Come Together?

Interesting now that the politicians and media that have been so divisive over the campaign suddenly want to take the high road and find harmony.  Is that what their followers want?  This show today includes a lot of that discussion, as well as a side step down candy cane lane for a fun conversation with Candace Cameron Bure!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott Vordiez.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Did you spend any time on social media yesterday? Particularly Facebook?

Speaker 3 (00:06):
Would I do that?

Speaker 2 (00:07):
There's a definite political difference. I feel like I've cultivated
the same group of friends and with those with whom
I am connected on both of the social media sites
that I'm part of. That's Twitter. I'm always gonna call
it Twitter Ex's dumb. But whatever, Twitter and Facebook and

(00:31):
Twitter is decidedly much more like yesterday. They were all
hyped up. They were raw. Rah Matt Welch Walsh, Matt
Walsh from the mi I Racist movie, a recent guest
on this radio program, was begging people to send him
all of the lunatic reactions of liberals who were overreacting

(00:54):
to Trump's victory. People were in their car yelling no, no,
it's just losing their minds, and Matt was all. Matt
was like, I need them all. I need to see
them all. Send them to me, post them here. I mean,
Twitter was definitely a dunk fest. Facebook, and I told

(01:19):
you in the weeks leading up to the election, Facebook
seemingly changed the metrics the algorithm to where I now
pretty much only exclusively see two different things. Number One,
stuff about if you grew up in the eighties, and
I love all that stuff. I'll read a long story
about John Candy. I got all day pop charts from

(01:42):
this date in nineteen eighty seven. Okay, wow, good week
for expose. You know. I'll read all that stuff. And
then the other thing I see is all left leaning stuff.
And in the days leaning up to the election, it
was about, as I described on the radio, how evil, horrible,

(02:03):
old white men want to tell women what they can
do with their bodies. And the truth is, we do
want to tell women what they should do with their bodies,
but we don't because there are human resources departments and
people lose their jobs, so we don't. I don't think
that's what they were talking about, but that's what came
to my mind. And now since the election, Facebook has

(02:29):
been like a haunted graveyard. Yesterday it was horrifying. I
went on there a couple of times just to kind
of see what was going on. Taking the temperature of Facebook.
The temperature was a negative reading. It was icy cold.
People feel like now it's the end of the world

(02:50):
is nigh. And a lot of it has to do
with how am I going to tell my daughter that
this is the America she has to live in, and
we wonder why kids get a very jaundice view of
politics news in this country. This kind of emotional reaction,

(03:14):
I can't completely discount it. I mean, these are your feelings.
Your feelings are your feelings. And I'm gonna say a
couple of things here and I'm gonna forget them. So
let's see here. I'm gonna write this down and my kids.
Let's go with my kids first. This will probably be
about the most infuriating thing I'll say all day for

(03:35):
those who are right now in despair over these election results.
I really, really really wanted to get on Facebook and
not to fight, but just to engage, Like, wait a second,
what exactly do you think is going to happen right now?
I really wanted to engage. I wanted to try and learn,

(03:58):
but I didn't. Number One, I've got better things to
do than to start having all of that mess. I
treat Facebook like recess. I just want to go on
there and see cat pictures and your pictures of you know,
your kids going to homecoming, and and you know, here's
some food I had for breakfast. I like that stuff.

(04:19):
Here's a beautiful picture I took here's something great going
on in my life. Here's a vague post where people
are like, are you okay? Please reach out to me,
you know, just vague despair post, all that stuff, but
all this specific stuff about a range of really negative
emotions in the way of the election. I don't need
any I don't need any of that. So I treated

(04:43):
those posts, including from some people who I know, and like,
I don't know all my Facebook friends. I don't like
all my Facebook friends. But it takes a lot to
get bounced out of there, so it's a corn ucopia.
So I treated all these Facebook posts like when my

(05:03):
children were very, very little and were throwing a temper tantrum.
When a kid going through the terrible twos is suddenly
like I don't want to wear this, I don't want
to eat this, I don't want to go here, I
don't want to do this, and you say, well, you're
going to do this, and then they throw this unreasonable

(05:25):
temper tantrum. You can't sit down a two year old
and reason with them, not at that point anyway. So
a lot of parents know this unless you're in church
or in a restaurant, like if you're at home, and
your kids starts throwing a temper tantrum, you know what
you do? Let them go, Just let them sit over

(05:46):
there and kick and scream. My mom tells me when
I would throw a temper tantrum when I was a kid,
and I kind of remember doing this. I would sit
with my back against the wall, just off the kitchen,
and I would bang my head backwards against the wall.
I just get magined. Bang bang, bang, bang my head
against the wall. And my mom, being the great mother

(06:09):
that she was and still is, would just sit there
and let me do it. I don't know where the
brain damage came from. Well, and also I don't know
where the brain damage came from. And point eight, I
don't know where the brain damage came from. But I

(06:31):
would just sit there and do it. And I know
and sometimes as a parent, you just let your kid
sit there and throw a temper tantrum. All right, Well
they'll they'll feel better when they calm down. And so
I'm looking at all these Facebook posts. One of them
was just one foul word. It's four letters, it starts
with A and it accepts. This friend of mine took

(06:56):
probably twenty letters to spell out a four letter word.
It started with at least ten f's and then from
there there was a vowel involved in some consonants. And
so I'm looking at all this going, I just I
kind of want to reach out and be like, what
do you think is going to happen right now? Man?

(07:17):
One of them said there was something along the lines
of if you haven't had a gay friend, reach out
to you today and talk about how scared they are
to live in this country, then you don't have a
gay friend. You might know a gay person, but you
don't have a gay friend. Apparently all the gay people

(07:40):
are just right now cowering. Do you know that when
President Trump was in office the first time, I forget
which nation, I'll look it up if I want, if
I think about it, but there was a real strict
Muslim nation, one of those that hates gays, one of
those that has just been sending people and that mindset

(08:00):
into this country completely unchecked during the Biden Harris administration.
And they still hate gays. But you know, be that
as it may. Biden sent an ambassador to that country.
He named an ambassador for that gay hating, strict Islamic
nation country, and you know who that person? Was a
gay person, just to tell them like, hey, how do

(08:21):
you like that?

