Bud / DoCo Deadbeat Dole / Trump the "Alcoholic"

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Lucy, can you confirm or deny that it's only Wednesday?

Speaker 2 (00:04):
I call it third Monday, by the way.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
Accurate, I will allow it. That is Lucy Chapman. We
just heard from Craig Evans and Jim Rose. My name
is Scott Vorhees, and thank you so much for being
with us here on Nebraska's Morning News on News Radio
eleven ten kfab. This is some of what you heard
throughout the day yesterday on this radio station. See over
the rejoined music.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Here.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
We've got these little radio station things called liners ten
seconds long. Here's where you can find this podcast. Here's
what's coming up on this show. Here's how you make
a preset on iHeartRadio, and yesterday listeners to our radio
station were treated to Jim Rose promoting his podcast like this.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
They see Dylan Rayola doesn't have a lot of mobility.
Sure he does when he's running away from something. It's
the Rosie Diginozi on the podcast page under Jim Rose. Dude,
thank you. It's just what that is brutal. Oh that's
the way it is, dude. All right.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
So Dylan Royola three high schools, three years high schools.
In his freshman year, what was it four high schools
and four years, and then he committed to Ohio State
before committing to Georgia, didn't play or it suited up
for any of these programs before coming to Nebraska, and
now he's leaving. I think what you guys are missing

(01:29):
is he was here for two years. He must have
loved this place. Well, it hasn't been anywhere for two
years since sixth grade. Well the checksaw cleared. Well, I
don't know how much he got paid in sixth grade,
not in.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
The sixth grade, but I got plenty here. I heard
that yesterday and thought, oh my gosh.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
What Scottes, how long have you known me? Running us?
Does anyone really know you? We've worked together a long time.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
We've worked together a long time, and you're surprised by
that kind of dry sarcasm anytime I start scratching beyond
the service and surface and getting down to the cold
black heart that beats the cold blacks, I don't know
that it beats so much as it just lies in
weight within your skeletal frame. I back away. I am
a man of the people. I am the voice and

(02:19):
the mind.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
And the mood of the people, which people the people
incarce people fans in mental health facilities, in rubber rooms
with straight jackets on those people.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
Did you check out social media in the wake of
Dylan's departure.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
Oh yeah, that's those are the people I added to it.
And here's what I said on my Facebook. And I'll
say the same thing here on the radio.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
I saw you, I saw your apologetic base.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
No, no, here, this is exactly not apologetic. Here's what
I said. I said as I said on the radio yesterday.
Dylan Rayola breaks his leg against USC and he's trying
like mad to come back into that game. He wants
to play in that game. He's got a broken leg
and he wants to come back in. Okay, Hey, kid's
got a lot of heart. Sorry, he didn't find what
he was looking for here. I hope he finds it

(03:04):
someplace else. And more than anything, I hope that we
play him in the National Championship Game next year with
whatever school he's part of, sack n Times and make
him feel sorry that he left here, that he made
the wrong decision. That's what I want for everybody. Nothing
would make me happier. Bud Crawford decides, all right, that's
enough of that you know here we have an incredible boxer,

(03:31):
but we have someone who since this last title win,
it's been mired and controversy, whether it's the speeding along
downtown roads after a parade in his honor and a
big party downtown and he's speeding in. The cops are like, look,
we don't know who's in this car. We see guns
in the car. How about everyone come out of the

(03:52):
car and we can take a look at what's going on.
And you got two cops and like at least five
people in the car and they can't see everyone in there,
and this could have gotten so much worse. And then
from public relations standpoint, Bud Crawford's people, I think tried
to make it a little bit worse. And then you
have the if I box in this event, I will
pay you guys this much money. And then you do it,

(04:15):
and you make a ton of money and you decide
I don't want to pay you guys that much money,
which I think was the wrong move. You should honor
your commitments. And now Bud Crawford says, I don't have
anything else to prove I'm done. I'll read you the statement.
We'll have a lot more from Jim Rose with Sports Brief,
next Scott atkfab dot com here and the Zonkers custom
was inbox, and we've got wildly different takes on Jim Rose.

