Cracker Barrel / Judge Lucy

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott VORGIEZ Well, I know where I'm eating this weekend.
I'm going to the brand new restaurant out there off
of the Interstate and Sap Brothers Exit. I'm having to
It's a brand new restaurant, a Southern comfort food. They
got an old general store inside recently rebranded. It's called
Honky Cask. And not to be confused with the nineteen

(00:23):
seventies pop song by some British piano player, but Honky
Cask is the brand new name here for the restaurant
formerly known as Cracker Barrel. And yes, I did make
that part up. On one hand, people are going way

(00:46):
stupid overboard on the fact that Cracker Barrel changed its sign.
It's still kind of the same color scheme. What's different
is an old guy that either seems slumped over, passed out,
or dead leaning against a barrel. It's an old guy
in a chair named Herschel. He has a name. I

(01:07):
didn't know that until yesterday, Old Herschel. Slumped Herschel's like
either I had I had too much to eat. Hang on,
give me a second before we get out of here,
and I'm just gonna sit right here. Oh there's a barrel.
I can lean up again say hang on, oh boy,
I eat a lot of food today. So he's either
that or he's been dead for six months and they

(01:29):
just left him there, or he was walking in from
the truck into the store and said, hang on, I
need I need to sit down and catch my breath
before I sit down and eat. And either way, it
doesn't exactly look like a guy who well, I just
ran a marathon and now I'm gonna get some delightful
health food here at this restaurant. But before I do,

(01:50):
let me sit down here and shine my shoes or whatever.
It's not exactly it doesn't exactly exude health. And a
lot of the healths and the young people who have
grown up in this world that you got to be
health conscious and all the rest of this stuff, and
these moms saying, well, I got to make sure that
my kids get the best food and so forth, all

(02:11):
these these brand new health nuts over the last couple
of decades. They look down at cracker Barrel. They think
cracker barrel is for old, fat white people and and
and it has nothing but fried food dipped in gravy
and go there. Yeah, right, And these these new health

(02:32):
conscious people are like, why I think that the place
like that shouldn't even be allowed to exist, is contributing
to the obesity of this nation. Well, guess what, changing
the sign and taking old Herschel off the logo is
not going to change their minds. They're still not going
to go there. The menu is still the same. Now,

(02:58):
who have you upset here? People like Larry the Cable
Guy who posted on ex Twitter and I quote, please
we beg of you. Don't change the iconic Cracker Barrel
design for the love of Uncle Herschel's favorite breakfast. Don't

(03:18):
do this. You're killing me. You're killing us, as Larry
the Cable Guy on ex Twitter. Now, is it really
all about the changing of the logo? Not completely? And
I don't know exactly what the idea was behind the

(03:38):
woman who is the fairly new CEO of Cracker Barrel,
But a lot has been made to the fact that,
all right, they brought in some lady who's not a
Cracker Barrel fan. She comes from corporate America. She's all
about rebranding, and she has two last names. This is
not the Cracker Barrel customer. Look, I don't know this.

(04:00):
She is the CEO Cracker Barrel. Her name is Julie
Fils Messino, and she said when she took over this
company not even two years ago, she said, the opportunity
is because she talked to she gave some speech about
what an iconic brand. People love this brand, and then

(04:21):
she said, now, how can I change it? She said,
the opportunity is how do I get it out of
people's rear view mirror and how do I get it
into their daily kind of relevant choice set. Well, she
did that, yeah, and nailed it. Look, anyone who uses

(04:42):
corporate speak like, how do I get it into their
daily kind of relevant choice set? You mean, how do
we get people to eat here? You serve good food
in a good environment at a reasonable price, which I
think Cracker Barrel is always done. Now, the one thing

(05:05):
that they did do that some people are like, I
can't believe that they A lot has been made to
the fact that they've kind of changed and opened up
some of the interior, maybe made it a little brighter
and cleaner looking inside. Look, I'm on board with that.
When it comes to that Country General store, you have
to go through to get into the restaurant or pay afterwards.

(05:28):
This is the place where his cracker barrel is often
a meeting place of a family of eighteen, including seventeen kids,
And after they're done eating, you get Dad going on, well,
I guess I'll pay for this again. A bunch of
freeloaders coming down to eat ribs and grits, and I
guess I'll pay for this again. So he's waiting in
line to pay, and the place where you wait in

(05:50):
line to pay, depending on how many people are waiting,
the line to pay, kind of juts out into the
Old Country store, which also features people just to the
right of that register waiting in line to have someone
have them sit down. So you can have large families
of people leaving, large families of people coming, and they're

(06:11):
all kind of in the same space where you can
also buy puzzles and various stuffed animals and Conway Twitty CDs.
It's all kind of right there. And then you've got
my least favorite thing in the world. And I love
my family, but there's an element of my family that's

(06:34):
very guilty of this, and I am afraid there's nothing
I can do to change it. Like you, they don't
listen to me. They might hear me once in a while,
but they don't really listen. And that is like, we
just had a meal together. We all sat around the
same table. We spent an hour. They're talking and laughing

(06:54):
and enjoying each other's company, which was fantastic, And now
it's time to leave, which means we now have to
spend another twenty minutes standing there, usually in the path
of people were trying to get in, kind of standing
around the entrance slash exit of a place and just
being in the way. And I wouldn't even mind it

(07:18):
if people would say, like, oh, we got to stand
here and talk a little bit and say a long goodbye,
but let's make sure we're out of people's way. People
don't do that. People are not cognizant of other people
on the planet too often, and so it's like, all right,
our family of twenty four needs to say a long
goodbye and spend the next twenty minutes jamming up the

(07:41):
doorway of this restaurant and just being in people's way
and looking offended as people are like, excuse me, Can
I get by? Like, well, what's this guy's problem?

Speaker 2 (07:49):
Did they not see the porch when they came in?

Speaker 1 (07:52):
You can hang out on the porch. The porch goes
all the way down this way and all the way
down that way. There are chairs and you can play
a big game of checkers.

Speaker 2 (07:59):
Giant chairs.

