ICE / Machaela / John Cook

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm Scott Vorhees here, with Craig Evans, here with Lucy Chapman.
Jim Rose is here as well. I am not going
to sit here and pretend that I know exactly what
happened up in Minneapolis yesterday as it relates to what
occurred directly before the time that Immigration Customs Enforcement law

(00:24):
enforcement officials suddenly took exception to a woman's car and
specifically the woman who was driving it. We don't really
know exactly what happened before all of that, but now
here she is blocking the street where ICE officials are
engaging in operations, and now we've got officials who are

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telling her to get out of the car. They're right
next to the car, and then she guns the car.
The question seems to be going back and forth between
activists who were saying, well, this ICE officer was kind
of standing off to the side of the car, and
they were conflicting reports. Some Ice officials seemed to be

(01:08):
telling her to get out of the area, others were
telling her to get out of the car. She was
probably confused. I don't doubt that she was, and she
wasn't really trying to run over the ICE officer. She
was turned to her wheels so she could move and
get out of the way. Others say, well, if you

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look at it from this angle, you do see that
she hits the officer who's standing there kind of right,
kind of towards the front of the driver's side of
her vehicle. And why would she gun the vehicle at
that rate of speed if you had people standing around
the vehicle, and that creates a dangerous situation for the officers.

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When that happens, officers then pull their weapons and fire shots.
This happens all the time. I'm not going to try
and break down exactly what happened in that instance. Investigators
and officials will do that. Here's what I know for certain.

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We have another example where activists have been stoking people,
incentivizing them to go get in the way of law enforcement,
whether it's police officers in North Omaha who are trying
to render aid to someone who had been shot by
officers because they've been driving crazy in a community picnic atmosphere,

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as what happened last summer in Northeast Omaha, officers had
to shoot a guy, and now activists and protesters are
trying to get in the way of the cops who
are in there trying to deal with this situation. There
have been a number of people who have been trying
to tell people, you've got to go out there and
get in the face of ICE agents. We don't want
them to stay in these hotels. They're not allowed to eat,

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they're not allowed to do these operation to root our
nation of potential dangerous criminals, and you need to go
out there and disrupt them and get in their way,
which it sounds like that's what this woman was doing,
pushed by the mayor of that town, the governor of
that state, and activists across the country to go get

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in the way of ICE officials. We've seen members of
ICE not only get protests to have stuff thrown at them,
but also shot at from Chicago to Dallas and Los Angeles.
These guys are under attack all the time. And ultimately,
when an officer of the law tells you you need

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to get out of the vehicle, stop the car, get
out of the vehicle, and you don't do that, I
don't understand why you don't do that, And I don't
understand why the reaction to the public in a situation
like this time and time again, whether it's cops pulling

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over a guy for having expired plates and the situation
gets out of control, or whether it's ice trying to
talk to a woman or detain a woman or tell
her to do this or don't do that. Up in Minneapolis,
when you have someone who is loudly and repeatedly instructed
by law enforcement to do something and they do exactly
the opposite and then shooting takes place, this should be

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a teachable moment for these activists across the country to
remind people, hey, look, when you might disagree with what
cops are telling you to do, but let's live through
it and deal with it on the other side of it.
The wrong thing to do is to start driving the
vehicle away. The wrong thing to do is to tell cops, hey,

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you don't have to tell me. You don't tell me
what to do. I do what I want, and you
don't do that stuff. Too many people get pulled over
or they have an interaction with law enforcement for a
seemingly the minor thing. Here's what should have happened yesterday, Lady,
we're doing immigration Customs enforcement operations in this area. You

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need to move the vehicle, you need to get out
of the way. Well, I don't like you guys. That's fine.
You don't have to like us. I disagree. You guys
shouldn't be in my community. That's great. Thank you for
letting us know. You need to move the vehicle. All right,
I'm gonna move the vehicle. And then she drives off
and she goes on about the rest of her day.
That's exactly what should have happened yesterday. And for any

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protests to go out there and celebrate her life as
some sort of martyr dying for the dumbest cause I've
seen this week, they're going to lead to more people
getting killed.

Speaker 2 (05:41):
Well, what we're seeing, Scott is and that was an
excellent rant, by the way, to get started this morning.
What we're seeing here is political vigilanteism.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
This is a clear and.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
Obvious case of political observations bordering on fiery rhetoric that
has indoctrinated people and to behave in ways they'd never
behave before. Now, you're right, there's no questions some of
these people are agitators.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
I like when you say that, I'm right. Let's pick
up there.

Speaker 2 (06:09):
The issue is again political vigilandeism. When the governor of
Minnesota calls iis gestapo, which he did do in front
of a whole bunch of people on TV cameras when
the mayor of the Dancing Queen, the mayor of Minneapolis, says,
get the f out of my town.

Speaker 1 (06:25):
Now.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
Remember we're talking about law enforcement here. We're talking about
people who are doing their jobs. Their job is to
round up criminals, criminal illegal aliens. That's lost in this
narrative of this woman who was shot. So when you
get in the way of law enforcement, and this is
why they ask you to please step aside or please
stand over there while we do this. If you don't,
then you can get hurt because sometimes shots ring out.

