April 28, 2026 • 49 mins
What an odd news cycle, involving President Trump, Jimmy Kimmel, John Hinckley Jr, Chuck Grassley, the King of England, and many others. We discuss them all!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
I'm Scott Voorhees. Not going to a list of names for
you right now. The name of the show is Nebraska's
Morning News. Our station is News Radio eleven ten kfab.
Our cast includes Corney Dunahoe, Craig Evans, Lucy Chapman, Jim
Rose is here, and here are a couple more names
that shouldn't have anything to do with what happened Saturday
night in Washington, d C. To President Trump. Those names
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are Jimmy Kimmel and John Hinckley Junior. What has happened?
What left turned? Did we take that? These are two
of the more prominent names in the wake of the
latest assassination attempt against the President of the United States.
Lucy Lady's choice, who would you like to discuss first,
(00:43):
Jimmy Kimmel or John Hinckley Junior.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Well, I'm not a fan of either. Uh Hinckley's Hinkel.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Hinckley, John Hinckley Junior. I mean his dad real proud.
That's what you got to think about when you're naming
your kid, like, oh, look look at this strapping young
lads made in my own image. I'm going to give
him my name and hope he goes on to great
things and then you have to go on the rest
of your life. Name John Hinckley Senior, Hey aren't you
(01:16):
isn't your kid the one?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Now?
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Nope, that's a different family. My son, he's a little
league coach. John Hinkley Junior tried to assassinate President Reagan
in nineteen eighty one outside the Washington Hilton where this
past Saturday night at the White House correspondence dinner, someone
tried to assassinate President Trump. So they went over to
John Hinckley Junior and said, Hey, what do you think
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about what happened at the hotel? Same hotel where you
try to kill Reagan? And he's out there because he's
out he's out right, I mean, he's been out for
how long years now, and he's I don't know, sitting
around in a porch, drinking lemonade, watching the clouds. Say
you know what, that cloud looks like Jody Foster. That
(02:01):
cloud looks like Jody Foster. And so the reporters are
out there looking. You know, he's out there and just
I don't know, whittling or whatever he's doing is like, yeah, spooky.
At the latest shooting happened at the same hotel. What
what did you expect, John Hinckley Junior to say, Oh, yeah,
I can't believe I'm alive.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
I shouldn't be. They let me out because they thought
I was near the end of my life. But here
I am.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
He's doing one arm push ups. Try still trying to
What have you been doing, John, Well, I've been watching
Jody Foster movies, mostly her early work. I always said
I'd be the only man in her life. Turns out
I was right, And well we're wait, okay, now just
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we're fine, just moving on. So they go over and
they ask him here and he says, yeah, it's a
spooky Yeah. I didn't think there was real good security
there either. Thanks Thanks, John Hinckley Junior. We need to
expertise put together, I mean, with the group of would
be presidential assassins that have currently been a mast right
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now related to President Trump, you could have a pretty
good commission of people. What exactly were you thinking was
going to happen? And how can we combat crazy people
like you down the line, because apparently there are a
whole line of you. Here's another thing though, before we
get to kim on a little bit, I don't know that.
(03:31):
I have a whole lot of patience for the number
of people who I get why you're saying it, saying
I don't know that there was enough security there at
the hotel. You know who else was saying that. The
shooter he was in his manifesto to family, the media, world,
whatever he was talking about, like, yeah, I was able
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to get right into the hotel, checked in the day before.
They didn't think about that. Came right in with all
my weapons. Now now I'm going to go down there.
I'm gonna wreak all kinds of havoc. And people are like,
look at it, we didn't have much security. The guy
was able to go right past. Wait are we talking
about the guy who was naked on the floor without
having hurt anybody. He was able to get a round
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off against a secret Service agent wearing a bulletproof vest.
Thank goodness, that's the only havoc. And they're like, yeah,
but if he yeah, but yeah, but yeah, but the
guy was bragging about how there's no security. Next thing
we saw this guy, he was naked, face down on
the floor licking the carpet of the down or the
DC Hilton.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Hey, until you've done it don't criticize it. I've done it,
so I how much.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
I mean, you can argue that there wasn't much security,
but they got the guy, and I think I rest
my case. Well, I don't think you rest your case.
I think we have let's stay on time. I got
that look on my face right.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Well, you think of if you ever heard my response
to it yesterday, I don't need to repeat it. I
think this is case positive that they need to find
a different place for these big publies, inside public events.
You can't really have it in a hotel ballroom. The guy.
You're right, the guy was nabbed by the Secret Service.
But imagine this. Let's say there were three Iranians who
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checked into the Hilton the Washington would hotel. I think
we would have picked him up. There was very little
vetting of the guests were in that hotel. I don't
know that that's actly. If this guy had been organized,
if he knew what he was doing, he might have
been able to find a back door somewhere where. Maybe
there's only one Secret Service agent garden the door, if
any you have no idea. If that's true, I don't
(05:42):
believe this was a good place for the White House
Correspondence dinner. I'm a big fan of the ballroom that's
getting built for these reasons. Now there's a good topic.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
We have the group that's been founding the lawsuit to
stop the ballroom that would stop something like this happening,
and they were asked for a response. You know, the
media divvied things up. You guys go to the courtroom
or the would be shooter of be in court. You
guys go to the courtroom where they're blocking the ballroom. Yeah,
you guys go talk to people trying to block the ballroom.
You guys go talk to John Hankley Junior. And who's
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going to watch kimble to night? I don't want to
watch kimble to night. You're going to watch him?
Speaker 1 (06:15):
He's in the news.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
So the White House Ballroom, which the President immediately said,
you know, if we have advanced like the White House
Correspondence tender, in a secure White House ballroom that's not
also a hotel where kids with water wings and terrorists
with shotguns are milling about, then this would be a
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more secure location. And there's an historic preservation group that
had been leading the legal charge against the White House
Ballroom because they say, oh, no, this is this is
the White House. We can't be trumping up the White
House with a bunch of gold lions and whatever it
is that you want to put out there in a
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golf course and a casino and an MMA ring and
our octagon or whatever it is. We're not going to
do that. President says, the White House is a dump.
I'm the President. I could do whatever I want and
it's not going to be public money, and it would
be more safe. So they go back to this group
after the shooting on Saturday, and the Historic Preservation group
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is brushing off pressure to abandon their legal fight against
the President's plan for a four hundred million dollars White
House ballroom. The Justice Department the President has been arguing
that the effort by this group to block this ballroom
risks the safety of the President and the entire cabinet,
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the invited guests, and those precious, precious journalists who would
be there. So why are you laughing at that back there?
They're precious? We got I guess it's somebody.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
We we love our fellow journals. I don't think I
don't think the White House has a lot of love
lost for me. Most of them I don't.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
I don't think the president really cared too much about
I don't think the president when he was being led
away by Secret Service and.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Hold on, make sure they're safe. Yeah he is, Go
take care of that. That Washington Post table before me
is joy read Okay, I don't think they were probably
too concerned. Is Nora O'Donnell gonna be all right?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Ho, the most important thing is Nora O'Donnell. And please
make sure that Margaret brennan is safe and secure before
she can get to the next face the nation act
like a dummy. I hope no one trampled Tucker Carl
the uh.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
This group says that this case does not jeopardize the
president's safety in any way. It doesn't. Well, let's see here.
The only place you could do this is apparently a
shooting gallery and a local hotel. They want to do
it away from said gallery, and this nonprofit group says,
oh no, the president's fine. Look at him, he's fine.
(09:00):
He's up walking around except when he was ducking and covering.
Other than that, he's up walking around. He's fine.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Yeah, he's a Look he's three for three in an
assassination attempts.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Yeah, I mean, what do you guys worried about? So
they're continuing their lawsuit. President's probably gonna do what the
President's going to do. Anyway, that's true of just about anything.
We'll discuss throughout the morning, and we got a lot
more to discuss, and we'll get to it after the
eleven ten KFAB Certified Transmission Sports Brief with Jim Rose.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Okay Scott, Good morning, everybody. Husker baseball, up to sixteenth
in the national polls, is back on the field tonight
midweek game at Hawks Field against Kansas State. Tucker Timmerman
and the Beatrice Orangeman is set to start for the
Big Red. The Jays are hosting North Dakota State tonight.
UNO is off until Friday. Big League Baseball light schedule
a lot of Monday. American League tap of A three
(09:47):
Cleveland two, Boston five, Toronto nothing, Twins over Seattle eleven
to four, the White Sox eight, the Angels seven, Yankees
four to two over Texas. National League Saint Louis four,
Pittsburgh two, San Diego nine, the Cubs seven, Los Angeles five,
Miami four. There were no interleague games of scheduled Louisville
opens up a series against Omaha this afternoon. Bombshell story
(10:09):
in college football yesterday. Brendan Sorosby, who nearly beat Nebraska
on his own last season, was the number one transfer
portal target this offseason, signed with Texas Tech. He may
never play again. The guy was caught gambling on college
football through an online app thousands of bets when he
was at Indiana and Cincinnati has voluntarily entered rehab. The
(10:31):
NCAA is very clear on this. You do it, you're done.
Ask one hundred deckers of Iowa State. Now, it's legal
in Indiana and Ohio and he lived there, but you
have to be of age. He was not. There was
massive internet speculation about Dylan Ryola, who wanted to sign
with Texas Tech in the offseason, was off to Lubbock
after three months in Oregon. That is inaccurate. There is
(10:54):
no spring transfer portal window, and the NCAA cracks down
hard on anybody who try to sign somebody who is
not in the portal. If they do, they are fined
twenty percent of their football budget and the player is
suspended for least six games. So Riola ain't going anywhere.
Although the latest parade of memes making fun of how
fat he is might make him want to give up
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college football altogether. Playoffs scoreboard in the NBA Orlando is
about done with the Detroit Pistons, the number one seed
in the Eastern Conference. The Magic win Game four last night,
ninety four to eighty eight, and they lead the best
of seven first round series three victories to one. Oklahoma
City looking good. The champs and the number one seed
(11:38):
in the Western Conference one thirty one, one twenty two
over Phoenix in Game four. They sweep the Suns. Denver
won twenty five Minnesota one thirteen in Game five. The
Timberwolves lead that best of seven West first round series,
though three to two. NHL Playoffs two games Pittsburgh three
to two over the Flyers. Philadelphia, though still leads that
East first round series three wins to two. It was
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Game four between Vegas and Utah, Vegas five to four
and overtime. That series is tied up now at two
and two. U and L finally gets an athlete away
from UNL Well, they let them go. Details. Justin bowlis
a reserve forward for the Huskers, went into the portal
and winds up at UNO basketball. Lincoln High kids started
in Juco signed with Nebraska out of junior college, but
(12:23):
only played twenty six minutes last season. He'll be good
for the MAVs six eight two twenty five is a
force in the Summit League Sports. His news on Nebraska's
News weathern Traffic station.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
This is the live version of the Nebraska's Morning News podcast.