Speaker 1 (07:59):
Yeah, yeah, there's big chairs, big checkers. So you hang
out there and do that, but know there are too
many people that need to hang out inside the general
store and further clog up narrow alleys for people to
get in out, pay and leave. And like, just if
we could just open this up just a little bit.
I don't know if you noticed this, but some of

(08:21):
the people come in here to eat this restaurant, no
offensive cracker barrel, you'll find this anywhere, But some of
the people that come to eat at this restaurant aren't
exactly felt. They're clogging up the whole place themselves.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
Did you just call everybody fat?

Speaker 1 (08:36):
I said, some of the people are not exactly felt.
Read back the record. There's a court clerk here who
now has to be in the radio station. Everything I say,
because Lucy will accuse me of calling her and everyone
else fat. I've never done that. But some of the
fat people are fat, and they're and all by themselves.

(08:58):
They're a crowd, and they're and there's not a lot
of room here. So if you want to open up
a few alley ways, maybe you take down a few
extra bottles of jams and jellies and preserves. Move those
against Oh, just move them.

Speaker 2 (09:13):
Just move them all right, don't take them out?

Speaker 1 (09:17):
You know? Do we need a six foot stuffed animal
of a monkey, yes, taking up on the space in here.
Just move it, hang it from the ceiling something. So
for the people who are complaining like they completely changed
the interior, Emery Songer yesterday said they made it look
like the inside of a Wendy's, And first of all,
it was like, what's the matter with the inside of

(09:39):
a Windy?

Speaker 2 (09:39):
When was the last time you were inside of Wendy's? Uh? Huh?

Speaker 1 (09:45):
Do they still have the old newsprint as the tabletop
when you sit there? Probably not.

Speaker 2 (09:51):
I've been inside McDonald's and a Taco Bell, and I
have not. Other than that, I haven't been inside a
fast food jointing one.

Speaker 1 (09:57):
Well, we all have to use the restroom somewhere. You
didn't go inside of McDonald's to eat, did you no?

Speaker 2 (10:05):
To get takeout?

Speaker 1 (10:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (10:06):
I don't know who who's always got swing away in
that line at the drive through I'm.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
Proud of you for eating a McDonald's because it seems
like they're too many people, and I hope that the
CEO of Cracker Barrel isn't one of them. There are
too many people. They're like, we need to give people
because McDonald's made this mistake, like we need to give
people a healthy option, And McDonald's fans like me and
maybe on some level Lucy Chapman, are like, I'm not

(10:34):
look and I'm I'm and I'm I think I speak
for a lot of people who aren't fat, and maybe
some who are. I think I speak for a lot
of people when I say I understand that there's something
out there called a salad and a phrase called everything
in moderation, and there are certainly meals where I might
have rather than you know, fried gravy dipped in butter. Wait,

(10:59):
I'm I might. It's a cracker barrel, then I might.
I might choose an asa E bowl smoothie with various
proteins in it. I might choose a slaid in some instances,
but not every meal of every day. Flip side, I
don't have fried butter dipped in gravy or whatever I said.

(11:21):
Then the court stenographer read it, oh fried gravy dipped
in butter. Sorry, thank you, court stenographer. I don't have
that three meals or four or five meals every single day.
You got to change it up. And when I change
it up and decide to do something that's maybe not
the healthiest thing in the world for me to eat,
I'm not going to McDonald's for a salad. I go

(11:43):
in there and go, oh, I'll have the twenty piece
chicken McNugget please, And they say is this for the
whole family? And I just look at them and they're like,
oh right, anyway, you enjoy that, sir, You enjoy that
one meal that's supposed to be for forced for servings.
I will thank you. I'll take my McDonald's and your judgment,

(12:05):
and I will leave here drawn my sorrow and barbecue sauce. Look,
it's there's people that are like, we need health. There
are lots of healthy options out there. I see them
open and close over the years. I see places open
and say, hey, we're the healthiest place in town. And
your wife takes you there and you look at the

(12:26):
menu and go, there's no meat on this menu. I
guess I'll have the rind of a raisin and half
of a rice cake. Please, oh, you don't serve it
by the half a quarter of a rice cake the
rind of a raisin. Right, there'll be forty eight point fifty.
And I walk out of there broke and hungry. But boyd,

(12:50):
I'm supposed to feel good because I ate healthy, right,
I don't feel healthy. I don't feel good. I feel broken, hungry.
And we made the mistake of doing one of our
eleven ten kfab gourmet clubs at a restaurant that decided
that that's the direction they wanted to go for the
meal and some I'll never forget this, And ever since

(13:12):
that event, I have made sure and told the people
at the restaurants we're never going to have this happen again,
because this place thought and I tried to say, like, well,
you know, we don't want to make sure that people
are so they served the little lady bitty foods and
so forth, like here's a bite of this, and here's
a bite of the and it didn't add up to
any thing. And so there was one lady who was

(13:36):
not a big lady. She was a skinny woman, and
she got mad at me and she said, we just
spent all this money. I'm still hungry. I'm going through
the drive through at Burger King on my way home.
And I didn't argue with her. I said, I'm sorry.
I felt awful about that. And I say, and you

(13:57):
know what that restaurant closed. Oh, I see these healthy
places that try and do this, open and close all
the time. You know what endures Cracker Barrel. And it's
amazing because I don't know a lot of people that
go to Cracker Barrel like every night, even every week,

(14:18):
or even every month, but you know, every few months,
I'm like fried gravy with a side of an entire
rack of ribs. I think that's a side dish. We
have a side of ribs. Oh? Is that like two ribs? No,
it's a whole rack of ribs. Okay, we'll do that
as a side. How's the cornbread tonight? Oh? It's sir

(14:40):
chef's kiss on the corn bread. Well, should we get
you a whole pan of corn bread? Yeah, that's fine,
just bring that over here. That's great, and uh, don't
forget the panatic asserrole wrap that whole mess in an
old copy of Have Any magazine and serve it serve
it to me in a shoe box. You know, it's
it's great, it's all so, it's so good. And I

(15:00):
admit when I walk out of there after eating too much,
I didn't spend a whole lot of money. I don't
exactly feel like going for a jog. At no point
have I ever said like, hey, you guys, drive home.
I'm just gonna work off some of this energy I got.
I feel a little slow, but I feel great, I
feel happy. I also feel like I can't do that

(15:22):
every night. And that's what Cracker Barrel is, and it's
personified by an old fat guy leaning on a chair
against a barrel. And to change the logo, it's not
about changing the logo. It's about, well, we need to
move forward and do something that's good for you, for
your own good, because you won't make the right choices.

