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Speaker 1 (00:00):
That to look at your roads.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
And Lucy Chapman, I feel like someone in a movie
who just realized that that squirrel can talk.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
You can talk, Yes, I can.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
It's getting almost better.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Turns out, not using your voice since Friday morning was
a nice thing.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
You sound great.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Well, you know it was a couple of a couple
of times of karaoke went out over the weekend.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
But other than that, yeah, it was pretty quiet.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Well there's you know, if you're wondering where your voice
is hit karaoke and saying thunderstruck. Right, eight, that's an
excellent barometer. All right, here's what the barometer says. It
says thirty point two eight. That's an actual barometer reading
for Omaha. Right now, we've got it all here. The
President of the United States was at the college football
(00:49):
Championship game last night, but I don't think you'd know
it if you watched ESPN. I don't think that they
showed him on the broadcast one time? Did they show
him one time?
Speaker 3 (00:57):
During the national anthem, in which the statedium erupted in cheers, he.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Was trying to get into the stadium and people were
losing their mind trying to take pictures with him and.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
As a president of the United States. Well that is
the grandkids and everybody down there.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Yeah, the President of the United States is at the
college football playoff championship game and they don't mention it,
show it. Maybe if he'd stormed into a church, would
we get some attention on that? What if he'd just
gone storming into a church?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Is that okay?
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Now?
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Is that how you get attention? Because I needed to
I clearly need attention. I can't wait till Sunday Wednesday.
They still the Catholics still get together on Wednesday nights?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Right?
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Is that just Catholic school? Because I'm just storming in.
I'm gonna live stream storm into church.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Don Lemon said, well, I was there as a journalist.
You don't work for anybody who was paying you. He's
no more a journalist than a veterinarian. This guy is
an irrelevant, has been nobody loser TV guys. He has
a narcissistic thread within him that makes it impossible for
him to function unless somebody is talking about him. He
(02:09):
has said some of the most outrageous, egregious, and offensive
things in the last three days about Christians, about white people,
about ice, about the government, and it's all about getting attention.
This is the Jesse Smallette of TV News.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Ha.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
This is a guy who simply cannot function unless somebody
knows who he is, knows what he's doing, and has
an observation about it. So social media creates these monsters,
creates these individuals, and just listen to him.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
He's a loser. He's a dumb loser. Well, the Department
of Justice is looking into that. Speaking of church, the
top Catholic leaders in America have issued a joint statement
warning that America has lost its moral foundation just now. Hey,
we held on to it a lot longer than most
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people think. This is not anything to be bemoaning. I
think this is great, Lucy. I thought we lost our
moral foundation decades ago. It turns out we just lost it.
Then we'll lose it again, and then we'll rebuild it.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
It's always in the last place.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
You look too.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
You know that there's a lot of foundation companies out there. Yes,
I know. I just had it.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I just had my moral foundation, and then she walked in,
and then you start rebuilding.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Why are you always blaming women? I didn't she does
some self reflection there say it's.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Not her fault. She walked in.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
And then we've got the best college football team in
America is the Nebraska basketball team. This is we're eighteen
and oh, what's Indiana? What's Indiana football? If they have
seventeen and oh, but if they.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Played eighteen games, they'd likely be eighteen and oh, no,
they're sixteen and oh, first team to go sixteen and
since eighteen ninety four.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Okay, so they used to play sixteen games back there.
The fat was before the NCAA.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Yeah. Yeah, they play games after games, after games, and
they didn't wear helmets, and they beat the hell out
of each other, and guys all off in a gurney.
And then Theodore Roosevelt came along. As said a whole lot.
It was always like Grambling against Yale. I don't think
Grambling Brown versus Harvard Brown versus Harvard, Yale versus Colombian. Yeah,
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they were all playing back in those days. You didn't
have a lot of football west of the Mississippi River
in those days.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Nebraska wins another basketball game, not granted, not the greatest opponent,
but we're undefeated. Only go up one spot in the poll.
This is an outrage. Who we got to beat around?
Number seven is pretty good? And the six teams ahead
of Nebraska are pretty good.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Who we playing tomorrow? Washington, forget it? I want to
I want Arizona.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
They may get Arizona this season. Let's go right now,
just throw out the schedule. I want to Nebraska to
play Mendoza and the Indiana football team. Let's go. What
do we gotta do?
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Let's play the women's flag football team while we're at it. Uh,
this is looming Scott borhees as a remarkable year in
college sports. Now, the Nebraska basketball team still has a
month and a half or so to go before it
gets to Indiana. Rare fight air, But think of this
Nebraska basketball in the final four, Indiana football winning the
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national championship. The world is not spinning on its axis anymore.
It's been taken off the axis and now it's just
hurtling through space.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Kurt Signetti, the coach of the Indiana Hoosiers, just on
the sidelines, looking like a father listening to his son
tell him why he was late to school. He just
slightly arched eyebrow. Oh yeah, tell me, Oh okay, so
you you think you need to, you know, jump off sides.