I'm Scott Worhees here with Lucy Chapman, Craig Evans, Jim Rose,
Courney Donahoe. Too glad to have you with us on
news Radio eleven ten KFAB. If it's all the same
to you, I'm gonna try and swerve into a little
different conversational topic, at least for this segment, away from
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what happens Saturday night in Washington, DC, because we got
a whole level of crazy and crime and stuff happening
right here in Omaha. Of course, if you listen to
the KFAB comment line with Jean Stothard, you would think
the biggest problem around Omaha is the quality of the
roads at Skyline Ranches. And I imagine if you live
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out there in West Omaha, then you probably feel that
there is nothing more important. WWT First Alert six News
has an update here on the crumbling roads of Skyline Ranches.
They've now taken the city, well this has been in
case here. They've taken the City of Omaha to court
to get public works to maintain what they say are
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the dilapidated streets of this Elkhorn neighborhood. And the Nebraska
Supreme Court said they'll hear that case in September. Your
long national nightmare in Skyline Woods and Skyline Ranches might
be just about over. And when I say just about,
I mean several months from now when the Supreme Court
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here is a several months after that when they might
make a ruling. But the story that Craig Evans has
provided us this morning, thirteen Omaha gang members tied to
the Cryps gang. And as I say that, I realize
I'm wearing all blue today. I can't get over it.
Since I was a kid Ralston Middle School downtown Omaha,
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and I was walking around downtown as a thirteen year
old translucent white Ralston Middle School kid, I came up
against some guys wearing all red, and I had on
a Raiders ball cap and a blue College World Series shirt,
and these guys, for a second there, I thought, yeah,
they know I'm bad, but now with the passage of time,
(14:43):
I realized I think they were really just messing with me.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
But these guys are like, oh are you crip? You
a crip? Yeah? Yeah, you got me.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Thirteen year old Scott Vorhees Ralston Middle School one of
the most deadly bad guys down has ever seen.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
So they are rough over there.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Yeah, they've put the fear of God and ever since then,
I'm like, I gotta be careful what I wear when
I go out.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
I'm a very dangerous man.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
But we got thirteen crips in custody, and the Omaha
Police Department says homicides are down seventy five percent since
we've taken these gang members into custody at the end
of last year. They're going into court here in about
a month. And I think it's kind of funny that
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Craig says these guys were arrested months ago, but they
still haven't been in court because quote, the suspects asked
for more time to examine the evidence collected against them. Yeah,
the suspects asked for that. Hold on, we need to
have an evidentiary hearing. I remember this from all my
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various gang meetings that I think the lawyers have said,
just try and put this off as long as possible,
probably because we're we're afraid the timeline is going to
be there is a mountain of evidence against these guys.
We're not going to be able to get them off
the hook, and then we feel like we and our
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families might be targeted because these are very dangerous gang members.
So if we could just put that off for as
long as possible, that would be great.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Can they also add the evidence of the drop in
homicides as the evidence that they gathered.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
I would think that it would probably be part of
the conversation. But Lucy, for the next story here.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
I should just stop talking no, no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
I need to be different in how I phrase them. Yes,
because I have gone blue in the face and again
not a crip, but blue in the face when it
comes to the people who are out in our community,
who get arrested time and time and time at the end,
and they keep doing worse and worse crimes. So rather
than continue to have that diatribe, instead we're going to
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set it to music. This is yet another example of
how we have a criminally insane, crazy person committing crimes
time and time again right here in our community.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Crazy.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
His name Cookie Monster because when he was arrested in
late March of nineteen eighty seven, he gave the police
his aliases. One of them was Cookie Monster. Another one
was Cookie XZ. That's Cookie Monster with a fist in
the air and a pretty sweet fro. His first name
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is Laverne, and he's once again arrested. This is the
guy you've heard who broke into someone's home, pinned down
a young child. The family found him, escorted him out
of the house, so to speak. He breaks into another
house where he was escorted out. Finally police found him
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in the streets of Omaha, wearing only his socks. He
has about the most insane looking much shot you've seen
since Nick Nolty got arrested, thankfully for other charges Nolty's case,
but he's been convicted and sentenced for violating the sex
offender registry around Omaha as recently as twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen,
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twenty twenty two, twenty twenty four. He just keeps getting
arrested for being crazy crazy, So he's crazy, we keep
letting him out. He's crazy, but not as crazy as
we are for letting it happen time and time again
here in Omaha. And there's our latest round of crazy
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in Omaha here on Nebraska's morning News.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Scott atkfab dot com.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
That's how you can email here into the Zonker's custom
woods inbox, or send a message with your own voice
via the talk back mic on our free iHeartRadio app.
A couple of emails that came in. Shannon and Texas
email says, a committed individual can get close to anyone
in a public setting. Build the ballroom. You don't have
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to convince me or the president, or the Department of
Justice or any security officials, but the very dedicated end
to use your word, committed individuals who can't stand the
president and don't want him to get anything he wants
are going to hold this up in court forever. Shannon,
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appreciate the email. A different subject. James email says, Scott,
good morning. I might have missed it, but if you
guys discussed the Ben Sass interview on sixty minutes the
other night, now we got into the sixty minutes fight
that the president had with Nora O'Donnell.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Excuse excuse me, excuse, excuse me. Excuse me, excuse me,
you you guys your excuse me?
Speaker 2 (20:01):
You with I knew you were going to bring that.
Oh did you think we were talking about you? Yeah,
that kind of sucked up a lot of the air
after what happened on Saturday. But James says, my friends
and I were discussing that in the NFL draft. We
have an NFL draft question. But if you guys talked
about the Ben Sass interview on sixty minutes.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
I have not watched it yet, and I don't know that.
If I don't know that, I want to. I watched it,
and I watched. I watched not only that, but I
also watched the extended version which is on YouTube, which
was the unedited version because it was only a twenty
minute interview on sixty minutes, but the actual interview took
about forty five minutes. And uh, you know, you shake
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your head and you say, what a waste. You know,
this guy has so much to offer, and he got
very tired of the fighting in DC. A lot of
folks said you need to stay in there to usher
these ding dongs to a better place. But you know,
his wife was struggling with health issues. He was traveling
five days a week back and forth because his kids
were homeschooled in Fremont, and that gave Ben a bad taste,
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and he thought, I have to be a better dad,
better husband, and being a US senator flies in the
face of that. So he took the good gig down
at Florida, which paid him a million and a half
a year, but also got his family all together. Ye,
he's in overtime. He was supposed to be dead by now,
according to the doctors in November. He's on a very,
very experimental drug that has shrunk the size of his
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tumors and relieved the pain, but his liver is pretty
much gone, and if he makes it to the end
of the year, it'll be a medical miracle. But it
was a wonderful interview and Nebraska should be very proud
of this guy. Nebraskan should think, you know, once in
a while we crank out a really smart one, and
this qualifies. He's really, really a bright guy, and he's
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got such a wonderful perspective on the world and the
government and capitalism and democracy. And I think he really
impressed everybody who watched it. I know I was impressed,
and I know him really well. I mean I introduced
him at his re election campaign rally. I consider him
a friend, not a close personal friend, but a friend.
And yet i'd never and I've read his books, which
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are also I think must reads for every parent in
the country today, The Vanishing American. Yeah they're really really good,
and they're so smart and so insightful. But he is
and the son of a school teacher and football coach
at Plainview, so we're gonna miss him, and I hope
that the stuff he's doing now is preserved so that
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we can go back and visit it from time to time.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Must listen to podcast on wherever you get your podcast
is Not Dead Yet with Ben Sass and Chris Stirewald
helps out with that because sometimes during the conversation Ben's
gets sick and he has to go away for a while.
But especially the conversation they just had with Chris Pratt
from Guardians of the Galaxy and the Jurassic movies and
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everything else is must listen to audio, so not dead yet,
Ben Sass. The recent conversation posted with Chris Pratt is
really really good, and Pratt tells him starts to tell
him at the end that this world's really gonna miss him.
I had to turn that off, and like, I'll come
back to this at a later date. I'm not going
to walk into my house with tears streaming down my
face and have my family wonder what's wrong with me?
Speaker 1 (23:21):
You really feel you feel listening to Ben you feel
very inadequate because he exposes our misplaced priorities as parents,
as friends, as elected officials. Yep. And so you think,
you know, I can do so much better and that
was good? Yep. I love the guy, James.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
I'll get back to your question here about the NFL
draft and the Huskers impact over the years, hopefully a
little later in the program.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Is a good question.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
And because I'm going to suspend myself for the rest
of the week. Gary Sadlemeyer is going to host this
show tomorrow and Thursday, Emery Songer being here with the
Gang on Friday, I'm going to say something that people
are not going to like. And I'm not saying this
is all your fault. And I don't even know that
you are complaining about this. It's a it's a collective you.
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It's the it's the royal you, it's us. There are
a lot of us, who say, well, gas prices are
going up. This is insane. I can't believe gas prices
are going up. All right, Let's see, are we the
ones who more and more often? And again, I'm not
saying this because I'm some sort of tree hugging, granola
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snarfing environmentalist. I turn the lights off when I leave
a room. I do the best I can for the environment.
My wife makes sure that I recycle. If something goes
in the trash, there's a full scale Lieutenant Columbo investigation
as to how that got in the trash and not
in the recycling. And I don't need that headache in
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my life. So I recycled. I turn off the lights,
keep my tires inflated and all that. So that being said,
how many people are complaining about gas prices who have
the giant HUMVSUV and moved clear out, like to the suburbs.