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Bad guy's shooting and good guys, good guys shooting back.
But we've got to find a way to stop this vigilanteism,
Scott at the end of the day, to batter a cliche.
At the end of the day, these people are here illegally, okay,
they are breaking the law. Immigration and Customs enforcement is
responsible for apprehending these people, sorting through them and sending

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them back to their home countries. That's what they're doing.
They're not getting jailed, they're not getting tortured as we
are told by the left. None of these things are happening.
What's happening is people who are here illegally are being
rounded up and sent home after the opportunity to turn
themselves in and get a bunch of money and then
get back in line. You should also know, and this

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has not been reported by the national media and local
media either, you should know that there's a provision for
people who are currently working here now illegal aliens that
are largely working in stores or offices or doing things
in Minneapolis or Omaha or Des Moines or anywhere else.
They're not getting rounded up nearly as quickly as people
who are walking the streets breaking the law, stealing things

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from people, raping people, perpetuating fraud in medicaid and childcare
and elder care. These people are getting rounded up, not
the folks that are working. Because there is a proviso
for people who are working here who may be here illegally,
there's a separate category for them. They're not getting shipped
back to Mexico or Guatemala or Ugan Salvador or Uganda.

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But at the end of the day, this is either
a country of laws or it isn't, and we're not
allowed to not follow laws just because we don't like them.
If I don't like what the Internal Revenue Service is doing,
I don't try to run over IRS agents with my car.
I call Don Bacon, or I call Deb Fisher, or

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I call Pete Ricketts or Adrian somebody in Congress that
I've elected, and say, hey, I'm being mistreated by the IRS,
and here's what it is. And maybe they'll get to it,
maybe they won't. But what's lost here is the country
has to follow laws. And after Richard Nixon was taken
from office by his own law breaking and the law
breaking of the people behind him, it was Jerry Ford

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who said the difference between this country and every other
country is we are a country of laws, not men.
And we have men here and we have women here
who have decided what laws they wish to follow, in
which ones they don't. I have sympathy for the family
of the woman who was killed, just as I have
as much sympathy as I have for ICE agents, Immigrations

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and customs enforcement agents, who have been targeted, who have
been harassed, who have been threatened, in some cases they've
been assaulted. There's just enough sympathy for both sides here,
but to suggest that this woman was murdered. This is
the mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota, four hundred and fifty thousand people,
and this guy is recklessly irresponsible and he's almost as

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unintelligent apparently as the governor of his state. And that's
dangerous because those people have power.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
I return the favor and compliment to you that thank
you was an excellent Rankcob is the mayor of Minneapolis.
Have you ever been to Minneapolis cool town? There's there's
a lot to do. There's a lot to do there,
used to the sprawling community as you would get from
a big city. And whether you're in the suburbs or

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going to that the giant mall up there, the Big
Artist Mall, what they call it the Mall of America
up there, it's not called the Big Arsen Mall. Whether
you're going to Mall of America or taking in like
a Timberwolves game or going to see the Vikes or
something like that, there's a lot to do up there.
Good golf courses up there. I like going to Minneapolis.

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But this guy, the mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frye, who,
as you just heard in that Fox News update, profanely
told ICE to get the heck changing a word, get
the heck out of our city. Okay, why is ICE there? Well,
there there because they're trying to trying to kill our residents,

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and they're trying to militarize our streets because President Trump
has got a problem with Governor Walls and he's trying Okay,
you know, is there some sort of political component to
why suddenly there was two thousand ICE agents going into Minneapolis. Hey,
I can't deny that that might be a possibility, But

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what is ICE doing while they are there, mayor Fry.
They are pursuing criminals. Now, I know that everyone on
one side of the political spectrum says every single uh
illegal immigrant in this country is a gang member with
heads and cocaine in a duffel bag. As they're just

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walking around terrorizing people and doing horrible things. There's nothing
but heads and coke in duffel bags. And then on
the other side of the political spectrum, every single undocumented
visitor to our country tree is just this innocent person
who is either duped or had to do something to
take care of their family, and they're working hard and

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doing those jobs, and Americans won't do. And there's very nice,
sweet ladies, and we don't know why ICE is terrorizing them.
And now the truth is there are people who fit
those descriptions. ICE is trying to figure out who's who
and who's what. Even your so called low level crimes

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that Jim Rose was talking about, as these guys are
up there rooting out criminals like identity theft. For example,
when someone comes to the country illegally and they steal
an identity to go work, they're not taking Jim Rose's identity.
You can't come here from El Salvador and go yes,
I am Jim Rose. That's probably not going to compute.

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But if you go and try and get a job
and say I'm him Escalante. And here's a number, whether
it's a work ID or a social secure number whatever,
that's stolen from Heimi Escalante, local teacher. There's your eighties
movie reference for this segment of the radio program. Lucy,
you got that one fingerman and negative times of negative

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equals are positive? Who Heimi Escalante stand and deliver? Come on,
come on, Lucy, we're starting early to say yes. Edward
James Olomos worst halftime show performance in the history of
the Super Bowl. I know who we can get Aerosmith,
No Edward, James Olomos and a bunch of giant puppets.

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That was an honest to goodness Super Bowl halftime show
in our lifetimes. Anyway, they steal the identity of himI
Escalante or similar Hispanic sounding name, and that takes that
opportunity to work to get credit cards, to be able
to like rent a vehicle, to get their kid through college, whatever.