(05:57):
There is that what you're saying. I just love this
guy's demeanor. How close was Nebraska to getting Kurt Signetti?
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Never? Not even not even on a big list, not
even on a long list.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
I thought his name was was thrown around there in
the Matt Ruhle transition that they.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Not know he was never even close. He was never
even on a list. The list that Trev Alberts compiled
had Bill O'Brien on it and Matt Rule and Luke Fickle.
Because Trevo's national people abertam on there, Trev Alberts didn't
spend enough time recognizing what Nebraska football needed to go
get a guy like Kurt Signetti. He was too busy
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looking at Okay, how's this going to play in the media?
You know what, what has this guy done to turn
things around? Ignoring the fact that Kurt Signetti, in thirteen
years as a head coach, has never had a losing season,
and he was twenty six years an assistant coach, including
on some of Alabama's best teams. This is Scott Dolson,
the athletics director at Indiana. Scott Dolson, who's a lifetime
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Indiana guy. He was a basketball team manager under Bob
Knight there, started out in the mailroom, worked his way
all the way up to ad He had seen a
parade of football coaches go through Indiana and made notes
on why each one of them failed. So when he
got the opportunity to hire one, he knew exactly what
they needed and he went and found that guy. Okay,
he didn't look for a search firm, he didn't have
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people talking to agents. He said, this is what I
have to have. These are my list of specifications. Who
qualifies Kurt Signetti at James Madison. He gets the offer. Now,
some of this credit goes to the president of Indiana
University too, a lady named Wynned, who said, look, we
have got to do better in football. We're going to
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be in the Big Ten conference with this outstanding institution,
and Indiana's a great school. We've got to find a
way to do better in football. What's it going to take.
So those guys were a year or two ahead of
the curve on nil on the transfer portal, and they
had a plan. But if you read and look deeply
into how Indiana did this, it's not that complicated. Okay,
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you have a great head coach who does not turn
his cap around during the games. He's not their buddy.
He doesn't do zip lines in the hotel during Bowl
preparation week. What he does is he scares the hell
out of these guys into performing their very best. He's
old school and if you watch him on the sideline,
there are very few people around Kurtz Signetti on the sideline.
(08:28):
There is a force field around this guy. That's what
a great head coach looks like. He sets a culture.
He's unflappable, he's extraordinarily good at leadership.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
And they follow him because they trust him. He's going
out to coach his team before the game. Holly Row
ESPN sideline reporter grabs him for a quick second. He
takes out a piece of gum out of his mouth
that's the size of a softball and.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
He's just holding holding his hand. This guy, this guy
is something else. Now, it's easy to be a great coach.
He knows how to coach, he knows what a culture
looks like. He's not trying to win a pr battle,
he's not trying to sell people. He says, that guy
right there, Jamiir Sharp, Okay, that guy's a talented athlete.
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Miami ignored him out of high school. I'm gonna bring
him Indiana. I'm going to teach him how to play
defensive back. He made the interception to save that game
last night.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
It's easy to be a great coach when you have
a great quarterback.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Sports Brief recruited the quarterback to Indiana.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
This email comes in from Chris says the excuses for
Nebraska football to get back to national prominence are over
after seeing Indiana do what they've done. The closest comparison
I can think of to what they did is what
Bill Snyder did at k State. So if it can
be done at those two places, there are no more
excuses for Nebraska. And let's not sleep on what Christo
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Baal did at Miami, who for the last twenty years
haven't really done anything remarkable themselves. If he wasn't already
he is now now, Matt Rule, you are on the clock.
That's Chris waking up in a bad Husker mood this morning.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Which I don't a lot of Husker fans discount, but
a lot of Husker fans are happy for Indiana, but
they're pretty sad about what's going on down in Lincoln
because we spend a lot more money on football than
they do, and we get a lot bigger bally Hood
recruits than they do. We keep watching the playoffs while
they playing them.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
I'm just chaining myself to the alternate reality that is
the Nebraska basketball team right now. That's really it's all
I need, that's all I want. Just let me have that.
I see now that, as Courtney Donahoe reported earlier this hour,
that you know how Vegas has the sphere, which is
(10:46):
it looks incredible and I want to go see a
show there win is. Well, let's see Omaha's on three eleven.
Just brought us back from that news break. There Win's
three eleven going to play the sphere. I want to
go see somebody. I don't care who it is.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
I will. I will go see a band I don't
care about, just waiting for the new one, just.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
To see the sphere, the new sphere, sphere. Well that's okay,
So to bring it back here to Omaha. So Vegas
has the sphere, which, if you're not familiar, is that
you're basically inside a snow globe and the walls and
the ceiling and the floor and everything's all lit up
and the whole place is rocking out there, and you
two or the Eagles play it, And now they're talking
(11:34):
about in DC a mini sphere? Is that like a
personal sphere? Is I like the boy in the plastic
bubble sphere?
Speaker 3 (11:43):
A mini one? Miniature? It's a smaller bother to do this.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
It's got to be expensive. Why would you bother to
do this and not do it all the way?