Of the suburbs, we bought cars that guzzle a lot
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more gas than the vehicles we used to drive, and
we moved further and further away from the places that
we go, whether it's to work or to take our
kids to baseball games or whatever. So we're driving more often,
and we're driving more often and gas guzzling cars, and
then we have the audacity to go, Wow, I can't
believe I'm spending this much money on gas. Just an observation.
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Here's another one. If you don't like Jimmy Kimmel, I'm
gonna make your life so easy right now. Jim did
you watch Jimmy Kimmel last night?
Speaker 1 (25:52):
I sure didn't. Lucy? Did you catch Jimmy Kimmel Show
last night? Oh? Why didn't you guys watch it? Everyone's
talking about him. I think he's a puke and not funny.
Oh okay, so you just on your own canceled in. Yes,
you didn't need abcbcirem. He didn't get suspended. You just
you suspended my remote control works? Wow? Yeah? Are we
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allowed to do that?
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Because I thought that if if he doesn't get fired
from ABC and purp walked out of the country and
directly into the ocean, start swimming Jimmy, right, you know what,
people are shooting at his feet as he's he's kicking
his way into the dance Jimmy. Then I thought that
the nation can't go on.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Just don't watch that. We've been told we don't apparently
have the capacity to make a decision on our own
to not watch something that offends us. Instead, they have
to be censored. I don't believe in censorship. I believe
the censorship is you turn it off. That's personal censorship.
It is the best way, It is the easiest and
least stressful way. But if there are people out there
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who are I guess walking around, and this is generally
on the left side of the political spectrum, that if
someone says something repeatedly that you don't like, he shouldn't
be allowed to exist on the planet. And until he's gone,
we just can't move on with our lives, or you
know what, just don't watch it. I didn't watch Kimmel
last night as I'm not interested. I'm sad because I
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thought Jimmy Kimmel used to be pretty funny and entertaining
when Comedy Central, Man Show and Crank anchors. I thought
money and entertaining. I actually didn't think he was bad
hosting the Oscars when he had that little stint running
the Oscars, I thought, this is pretty guy's pretty good.
You know, he's got a dry sense of humor.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Are you thinking of the wrong Jimmy?
Speaker 1 (27:40):
And then he he just became infected by Trump derangements. Center.
You're just like the rest of Hollywood. You're thinking of Jimmy,
Billy Crystal. He Billy Crystal and Jimmy Kimmel had both
hosted the Oscars, both very good. Crystal was great, Carson
was great when he did it. I personally liked the
Seth MacFarlane year. Yeah, I know, I'm alone. I like
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Conan now Seth MacFarlane. I enjoyed that, especially the song
We're not gonna sing it all right, jim might sing it.
Here was the response after it was Thursday night. In
his fake White House correspondence dinner bit that Jimmy Kimmel
did on his show on ABC, he took a shot
(28:24):
and said, our first Lady, Milania is here. Look at Milania,
so beautiful, missus Trump. You have the glow of an
expectant widow, and the crowd's like ah A. You know
who didn't find that joke funny? Most people with taste,
and the first Lady of the United States, who generally
(28:48):
doesn't post stuff like this on social media it's usually
her husband's job, but she said Kimmel's hateful and violent
rhetoric is intended to our country. His monologue about my
family is in comedy. His words are corrosive and deepens
the political sickness within America. People like Kimmel shouldn't have
(29:10):
the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate.
A coward, Kimmell hides behind ABC because he knows the
network will keep running cover to protect him.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Enough is enough. It's time for ABC to take a stand.
How many times will ABC's leadership enable Kimmel's atrocious behavior
at the expense of our community? As you can imagine,
President Trump fired off on his own He said, I
appreciate so many people are incensed by Kimmel's despicable call
(29:43):
to violence. Jimmy Kimmel should be immediately fired by Disney
and ABC. Thank you for your attention to this matter,
which the President usually says before he starts bombing somebody.
I don't know that the President's going to lay waste
to ABC. But Kimmel last night, of course, went back
on the air just so excited by all the attention.
(30:06):
He says, Oh, it feels like deja vu, feel like
I was just doing this because he was making tasteless
comments in the wake of Charlie Kirk's death, and he
said it was a light roast joke about the couple's
age difference and on camera chemistry. So the joke is
he thinks that the President of the United States is
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going to die because he's old, and that Milania, who
never looks real excited when she's around him, will be
happy when the president does expire, So that it was
just a joke, he says about their age difference at
a time when there have been multiple assassination attempts on
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the president and Iran would take any opportunity possible to
do that. And social media has been lit up with
a bunch of people who have expressed a lot of
potential glee at the unliving of our commander in chief.
Any joke about the death of the President of the
United States is not a joke. It's not funny. But
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like I said, I don't need ABC to fire Jimmy Kimble.
I have already canceled him. I don't watch the show. Yeah,
part of that is because I'm usually in bed by
the time he's on, But even when that wasn't the case,
I didn't watch him. But now for him to come
back and go like oh, come on, these are just jokes, people.
They're just jokes, all right, if that's what you're into.
(31:35):
He's on ABC tonight probably at ten thirty. Enjoy Well.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
It's a publicly traded company. It's owned by Disney, and
Disney is a for profit organization. It's not just Mickey Mouse,
Donald Duck and snow White. It's big money and ABC,
like most television networks, are constantly trying to find a
way to sell things so that they can stay in business.
They have to have audience, they have to have content
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that is popular. And I don't know Craig Erwitch, who's
president of ABC, a Northwestern guy. He and I are
running different circles. And there's a whole executive team at
ABC that will make a decision based on what is
in the shareholder's best interests. Not what's in my best
interest or yours there anybody in Omaha, but what's in
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the best interest of our shareholders. By law, they must
make decisions in that way. I don't know how profitable
or not the Jimmy Kimmel Show is, but this is
going to boil down to profitability. And if there's enough
negative pushbacks such that people don't watch it. That's it
for Jimmy Kimmel. Now, what he probably even doesn't think about,
(32:40):
or what a lot of people in his circle don't
think about, is how much pain and suffering the White
House can inject into you just because they have the
power to mess and harass with your company, like the FCC,
advertisers and other institutional people. Well, Jimmy thinks that makes
him more powerful.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
That remains to be seen. This email is from Tim
that says Jimmy Kimmel is a liar and a coward.
He meant that line about Malania being looking like an
expectant widow just the way it was received. It's easy
enough to just not watch. But if you go after
the sponsors and tell me you never buy their products
because of their sponsorship of that garbage, it'll hit ABC
(33:22):
and Disney in the wallet. Or we can just quit
mentioning the guy. He thrives on publicity. Kimmel says he
just meant it as a joke of Milania just can't
wait for her husband to die again. Hilarious. Right, all right, well, then,
how did this person mean this? This is Nevada Congressoman
(33:42):
Dina Titus. Lucy you ever have Dina Titus.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
I did. I went to an oral surgeon and cleared
it right up.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
It's tough. So Dina Titus was at a rally the
other day.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
Vance, you better hide behind that sofa.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
We're pemming for you. Okay, what are you talking about?
That's good?
Speaker 2 (34:05):
What are you talking about? We're coming for you. Better hide,
We're coming for you. Here's another fun person. This is
longtime Democratic strategist James Alien Carvill.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
I want to be clear on us. I do not
want that man to die, want to. I want to
watch him suffer nice and I can't watch a dead
person suffer. So I want him to be fully cognizant
come November, so when people tell him what what are?
What was that?
Speaker 2 (34:34):
I don't want Trump to die. Carvil says, I want
him to be alive so we can watch him suffer.
So I guess we're going to torture him.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
He said, I want you to be alive in November
when the people kill him. I guess he's talking about
the midterm elections and neutering the President of the United States,
who I sure just welcomes that as yet another fight.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
But well, you know he has children. James Carvell has children.
I don't know how old his kids are. He's married
to the chief GOP strategist, Mary Mattley. She must just
shake her head.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
And she's been lost it quiet for a long time.
I think hoping her husband learns by example.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
But but you know, how would you like that? And
I think one of the things that was said yesterday
which was profound, was an interview with Lara Trump, who
is Donald Trump's daughter in law, married to one of
his kids. Yeah, and they have a couple of little kids.
And for those of you who just believe strongly in
this hateful rhetoric towards President Trump and anybody who disagrees
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with you, it might be Ben Sass, you know, it
might be Pete Ricketts, might be Jim Pillen. I don't
know anybody who you just really believe, like Jim Carvell does,
that we need this guy to die, and we need
this guy to die a slow, painful death, otherwise the
country's in trouble politically speaking. How would you How would
you explain that to your children? How would you explain
(35:59):
to your children, little kids that your grandfather has been
shot at three times, three different times somebody has tried
to murder Grandpa.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
And they picked up a number of other people who
had the intent to do that, and Iran has said,
we can't wait, all right, different note.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
Here, I mean, it's part of the job, and you know,
if you're going to run for president. And I'm sure
Barack Obama had a similar conversation with his two young
daughters when he ran first in twenty two thousand and eight.
You would think that he's had to sit down them
and say, just so you know, you're going to hear
some things about mom and dad that are not true,
and if you have any questions, come to us. But
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still that's very, very uncomfortable for little kids.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
Here's this email from James leading into sports Brief A
very different note. Here, he says, we were discussing the
NFL draft, wondering what you and Jim think, or who
you and Jim think. What Nebraska football players had the
longest and biggest impact in the NFL since the championship
teams of the seventies two.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
In my view, Roger Craig and Levante David, two former
Huskers with not just longevity, but you know before that
McK tinglehoff for a year after year after year, was
in the middle of the offensive line for the Minnesota Vikings.
He didn't play for coach Davanny. He left when Davanny
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got here or his eligibility ran out and Devanny got here.
But to me, Roger Craig and Levante David qualified, and
I go Roger Craig and Will Shields. Will Shields is
in that conversation, too remarkable longevity and incredibly he missed
so few games. Neil Smith wasn't too bad. He didn't
last as long as Will Shields. But yeah, very very good.
(37:46):
And a lot of guys left when they could probably
keep playing. Zach Weaker could probably keep playing. Chris Brown
was a very very effective kicker in the NFL for
a lout.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
And you think what kind of impact Microsier and Lawrence
Phillips could have had the NFL. They each had different
paths to not having quite the impact they should have.
