers are on
strike because they asked for a seventy seven percent raise
and didn't get it. We live in a nation where
kids graduate from school less certain about math than what
gender they are, and they're not too clear on that.
And what Governor Tim Walls said, what he wants to
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do throughout America, what they have in Minnesota on immigration
is equally is interesting to look at talk about which
we will do next.
Speaker 7 (16:38):
Scott Vories News Radio eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
This morning, we're talking about last night's vice presidential debate
and there was a lot of conversation on immigration, the
open border policy supported by Harris Walls. And now Tim
Walls is not at the top of the ticket, but
he is the governor of Minnesota. I'm sorry to do
this again, but for some reason, videos that I'm trying
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to pass from my phone to my computer over here
where I can play, I'm a little cleaner on the
air is not working. So I'm gonna do the thing
where I hold my phone close to the microphone again
telling you what the duct tape is. It's unraveling here.
But when we talk about open borders and we talk
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about this lie that, oh, Donald Trump shut down the
immigration bill, This immigration bill that they talk about the
Tim Walls and Kamala Harris talk about all the time,
as Jim Rows is quick to point out on kfab's
Morning News, would not have stopped people coming in to
this country at a clip of five thousand people a day.
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So what does Tim Walls think about immigration?
Speaker 6 (17:51):
We have more refugees per capita than any other state.
That's not just morally a good thing, it's our economic
and cultural future.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Beautiful diversity.
Speaker 6 (18:01):
We see out in Worthington when I'm there, you see
fifty languages spoken in the school.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
All right, It is laudable to continue to allow America
to be the place that perhaps you found when you
emigrated here, maybe your parents, grandparents, great great great great grandparents,
I don't know. At some point we all got off
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a boat or a private jet to come into this
country and start a life here. That is that's what
America is all about. That's our melting pot. That's why
when you go across a town right here in the
middle of America, Omaha, Nebraska, you find the great cultures
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of all the people who have come to this nation.
And maybe it's a restaurant, maybe it's a store of
some sort where you can kind of tap into what
culture is like around the world. Now, of course, if
you go to a restaurant and it's ethnic food of
any kind, the people from that nation would say, that's
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the horrible Americanized version of our food. Here eat this,
and you're like, you know what, I'll think, I'll just
go to Taco Bell. It's really really good. It's pretty cheap,
not as cheap as it used to be. But you know,
that's not what Tim Walls is talking about though. That's
not the America that Kamala Harris and Tim Walls want
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to see. When he's talking about people coming into this country,
he's not talking about people coming to this country and
assimilating in America. We have this new welfare state where
people come to this country legally or otherwise, and they
feel like we owe them something, that they're entitled to something.
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They come here and it's hey, give me this, give
me that? Where do I go get this? Who's going
to take me over here? What about this for my kids?
Think about your ancestors when they got here, checked in
at Ellis Island, and some instances were given a new name.
I'm sure they didn't love it. At no point did
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they come into the streets of Boston or New York
City and say, hey, where's my guaranteed job? Where do
I get my phone? No point did anyone think here
that they were entitled to anything in this country but
the opportunity to work hard and make a better life
for their families. That's not the America that they're cultivating.
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So when Tim Wallas is like, we speak fifty different
languages in Minnesota public schools, at no point did anyone
come to this country one hundred and thirties, eight years
ago and say, and you're going to go to these
schools and you're going to keep speaking your home language
at school because that's going to get you far in
this wonderful land of opportunity America. And people say, you know,
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maybe we shouldn't have this place where we're fostering a
culture that feels like they're entitled to something to come
into this country. I want this, I want that, and
I want to be able to vote. Maybe we shouldn't
do that. And immediately it's like, oh, you're racist, you
don't want people from other cultures here? Is it because
you're racist? Has nothing to do with that. So when
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I said earlier in this hour of the program that yeah,
I watched the debate last night found Tim Walls to
be a likable guy. I could hang out with that guy.
I could talk to that guy. But I don't know
that I could vote for that guy because his version
of what culture is coming to this country look like
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is different than what your ancestors expected when they got here.
The name Don Rickles is trending in the Zonkers Custom
Woods inbox this morning kfab dot com. Do you want
to take a guess as to why?
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Oh, I can guess.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Apparently many of you think that Tim Walls looks like
Don Rickles. Yeah, I mean I can see it. I
see it more so than when people were like, oh,
you know who Tim Walls looks like? Steve Martin, Like no,
now he doesn't.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Now.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Jim Gaffigan played him on Saturday Night Live this past
Saturday and fine, not nearly as good as Dana Carvey's
Joe Biden though, and another thing, and by the way,
I've been mumbling that to myself all week. Dana Carvey
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is Joe Biden, the rich don't pay Texas. And then
Maya Rudolph as Kamala Harris is like, well, thank you
President Biden for a stepping away and letting the leader
come up. I didn't want to go. And another thing,
and by the way, and then nothing.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
It's just anyway, such a throwback to their old days of.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
I know, make fun of everybody. It's great, there's so
much there, just make fun of everybody. They should have
Don Rickles back to play Tim Walls. Can they do that?
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Is he dead?
Speaker 4 (23:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Okay probably not? Then probably not, although these days.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
All right, scottikfab dot com, Right, they could, they could.
AI if we're gonna have Don Rickles come back, I
want a whole new comedy routine. Don't coast on some
of the jokes you used to tell it the Friars
Club back in nineteen sixty one. I want new material.
Scottikfab dot com. Rob who was with us last night
at the Kfab Debate viewing party, at Reps Sports Bar
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and Grill ninety seventh and Giles and contributed with all
the other kfab listeners to eating all of the chicken
fry Steak Tuesday Special, leaving none for me when I
got there. Thanks thanks, Rob, he says, with white gravy
pouring out of his mouth. With the split screen and
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Tim Walls looking over to the right at jd vance
quite often, he had a look on his face as
if this was the first time he'd heard any of this,
and it probably was. That's the assessment from Rob, said
to Scott at kfab dot com. Oh, and he does
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point out he did. This is Rob's fault. He says
that he ordered the chicken fried steak and it was
given to somebody else, and they corrected it and brought
me another chicken fried steak, but it was with brown gravy,
not white gravy, which is the only way you should
serve chicken fried steak. So they brought me a third.