Speaker 3 (11:50):
It's a private show.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
With It's a private show with Lamal, the lead singer
of Kaja Googu who saying the never ending story theme song.
Okay and so yeah, you pay your eight bucks. Well,
the mini sphere, it's just you and someone hit Wonder
from the eighties. I'm gonna go who are you gonna
(12:15):
go see at the mini sphere? Young MC? It's just
gonna be me and Young MC. We're gonna bust a move.
Well how much did that cost? Six dollars and fifty cents?
But omaha, then, because I don't like doing this happens
all too often if someone else does something, that someone
else does something like it, and then a few other
people do and then omah is like, all right, it's
time for Usking on board. Let's take a little detour
(12:39):
from the same old, same mole. What Omaha needs the rhombus?
Who the rhombus? It's like the sphere, except it's a
it's more of a parallelogram, so it's it's the same concept,
it's just a different shape.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
How many business is closing to get it installed?
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Put it where the Civic Auditorium and you can get
the same bands that played the Civic Auditorium. Come play
the Rhombus. You're telling me we wouldn't get people come
to Omaha. That's on Matchbox twenties playing the Rhombus.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
I'd go.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
I am Scott Voorhees. It is a pleasure to welcome
back here to news Radio eleven ten kfab not only
one of my favorite stand up comedians and impressionists who
is at the Omaha Funny Bone this Friday and Saturday
seven o'clock show on Friday, six and eight thirty shows
on Saturday. Visit Omaha dot Funnybone dot com, but he
(13:32):
also happens to be one of my very favorite people.
Frank Calliendo, welcome back to eleven ten kfa B.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Good morning, Hey, great to be on with you. It's
great to have you back here.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Jim Rose and I are both here in the studio,
and it seems like we're all down in Kansas City
together when you are regularly coming through Stanford and Sony
and you'd come into the studio and our various radio
shows and spend some time and hang out, and we
just love watching your rise here over the last jeez
twenty five years or so. And do you think that
(14:06):
you've been more popular and famous because of the Madden
impression or practice the Morgan Freeman Allen iverson to thing.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
Well, in terms of the Morgan Freeman thing, I think
it would be more the Lebron letter that I read
I'm coming home.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
That thing.
Speaker 6 (14:27):
I wish I could remember it off off the top
of my head, but it was, you know, Lebron because.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
I've always been a kid from southeast or northeast Ohio.
So that was just that Morgan Freeman thing.
Speaker 6 (14:39):
I should have gone, should have changed it up and
gone shawsh ink with it.
Speaker 5 (14:43):
I had to climb through five hundred yards of the
Fifthith Slap. I can't even imagine, or maybe I just
don't want to.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
For me, my buddies, we are always just going we're
talking about practice now, it's.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
Such a practice.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
That is such a great bit. Frank, Yeah, well go ahead.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
Well that's the thing with with Morgan Freeman. You don't
even really have to have I have in my act.
I have bits and jokes, but sometimes you can just
read somebody else's thing is Morgan Freeman and it's already funny.
It's just it. It takes something and it can be serious.
It could be something serious in the moment and you
read it and then you're like, holy cow, this works
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as Morgan Freeman, and it makes it completely different.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Well, I know that you've had interactions previously, obviously with
John Madden, with Donald Trump, who you also do a
great impersonation of, I think with President George W. Bush
as well. Have you ever heard back from Morgan Freeman
on your impersonation to him?
Speaker 6 (15:43):
No, not directly. People talk to him about me all
the time, to the point where I think he's annoyed
by it. There's a they'll be like, you know, Frank Kelly, Yeah,
I do.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
And let's just let that be.
Speaker 6 (15:56):
After the after I did after I did the not
the practice one, but after I did the lebron letter.
He was actually on Jimmy fallon the night that went viral,
and Jimmy's like, do you like it when people do
impressions off you?
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Do you like it? I know?
Speaker 6 (16:12):
And he's kind of playing with that a little bit.
I think the reality is that his voice gets copied
or tent where people try to copy it four things
to try and sell stuff. So people do voiceovers and
they pretend they're Morgan Freeman, and He's like, well, I
don't want people, you know, using my voice to sell something.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
I'm not getting paid.
Speaker 6 (16:32):
For us actually but not getting clear, which makes a
lot of sense in terms of comedy. I don't think
he cares that much.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Frank Calli endo with us on eleven to ten kf me.
You know, one of the challenges that impression, it's like
you have is to stay sort of up to date.
It's easy to fall back on older guys. So how
much time do you spend on contemporary people? Is celebrities
of the day And who are you working on right now?
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Well?
Speaker 6 (16:58):
I see for me, the key to contemporary as always
who's president?
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Right?
Speaker 6 (17:06):
So that that is the first one because everybody knows that.