Speaker 3 (08:24):
Did the guy know that this? Yeah, well, I guess
if you absador.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
There's totally a thumb in the eye kind of thing,
like what are you going to do about it? You know,
deal with it. So I don't know where this idea is.
Is that, you know, Trump wants to round up all
the gays and boil them in oil, and not in
a fun way. I don't I don't even know what
I meant by that. But I'm looking at me, I'm

(08:50):
looking all I'm looking at all these posts, letting that
one go. I'm looking at all these posts, and I
just like, well, they need some space to throw a
temper to hantrum. Hopefully they feel better when they're done.
I know that I just came on the radio and said,
to human beings with valid adult emotions, yeah, you guys

(09:10):
are acting like a bunch of screaming toddlers. You got
to get over it. But I don't know that it's
incredibly dissimilar. And for those with children, watch it. I
I asked my kids last night when I got home,
and my butler reminded me what their names are, and
we sat down for you know, our caviar dinner. And

(09:33):
I was like, hey, Muffy, and like that's not my name,
Hey Sport, Hey Sport. Oh, don't remember my son's name.
But I asked them, did your teachers and fellow students,
but especially your teachers have anything interesting to say in
the wake of the presidential election? And they said that

(09:55):
we talked about it, but yeah, nothing too crazy. Like really,
I got a message from a friend of mine that
said that several faculty members at the University of Nebraska
at Lincoln called in sick yesterday. I'm guessing it was
the English department. These are the people who've been found
yelling at conservative turning Point USA students on campus and
hanging a site all kinds of interesting signs in the

(10:19):
windows of the English department, a dear old Nebraska. You
all more left leaning than the last sign they hung.
I'm guessing a lot of them were like, I just
need a mental health day. I just can't take this anymore,
can't show up, talk to students, teach my classes.

Speaker 4 (10:39):
I just need I just need a day.

Speaker 3 (10:41):
It's horrible.

Speaker 2 (10:45):
And it occurred to me that, man, I always say this,
and I hope everyone can say this, but having been
born in the mid seventies, raised in the eighties, coming
of age in the nineties, this was the best time
to be alive Now normally, I say that because of everything,

(11:07):
Like we'd run outside and play all day and as
late into the night as we could possibly get away
with it. Our parents didn't know where we were, they
didn't really seem to care, and we were just kind
of running all over the place. And the music was
the best it's ever been throughout history. And the movies
were as quote worthy as any movies that have ever
come out, and the TV was great, and from like

(11:31):
Saturday morning cartoons, eating terrible breakfast cereal, it was like
literally cookies and milk. It was. It's just the best
time to be alive. Let me add another layer on
top of that that I really didn't think about until
last night. I grew up in the eighties. Our president
was Ronald Reagan. At no point did it ever occur

(11:55):
to me, was it ever tried to be taught to me,
I ever think, or did I ever really witnessed that
there was so many people in this country who hated
this country. The patriotic vibes throughout the eighties maybe I
just wasn't paying attention. I'm sure that there'll be some
people going, yeah, you lived a very different life than

(12:19):
I did. I can appreciate that. But in terms of
all the mass media and pop culture that I consumed
growing up in the eighties, and there were people who
make fun of Reagan, he's old, not a touch that
kind of thing. But I never got the sense that
any of it was and this is a bad country
and we should be ashamed of it. I never got

(12:40):
that feeling. Today's kids, they marinate in it. This is
all they hear.

Speaker 3 (12:48):
Well, things started changing in the nineties with Clinton, I think,
and I.

Speaker 2 (12:53):
Never even got I never even got that sense.

Speaker 3 (12:56):
But that would be the parents coming out of that
Reagan era, the kids at that in the nineties then
would have the parents that were about their age in
the early eighties. Yeah, I mean I can see that.

Speaker 2 (13:13):
I didn't even get a sense in the nineties that
it was, you know, like, oh, this is as bad.
I mean, we just come off the Gulf War and
Clinton seemed like a cool guy and people are like, yeah, right,
well he's the president now. I mean not everyone loved it,
but still it wasn't the demonization of a America that

(13:33):
we see.

Speaker 3 (13:33):
Today, nothing like today.

Speaker 2 (13:35):
So that's why I think it's funny when CBS News
comes out and says there's relief and excitement for half
the country after election day, but for almost as many
people there's disappointment. So what do you do when you
disagree with people in your life? How do you move
forward harmoniously? I think the first thing we have to
realize is not everyone wants to move forward harmoniously. Not

(13:58):
everyone wants to deal with people with whom they disagree.
Some people just like I'm cutting that person off. They
voted for the wrong candidate, they put the wrong sign
in their yard. So I I would think that the
results of this election wouldn't have anything to do with
all the issues going on leading up to this election,

(14:21):
which goes back what two years where people were basically
severing friendships. Then if your friendship or relationship or family
harmony survived up to election day, there's no reason it
should change now. And I think it's hilarious when you

(14:42):
have the mainstream media who's been trying to divide us
for years suddenly is like, hey, how do we come together?
Curtis says this whole How do I tell my children run?
Is the most rich, insufferable statement a liberal could make
the same people who will have to explain to these

(15:03):
kids why they made them chop off their genitals. And
then he ends that statement with the French word at
the end of a like a French movie fien fi
n fien like and cut scene. Nicely done, Curtis, thank
you very much for that, Merle says, good morning, Scott.

(15:25):
Disagreements are simply a difference of opinions. Accept it and
move on. It's called adulting. That's from Merle said to
Scott at kfab dot com. I don't know if you
spend a lot of time listening to the show, Merle,
we don't like doing a lot of adulting here during
these nine to eleven o'clock weekday morning hours. Yesterday afternoon,

(15:47):
Vice President Harris said, I just talked to President Trump
and congratulated him on winning the election. The crowd booed
as she said that, man, there's a lot of people
ready to accept the results and move on. And she says,
but we're not giving up on the fight. You know,
We're gonna fight. We're gonna fight, and we're gonna fight,

(16:08):
and we're gonna fight. Will I do not concede the
fight that fueled this campaign. We will continue to wage
this fight in the voting booth, in the courts, and
in the public square. I don't think she means in
the courts like fighting the results of this election. I
think she just means she assumes President Trump's gonna do

(16:30):
a whole lot of illegal stuff. You know, all that
Project twenty twenty five stuff that's all scary, and we'll
have to take it to the courts. The crowd there
in Washington, d C. Included former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
and a bunch of other people, and they left the

(16:51):
stage as the song Freedom played by Rage against the Machine. No,
it's a song Freedom played by Wham.