But good question, Yeah, good question, James.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
Thank you for that.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
Email Scott atkfab dot com. You guys seen the video
that has now been getting a lot of attention in
the wake of the shooting and the chaos there inside
the ballroom at the White House Correspondence dinner. Of course,
we're trying to get the president over here. The vice
president's going this way. Well, the latest thing that people
(38:28):
are looking at is no longer the guy eating the salad,
though I do enjoy the meme that says, yes, four
hundred dollars for a plate, I'm not going to leave
this food here. But the video of stuff in the purse, Yeah,
the video of RFK Junior's wife, actress Cheryl Hines. Have
you seen this, So in all of the chaos, everyone's
(38:51):
down on the floor immediately he puts the velin a brazier. No,
the video shows now it seems it's deemed safe, like
the vice president, the president, they've already gone, you know,
outside the wings out there, and everyone's down, and now
it's it's deemed safe to try and get people out
of the room, and people are kind of crouching down
and trying to get out of there. Well, the Secret
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Service swarms ORFK Junior. He is completely surrounded by bodyguard,
secret service, whatever security detail. Cheryl Hines is just walking
behind them, trying to keep up. And then you got
to go up some stairs and then down some other
stairs to get to the other side of the stage there,
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and no one's helping her, no one is securing her,
no one is making sure she's okay. Finally, a guy
turns around as Cheryl is like reaching out, going, hey
can some I'm wearing high heels.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
Can someone help?
Speaker 2 (39:46):
And this security guard like lifts her up and takes
her down the stairs a little bit. And of course
there are a lot of people looking at this saying,
poor Cheryl Hines in a strapless cocktail dress and high
heels was have to hobble after them. Law enforcement was
moving RFK and they didn't care about his wife. How
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messed up is this? Asked John Stewart on The Daily
Show last night, said, you know that you can't spare
an extra secret service guy to get the guy's wife
out of there.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
Well, they're working without money, they're working without pay right now,
so the whole department's a little strapped. Yeah, what's the protocol?
The protocol is that the VIP is not Cheryl Hines,
it's RFK Junior. Yeah, but that security deal extends to
the family. I agree, Well, it seems to me they
could have made a provision from his higns. Did she
(40:40):
steal a bottle of champagne.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
No, she was one of the interviews who didn't take
the bottles of champagne in her way out. Now, she
did post on Instagram about this, and she praised the
security deal a detail. She said, So we were there,
we heard shots, everyone got under the tables, nobody knew
what was going on, and then Bobby's security detail surrounded
us and took us. Had to lift me over chairs
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because I'm in heels and a gown. So she that's
her recollection of what happened. The video shows that she
was kind of for a moment. They're gonna left to
fend for herself. And a columnist for the Washington Times
Er Post Washington Post a woman says, we are all
Cheryl Hines, unprepared for the scenario in which we'll be
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forced to run for our lives, watching the important people
be whisked away while we wonder whether we should try
to follow them, or duck under a table or grab
the good wine. This country is exhausting and perverse. We
should have worn different shoes. I appreciate the colorful way
that this is put, but we're not all Cheryl Hinesy
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with Cheryl Hines, Cheryl Hines, the situation was secure. They
didn't maybe know that at the time, but it was.
Speaker 1 (41:53):
Every time I go to a public event, now I've
got to think of an exit strategy. I gotta have
a uniform that allows me to make a quick move
in the event of a gunman. So what she's suggesting
is we all need to be prepared to be attacked
by a deranged gunman who may have breached the exterior
security window of the Secret Service. In advance of a
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president's visit or a governor, or a head football coach
or a five star recruit, they all qualify. In Nebraska,
there are some people think like that.
Speaker 2 (42:23):
I would tell you about the lunches I used to
have with Aaron Hansen when he was a lonely, lowly
member of the Omaha Police Department. He was the head
of the police union, and so his job occasionally was
to chat up members of the media, and we got
friendly enough. We'd occasionally go out for lunch, and I noticed,
after about our third lunch together that he always sat
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with his back to the wall where he could get
a full view of the entire restaurant, and there was
one person sitting in front of him, and that was
me and I said, I'm looking around and noticing this,
and I said, Aaron, are you sitting with your back
to the wall there so you can survey the scene
here at the restaurant in case something goes down. He goes, yeah,
(43:05):
It's just kind of the way we operate. And I said,
all right, in this scenario, am I a human shield?
And he looked at me and said, we would hope
it wouldn't come to that, but if it does, the
answer is yes, Yeah, you are in front of me.
Speaker 1 (43:20):
I try to be useful. Yeah. I don't know if
he was wearing one of those kevlar vests, as they
often do in uniform, but I if so, then that's
really disappointing that even with a kevlar vest, you still
go before he does.
Speaker 2 (43:34):
I was wearing a golf shirt. I was not prepared
for any of this. You're wearing a stone creature. Yeah,
another reason why the Secret Service would have paid more
attention to RFK Junior. Now he's down the way a
little way, but he is in that list of succession
a lot of people. I think Jim even said this yesterday,
(43:54):
that perhaps it wasn't a great idea to have so
many cabinet members in the same room that they felt
could have been more secured at a hotel, you know.
And I said, well, if the guy had managed to
wreak as much tragic havoc as he possibly could. The
line of succession goes from the president to the vice president.
(44:16):
They were both there. To the Speaker of the House,
Mike Johnson, he was there. You know who's fourth in line,
Chuck Grassley, Senate pro tem Member Chuck Grassley, who was
not at the White House correspondence dinner. He was in
Iowa and we thought that Joe Biden was too old
to be president. They asked, yeah, They asked Speaker Johnson,
(44:37):
was there any talk about, you know, all the cabinet
almost all the cabinets here, was there a designated survivor
of security detail run Chuck Grassley? And he said no,
not really so, but he did say, yeah, that would
be a president Chuck. We'd he said, if not for
the Secret Service and the detail that was there, we
(44:58):
would have President Chuck Grassley today. Let's just spend a
moment thinking about what that would be. Like, what do
you think his first action would be as president? I
think he would go after the History Channel, because he
has been mercilessly roasting the History Channel for not being
as historical as he would like for years, so I
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think he would probably he'd go after the History Channel
the way Trump goes after CNN.
Speaker 1 (45:23):
Okay, we're moving the fed to Des Moines. Okay, my
first act as president is to move everything to Mount Pleasant, Iowa,
which would make it easier for me to farm and
serve like I have for the last one hundred and
twenty nine years.
Speaker 2 (45:40):
Yeah, mister President, we don't have to send all of
Congress back during pharmancies. And they're not all farmers. There's
a whole different way of doing this. You don't have
to do that. Thankfully we're able to joke about that
this morning. Oh, this is very very exciting. King Charles
is going to address Congress this afternoon, two o'clock on
my hot time. Jim, if you're a member of Congress, do.
Speaker 1 (46:02):
You go to the King? I wouldn't, Lucy, you wouldn't
go there? Now? Why not? Why wouldn't you go? I
wouldn't go because I got more important things to worry
about than the guy who doesn't even get to make
decisions in England.
Speaker 2 (46:16):
My all, we had the greatest game when I was
a kid. Well not sorry, let me try that again.
We had the greatest game when my daughter was a kid,
and I would play with her. It was the Pretty
Princess dress up game.
Speaker 1 (46:28):
And you spend and you go.
Speaker 2 (46:29):
Around the board and then you like you land on
the tiera and you put a tiera in your head.
And yes, I played this with my daughter. And I
would have ear rings and a tiara and little like
a bracelet and a necklace and.
Speaker 1 (46:43):
I look good in this And where's the video.
Speaker 2 (46:46):
Oh, we had a great time with the Pretty Princess
dress up game? And do you know what happened at
the end of the game. We would have exactly the
same amount of power and influence as the King of England,
who can't vote. He doesn't influence anything. He's just another
member of a long line of inbred people playing dress
(47:08):
up and acting like they're important. And I'm not saying
that they can't be decent people, and I mean they've
done quite a bit. A lot of people who are
inbred are some place trying to play a washboard with
their face.
Speaker 1 (47:22):
Well, I mean they are. Look at the history of
the Royal.
Speaker 3 (47:24):
Family, or he's not listening to KFA this morning.
Speaker 1 (47:28):
I'm very disappointed. He might be. He's probably got the
iheartmobile apps he good's.
Speaker 2 (47:33):
I've heard there are members of Congress who do listen
to us via the iHeartRadio out there in the halls
of Washington, d C. And the halls of Lincoln and
everywhere else. But he doesn't do anything. He plays dress
up and occasionally says, release the hounds.
Speaker 1 (47:50):
What is his job? It's just a ceremonial position. Now
you do meet with the Prime Minister, you're the monarch,
but as the as it relates to the government. No,
you know, the Prime Minister and the House of Lords
in the House of Commons Parliament, British Parliament make the
decisions that affect every day Britz. But you know you're
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the you're the King of England. You know, you get
to be king and they're kingly duties. Like what it's
not very big, not a very big deal. But she
traveled around. Yeah, and you knock the champagne bottle off
his ship. You know, you entertain people like other dignitaries.
How tired is he of trumpets? Do you think he
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ever walks out and said all right, that's fine.
Speaker 2 (48:35):
Yeah, can I take Can I walk out of the
bathroom without a trumpet brigade announcing that I'm I'm coming
out of the shower.
Speaker 1 (48:45):
Playing dress up?
Speaker 3 (48:46):
You're just jealous.
Speaker 1 (48:47):
Look, we all want to be king. I mean, it's
a great gig if you can get it, aside from
some wacky family members, if you can get it, man,
you got houses, cars, horses, you get you got it
all man, flower Guard. You don't have to do any work,
but you get to enjoy the flower garden, airplane ski trips. Oh.
Speaker 2 (49:06):
Man, it's the first thing I would do if I
were King of England is resign and say all right,
enough of this charade.
Speaker 1 (49:12):
This is asinine.
Speaker 2 (49:13):
Now, how many members how many Democrat members of Congress
who have been out there leading the no King's protests
over the last year or so across America are going
to be there saying, oh, it was great, we saw
the king.
Speaker 1 (49:26):
Yeah. I just hope they don't parade Charles pasted one
of those protests. It could cast a pall over the
whole you know, trip to the US. No Kings? What's
going on here? I didn't even do anything. Well, you
guys are rude over here.
Speaker 2 (49:42):
You should hope that President Trump is a king, because
as King of England you can't do anything.
Speaker 1 (49:49):
I haven't been treated this badly in the US since
the War of eighteen twelve.
