December 15, 2025 • 39 mins
Covering all the big stories (so many of them are so sad today) and trying to find a reason to smile in spite of the ugliness. I hope we succeeded today.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Great to have you with us here seven minutes past
six o'clock on this Monday morning. This is Nebraska's Morning News.
My name is Scott Vorhees. I've got Lucy Chapman here,
I've got Jim Rose here, and I've got an inbox
full of people who Boy, how do I put this?
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When Gary Sadelemeyer announced several weeks ago that he would
be retiring as of Friday, December twelfth, that was a
major blow and a big level of disappointment for a
lot of us, myself included. I didn't realize just how
much I would miss listening to Gary and Jim and
Lucy and Craig on the way into work until I
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was coming into work this morning and I thought, number one,
there's a lot less traffic coming in regularly at this
time in the morning, and two, Gary's not on my radio,
so I get it, and I'm right there with you.
So when Gary made the announcement and then we had
the big celebration for him on Friday, obviously a lot
of people were wishing him well, but a tinge of
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disappointment that was a collective feeling. Now here on Monday morning,
we're at the point where people are individually finding out
that Gary retired and he's not gonna be doing the
show every single day. He's welcome to pop in anytime
he wants. He said he would do that, but people
are just there are some people just hearing that message
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for the first time, and that will be the case
later this morning, tomorrow morning, a week from tuesday, in
three months from now. So now we're going about the
process of disappointing people individually with the sound.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Of life lace that what's going on here?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Yet, Yeah, it doesn't exactly fill me with a lot
of Hey, hey, this is great, let's go. I do
enjoy the people have been asking me for the last
few days and emails today like hey, what are you
going to do? I can't wait to see what you're
gonna do. Here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna talk
about the news. We're going to talk with Jim Rose,
with Lucy Chapman. If I haven't mentioned this already, my
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name is Scott Vorhees, and you're gonna get a full
snwit of my opinions on things. And we're gonna do that.
It's not like it's Nebraska's Morning News. The musical I
mean it's not gonna I don't think. I mean, we
might try a few different things. I hope you enjoyed
the Fox News Radio Hour and the five o'clock hour.
(02:23):
I admit it felt weird not to start the show
at five point thirty whatever like we would normally do.
It felt a little strange. But we're trying it on.
We'll see how it goes. If it turns out that
we hate it, we'll change. We'll do whatever. We can
do anything in the world except bring Gary back.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
I think i'd like to return this package. Please, Yeah,
get a lot of that this time of year.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
You know, I couldn't like I think everybody couldn't believe
it last night when we found out about Rob Reiner.
Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle dead at their home
in Los Angeles, and the suspect is their son, thirty
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two year old Nick Reiner, drug addict, been in rehab
since he was a teenager. He has been very open
about his problems with substance abuse, his experience living on
the streets, as well as his horrible relationship he's had
with his dad.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
So this is.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
What I don't know, is whether he's in custody whether
the lapd Is officially listed him as a suspect. But wow,
is that sad. This is someone who Rob Reiner had.
I think he had a pretty good relationship with his father,
Carl Reiner, growing up. But Rob Reiner would say, yeah,
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when I was a kid, I felt that my father,
Hollywood legend Carl Reiner, never thought I was funny. So
Rob Reiner then starts off as a writer on the
Smothers Brothers Show, would end up being meathead on All
of the All in the Family. That was Archie Bunker's
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liberal son in law, and then Rob Reiner, from a
liberal perspective, would live out that political persuasion throughout the
rest of his life. He's been a guest on this
radio station a couple of times in the last decade.
We'll hear bits of that coming up throughout the morning.
But the number of like classic movies he's directed, Stand
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By Me, Princess Bride, when Harry met Sally, that was man.
That was three in a row right there. Did he
do a few?
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Good gosh, he was a unique Hollywood personality. He was
one of those guys who had no trouble speaking out politically,
which drove a big wedge through the middle of his
fan base. And now we can appreciate Donald Trump, can
appreciate Rob Reiner's son, because Donald Trump's had trouble with
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Rob Reiner two for the last ten years. But he's
been extremely, almost vitriolically critical of the President and of
Republicans and all of that.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
But you know, this is a tale.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
You see a lot, Scott, and that is Hollywood families
have a lot of struggles.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Why is that?