(04:39):
Michael says that sarcasm is what gives Jim Rose his edge.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
It's a gift.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
Unfortunately, it's the gift that just keeps on giving. Now
Greg says, isn't it really ironic that people were previously
comparing Ryola to Patrick.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
Mahomes, not me.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
I one of the most quarterbacks in the NFL, and
now everyone's talking about him being a statue back. There
goes to show you the Nebraskans, yes, including you, Jim Rose,
should stop getting all hyped up over a player until
a level of play is actually shown against really good competition.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
Okay, lad oh your bizarro world? Are we in? If
you go back and listen to every single thing I've
said about Dina Ryola from the beginning has been be
careful about expectations because they are assigning expectations to this
kid that he has not earned. He has not taken
a hit in a practice, he has not had a

(05:33):
bullet fly past him in a game. So everybody calmed
that I was the only one. They kept a hand
on the tether that balloon. Okay, everybody else was talking
with Heisman trophies and bronze statues and college football national
title games. And it's the same speech I have been
given about recruiting for forty years. It's true.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
I've heard you deliver that, and you're exactly right. Anytime
we get these recruits like here's Nebraska's recruiting class, just
a reminder. None of these guys have suited up for
a cause.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
That's right. They're not players, they're prospects. Very smart in that.

Speaker 1 (06:05):
Now, I don't know on the flip side of that,
A proven champion has delivered this statement in deciding that
he's done boxing, Terrence Bud Crawford says quote, I've been
blessed to live out a dream that started long before
the lights, the fans, or the world titles. From Omaha
to the biggest stages in boxing. Every step of this

(06:25):
journey was earned through sacrifice, discipline, and faith. I gave
the sport everything I had. I faced the best, moved
through weight classes and made history on my own terms
forty two to zero, three times undisputed five division world champion,
No shortcuts, no excuses. This isn't goodbye to boxing. It's

(06:46):
a thank you. Thank you to my family, my team,
my city, and the fans who rode with me through
every chapter. Thank you to the sport for shaping the
man I am today. The gloves may have come off,
but legacy is forever. That is the statement on the
social media channels of one Terrence Bud Crawford gave the

(07:07):
sport everything he had. That Championship Boxing Committee, World Boxing Committee,
whatever they are, the sanctioners of that fight, would say,
you probably give a little bit more that money that
you say that you owed us, But you know that's
going to be tied up in court. Jim, you live
out near Valley if you had a hard time getting

(07:29):
home at night, especially when those cars are lined up
from the lights Valley to midtown Omaha to go see
all those lights out there. We got some new drive through.

Speaker 2 (07:38):
Christmas Light, got Christmas Festival.

Speaker 1 (07:41):
My daughter would be back from college here tonight actually,
and the first semester go well, she hadn't been kicked out.
The highlight of the first semester for my daughter at
college freshman year was when she sent my wife and
I a text message a few weeks ago and said
guess where I am? And there was a picture football
practice party. She said, we figured out how to get

(08:02):
on the roof of our dorm. So she's having fun.
It's KSE State, so she's learning how to line dance
and hanging out. She wants she wants cowboy boots for Christmas.
So she's getting into the Aggieville spirit down there in
Manhattan at k State. But yeah, I want to take
the family out there to drive through and gill those

(08:23):
fancy lights. But some of the neighbors out there and
you're not right next to where this is. This is
the thing about two hundred and fifty second and fort Streets.
It's a drive through seventy acre Christmas experience, two and
a half miles of lights. People have been waiting in
lying in their cars to see it for two to
two and a half hours over the weekends.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
It's really cool. It's a little bit west of King
Lake if you kind of know where that is, just
beyond the Elkhorn River. Yeah, so you'll be able to
see it from the interstate or from the highway from
two seventy five and then you get off of the
Love's Exit and kind of snake around. It's very cool.
We went through it a couple of weeks ago, and
some of the proceeds go to the Salvation Army, which