Speaker 3 (17:01):
This is George Michael, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (17:02):
That's Freedom ninety by George Michael. Freedom was the Wham
song sung by George Michael. I don't want your freedom,
that's Wham. That's George Michael.

Speaker 3 (17:17):
Ok.

Speaker 2 (17:18):
Then freedom is freedom.

Speaker 3 (17:19):
Yeah, that's George to give right.

Speaker 2 (17:22):
Yeah, by the way, totally straight and singing all these
George Michael. I'll tell you what, I flipping love me
some George Michael fight me anyway. The song Freedom played
by uh See and See Music Factory. Sorry Freedom by
Beyonce played there, and they tried to put like a
happy spin on it, promising a peaceful She enunciated every

(17:46):
word of this so carefully, just to hammer it home,
and we are going to have a peaceful transfer of power.
And people are like, yeah, eat that, Trump, because you
didn't do that four years ago. There was no peaceful transfer,
you know, until the day where President Biden was inaugurated

(18:06):
and you handed in the keys and said all right,
I see you, and that whole thing was super peaceful.
But you know, you told your supporters to fight, like hell,
we know what you meant and all the run. So
this is how they're trying to take the high road.
We're not going to fight this election. We're going to
accept the results, and we're going to have a peaceful
transfer power. Okay, she said. A fundamentable, fundamentable, fundamental principle

(18:34):
of American democracy is that when we lose an election,
we accept the results. And how did that go on
election night when it appeared you were getting smoked and
you didn't come out and thank your supporters for being
there and hanging out with you all night? How was
that acceptance? Someone had to write the speech and then

(18:54):
she had to go on and deliver it. But now
the next time we see Vice President Harry potentially is
when she has to certify the results. As being vice president,
that puts her in charge of the Senate and she'll
be the one presiding over that certification of the election results.
Unless here's the here's the interesting thing that might happen

(19:20):
here in half an hour from now, President Biden says
he wants to address the nation. What's that about. I
don't think. I don't think he's going to resign and
allow President Kamala Harris to be the nation's forty seventh president,

(19:40):
first female president. I think his ego is too big.
I still think he's mad at Harris and all the
rest for forcing him out. But if Biden did that,
it would allow him to do something that he really
loves to do, and that is to get under Trump's skin.

Speaker 3 (19:58):
And completely screw up his merch.

Speaker 2 (20:01):
It's a merchandise thing. They're already doing stuff. Forty five
forty seven, forty five, forty seven, forty seven. They got
all this, They're already doing all the embroidering it and
gold and red, white and blue and all the rest
of the stuff. And I think Biden might wait until
Trump gets all the forty seven merch out there, and
then I'm gonna step down the last couple of days
here and we're gonna swear in President Kamala Harris, the

(20:23):
forty seventh president, and Trump will just shake his fist
bite in. Our guest, Candice Cameron Bray, is a little
delayed and connecting with us here this morning. So when
she calls up here in a moment, Lucy, do you
have about fifteen to twenty seconds of diatribe or song
or something that you can say or play that Actually,

(20:45):
I've got I guess I know how I'll do it.
Never mind, I was gonna lay, I was gonna no, no,
no no, I was gonna let you talk. Then I
thought better of it. We'll do we'll do something, We'll
do something else.

Speaker 3 (20:54):
Oh oh, would you like me to talk right now here?

Speaker 2 (20:56):
She is no Our guest entertained us for years on
Full House.

Speaker 5 (21:00):
Okay, Michelle, how do you want to do this? Neck
waste our feet?

Speaker 2 (21:14):
Showing off her acting and smiling and really sweet skills
as well, as hula hoop skills on Full House and
then Fuller House and now with Great American Family, including
the new film A Christmas Less Travel. It's a pleasure
to welcome on here the notorious CCB Candice Cameron Beret.

(21:34):
Welcome to eleven to ten kfab.

Speaker 5 (21:38):
Thanks Scott.

Speaker 2 (21:39):
How are your hula hoop skills these days?

Speaker 5 (21:43):
They are pretty darmn good. I gotta tell you I
still have a hula hoop, but now that I'm well
into my forties, I use my rula hoop for exercise.

Speaker 2 (21:53):
You and I are almost exactly the same age. So
a happy bi centennial birthday year to you as well.
Before before I go any further, I cannot forget this.
This is a text message to you from my wife, Felicia.
She says, please tell her I really enjoy her. I
have her books, devotions, Her clothing is great. I have

(22:15):
lots of pieces. Her Christmas movies always have a lot
to do with faith. I appreciate being able to watch
if the kids walk in, which is you know, we've
got two kids at our house trying to watch something
and the kids walk in and you're reaching for pause
or muting it because of the language your films. She
really appreciates being able to watch them, even if the

(22:36):
kids walk in. Here's her question.

Speaker 5 (22:38):
She says, that's so sweet and so kind and thank you,
and that's exactly exactly my goal.

Speaker 2 (22:47):
My wife wants. She wants to know how you navigate
living in Hollywood and Los Angeles, working in the industry
and being a Christian and sticking to your values. Please
tell her hello for me. That's for my wife, Felicia.

Speaker 5 (23:01):
Oh well, tell Felicia, thank you so so much. I
you know I am. I'm so unashamed of my faith.
It's who I am. I can't leave it at the doorstep.
And it's not always easy navigating it within the entertainment industry.
Some people love me for it, some people hate me
for it. But you know, I'm just being me. Everyone

(23:23):
gets to do that and do their thing. And I
love sharing my faith and it's a part of the
entertainment that I provide. I've been producing movies for so
many years, and everything that I do do, I hope
that it sparks your journey of faith, that it brings
you hope, that it wants your heart, and then it
lights you up, you know, and your family and so

(23:46):
that's what all of our Christmas movies on Great American
Family Channel are really all about. We celebrate Christmas as
it's meant to be.

Speaker 2 (23:53):
Tell me about a Christmas less traveled.