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Is it the popular cultures at the narcissism is that
it's always about me, not about them. And you see
so many children of famous actors, Hollywood insiders who struggle
with drug and alcohol addictions. Maybe it's the environment, Maybe
it's just the atmosphere. Maybe it's the availability of it.
Maybe it's too much money, easy to get too money,
who knows.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Quite true, certainly families whose fathers are not Rob Reiner
suffering a lot of the same instances. But it is,
it is awfully prevalent, at least it seems we hear
about it in the high profile instances.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
See between the Marlon Brando's kids. You look at the
Kobaine kids, I mean you look at the I mean
the walking Phoenix and his family and all of that.
It's it's sad and it's tragic, but this one, this
is kind of the like the Menendez Brothers deal. You know,
mom and dad sitting there suddenly gone well between everywhere.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Between that, the shootings, what happened with Nebraska volleyball. I mean,
Oscar Nation is not waking up on the best side
of the pillar this morning. I have a message about that.
We'll get to it after traffic, weather and a news
update in just a minute here on news radio eleven
to ten kfa B. Going to take everything in my
power not to say Scott boorhies in for Gary Sandelmeyer,
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who's back. Gary retired on Friday and then, and the
most infuriating thing possible, had a great weekend, walked out
of here with a big smile on his face on
Friday after everyone celebrated him on the radio for several hours.
It was a lot of fun. And I want to
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say something about that too, because we had Jim Rose
did a wonderful job of guiding Gary throughout his life
and career, and the Rosie to Genozie on Friday was
absolutely a beautiful tribute to our friend Jim very very
well done. So all of that is posted. The entire
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morning show is posted on the Morning Show podcast link
at kfab dot com. The Rosie de Genozi is up
there on the Jim Rose podcast. And then some people
thought it was incredibly disrespectful what I did after nine o'clock,
where we were playing some of Gary's less hall of
famey moments on the radio, some of the mistakes, some
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of the errors, some of the flubs during commercials, some
of the goofier parts of the show over the years.
Some people thought that was disrespectful. You have to understand
not just where I come from, but also I think
where we come from as a team here on eleven
ten KFAB. I've always been of the impression that a
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a friend, when you're hosting your final radio program of
a legendary career, a friend will send you a text
message and say, hey, great job, congratulations and well wishes
on retirement. That's what a friend does. A real friend
will send you a text message and say you've been
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off the air for the last fifteen minutes. So that's
kind of where we come from on this program. I
just look at this news, whether it's Rob Reiner, the
shooting at Brown, the shooting in Australia, what Jim is
going to report in sports here about our volleyball team,
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And you kind of feel all this stuff, and then
some people are going to get down because the forecast
just said a moment ago that with the beautiful weather
this week, the double edged sword on that one is
it's lessening our opportunity for a white Christmas. I think
we should know by now that with a week and
a half before Christmas, anything can happen with the weather
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here within the next ten days. So I wouldn't discount
that yet. But there are a lot of people waking
up this morning with the news and so forth not
feeling in the Christmas spirit. I get that, But all
of these things, as sad as some of these news
events are, they should make you feel more in the
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Christmas spirit. This should be an opportunity to say, look
at all of the sad things that happened. People who
didn't realize that when they woke up on Saturday to
take their finals at Brown in Providence, Rhode Island, that
this would be the kind of situation to even here
in Omaha, when people were shopping at West ROAs yesterday.
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It was a huge fight involving teenagers out there. Police
were called out, and people are like, what the heck's
going on with my holiday shopping? Stuff like this should
be a reminder it's even more important to reach out
to someone and say, I can't believe Rob Reiner died.
We love Sleepless in Seattle. Is there a chance this
week to get together and watch Sleepless in Seattle? Hey, Diane,
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take a look at these swatches Rob Reiner's great line
in that movie with Tom Hanks. This would be a
great time to reach out to a Jewish friend of
yours and the wake of what happened in Australia and
say I'm embarrassed at just how little I know about Hanukkah.
It's pretty much limited to an Adam Sandler song. Can
we get together, have some some beverage and talk a
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little bit. This would be a tremendous opportunity to reach
out to someone and fill yourself with that holiday spirit.