(09:05):
is neat, but it's really special. You've got to go
obviously at night. You know, it'd be really nice if
there'd be a little snowfall, but I don't think we're
going to get that. You'll like it. It's hard for
me to sit in line for two and a half hours.
Where are you supposed to go to the bathroom? Yeah,
you're gonna want to use the bathroom first. Yeah, but no.
It's owned by a local guy, uh, local business guy

(09:27):
who I met. He's a neat guy, and it's it's
something they've worked on since the fall. They've been installing
those lights since September and there are some unbelievably cool displays.
My favorite, My two favorite ones are the combine, the
Christmas combine cutting Christmas corn and also the Christmas Santa

(09:49):
shooting baskets. I'll lah Kareem abdul Jabbar hook shots, oh.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
The skyhook, and I do want to see it. Some
of the neighbors out there are not happy with the
increased traffic flow the lights from all of the headlights.
A guy out there says, we saw people walking alongside
their cars, which probably answers the question where do you
go to the bathroom? How about right here next to
the Greater Dish, And the Douglas County Sheriff's Office says,

(10:14):
we're trying to manage traffic flow and all that, and
some people are upset and like, you're the one that
chose to do this, and we had to wait for
two hours of our car. No you didn't. You could
pull out of the line and turn around and go home.
But I do have I don't want to sit here
and just offer up complains on behalf of people. I
try and come up with solutions. So here's my solutions.
Just like junkstock out there. Sure, here's but in junkstock

(10:37):
you park and then you can put the line walk around.
But yeah, it'd be dangerous when the line snakes out
to two seven short. So they're trying to figure out
how can we get people through the attraction, make everyone
happier and all that, And here's my solution. Just ramp
up that speed limit through the Christmas light.

Speaker 2 (10:51):
No, you don't want to do that, you can want
to go three miles an hour, so you can enjoy
all of it.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
Yeah, but if you get everyone going through there fifty
five miles per hour, sure you get a lot more
people through there, and it'll be it just be a
lot faster. So whatever the speed limit is, probably you know,
three five miles per hour, fifty five sixty, people will
probably go sixty seven. And you know that's that's fine.
That will really really help things out.

Speaker 2 (11:16):
It could also create a few fatalities. But and just
think how difficult it would be to get emergency vehicles
in there if we have a five car pile up
underneath the basketball shooting Santa.

Speaker 1 (11:27):
I'm willing to reevaluate if things are not going according
to plan.

Speaker 2 (11:32):
There are no speed limit signs by the way on
the drive through, okay, so they just sort of sort
of go with the traffic flow. I'm offering up my ideas.
Thank you for that.

Speaker 1 (11:42):
This is Melissa Seawick. She is the General Assistance Director
with Douglas County and this board with her being the
director along with the Douglas County Board of Commissioners, they're
the ones who review and pay out claims related to assistance.
Financial assistance and she was giving her comments to the

(12:05):
board yesterday. You'll hear first from her and then a
moment from Douglas County Commissioner Roger Garcia about this. Listen
to what it takes to be kicked off of government
assistance in Douglas County. Here's Melissa Seewa.

Speaker 3 (12:21):
We spent a timeline on that because we recognize that
sometimes it goes quickly and sometimes it can take years.
We see that all the time, and so that's where
we also, you know, help our clients and remind them
to appeal. We connect them with legal aid as well
to help with those applications if they don't already have aware.
But that again, that could be years that they are

(12:42):
still on our program while they're going through that process.

Speaker 2 (12:45):
No time.

Speaker 4 (12:46):
The fact that there's no limit on that still, even
with the proposed rules, I think is very generous. We
know a lot of nonprofit programs even might have a
cut off at one month or three months or six months.
For us, as long as they can still find that
they're in the process of their appeal or trying to
get that solid security benefit, we will continue assisting them.