Speaker 5 (23:58):
Yeah, So this one, it's such a sweet, heartfelt story.
I have a father who's passed and I discover that
he's left me these old cassette tapes and he shares
with me his regrets in life and things he wished
he had the courage to share with me when he
was alive, and so he recorded this tape before his passing.

(24:20):
And I go on a journey in our vintage red
Christmas truck, and in true Christmas fashion, I meet a
handsome man along the way who joins me for the journey.
But very very sweet story, and that airs November sixteenth.
And then I have a second Christmas movie this year
called Home Sweet Christmas, starring also Cameron Mathison, and we

(24:46):
play childhood friends that reconnect when we have been left
a maple sugar farm, and so of course love ensues
and we got to figure out how to be maple sugarists.
A couple of great fun films again that really lead
with faith and hope and you know, hope you have

(25:09):
time to snuggle up with your family, your friends and
just enjoy these heartfelt Christmas Eve.

Speaker 2 (25:13):
We just have a couple of minutes left here with
Candice Cameron Beret. What was Christmas like growing up in
the Cameron House since you and one of your siblings,
your brother Kirk, were off and on TV sets.

Speaker 5 (25:26):
Yeah, we also have two sisters, but it just felt
you know, I loved Christmas morning waking up. My mom
would cook the eggs and the bacon. We would smell
the smell, but we weren't allowed to come out out
of our rooms until she started playing the Christmas music,
so that would give her and my dad enough time
to enjoy their coffee and kind of wake up, but

(25:49):
so much fun. And our Christmases were all about family.
And we have a pretty huge family, lots of cousins,
aunts and uncles and spend the day all together. So
those are really the same true that we passed on
to our family today. And I'm so glad I still
have my parents. You know, they're healthy and happy and
we just have those traditions continue. And now my dad

(26:12):
watches my movies and he cries at every one of them.
Even you know in places you're not supposed to cry
because he's just so proud of me. And it's the
sweetest thing ever.

Speaker 2 (26:22):
I love the specificity of frying the eggs and the
bacon grease, and that is the best way to do it.
We have a tradition on this show, Candice. In fact,
your brother did this a few years back. We ask
our favorite guests on the show to say a line
for us that 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

(26:42):
pancakes for breakfast, or if you want, I made you
fried eggs and bacon for breakfast.

Speaker 5 (26:49):
Sure, okay, morning honey. Well I made just eggs over
easy and bacon cut in bacon green this morning.

Speaker 2 (27:01):
Awesome. Candace Cameron Berat, thank you so much for all
the entertainment over my entire lifetime. Look forward to seeing
you on Great American Family this holiday season.

Speaker 5 (27:11):
Thanks so much.

Speaker 2 (27:13):
That is Candace Cameron Berat here on news radio eleven
ten KFAB Here's her brother Kurk Cameron making us pancakes.
Good morning, honey, I made you pancakes for breakfast.

Speaker 1 (27:24):
Scott Boyes News Radio eleven ten kfaby.

Speaker 2 (27:29):
I didn't get a chance to start a fight because
she's on Great American Family doing all these Christmas shows
with another young you know young a child star of
the eighties, Danica mckeller Winnie Cooper from the Wonder Years.
They're both on the same network to my knowledge, and
I'm sure some fans will be like, no, no, they
were in this in this, but I don't think they've

(27:50):
been in the same movie together. So I was going
I was gonna try and start a cat fight between
Candace Cameron Beret and Danica mckellor, but I didn't feel
like it was in the spirit of the holiday season.

Speaker 3 (28:02):
The Deuce, would you?

Speaker 2 (28:03):
Are you ever just for fun? Oh my gosh, did
I ever tell you the story about when I tried
to break up air Supply.

Speaker 1 (28:09):
No.

Speaker 2 (28:10):
So I was talking to no. I was talking to
one of them, I think it was Graham Russell. This
is back in the early two thousands, and they were
in Canton. I was in Kansas City on the radio,
and they were in Kansas City for a concert, and
so I was talking to Graham from Air Supply and
I said, you know that little guy with the curly

(28:32):
hair and the high voice. He's been holding you back
all these years? Have you ever thought about dropping him?
And he said, well, he's right here, as Russell Hitchcock,
he's right here. Do you want to tell him that?
I said, yeah, put him on the phone, and so
now Russell like hello, hell, And I said, if you
could hear what your partner, Graham Russell was just saying

(28:52):
about you. He says that you've been holding him back
for years and he'd be better off just dropping you.
Oh he said that, did he? And I was like, yes,
I'm going to break up air Supply. Did I want
to break up air Supply? Oh? Heavens no. I love
air Supply, always have. Like I said earlier in the show,
totally straight. But I thought it'd be fun to try
and break them up. But alas it didn't happen. I

(29:17):
like to start incredibly unnecessary fights just to see what
might happen.

Speaker 3 (29:22):
And make sure that they don't forget about you. They'll
never forget you. Yeah, you remember that guy in Kansas
City that tried to break us up?

Speaker 2 (29:30):
Yeah, sadly, I think I'm incredibly forgettable. Who said that.
I'll see if I can dig down a little deeper
on this accusation here on the Zonker's custom was Inbox says,
I have a friend who works for OPS, but not
as a teacher went into a fourth grade classroom and
the kids were marching around chanting shame. The staff member

(29:53):
asked the teacher what they did wrong. The teacher said
that their parents voted for Trump. Now that sounds made up.
That sounds like it's one of those things that they
someone saw on social media, and by the time I
got back to this guy, it happened down the street
at a school. But I'll see if I can dig

(30:15):
a little deeper on this accusation, because it also sounds
like it's not the least believable thing I've ever heard
that a teacher could do this. Brian brings up a
good point here about Vice President Harris's concession speech yesterday afternoon,
several hours after the election results came in. Brian says,

(30:37):
as far as Kamala's saying, We're gonna have a peaceful
transition to power, email says, but wait, shouldn't Kamala's supporters
be upset that she's peacefully turning the country over to Hitler? Well,
Kamala never referred to Trump as hitler, but there were
lots of accusations as to the threat for democracy, and

(31:00):
that certainly the invective and rhetoric here in this campaign
is such that I am sure that her supporters that
have been whipped into a frenzy and fomented into wanting
to do something like I don't know, storm the capita
or whatever, probably are upset that she's not fighting this anyway.