(15:43):
So we at Cracker Barrel have to like first, it's
the menu and the space and all this stuff. If
they are first, it's the logo, pardon me and all
this stuff. I don't know if they're going to change
the menu, but I think that if this CEO had
her way, I bet she would because she doesn't sound

(16:04):
like because she says, like, we got to get into
your relevant choice set. What does that mean? Who talks
like that? Is this? Yes, this the corporate jargon. We
need to synergize your relevant choice set and maximize our efficiencies.
And listen to the rest of the statement. She says,

(16:25):
we need to quote make sure that we are communicating
in a way that people want to hear us. They
want to be a part of the journey that we're
matching messaging with channel with audience. You know things that
modern marketers do unquote. You just regurgitated a bunch of
corporate problem and you've turned off your customers, and you

(16:47):
managed to do it without putting a trans person holding
a bud light as part of your logo. Congratulations, this
is a brand new way that you managed to turn
people off. Now, I'm still going to go eat at
Cracker Barrel with the regularity that I currently do, which
is a handful of times every year. I'm still going

(17:09):
to go eat there as long as the men use
the same But there's one more thing they changed that
I have to rant about. I'll tell you what that
is in two minutes. Scott Boys, this is news Radio
eleven ten kfab Now. I can't stress this enough. This
has nothing to do with the local employees or management
at Cracker Barrel Omaha as far as I can tell.

(17:32):
And I was just in there two weeks ago. Got
a takeout order of a giant pan of fried okra. No,
it was not just for me. We are taking it
to a shrimp boil and crocodile grilling. This is how
I spend my saturdays. Why don't you find your own
things to do instead of sitting around there judging me.

Speaker 2 (17:53):
I would like to find that.

Speaker 1 (17:54):
Oh man, it was a great time.

Speaker 2 (17:55):
Why didn't you call your good old pal Lucy right
up the street and say, hey, you want to go
with us.

Speaker 1 (18:00):
It included a jumbalaya contest. Everyone brought in jumbalayas and
we had and we did a contest to see you
know who. You know what. The winner of the jambalaya
contest got no alligator head removed from that which was
grilled or smoked. It was so the reason I didn't
invite you. This was involving a lot of kids as

(18:23):
my son's basketball team, and I love a lot of
those friends. So there were kids everywhere.

Speaker 2 (18:29):
I would ignore them.

Speaker 1 (18:31):
Yeah, we had alcohol and grilled alligator to deal with that.
I hate you, thanks Lucy. So I like cracker barrel
and I'm still gonna go there. It's kind of a
wait and see whether they come to their senses and
make this their new coke moment for you youngins, let

(18:52):
me bring you up to speed circa nineteen eighty five,
Coke said, because they were getting this is the thing
that people forget, they were getting waxed by pepsi. It
wasn't even close. I have realized now as an adult,
I much prefer coke over pepsi. But as a kid,
the marketing for pepsi Michael Jackson, dude, Michael Jackson with pepsi.

Speaker 2 (19:17):
Well it had more sugar in it too, So as
a kid you probably like that.

Speaker 1 (19:20):
Who did the ads for coke when we were kids.
You can't even tell me. You could tell me some
of the diet coke commercials, but not I don't know.

Speaker 2 (19:28):
Santa.

Speaker 1 (19:31):
Yeah, they had the Polar Bears and Santa. Sorry. When
I was a kid, Michael Jackson Trump, Santa. So I
drank pepsi when I was a kid because marketing, and
then later I had like someone I tried to give
me a coke. When I was a kid, is like,
don't we have pepsi? Remember you go to a restaurant, like,
can I have a pepsi? We have coke? Is that okay? No?

(19:54):
And finally I accidentally drank a coke. I was like, oh,
this is so much better than pepsi. It's so much
better Now. The occasional time that I drink a pepsi,
it tastes like nostalgia and I don't hate it, but
I like coke. So coke was getting isolated. Coke was
getting I like coke and I love crack. So coke

(20:17):
was getting destroyed by pepsi. And they decided to come
up with a new formula coke which was closer to pepsi,
and they called it New Coke, and everyone hated it.
And then they said all right, well, hey, we listen.
You guys hated this. We're going to go back to
the original recipe of coca cola. And people are like,
I'm gonna have that. And it tasted new and refreshing,

(20:39):
and suddenly coke just took off. It was doing great.
Maybe instead of being more like bud light cracker barrels
trying to be more like New Coke to where they
get everyone talking about this is terrible, what about outrage?
And then they say, hey, sorry, we heard you didn't
like this. So now our logo is going to feature
three old fat guys sit non chairs leaning against barrels,

(21:02):
and I'll tell you what. We're slashing the cost of
our grits. And people are like, eh, cracker barrel.

Speaker 2 (21:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (21:08):
But there's one more thing. They got to change the
peg game. This is the little triangle with the golf
teas in it they have. Now the game is still there,
but part of their makeover, which remember this is tell
me if this is offensive some two last name having

(21:30):
woman who doesn't look like she eats a cracker barrel
came in there, is like, I have got to change
all of this. We have to. We have to. First
we have to make it a little cleaner looking in here. Secondly,
we got to get rid of the old fat guy.
Nothing says old like an old fat guy on the logo.
Get rid of him. And then next and then we
go after the menu. We'll slide in a few things

(21:51):
at first, then pretty soon it'll all be gone. We
have nothing here but uh but uh fruit salad not
even with any kind of you know, good dressing on it.
Just dry fruits, no marshmallows, I don't know. Just is
that's all we're gonna have. So she kind of looks
like she's moving in that direction, you know, because and
again tell me if this is offensive, because I really