(13:08):
Is that the case, yes, okay, even under the proposals yes, okay,
And so we know there's not an abundance of outliers
under the next question I'm going to ask you, but
under the current rules, there are some individuals that have
been on the program for like ten plus years, receiving
like rental assistants and stuff like that. Yes, and some

(13:29):
of them have been what is categorized as like able
bodied or able to work and whatnot. Yes, okay, And
so we're trying to provide a little bit of parameter there. Obviously,
even for people who are able bodied, we all go
through fluxus and budgets and job changes and sometimes we
need assistance in life, and so that's totally fine. We're
just trying to put a little bit of parameter around
that so it doesn't become an outlier of ten plus

(13:52):
years for somebody who is able to work, but rather
the assistance is there when you need it, when you're
in transition, and it's going to continue to be there
even on the proposed rules.

Speaker 2 (14:02):
Here we go to cost.

Speaker 1 (14:04):
That is Douglas County Board Member Roger Garcia talking with
the General Assistance Director for the county, Melissa Seawick, what
a tremendous opportunity to get around some of the burden
on property taxes. I didn't realize that for ten plus years,
as an able bodied person, I can just go to
the board and say I need some assistance with paying

(14:27):
my rent, paying my mortgage, paying my bills, and essentially
no questions, And Roger Garcia is almost apologetic that maybe, hey,
so we understand things happened, but you know, ten plus
years able bodied person getting assistants. This isn't from the
Douglas County money tree, This isn't from some printer in

(14:48):
the city county building. This is from the tax payer.
We're struggling to pay rent, we're struggling to afford groceries,
property taxes, everything else here, and we're paying our taxes
to able bodied people who are getting taxpayer assistance for
ten years with no timeline to ever kick them off.

Speaker 2 (15:06):
Jim, no questions. Did anybody have to produce a ten
ninety nine form or a W twoter form or a
tax return to qualify for this? You just show up
and say, you know, I'm really struggling with my property taxes.
I haven't gotten a raise in seven years, my utility
bills are up. Anything you can do it?

Speaker 5 (15:24):
Sure?

Speaker 1 (15:25):
I imagine you break on your property taxes and then
I show up say the same thing, get out right.
I imagine there's some sort of needing to show need
to be able to get it, but in terms of
getting off of it, there's nothing. And they're apologetic about
the review. Ten plus years able bodied people in Douglas
County getting your money to pay their bills because they

(15:48):
don't want to work. But you don't understand you are
a hartless bastard.

Speaker 2 (15:52):
Yes I am. You know you're one of these people
that just has no sensitivity to the strife of others.
You've got yours and you say scroll, yeah, yeah, that's hey,
that's what the Democrats say about Republicans.

Speaker 1 (16:04):
Yeah, I'm flying that flag today and you should be two.
Let your county board member know what you think. I'm
Scott Vorhees, heartless bastard. That's Jim Rose right there. And
this is Nebraska's Morning News. Kind of a fun Omaha
City Council meeting last night as well. They're one of these.
I lose track how many of the bars in downtown

(16:24):
Omaha are listed as being troubled bars. There's always some
question about a liquor license and who's going to own what.
Well one of those was the four fifteen bar that's
at thirteenth Street downtown Old Market. Well their owner is
gone and all that. So now we got this new
young woman that goes before the council last night and

(16:46):
she says, I want to start this bar. I want
a liquor license. She has no experience in the liquor
or bar owning business. She wants to call it the
eighty seven to nine bar because that's the community radio
station that she and I guess it's her husband owned
eighty seven point nine local community based hip hop radio

(17:09):
station here in Omaha. And she said, quote this is
what she told the council members.

Speaker 2 (17:15):
Quote.

Speaker 1 (17:16):
Since we are a radio station, we have access to
all celebrities in the pop rock genre. We can hire
them to come to town and do a performance or
a presence there. So they want celebrity DJs and all
the rest of it. Pretty amazing. A small community radio
station here in Omaha, they've got connections. They have access

(17:38):
to all celebrities in the pop rock genre. You go
walk into this bar. Taylor Swift's over there spinning records.
Ed Sheeron and Bruno Mars are hanging out doing selfies
with people.