(31:22):
She has to her at her disposal. And with that,
what is President Biden going to say here in a
few minutes. He wants to address the nation. Oh, they're
going to let him out in the last few days
of the campaign here available. I'm going to Pennsylvania. They
love me in Pennsylvania. No, we're good, Joe, thanks a lot.

(31:45):
I just hang out there, Okay, I can go talk.
I'm from Scranton. So I I'm curious as to what
he's gonna say. I wonder what the betting line is
as to whether he's going to resign office and we're
going to swear in President Kamala Harrison a few minutes.
I don't think that's going to happen right now. We'll see.

(32:08):
He's going to address the nation. Next, you'll hear it here.
President Biden is going to give his first address to
the nation after the man that what a weird journey.
Let me divert down this road for a second, just
thinking back to where we were here with Biden beating

(32:32):
Trump in twenty twenty asterisk and then all of the
vitriol between these two people and their supporters, which, as
it turns out, weren't really supporters of Biden as much
as they were detractors of Trump over the four years
that followed, and then the you know, hey, we're not

(32:53):
sure President Biden has enough left in the tank to
be president the rest of this term, let alone another
four years. Oh no, he's great, he's fine. And then
we saw that debate and the world said, oh no,
he's not fine. And then we got Kamala Harris. So
Trump in this election season, Donald Trump beat some very

(33:17):
strong Republican challengers in the primary. I mean we're not
talking about pushovers here. A couple of them, maybe not lightweights,
but Governor Ron DeSantis, Ambassador Nikki Haley, vivek Ramaswami, these
are very strong candidates, and Trump obliterated all of them.

(33:38):
And then he took on Joe Biden and knocked him
out of the race before and now who am I
running against now Vice President Kamala You know, suddenly that
race was on over the last one hundred or so
days of this election season, and he beat her, and
he beat the national news media ninety eight percent negative

(33:59):
coverage of Trump's campaign in the traditional national news media,
he beat all of them. So now President Biden feels
like he's got to come out and say something when
the Harris campaign wouldn't let him speak in the days
and weeks leading up to the campaign. Remember that speech,

(34:21):
that the comment that Biden it wasn't a speech, It
was a comment that Biden made that has been attributed
to him calling Trump supporters garbage, largely because that's what
he said. And that comment on a zoom call with
some online Latina or some zoom call with some Latino

(34:41):
get out the vote group. He said that at the
same time when Kamala Harris was down the street in Washington,
d C. Giving a big speech, an appeal to the nation,
at the same spot where Trump gave his speech that
included the fight like hell line, which people have taken
to mean go in there and beat up Nancy Pelosi

(35:04):
until she makes me president or whatever it is that
they think that was supposed to be a huge moment
for the vice president. Well, guess who didn't get invited
to that right down the street. President Biden wasn't asked
to say a few words, wasn't asked to be there.
He wasn't like, all right, you know what we need
you to do, Joe, if you could be on this

(35:26):
zoom call with tens and tens of supporters on this
this thing. That's why some people have speculated that Biden
tried to throw this, He tried to sabotage Kamala's election chances.
He didn't get invited to go down the street at
this huge thing. It was supposed to be Kamala's big speech.

Speaker 3 (35:46):
I told you this yesterday about I think that they
voted for him.

Speaker 2 (35:51):
You think the Bidens went out in voting to do
for Trump? Yeah, I wonder if they filled in. I don't.
I still don't think that Biden could bring himself to
vote for Trump. He does not like that guy, but
he could probably be inspired not to. I wonder if
he wrote in his own name, I'm Joe Biden, like
someone wrote I'm Joe Biden. Not just writing in Joe Biden.

(36:13):
They wrote in I'm Joe Biden.

Speaker 3 (36:16):
I wonder how many votes he got Joe Biden.

Speaker 2 (36:18):
I don't know. I told you that. On Tuesday. A
Google trend was why did Joe or when did Joe
Biden drop out of the race? Or did Joe Biden
drop out of the race? Some people still hadn't heard, well.

Speaker 3 (36:29):
But I'm sure a lot of people wrote his name in. Anyway,
I'm wondering how many votes he got.

Speaker 2 (36:35):
I don't know. So now he wants to come out and.

Speaker 3 (36:39):
Say something, and when is that going to happen?

Speaker 2 (36:42):
At ten o'clock? Omaha time? What time is it?

Speaker 3 (36:46):
Oh it's ten thirteen, Hey, Joe Biden time.

Speaker 2 (36:49):
Yeah. What's what's he got to do today? Which begs
the question what's he going to do over the next
two and a half months? He's still president? Is one
of those actions, and some people think it could be
right now? Is one of those actions resigning from office
and swearing in Kamala Harris as President of the United States?

Speaker 3 (37:11):
As we can do both right now?

Speaker 2 (37:12):
He sure could. As weird as this election season has been,
why wouldn't it Why wouldn't this be the next step
just to screw up Trump's merchandise when he's already making
forty seven hats, then Kamala be the forty seventh president.
You can turn a seven into an eight. It's kind

(37:33):
of a weird looking there at the top, but you
can do it.

Speaker 3 (37:35):
What if he decided to just sign the presidency over
to Trump today. I know he can't, but maybe he
thinks he can.

Speaker 2 (37:46):
I know one of my favorite stupid rants, and I
know that they're stupid. One of my favorite stupid rants
is every four years win or not every four years,
but when the president is either running for reelection and loses,
the administration in this case loses, the mindset behind it loses,
and we're like, why are we leting this, letting this
person we just fired stay in office for two and

(38:09):
a half months. Well, the truth, the answer to that
question is, well, you can't have a weak point in
America in the eyes of our enemies by suddenly like
welcoming in a whole brand new administration the next day
and they don't even know where I don't even know
where my office is. You got to bring in the
transition team. They start getting the daily intelligence briefings. Trump's

(38:29):
got to build his team and that's why the process,
and it's pretty amazing they can get that done in
two and a half months. All right, Now, I got
people going up to the left turn making sure the
microphone works. Hey, hello, he's sniffing the microphone. So well,

(38:50):
he's got to go off there and do the same
things that the Biden might do. He's biting a child
on the leg you saw that, right, and a kid
in the Halloween costume. And yes, Biden bitter president of
the United States. So we'll we'll bring this speech to
you from President Biden next.