(22:11):
don't want it to be. But if you put woman
in a woman in charge, she'll eventually ruin everything. Now
that's not offensive to say things like that, right, this
is what happens when you put women in charge. Again,
I'm not trying to be sexist or misogynist. I'm just saying, now,
a little lady, you think about what I just say
and ask your husband for permission to respond to me. Okay,

(22:34):
all right, But again I'm not trying to So this
woman is like, there's one other thing we got to
do this part of the Cracker Barrel ethos, and that
is that peg game. Because it's fun to play. You
pass around the table. Someone manages to accidentally do well
and win the thing, which makes them a genius. That's
if you leave only one peg, If you leave two,

(22:55):
well you're pretty smart. If you leave three, you're just
playing dump. And if you leave four or more you
are an egg, no ray moose. They have to fanatically
spell it because you're too dumb to know how to
pronounce that if they spell it correctly, and you probably
don't even know you're being mocked. So it was it

(23:16):
was just kind of a fun little ribbon as you're
eating ribs at cracker barrel. Well, peg game's the same,
but the standard for how many pegs you leave and
what that matches up for in your life has changed.

Speaker 2 (23:29):
No.

Speaker 1 (23:30):
Yeah, now you leave one, you're a genius. Now number
two it says you're rocking the chair, but not the game.
We put a fun little twist on there. And if
you leave three or more, it says, hey, no reason
to be embarrassed. Try again. That is just so you
mean you get a ribbon. Yeah, that's how our society
is going. And again I don't mean for this to

(23:54):
sound offensive to anyone, but you people when you're out
in public, certainly not you, but the people around you. Right,
you see people constantly acting, talking, behaving, just doing the
wrong thing all the time. And it's because for all

(24:14):
their lives now, people of a certain age especially have
been told everything you do is great. You couldn't possibly
do anything wrong. You're the center of the universe. Just
look at your social media, you little princess. Everything's great.
You know, That's not how I was raised. That's not
how several generations of people were raised. We were raised
with this idea that hey, hey, dummy, you're doing the

(24:39):
wrong thing, and more people need to be told that.
And it starts by, you know, saying like, all right,
I see what you were going for there, but it
turns out what you just did was wrong. Here's why
it was wrong, and here's maybe an opportunity to do better.
And then if they don't do that, they look, you

(25:00):
can go what's your problem. That's when you're just looking
and go, hey, dumbass, you're wrong, Hey dummy, you're right.
For break right. Fox News update next Scott Boys News
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Inbox Scott at kfab dot com and says, if you

(25:22):
prefer the old PEG game, that would mock you for
not doing well in the game, because that's being updated
with something like hey keep trying, you're doing great, which
is not making this country any better. That attitude, now,
I admit the uh that which was part of what

(25:44):
was not supposed to be a funny public service announcement
when I was a kid about parents berating their children.
That wasn't very good either, And that was the you
discussed me, you're pathetic, you can't do anything right. That's
that was supposed to be for parents to just not
act like that towards their kids. They put it in

(26:05):
kids cartoons that parents weren't watching, so our parents would
walk in the room and go, hey, moron, you're gonna
watch TV all day. You gonna do some chores like
I told you too, And we're like, we gotta back
up the DVR. Have dad watched that PSA? Except DVRs
hadn't been invented yet. So the new peg game is

(26:29):
more along the lines of, hey, you're doing great. I
know you got it wrong, but just keep trying. And
by the way, there is no wrong anymore because math.
So if you want one of the peg games that
mocks you for not doing well, Kevin says, everyone needs
to go to Cracker Barrel this weekend and steal as
many peg games as they possibly can before they change them.

(26:51):
I bet they're already gone.

Speaker 2 (26:56):
And pretty soon they'll start showing up at pond stars could.

Speaker 1 (27:00):
Be What else is the outrage of the day. Am
I supposed to feel really really strongly about this Texas
redistricting fight that now is a California redistricting fight. Am
I supposed to have a visceral reaction? Is this supposed

(27:21):
to hit me right in my soul? But Scott, what
they're doing? Yeah, I look at both political parties over
the years, and I can find evidence that what they're
doing is not right. Yeah. And then what happens. A
bunch of people on the other side that political spectrums
say hey, they shouldn't do that, that's not right, and
then the party in charge says, well, thanks a lot

(27:43):
for your feedback, we didn't really listen to. We're gonna
do it anyway. And then the other side, because the
pendulum tends to swing a little bit, other side comes
in power and they say, well, here's what we're gonna do.
And then the other side goes, you can't do that.
Like you just said two years ago, this is a
great idea, that's why we're doing it. But now we're
doing it, and you think it's terrible. Whether it's redistricting

(28:05):
or ending the filibuster, you know, whatever, However, these things work,
all these political things jerrymanderin philibuster that most people are like, Look,
I'm just gonna keep my head down. I'm gonna shovel
some food in my face here at this restaurant that'll
never change. And uh, I'm just gonna let you guys
fight it out. Well, this is part of that process.

(28:28):
This always happens. And pardon me for not being outraged
about it. Pardon me for pointing out the hypocrisy, which
in this instance would be the Democrats being hypocritical against
the Texas Republicans, not the Texas Democrats. They left, and
I still don't know what's going on there. I guess

(28:50):
Beato O'Rourke is paying these guys to hang out in Chicago.
He is, he's got a political action committee, and he's
the one footing the bill, and ex is going to
find a way to move forward anyway. The Democrats go, hey,
this is an affront to democracy. Well, let's check the
tote board. Maybe it's not so much that Democrats are

(29:13):
mad that what Republicans are doing as an affront to
democracy or our constitutional republic we are trying to enjoy.
Maybe it's the fact that Democrats are mad that, you know,
an affront to our way of voting in the electoral
cycle is really their job. Let's check the tote board.