And I'll backtrack to get to some of this other stuff,
But that's somebody. Everybody knows the president, the president before
the president, beforehand. That's something. So I can go Donald
Trump and Joe Biden. Folks, come on, I can go
to each of those all the way they draw back
George W. Bush Man a little bush vacation there. So
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I do a lot of that stuff up top. And
then audiences are very segmented. So you know, fifty forty
years ago, I just turned fifty two yesterday, So forty
years ago, I'm twelve years old watching TV, everybody's watching
the same stuff. Essentially, there was a little bit of cable,
but everybody's watching the same things. Well, now there's television
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for women, there's television for this group, for that demographic,
for that. So not everybody knows everything. That's one of
the most difficult things. So contemporary find more movies, comedy movies.
John c Ryan is one who's been a newer one
who is always you know, tends to be a sidekick
and something. Did you touch my drum set in Step Brothers?
Speaker 7 (18:12):
Yeah, I don't even know. You know, that's one of
those things. I don't even know I could do it.
Speaker 6 (18:15):
So I did it for a little bit.
Speaker 7 (18:16):
So ah, last m I laughed out hard. I thought,
my dinosaur.
Speaker 6 (18:22):
So there's those. But if I do, I'll do a
Robert Downey Junior, which is basically just belching away through punchlines.
People will know that they might not know a TV
show like if I did Saul Goodman, did you know
that you have rit The Constitution said.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
You do well that.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
That's an award winning type of show, but only a
million people might have watched it. Over time and sometimes
shows catch on. I don't do anything from this show,
but Suits Like Suits was on forever and then it
got on it started streaming and became a big show
ten minutes after or ten years after it was done.
So trying to find the impressions is a little more difficult.
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And I kind of experiment by putting them online a
little bit and see what people gravitate to.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
What about Trump? Hard to do? Uh, but he's he's
a content wrench environment.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
Well, a lot of people, a lot of people say
that they let people do the over the top Trump.
I do library Trump, the glad Trump. It's the one
way we go and look at books. And they said
the books, they are tremendous, rich in the metions We've
get the best ridge and we put them together and
they form amazing sentences, the best sentences.
Speaker 6 (19:38):
So I try to do a different version of people.
And then my act is very clean. First of all. Yeah,
it's a PG at dirtiest and it's not political, so
I always balance everything out. If I'm gonna, you know,
make fun with Donald Trump, the next thing I'm gonna
do is Joe Biden.
Speaker 7 (19:52):
Folks, come on, we're doing the guard.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
The thing.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
For me, I love the obscure ones. Your Bill Walton
talking about debt, left shrip reduces me to tears. Just
stuff like that is so funny. But I can't let
you go this morning without getting John Madden because that's
for you, that's the standard. That's who you're gonna be.
That'll be on your grave. What would what would John
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Madden think about? I don't know, Indiana football, America, invading Greenland.
What does Madden think about these things?
Speaker 7 (20:26):
Well, you know the first thing. I didn't hear the
second thing. So I'll start with the first thing. And
the first thing is Indiana football. And when you look
at what's going on with Indiana football, they're a basketball
school that's now a football school and boom. You got
to pick the right ball to play with. If you're
kurtin Signetty and you're out there with the basketball, people
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are gonna think you're crazier than they already think you are.
And that's what that's what makes Kurt Signetti Kurt Signetti.
I mean at least he smiled. He finally smile after.
I mean, even Bill Belichick was watching Kurt Signette going,
this guy just he never makes a face. And so
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now now Kurt Signette's gonna he has a little grip.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
I love it. I love it. Or Jim Jim Nance
going Tony.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
The reason I do that, The reason I do that
because I can't really do much Nance. Hello friends, Jim
Nance along with my pal Tony Romo Tony.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Oh, Jim, m.
Speaker 6 (21:33):
Here we go, Jim.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
It's fantastic, fantastic, Frank, is it.
Speaker 6 (21:38):
Gonna be incredible and amazing and amazingly incredible? Oh, Jim,
you think your Jim looked really good?
Speaker 2 (21:46):
For a while there you were on social media having
people send you clips that you could just insert, whether
it's Madden in Summer all or Nansen and Romo in
and it's it's always fun just wherever you're on social
media or on you know, and I'll countdown or at
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Speaker 6 (22:21):
Yes, thank you, and I am going to get a
piece of Omaha culture there. I'm gonna be down court
side of the Creighton game on Wednesday. How about that?
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Cool?
Speaker 2 (22:31):
I look forward to hearing John Madden. Yeah, I think
what he thinks about the Blue Jays and coach McDermott.
Speaker 7 (22:39):
Hey, there's Greg McDermott. He's licking his lips again.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Frank, thanks man, you're the best. You're a true pro.
We'll see you this weekend.