Speaker 1 (39:07):
Scott Byes News Radio eleven ten Kfab.

Speaker 2 (39:10):
We're still waiting on President Biden to address the nation.
Schedule to address the nation at ten o'clock. Omaha time, Lucy,
what time is it. You don't have a clock in
front of you?

Speaker 3 (39:21):
Ten? We should nineteen twenty three?

Speaker 2 (39:24):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (39:24):
Four.

Speaker 2 (39:24):
We should buy that two thousand dollars Kfab clock posted
online twenty five hundred steal. Someone has an old Kfab
clock and they've they tried to sell it to us
here at the radio station for the low low price
of two thousand, five hundred dollars. We said, no, thank you.

(39:47):
I don't know who in the world else would want
to buy that, but good luck to you. Try and
gouge us twenty five hundred dollars on we're in radio week.
We can trade that amount. We're not going to spend
money on the So yeah, to quote Dana Carvey as
President Biden. And another thing, and by the way, let

(40:09):
me say this as we're waiting on President Brightden to
address the nation, to all of those who are genuinely
not just I mean anything from mildly disappointed at the
reelection election results to absolutely beside themselves with grief like
they just lost a loved one. And there are people
who have said, I didn't you've heard this right in

(40:32):
terms of the election results over the years on well
those years being twenty sixteen and twenty twenty four, I
didn't even get this sad when my dad died. I've
heard people say this stuff about Trump winning an election.
So if you're on that negative spectrum of emotions related

(40:54):
to Trump's victory, ask yourself this and try and give
yourself an honest answer to the question, did you think
President Biden? Well, these are a lot of questions did
you think President Biden was the best candidate in twenty
twenty four. I don't know that anyone really feels that way.

(41:15):
Of course, there are still some people like, well, if
he was running, maybe he could have beat him again, man, maybe,
but didn't work out that way. So, if you think
that Biden did the right thing and stepped aside to
let Kamala Harris or anyone else take on Trump, do
you think that the same deficiencies and concerns surrounding President

(41:37):
Biden existed a year before he dropped out of the race.
The answer to that has to be yes, right of course. Okay,
So if Biden, since he did the right thing in
dropping out in the summer of twenty twenty four, if
he had done the writer thing by dropping out in

(41:58):
the summer of twenty twenty three, or at any point
right before we really got into in late twenty twenty three,
the what would have been if Biden drops out in
twenty twenty three, Now you've got an open primary among Democrats,
and you're gonna have a lot of people jump in there.
Kamala Harris included Gavin Newsom, the governor of California. Those

(42:20):
would probably be the two biggest names on top of
the ticket. You probably see some other people as well,
and there might be some that would surprise you. You
would have a crowded field of strong candidates to try
and earn the Democratic nominee, to try to be the
Democratic nominee for the presidency. Here's the hardest question you

(42:41):
have to ask yourself, and you know the answer to it.
If all that had happened the way it should have,
do you think Kamala Harris would have been the nominee.

Speaker 3 (42:54):
I don't because she didn't get the nomination in the
first place, when she was a nomine or when she
was running.

Speaker 2 (43:01):
Sorry yeah, in twenty nineteen, before the Iowa caucus. In
early twenty twenty, she was running for president. She dropped out.
She had no support. That was a great Babylon Bee
headline yesterday. Kamala Harris doesn't like this process where she
needs to earn votes to assume office because she was

(43:25):
made vice president. She didn't get a single vote in
the Democratic primary in twenty twenty. There was really no
Democratic primary in twenty twenty four, not really. Her name
wasn't on that. She just got the nomination. She was
coronated and now, in her real first election, for anyone

(43:45):
casting any vote related to her being the president, she lost.
I contend that if there'd been a Democratic primary, she
would not have received the nomination.

Speaker 3 (44:00):
I don't think so either.

Speaker 2 (44:03):
And for those of you who are crying and you're
zeema today in the wake of the election results, here's
another reality for you. You're not gonna like and the
Trumpers aren't gonna like this either. If Biden had dropped
out in twenty twenty three and there's been a Democratic

(44:23):
presidential primary, Gavin Newsom probably gets the nomination, and Gavin
Newsom is probably the president elect today. Maybe we'll see
thank you. Right now, it's time to welcome the President
of the United States, Joe Biden, for his first address
to the nation after the election results.

Speaker 4 (44:43):
Please, thank you, thank you, thank you.

Speaker 6 (44:49):
Yeah, it's good to see you all, particularly good to
see my granddaughter sitting in the front row. Here.

Speaker 4 (44:55):
Hi Ben Hallai honey.

Speaker 6 (44:57):
For over two hundred years, America is carried out the
greatest experiment in self government and history of the world.
And that's not hyperbole, that's a fact. For the people.
The people vote and choose their own leaders, and they
do it peacefully, and we're in a democracy. The will
of the people always prevails. Yesterday I spoke with President

(45:22):
elect Trump to congratulate him on his victory, and I
assured him I direct my entire administration to work with
his team to ensure a peaceful and orderly transition.

Speaker 4 (45:36):
That's what the American people deserve.

Speaker 6 (45:39):
Yesterday I also spoke Vice President Harris. She's been a
partner and a public servant. She ran an inspiring campaign
and everyone got to see something that I learned early
on to respect so much her character. She has a
backbone like a ramrod. She has great character, true character.

(45:59):
She gave her whole heart and effort, and she and
her entire team should be proud of the campaign they ran.
You know, the struggle for the soul of America since
our very founding has always been an ongoing debate and
still vital today. I know for some people it's a

(46:22):
time for victory to state the obvious. For others, it's
a time of loss. Campaigns the contest of competing visions.
The country chooses one or the other. We accept the
choice the country made. I've said many times, you can't

(46:42):
love your country only when you win. You can't love
your neighbor only when you agree something. I hope we
can do no matter who you voted for, you see
each other not as adversaries, but as fellow Mariamerricans.

Speaker 4 (47:01):
Bring down the temperature.