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
I'm Scott Voorhees. Not going to a list of names for
you right now. The name of the show is Nebraska's
Morning News. Our station is News Radio eleven ten kfab.
Our cast includes Corney Dunahoe, Craig Evans, Lucy Chapman, Jim
Rose is here, and here are a couple more names
that shouldn't have anything to do with what happened Saturday
night in Washington, d C. To President Trump. Those names
(00:22):
are Jimmy Kimmel and John Hinckley Junior. What has happened?
What left turned? Did we take that? These are two
of the more prominent names in the wake of the
latest assassination attempt against the President of the United States.
Lucy Lady's choice, who would you like to discuss first,
(00:43):
Jimmy Kimmel or John Hinckley Junior.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Well, I'm not a fan of either. Uh Hinckley's Hinkel.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Hinckley, John Hinckley Junior. I mean his dad real proud.
That's what you got to think about when you're naming
your kid, like, oh, look look at this strapping young
lads made in my own image. I'm going to give
him my name and hope he goes on to great
things and then you have to go on the rest
of your life. Name John Hinckley Senior, Hey aren't you
(01:16):
isn't your kid the one?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Now?
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Nope, that's a different family. My son, he's a little
league coach. John Hinkley Junior tried to assassinate President Reagan
in nineteen eighty one outside the Washington Hilton where this
past Saturday night at the White House correspondence dinner, someone
tried to assassinate President Trump. So they went over to
John Hinckley Junior and said, Hey, what do you think
(01:40):
about what happened at the hotel? Same hotel where you
try to kill Reagan? And he's out there because he's
out he's out right, I mean, he's been out for
how long years now, and he's I don't know, sitting
around in a porch, drinking lemonade, watching the clouds. Say
you know what, that cloud looks like Jody Foster. That
(02:01):
cloud looks like Jody Foster. And so the reporters are
out there looking. You know, he's out there and just
I don't know, whittling or whatever he's doing is like, yeah, spooky.
At the latest shooting happened at the same hotel. What
what did you expect, John Hinckley Junior to say, Oh, yeah,
I can't believe I'm alive.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
I shouldn't be. They let me out because they thought
I was near the end of my life. But here
I am.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
He's doing one arm push ups. Try still trying to
What have you been doing, John, Well, I've been watching
Jody Foster movies, mostly her early work. I always said
I'd be the only man in her life. Turns out
I was right, And well we're wait, okay, now just
(02:46):
we're fine, just moving on. So they go over and
they ask him here and he says, yeah, it's a
spooky Yeah. I didn't think there was real good security
there either. Thanks Thanks, John Hinckley Junior. We need to
expertise put together, I mean, with the group of would
be presidential assassins that have currently been a mast right
(03:10):
now related to President Trump, you could have a pretty
good commission of people. What exactly were you thinking was
going to happen? And how can we combat crazy people
like you down the line, because apparently there are a
whole line of you. Here's another thing though, before we
get to kim on a little bit, I don't know that.
(03:31):
I have a whole lot of patience for the number
of people who I get why you're saying it, saying
I don't know that there was enough security there at
the hotel. You know who else was saying that. The
shooter he was in his manifesto to family, the media, world,
whatever he was talking about, like, yeah, I was able
(03:53):
to get right into the hotel, checked in the day before.
They didn't think about that. Came right in with all
my weapons. Now now I'm going to go down there.
I'm gonna wreak all kinds of havoc. And people are like,
look at it, we didn't have much security. The guy
was able to go right past. Wait are we talking
about the guy who was naked on the floor without
having hurt anybody. He was able to get a round
(04:15):
off against a secret Service agent wearing a bulletproof vest.
Thank goodness, that's the only havoc. And they're like, yeah,
but if he yeah, but yeah, but yeah, but the
guy was bragging about how there's no security. Next thing
we saw this guy, he was naked, face down on
the floor licking the carpet of the down or the
DC Hilton.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Hey, until you've done it don't criticize it. I've done it,
so I how much.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
I mean, you can argue that there wasn't much security,
but they got the guy, and I think I rest
my case. Well, I don't think you rest your case.
I think we have let's stay on time. I got
that look on my face right.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Well, you think of if you ever heard my response
to it yesterday, I don't need to repeat it. I
think this is case positive that they need to find
a different place for these big publies, inside public events.
You can't really have it in a hotel ballroom. The guy.
You're right, the guy was nabbed by the Secret Service.
But imagine this. Let's say there were three Iranians who
(05:20):
checked into the Hilton the Washington would hotel. I think
we would have picked him up. There was very little
vetting of the guests were in that hotel. I don't
know that that's actly. If this guy had been organized,
if he knew what he was doing, he might have
been able to find a back door somewhere where. Maybe
there's only one Secret Service agent garden the door, if
any you have no idea. If that's true, I don't
(05:42):
believe this was a good place for the White House
Correspondence dinner. I'm a big fan of the ballroom that's
getting built for these reasons. Now there's a good topic.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
We have the group that's been founding the lawsuit to
stop the ballroom that would stop something like this happening,
and they were asked for a response. You know, the
media divvied things up. You guys go to the courtroom
or the would be shooter of be in court. You
guys go to the courtroom where they're blocking the ballroom. Yeah,
you guys go talk to people trying to block the ballroom.
You guys go talk to John Hankley Junior. And who's
(06:12):
going to watch kimble to night? I don't want to
watch kimble to night. You're going to watch him?
Speaker 1 (06:15):
He's in the news.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
So the White House Ballroom, which the President immediately said,
you know, if we have advanced like the White House
Correspondence tender, in a secure White House ballroom that's not
also a hotel where kids with water wings and terrorists
with shotguns are milling about, then this would be a
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more secure location. And there's an historic preservation group that
had been leading the legal charge against the White House
Ballroom because they say, oh, no, this is this is
the White House. We can't be trumping up the White
House with a bunch of gold lions and whatever it
is that you want to put out there in a
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golf course and a casino and an MMA ring and
our octagon or whatever it is. We're not going to
do that. President says, the White House is a dump.
I'm the President. I could do whatever I want and
it's not going to be public money, and it would
be more safe. So they go back to this group
after the shooting on Saturday, and the Historic Preservation group
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is brushing off pressure to abandon their legal fight against
the President's plan for a four hundred million dollars White
House ballroom. The Justice Department the President has been arguing
that the effort by this group to block this ballroom
risks the safety of the President and the entire cabinet,
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the invited guests, and those precious, precious journalists who would
be there. So why are you laughing at that back there?
They're precious? We got I guess it's somebody.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
We we love our fellow journals. I don't think I
don't think the White House has a lot of love
lost for me. Most of them I don't.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
I don't think the president really cared too much about
I don't think the president when he was being led
away by Secret Service and.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Hold on, make sure they're safe. Yeah he is, Go
take care of that. That Washington Post table before me
is joy read Okay, I don't think they were probably
too concerned. Is Nora O'Donnell gonna be all right?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Ho, the most important thing is Nora O'Donnell. And please
make sure that Margaret brennan is safe and secure before
she can get to the next face the nation act
like a dummy. I hope no one trampled Tucker Carl
the uh.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
This group says that this case does not jeopardize the
president's safety in any way. It doesn't. Well, let's see here.
The only place you could do this is apparently a
shooting gallery and a local hotel. They want to do
it away from said gallery, and this nonprofit group says,
oh no, the president's fine. Look at him, he's fine.
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He's up walking around except when he was ducking and covering.
Other than that, he's up walking around. He's fine.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Yeah, he's a Look he's three for three in an
assassination attempts.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Yeah, I mean, what do you guys worried about? So
they're continuing their lawsuit. President's probably gonna do what the
President's going to do. Anyway, that's true of just about anything.
We'll discuss throughout the morning, and we got a lot
more to discuss, and we'll get to it after the
eleven ten KFAB Certified Transmission Sports Brief with Jim Rose.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Okay Scott, Good morning, everybody. Husker baseball, up to sixteenth
in the national polls, is back on the field tonight
midweek game at Hawks Field against Kansas State. Tucker Timmerman
and the Beatrice Orangeman is set to start for the
Big Red. The Jays are hosting North Dakota State tonight.
UNO is off until Friday. Big League Baseball light schedule
a lot of Monday. American League tap of A three
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Cleveland two, Boston five, Toronto nothing, Twins over Seattle eleven
to four, the White Sox eight, the Angels seven, Yankees
four to two over Texas. National League Saint Louis four,
Pittsburgh two, San Diego nine, the Cubs seven, Los Angeles five,
Miami four. There were no interleague games of scheduled Louisville
opens up a series against Omaha this afternoon. Bombshell story
(10:09):
in college football yesterday. Brendan Sorosby, who nearly beat Nebraska
on his own last season, was the number one transfer
portal target this offseason, signed with Texas Tech. He may
never play again. The guy was caught gambling on college
football through an online app thousands of bets when he
was at Indiana and Cincinnati has voluntarily entered rehab. The
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NCAA is very clear on this. You do it, you're done.
Ask one hundred deckers of Iowa State. Now, it's legal
in Indiana and Ohio and he lived there, but you
have to be of age. He was not. There was
massive internet speculation about Dylan Ryola, who wanted to sign
with Texas Tech in the offseason, was off to Lubbock
after three months in Oregon. That is inaccurate. There is
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no spring transfer portal window, and the NCAA cracks down
hard on anybody who try to sign somebody who is
not in the portal. If they do, they are fined
twenty percent of their football budget and the player is
suspended for least six games. So Riola ain't going anywhere.
Although the latest parade of memes making fun of how
fat he is might make him want to give up
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college football altogether. Playoffs scoreboard in the NBA Orlando is
about done with the Detroit Pistons, the number one seed
in the Eastern Conference. The Magic win Game four last night,
ninety four to eighty eight, and they lead the best
of seven first round series three victories to one. Oklahoma
City looking good. The champs and the number one seed
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in the Western Conference one thirty one, one twenty two
over Phoenix in Game four. They sweep the Suns. Denver
won twenty five Minnesota one thirteen in Game five. The
Timberwolves lead that best of seven West first round series,
though three to two. NHL Playoffs two games Pittsburgh three
to two over the Flyers. Philadelphia, though still leads that
East first round series three wins to two. It was
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Game four between Vegas and Utah, Vegas five to four
and overtime. That series is tied up now at two
and two. U and L finally gets an athlete away
from UNL Well, they let them go. Details. Justin bowlis
a reserve forward for the Huskers, went into the portal
and winds up at UNO basketball. Lincoln High kids started
in Juco signed with Nebraska out of junior college, but
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only played twenty six minutes last season. He'll be good
for the MAVs six eight two twenty five is a
force in the Summit League Sports. His news on Nebraska's
News weathern Traffic station.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
This is the live version of the Nebraska's Morning News podcast.