He's single handedly responsible for all the Tuesday special going away.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Doesn't he know better? If you don't touch and don't
breathe on it, you can reserve it.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Don't touch it. Dave says, the worst thing about the
debate was the moderators. I didn't have a major problem
with the moderators last night. Unfortunately, wow, Dave says, Unfortunately,
Tim Walls did better and was considerably more likable than
I thought he would be. Oh okay. On the bright side,
Vance was absolutely awesome. Came across cool headed, intelligent, very knowledgeable.
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He could easily be your neighbor. Vance appears to be
the most capable candidate of the four between Trump, Harris,
Walls and Vance. Ready to lead. Of course, most importantly,
he came off young and unshakable. Didn't realize he's only forty.
It was a much better debate than the presidential debate.
I think Dave's thoughts there probably aligned with most Americans,
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including some people who are excited to vote for Trump.
But there was a lot of people on social media.
I don't know how serious any of this is, whether
it helps or Hertz or i'mwhere in the middle of
just jibber jabber, But there are a lot of people like, Hey,
the Democrats changed their ticket late in the game. Could JD.
Vans be And maybe maybe they were serious? Maybe it's
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just recency bias. Hey, there's greener grass over there. Let's go,
let's go take off our shoes and socks and go
step on it. Maybe some of that. Thank you, Dave
for the email. Scott at kfab dot com. Josh says,
can you send me a copy of your opening monologue? Yeah,
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it'll be posted later today on the Vintage Warheas podcast
link on the Scott Varheas page at kfab dot com.
Charles says, why did they let Walls off? Twice on
their question about his view his views on abortion restrictions?
Twice he was allowed to say that's not what the
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law says, or that these girls had to travel for abortion.
Never answered the question. JD asked for clarification. Well, that's
that's how it works. You know, a moderators aren't going
to start waterboarding a guy going you've got to answer
the question. He's not in court. And I've been through
this myself, and some people yell at me and say
you let him off the hook, like I asked him
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the same question three times. At some point, the non
answer is the answer, and you can draw from it
your own conclusions. You can note, well you didn't answer
the question, but let's move on so as not to
belabor the point, and it was on abortion that there
were even some big Trump supporters that felt that jd.
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Vance was off last night when he said, yeah, Republicans
have lost the trust of a lot of women in
this country. Some people felt like he didn't stand up
strongly enough for being pro life, for saving children. I'll
I'll admit that he fell into the trap. We talked
a lot about on this issue where the Democrats want
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to put a scenario that could happen, and Tim Walls
gave the scenarios last night. Twelve year old girl abused
by her stepdad, a woman who goes into septic shock,
but the doctor was concerned if I perform an abortion,
we're gonna you know, they put these situations out there
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that statistically never happen, and they're not even close to
all the people who use abortion as a form of
birth control. Not because their life is in danger, not
because they were attacked, not because of incest, just because
oh yeah, I got pregnant again. That's all right, I'll
just go get me an abortion. I know I'm in
the third trimester already, but I've changed my mind or
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I only just found out I was pregnant. I wonder
why I haven't had my cycle in the last six months.
You know, that's the usual when it comes to abortion.
But the Democrats want to keep putting up if we
can just save one life of one or person who
was attacked by her uncle and then went to the
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doctor and the doctor said, I don't know about if
we can just save one they want, and then women go, yeah,
you know, I guess that could happen. It's probably not
gonna happen to me or anyone I know, but I
believe that could happen. So we've we've got to make
sure do I wish Jade Vance would have said, look,
we can protect the unborn while still carving out exceptions
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even as they come up here in the situations you're describing,
I'm not going to tell this person nope, sorry, you
have to die. I'm not going to jail this doctor
because he believes what's best. But too often these bills
are written in such a way so as to allow
abortion to be used as a form of birth control,
and some doctors who are real happy to allow abortions
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will say, well, you know, the patient's life was in danger,
really was There's some sort of sepsis or something. No,
she just was kind of bummed out about the whole thing,
and we were concerned about her mental health, and you know,
you never know, so we just you know, that's the
way they write some of these things up. That's what
they're pushing for. They don't care about the unborn. They
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don't care about these kids after they're born. They just
want to slam dunk on Republicans and go, you guys
don't care about women, Now, go vote for us women.
They don't care about any of this stuff. It's all
about scoring political points. So what I've loved jd Vance
to have said that last night. Sure maybe it was
the only thing he could have been stronger on, but
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I imagine he was trying to just put on a little
softer veil here the feather light for women to say, yeah, yeah,
we want to listen to you, We want to be
there and address these needs for you, and maybe we
can do a better job. Some people like that answer,
some people didn't.
Speaker 7 (31:04):
All right.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Another email about Don Rickles, Brian says Tim Walls has
destroyed Minnesota. I know because I live in this state.
He loves watching the Twin Cities. Burn didn't do squat
about it just to name a few things awesome show
you have. Thanks Sign Brian, Thank you Brian for the email.
Thanks for listening to us. In the land of nine thousand,
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nine hundred and ninety nine lakes. Tim Walls got rid
of one.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
Let's see here.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
The Cap emails and says buffoon tampon Tim's performance illustrated
the incompetence and ineptitude of both him and COMMI Kamala
God bless Sign Cap. Thank you, Cap, appreciate the email.
John and Fremont says what was up with Tim Walls
saying I'm friends with school shooters? How weird was that?
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (31:57):
He misspoke when he was talking about Victim and said
I'm friends with school shooters, and everyone at the debate
viewing party at Ref's and Lavista last night, suddenly there
was a lot of what what friends with school shooters? Yeah,
he misspoke on that one. Rarely do I feel unqualified
to welcome onto the program a guest on this show.
(32:19):
But I'm going to go with another KFA b alum who,
in one hundred years of this radio station also worked
right here on eleven ten, and he's going to welcome
our next guest here on the program.
Speaker 7 (32:31):
You're in a good mood night. That's good because anytime
a young comedian appears on The Tonight Show for the
first time, it's important in his career. And he works
on the comic strip in New York, in the comic
strip or on the comic strip one or the other.