That's my attempt at optimism here this morning. In the
wake of all this bad news, including Jim has been
noticing online that Nebraska had volleyball coach Danny Busbooon Kelly
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celebrated and lauded and just swimming in out accolades throughout
this incredible year for the Huskers. Look, I want the
volleyball team to win. I will pay attention when I
see that they're playing, especially as a get towards a
national championship game. But I can't declare myself as I'm
a huge volleyball I'm not going to try there. I'm
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not going to pass myself off as that. It seems
to me as a football fan. By the way, how
about the Husker basketball team on Saturday. This was great,
But it seems to me as a football fan, this
would be like if the Nebraska Cornescar football team barreled
through the regular season like no one even scored on them,
and then they end up losing in the first round
of the playoffs to Jackson State or something like that.
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I mean, is that what just happened with the volleyball team?
And why is coach bus boom Kelly getting torn apart?
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Now?
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Well, Danny's remembering now quickly that there is no place
like Nebraska when it comes to sports. And you say
that with both great affinity, love and affection and also
iron consternation because Husker fans voiced their views and on
social media. She's getting hit pretty hard for her decision
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to pull the All American Andy Jackson for much of
the match. Apparently she wasn't playing very well. Now, I'm
not nearly close enough to the game of volleyball. John
Bator was sitting here, he could explain it to his
chapter and verse. He's the radio guy for him. But
I know when you take your best, one of your
best players off the floor, it better be for a
really good reason. And when you lose the match, that
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kind of thing starts bubbling up, and it takes me
back to the miracle on ice hockey game way back
years ago. A lot of fans will remember when we
beat the Russians. The Russians were the greatest team on
the planet Earth, maybe the greatest of all time, and
they had a goalie named Vladislav Tretiak. He was the
best goaltender in the entire world, maybe many solar systems.
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And the head coach pulled him because he gave up
a couple of early goals and he sat on the
bench and the United States who won the match, and
the coach was suddenly gone when he returned to Mother Russia.
No that's not true, but they wondered aloud from one
corner of the country, why would you do that? Well,
Danny pulled Andy Jackson and she didn't play much of
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that match by comparison, So you folks who know volleyball
and who have followed volleyball and our volleyball officionados, you'll
know why, or you could explain it, and maybe you're
okay with it. But all I was watching was social
media last night.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
What is she doing? You know? When she got pulled?
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Nebraska came back and won three and four, including the
dynamic correct and just about still pulled the thing up.
We also had an athlete, a volleyball player who was
hurt in.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Yes, right, stepped on a ball. What well, you trip
over a ball. It's something that happens in middle school, right, Actually,
I think it probably happens. It's pretty rare and it's crazy.
But the same thing happened and when I was in
high school, and now I didn't go to East High School.
I went to Lincoln Southeast High School. But the morning
of the state championship game for East High School, their
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greatest player, Alex Diverrens, stepped on a basketball during the
last few minutes of their walkthrough and he really badly
twisted his ankle. He hardly played in the state title
game and West Side won the state title game.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
People go, what the hell happened to Alex? Why's not
out there?
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Well, because there's a grapefruit forming just above his ankle bone.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
That's why, Scott Ford.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
He's here on news radio eleven ten kfab welcoming our
national correspondent Rory O'Neill to the program here. Rory is
a native of Rhode Island. So looking here at what
happened to Providence at Brown University, Rory, when you think
of Providence, when you think of this school, you don't
think about something that happened over the weekend. Especially now
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the police there had a guy in custody as a
person of interest and now they don't.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Rory, what's the latest here.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
Yeah, big head spinner. Last night around eleven pm Eastern time,
when the mayor and police chief and the Rhode Island
Attorney General announced that their person of interest was not
the guy that did it. They did not leak the
person's name early Sunday, but they didn't object to it's
being leaked either, as the name sort of got out
into the public late Sunday morning, but by Sunday night
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it was clear he was not the person responsible. So
they're back to square one. There was a man on
the streets out there who conducted a mass shooting inside
a classroom at an Ivy League university, killing two people,
wounding nine others, and they don't have a clue who
this guy is. The video they do have just shows
barely the side of his body, maybe some of his back,
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But they say the video from inside that classroom is
useless and provides no information to help identify this shooter.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Social media in the wake of a person in custody's
name being leaked out was an absolute shinola show. You
had some people saying, Oh, this is who the shooter is,
and he has this ideology and he has this kind
of the thoughts on this particular political and then you
read the next post and it's completely on the other
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side of the spectrum. I think, I'll I'll just do
what everyone else should do when it comes to a
situation like this, I'll wait for Candace Owens to tell
me who the killer is.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
He said.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
So they just listen to your radio to find out
what the real deal is. But yeah, it really was
frustrating to watch that, and you know, and then the
criticism of the police and saying, oh, they're not talking enough,
they're talking too much, and you know, they don't know
what they're doing. And everyone has this mentality of this
is solved like it's a case of law and order,
right that you get thirty minutes for the cops and
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thirty minutes for the prosecutors, and this is all tied
up with a neat little bow. And that isn't what's
happening here. This is difficult and they don't have really
a whole lot to go on right now.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Never been to Providence, Rhode Island, give me some sense
of how the commune unity is dealing with something like this, Rory,
you're from that area.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
Well, right, you know, Look, they've had tragedies obviously before.