Speaker 6 (22:49):
Good guys, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
That is Frank Caliendo here on news radio eleven ten
kfab
That to look at your roads.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
And Lucy Chapman, I feel like someone in a movie
who just realized that that squirrel can talk.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
You can talk, Yes, I can.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
It's getting almost better.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Turns out, not using your voice since Friday morning was
a nice thing.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
You sound great.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Well, you know it was a couple of a couple
of times of karaoke went out over the weekend.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
But other than that, yeah, it was pretty quiet.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Well there's you know, if you're wondering where your voice
is hit karaoke and saying thunderstruck. Right, eight, that's an
excellent barometer. All right, here's what the barometer says. It
says thirty point two eight. That's an actual barometer reading
for Omaha. Right now, we've got it all here. The
President of the United States was at the college football
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Championship game last night, but I don't think you'd know
it if you watched ESPN. I don't think that they
showed him on the broadcast one time? Did they show
him one time?
Speaker 3 (00:57):
During the national anthem, in which the statedium erupted in cheers, he.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Was trying to get into the stadium and people were
losing their mind trying to take pictures with him and.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
As a president of the United States. Well that is
the grandkids and everybody down there.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Yeah, the President of the United States is at the
college football playoff championship game and they don't mention it,
show it. Maybe if he'd stormed into a church, would
we get some attention on that? What if he'd just
gone storming into a church?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Is that okay?
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Now?
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Is that how you get attention? Because I needed to
I clearly need attention. I can't wait till Sunday Wednesday.
They still the Catholics still get together on Wednesday nights?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Right?
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Is that just Catholic school? Because I'm just storming in.
I'm gonna live stream storm into church.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Don Lemon said, well, I was there as a journalist.
You don't work for anybody who was paying you. He's
no more a journalist than a veterinarian. This guy is
an irrelevant, has been nobody loser TV guys. He has
a narcissistic thread within him that makes it impossible for
him to function unless somebody is talking about him. He
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has said some of the most outrageous, egregious, and offensive
things in the last three days about Christians, about white people,
about ice, about the government, and it's all about getting attention.
This is the Jesse Smallette of TV News.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Ha.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
This is a guy who simply cannot function unless somebody
knows who he is, knows what he's doing, and has
an observation about it. So social media creates these monsters,
creates these individuals, and just listen to him.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
He's a loser. He's a dumb loser. Well, the Department
of Justice is looking into that. Speaking of church, the
top Catholic leaders in America have issued a joint statement
warning that America has lost its moral foundation just now. Hey,
we held on to it a lot longer than most
(02:59):
people think. This is not anything to be bemoaning. I
think this is great, Lucy. I thought we lost our
moral foundation decades ago. It turns out we just lost it.
Then we'll lose it again, and then we'll rebuild it.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
It's always in the last place.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
You look too.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
You know that there's a lot of foundation companies out there. Yes,
I know. I just had it.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I just had my moral foundation, and then she walked in,
and then you start rebuilding.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Why are you always blaming women? I didn't she does
some self reflection there say it's.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Not her fault. She walked in.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
And then we've got the best college football team in
America is the Nebraska basketball team. This is we're eighteen
and oh, what's Indiana? What's Indiana football? If they have
seventeen and oh, but if they.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Played eighteen games, they'd likely be eighteen and oh, no,
they're sixteen and oh, first team to go sixteen and
since eighteen ninety four.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Okay, so they used to play sixteen games back there.
The fat was before the NCAA.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Yeah. Yeah, they play games after games, after games, and
they didn't wear helmets, and they beat the hell out
of each other, and guys all off in a gurney.
And then Theodore Roosevelt came along. As said a whole lot.
It was always like Grambling against Yale. I don't think
Grambling Brown versus Harvard Brown versus Harvard, Yale versus Colombian. Yeah,
(04:28):
they were all playing back in those days. You didn't
have a lot of football west of the Mississippi River
in those days.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Nebraska wins another basketball game, not granted, not the greatest opponent,
but we're undefeated. Only go up one spot in the poll.
This is an outrage. Who we got to beat around?
Number seven is pretty good? And the six teams ahead
of Nebraska are pretty good.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Who we playing tomorrow? Washington, forget it? I want to
I want Arizona.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
They may get Arizona this season. Let's go right now,
just throw out the schedule. I want to Nebraska to
play Mendoza and the Indiana football team. Let's go. What
do we gotta do?
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Let's play the women's flag football team while we're at it. Uh,
this is looming Scott borhees as a remarkable year in
college sports. Now, the Nebraska basketball team still has a
month and a half or so to go before it
gets to Indiana. Rare fight air, But think of this
Nebraska basketball in the final four, Indiana football winning the
(05:28):
national championship. The world is not spinning on its axis anymore.
It's been taken off the axis and now it's just
hurtling through space.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Kurt Signetti, the coach of the Indiana Hoosiers, just on
the sidelines, looking like a father listening to his son
tell him why he was late to school. He just
slightly arched eyebrow. Oh yeah, tell me, Oh okay, so
you you think you need to, you know, jump off sides.
(05:57):
There is that what you're saying. I just love this
guy's demeanor. How close was Nebraska to getting Kurt Signetti?