And he's co starring in a movie called Diner, which
is opening around the county. Currently, would you make him?
What are you making? It's easy your would you welcome
(32:56):
Paul Reiser, Paul.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
And here he is, Paul on news radio eleven to
ten kfab Paul, good morning.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
Good morning. That was a treat. I haven't heard that
in a while. That was a big day. And any
comic the first time on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson,
that was that was a highlight of our life for sure.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
What Nebraska's own.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
Johnny Carson Wasbraska's own.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Yeah, was trying to say, is exactly what you said there.
This is a big moment for you. Your career would be
made or broken. Yeah, wased on what's about to happen.
But I mean, let me take you back to being
behind the curtain there and you hear Johnny flubbing the intro.
Did that take a little pressure off you?
Speaker 4 (33:34):
Well? You know, one of the things part of his
genius and his and his generosity is he he loved
comedians and he wanted comedians to do well. So you know,
he tripped on words. He knew he made that funny.
And he would always always say you're in a great
mood tonight, and the audience would think, I guess we're
in a good mood. They weren't in a good mood,
(33:56):
but he would make them be in a good mood
and he would make them welcome you. So he was
so gracious, and then I ended up doing the show
a lot. He was really generous and had me on often.
And the more I did it, the more relaxed I get,
and the more fun we had. You know, in the beginning,
I was a little bit just a deer in headlights,
going it's Johnny Carson. And then he realized, oh, just
(34:17):
have fun. He's here to make you look good. So
I'll always be grateful for that.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Speaking of being in a good mood, what are your
thoughts this morning? Like the rest of the country, everyone
loves this election. Did you watch the vice presidential debate?
Do you have any thoughts for us.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
I watched a little bit. I find as time goes on,
I have a smaller and smaller limit to how much
news I can watch and how much I can take in.
But you know, it's funny. It's not funny. But you know,
in this moment and we are, you know, there's so
much division and so much stress. And what I'm really
happy about is people who have seen this new movie
(34:52):
of mine, which is coming out Friday. The problem with people.
One of the reviews when we first premiered this movie
at a film festival, they said, this is the movie
we all need right now. I thought, well, that's a
lovely thing to say, because what it's actually about is
it starts. It's funny, you said. It starts with little
town in Ireland and this ninety year old guy is
(35:13):
watching the news in bed and keeps flipping channels and
everywhere he goes they're fighting in Korea, they're fighting in
the Middle East, they're fighting. It why and everybody fighting?
And then he says, what's happened to the world that
we can't get along? And then he says to his
son played by Colin me and he said, you know,
we don't need I shouldn't talk even our own family.
We can't get our own family together. And he says, listen,
(35:34):
you know the American side of the family that we
don't talk to and we all raised to hate them.
I want you to find them, and let's put a
stuff to this fight. Let's get along. There's no reason
we can't get along. I think. So that's the movie.
That's the movie is he sets out to we can't
solve the world's problems, maybe we can at least heal
our family. Start there and so that it becomes this
(35:58):
that's the core of the movie. But what it is
is a comedy about two guys. I go out to
Ireland and try and raise the glass and friendship and
it goes bad. It goes belly up because people are people,
and if you put two people in a room that
probably in short order come up with some reason why
they don't like the other guy, why you don't trust
(36:18):
the other team. And so people leave this movie going boy,
I really laughed for ninety minutes. It's a really fun comedy.
It's beautiful. It's in the countryside of Ireland. But at
the bottom of the movie is, yeah, maybe we could
try to be.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Better, you know, thank you for trying to bring some
positivity into the world. Too often we try and make
enemies out of friends. And I always say, I don't
care who you vote for. I care how you treat
people who vote differently than you. And I know that
your comments on politics over the years have been like
a lot of ours, like why do these elections start
so early and end so late. Let's go go, you know,
(36:54):
let's find something else here.
Speaker 4 (36:55):
Well, the thing is, you know, and what this movie
does is, you know, I've always felt if you take
any warring conflict, you know, countries or neighbors or villages, whatever,
or people or relatives and put them in a room
and sit them down and just say, let's talk, what
is the problem here? What do you want? Well, what
do you want? And you find probably you want the
(37:19):
same thing. I'd like to not get shot at. I'd
like to I'd like to my children to be safe.
And the other person will go, yeah, same here, Okay,
let's start for that. And that's sort of what this
movie is at the heart of it is trying to do.
It's like, let's treat each other as people as we'd
like to be treated, and then see if we can
make that bigger and bigger and not have as much
(37:41):
a division. So you know, when somebody said this is
a movie that is really welcome at this time, it's like, well,
that would be really great if this becomes something that
people can warm their hands up to and feel good about.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
The problem with people is in theaters this weekend. Quick question,
is doctor sam Owens some stranger things? Your character's still alive?
Speaker 4 (38:02):
You know what you ask a good question. I wish
I knew. They don't tell me. I might surprise myself
and suddenly spring up from the floor. The last time
we saw we saw me, I was chained to a
desk being beaten up by military. So I don't know.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
Now it didn't look good.
Speaker 4 (38:17):
Well we'll find out. But yes, so the movie. Yes.
And by the way, the movie opens tomorrow in theaters
a few theaters around the country, but it's also at
the same time, it'll be available on digital platforms. You
can on Apple or Amazon, Hulu. You can watch it
at home. And you know, this is a small little
movie and this doesn't have a big studio behind it,
so we're hoping that you know, word gets out and
(38:39):
I appreciate you getting the word out and I hope
people find it, and I hope people enjoy it and
the spirit that we've put it up there.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
Paul, we ask all of our favorite guests on the
show to say a line for us we feel is
the best thing to hear first thing in the morning.
Would you be so kind as to say, good morning, honey,
I made you pancakes for breakfast.
Speaker 4 (38:58):
Here we go, good morning, honey, I made you pancakes
for breakfast.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
Whether it's stand up comedy, TV movies or book form.
Thank you for all the entertainment over the years. It
was a pleasure talking with you this morning.
Speaker 4 (39:10):
Thank you. Pleasure talking to you, Paul.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
Reiser right here on news radio eleven ten KFAB. Again
the new movie is the Problem with People?