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They take that identity of someone who is in the
country legally in many instances, born and raised here and
makes their life more difficult. In addition to every time
an a legal immigrant takes a job, that is one
fewer job for somebody who's in the community to go
and get that job. Not to mention driving down wages,

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allowing employers to get away with a lot of really
bad behavior when it comes to hiring and employment practices.
It doesn't do anything for the benefit of the country.
And as I mentioned, you do have those gang members
who are gun runners and human traffickers and drug dealers
pedaling to our kids and our communities. So when Mayor

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Fry of Minneapolis tells Ice to get the blank out
of our town. You don't want all that stuff I
just mentioned rooted out in your community. How gleeful were
these demon spawn activists up there when this woman was
shot by Ice yesterday, when she got herself killed by deciding,

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even though I've got an ICE officer in front of
my vehicle and someone else here jiggling the handle of
my driver's side door, I'm just going to go ahead
and back up and then speed forward as an ICE
officer is in front of my car. How gleeful they were, like,
Oh my gosh, this is great. Ice just killed a woman.

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They were excited, and what they want is more of this.
If they didn't want more of this, they would tell people. Look,
when law enforcement is instructing you to do something you
might disagree with the order, we encourage you to heed
their instructions. They'll tell you what they want you to
do loudly and repeatedly. It is in your best interest
to do it so you don't get killed or present

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a danger to themselves or anyone else in our community.
We can deal with the ramifications of their potential illegal
actions afterwards, which is easier to do when you're not
shot in the face. Now, if they don't want people
shot in the face. They say things like that. They
don't say things like that. They instead ramp up the
rhetoric and start cussing and everything like that up there

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because they want more protesters, they want more people shot
and killed by law enforcement. It serves their pist interest.
Makes me sick. Let me know some of my beating
around the bush responses here.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
I think you need to calm down. Yeah, well, you
need to settle down. You know, this is gonna work out.
And the reason it's going to work out is because
the American people are sick and tired of watching this.
The American people are sick and tired of having people
like Jacob Fry and Tim Walls around the country. Okay,
these are guys that allow certain law breaking because it's

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politically expedient for them. It's politically convenient for them. They
ignore fraud and abuse because it's happening in a base
of the population of folks that will vote for them.
They can dance around and wave Somali flags in the
middle of the United States because that gets them votes
from those people. Jacob Fry should be waving an American flag,

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or a Minnesota flag, or even a Minneapolis flag. But
he dances around like you know, a nineteen seventies version
of Abba and waves his Somali flag and people wonder
who he's backing up. Well, he's backing up. He's backing
up people that will vote for him. If he doesn't
have them, he doesn't win an election.

Speaker 1 (17:29):
That's why you call him the Dancing Queen.

Speaker 3 (17:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (17:32):
The bottom line is this. The country is sick of it.
The country is sick of high taxes that go to fraudsters.
The country is sick and tired of people who are
here illegally, who are doing things they ought not to
be doing, who are allowed to do it because eventually
the Democrats think they'll get them citizenship and the right
to vote. So I think this whole episode, starting with

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you know, Nick Shirley and his videos, has really woken
up the country. And if you're a Democrat, you're either
with Americans or you're with the criminals. That's what it's
boiled down to. In this election of twenty twenty six,
you better have a message that says I think we
need to enforce laws.

Speaker 1 (18:10):
You're gonna lose. I feel bad for the Democrats who
are with the country because I don't know if they're
welcoming that party. Maybe not some of those activists running
the party. Well, she says that she's just a stickler
for the rules, that's all. And she says the rules
specifically say that you can't allow any just displaying of
any posters or pictures or portraits or anything on the

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walls outside of senators' offices. She says, hey, look rules
or rules, And if you're looking to anyone for a
sober reading of what's going on today and the rules
of the Capitol building, look no further than Omaha State
Senator MIKAELA. Cavanaugh.

Speaker 3 (18:51):
We need trans people, we love trans trans people belong here.

Speaker 1 (18:55):
We need trans people.

Speaker 3 (18:57):
We love trans people, trans people belong We need trash.

Speaker 1 (19:01):
She's the one who went on this two minute chant
and during a legislative hearing a couple of years ago.

Speaker 3 (19:09):
We trans people, we love trans people. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (19:13):
I mean I can loop this all morning, we can
do this all day. We so we need trans people,
we love Yeah, she's uh, yeah. If you're looking for
just someone who has everything screwed on exactly the way
it's supposed to be, in the way it is supposed
to be, you look, no, further than Omaha State Senator

(19:36):
Mikayla Kavanaugh. So she of that diatribe, was the one
who was walking around the hallway and taking off portraits
from the walls outside of Senate offices. Governor Pillen says
the portraits there were hung up there to be a

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part of Nebraska's celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth
anniversary of our nation. She says, I don't even know
what the pictures were. She tells k E TV News
Watch seven. She said, I wasn't really paying attention. I
was taking them down. I just took them down.

Speaker 2 (20:16):
She says that there's a there's a prohibition of hanging
things on walls in the state Capitol, so she's she's
out there protecting the integrity of the building.

Speaker 1 (20:26):
It has nothing to do with the content.

Speaker 2 (20:28):
It has to do with we're not supposed to be
hanging things on the wall here. This is a one
hundred year old building, and we just can't have you know,
tape and glue and other things on the wall.

Speaker 1 (20:38):
It's really really hard on the place. Yeah, I know
these weren't.

Speaker 2 (20:41):
She stuffed him in her office and called the state
patrol and said, here come get these.

Speaker 1 (20:44):
Yeah, these were not things that the governor's kids drew
out and he just tacked him up there with scotch tape.
You're going to take the paint off when you remove
those from the wall, marble walls. These are very nice
portraits images from American history, American history and Nebraska American history,
featuring women, the whole demographic. Who do you want this?