(29:37):
The same people crying about what the Texas Republicans are
doing are also cheering for ballot harvesting, mail in ballots,
outdoor drop boxes, pandemics if the election doesn't look like
it might go our way, and changing the presidential candidate
midstream in an election cycle without any vote in terms

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of I know, we already had all the primaries where
you voted on this person, but this person's gonna have
a seat, and now this person's at the top of
the ticket. Are we gonna have a vote? No? You know,
So again, tell me about how what the Texas Republicans
are doing and redrawing some congressional districts, which happens all
the time in all these different states, is an affront

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to democracy? Is that it's that that's your job to
screw up democracy or our representative republic or whatever. Because
right now it looks like what is happening here is
the Republican Party is getting a little bit more serious,
and are they doing it exactly the right way? Hell,
I don't know. Probably not. But sometimes, and people of

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who are staunch supporters of both political parties will agree
with what I'm about to say, but they'll be pointing
a finger at the other side of the aisle. Sometimes,
when you love something, whether it's your country, your political party,
you love, your hate for that other guy over there, whatever,

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When you really love something and you feel like it's
slipping away from you, you'll stop at nothing to try
and save it. Both political parties feel that way. They
have very very different reasons for why they feel that
way or what might happen if they get in charge
and completely, with unchecked power, do whatever they want. That's

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why we don't have that in this country. We have
a country that tends to do things like on election
night twenty sixteen, vote Donald Trump in charge of the country,
but Democrats in charge of Congress. God bless America? Right?
Do we just do that so we can have something
to fight about all the time. But guess who else

(31:53):
is now footing bills here in this whole argument here,
it's a name familiar to Omaha ones. And I'll tell
you who's doing what next. Scott Voice, James Emails, says
Scott and Lucy the radio married couple. Will you two
promise you will never get a divorce? Please? These two
hours are the best two hours of my day, especially

(32:16):
shows like today. I love a trip to Cracker Barrel,
signed James.

Speaker 2 (32:20):
Well because of the prenup.

Speaker 1 (32:22):
Yeah no, yeah, we Lucy and I like a lot
of married couples, and Lucy I we are married, not
to each other, like a lot of married couples. Though
we realize, you know, we could probably do better.

Speaker 2 (32:37):
Wait a minute, no, no, moving can't.

Speaker 1 (32:42):
But moving in that direction would probably be more effort
than it's worth. So we'll just stay here for the
sake of the kids. Like James, there.

Speaker 2 (32:50):
Is one group that we're not terribly offended by the
sign change.

Speaker 1 (32:55):
Who's that?

Speaker 2 (32:56):
That would be the people who thought Golden Corral's back.

Speaker 1 (33:00):
It does kind of look like a Golden Corral sign,
doesn't it.

Speaker 2 (33:03):
They walked in expecting a buffet, quite disappointed.

Speaker 1 (33:07):
I just finally, I finally looked up a picture of
the CEO, this woman with the two last names, and
then that's fine. My wife has two last names, not hyphenated.
She said, are you going to hyphenate this? She goes, no,
it's stupid, but I don't think she said that, but
you know, so's it's it's more of a mentality than

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an actual thing, you know, like when jd Vance said
these childless cat ladies, Well, not every woman who doesn't
have a kid but has a cat has this mindset,
but there are a lot of them that do. And
it's more of a mindset than an actual designation. And
I just looked at a picture of this woman. She's

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I don't know, she's got the black you know, I
look really smart glasses and she looks here. I'll say this,
she looks like someone. And I've been to cracker barrel
a lot. I have never seen a woman who looks
like that at a cracker barrel. But she's in charge, right,
how's that going? Anyway? I mentioned a moment ago that

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there's another name involved in this whole Texas fight and
now what's going on in California and lawyers again involved
in all this. There's there's another name, and there's some
money that's involved here in trying to deal with all
of this, and that name Charlie Munger.

Speaker 2 (34:36):
Where's the money coming from?

Speaker 1 (34:38):
Charlie Munger? Yeah, we know that name, Charlie. Well, Charlie
Munger was the longtime business partner of this little scamp
named Warren Buffett started a business here in Omaha, and
no one ever heard of him again. But yeah, his
his longtime business partner with Charlie Munger. Well it's not

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charl Charlie Munger first of all was a big Democrat,
right and he died about two years ago at the
age of ninety nine, did he? Yeah, all right, this
is this is his son, Charles Munger Junior, aka the Deuce.

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As is often the case, you get a parent who
has a pretty staunch political belief Sometimes the kid goes
the other way. Sometimes you get the Trump family where
her each one's like, not only do I believe what
dear old dad is doing is right, I'm gonna double
down on that, you know, so you get some of that.
Looks like Charles Munger Junior is a big time Republican

(35:44):
who has taken some of that Berkshire money and he's
put it into things like the Christian Legal Society, So
he still.

Speaker 2 (35:54):
Has money even though he was a Republican.

Speaker 1 (35:55):
Campus Dad still gave it to him Campus Crusade for christ. Yeah,
I'm not sure that family dynamic, but a crisis pregnancy
center in San Francisco, and he's one of those who
are who funding the Republicans in Texas. Do what you're doing.
I love it. And so now Democrats have said we

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need to hang Charles Munger Junior out to dry like Trump.
There's does big story in Politico that says his contributions
to these organizations speak to his values in the agenda.
He supports an extreme agenda that hurts LGBTQ people, women

(36:37):
and people of color, crisis pregnancy centers, campus crusade for Christ.
Oh yeah, what a hateful jerk.

Speaker 2 (36:46):
People are being forced into these places. No campus crusade
for Christ. No, yeah, I was wondering.

Speaker 1 (36:52):
I didn't know that old Deuce Charlie Munger Junior was
that guy. But he is. Democrats now hate him.

Speaker 2 (37:02):
Hey, let's be honest. All yeah, he's probably been hated
for all.

Speaker 1 (37:07):
Yeah, that's true. I didn't know that until to day.

Speaker 2 (37:10):
I didn't either.

Speaker 1 (37:10):
Hope to have him on this radio show. I don't
know if he knows where Omaha is anymore. I don't
know he didn't live here. Now I can't believe that
the FBI has rated Michael Bolton's home. I didn't think
his music was that bad. I mean I realized a
lot of his hits were karaoke songs and you know,
but he's fun and oh wait, John Bolton, I don't

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even think they're related. Okay, sorry, my bad. I may
have gotten that wrong. Hi there, I'm Scott Vorhees. This
is News Radio eleven to ten KFAV. Lucy Chapman is
right there, and we're in Nebraska's news, weather and traffic station. Now,
Judge Lucy has now re entered the courtroom has an

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that's all right.