Speaker 6 (47:03):
I also hope we can later rest the question about
the integrity of the American electoral system. It is honest,
it is fair, and it is transparent, and it can
be trusted, win or lose. I also hope we can
restore the respect for all our election workers who busted

(47:24):
their necks and took risks at the outset. We should
thank them, thank them for staffing voting sites, counting the votes,
protecting the very integrity of the election. Many of them
are volunteers who do it simply out of love for
their country and as they did as they did their

(47:45):
duty as citizens. I will do my duty as president.
I'll fulfill my oath and I wanted the Constitution. On
January twentieth, we'll have a peaceful transfer of power here
in America. To all our incredible staff, supporters, cabinet members,
all the people who have been hanging out with me

(48:07):
for the last four years. God love you, as my
mother would say, thank you so much. You put so
much into the past four years. I know it's a
difficult time. You're hurting. I hear you, and I see you.
But don't forget. Don't forget all the we accomplished. It's
been an historic presidency, not because I'm president, because what

(48:28):
we've done, what you've done, a presidency for all Americans.
Much of the work we've done is already being felt
by the American people, with the vast majority of it
will not be felt we felt over the next ten years.
We have legislation we passed. It's just only now just
really kicking in. We're going to see over trillion dollars

(48:51):
worth of infrastructure work done, changing people's lives and rural
communities and communities that are in real difficulty because it
takes time to get it done, and so much more.
It's going to take time, but it's there. The road
ahead is clear, assuming we sustain it. There's so much,

(49:14):
so much we can get done and will get done
based the way the legislation was passed, and it's truly historic.
You know, we're leaving behind the strongest economy in the world.
I know people are still hurting, but things are changing rapidly.

Speaker 4 (49:33):
Together, we've changed America for the better.

Speaker 6 (49:37):
Now we have seventy four days to finish the term,
our term. Let's make every day count. That's the responsibility
we have to the American people.

Speaker 4 (49:48):
Look, folks, you all know it in their lives.

Speaker 6 (49:51):
Setbacks are unavoidable, but giving up is unforgivable. Setbacks are unavoidable,
but giving up is unforgivable.

Speaker 4 (50:01):
We all get knocked down.

Speaker 6 (50:03):
But the measure of our character is my dad would say,
is how quickly we get back up. Remember, a defeat
does not mean we are defeated.

Speaker 4 (50:13):
We lost this battle.

Speaker 6 (50:16):
America of your dreams is calling for you to get
back up. That's the story of America for over two
hundred and forty years and counting. It's a story for
all of us, not just some of us. The American
experiment endors. We're going to be okay, but we need

(50:38):
to stay engaged, we need to keep going, and above all,
we need to keep the faith. So proud to have
worked with all of you. I really mean it, I
sincerely mean it. God bless you all, God bless America,
and make God protect our troops.

Speaker 4 (50:59):
Thank you, thank you.

Speaker 2 (50:59):
Thanks good speech there from President Biden, and that I imagine
won't be exactly the last we hear from him. Over
the next two and a half months. I think that
there will be some November December, early January surprises out
of this administration because they know they're not going to

(51:21):
be able to get anything past done or accomplished in
the next four years, not with President Trump in office,
a strong Republican majority in the Senate and what looks
to be the Republicans keeping control of the House of Representatives.
So what executive actions will come down here in the
next two and a half months, We'll be watching. But

(51:43):
that was a very good speech there from President Joe Biden.
I've got some sentiment here in the inbox that suggests
that his supporters aren't quite as positive thinking as the
message we just heard. I'll read these emails to you.

Speaker 1 (51:58):
Next, Scot, Where are You're going? News Radio eleven ten.

Speaker 2 (52:02):
Kfab Scott atkfab dot com. The ones nearest the top
here just have to do a lot with the President
Biden's speech that we just heard. We'll start with this
assessment from l sent to Scott atkfab dot com. It's
L is in E L L E, not the initial
L L says, Joe Biden's speech is killing my ears.

(52:26):
The Democrats are so defeated and now they're trying so
hard to be nice and civil like they've been that
way all along. I can't stand to listen to Joe
or Kamala anymore. Just sit down and shut up already,
just saying thanks, l Oh. That's that's that assessment here

(52:46):
in the Zonker's custom was inbox, Adam has a rather
similar thought, said, Biden struck a different tone than he
has for the last several months, by the way, and
another thing, how can he say they will all be
okay after the evil stuff he said about Trump and
his supporters. Let's go Brandon. That's from Adam, sent to

(53:08):
Scott at kfab dot com. That is, I think a
valid point. You can't whip people into a frenzy and
say if Trump gets elected, there's going to be the
military is going to go through the streets and attack
American citizens, many of whom will be deported. Others will

(53:31):
be locked up, killed or shot and will never be
able to vote again. This will be the last election
that America ever has because this threat to democracy, this fascist,
this new wave Hitler type person is going to come
in here and destroy everything you love about this country.

(53:52):
And then he wins and you're like, well, the American
people has spoken. It's a great thing about this country.
We have free elections, and now we move forward, and
let's fine for the politicians. Joe Biden's been in office
a few years in various capacities. He's won some, he's
lost some. He still comes from and somewhere at the
root of who he is as a politician, somewhere in

(54:15):
there is still that guy who would fight with the
Republicans throughout the eighties and then they would clock out
and go get a beer together and slap backs. That's
who he was. I'll never forget Senator Chuck Grassley telling
us a beautiful story after It was shortly after Obama

(54:37):
and Biden assumed the White House. A few months had passed,
and I asked Senator Grassley in one of his various
appearances on the program, if you had any time to
talk with your old friend and the Senate, the Vice
President Joe Biden. And Senator Grassley said yeah, just a
couple of days ago, I got a call in my office.

(55:00):
I answered it, Hello, and it was the Vice President
and I said, oh, hello, mister Vice President, what do
you need and he said Joe said nothing, I just
missed my old friends. Now that relationship would go south
in the years that followed, and especially during his time

(55:20):
in the presidency when something else had taken hold of
Joe Biden, but at the root of who he was
as a politician was still this guy that like, look,
we're going to fight, We're going to battle, We're going
to have a fair hearing of our thoughts. We're going
to be some good debates, and some days we're not
going to like each other very much, but we still

(55:40):
love this country. And at the end of the day,
we've got to put aside our differences and go get
a beer. This new crop of politicians doesn't come from that,
and this group of people have been whipped into a
frenzy in this country don't feel that way. So when
you tell then like Biden gets it, He's one some
and lost some. This is how it goes. But this

(56:04):
new group of especially young people who have been told
Trump's a fascist dictator, threat to democracy, is going to
send the military and the streets and Americans are going
to be deported and murdered and gay people won't be
allowed to be gay anymore, or whatever the heck it
is that they've been led to believe, and cops are
just out there indiscriminately shooting black people because they're black.