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It's not like Governor Pillen just posted a bunch of
pictures of him shaking hands with Donald Trump and stuck
them all over the walls, going, hey, it's the two
hundred and fiftieth anniversary of America. Happy Birthday, America, Let's
pay tribute to our greatest President, Donald J. Trump. And
Mikayla Kavanaugh's going absolutely not, and she's pulling down. So
she's taking down all these images women, some historical figures

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in Nebraska and American history, because she says rules or
rules and displays are limited to the first floor, first
floor rotunda on easels. You're not allowed to do any
of this on Capitol grounds. No governor says that there
are some people saying that she destroyed state property and

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could be arrested for it. Look all I know is spelled.
We need to expel her from the unicamer when we
have another legislative session go by. Let's just do it,
and we don't they get a package deals on right,
we don't get anything meaningful when it comes to tax
policy and relief for Nebraskans. We don't try and rein
in the out of control assessing of properties here that

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jack up our property taxes. When none of that happens,
it's because we have people like this representing the interests
of the people of Nebraska.

Speaker 2 (22:26):
Well, she's an emotional car wreck and has been probably
for years. He was born in Washington, d C. So
I guess that explains a lot when her dad was
in Congress. She's an embarrassment to the state. She's an
embarrassment to the body, the legislative body. She's very emotional.
She can't discipline herself in the presence of other state senators,

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in the presence of the important business of the people.
This is all that matters to her, and she believes
that as one of forty nine state senators, my job
is to stand up for these folks. Forget about everybody else.
We got to stand up for these folks. If nobody
else is their voice or their person.

Speaker 1 (23:05):
I'll be that.

Speaker 2 (23:06):
And she saw this as propaganda by the governor, regardless,
which is actually not a term. Regardless of how much
historical accuracy or how much importance these people presented to
the two hundred and fifty years of American history. It
was the governor's responsibility, it was his idea, and she
didn't like it. And she didn't like it because her

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job is to oppose everything that a Republican stands for.
Down there, a conservative Republican stands for. And I see
Kathleen Cauth has once again proposed the bathroom bill. This
is important to her. She says, we got to have
boys and boys bathrooms and girls and girls' bathrooms. This
is another bill that she's going to support now for
a third straight year. This is important to her. She's

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standing up for the folks who are embarrassed when they
walk into a girl's locker room a girl does after
basketball practice and there's a dude standing there checking her
out out. This is the kind of thing we're trying
to get away from in Nebraska. But if you're a
constituent of mid Senator Kavanaughs, and there are many who

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are this is what you voted for twice. This is
what you want and that's why we have forty nine districts.

Speaker 1 (24:17):
This is how a two year old behaves when you
have been deemed irrelevant and have no power. You just
throw a temper tan, Just throw a temper ten. That's
the latest temper tantrums. What she does. The pride of
Omaha State Senator Mikayla Cavant in Traffic Brothers running for Congress,
Ronda emails Scott at kfab dot com via the Zonker's

(24:38):
custom woods Inbox says, as far as the posters there
that State Senator Kavanaugh was ripping off the walls at
the Capitol building yesterday, she says, I believe I read
they can get an exception with permission to display temporarily.
Can you check on that. Yes, that's what the governor said.
He said that, Yes, we did approve these posters, these

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portraits of historical figures in Nebraska's history in honor of
America's two hundred and fiftieth birthday, to be hung in
the hallways outside the state Senator's office. She says, well,
I had no reason to believe the portraits were approved
to be on the walls, So rules or rules, I
took them down. She didn't check with anybody. She didn't

(25:27):
care to check with anybody she wanted to. She knew
that the governor approved of these portraits to be up there,
and why to celebrate America. This is another politician activist
who doesn't like our country, doesn't like our governor. Looks
down her nose at the voters of Nebraska, who generally

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outside Omaha and Lincoln, sway away from her political point
of view, and she wanted to start off this session
in the most temper tantrum way possible by not acting
like an adult. So she just gleefully with a big
smile on her face, walked around the halls of the
unicameral yesterday and started removing stuff and throwing them in

(26:11):
her office. Hey, you tell the governor he can come
pick these up. Well, no, she's called the state patrol. Yeah,
this is what the state patrol needs to be doing.

Speaker 2 (26:19):
State patrol is usually rounding up drug busts, but now
they had to take a little break from that to
collect a bunch of stuff from Mikayla Capinot's office.

Speaker 1 (26:27):
Call the police. Someone hung a picture of an important
black woman in Nebraska's history outside the office, and I
took this down and disappointing to oh, to say the least.
And we are now graced here in the Penthouse studios,
the Gary Sandlemeyer studios here and a beautiful dundee by

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the presence of a very popular figure. I don't know
if his image was one of those that was ripped
off the walls at the Capitol that was promoting the
famous and popular Nebraskans over the last two and in
fifty years, but going up there, former Husker volleyball coach
during turn co owner and general manager of your Omaha Supernovas,

(27:08):
John Cook should be up there because he's here, coach.
Good to see you, Good morning.

Speaker 3 (27:12):
Good morning. I was gota woke up today to Jim
going off on politics and everything going on in the
world in Minnesota. Loved it.

Speaker 1 (27:23):
Up, and let's go.

Speaker 2 (27:24):
How come you're not back on that ranch playing John
Dutton these days? I thought you were going to ride
off into the sunset. You're right back in the mix now.

Speaker 3 (27:31):
Yeah. Well I am doing that a lot though, h
But this is something they came up. It was hard
to pass up and allowed me to still be on
the You know by Cowboy and but also have a
chance to really help professional volleyball get going in this country.