Speaker 2 (38:00):
I was talking to my other boss.

Speaker 1 (38:01):
You you don't pay any attention to her. You have
your robes on and your wig on? Or have you
really gone that gray? I thought that was just one
of those powdered wigs you wear when you assume the
role of Judge Lucy.

Speaker 2 (38:19):
But maybe you is that really where you want to
be today?

Speaker 1 (38:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (38:23):
Making fun of gray hair.

Speaker 1 (38:27):
I do need to refresh my die job. It has
been a few years.

Speaker 2 (38:31):
Now because we can't go there.

Speaker 1 (38:34):
Actually, I just had a meeting with our promotions director
and I said, I really need to change the picture
on the Vintage Varheats podcast. It's a really old picture.
When I was coloring my hair and I stopped doing
that years ago. And I'll send people a link like, hey,
here's that segment from the show you that the lawyers

(38:55):
needed to hear, and it'll come up with that picture.
That's a really old picture me with jet bla black hair,
and I'm like, I gotta, I gotta change that or
on color my hair again. Anyway, Judge Lucy is right there.

Speaker 2 (39:09):
I'm ready.

Speaker 1 (39:10):
I have a series of stories for you. You gotta tell
me who's right and who's wrong. Are you ready to
Are you ready to be judgmental this morning?

Speaker 2 (39:19):
Just this morning?

Speaker 1 (39:20):
Bump bump, where's our law and order? I'm not doing
this if I don't had the law and order sound effects?
All right, Lucy, I said, are you ready? Yes? Story
number one Florida man, oh Florida, Florida man is facing

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charges after deputies said that he was harassing special needs
students as they were getting on the school bus. They
said every morning and afternoon, it seemed like he would
time the sprinklers going off to soak the special needs
students getting on one of their smaller buses, both in

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the morning on their way to school and in the afternoon.
They were dropped off from school. Parents were furious. They
said he did this at least four hundred times. They
said it's not a coincidence. He admitted to police he
used surveillance cameras to monitor the arrival time of the

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bus and would manually activate his sprinklers. He's been arrested,
charged with stalking, battery of a disabled person, and two
counts of battery. He's held in the Marion County Jail
in Florida. Do you want to hear his side of
the story, I do before you issue a ruling on this,

(40:47):
because right now this guy sounds like an absolute monster.
What is the matter with him? He said, Once the
school district put the bus route to where the star is,
not only you know, right in front of my home,
but the bus and you know, some of these special
needs kids have wheelchairs, and so the bus comes out

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and then the little cart comes out, and you can
there's a little ramp that goes out, and they put
the wheelchair onto the ramp and they have to secure
the ramp and they raise up the ramp and they
bring it in. It takes a while here, and it
takes up a lot of room. And he says it
blocks my driveway, and I've asked them, is there any

(41:32):
chance we can get that to move just a little bit.
I might need to get my car out in the
morning and I can't because you're blocking my driveway, and
they refused, So he decided to go with sprinkler warfare.
They're blocking his driveway. The parents are like, have some compassion.
He's like, I have compassion. Do it in front of

(41:54):
your driveway? Why does it have to be in front
of my driveway? Did he react in the right way?

Speaker 2 (42:00):
No?

Speaker 1 (42:01):
Do you do? Are there people right now who say
I hate it when people park in front of my house,
and especially if they end up kind of jutting in
front of my driveway, those people should be shot on sight.
So with now that you have all of the story here, Lucy,
what say you?

Speaker 2 (42:21):
Well, I would have to put a delay on this,
a postponement and extension on this trial, because I would
like to have more information on whether he knew that
these kids were disabled, if this was an attack he did.

Speaker 1 (42:36):
How do you know, well, because he would watch through
the window and he would watch. First of all, it's
the it's the size of the school bus, which you.

Speaker 2 (42:43):
Don't know what he knew. You can't say what he knew,
all right.

Speaker 1 (42:46):
So wait, you would be okay with it if he
was just soaking other kids, I.

Speaker 2 (42:51):
Wouldn't be okay with it. But I wouldn't put this
this emotion, this crazy emotion on it. That it was
disabled children. That is sad that did it happened up.
But if he didn't know that, so.

Speaker 1 (43:06):
You're you're going with a continuance.

Speaker 2 (43:08):
A continuance, thank you. I'm just over here working and
trying to figure out other cases while I'm listening to.

Speaker 1 (43:17):
Okay, yes, Colorado Man. Next story, a ranger at Stounton
State Park was stabbed in what investigator said was a
targeted attack. Someone wanted to kill that ranger. Apparently he
had some issue with the picanic baskets. He called into

(43:39):
the authorities when he was being attacked and he was like, ah,
stop it, I'll get back. He's stabbing me out. Investigators
started talking to him and found what they will refer
to as inconsistencies in his story. Now he had a
stab wound. Someone stabbed him in the side with a pocket. Finally,

(44:02):
after talking to authorities for a while, it was determined
that the man stabbed himself. They don't know why, but
they say he was arrested after he created an elaborate
host hoax to involve himself and what turned out to
be a self inflicted stab wound lower left abdomen. The

(44:28):
man says, no, I was attacked. People are out here
trying to stab park rangers and they're like, okay, Bud,
tell it to the judge. Lucy Chapman is the judge.
Judge Lucy guilty. Lucy is determined he's guilty of creating
a hoax.

Speaker 2 (44:45):
Throw the book at him. Although I understand where he
tried to get some attention.

Speaker 1 (44:50):
Any idea why he might do this.

Speaker 2 (44:53):
Yeah, he was trying to get some attention to focused
on the state, state parks, people.

Speaker 1 (45:00):
National parks, Okay, which brings it. Okay, So that's your ruling.
This guy's guilty. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (45:07):
You can't lie to the police. That's sorry. I don't
care what the reason it is. You can't.