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Never? Not even not even on a big list, not
even on a long list.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
I thought his name was was thrown around there in
the Matt Ruhle transition that they.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Not know he was never even close. He was never
even on a list. The list that Trev Alberts compiled
had Bill O'Brien on it and Matt Rule and Luke Fickle.
Because Trevo's national people abertam on there, Trev Alberts didn't
spend enough time recognizing what Nebraska football needed to go
get a guy like Kurt Signetti. He was too busy
(06:37):
looking at Okay, how's this going to play in the media?
You know what, what has this guy done to turn
things around? Ignoring the fact that Kurt Signetti, in thirteen
years as a head coach, has never had a losing season,
and he was twenty six years an assistant coach, including
on some of Alabama's best teams. This is Scott Dolson,
the athletics director at Indiana. Scott Dolson, who's a lifetime
(07:01):
Indiana guy. He was a basketball team manager under Bob
Knight there, started out in the mailroom, worked his way
all the way up to ad He had seen a
parade of football coaches go through Indiana and made notes
on why each one of them failed. So when he
got the opportunity to hire one, he knew exactly what
they needed and he went and found that guy. Okay,
he didn't look for a search firm, he didn't have
(07:23):
people talking to agents. He said, this is what I
have to have. These are my list of specifications. Who
qualifies Kurt Signetti at James Madison. He gets the offer. Now,
some of this credit goes to the president of Indiana
University too, a lady named Wynned, who said, look, we
have got to do better in football. We're going to
(07:44):
be in the Big Ten conference with this outstanding institution,
and Indiana's a great school. We've got to find a
way to do better in football. What's it going to take.
So those guys were a year or two ahead of
the curve on nil on the transfer portal, and they
had a plan. But if you read and look deeply
into how Indiana did this, it's not that complicated. Okay,
(08:07):
you have a great head coach who does not turn
his cap around during the games. He's not their buddy.
He doesn't do zip lines in the hotel during Bowl
preparation week. What he does is he scares the hell
out of these guys into performing their very best. He's
old school and if you watch him on the sideline,
there are very few people around Kurtz Signetti on the sideline.
(08:28):
There is a force field around this guy. That's what
a great head coach looks like. He sets a culture.
He's unflappable, he's extraordinarily good at leadership.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
And they follow him because they trust him. He's going
out to coach his team before the game. Holly Row
ESPN sideline reporter grabs him for a quick second. He
takes out a piece of gum out of his mouth
that's the size of a softball and.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
He's just holding holding his hand. This guy, this guy
is something else. Now, it's easy to be a great coach.
He knows how to coach, he knows what a culture
looks like. He's not trying to win a pr battle,
he's not trying to sell people. He says, that guy
right there, Jamiir Sharp, Okay, that guy's a talented athlete.
(09:15):
Miami ignored him out of high school. I'm gonna bring
him Indiana. I'm going to teach him how to play
defensive back. He made the interception to save that game
last night.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
It's easy to be a great coach when you have
a great quarterback.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Sports Brief recruited the quarterback to Indiana.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
This email comes in from Chris says the excuses for
Nebraska football to get back to national prominence are over
after seeing Indiana do what they've done. The closest comparison
I can think of to what they did is what
Bill Snyder did at k State. So if it can
be done at those two places, there are no more
excuses for Nebraska. And let's not sleep on what Christo
(09:51):
Baal did at Miami, who for the last twenty years
haven't really done anything remarkable themselves. If he wasn't already
he is now now, Matt Rule, you are on the clock.
That's Chris waking up in a bad Husker mood this morning.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Which I don't a lot of Husker fans discount, but
a lot of Husker fans are happy for Indiana, but
they're pretty sad about what's going on down in Lincoln
because we spend a lot more money on football than
they do, and we get a lot bigger bally Hood
recruits than they do. We keep watching the playoffs while
they playing them.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
I'm just chaining myself to the alternate reality that is
the Nebraska basketball team right now. That's really it's all
I need, that's all I want. Just let me have that.
I see now that, as Courtney Donahoe reported earlier this hour,
that you know how Vegas has the sphere, which is
(10:46):
it looks incredible and I want to go see a
show there win is. Well, let's see Omaha's on three eleven.
Just brought us back from that news break. There Win's
three eleven going to play the sphere. I want to
go see somebody. I don't care who it is.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
I will. I will go see a band I don't
care about, just waiting for the new one, just.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
To see the sphere, the new sphere, sphere. Well that's okay,
So to bring it back here to Omaha. So Vegas
has the sphere, which, if you're not familiar, is that
you're basically inside a snow globe and the walls and
the ceiling and the floor and everything's all lit up
and the whole place is rocking out there, and you
two or the Eagles play it, And now they're talking
(11:34):
about in DC a mini sphere? Is that like a
personal sphere? Is I like the boy in the plastic
bubble sphere?
Speaker 3 (11:43):
A mini one? Miniature? It's a smaller bother to do this.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
It's got to be expensive. Why would you bother to
do this and not do it all the way?
Speaker 3 (11:50):
It's a private show.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
With It's a private show with Lamal, the lead singer
of Kaja Googu who saying the never ending story theme song.