Speaker 7 (39:19):
Scott Boys Mornings nine to eleven on news Radio eleven
ten KFAB
Scott Vordies. I have yet to see Hill Billy Elegy,
even though I'm still apparently one of the last conservative
people who still has Netflix. After their CEO came out
and endorsed Kamala Harris, a lot of people are like, well,
that's it for Netflix. Then I'm done until Stranger Things
next season comes out, and then a lot of us
(00:21):
will be like, you know, but maybe just for a
few more days, and then I'm done, you know, So
I still have Netflix. I did. Does the CEO of Netflix,
who's a big Kamala Harris supporter, does he still allow
on his platform the movie based on jad Vance's life
and book, He'll Billy Elgy? Is that still on that
(00:42):
streaming platform? I'll wait for an answer. Lucy Chapman, good morning.
I hadn't seen that, and I watched his speech at
the convention a little bit of it, and it was fine.
I thought, all right, guy's fine. But you know, I
(01:03):
kept hearing people go, I don't know about jd Vance.
I don't know why he picked him. He calls women
childless cat ladies, and that's really bad and really bad,
you know. So I went into it last night not
knowing a whole heck of a lot about the guy.
(01:24):
I can tell you this, I really like him. Now,
not only do I like him, let me tell you
something else that might blow your mind a little bit
because that last comment, like, wow, conservative talk radio host
kind of likes the Republican senator from Ohio who happens
to be on the ticket with the Republican presidential candidate.
(01:45):
Mind Blown's gotta tell you something else. You know who else?
I kind of like Tim Watts That blow your mind
a little bit.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
In a comical kind of way.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
No, I just he's just he's likable. I can hang
out with that guy. Some of his policies are absolutely asinine,
and don't worry. By the end of the forthcoming rant,
I will make it clear why I'm not a supporter
of his politically, but from a likability standpoint, because I
(02:17):
don't base who I like who I'll talk to based
on their politics. There are a lot of people who
are very, very liberal. I love talking to them, and
by the same token, there are some people who are
rapidly conservative and I don't like talking to him. Some
people not you. Some people these are the people want
(02:38):
to come up like do you you never talk about
illegal immigration, Like I literally talk about illegal immigration all
the time. You gotta talk more two hours a day, Like,
it's not gonna be two hours a day. You've got
to let people know, like people know. So you know,
I don't base who I like based on the politics
(03:00):
of it. It's really based on whether or not they're
in a jerk hole. So you know what else I
liked about last night's debate. These guys got their punches in,
but it was largely civil and it just kind of
(03:23):
felt like what I like to see in politics. You
make your case, you fight for your side, and then
at the end you find some common ground. There were
a lot of them going back and forth saying like,
I'm sure that he would agree. I agree with what
he said. I like what he said there. But the
(03:45):
moment where Governor Tim Walls said that his son had
witnessed a shooting and JD. Van says, I didn't know
that your son witnessed that. Tim, That's terrible, very very human,
and I don't think it was robotically calculated. Was terrible
what happened to your son. Human empathy, empathy, empathy, empathy. Sorry,
(04:06):
I was saying that I like those guys, and there
are a lot of people on social media saying, yeah,
I'm gonna vote for Trump and all that, but hey,
the Democrats switched their ticket, they took their person and
put them to the top. Maybe we shouldn't, which is
absolutely acidina ridiculous, but it does set up I think
(04:30):
for those people who are kind of like, I don't
know if I can take four more years of Donald Trump.
Last night's debate I think drew a pretty stark contrast
between who these guys are politically, what these tickets are politically,
what this country has been through these last three and
(04:52):
a half years versus four years of Trump. You don't
have to guess at what this track record will be
for the four years to come. You've got a proving
ground for both of these these well the candidates at
the top of the ticket, and you've got exactly who
the Democrats thought they were gonna get at Tim Waltz.
(05:14):
Tim Walls, I think that he gave them exactly who
they thought he was, and they were probably, you know,
pretty happy with his performance. You know, I get the
emails and I see the social media post as well.
A big win for Tim Walls tonight, says the Nebraska
Democratic Party or whatever, like, wow, that's that went way
(05:35):
out in a limb on that one, almost like you
wrote that at noon yesterday. But I think there were
a lot of people who were kind of like, I
don't know, I don't think I don't think Trump's gonna
win this one. I think he's a loose cannon. I
wish he would just shut up once in a while
(05:55):
and just focus on the policies. And I don't know
who he surrounds himself with, And I don't know. This
guy Vance seems like a robot who was just put
there by Donald Trump's sons, and like, we like this guy. Okay, fine,
you know you want me to pick this buddy of
yours is my running mate? All right, boys, that's fine.
I'm not gonna listen to him anyway. I think there
(06:19):
were a lot of people who were maybe not sold
on the Trump Vance ticket, who watched that last night
and thought, hmm, I like this guy did he write
down a single note there at the lectern last night?
Tim Walls was scribbling the entire time, except when he
(06:40):
was jerking his head to the right to wide eyed
stare at JD Vance, almost like, how is he doing this.
Why isn't he just saying I'm sorry for everything and
leaving the stage and shame he hasn't written down a
single note. He seems to be doing it from the
up of his head. He's like it's almost like they
(07:02):
didn't drill him. Like and Tim Wallas, he had a
couple of things he knew were coming, not because he
was given the questions in advance. You just know he's
gonna be asked about abortion, for example. And on those moments,
Tim Wallas was very strong, very strong answers. But then
there were some things he actually had to think about
and uh and uh and Israel and uh and uh
(07:23):
and October seventh but no, no, but and uh, you
know we're gonna have to There were a lot of
times last night where he just looked really flustered. And
jd Vance was smooth, polished, intelligent, had a couple of
good quips, threw a couple of upper cuts, but didn't
(07:44):
make it personal. I really liked jd Vance last night
in what was an enjoyable to watch, likable debate between
two likable guys. There was one moment, though, for Tim
Walls that I got to hand it to the moderators.
I mean, they didn't let him off the hook on
this one. Moderators from CBS hosted this vice presidential debate
(08:08):
last night, and there was one moment where the moderator
asked him Walls very you know, just very pointedly about
something that he said he did that it turns out
later he didn't do, and they made him answer the question.