Speaker 1 (45:12):
You can't. I wonder if he just wanted a few
days off, if that's because if that's the case, do
you give him a little leniency If he's like, look,
I I was so overworked, and all the other people
around here in the State Park. They either got they
got laid off, or they quit or they were eaten

(45:32):
by bears. And so now I'm the only one left.
I got to work all these hours. I just wanted
a few days off, and I asked, and they said yeah,
but if you take a few days off, who's going
to be the park ranger? I mean, come on, get
back to work. And so I stabbed myself to try
and get a few days off. If that were the case,
would Judge Lucy be a bit lenient?

Speaker 2 (45:52):
I wouldn't have to, because he's got them. Now.

Speaker 1 (45:57):
He's got what now days off, days off, a lot.

Speaker 2 (46:00):
Of days off. Now you may not like where he's at,
might like it even less than working.

Speaker 1 (46:07):
But our next story, our next court case, sorry, has
to do with another park ranger you mentioned a moment ago.
You know, it's the plight of the park rangers. President
Trump he came in there and said, I hate parks.
We're gonna drill, baby, drill, and if any park rangers
getting the way, we're gonna run right over him with

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our tanks. And so these park rangers are like, well,
we hate him, some of these park rangers. We hate
everything he's doing. There are a lot of people have
been laid off, and so I'm going to send a message.
And this park ranger at Yosemite National Park was fired
for being trans. That's how the media has been portraying it.

(46:52):
This trans park ranger who has the pronouns of they them,
Are they gonna share us? Sell? Because this person did
get in some trouble. Sorry, these people, these these person,

(47:12):
the media has been saying he's been fired for being
trans or people including park rangers, were told there's an
area here of El Capitan at Yosemite National Park, beautiful
mountain structure where you can climb up part of it,
and it does turn out to be a rather convenient

(47:34):
place part way up this mountain to hang a banner
or sign and several people have done it in protest
or whatever. This person's a ranger and biologists who studies
bats said they hung a sixty six foot wide transgender

(47:57):
pride flag on the famous climbing wall that booms over
the California Park over the main thoroughfare, and it was
hung there for a couple of hours before it was
forced the flag to come down. They'd already had a
policy no one is to hang any signs here, any banners, signs, flags,

(48:17):
or anything. This person violated the policy. This person got fired.
This person's tried to turn it into I got fired
because of the message and who I am. And they
said and when I say they, I mean the authorities said, no,
you knew the rule. You broke the rule. It didn't

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matter if you hung a sign that said I loved
Trump or trans people for Trump. You're not supposed to
hang a sign there, all right. I will admit that
if this person had done that, trans people for Trump,
Trump would love it. Keep that sign up there. I
love that signs great great people. I get along very
well with signs. Uh. You know, I have a feeling

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it'd probably be a different story, admittedly. But the rule
is the rule. Don't hang any banners up. The person works,
it is supposed to be the one enforcing the rules.
And this person broke the rules. Person got fired for
broken the rules. Person is saying I was fired for
sending a message about trans people, says if you're a
federal worker and you have any kind of identity that

(49:21):
doesn't agree with this current administration, then you must be
silent or you will be eliminated.

Speaker 2 (49:27):
Eliminated, Which one was eliminated.

Speaker 1 (49:30):
I don't know that anyone was eliminated. They yeah, I
don't know.

Speaker 2 (49:35):
Let me get something straight here. He worked for the
parks Department. Yes, he knew that it was a rule
that you couldn't put any banners or signs up. Yes,
and anytime anybody else, of any group of any area
put a sign up, yes, they were taken down immediately.

Speaker 1 (49:53):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (49:53):
And they have never had a Parks department person put
a sign up before him.

Speaker 1 (49:59):
Uh not in this administration. Okay, so we.

Speaker 2 (50:01):
Don't have a precedence for well, they got fired for
doing it as well, so he is the Precedent's you
work for a company, I can't go put a sign
on the building here and say.

Speaker 1 (50:12):
Don't cover up our beautiful side of our building. Oh
it's a perfect place. I know they're painting it. Yeah.
The person says, I was fired for being non binary,
and the current administration wants to eliminate non binary.

Speaker 2 (50:27):
Well, he's a liar.

Speaker 1 (50:28):
The administration said, you knew the rule, you violated the rule,
you got fired exactly, and so Judge Lucy says.

Speaker 2 (50:34):
He stays fired.

Speaker 1 (50:38):
We're playing a round of Judge Lucy right now on
News Radio eleven ten kfab I give Lucy the parameters
of a news story that are either what I know
or what I want to share with her. She decides
the guilt or innocence of the individuals involved.

Speaker 2 (50:56):
Wait, I might not get the whole story. I'm just
learning this.

Speaker 1 (51:00):
Only the entertaining parts, Scott, When does that start? Hey?
You be quiet? All right? Sorry? A Rhode Island prosecutor
who was arrested this week at a restaurant in Newport,
Rhode Island, tried to get the arresting officer to turn
off his body camera. What happened First, there was a

(51:20):
disturbance at the restaurant. The police recalled. The police said, ladies,
you have to leave. One of these ladies is a
prosecutor and an attorney general within the state of Rhode Island,
and was telling the cop. You know who I am,
I'm an ag. You got to turn your body cam off.
She said, protocol is that you turn it off. It's

(51:40):
a citizen request to turn off the body camera, so
she wouldn't be filmed having a drunken rant against the cop. No,
there's no such thing as a citizen request for the
officer to turn off the body camera. The officer does
not turn the camera off, and she says, you're not

(52:02):
going to arrest us. That ought to do.

Speaker 2 (52:05):
It and that didn't work.

Speaker 1 (52:08):
Yeah, they finally do arrest her because she won't leave.
So this is willful trespass. Now she starts disorderly conduct
and resisting arrest. She got out of her handcuffs at
one point. I don't know how she was able to
do that. Probably is like, all right, we don't need
to put these on that tight. She was able to
work her way out. Then she started kicking the door

(52:31):
of the police vehicle. She has been found guilty of
a number of different things. So my question for you, Lucy,
because I think that this is pretty easy, But the
question for Judge Lucy is who's more guilty her? Here?
Her of all these crimes. I just laid out or

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the media because I read several different stories about Assistant
Attorney General for the State of Rhode Island, Devon Hogan.
I'm sorry, Devn Hogan Flanagan three names. Devon Hogan Flanagan
is her name, Assistant Attorney General, State of Rhode Island.
I read several different stories in many different news sources,

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and there's one thing that they consistently failed to point
out the political affiliation of Rhode Island Assistant Attorney General
Devon Hogan Flanagan. And when that is the case, the
reason the media doesn't include that in their story is
not that she's a rabid Republican MAGA Trump supporter. Instead,

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she's a Democrat. I finally was able to track it
down in some sources and she is in fact a Democrat.
So judge Lucy, who is more guilty her of all
this drunken stupidity that she carried out there, or the
media for not doing the same thing for her that
they would do if she were a Republican by saying

(53:59):
Republican kenn official and Rhode Island carded off by police today,
because you know that would be the case. Who's more guilty?