Speaker 2 (27:47):
That's going good in here. I mean the Supernovas are
widely popular. They had a great year last year. I
mean attendance is way up. I mean they're a bunch
of Nebraska kids. So what's your job. You're not coaching them.
Your job is to get players.

Speaker 1 (27:59):
Now.

Speaker 3 (28:00):
I'd love to coach this team. They're they're gonna be
really fun to watch. It's uh, we built a great culture.
If we get a chance, I'm gonna tell you a
story that will blow your mind. But uh uh, my
job is just to put the team together, the staff together,
support them, help them do their job the best they can.
And essentially last few years, that's kind of what I

(28:22):
was doing in Nebraska was you've become coaching now is
becoming more like a general manager now with nil and
all that you've got. I mean you're negotiating, you're talking
to agents, which I do that as well, and negotiate
their salaries. So uh, it's just a way. It's a
way to stay involved and get on KFA B. So
you know everybody wants I ain't getting that in Wyoming.

Speaker 1 (28:43):
I know you've been quite the media darling in the
last few days. Say, every time I turn on TV
or the radio, I see and hear John Cook here.
So is it tough for you not to want to
go down to the court like for tonight's games, the
Supernova's kickoff, the season, tip off the season seven o'clock
to night, a c CHI against the and Diego Mojo.
Is it tough for you not to go down there
and go all right, Merritt, Remember what we talked about.

Speaker 3 (29:06):
It there there's it never leaves you, and you know,
uh that that part's still there all I get butterflies.
I got butterflies when the incident of a tournament started
and just when they announced the draw and everything. It
just that part never goes. But there's there will be
also a part of me that will be I'm really
curious to see how this all comes together and how

(29:27):
Luca is you know, he's a great coach, and how
they're gonna play and what they're kind of their styles. So, uh,
there's excitement. But I like what I'm doing also outside
the courts, so but I I and I never really
liked the matches. I always loved training That's what I
love is teaching and training and developing and uh and

(29:49):
and the pro team now they get kind of get
to do that in college volleyball, in college sports now
it's become more of one and done. I'm going to
the next best deal. So that's why you see Nick Saban,
some of these guys get out. And one of it
was one of my deals was is it's just I
got into develop people and uh so, but that'll be

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exciting becase we've got a twenty eight match schedules. It
goes over till into May, to the playoffs and be
a chance to watch these guys grow and development.

Speaker 1 (30:19):
So that's that's what got you out. It wasn't that
rain and horse yours.

Speaker 2 (30:22):
It was I can't beat John Cook here because I
got people that can go into the portal tomorrow. If
I sit somebody who needs to be sad, yep, they
can go into the portal tomorrow. And now how do
I build my program?

Speaker 1 (30:32):
Is that what got you out?

Speaker 3 (30:34):
Part of that and timing for Danny was a big
part of it. And uh but mainly Jim, I didn't
I didn't you know, you looked at some of these
coaches that got out I studied him. They go out
on a kind of a bitter note. And I was
having the last two years. I had the most fun
coaching of my career because I didn't put pressure on myself.

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It was just I did it to enjoy being around
that team, and development had great captains. Lexi and Merritt
were the two best captains I've ever had, and so
I just thought, let's go out why it's feeling really good?
And I could see what was coming down the road
and what Danny has to deal with now. And we

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do that a little bit with a super Novas. But
you're dealing with an agent. You're dealing with a twenty
two to older, and you're not a sixteen year old
telling you how much money think you should be paid.

Speaker 2 (31:26):
And you get a contract. I mean, when they signed
a contract with you, it's done right. They can't leave
right until the contract's over. So how hard was it
for you to not get phone calls from your former players?
Now that season was so spectacularly good right up until
the last match. There's probably no whining and complaining, But
did any of them call you and say, hey, coach,

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what should I do about this?

Speaker 3 (31:48):
No? They just I texted with some of them. I mean,
it was just a heartbreaker, and I just tried to
pump them back up. I mean, and again, you got
to remember they did have an unbelievable season. But that's
college sports, is sports in general. I mean, you you
do that and and the tournament comes. That's what I've
always said. It's a lot harder to win a Big

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Ten than it is a national championship because it's three
weeks less than three weeks, really, and you have one
bad night or somebody gets hot, and you know, it
doesn't matter what you did up to that point. So
it's it makes for great college volleyball and great drama.
And it's a hell of a match by Texas A
and M.

Speaker 1 (32:27):
Yeah, unbelievable, heartbreaking for Oscar fans. But we don't have
to wait too long for that next great volleyball match.
That's seven o'clock tonight at CHI San Diego's in town.
Supernova's taking the court there at CHI Health Center. Still
tickets available. These things sell out, right, Yeah, this.

Speaker 3 (32:43):
Is the crowd numbers are getting big tonight and I
think even bigger for the next next week. But there's
still tickets available. And again I've heard, I've seen cha
has got this new jumbo Trump You guys basketball very cool? Yeah,
so I guess they're programmed that baby up. I mean,

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those Supernova matches are happening.

Speaker 1 (33:09):
They're fun.

Speaker 2 (33:10):
Let me ask you one more than the family, Ques,
nobody's been more loyal to Nebraska volleyball than you and Petted.
I mean, you guys birth this thing. They are going
to reseat that arena next year. Now, Nebraska Volleyball has
cash flowed, meaning after all the bills were paid over
a million dollars a year for most of the last
ten years. After they moved into the Devanti Center and

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expanded all the marketing and revenue opportunities. Why would they
do this? Why would they move some of the fans
who have been sitting next to your bench for thirty
five years just to bring in folks who can spend
more money.