Speaker 2 (17:46):
It's amazing. I thought that was Billie Eilish I saw
on westn Yeah.

Speaker 1 (17:50):
See, they have access to all the celebrities in the
pop rock genre as someone else who's in the radio business.
With all due respect, ma'am, no you don't. If you
have access to a pile of money, you have access
to aforementioned celebrities. I don't know that they're gonna come
down there for this. Plus Amy Melton said, so you

(18:12):
want to do like what now? She says, well, we
want to have promotions where there's just free alcohol shots and.

Speaker 2 (18:19):
Oh yeah, that's what they need to be doing.

Speaker 1 (18:21):
And Amy Melton said, you don't have any experience in
this business. You're talking about free alcohol. This are exactly
the things you should not be doing. City Council voted
to deny that liquor license recommendation for that place. Sounds
like fun, But President Trump's going to address the nation

(18:41):
tonight eight o'clock. Omaha Council Bluff's time. We will carry
that live for you right here on news radio eleven
ten KFAB. No one seems to know exactly what the
President is going to say. I expect he will talk
about how great the economy is. I don't expect he
will issue an apology for his comments on Rob Reiner.

(19:03):
If you're waiting for an apology for President Trump on
that or anything, I would not recommend. And nine out
of ten doctors would not recommend holding your breath. That
tenth doctor though he's a big anti Trumper. He wants
you to hold your breath to you die if you're
a Trump's But anyway, did you see some of the
comments here tagged to White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles.

(19:27):
She talked with Vanity Fair, and Susie Wiles is one
of those who's said to be a very powerful advisor
to the president. Not seeing I'm not really seeing the
impact on any of this stuff. I think President Trump's
doing what Trump does. But you know, she's in there
and people say, oh, yeah, she's great. She keeps him

(19:48):
in line. This is keeping him in line, So she
doesn't see anything.

Speaker 2 (19:52):
Though.

Speaker 1 (19:53):
She is not the kind of person who's out there
doing her own news conferences, posting her own stuff on
social media. She doesn't have of her husband lighting Trump
up on social media like Kelly on Conway did.

Speaker 2 (20:04):
So.

Speaker 1 (20:05):
Vanity Fair talks with her a number of times over
the past year, and one of the things that they're
saying that she said is that President Trump has the
personality of an alcoholic. In context, here's what she purportedly said.

Speaker 2 (20:22):
Quote.

Speaker 1 (20:23):
Some clinical psychologists that knows one million times more than
I do will dispute what I'm going to say. But
high functioning alcoholics or alcoholics in general, their personalities are
exaggerated when they drink. And so I'm a little bit
of an expert in big personalities. Trump has an alcoholics personality.

(20:45):
He operates with a view that there's nothing he can't do, nothing, zero, nothing.
So in context, now the headline is that Trump's own
chief of staff basically says that he has an alcoholics personality.
And when most people hear that, they think Drum's in there,
you know, falling down and throwing stuff around and getting

(21:08):
angry and chasing girls around the room and all the
rest of this stuff. What she's saying in context, I'm
not having to explain what she said. What she said
was an alcoholic is the kind of person who makes
these big boasts and claims I'll fight Bud Crawford anytime anywhere.

Speaker 2 (21:27):
It was it was a poor Uh, it was a
poor comparison. I don't know that it is, Dee. I
mean alcoholic, and an alcoholic has a variety of different personalities.
Not all of them are like that. Not all of
them think they're superman. Well, she say, it's true. Liquid
courage does change your personality. That's what she said. What
she should have said is he has a superman complex.

(21:48):
He thinks he can do anything, he thinks he's invincible. Well,
and that's I think a more apt description of the President.
She says, he's also highly insecure.

Speaker 1 (21:56):
But yeah, alcoholics, their personalities are exaggerated when they drink.

Speaker 2 (22:02):
That's true.

Speaker 1 (22:03):
Our buddy Chris Baker and his stand up comedy routine
years ago, he used to say he would get a
few drinks in him and walk around the bar going,
has anyone seen my Super Bowl ring?