It was a really interesting moment last night. Here's that
(08:29):
clip from last night's debate on CBS.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
You said that you ordered Lieutenant Kendrick to tell his
men that Santiago wasn't.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
To be touched.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Look, and Lieutenant Kendrick was clear on what you wanted. Look,
any chance Lieutenant Kendrick ignored the order, any chance he
forgot about it, Any chance Lieutenant Kendrick left your office
and said, the old man is wrong.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
Look if you gave an order that Santiago wasn't to
be touched, and your orders are always followed, and why
would Santiago be in danger?
Speaker 6 (08:59):
I grew up in small, rural Nebraska town of four hundred.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
Lieutenant Kindrick goord to the code, read Denny, because that's
what you told Lieutenant Kendrick to do.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
So this is about trying to understand the world.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
It's about trying to do the best you can for
your community, and then it's putting yourself out there and
letting your folks understand what it is, what the truth.
All I said on this was is I got there
that summer and misspoke on this, So I will just
order to cover I'm a knucklehead at times.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
That was strong work thereby the moderator on CBS last
night to try and get him to answer the question,
which there was a lot of people cross talking. There
had to do with Tim wall saying, oh, yeah, I
was right there in Tienneman's Square in that what month
(09:46):
in nineteen eighty nine when there was an uprising. Let's
check the tote board. Major uprising where the people wanted
freedom from their communist Chinese dictators, and so they marched
on Tienaman Square int demanded freedom. That was in nineteen
eighty nine. Let's see how that went. How free is China? Well,
(10:08):
it was a heck of a weekend, I'll tell you what.
And for Tim Wallas, I guess it was a heck
of a party. Several months later, when he says he
was there, he was, he made it sound like, I
went to China and I led those people in an
uprising against their communist dictators. Maybe you saw the picture
(10:32):
of me putting a flower in the barrel of the
tank gun.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
That was me.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
I rallied around those people who longed for freedom, and
we got it. And that's why China is the free
capitalistic republic it is today. That's how he apparently characterized it.
Then they looked at it and said, you didn't go anywhere.
You didn't go to Asia, and Asia is a big place.
(11:01):
You weren't even in Asia at the time. You said
you were at Tienaman Square. And he's like, wow, I'm
a knucklehead sometimes a knucklehead. Sometimes. This is not the
only time that Nebraska's own Minnesota Governor Tim Walls misspoke.
(11:22):
Why would a guy say that he was there for
the uprising at Tienaman Square in China when he wasn't.
Why would a guy say that he carried I'm trying
to think of the exact phrase here. I got it
right here. He says he carried weapons of war that
he carried in war, weapons of war that I carried
(11:45):
in war. He's talking about firearms. I carried guns in battle.
If firefight was going on. And no, I don't have
another movie clip that features Tim Walls, you know, in
Platoon or even Tropic Thunder, though that that would have
been pretty funny. I should have done that. Why would
(12:07):
a guy say he was at Tieneman Square for the
uprising when he wasn't. Why would a guy say that
he carried weapons of war in war when he didn't.
Because Tim Walls is part of a mindset that we
see in this country. And it's not political figures. It's
(12:28):
it's us. It's it's so many people here throughout America
who want to feel like they're part of something big
and important. Why else do people when America has I mean,
if you if you talk to your elders, and I
don't mean the people that my kids think are elders.
(12:51):
The scariest thing I ever hear is when my son,
who's fourteen, almost fifteen years old, says like, yeah, some
old lady at the gym, and I'm thinking, how old
is she? Thirty six? So the not the people my
kids think are elders I'm talking about. You got to
find people who went through the civil rights movement in
(13:11):
this country. Compare and contrast where we were as a
nation then versus where we are as a nation now.
And you're lying if you say we haven't. Not only
have we not moved forward, we've moved backwards. That is
such bull. We have race riots on the streets of
America over these last several years to try and try
(13:34):
and convince you we haven't moved an inch since nineteen
sixty eight. Same with gay rights. People in the pandemic
are like, we all have to wear masks, can stay
inside forever. And people are like, you know, I had it,
I had the COVID. I don't know that it's as
bad as you guys say it is. I mean, I
don't mean to go out and start coughing on people.
(13:54):
If I'm sick, I'll stay home, but I'd like to
go back to work. My kids should be in school.
I don't think that big of a deal. But you know, why,
why do people feel like they have to be a
part of something that's huge when it's not. Why do
people post on social media to show like, here's how
(14:17):
great my life is because they want to feel like
they're special. They want everyone to know how special they
are and they're part of something great. If they bothered
to have the perspective we're the greatest country on earth.
So many people in this nation who are considered below
(14:37):
the poverty level are also considered morbidly obese because they
have so much food to eat. There are people in
Ethiopia who are so thin. Not only can you see
their rib cage, you can see the rib cage of
the guys standing behind them and in their poor people
(14:59):
in this country, I know how they feel. By the way,
if anyone has any ozebic, I tip the scales at
four seventy. That's what poverty, in too many instances looks like.
In this country. The houses we live in are almost
to a family and to a person, bigger than the
houses we grew up in. Yet we have storage facilities
(15:22):
popping up all over because we still don't have any
room in our houses to store all of our crap.
And we've decided that we don't like a guy's personality.
We don't like his tweets, we don't like how he
speaks in hyperbole at these rallies. We don't like him.
(15:42):
So we're content to live in a world with record inflation.
We're content to live in a world where Iran who
we give boat loads aircraft carriers of money to in
the Obama and Biden Harris administrations. Iran is then enriched
and emboldened to attack our ally. We live in a
nation where business owners are waiting to get robbed or shot.
(16:04):
We live in a country where dock workers are on
strike because they asked for a seventy seven percent raise
and didn't get it. We live in a nation where
kids graduate from school less certain about math than what
gender they are, and they're not too clear on that.
And what Governor Tim Walls said, what he wants to
(16:27):
do throughout America, what they have in Minnesota on immigration
is equally is interesting to look at talk about which
we will do next.