I'm Scott Worhees here with Lucy Chapman, Craig Evans, Jim Rose,
Courney Donahoe. Too glad to have you with us on
news Radio eleven ten KFAB. If it's all the same
to you, I'm gonna try and swerve into a little
different conversational topic, at least for this segment, away from
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what happens Saturday night in Washington, DC, because we got
a whole level of crazy and crime and stuff happening
right here in Omaha. Of course, if you listen to
the KFAB comment line with Jean Stothard, you would think
the biggest problem around Omaha is the quality of the
roads at Skyline Ranches. And I imagine if you live
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out there in West Omaha, then you probably feel that
there is nothing more important. WWT First Alert six News
has an update here on the crumbling roads of Skyline Ranches.
They've now taken the city, well this has been in
case here. They've taken the City of Omaha to court
to get public works to maintain what they say are
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the dilapidated streets of this Elkhorn neighborhood. And the Nebraska
Supreme Court said they'll hear that case in September. Your
long national nightmare in Skyline Woods and Skyline Ranches might
be just about over. And when I say just about,
I mean several months from now when the Supreme Court
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here is a several months after that when they might
make a ruling. But the story that Craig Evans has
provided us this morning, thirteen Omaha gang members tied to
the Cryps gang. And as I say that, I realize
I'm wearing all blue today. I can't get over it.
Since I was a kid Ralston Middle School downtown Omaha,
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and I was walking around downtown as a thirteen year
old translucent white Ralston Middle School kid, I came up
against some guys wearing all red, and I had on
a Raiders ball cap and a blue College World Series shirt,
and these guys, for a second there, I thought, yeah,
they know I'm bad, but now with the passage of time,
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I realized I think they were really just messing with me.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
But these guys are like, oh are you crip? You
a crip? Yeah? Yeah, you got me.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Thirteen year old Scott Vorhees Ralston Middle School one of
the most deadly bad guys down has ever seen.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
So they are rough over there.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Yeah, they've put the fear of God and ever since then,
I'm like, I gotta be careful what I wear when
I go out.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
I'm a very dangerous man.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
But we got thirteen crips in custody, and the Omaha
Police Department says homicides are down seventy five percent since
we've taken these gang members into custody at the end
of last year. They're going into court here in about
a month. And I think it's kind of funny that
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Craig says these guys were arrested months ago, but they
still haven't been in court because quote, the suspects asked
for more time to examine the evidence collected against them. Yeah,
the suspects asked for that. Hold on, we need to
have an evidentiary hearing. I remember this from all my
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various gang meetings that I think the lawyers have said,
just try and put this off as long as possible,
probably because we're we're afraid the timeline is going to
be there is a mountain of evidence against these guys.
We're not going to be able to get them off
the hook, and then we feel like we and our
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families might be targeted because these are very dangerous gang members.
So if we could just put that off for as
long as possible, that would be great.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Can they also add the evidence of the drop in
homicides as the evidence that they gathered.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
I would think that it would probably be part of
the conversation. But Lucy, for the next story here.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
I should just stop talking no, no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
I need to be different in how I phrase them. Yes,
because I have gone blue in the face and again
not a crip, but blue in the face when it
comes to the people who are out in our community,
who get arrested time and time and time at the end,
and they keep doing worse and worse crimes. So rather
than continue to have that diatribe, instead we're going to
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set it to music. This is yet another example of
how we have a criminally insane, crazy person committing crimes
time and time again right here in our community.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Crazy.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
His name Cookie Monster because when he was arrested in
late March of nineteen eighty seven, he gave the police
his aliases. One of them was Cookie Monster. Another one
was Cookie XZ. That's Cookie Monster with a fist in
the air and a pretty sweet fro. His first name
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is Laverne, and he's once again arrested. This is the
guy you've heard who broke into someone's home, pinned down
a young child. The family found him, escorted him out
of the house, so to speak. He breaks into another
house where he was escorted out. Finally police found him
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in the streets of Omaha, wearing only his socks. He
has about the most insane looking much shot you've seen
since Nick Nolty got arrested, thankfully for other charges Nolty's case,
but he's been convicted and sentenced for violating the sex
offender registry around Omaha as recently as twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen,
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twenty twenty two, twenty twenty four. He just keeps getting
arrested for being crazy crazy, So he's crazy, we keep
letting him out. He's crazy, but not as crazy as
we are for letting it happen time and time again
here in Omaha. And there's our latest round of crazy
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in Omaha here on Nebraska's morning News.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Scott atkfab dot com.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
That's how you can email here into the Zonker's custom
woods inbox, or send a message with your own voice
via the talk back mic on our free iHeartRadio app.
A couple of emails that came in. Shannon and Texas
email says, a committed individual can get close to anyone
in a public setting. Build the ballroom. You don't have
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to convince me or the president, or the Department of
Justice or any security officials, but the very dedicated end
to use your word, committed individuals who can't stand the
president and don't want him to get anything he wants
are going to hold this up in court forever. Shannon,
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appreciate the email. A different subject. James email says, Scott,
good morning. I might have missed it, but if you
guys discussed the Ben Sass interview on sixty minutes the
other night, now we got into the sixty minutes fight
that the president had with Nora O'Donnell.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Excuse excuse me, excuse, excuse me. Excuse me, excuse me,
you you guys your excuse me?
Speaker 2 (20:01):
You with I knew you were going to bring that.
Oh did you think we were talking about you? Yeah,
that kind of sucked up a lot of the air
after what happened on Saturday. But James says, my friends
and I were discussing that in the NFL draft. We
have an NFL draft question. But if you guys talked
about the Ben Sass interview on sixty minutes.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
I have not watched it yet, and I don't know that.
If I don't know that, I want to. I watched it,
and I watched. I watched not only that, but I
also watched the extended version which is on YouTube, which
was the unedited version because it was only a twenty
minute interview on sixty minutes, but the actual interview took
about forty five minutes. And uh, you know, you shake
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your head and you say, what a waste. You know,
this guy has so much to offer, and he got
very tired of the fighting in DC. A lot of
folks said you need to stay in there to usher
these ding dongs to a better place. But you know,
his wife was struggling with health issues. He was traveling
five days a week back and forth because his kids
were homeschooled in Fremont, and that gave Ben a bad taste,
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and he thought, I have to be a better dad,
better husband, and being a US senator flies in the
face of that. So he took the good gig down
at Florida, which paid him a million and a half
a year, but also got his family all together. Ye,
he's in overtime. He was supposed to be dead by now,
according to the doctors in November. He's on a very,
very experimental drug that has shrunk the size of his
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tumors and relieved the pain, but his liver is pretty
much gone, and if he makes it to the end
of the year, it'll be a medical miracle. But it
was a wonderful interview and Nebraska should be very proud
of this guy. Nebraskan should think, you know, once in
a while we crank out a really smart one, and
this qualifies. He's really, really a bright guy, and he's
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got such a wonderful perspective on the world and the
government and capitalism and democracy. And I think he really
impressed everybody who watched it. I know I was impressed,
and I know him really well. I mean I introduced
him at his re election campaign rally. I consider him
a friend, not a close personal friend, but a friend.
And yet i'd never and I've read his books, which
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are also I think must reads for every parent in
the country today, The Vanishing American. Yeah they're really really good,
and they're so smart and so insightful. But he is
and the son of a school teacher and football coach
at Plainview, so we're gonna miss him, and I hope
that the stuff he's doing now is preserved so that
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we can go back and visit it from time to time.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Must listen to podcast on wherever you get your podcast
is Not Dead Yet with Ben Sass and Chris Stirewald
helps out with that because sometimes during the conversation Ben's
gets sick and he has to go away for a while.
But especially the conversation they just had with Chris Pratt
from Guardians of the Galaxy and the Jurassic movies and
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everything else is must listen to audio, so not dead yet,
Ben Sass. The recent conversation posted with Chris Pratt is
really really good, and Pratt tells him starts to tell
him at the end that this world's really gonna miss him.
I had to turn that off, and like, I'll come
back to this at a later date. I'm not going
to walk into my house with tears streaming down my
face and have my family wonder what's wrong with me?
Speaker 1 (23:21):
You really feel you feel listening to Ben you feel
very inadequate because he exposes our misplaced priorities as parents,
as friends, as elected officials. Yep. And so you think,
you know, I can do so much better and that
was good? Yep. I love the guy, James.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
I'll get back to your question here about the NFL
draft and the Huskers impact over the years, hopefully a
little later in the program.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Is a good question.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
And because I'm going to suspend myself for the rest
of the week. Gary Sadlemeyer is going to host this
show tomorrow and Thursday, Emery Songer being here with the
Gang on Friday, I'm going to say something that people
are not going to like. And I'm not saying this
is all your fault. And I don't even know that
you are complaining about this. It's a it's a collective you.
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It's the it's the royal you, it's us. There are
a lot of us, who say, well, gas prices are
going up. This is insane. I can't believe gas prices
are going up. All right, Let's see, are we the
ones who more and more often? And again, I'm not
saying this because I'm some sort of tree hugging, granola
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snarfing environmentalist. I turn the lights off when I leave
a room. I do the best I can for the environment.
My wife makes sure that I recycle. If something goes
in the trash, there's a full scale Lieutenant Columbo investigation
as to how that got in the trash and not
in the recycling. And I don't need that headache in
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my life. So I recycled. I turn off the lights,
keep my tires inflated and all that. So that being said,
how many people are complaining about gas prices who have
the giant HUMVSUV and moved clear out, like to the suburbs.
Of the suburbs, we bought cars that guzzle a lot
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more gas than the vehicles we used to drive, and
we moved further and further away from the places that
we go, whether it's to work or to take our
kids to baseball games or whatever. So we're driving more often,
and we're driving more often and gas guzzling cars, and
then we have the audacity to go, Wow, I can't
believe I'm spending this much money on gas. Just an observation.