Speaker 5 (22:13):
Right?

Speaker 2 (22:13):
You know?

Speaker 1 (22:14):
That's that's the big personality of someone who's had a
bit too much to drink. You want to go out
in the back alley and the race. I'll beat you
any time, anywhere, sir. I'm Carl Lewis. Are you sure
let's go?

Speaker 2 (22:25):
Carl, Carl, how fast you be? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (22:29):
So that she's saying that Trump makes these big statements
and has a big personality and has no problem saying
all this stuff, and people are are saying, oh, look
at Trump's chief of staff is saying he the president
can't be trusted. We have someone with an alcoholics personality
in charge of the nuclear especially.

Speaker 2 (22:48):
Given the media climate in DC which hates Trump and
will never not hate Trump. Susan Wilde's I think one
of the reasons Trump really liked her is because she
doesn't seek out in her She literally does not make
public statements, public appearances. She works behind the scenes for him.
Now he knows how important she is. He knows that

(23:11):
she's the boss around the White House, but he doesn't
like it when anybody outside the White House thinks that
anybody other than Trump is the boss around the White House.
And the guys that have gotten into trouble with him
over the years who have not lasted very long are
the ones who try to compete with him, like Rex
Tillerson and Ryan's Prebus and John Kelly and some of

(23:31):
these other dudes that said, oh, really, you know, I'm
as big a deal as you are. No, you're not.
I'm the president, right. These are the kinds of folks
that the President doesn't like having around Now. They know
and he knows how important they are. But to this president,
who is more aware of public perception as any president
we've ever had, he doesn't want anybody thinking anybody makes

(23:55):
decisions around here without running it past the boss.

Speaker 1 (23:57):
Now here's some of the other things that Vanity fair
saying that Susie Wilds, chief of Staff, said about Vice
President Jay d Vance said he's been a conspiracy theorist
for a decade. I don't know if that was in
the present tense or he had been a conspiracy theorist

(24:17):
for a decade. I don't know if she's saying that
as her good or a bad thing about Elon Musk
said he She called him an odd, odd duck, as
I think geniuses are, and referred to him as the
avowed ketamine user. And on the Epstein stuff, she said

(24:38):
the President was wrong about his allegations that the Epstein
files incriminate Bill Clinton tactically. I don't know that that's
what President Trump said. I think he's said, how come
the media won't ask these questions about why Clinton's name
is in there?

Speaker 2 (24:56):
Or this guy or that guy. The rest of it so.

Speaker 1 (24:59):
For for her part, she released a statement said the
article published vanity fair is a disingenuously framed hit piece
on me and the finest president, White House staff, and
cabinet in history, President Trump, as Standenbayer, it's vanity fair,
don't I don't know why you would even do interviews

(25:22):
with some of these, but the President and his team
they're like, yeah, we'll talk to anybody anytime, which is
different from other administrations. Eleven kfab White House correspondent John
Decker joins us now on this vote. Apparently the House
is going to vote today finally on some of these
healthcare proposals. Does Speaker Johnson have the votes here to

(25:43):
push this forward? Are we looking at another government shutdown?

Speaker 5 (25:46):
John, Well, we're talking about two different things. The government
shutdown is an issue that will be confronted by Congress
at the end of January, so at the end of
next month. As it relates to the vote that takes
place today, a vote on healthcare legislation, it does not
include any amendment that would deal with those expiring Obamacare

(26:07):
subsidies that expire at the end of this year, and
that means for those twenty four million Americans who get
their healthcare insurance through the Affordable Care Act, they will
see their healthcare insurance premiums rise, in some cases by
double at the beginning of next year.

Speaker 1 (26:25):
Therein lies the reason for the last shutdown, And if
they don't address it here, I can't imagine anything's going
to be too much any different here and with a
potential government shutdown at the end of next month. But
in the meantime, what is it that the House Republicans,
led by Speaker Johnson would like to do with healthcare?