Speaker 7 (16:38):
Scott Vories News Radio eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
This morning, we're talking about last night's vice presidential debate
and there was a lot of conversation on immigration, the
open border policy supported by Harris Walls. And now Tim
Walls is not at the top of the ticket, but
he is the governor of Minnesota. I'm sorry to do
this again, but for some reason, videos that I'm trying
(17:04):
to pass from my phone to my computer over here
where I can play, I'm a little cleaner on the
air is not working. So I'm gonna do the thing
where I hold my phone close to the microphone again
telling you what the duct tape is. It's unraveling here.
But when we talk about open borders and we talk
(17:26):
about this lie that, oh, Donald Trump shut down the
immigration bill, This immigration bill that they talk about the
Tim Walls and Kamala Harris talk about all the time,
as Jim Rows is quick to point out on kfab's
Morning News, would not have stopped people coming in to
this country at a clip of five thousand people a day.
(17:47):
So what does Tim Walls think about immigration?
Speaker 6 (17:51):
We have more refugees per capita than any other state.
That's not just morally a good thing, it's our economic
and cultural future.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Beautiful diversity.
Speaker 6 (18:01):
We see out in Worthington when I'm there, you see
fifty languages spoken in the school.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
All right, It is laudable to continue to allow America
to be the place that perhaps you found when you
emigrated here, maybe your parents, grandparents, great great great great grandparents,
I don't know. At some point we all got off
(18:27):
a boat or a private jet to come into this
country and start a life here. That is that's what
America is all about. That's our melting pot. That's why
when you go across a town right here in the
middle of America, Omaha, Nebraska, you find the great cultures
(18:47):
of all the people who have come to this nation.
And maybe it's a restaurant, maybe it's a store of
some sort where you can kind of tap into what
culture is like around the world. Now, of course, if
you go to a restaurant and it's ethnic food of
any kind, the people from that nation would say, that's
(19:10):
the horrible Americanized version of our food. Here eat this,
and you're like, you know what, I'll think, I'll just
go to Taco Bell. It's really really good. It's pretty cheap,
not as cheap as it used to be. But you know,
that's not what Tim Walls is talking about though. That's
not the America that Kamala Harris and Tim Walls want
(19:32):
to see. When he's talking about people coming into this country,
he's not talking about people coming to this country and
assimilating in America. We have this new welfare state where
people come to this country legally or otherwise, and they
feel like we owe them something, that they're entitled to something.
(19:55):
They come here and it's hey, give me this, give
me that? Where do I go get this? Who's going
to take me over here? What about this for my kids?
Think about your ancestors when they got here, checked in
at Ellis Island, and some instances were given a new name.
I'm sure they didn't love it. At no point did
(20:16):
they come into the streets of Boston or New York
City and say, hey, where's my guaranteed job? Where do
I get my phone? No point did anyone think here
that they were entitled to anything in this country but
the opportunity to work hard and make a better life
for their families. That's not the America that they're cultivating.
(20:37):
So when Tim Wallas is like, we speak fifty different
languages in Minnesota public schools, at no point did anyone
come to this country one hundred and thirties, eight years
ago and say, and you're going to go to these
schools and you're going to keep speaking your home language
at school because that's going to get you far in
this wonderful land of opportunity America. And people say, you know,
(21:01):
maybe we shouldn't have this place where we're fostering a
culture that feels like they're entitled to something to come
into this country. I want this, I want that, and
I want to be able to vote. Maybe we shouldn't
do that. And immediately it's like, oh, you're racist, you
don't want people from other cultures here? Is it because
you're racist? Has nothing to do with that. So when
(21:26):
I said earlier in this hour of the program that yeah,
I watched the debate last night found Tim Walls to
be a likable guy. I could hang out with that guy.
I could talk to that guy. But I don't know
that I could vote for that guy because his version
of what culture is coming to this country look like
(21:48):
is different than what your ancestors expected when they got here.
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Woods inbox this morning kfab dot com. Do you want
to take a guess as to why?
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Oh, I can guess.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Apparently many of you think that Tim Walls looks like
Don Rickles. Yeah, I mean I can see it. I
see it more so than when people were like, oh,
you know who Tim Walls looks like? Steve Martin, Like no,
now he doesn't.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Now.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Jim Gaffigan played him on Saturday Night Live this past
Saturday and fine, not nearly as good as Dana Carvey's
Joe Biden though, and another thing, and by the way,
I've been mumbling that to myself all week. Dana Carvey
(22:44):
is Joe Biden, the rich don't pay Texas. And then
Maya Rudolph as Kamala Harris is like, well, thank you
President Biden for a stepping away and letting the leader
come up. I didn't want to go. And another thing,
and by the way, and then nothing.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
It's just anyway, such a throwback to their old days of.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
I know, make fun of everybody. It's great, there's so
much there, just make fun of everybody. They should have
Don Rickles back to play Tim Walls. Can they do that?
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Is he dead?
Speaker 4 (23:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Okay probably not? Then probably not, although these days.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
All right, scottikfab dot com, Right, they could, they could.
AI if we're gonna have Don Rickles come back, I
want a whole new comedy routine. Don't coast on some
of the jokes you used to tell it the Friars
Club back in nineteen sixty one. I want new material.
Scottikfab dot com. Rob who was with us last night
at the Kfab Debate viewing party, at Reps Sports Bar
(23:53):
and Grill ninety seventh and Giles and contributed with all
the other kfab listeners to eating all of the chicken
fry Steak Tuesday Special, leaving none for me when I
got there. Thanks thanks, Rob, he says, with white gravy
pouring out of his mouth. With the split screen and
(24:16):
Tim Walls looking over to the right at jd vance
quite often, he had a look on his face as
if this was the first time he'd heard any of this,
and it probably was. That's the assessment from Rob, said
to Scott at kfab dot com. Oh, and he does
(24:36):
point out he did. This is Rob's fault. He says
that he ordered the chicken fried steak and it was
given to somebody else, and they corrected it and brought
me another chicken fried steak, but it was with brown gravy,
not white gravy, which is the only way you should
serve chicken fried steak. So they brought me a third.