Remember the Station nightclub fire from what twenty years ago
where one hundred people were killed Great White Concert that
was about fifteen miles away from from where this happened.
Brown University College Hill probably the best part of Providence
in terms of that's where the money is. Some of
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the most historic homes in the US are in this community.
Two streets over, it's a street called Benefit Street. With
the light snow they got yesterday, that would have been
one of the most photographed streets in the country yesterday
because it is so darn picturesque right there with these
colonial pre colonial buildings, and and it really is just
an idyllic spot when you're trying to for a history boff.
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And then you have, obviously this carnage happening inside the building,
the engineering building of one of America's most prestigious schools.
But we don't know why. Was this about religion? Then
the fact there was the of Hanukkah, Was someone angry
because they got flunked out or it was the anniversary
of Sandy Hook as well? Was that? We don't know
any motivation here. So that's why this investigation is so hard.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
And finally and quickly, here Rory, you and I are
of the same vintage. We grew up with Rob Reiner
ian both an acting and writer director. Standpoint, what's your
favorite thing that Rob Reiner ever produced?
Speaker 5 (18:23):
I love stand by Me, I love that, and then
a few good men and the American President.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
I mean, come on, yeah, oh, my God, and when
Harry met Sally of course the Princess Bride. There's so
much Rory, thank you so much for joining us here
this morning. As always, Thanks gott Lucy. This kind of
is the underlying theme throughout the program, and that is
a favorite Rob Reiner movie. And you could either go
with something he wrote, directed, produced, wrote, directed and produced,
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or start in as an actor. Surely there's something that
Rob Reiner produced over the years that even Lucy And
if you're not familiar with this dynamic, Lucy and I've
been hanging out in the radio together after nine o'clock
for several years, will still do so until ten. In
this new little I think I will post Sattlemeyer World,
I hope, and Lucy and I have never seen the
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same movies. And in that rare intersection where we've seen
the same films, Lucy doesn't like it or she's seen
something that I don't like. So Rob Rein or anything.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
You said he did Sleepless.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
He did do Sleepless Love that well, No, no, he
was an actor.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
That was one. He was just an actor. And Sleepless
in Seattle.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Well, I like that movie.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Tom Hanks, Tom Hanks buddy in there where they're doing
Kerry Grant impersonations. Yes, Princess Bride. He was director. I
don't think he wrote it, but he directed it.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
What's left?
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Give me some options here.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Spinal Tap loved it well. A Few Good Men is
his number one movie of all time.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
I kind of hard to disagree with that. It's not
my favorite, though. My favorite is either Princess Bride or
stand By Me. I love those movies. So there's a
there's a few more for you.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Stand by Me excellent.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
You don't see too many people playing clips from stand
By Me, but you hear you can't handle the truth.
That's true all the time. Oh yeah, Nicholson. Nicholson in
that movie was unbelievable. And how he didn't win Best
Supporting Actor. He dominated. He was on screen for twenty
one minutes of the whole movie and dominated it.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
We were talking, I don't remember what led us to
discuss that a couple of weeks ago. But greatest scene
in movie history, which is not greatest quote though that's
probably a big part of it, but the greatest scene
and that courtroom scene you're talking about here between Tom
Cruise and Jack Nicholson as Colonel Jessup is absolutely riveting.
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I don't know that it gets any better than that. Well,
and it's quite essential Nicholson. It's it's that the eyes,
it's the scowl, it's you know, the remarkable skill he had.
But the scene that doesn't get a lot of play,
but may I think actually even make a better Nicholson
case in that movie was that opening sequence when you
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know they flashed to him reading the letter this is
for Santiago is killed.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
He's reading the letter that they'd intercepted it. He was
sending home. That whole sequence was ad libbed by Nicholson.