Okay and so yeah, you pay your eight bucks. Well,
the mini sphere, it's just you and someone hit Wonder
from the eighties. I'm gonna go who are you gonna
(12:15):
go see at the mini sphere? Young MC? It's just
gonna be me and Young MC. We're gonna bust a move.
Well how much did that cost? Six dollars and fifty cents?
But omaha, then, because I don't like doing this happens
all too often if someone else does something, that someone
else does something like it, and then a few other
people do and then omah is like, all right, it's
time for Usking on board. Let's take a little detour
(12:39):
from the same old, same mole. What Omaha needs the rhombus?
Who the rhombus? It's like the sphere, except it's a
it's more of a parallelogram, so it's it's the same concept,
it's just a different shape.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
How many business is closing to get it installed?
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Put it where the Civic Auditorium and you can get
the same bands that played the Civic Auditorium. Come play
the Rhombus. You're telling me we wouldn't get people come
to Omaha. That's on Matchbox twenties playing the Rhombus.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
I'd go.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
I am Scott Voorhees. It is a pleasure to welcome
back here to news Radio eleven ten kfab not only
one of my favorite stand up comedians and impressionists who
is at the Omaha Funny Bone this Friday and Saturday
seven o'clock show on Friday, six and eight thirty shows
on Saturday. Visit Omaha dot Funnybone dot com, but he
(13:32):
also happens to be one of my very favorite people.
Frank Calliendo, welcome back to eleven ten kfa B.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Good morning, Hey, great to be on with you. It's
great to have you back here.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Jim Rose and I are both here in the studio,
and it seems like we're all down in Kansas City
together when you are regularly coming through Stanford and Sony
and you'd come into the studio and our various radio
shows and spend some time and hang out, and we
just love watching your rise here over the last jeez
twenty five years or so. And do you think that
(14:06):
you've been more popular and famous because of the Madden
impression or practice the Morgan Freeman Allen iverson to thing.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
Well, in terms of the Morgan Freeman thing, I think
it would be more the Lebron letter that I read
I'm coming home.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
That thing.
Speaker 6 (14:27):
I wish I could remember it off off the top
of my head, but it was, you know, Lebron because.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
I've always been a kid from southeast or northeast Ohio.
So that was just that Morgan Freeman thing.
Speaker 6 (14:39):
I should have gone, should have changed it up and
gone shawsh ink with it.
Speaker 5 (14:43):
I had to climb through five hundred yards of the
Fifthith Slap. I can't even imagine, or maybe I just
don't want to.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
For me, my buddies, we are always just going we're
talking about practice now, it's.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
Such a practice.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
That is such a great bit. Frank, Yeah, well go ahead.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
Well that's the thing with with Morgan Freeman. You don't
even really have to have I have in my act.
I have bits and jokes, but sometimes you can just
read somebody else's thing is Morgan Freeman and it's already funny.
It's just it. It takes something and it can be serious.
It could be something serious in the moment and you
read it and then you're like, holy cow, this works
(15:25):
as Morgan Freeman, and it makes it completely different.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Well, I know that you've had interactions previously, obviously with
John Madden, with Donald Trump, who you also do a
great impersonation of, I think with President George W. Bush
as well. Have you ever heard back from Morgan Freeman
on your impersonation to him?
Speaker 6 (15:43):
No, not directly. People talk to him about me all
the time, to the point where I think he's annoyed
by it. There's a they'll be like, you know, Frank Kelly, Yeah,
I do.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
And let's just let that be.
Speaker 6 (15:56):
After the after I did after I did the not
the practice one, but after I did the lebron letter.
He was actually on Jimmy fallon the night that went viral,
and Jimmy's like, do you like it when people do
impressions off you?
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Do you like it? I know?
Speaker 6 (16:12):
And he's kind of playing with that a little bit.
I think the reality is that his voice gets copied
or tent where people try to copy it four things
to try and sell stuff. So people do voiceovers and
they pretend they're Morgan Freeman, and He's like, well, I
don't want people, you know, using my voice to sell something.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
I'm not getting paid.
Speaker 6 (16:32):
For us actually but not getting clear, which makes a
lot of sense in terms of comedy. I don't think
he cares that much.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Frank Calli endo with us on eleven to ten kf me.
You know, one of the challenges that impression, it's like
you have is to stay sort of up to date.
It's easy to fall back on older guys. So how
much time do you spend on contemporary people? Is celebrities
of the day And who are you working on right now?
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Well?
Speaker 6 (16:58):
I see for me, the key to contemporary as always
who's president?
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Right?
Speaker 6 (17:06):
So that that is the first one because everybody knows that.