Speaker 1 (33:44):
What was your reaction to that? I?

Speaker 3 (33:48):
Well, I when Troy, they called me and said, Hey,
this is coming down the pipe. Be ready. So I
asked Troy, I could try what you know, why why
are we doing this? Well, one is they're going to
put seatbacks, and we had the same problem we moved
from cal seeming vanny. We couldn't get everybody on the
floor on the floor in the Vanni, so that that

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was the first evolution. And now they're going to put
seatbacks in, so they've got to move people anyway. The
other big problem is when the NCAA tournament comes around
and we host, they've got to eliminate four sections down there,
so that ticks people off. And then this is a
great story. You love this. So we went into Big

(34:29):
Ten back in what was the two thousand and twelve Yeah, yeah,
So they asked us, you know, hey, where where We
asked them, where do we put the visiting team parents
and stuff. They're hundred tickets or whatever it is, and
they said, well, we have no rules, just do whatever
you want. So we put them way up there in section.
See something. Well, every year at the Big Ten the

(34:50):
coaches and administrators come after Nebraska saying you got to
move him down on the floor, and everybody complains and
we go, hey, we asked, sorry, so you said, there's
nothing in the well, now they're pressuring us, So another
section is gonna go to the visiting team and visiting parents.
And I loved it because over the years, kids were
recruited that went to other Big ten schools. You know,

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I'd get texts and emails from the parents, like, you guys,
make a sit all the way up there. I'm gonna
try to buy tickets to buy somebody off down on
the floor. I want to be behind my you know,
the bench, and so anyway, there's just so they're gonna
have to move this thing. They're gonna add more seats,
and you know, Jim, the bottom line is they've got
over when I left it or two thousand people in

(35:33):
the waiting listeners tickets. So the supply and demand is
again it easy. I know every game.

Speaker 2 (35:38):
They don't have financial problems down there, and there's not
a money problem in Nebraska. I just think at some
point these volleyball fans, these are some of the people
that used to unfold their chairs, I know before the matches.
That's how loyal they've been. They've traveled for you, They've
gone to final fours for you. And these people are
not the big money folks. These were the organic fans,

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and I just if.

Speaker 1 (36:00):
It's necessary, that's one thing. Every game should be a
memorial stadium. You got longtime Nebraska volleyball coach John Cook
now co owner and general manager of the Omaha super Nova's.
They start off their season to night seven o'clock against
San Diego. Tickets still available for this and other games
throughout the season. Good luck with the super Novas this season, coach.
It's always good to see you.

Speaker 3 (36:21):
Well. Thank you very much for having me, guys, having
me on here. This has been listening to you guys
last night and today. It's pretty cool. John Cook here
on Nebraska this morning news. All right, let me respond
to a couple of emails this morning, because we had
a couple of people going, Scott, is this morning show
just going to be you doing these long winded news Well,
we have an interesting dynamic this morning. First of all,

(36:42):
the nature of the biggest topic in the country is
such that it lends itself to long winded political diatribes
opinion radio.

Speaker 1 (36:52):
That's what we do here. And then like I just
got an email going, how come Jim's not talking? Jim,
he's been battling not having a That's part of it.
Lucy is battling bad computers and everything else. This in
case you're over there this morning going is are these
guys just betting phased out? And it's all Scott. No,
that is not what the goal of this show is.

(37:14):
But in certain circumstances that's we all look out for
each other. Glad my wife was able to get that
email in now she said turn his mic off. That's
from Janna.

Speaker 2 (37:24):
She's saying, uh, is another guy not gonna know when
to turn off Jim's mike something like that.

Speaker 1 (37:30):
Well, I'm about ready.

Speaker 2 (37:31):
To make a big declaration, you know, because we have
the national semifinals tonight, Scott, and as you know, we're
ole Miss people.

Speaker 1 (37:36):
Don't say this on the air for big ole Miss people,
I have to do it. This is what we do here.

Speaker 2 (37:41):
If ole Miss captures the national championship, they got a
win to night against Miami and then beat the winner
of Indiana Oregon. That's a big if. But if they
do that, then I will wrestle about. No, I will
sing the ole Miss alma mater on this radio station
the following morning.

Speaker 1 (37:58):
You're going to sing the ole Miss fight song. No,
the ole Miss alma mater. I don't know if not?
So is that not the same thing? Different?

Speaker 2 (38:06):
There's a specific alma mater for ole Miss. Now you
should I sing it. You should explain why you're all
in on the red where we're all Miss people. Because
my daughter Alexis went to ole Miss and I was
a visiting professor at ole Miss for a couple of years.
In they're a college of Journalism and mass Communication. Wait what,
I was a visiting professor down there? Mm hm, little
didn't miss me? Did you a little tele teaching?

Speaker 1 (38:27):
Yeah? Well no, I was down there.

Speaker 2 (38:29):
I did it, you know real, I was in person,
and I got to know all these ReBs down there.
I love the place. It's a wonderful little community. But no,
because alex went to ole Miss. Uh, we're all Miss
people and we would go down there several times a
year when she was in school there.

Speaker 1 (38:43):
I liked their quarterback, he's a great story.