That was not in the copy, that was not in
the script. He ad libbed that whole diatribe about let's
get the president on the phone, we're surrendering the island,
that kind of thing, And later it came out that
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Nicholson improvised that whole thing.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
So you're directing and producing it, you're in Rob Reiner's
shoes right now, and you're watching.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
It's it's this is genius. This is acting genius.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
So to him, to his credit, he recognized that and
checked his ego as Nicholson performed remarkably in that movie.
And this for this man's vote.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
From the talkback mike, which, of course, if you're listening
to us on our free iHeartRadio app, there's a little
microphone right there on the screen. You can tap that
microphone and send us a message into the Zonker's Custom
Woods in box.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Hey, good morning.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
You know, speaking of Rob Reiner, can anybody remember the movie.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Throw Mama from the Train.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Yes, it was directed by Dan Debto, but Rob Reiner
was the one in there who.
Speaker 6 (22:29):
Was Billy Crystal's agent or something, and he's the one
who told him he sucked at writing. And he's been
writing the same book for five years.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Anyway.
Speaker 7 (22:37):
Rob Reiner was in Throw Mama from the Train.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Too, in case anybody forgot.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Yes, God bless you, Marry Christmas Todd you on the
Morning Show, Scott.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Thank you very much. I spent a lot of time
on this morning show over the years. But it's gonna
feel a very, very different here sitting in Gary's chair.
I just wish he wasn't also sitting in it. But
you know, he's guiding me through how to do this,
and it's like it's like that golf trainer who's wrapping
his arms around you going it's all in the hips.
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So Gary's here, I'm sitting on his life. Yeah, I
told him, I said, look, this is not a good
look for you. Go home, go back to bed. You're
done here? Yeah? Oh yes. Rob Ryner was Billy Crystal's agent.
The night was Moist and throw Mama from the train.
Ohen youko from Omaha. That is the great Anne Ramsey
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in that film. On the talk back Mike and the
Zonker's custom was inbox.
Speaker 7 (23:35):
Good morning Scott and Gary. Jim. I almost said, Gary,
I must have missed something on Friday because with all
the accolades and everything else. And by the way, you
guys did a great show on Friday for Gary. But
I didn't hear anything from Warren Buffett. Isn't that a
little loud? I mean, Gary and he are probably the
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two most iconic people in Omaha. I don't know what's
up with that.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Well, Jim, were you? I just don't get up that
early anymore. That's part of it.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
You started here just a few years before I joined
the Proceedings. I think it was well before that, probably
before Rush Limbaugh was on KFAB. Warren, who lives down
the street, he would pop in here and bring donuts
and say good morning to everybody and hang out. And
once the political and once everything got super political, and
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Rush Limbaugh of course ushered that in on this radio station,
Warren decided he couldn't be a part of it.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
That's my understanding, that's what happened.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
Yeah, he grew up listening to KFAB, you know not
he wasn't alone. Pretty much two thirds of the community
grew up listening to the radio station. He did not
like the turn that we took when Rush, it was
really in the wake of the two thousand election. He
didn't think that that was handled very well by the
United States Supreme Court. And then when Rush came on,
that was pretty much same thing with Alexander Payne.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Had to take it out on us. All right, Lucy
is letting me know that we got a little extra
traffic we need to detail.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Yeah, the problem with six to eighty southbound was that
stalled vehicle that has been moved off to the shoulder,
but you are still backed up now all the way
to Maple. That's due to a crash on six' eighty
southbound at Pacific. If you're stuck in that, stay to
the left. The two right lanes are blocked and again
you're just slow to stop and go all the way
back to Maple. You might want to avoid six eighty
southbound until Pacific. If you get on from Pacific, you
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can bypass all of that slow down.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Time Saver traffic updates every ten minutes on the fours
ish or anytime we need them.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Thank you so much, Lucy.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Speaking of political divisions, back to the talkback mic and
another comment here on Rob Reiner.
Speaker 8 (25:41):
Hey, Scott, Rob Reiner in The Wolf of Wall Street
at Jordan Belford's dad. Yeah, it's probably my favorite Rob
Reiner movie that he acted in, And I would say
stand By f stand By Me is my favorite movie
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he directed. It may not be quoted that much.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
But yeah, it's so good. I forgot about him.
Speaker 6 (26:09):
Man.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
That was very good street. Yeah, yeah, he has Leonardo
DiCaprio's dad.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
It was very good. Stand By Me was a really
good movie. It just didn't have the cultural impact of
a Few Good Men because of the use of Nicholson,
constant use of Nicholson and clips and other conditions some
unrelated to the crime and punishment of the movie itself.