And I'll backtrack to get to some of this other stuff,
But that's somebody. Everybody knows the president, the president before
the president, beforehand. That's something. So I can go Donald
Trump and Joe Biden. Folks, come on, I can go
to each of those all the way they draw back
George W. Bush Man a little bush vacation there. So
(17:28):
I do a lot of that stuff up top. And
then audiences are very segmented. So you know, fifty forty
years ago, I just turned fifty two yesterday, So forty
years ago, I'm twelve years old watching TV, everybody's watching
the same stuff. Essentially, there was a little bit of cable,
but everybody's watching the same things. Well, now there's television
(17:48):
for women, there's television for this group, for that demographic,
for that. So not everybody knows everything. That's one of
the most difficult things. So contemporary find more movies, comedy movies.
John c Ryan is one who's been a newer one
who is always you know, tends to be a sidekick
and something. Did you touch my drum set in Step Brothers?
Speaker 7 (18:12):
Yeah, I don't even know. You know, that's one of
those things. I don't even know I could do it.
Speaker 6 (18:15):
So I did it for a little bit.
Speaker 7 (18:16):
So ah, last m I laughed out hard. I thought,
my dinosaur.
Speaker 6 (18:22):
So there's those. But if I do, I'll do a
Robert Downey Junior, which is basically just belching away through punchlines.
People will know that they might not know a TV
show like if I did Saul Goodman, did you know
that you have rit The Constitution said.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
You do well that.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
That's an award winning type of show, but only a
million people might have watched it. Over time and sometimes
shows catch on. I don't do anything from this show,
but Suits Like Suits was on forever and then it
got on it started streaming and became a big show
ten minutes after or ten years after it was done.
So trying to find the impressions is a little more difficult.
(19:03):
And I kind of experiment by putting them online a
little bit and see what people gravitate to.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
What about Trump? Hard to do? Uh, but he's he's
a content wrench environment.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
Well, a lot of people, a lot of people say
that they let people do the over the top Trump.
I do library Trump, the glad Trump. It's the one
way we go and look at books. And they said
the books, they are tremendous, rich in the metions We've
get the best ridge and we put them together and
they form amazing sentences, the best sentences.
Speaker 6 (19:38):
So I try to do a different version of people.
And then my act is very clean. First of all. Yeah,
it's a PG at dirtiest and it's not political, so
I always balance everything out. If I'm gonna, you know,
make fun with Donald Trump, the next thing I'm gonna
do is Joe Biden.
Speaker 7 (19:52):
Folks, come on, we're doing the guard.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
The thing.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
For me, I love the obscure ones. Your Bill Walton
talking about debt, left shrip reduces me to tears. Just
stuff like that is so funny. But I can't let
you go this morning without getting John Madden because that's
for you, that's the standard. That's who you're gonna be.
That'll be on your grave. What would what would John
(20:19):
Madden think about? I don't know, Indiana football, America, invading Greenland.
What does Madden think about these things?
Speaker 7 (20:26):
Well, you know the first thing. I didn't hear the
second thing. So I'll start with the first thing. And
the first thing is Indiana football. And when you look
at what's going on with Indiana football, they're a basketball
school that's now a football school and boom. You got
to pick the right ball to play with. If you're
kurtin Signetty and you're out there with the basketball, people
(20:48):
are gonna think you're crazier than they already think you are.
And that's what that's what makes Kurt Signetti Kurt Signetti.
I mean at least he smiled. He finally smile after.
I mean, even Bill Belichick was watching Kurt Signette going,
this guy just he never makes a face. And so
(21:08):
now now Kurt Signette's gonna he has a little grip.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
I love it. I love it. Or Jim Jim Nance
going Tony.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
The reason I do that, The reason I do that
because I can't really do much Nance. Hello friends, Jim
Nance along with my pal Tony Romo Tony.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Oh, Jim, m.
Speaker 6 (21:33):
Here we go, Jim.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
It's fantastic, fantastic, Frank, is it.
Speaker 6 (21:38):
Gonna be incredible and amazing and amazingly incredible? Oh, Jim,
you think your Jim looked really good?
Speaker 2 (21:46):
For a while there you were on social media having
people send you clips that you could just insert, whether
it's Madden in Summer all or Nansen and Romo in
and it's it's always fun just wherever you're on social
media or on you know, and I'll countdown or at
the Funny Bone this weekend. It's a forest of nature
Omaha dot Funnybone dot com again, seven o'clock show Friday,
(22:09):
six and eight thirty shows on Saturday. If it's not
sold out, it will be Go to Omaha dot Funnybone
dot com or Frank Caliendo dot com and get your
tickets to see Frank and Omaha this weekend.
Speaker 6 (22:21):
Yes, thank you, and I am going to get a
piece of Omaha culture there. I'm gonna be down court
side of the Creighton game on Wednesday. How about that?
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Cool?
Speaker 2 (22:31):
I look forward to hearing John Madden. Yeah, I think
what he thinks about the Blue Jays and coach McDermott.
Speaker 7 (22:39):
Hey, there's Greg McDermott. He's licking his lips again.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Frank, thanks man, you're the best. You're a true pro.
We'll see you this weekend.
Speaker 6 (22:49):
Good guys, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
That is Frank Caliendo here on news radio eleven ten
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