He's single handedly responsible for all the Tuesday special going away.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Doesn't he know better? If you don't touch and don't
breathe on it, you can reserve it.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Don't touch it. Dave says, the worst thing about the
debate was the moderators. I didn't have a major problem
with the moderators last night. Unfortunately, wow, Dave says, Unfortunately,
Tim Walls did better and was considerably more likable than
I thought he would be. Oh okay. On the bright side,
Vance was absolutely awesome. Came across cool headed, intelligent, very knowledgeable.
(25:28):
He could easily be your neighbor. Vance appears to be
the most capable candidate of the four between Trump, Harris,
Walls and Vance. Ready to lead. Of course, most importantly,
he came off young and unshakable. Didn't realize he's only forty.
It was a much better debate than the presidential debate.
I think Dave's thoughts there probably aligned with most Americans,
(25:50):
including some people who are excited to vote for Trump.
But there was a lot of people on social media.
I don't know how serious any of this is, whether
it helps or Hertz or i'mwhere in the middle of
just jibber jabber, But there are a lot of people like, Hey,
the Democrats changed their ticket late in the game. Could JD.
Vans be And maybe maybe they were serious? Maybe it's
(26:12):
just recency bias. Hey, there's greener grass over there. Let's go,
let's go take off our shoes and socks and go
step on it. Maybe some of that. Thank you, Dave
for the email. Scott at kfab dot com. Josh says,
can you send me a copy of your opening monologue? Yeah,
(26:34):
it'll be posted later today on the Vintage Warheas podcast
link on the Scott Varheas page at kfab dot com.
Charles says, why did they let Walls off? Twice on
their question about his view his views on abortion restrictions?
Twice he was allowed to say that's not what the
(26:55):
law says, or that these girls had to travel for abortion.
Never answered the question. JD asked for clarification. Well, that's
that's how it works. You know, a moderators aren't going
to start waterboarding a guy going you've got to answer
the question. He's not in court. And I've been through
this myself, and some people yell at me and say
you let him off the hook, like I asked him
(27:16):
the same question three times. At some point, the non
answer is the answer, and you can draw from it
your own conclusions. You can note, well you didn't answer
the question, but let's move on so as not to
belabor the point, and it was on abortion that there
were even some big Trump supporters that felt that jd.
(27:36):
Vance was off last night when he said, yeah, Republicans
have lost the trust of a lot of women in
this country. Some people felt like he didn't stand up
strongly enough for being pro life, for saving children. I'll
I'll admit that he fell into the trap. We talked
a lot about on this issue where the Democrats want
(27:59):
to put a scenario that could happen, and Tim Walls
gave the scenarios last night. Twelve year old girl abused
by her stepdad, a woman who goes into septic shock,
but the doctor was concerned if I perform an abortion,
we're gonna you know, they put these situations out there
(28:19):
that statistically never happen, and they're not even close to
all the people who use abortion as a form of
birth control. Not because their life is in danger, not
because they were attacked, not because of incest, just because
oh yeah, I got pregnant again. That's all right, I'll
just go get me an abortion. I know I'm in
the third trimester already, but I've changed my mind or
(28:42):
I only just found out I was pregnant. I wonder
why I haven't had my cycle in the last six months.
You know, that's the usual when it comes to abortion.
But the Democrats want to keep putting up if we
can just save one life of one or person who
was attacked by her uncle and then went to the
(29:07):
doctor and the doctor said, I don't know about if
we can just save one they want, and then women go, yeah,
you know, I guess that could happen. It's probably not
gonna happen to me or anyone I know, but I
believe that could happen. So we've we've got to make
sure do I wish Jade Vance would have said, look,
we can protect the unborn while still carving out exceptions
(29:32):
even as they come up here in the situations you're describing,
I'm not going to tell this person nope, sorry, you
have to die. I'm not going to jail this doctor
because he believes what's best. But too often these bills
are written in such a way so as to allow
abortion to be used as a form of birth control,
and some doctors who are real happy to allow abortions
(29:55):
will say, well, you know, the patient's life was in danger,
really was There's some sort of sepsis or something. No,
she just was kind of bummed out about the whole thing,
and we were concerned about her mental health, and you know,
you never know, so we just you know, that's the
way they write some of these things up. That's what
they're pushing for. They don't care about the unborn. They
(30:17):
don't care about these kids after they're born. They just
want to slam dunk on Republicans and go, you guys
don't care about women, Now, go vote for us women.
They don't care about any of this stuff. It's all
about scoring political points. So what I've loved jd Vance
to have said that last night. Sure maybe it was
the only thing he could have been stronger on, but
(30:39):
I imagine he was trying to just put on a little
softer veil here the feather light for women to say, yeah, yeah,
we want to listen to you, We want to be
there and address these needs for you, and maybe we
can do a better job. Some people like that answer,
some people didn't.
Speaker 7 (31:04):
All right.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Another email about Don Rickles, Brian says Tim Walls has
destroyed Minnesota. I know because I live in this state.
He loves watching the Twin Cities. Burn didn't do squat
about it just to name a few things awesome show
you have. Thanks Sign Brian, Thank you Brian for the email.
Thanks for listening to us. In the land of nine thousand,
(31:28):
nine hundred and ninety nine lakes. Tim Walls got rid
of one.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
Let's see here.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
The Cap emails and says buffoon tampon Tim's performance illustrated
the incompetence and ineptitude of both him and COMMI Kamala
God bless Sign Cap. Thank you, Cap, appreciate the email.
John and Fremont says what was up with Tim Walls
saying I'm friends with school shooters? How weird was that?
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (31:57):
He misspoke when he was talking about Victim and said
I'm friends with school shooters, and everyone at the debate
viewing party at Ref's and Lavista last night, suddenly there
was a lot of what what friends with school shooters? Yeah,
he misspoke on that one. Rarely do I feel unqualified
to welcome onto the program a guest on this show.
(32:19):
But I'm going to go with another KFA b alum who,
in one hundred years of this radio station also worked
right here on eleven ten, and he's going to welcome
our next guest here on the program.
Speaker 7 (32:31):
You're in a good mood night. That's good because anytime
a young comedian appears on The Tonight Show for the
first time, it's important in his career. And he works
on the comic strip in New York, in the comic
strip or on the comic strip one or the other.
And he's co starring in a movie called Diner, which
is opening around the county. Currently, would you make him?