Speaker 5 (26:45):
Well, it's a very good question. You know. You can't
say that without talking about how diverse the Republican a
lawmaker membership is. There are some members that would very
much like to see an extension of those Obamacare subsidies.
There are some individuals in the Republican Party in the

(27:05):
House that say, look, those subsidies were put in place
during the pandemic. The pandemic is over, those subsidies should
go away. And then there are some lawmakers who say, look,
we've spoken for years about repealing and replacing Obamacare. We
need to come up with a solution. In twenty twenty six,
ahead of the midterm elections, otherwise they say, we may

(27:27):
get voted out and we may lose control of the
House of Representatives.

Speaker 1 (27:31):
Any details about what it is that they're proposing here.

Speaker 5 (27:35):
No, No, I mean they've had a full year to
work on some sort of alternative. The president also has
had a full year. You could even argue even longer.
He could have worked on it during the time period
that he was out of the White House preparing for
coming in for his second term. But there is nothing
that is on the table. There's no legislation that has

(27:56):
been authored which would resemble an alternative for what is
in place right now.

Speaker 1 (28:01):
A lot of people wondering what their healthcare is going
to cost next year. John, you're there at the White
House in Washington. Any there's another question. I think I
already know the answer to any idea what the President
is going to say tonight. He suddenly says, Hey, eight
o'clock Central time, I'm doing an announcement.

Speaker 2 (28:18):
What are we expecting tonight?

Speaker 5 (28:20):
Well, what I expect is the president to talk about
what he believes were the successes of his first year
back in office for his second term, so certainly talking
about the Big Beautiful Bill, which is which was a
major domestic policy success for the president that was accomplished
halfway through his first year back in the White House.

(28:43):
The President may also talk about the actions that he
is taking and intends to take regarding Venezuela. So that's
what I'm expecting from the President this evening.

Speaker 1 (28:53):
We'll carry it here live on news radio eleven ten KFAB.
That is our White House correspondent John Decker at twenty
four to seven News right here on Nebraska's Morning News.
Why haven't they found this guy in Providence, Rhode Island,
the one responsible for shooting at students taking finals and
an engineering building on Saturday afternoon at Brown University Probably

(29:15):
number one, because no one thinks anything anymore of a
guy just wandering around wearing a mask anymore.

Speaker 2 (29:22):
It's a good point.

Speaker 1 (29:22):
If this had been six years ago, someone had called
the cops, go, I don't know what this guy's deal is,
but this guy walking around with a mask on. It's
not Halloween, So that's one.

Speaker 2 (29:32):
Two.

Speaker 1 (29:33):
They don't have a lot of surveillance cameras around the area,
you know why, because it's Providence, Rhode Island. I know
this is probably not completely accurate, but my stereotype of
that place, Jim is, they haven't had crime there in
fifty years. When was the last time you heard about
crime in Providence.

Speaker 2 (29:51):
Well, it's a liberal run city like most of the
state of Rhode Island. Although the questions in the news
conference came up yesterday and I was listening on the
drive home in the question, since where Brown University has
a multi billion dollar endowment, why is it the new
construction doesn't have security cameras all over the place, not
just at the front door.

Speaker 1 (30:10):
Because the new construction is in the building that adjoins
this particular engineering building, which is an old building that
has not been renovated yet, and they just don't have
a lot in the way of cameras. But even if
they did, we're going to see the same images that
we're seeing some of these street level views of this
strolling sack of crap walking around wearing his mask, is

(30:32):
strolling around just say hey, I'm just going to belly
my way down the street. This guy is sauntering like
he doesn't have a care in the world. If this
is the guy who's going to look at this guy
and go, Bob, I'm looking at this guy and go
he looks like sixteen different people I know, and I
don't think any of them did it. So I'm not
going to call the FBI.

Speaker 2 (30:52):
You would think with the advanced technology that we have,
and the face recognition technology and all of the tools
that the law enforcement now and the FBI and Department
of Homeland Security has at its disposal, you could get
a little more progress on this. Well, was it two
days when they found the guy that shot Charlie Kirk?
It was now he was a little more brazen than

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this guy, and he was walking around, there was a
gun in his hands. But still, you think about the
technology advancements that we've had in crime and prevention today,
and they found the bomber that blew up the Boston
marathon in record time, Why is it they can't find
this guy? I just think the people to Providence, in
the community of Brown University has a lot of very

(31:36):
important questions.