Speaker 2 (38:46):
But it's just a wonderful place with very, very welcoming people,
and they have an incredible pregame experience at what they
call the Grove down there, which is every year Sports
Illustrated in ESPN do a survey and All Miss wins
the pre gametailgate competition every year.

Speaker 1 (39:02):
In fact, the theme is we.

Speaker 2 (39:03):
May not win the game, but we'll always we may
lose the game, but we'll always win the party.

Speaker 1 (39:08):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (39:08):
And they will have eighty ninety thousand people at their
pregame celebration of the Grove, which is a foresty parky
area in the middle of campus. They'll have sixty thousand
of the game. Where is this game tonight? It's in
Phoenix at the Fiesta Bowl, So I'm calling They're calling
it the Fiesta the Festa. Well, so I'm all fired up.
I mean, I'm really excited about this. Like when Hotty

(39:29):
Toddy won the World Series, I was down there waving
my blue and white when they won the College World
Series back in two thousand and two, I was on
cloud nine for two weeks.

Speaker 1 (39:38):
All right, I Well, I'm very happy for you and
the Revs. I look forward to watching this game tonight.
Anyone who beats Miami, I'm a fan of that team.
If you're playing Miami, I am rooting. Except Texas. That'd
be a tough one.

Speaker 2 (39:52):
Sure.

Speaker 1 (39:52):
I even watched totally in Miami.

Speaker 2 (39:54):
But have you been following the story of Matt Khalil,
the former NFL lineman And no, I can't say that
I am okay. Well, he found a lawsuit against his
ex wife, a model, and a social media influencer named
Hailey Khalil after comments she made during a live stream
podcast and it had to do with his unit.

Speaker 1 (40:16):
Oh you know what, I did see something about that? Okay?
She says.

Speaker 2 (40:20):
Matt'ston size is two cans, two coke cans, maybe a third.
Two coke cans, maybe a third. He claims those remarks
had an immediate and lasting consequence. In the lawsuit, he
says that the live stream led to unwanted attention an
invasive commentary from the public, adding that his family has
been forced to endure the repeated circulation what he characterizes

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as degrading statements. He further alleges that the situation has
escalated since his remarriage. Might be the first time in
history that a guy is upset at that depiction of
his unit.

Speaker 1 (40:57):
Yeah, I look at it more like he just wants
to make sure everyone heard what she said. And how
can I elevate this while not making it look like
I'm bragging.

Speaker 2 (41:08):
He's suing his ex wife for saying nice things about
his member, for not criticizing me. This is complementing. This
is why you can't turn off the news. How else
are you going to hear this stuff?

Speaker 1 (41:23):
We've had some response here on the Zonker's custom What's Inbox?
Scott at kfab dot com saying, I just everyone's lying
about everything, and I just this is why I just
so often just turn off the news. Look, they want
you to turn off the news. They want you to
be as ignorant as possible. Now stretches swaths of ignorance
is fun. Sometimes it's okay to take, you know, turn

(41:45):
things down a little bit and try and find something
else to do to maybe like turn social media off
for a few days here. But don't unplug. Don't become
some ignoramus just walking around just breathing out of your mouth.
And it's not because you've got a colder or whatever
else is going around here. You don't want to be
that person that they so clearly orchestrate you to want.

(42:06):
They want you to be. Well, let me ask you this, Scott.
Because you're a smart guy. You have an education from
a MEAC institution. It's it's carneye. They're in the MEAC,
aren't they. We were ARMAC. I'm not sure what conference
they're in. I'll get it right well before we were
in the RMAC, because we'll be rocky mountain out letting.

Speaker 2 (42:26):
Yeah, we'll be referencing Uh Scott many times in this fashion.

Speaker 1 (42:30):
I've gone to three different academic institutions, graduated from three
different lines. I had all the credits transferred back to Carney,
so I could be a loper. Well, and they're proud
to have you.

Speaker 4 (42:41):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (42:41):
But how is it possible that two people can see
exactly the same piece of video and literally have diametrically
different impressions of what they saw.

Speaker 1 (42:51):
Because it depends not on what you see, it depends
on whether that purports with your politics anymore. And now, look,
did President Trump over or state things? Did he exaggerate
things like he always does by saying she almost ran
him over and she was gonna kill everybody in that
town and it's a good thing they stopped her. She
was crazy. This is what Trump does. You've got to

(43:12):
hear what he says. Take off about fifteen percent, and
that's probably gonna get you a little closer to the truth.
Does he need to exaggerate about things like this? No,
he doesn't. Is he going to no matter what we
say he is. It's the Rob Reiner approach.

Speaker 2 (43:27):
And that is why why is it necessary for you
to say that because you're Donald Trump? Because this is you.
This is the dark side of Donald Trump, right. He
is a narcissist and he loves to have people remark
about what he's doing and saying.