What are you making? It's easy your would you welcome
(32:56):
Paul Reiser, Paul.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
And here he is, Paul on news radio eleven to
ten kfab Paul, good morning.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
Good morning. That was a treat. I haven't heard that
in a while. That was a big day. And any
comic the first time on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson,
that was that was a highlight of our life for sure.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
What Nebraska's own.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
Johnny Carson Wasbraska's own.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Yeah, was trying to say, is exactly what you said there.
This is a big moment for you. Your career would be
made or broken. Yeah, wased on what's about to happen.
But I mean, let me take you back to being
behind the curtain there and you hear Johnny flubbing the intro.
Did that take a little pressure off you?
Speaker 4 (33:34):
Well? You know, one of the things part of his
genius and his and his generosity is he he loved
comedians and he wanted comedians to do well. So you know,
he tripped on words. He knew he made that funny.
And he would always always say you're in a great
mood tonight, and the audience would think, I guess we're
in a good mood. They weren't in a good mood,
(33:56):
but he would make them be in a good mood
and he would make them welcome you. So he was
so gracious, and then I ended up doing the show
a lot. He was really generous and had me on often.
And the more I did it, the more relaxed I get,
and the more fun we had. You know, in the beginning,
I was a little bit just a deer in headlights,
going it's Johnny Carson. And then he realized, oh, just
(34:17):
have fun. He's here to make you look good. So
I'll always be grateful for that.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Speaking of being in a good mood, what are your
thoughts this morning? Like the rest of the country, everyone
loves this election. Did you watch the vice presidential debate?
Do you have any thoughts for us.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
I watched a little bit. I find as time goes on,
I have a smaller and smaller limit to how much
news I can watch and how much I can take in.
But you know, it's funny. It's not funny. But you know,
in this moment and we are, you know, there's so
much division and so much stress. And what I'm really
happy about is people who have seen this new movie
(34:52):
of mine, which is coming out Friday. The problem with people.
One of the reviews when we first premiered this movie
at a film festival, they said, this is the movie
we all need right now. I thought, well, that's a
lovely thing to say, because what it's actually about is
it starts. It's funny, you said. It starts with little
town in Ireland and this ninety year old guy is
(35:13):
watching the news in bed and keeps flipping channels and
everywhere he goes they're fighting in Korea, they're fighting in
the Middle East, they're fighting. It why and everybody fighting?
And then he says, what's happened to the world that
we can't get along? And then he says to his
son played by Colin me and he said, you know,
we don't need I shouldn't talk even our own family.
We can't get our own family together. And he says, listen,
(35:34):
you know the American side of the family that we
don't talk to and we all raised to hate them.
I want you to find them, and let's put a
stuff to this fight. Let's get along. There's no reason
we can't get along. I think. So that's the movie.
That's the movie is he sets out to we can't
solve the world's problems, maybe we can at least heal
our family. Start there and so that it becomes this
(35:58):
that's the core of the movie. But what it is
is a comedy about two guys. I go out to
Ireland and try and raise the glass and friendship and
it goes bad. It goes belly up because people are people,
and if you put two people in a room that
probably in short order come up with some reason why
they don't like the other guy, why you don't trust
(36:18):
the other team. And so people leave this movie going boy,
I really laughed for ninety minutes. It's a really fun comedy.
It's beautiful. It's in the countryside of Ireland. But at
the bottom of the movie is, yeah, maybe we could
try to be.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Better, you know, thank you for trying to bring some
positivity into the world. Too often we try and make
enemies out of friends. And I always say, I don't
care who you vote for. I care how you treat
people who vote differently than you. And I know that
your comments on politics over the years have been like
a lot of ours, like why do these elections start
so early and end so late. Let's go go, you know,
(36:54):
let's find something else here.
Speaker 4 (36:55):
Well, the thing is, you know, and what this movie
does is, you know, I've always felt if you take
any warring conflict, you know, countries or neighbors or villages, whatever,
or people or relatives and put them in a room
and sit them down and just say, let's talk, what
is the problem here? What do you want? Well, what
do you want? And you find probably you want the
(37:19):
same thing. I'd like to not get shot at. I'd
like to I'd like to my children to be safe.
And the other person will go, yeah, same here, Okay,
let's start for that. And that's sort of what this
movie is at the heart of it is trying to do.
It's like, let's treat each other as people as we'd
like to be treated, and then see if we can
make that bigger and bigger and not have as much
(37:41):
a division. So you know, when somebody said this is
a movie that is really welcome at this time, it's like, well,
that would be really great if this becomes something that
people can warm their hands up to and feel good about.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
The problem with people is in theaters this weekend. Quick question,
is doctor sam Owens some stranger things? Your character's still alive?
Speaker 4 (38:02):
You know what you ask a good question. I wish
I knew. They don't tell me. I might surprise myself
and suddenly spring up from the floor. The last time
we saw we saw me, I was chained to a
desk being beaten up by military. So I don't know.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
Now it didn't look good.
Speaker 4 (38:17):
Well we'll find out. But yes, so the movie. Yes.
And by the way, the movie opens tomorrow in theaters
a few theaters around the country, but it's also at
the same time, it'll be available on digital platforms. You
can on Apple or Amazon, Hulu. You can watch it
at home. And you know, this is a small little
movie and this doesn't have a big studio behind it,
so we're hoping that you know, word gets out and
(38:39):
I appreciate you getting the word out and I hope
people find it, and I hope people enjoy it and
the spirit that we've put it up there.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
Paul, we ask all of our favorite guests on the
show to say a line for us we feel is
the best thing to hear first thing in the morning.
Would you be so kind as to say, good morning, honey,
I made you pancakes for breakfast.
Speaker 4 (38:58):
Here we go, good morning, honey, I made you pancakes
for breakfast.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
Whether it's stand up comedy, TV movies or book form.
Thank you for all the entertainment over the years. It
was a pleasure talking with you this morning.
Speaker 4 (39:10):
Thank you. Pleasure talking to you, Paul.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
Reiser right here on news radio eleven ten KFAB. Again
the new movie is the Problem with People?
Speaker 7 (39:19):
Scott Boys Mornings nine to eleven on news Radio eleven
ten KFAB
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