But when he was when he was Michael Stivick okay,
this was Archie Bunker's liberal son in law, meathead, the
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meathead he goes. In fact, there was that famous scene
when when Bunker actually says you're a meathead.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Okay, and it just stuck for the rest.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
That's when the show really took on a cultural place
unlike anything else, because you had not only disparate political views,
but it was within a family. And it wasn't even
a natural family. It was an in law, and so
millions and millions of Americans could relate and still can.
Archie's generation absolutely could relate to having a son in
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law move in with you, eat all of your food,
and then criticize how you think and if you're just
joining us going, what happened Rob Reiner?
Speaker 1 (27:20):
That great question, it sounds. I mean, the police in
Los Angeles are investigating the homicide of Rob Reiner and
his wife, and in custody is their son troubled sense
a teenager, he's now in his early thirties. He has
spoken all throughout his entire life about substance abuse and
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problems with his dad. It's just absolutely tragically sad. So
we're celebrating Rob Reiner's movies that he's acted in that
he directed, wrote, produced. It was September twenty seventeen. Rob
Reiner was going around talking about some political thing he
was involved in, which I tolerated and dealt with, because
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even though I disagree with his politics, for me, I
don't care. You can have all the political opinions in
the world, but if you're going to give us some
of the greatest movies of all time, I'll deal with
it just fine. And at this point in the conversation
we'd reached the point where I was asking him about
some of my favorite Rob Ryder movies. With the success
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of it, would you ever want to do another Stephen
King movie? Having done Misery? And stand by me?
Speaker 6 (28:30):
Well, sure, I mean, he's a brilliant writer. And at
Castle Rock, you know which we took the name castle
Rock from the town that Stephen King uses in many
of his books. We actually made seven or eight Stephen
King movies. So yeah, he's a brilliant writer, and if
the right project were there, of.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Course, all right.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Also, I really enjoyed reading Kerry Elway's book As You Wish,
which had a lot of great stories by you in
there as well about the making of The Princess Bride.
When you look back on that movie, now, what from
that film still makes you laugh?
Speaker 6 (29:03):
Billy Crystal When we were doing the scene with Miracle
Max and he started explaining the beauties of a mutton,
lettuce and tomato sandwich, and I started laughing out loud.
I mean, I couldn't contain myself. I actually destroyed.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
A number of takes that scene.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
And what I love in that movie more than Billy Crystal,
I think, and I love Billy Crystal is Carol Caine
in that same scene.
Speaker 6 (29:31):
Yeah, she's great, great, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Yeah, all right.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Another one of my favorite films is When Harry met Sally.
It must have been a rather bold move to cast
Carrie Fisher in the role of Meg Ryan's friends and
she hadn't really done any successful comedies in several years.
Why did you go with Carrie Fisher for that role?
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Well?
Speaker 6 (29:48):
I knew Carrie very well, and I knew how funny
she was. I mean, she was brilliantly funny. I spent
a lot of time with her. She was good friends
with myself and Albert Brooks, who was also a good friend.
So she was like the first choice and the perfect
choice for it.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Rob Reiner just some of the most best loved films
of all time that he was a part of everything
from Spinal Tap to as we mentioned there Stand by Me,
Princess Bride, when Harry Matt Sally Misery, a few good Men,
the American President, and then here recently Spinal Tap two.
The end continues. I understand it's not that great a movie,
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but it has a fantastic title. I've been talking so
much about Rob Reiner this morning. Lucy, here's one that's
right up your alley. I don't know how many listeners
to this program realize this, but Lucy is the official
conspiracy theorist of eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Sounds like Lucy has a conspiracy theory.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
So we have another actor to discuss, and it has
to do with every conspiracy theorist's favorite subject. Over the
last few years, COVID. Liam Neeson has lent his voice
to a documentary called Plague of Corruption. It's about a
former researcher who rose to prominence during the COVID pandemic
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by spreading claims about COVID its origin vaccines.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
And it's just.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
No, no, this would go on the other side of it.
This is a much more like QAnon right leaning stuff
that becomes more and more obvious and truthy as we
go through the years. It's it's so it asks a
lot of questions about as I mentioned, the origin of COVID,
(31:44):
the vaccines, uh, the the social distancing mandates you couldn't work,
and all that suff So, look, we've had this conversation
over and over again. But this movie here is voice.