Speaker 1 (31:38):
So he's got a mask on, he's walking around. Do
you want to live in a surveillance police state?

Speaker 2 (31:45):
Not at all?

Speaker 1 (31:46):
Okay, So if he doesn't use his cell phone, we
can't paing. Well, we have this many people on their
phones and we're looking all that. I mean, there had
to be prizingly little on this, but there had to
be some kind of cell phone activity off towers in
that area, and they could begin the process of whittling
down who had cell phone pings at about that time. Now,

(32:09):
even if you're not using not necessarily because if he
if he's on the five G network, it goes from
one tower to the next. Look, I'm not a criminal investigator,
but it seems to me that the technology that has
been used to save these kinds of crimes quicker in
the last ten years is lost on this one. And

(32:29):
they're criticizing the FBI and director Cash Betel saying, how
come you guys aren't in there taking this investigation away
from the local police. And that's I don't know, probably
because they know there's not much for them to go
off on.

Speaker 2 (32:43):
You have to be invited in it.

Speaker 1 (32:44):
Yeah, I mean, I think that that whole situation just
plays itself out for movie and TV show plots. You
get your heroes, the local cops, and then here come
the FBI. Oh, who are these guys? What are these
guys doing here? Hey guys, this is an FBI investigation. Now,
we don't need you small town cops getting away. And
then the Small tom Cops. They keep doing it even

(33:05):
though their director said, Hey, I'm in deep here with
the director of the FBI. If you guys keep pursuing
this k and then they go and pursue it anyway
and they solve it and their heroes And that's what
happens in TV. In terms of the FBI, I don't
know why they haven't gotten involved. Here's the other thing.
Put yourself in the shoes of someone living in the

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vicinity of Brown University or around the area of Providence.
This guy who just seemingly with no motive went and
shot at students and on campus is still walking around.
Your kids are going to school, Sure, you're going to work,
You're heading out to the marketplace. Shut up a university?
Why not a grade school? How do you go about

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living your life any differently if you're in that community.

Speaker 2 (33:51):
Well, we need we need Detective Shannon Mullins and FBI
Special Investigator Sarah Ashburn, the characters from the movie The Heat,
The Melissam of Car the Sandra Bullock movie. That movie
when there was a crime going on in Boston. Mullins
was the local cop and played by Melissa McCarthy and
Sandra Bullock's character was the uptight FBI agent they broke

(34:13):
this massive crime ring and it was hilarious. By the
way that one of the funniest movies I've ever seen.
I really like Melissa McCarthy. I think the outtakes on
the film This Is forty is probably the funniest thing
I've ever seen in my entire life. Back till next
to her playing Sean Spicer's White House Press secretary.

Speaker 1 (34:34):
Jim, I'm gonna need you to answer that question. Do
you live your life any differently if this played out
in Omaha and we had a killer in the loose here?

Speaker 2 (34:41):
Do you know? And the reason I don't is that
I believe in the open carry law, and I believe
that you have to defend yourself. That the West was
one when the good guys started shooting back, and we're
in that place. I think in our country today, people
have to come to grips with the fact that law
enforcement can't protect them from everything. We don't have enough cops,

(35:04):
we don't have enough activity. We have way too many
what I would consider institutional roadblocks to cops doing their job.
Sheriff's deputy, state patrol cops doing their job. So if
you want to protect yourself and your family, you're going
to have to protect yourself and your family.

Speaker 1 (35:19):
They know what that means. That's what that means. They
say the building wasn't locked. I don't know why, why
why should it be all right?

Speaker 2 (35:26):
I don't I don't believe in living in that society's
and it's like COVID. We talked about COVID. I don't care.
I'm not gonna I'm not going to surrender to this