(56:27):
They have not grown up in this era of Hey,
you win some, you lose some, and you got to
live to fight another day. They don't feel that way,
which brings us to some of the emails here about
what's going on in schools and what's going on in families.
We'll start with this email from does he want me

(56:49):
to withhold his name? He says, signed a quiet conservative.
Anytime it has to do with schools, I always got
a double check and not even just read first names
on the So this guy says. My wife's sister works
at a high school in eastern Iowa. She texted yesterday

(57:11):
to say the students in her school were very sad
and that there were a lot of immigrant children who
were justifiably terrified. She went on to say she plans
to purchase as many Plan B doses as she can
to give to her own two colleged AIDS kids. Now,

(57:34):
that's that's a difference. How many of us when we
were in college ever received a call from our mom
or dad or that stop by for a college visit
and bring us a bunch of morning after pills, propylactics
and anything else. Hey, what do you need here? I
try this like dad? You know it works for me,

(57:54):
like get out of my dorm room that no one
wanted or had any kind of relationship like that. Do
you know what my talk was with my dad? I'm
not making this up. This is not a joke. Lucy.
Do you want to know what the talk was between
me and my father?

Speaker 3 (58:10):
I'm not sure.

Speaker 2 (58:11):
My dad pulled me aside. I think that was probably
about thirteen fourteen. I don't know. He pulled me aside.
And here was the entirety of the talk. He said, son,
I'm not ready to be a grandfather anytime soon. Do
we understand each other? I said, yes? Good, All right,

(58:33):
I go mow the lawn. That was the talk. Now
the truth is there was no danger of any of
that happening, mostly because of my personality.

Speaker 3 (58:47):
Not a player.

Speaker 2 (58:48):
Yeah no, I try as I might didn't work out.
So back to the email. Here this idea that mom's
and you've seen a lot of the sentiment on social media,
moms are out there going, well, I guess my daughter
is not gonna be able to have wanting access to
abortions or what. I'm like, slow down, what are we

(59:10):
talking about? Your daughter's fifteen? You gotta take that away sometimes.
What is happening? Yeah, I'm gonna purchase as many Plan
B doses as I can to give to her two
colleged age kids. We've got college aides guys that listen
to this show. Right now, they're emailing, going, hey, where

(59:31):
do her daughters go to school? Right back to the email,
a co worker of mine said, a friend said her
black granddaughter was terrified to go to school because they
in quotes, they are going to put her to work
in the fields. What are these children being told? And

(59:55):
instead of setting them straight? This is the email saying this,
what are these children being told? And instead of setting
them straight or trying to allay their fears, the liberals
just keep feeding that fear. Signed a quiet conservative. There's

(01:00:15):
a lot of that going on. George email says I
was getting my hair cut this morning. I mentioned to
my far left daughter, or I mentioned to the guy
cutting my hair. My far left daughter was so upset
that she hasn't talked to me since the election, my
barber told me that his daughter was so upset because
of her brothers teasing her about the election results, that

(01:00:35):
her family would not be attending any of the upcoming
holiday gatherings. The Party of Love and Tolerance seems to
be unbelievably lacking in love and tolerance, as from George
said to Scott at kfab dot com and this email

(01:00:56):
unsigned says, thank you for your segment on how to
deal with people with whom you disagree. Last night, my
wife informed me that one of her friends told her
that she couldn't be around any more Trump supporters, and
my wife said, including my husband, no reply. So when

(01:01:18):
President Biden comes out this hour a little bit ago,
when Vice President Harris came out yesterday afternoon and said, Yo,
they Hey, the fight's not over, but we got to
accept the election results and we got to move on
because we love this country and all the rest of it.
I don't know that they really feel that way, and

(01:01:38):
I can tell a lot of their supporters certainly don't,
because that's not how they've been trained. I don't know
how many times I said leading up to this election,
the twenty twenty election, the twenty sixteen election. You need
to try and get yourself to a place in your

(01:02:00):
life where whoever it is that's in control of whoever
sitting behind the resolute desk of the White House, whoever's
there behind the desk, whether it's Trump or Biden or Lewinsky,
whoever it is that's around or under or on the desk,

(01:02:21):
shouldn't really have anything to do with the core values
you have in your life. Whoever won the election on Tuesday.
I wake up Wednesday morning bleary eyed, and the things
that mean the most to me my family, hanging out
with my friends, being here with my coworkers, hitting a

(01:02:43):
little white golf ball, going to church, taking Jesus with
me around while I go hit a golf ball, and
not requesting several times that he darned anything if I
hit a bad shot, but rather just to have a
nice long walk in a chat. These are the things
that are most important to me in my life. They
don't change depending on who the president is. I think

(01:03:05):
there are a lot of people, though, who seemingly wrapped themselves.
They've enshrouded themselves in personal identity politics, and I love
what you know ho Shamikha Michelle is a black conservative
young woman, great speaker, incredibly dynamic. She was in Omaha
for one of Brandon Strock's events, a walk away event,

(01:03:29):
several years ago, and I saw her post on Twitter
x and she said, why are there so many black
women taking it personally that one black woman didn't get
elected president? Again, I ask you, if Biden had done
the right thing and dropped out of this race in

(01:03:51):
late twenty twenty three and they had an open Democratic primary,
do you think Kamala Harris would have come through that
the nominee. I don't either, So why should you be
surprised that she didn't win this election? Tom says, are
the blue dots going to be around those signs for
a while? And is Omaha turning into San Francisco? No?

(01:04:12):
I mean we still got Mayris Dothart, Congressman Don Bacon.
I think even the blue dots want a little bit
of common sense on some things here around here. But
it's uh, it's as Tom says, it's uh, Omaha could
become as blue as some of these places. That's why
we have a city election coming up in the spring,

(01:04:34):
and how's that gonna look? That's right, the next election
is already on us, and we'll be here throughout all
of it.

Speaker 1 (01:04:41):
Scott Voies mornings nine to eleven on news Radio eleven
ten KFAB