Speaker 2 (54:07):
Well, by facts alone, they're both guilty. Who's more guilty?

Speaker 1 (54:11):
Who I'm more guilty?

Speaker 2 (54:13):
I'm going to say that, Gosh, media, because they do
it consistently frequently, and she probably is. Well, maybe she's
done it more than once, but it doesn't matter. She's
being looked at for this one incident. So more guilty media.

Speaker 1 (54:29):
Same kind of story we have here, the media that
has This is probably the first time you have heard
this story this week, unless this was a huge story
and everyone was talking about it on Wednesday when I
was gone. But that is not consistent with what I
saw in the news or heard in various media circles.

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What happened was a woman who is a long time
now former aide to the Mayor of New York City,
Eric Adams, who's running for real election in some weird
election in New York City involving a communist former governor
and a token Republican and a mayor who's running as

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an independent as a former Democrat. I don't know anyway,
this guy's still running for a mayor in New York
City and one of his long time now former aids
handed a member of the media at a high profile fundraiser.
There was a reporter there and this aid brought took

(55:36):
the reporter aside and said, hey, we got something for you,
and gave the reporter a bag of potato chips. Well,
the reporter later checked what was inside the bag of
potato chips, thinking did I just get a news tip?
What she got was an envelope with at least one
one hundred dollars bill and several twenties, so we can

(55:59):
put this at let's say, one hundred and sixty dollars.
The member of the media called the AID and said,
I'm sorry, I think you accidentally gave me one hundred
and sixty dollars. The AID was like, oh no, it's uh,
that's for you. We want we want you to have it.

Speaker 2 (56:23):
What is this kmart for? Like confidant to do what
one hundred and sixty bucks?

Speaker 1 (56:30):
Right? Well, you can, you can. I can be bribed
for a lot less than one hundred and sixty bucks.
So the media then checked into this. The the Adams
campaign has fired the AID. They said, Adam, we don't
know what's going on here, but here's what someone with
the Adams campaign did say. They he said, quote, this

(56:53):
was not a bag of cash because this aid, former
aid is Asian and she was formerly Eric Adams director
of Asian Affairs. Asian affairs, where do I go? Not
that kind of Asian affairs. Calm down, you weirdo. This
man with the campaign sorry, it was her lawyer. Her

(57:16):
lawyer says, quote, this was not a bag of cash,
by the way, it was a bag of cash and
potato chips. This was not a bag.

Speaker 2 (57:23):
It was all that and a bag of kit hips.
Back to the ninth.

Speaker 1 (57:28):
Her lawyer says, this was not a bag of cash,
and the Chinese culture, money is often given to others
and a gesture of friendship and gratitude. This is not
a bag of cash. Well wait, what, let's describe it. Well,
it was a bag with cash inside, but it was
not a bag of cash.

Speaker 2 (57:44):
Somebody opened it and put cash in it.

Speaker 1 (57:45):
Right, it was. It was a gift. Chinese people are
just giving away money, just hand over fist.

Speaker 2 (57:52):
Well, to be fair, the amount does say there is
something else going on that can't be a bribe. One
hundred and sixty bucks. I don't know on that would
even cover your uber for the night she's.

Speaker 1 (58:03):
Been she's been suspended from the mayor's campaign. Right, yeah,
the the bag of cash with not a bag of cash.
So is this the first time you've heard this story? Yeah?
Is this and this is someone with the longtime aid
to the Democrat mayor of New York City. If this

(58:23):
were a Republican and involved with the Trump campaign, would
be the biggest story in the world. But the media says, eh,
you know, we don't know, we did nothing to see here.
So who's guilty her of trying to bribe a member
of the media or the media for not really doing
much with it.

Speaker 2 (58:39):
I'm going to leave that up in the air.

Speaker 1 (58:42):
That's fine. I just like that story. I really didn't
need a ruling on that one. All right, are we? Yes?

Speaker 2 (58:47):
You ask?

Speaker 1 (58:48):
I know? Okay, okay, okay? Do I have anything else
for Judge Lucy? What about? All right? One? One more?
And then Fox News update probably with the latest on
this story. John Bolton former National Security advisor under President
Trump in the first term. He didn't last very long.

(59:11):
They clashed frequently when he was in the Trump administration.
They have clashed frequently since President Trump has been president
and wasn't president then is president and John Bolton, little
guy mustache, had done some stuff in the Bush administration
as well. He wanted to write a book about his

(59:31):
time in the Trump administration, and then suddenly after the
Trump administration sought unsuccessfully to block the publication of a
book that did come out. I guess right, did anyone
didn't have anything to do with anything anyway? After He's
been criticizing the president this week for his meeting with
Vladimir putin. Suddenly, the FBI Director Cash Pattel suddenly said, look,

(59:58):
no one's above the LAWBI agents are on a mission
today and they're carting out potential classified documents that may
or may not be in the possession of one former
Trump national security advisor, John Bolton, at his home in Maryland.
Trump revoked the security clearance of several former intelligence officials,

(01:00:19):
including John Bolden. He has been critical of that as well,
and today the FBI paid a visit to his house
as he continues to criticize the president. Now, if he
were a Democrat and the Trump administration were doing this,
the media would scream and cry and go this is
terrible on an abuse of power. But because Trump's doing

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it to a long time Republican, it's like, well, let's
see how this plays out. Same question, Who's guilty John
Bolton of having potential classified materials or the media for
treating this differently because of the R or D next
to the names involved media, it's always the media. Scott

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