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Here's another one. If you don't like Jimmy Kimmel, I'm
gonna make your life so easy right now. Jim did
you watch Jimmy Kimmel last night?
Speaker 1 (25:52):
I sure didn't. Lucy? Did you catch Jimmy Kimmel Show
last night? Oh? Why didn't you guys watch it? Everyone's
talking about him. I think he's a puke and not funny.
Oh okay, so you just on your own canceled in. Yes,
you didn't need abcbcirem. He didn't get suspended. You just
you suspended my remote control works? Wow? Yeah? Are we
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allowed to do that?
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Because I thought that if if he doesn't get fired
from ABC and purp walked out of the country and
directly into the ocean, start swimming Jimmy, right, you know what,
people are shooting at his feet as he's he's kicking
his way into the dance Jimmy. Then I thought that
the nation can't go on.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Just don't watch that. We've been told we don't apparently
have the capacity to make a decision on our own
to not watch something that offends us. Instead, they have
to be censored. I don't believe in censorship. I believe
the censorship is you turn it off. That's personal censorship.
It is the best way, It is the easiest and
least stressful way. But if there are people out there
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who are I guess walking around, and this is generally
on the left side of the political spectrum, that if
someone says something repeatedly that you don't like, he shouldn't
be allowed to exist on the planet. And until he's gone,
we just can't move on with our lives, or you
know what, just don't watch it. I didn't watch Kimmel
last night as I'm not interested. I'm sad because I
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thought Jimmy Kimmel used to be pretty funny and entertaining
when Comedy Central, Man Show and Crank anchors. I thought
money and entertaining. I actually didn't think he was bad
hosting the Oscars when he had that little stint running
the Oscars, I thought, this is pretty guy's pretty good.
You know, he's got a dry sense of humor.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Are you thinking of the wrong Jimmy?
Speaker 1 (27:40):
And then he he just became infected by Trump derangements. Center.
You're just like the rest of Hollywood. You're thinking of Jimmy,
Billy Crystal. He Billy Crystal and Jimmy Kimmel had both
hosted the Oscars, both very good. Crystal was great, Carson
was great when he did it. I personally liked the
Seth MacFarlane year. Yeah, I know, I'm alone. I like
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Conan now Seth MacFarlane. I enjoyed that, especially the song
We're not gonna sing it all right, jim might sing it.
Here was the response after it was Thursday night. In
his fake White House correspondence dinner bit that Jimmy Kimmel
did on his show on ABC, he took a shot
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and said, our first Lady, Milania is here. Look at Milania,
so beautiful, missus Trump. You have the glow of an
expectant widow, and the crowd's like ah A. You know
who didn't find that joke funny? Most people with taste,
and the first Lady of the United States, who generally
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doesn't post stuff like this on social media it's usually
her husband's job, but she said Kimmel's hateful and violent
rhetoric is intended to our country. His monologue about my
family is in comedy. His words are corrosive and deepens
the political sickness within America. People like Kimmel shouldn't have
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the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate.
A coward, Kimmell hides behind ABC because he knows the
network will keep running cover to protect him.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Enough is enough. It's time for ABC to take a stand.
How many times will ABC's leadership enable Kimmel's atrocious behavior
at the expense of our community? As you can imagine,
President Trump fired off on his own He said, I
appreciate so many people are incensed by Kimmel's despicable call
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to violence. Jimmy Kimmel should be immediately fired by Disney
and ABC. Thank you for your attention to this matter,
which the President usually says before he starts bombing somebody.
I don't know that the President's going to lay waste
to ABC. But Kimmel last night, of course, went back
on the air just so excited by all the attention.
(30:06):
He says, Oh, it feels like deja vu, feel like
I was just doing this because he was making tasteless
comments in the wake of Charlie Kirk's death, and he
said it was a light roast joke about the couple's
age difference and on camera chemistry. So the joke is
he thinks that the President of the United States is
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going to die because he's old, and that Milania, who
never looks real excited when she's around him, will be
happy when the president does expire, So that it was
just a joke, he says about their age difference at
a time when there have been multiple assassination attempts on
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the president and Iran would take any opportunity possible to
do that. And social media has been lit up with
a bunch of people who have expressed a lot of
potential glee at the unliving of our commander in chief.
Any joke about the death of the President of the
United States is not a joke. It's not funny. But
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like I said, I don't need ABC to fire Jimmy Kimble.
I have already canceled him. I don't watch the show. Yeah,
part of that is because I'm usually in bed by
the time he's on, But even when that wasn't the case,
I didn't watch him. But now for him to come
back and go like oh, come on, these are just jokes, people.
They're just jokes, all right, if that's what you're into.
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He's on ABC tonight probably at ten thirty. Enjoy Well.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
It's a publicly traded company. It's owned by Disney, and
Disney is a for profit organization. It's not just Mickey Mouse,
Donald Duck and snow White. It's big money and ABC,
like most television networks, are constantly trying to find a
way to sell things so that they can stay in business.
They have to have audience, they have to have content
(31:59):
that is popular. And I don't know Craig Erwitch, who's
president of ABC, a Northwestern guy. He and I are
running different circles. And there's a whole executive team at
ABC that will make a decision based on what is
in the shareholder's best interests. Not what's in my best
interest or yours there anybody in Omaha, but what's in
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the best interest of our shareholders. By law, they must
make decisions in that way. I don't know how profitable
or not the Jimmy Kimmel Show is, but this is
going to boil down to profitability. And if there's enough
negative pushbacks such that people don't watch it. That's it
for Jimmy Kimmel. Now, what he probably even doesn't think about,
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or what a lot of people in his circle don't
think about, is how much pain and suffering the White
House can inject into you just because they have the
power to mess and harass with your company, like the FCC,
advertisers and other institutional people. Well, Jimmy thinks that makes
him more powerful.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
That remains to be seen. This email is from Tim
that says Jimmy Kimmel is a liar and a coward.
He meant that line about Malania being looking like an
expectant widow just the way it was received. It's easy
enough to just not watch. But if you go after
the sponsors and tell me you never buy their products
because of their sponsorship of that garbage, it'll hit ABC
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and Disney in the wallet. Or we can just quit
mentioning the guy. He thrives on publicity. Kimmel says he
just meant it as a joke of Milania just can't
wait for her husband to die again. Hilarious. Right, all right, well, then,
how did this person mean this? This is Nevada Congressoman
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Dina Titus. Lucy you ever have Dina Titus.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
I did. I went to an oral surgeon and cleared
it right up.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
It's tough. So Dina Titus was at a rally the
other day.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
Vance, you better hide behind that sofa.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
We're pemming for you. Okay, what are you talking about?
That's good?
Speaker 2 (34:05):
What are you talking about? We're coming for you. Better hide,
We're coming for you. Here's another fun person. This is
longtime Democratic strategist James Alien Carvill.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
I want to be clear on us. I do not
want that man to die, want to. I want to
watch him suffer nice and I can't watch a dead
person suffer. So I want him to be fully cognizant
come November, so when people tell him what what are?
What was that?
Speaker 2 (34:34):
I don't want Trump to die. Carvil says, I want
him to be alive so we can watch him suffer.
So I guess we're going to torture him.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
He said, I want you to be alive in November
when the people kill him. I guess he's talking about
the midterm elections and neutering the President of the United States,
who I sure just welcomes that as yet another fight.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
But well, you know he has children. James Carvell has children.
I don't know how old his kids are. He's married
to the chief GOP strategist, Mary Mattley. She must just
shake her head.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
And she's been lost it quiet for a long time.
I think hoping her husband learns by example.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
But but you know, how would you like that? And
I think one of the things that was said yesterday
which was profound, was an interview with Lara Trump, who
is Donald Trump's daughter in law, married to one of
his kids. Yeah, and they have a couple of little kids.
And for those of you who just believe strongly in
this hateful rhetoric towards President Trump and anybody who disagrees
(35:36):
with you, it might be Ben Sass, you know, it
might be Pete Ricketts, might be Jim Pillen. I don't
know anybody who you just really believe, like Jim Carvell does,
that we need this guy to die, and we need
this guy to die a slow, painful death, otherwise the
country's in trouble politically speaking. How would you How would
you explain that to your children? How would you explain
(35:59):
to your children, little kids that your grandfather has been
shot at three times, three different times somebody has tried
to murder Grandpa.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
And they picked up a number of other people who
had the intent to do that, and Iran has said,
we can't wait, all right, different note.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
Here, I mean, it's part of the job, and you know,
if you're going to run for president. And I'm sure
Barack Obama had a similar conversation with his two young
daughters when he ran first in twenty two thousand and eight.
You would think that he's had to sit down them
and say, just so you know, you're going to hear
some things about mom and dad that are not true,
and if you have any questions, come to us. But
(36:40):
still that's very, very uncomfortable for little kids.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
Here's this email from James leading into sports Brief A
very different note. Here, he says, we were discussing the
NFL draft, wondering what you and Jim think, or who
you and Jim think. What Nebraska football players had the
longest and biggest impact in the NFL since the championship
teams of the seventies two.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
In my view, Roger Craig and Levante David, two former
Huskers with not just longevity, but you know before that
McK tinglehoff for a year after year after year, was
in the middle of the offensive line for the Minnesota Vikings.
He didn't play for coach Davanny. He left when Davanny
(37:25):
got here or his eligibility ran out and Devanny got here.
But to me, Roger Craig and Levante David qualified, and
I go Roger Craig and Will Shields. Will Shields is
in that conversation, too remarkable longevity and incredibly he missed
so few games. Neil Smith wasn't too bad. He didn't
last as long as Will Shields. But yeah, very very good.
(37:46):
And a lot of guys left when they could probably
keep playing. Zach Weaker could probably keep playing. Chris Brown
was a very very effective kicker in the NFL for
a lout.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
And you think what kind of impact Microsier and Lawrence
Phillips could have had the NFL. They each had different
paths to not having quite the impact they should have.