Speaker 1 (43:39):
But the media, the media is the same way. And
let me give you another quick example here that I
mean this is this is to me pretty obvious. And
the bullet hole came through the windshield, not through the
side window, which means that the gun was pointed from
the front of the vehicle. Now he was hit. This
ice agent was hit by the car. Like I said earlier,
All I can tell you for sure is they were
clearly telling her to get out of the car and

(44:02):
not drive off when you have an officer right in
front of your car. She couldn't do that. Now it's
sad she shows. Yeah, it's sad she got shut that.
That's on her. I'm sorry, it's just is So let
me give you another example of the media also will
obfuse skate and they're gonna try and confuse you as well.
This professor from Austin p University in Tennessee. This is

(44:26):
someone who was dismissed after being one of several faculty
members across the country who couldn't bring himself not to
comment with ugly things in the wake of the murder
of Charlie Kirk and some of what he did. He
did post a news Week article said Charlie Kirk says
gun deaths unfortunately worth it to keep Second Amendment. A

(44:48):
lot of people did that, and so the media is saying, well,
he got fired for posting an article that quoted something
he said. That's not the only thing he Here's another
example of what he posted. It's Wendy the Pooh walking
with Piglet, and he says, you don't even have to

(45:08):
mention a name to know who this is about. And
it says is he dead yet, asked Piglet, No, said Pooh,
and then a profane response that would be kind of
like darn it from Piglet. So these are people rooting
for and gleefully prancing on the grave of Charlie Kirk

(45:29):
before he was even buried. And this is the reason
why Senator Marshall Blackburn and others tagged the university and said,
this is one of your faculty members. Do you have
anything to say about this? Well, they fired him. He
of course fought back and said, my first moment, right
to be a disgusting pig, which you're not gonna be
jailed by the government for this stuff. That you can

(45:50):
be fired fired this guy.

Speaker 2 (45:52):
Yeah, you're not going to get locked up by the government,
but you could be fired by your employer.

Speaker 1 (45:56):
He's now reinstated and they're awarding him a half a
million Hey, sorry, he said, like, you know, they hurt
my feelings when I was fired and I had to
go to counseling for it. Oh to say nothing about
the people who are grieving the loss of this guy
who was fired. You got fired for your actions and
you had to go see a counselor about it, and
they're awarding him half a million dollars. The media is

(46:19):
not telling you about some of the ugly posts he made.

Speaker 2 (46:21):
This is one of the reasons Higher Ed is under
such incredible scrutiny right now, especially by conservative legislators across
the country. You know, they're going, wait a minute, what
are we getting for our investment. In the case of
the University of Nebraska, they get seven hundred million dollars
from the state. Okay, well, it's legitimate for state senators
who appropriate that and the Nebraska citizenry, which pays for it,

(46:44):
to say, wait a minute, what's going on down there? Now,
this didn't happen in Nebraska. This happened at Austin p
But this is half the problem with higher ed today.
It's not just I can't afford to go because the
job I'm going to get upon graduation won't allow me
to pay off my student loans. It's what are we
learning down there? What's the campus atmosphere down there?

Speaker 1 (47:04):
Now?

Speaker 2 (47:04):
It's always been campuses have always been, I think, leaning
to the left. But there wasn't this overwhelming momentum to
squelch conservative thought, to squelch conservative activities, to beat down,
yell down, purge if you will, conservative thought, which has
been happening over the last twenty five years. Charlie Kirk

(47:26):
was the only thing that kept campuses from becoming communist China.
He would go in there and say, okay, this is
what I believe.

Speaker 1 (47:34):
What do you think?

Speaker 2 (47:35):
Grab a microphone and let's drab a mic and they'd say, well,
you shout us down. No, I have an open microphone.
You're welcome to take it. Nobody jammed it in your face,
and you find out that these college students aren't as
bright as you think they are because they're just there's
simply a byproduct of social media impression.

Speaker 1 (47:53):
Lucy, we have an update to a story we had
earlier the state Senator Mikayla Kavanaugh, who spent the early
part of day one of this legislative session walking around
the hallways tearing portraits off the wall put there by
commission of the governor to celebrate America's two hundred and

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fiftieth anniversary this year, and note a lot of famous
Nebraskans responsible for the greatness of this nation. She's like,
ah ah, and she walking around tearing stuff off the walls, which,
as we told you earlier, is something that in question
as to whether that stuff was allowed to be there.
She says it wasn't. I don't know who made her

(48:34):
put her in charge of it. They've all been rehung.
They went in there, grabbed all the junk out of
her office and put it back up on the walls.
I'm wondering whether she goes back to work here now
and starts taking them off the walls again.

Speaker 4 (48:51):
Well did she. But she didn't take them down in
any place other than right outside her.

Speaker 2 (48:56):
She took them down a whole hall, up and down
the halls doing it, and they were on the wall
adjacent to her office.

Speaker 1 (49:03):
But you're right, Lucy.

Speaker 2 (49:04):
She just took them all and stuffed them in her
office and then called the state patrol and said, come
get this.

Speaker 4 (49:09):
Seems like there would be better things for them to do,
whether she agreed to or whether she wanted to do
this or not. Where she thought they were bad to
be up on the wall, it was breaking a lot whatever.
Seems like there are more important things for them to
be doing right now.

Speaker 1 (49:22):
Yes, exactly when they start swerving off into long chants
about we love trans people and all the protests and
everything down there, and Nebraskans are like, you know, I
just got my property tax assessment and due to what
the legislature makes the assessors do, that just jacked up
my taxes. When teachers go down there and say, we

(49:43):
seriously can't do anything to rein in some of the
violent students in our classes, and the legislatures like, no,
just roll over and take it. The reasons why they
told them, Yeah, the reason none of this stuff changes
is because this is the stuff that these alleged adults
down there end up spending in their time on.

Speaker 2 (50:00):
It's really sad is her dad was not that way.
You'll remember John Kavanaugh, who was a very moderate Democrat,
moderated by today's standards. He might be considered liberal, but
at the time he was not a crazy left wing
whack job like his daughter.

Speaker 4 (50:18):
Nobody was his reign, I guess nobody was.

Speaker 1 (50:23):
Where did she learn this right, Well, look around, pull
up social media and look at the way people behave