But good question, Yeah, good question, James.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
Thank you for that.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
Email Scott atkfab dot com. You guys seen the video
that has now been getting a lot of attention in
the wake of the shooting and the chaos there inside
the ballroom at the White House Correspondence dinner. Of course,
we're trying to get the president over here. The vice
president's going this way. Well, the latest thing that people
(38:28):
are looking at is no longer the guy eating the salad,
though I do enjoy the meme that says, yes, four
hundred dollars for a plate, I'm not going to leave
this food here. But the video of stuff in the purse, Yeah,
the video of RFK Junior's wife, actress Cheryl Hines. Have
you seen this, So in all of the chaos, everyone's
(38:51):
down on the floor immediately he puts the velin a brazier. No,
the video shows now it seems it's deemed safe, like
the vice president, the president, they've already gone, you know,
outside the wings out there, and everyone's down, and now
it's it's deemed safe to try and get people out
of the room, and people are kind of crouching down
and trying to get out of there. Well, the Secret
(39:14):
Service swarms ORFK Junior. He is completely surrounded by bodyguard,
secret service, whatever security detail. Cheryl Hines is just walking
behind them, trying to keep up. And then you got
to go up some stairs and then down some other
stairs to get to the other side of the stage there,
(39:34):
and no one's helping her, no one is securing her,
no one is making sure she's okay. Finally, a guy
turns around as Cheryl is like reaching out, going, hey
can some I'm wearing high heels.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
Can someone help?
Speaker 2 (39:46):
And this security guard like lifts her up and takes
her down the stairs a little bit. And of course
there are a lot of people looking at this saying,
poor Cheryl Hines in a strapless cocktail dress and high
heels was have to hobble after them. Law enforcement was
moving RFK and they didn't care about his wife. How
(40:08):
messed up is this? Asked John Stewart on The Daily
Show last night, said, you know that you can't spare
an extra secret service guy to get the guy's wife
out of there.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
Well, they're working without money, they're working without pay right now,
so the whole department's a little strapped. Yeah, what's the protocol?
The protocol is that the VIP is not Cheryl Hines,
it's RFK Junior. Yeah, but that security deal extends to
the family. I agree, Well, it seems to me they
could have made a provision from his higns. Did she
(40:40):
steal a bottle of champagne.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
No, she was one of the interviews who didn't take
the bottles of champagne in her way out. Now, she
did post on Instagram about this, and she praised the
security deal a detail. She said, So we were there,
we heard shots, everyone got under the tables, nobody knew
what was going on, and then Bobby's security detail surrounded
us and took us. Had to lift me over chairs
(41:02):
because I'm in heels and a gown. So she that's
her recollection of what happened. The video shows that she
was kind of for a moment. They're gonna left to
fend for herself. And a columnist for the Washington Times
Er Post Washington Post a woman says, we are all
Cheryl Hines, unprepared for the scenario in which we'll be
(41:24):
forced to run for our lives, watching the important people
be whisked away while we wonder whether we should try
to follow them, or duck under a table or grab
the good wine. This country is exhausting and perverse. We
should have worn different shoes. I appreciate the colorful way
that this is put, but we're not all Cheryl Hinesy
(41:46):
with Cheryl Hines, Cheryl Hines, the situation was secure. They
didn't maybe know that at the time, but it was.
Speaker 1 (41:53):
Every time I go to a public event, now I've
got to think of an exit strategy. I gotta have
a uniform that allows me to make a quick move
in the event of a gunman. So what she's suggesting
is we all need to be prepared to be attacked
by a deranged gunman who may have breached the exterior
security window of the Secret Service. In advance of a
(42:15):
president's visit or a governor, or a head football coach
or a five star recruit, they all qualify. In Nebraska,
there are some people think like that.
Speaker 2 (42:23):
I would tell you about the lunches I used to
have with Aaron Hansen when he was a lonely, lowly
member of the Omaha Police Department. He was the head
of the police union, and so his job occasionally was
to chat up members of the media, and we got
friendly enough. We'd occasionally go out for lunch, and I noticed,
after about our third lunch together that he always sat
(42:44):
with his back to the wall where he could get
a full view of the entire restaurant, and there was
one person sitting in front of him, and that was
me and I said, I'm looking around and noticing this,
and I said, Aaron, are you sitting with your back
to the wall there so you can survey the scene
here at the restaurant in case something goes down. He goes, yeah,
(43:05):
It's just kind of the way we operate. And I said,
all right, in this scenario, am I a human shield?
And he looked at me and said, we would hope
it wouldn't come to that, but if it does, the
answer is yes, Yeah, you are in front of me.
Speaker 1 (43:20):
I try to be useful. Yeah. I don't know if
he was wearing one of those kevlar vests, as they
often do in uniform, but I if so, then that's
really disappointing that even with a kevlar vest, you still
go before he does.
Speaker 2 (43:34):
I was wearing a golf shirt. I was not prepared
for any of this. You're wearing a stone creature. Yeah,
another reason why the Secret Service would have paid more
attention to RFK Junior. Now he's down the way a
little way, but he is in that list of succession
a lot of people. I think Jim even said this yesterday,
(43:54):
that perhaps it wasn't a great idea to have so
many cabinet members in the same room that they felt
could have been more secured at a hotel, you know.
And I said, well, if the guy had managed to
wreak as much tragic havoc as he possibly could. The
line of succession goes from the president to the vice president.
(44:16):
They were both there. To the Speaker of the House,
Mike Johnson, he was there. You know who's fourth in line,
Chuck Grassley, Senate pro tem Member Chuck Grassley, who was
not at the White House correspondence dinner. He was in
Iowa and we thought that Joe Biden was too old
to be president. They asked, yeah, They asked Speaker Johnson,
(44:37):
was there any talk about, you know, all the cabinet
almost all the cabinets here, was there a designated survivor
of security detail run Chuck Grassley? And he said no,
not really so, but he did say, yeah, that would
be a president Chuck. We'd he said, if not for
the Secret Service and the detail that was there, we
(44:58):
would have President Chuck Grassley today. Let's just spend a
moment thinking about what that would be. Like, what do
you think his first action would be as president? I
think he would go after the History Channel, because he
has been mercilessly roasting the History Channel for not being
as historical as he would like for years, so I
(45:18):
think he would probably he'd go after the History Channel
the way Trump goes after CNN.
Speaker 1 (45:23):
Okay, we're moving the fed to Des Moines. Okay, my
first act as president is to move everything to Mount Pleasant, Iowa,
which would make it easier for me to farm and
serve like I have for the last one hundred and
twenty nine years.
Speaker 2 (45:40):
Yeah, mister President, we don't have to send all of
Congress back during pharmancies. And they're not all farmers. There's
a whole different way of doing this. You don't have
to do that. Thankfully we're able to joke about that
this morning. Oh, this is very very exciting. King Charles
is going to address Congress this afternoon, two o'clock on
my hot time. Jim, if you're a member of Congress, do.
Speaker 1 (46:02):
You go to the King? I wouldn't, Lucy, you wouldn't
go there? Now? Why not? Why wouldn't you go? I
wouldn't go because I got more important things to worry
about than the guy who doesn't even get to make
decisions in England.
Speaker 2 (46:16):
My all, we had the greatest game when I was
a kid. Well not sorry, let me try that again.
We had the greatest game when my daughter was a kid,
and I would play with her. It was the Pretty
Princess dress up game.
Speaker 1 (46:28):
And you spend and you go.
Speaker 2 (46:29):
Around the board and then you like you land on
the tiera and you put a tiera in your head.
And yes, I played this with my daughter. And I
would have ear rings and a tiara and little like
a bracelet and a necklace and.
Speaker 1 (46:43):
I look good in this And where's the video.
Speaker 2 (46:46):
Oh, we had a great time with the Pretty Princess
dress up game? And do you know what happened at
the end of the game. We would have exactly the
same amount of power and influence as the King of England,
who can't vote. He doesn't influence anything. He's just another
member of a long line of inbred people playing dress
(47:08):
up and acting like they're important. And I'm not saying
that they can't be decent people, and I mean they've
done quite a bit. A lot of people who are
inbred are some place trying to play a washboard with
their face.
Speaker 1 (47:22):
Well, I mean they are. Look at the history of
the Royal.
Speaker 3 (47:24):
Family, or he's not listening to KFA this morning.
Speaker 1 (47:28):
I'm very disappointed. He might be. He's probably got the
iheartmobile apps he good's.
Speaker 2 (47:33):
I've heard there are members of Congress who do listen
to us via the iHeartRadio out there in the halls
of Washington, d C. And the halls of Lincoln and
everywhere else. But he doesn't do anything. He plays dress
up and occasionally says, release the hounds.
Speaker 1 (47:50):
What is his job? It's just a ceremonial position. Now
you do meet with the Prime Minister, you're the monarch,
but as the as it relates to the government. No,
you know, the Prime Minister and the House of Lords
in the House of Commons Parliament, British Parliament make the
decisions that affect every day Britz. But you know you're
(48:11):
the you're the King of England. You know, you get
to be king and they're kingly duties. Like what it's
not very big, not a very big deal. But she
traveled around. Yeah, and you knock the champagne bottle off
his ship. You know, you entertain people like other dignitaries.
How tired is he of trumpets? Do you think he
(48:33):
ever walks out and said all right, that's fine.
Speaker 2 (48:35):
Yeah, can I take Can I walk out of the
bathroom without a trumpet brigade announcing that I'm I'm coming
out of the shower.
Speaker 1 (48:45):
Playing dress up?
Speaker 3 (48:46):
You're just jealous.
Speaker 1 (48:47):
Look, we all want to be king. I mean, it's
a great gig if you can get it, aside from
some wacky family members, if you can get it, man,
you got houses, cars, horses, you get you got it
all man, flower Guard. You don't have to do any work,
but you get to enjoy the flower garden, airplane ski trips. Oh.
Speaker 2 (49:06):
Man, it's the first thing I would do if I
were King of England is resign and say all right,
enough of this charade.
Speaker 1 (49:12):
This is asinine.
Speaker 2 (49:13):
Now, how many members how many Democrat members of Congress
who have been out there leading the no King's protests
over the last year or so across America are going
to be there saying, oh, it was great, we saw
the king.
Speaker 1 (49:26):
Yeah. I just hope they don't parade Charles pasted one
of those protests. It could cast a pall over the
whole you know, trip to the US. No Kings? What's
going on here? I didn't even do anything. Well, you
guys are rude over here.
Speaker 2 (49:42):
You should hope that President Trump is a king, because
as King of England you can't do anything.
Speaker 1 (49:49):
I haven't been treated this badly in the US since
the War of eighteen twelve.
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