It's a documentary voice by Liam. And I've not known
Liam Neeson to be one of the very few in
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Hollywood who would ask these questions or point these things out.
I mean, he's not Rob was his name from Saturday
Night Live. I suddenly just lost his name, Rob Schneider.
He's not Rob Schneider, He's Liam Neeson.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
Yeah, but you just got to take some monies where
you can get it.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
So well, I didn't know Liam was hurting for cash.
His people are saying, no, no, no, don't suggest that
just because he is voicing a documentary that seems to
be anti vaccination. Don't think that Liam is himself anti vaccination.
We didn't shape the film's editorial content. Yeah, but you're
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providing your very recognizable voice to it. I gotta say
it looks like a pretty good film. Here's a part
of this film, Plague of Corruption, where Liam Neeson is
talking to those who released the COVID vaccine from that
lab in Wuhan, China.
Speaker 9 (33:04):
I don't know what you want. If you are looking
for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money.
But what I do have a very particular set of skills,
skills I have acquired her for a very long career,
skills that make me a mitemare for people like you.
If you let my daughter go, now, that'll be the
(33:24):
end of it. I will not look for you. I
will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will
look for you. I will find you, and I will
kill you.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
Wow, I mean he which characters he plays? Not happy
playing the virus character in that one.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
He's talking to the people who spread that virus out
of the lab and Wuhan.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Very intense. That might have been from the film taken. Yes,
I think I was.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
I can't remember his daughter here. If that's wrong, than
I apologize. But yes, so Liam Neeson's people are distancing
himself from that.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
I'll tell you who.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
They need to make at least some sort of movie
about and that is Jim, the guy who ran up
on one of the gunmen in Australia. Amazing that we
don't have really any more details about these gunmen in Australia,
even though are they one of them's dead and the
other ones in in custody. Okay, yeah, but also yeah,
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we don't know who they are. They see the father
is was killed by police at the scene. The son
was hospitalized and he was the one who a bystander.
This is at a start of Hanukkah event at Bondai
Beach in Sydney, Australia, where there was a mass shooting.
Fifteen people killed they range in age from ten to
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eighty seven, about forty people injured, and there could have
been more. But a guy runs up from behind and
attacks one of the gunmen and is able to get
his gun from him and have the restraint not to
just shoot him right there. It's an impressive act there.
(35:21):
We don't have any details about who these guys are,
what their particular reasons for doing this. Might be potentially
rooted in political ideology which is not favorable of Israel
and Jewish people being allowed to exist. I'm being a
(35:41):
little careful how I put this I don't know who
these guys are, what they did. I'll tell you that
the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netan, Yahoo, he's blaming
Australia's policy on being one of those nations to say
that Palestine should be a recognized nation state.
Speaker 4 (35:57):
Two state solution to the problem. Yeah, many in America
don't believe that. In fact, yesterday on some of the
morning talk shows, they were very emphatic about it, led
by Lindsey Graham, who says, this is what happens when
you essentially compromise with terrorists. Because the Palestinian state is
run by terras Hamas. These people have a vow to
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kill all Jews. Now, the guy you're talking about is
Ahmed al Ahmed, who is a Muslim. This is the
dude who tackled the guy shooting the Jews and then
he was shot twice by his brother from one hundred
yards away. So you had the one guy on the
ground shooting at Jews, and then you had another brother
of his on a footbridge about one hundred yards away
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shooting at Jews. When the guy on the bridge saw
that this dude, mister ah Ahmed tackled his brother and
took the rifle away from him. He shot the hero,
He shot the good Samaritan, and we don't know what
condition he is in. He's undergone surgery, thankfully, he was
on his arm in his hand, and I'm sure it
was a serious surgery. But he's a forty three year
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old father of two young girls who was there, and
we all saw the video. He was kind of sneaking
up on the guy, grabbed him, wrestled the gun away
from him, and then didn't shoot him.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
How many of us would do that.
Speaker 4 (37:11):
I would have shot him, but then you know it's
on video and then chances are I'm gonna get Yeah,
if you don't have a gun, how would you How
many of us would run up there and involve ourselves
in the situation.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
You don't know what you do until you're in that situation.
This guy did the run.
Speaker 4 (37:24):
And he probably didn't know about the brother on the bridge,
and if he had, he might have been a little
more I don't.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
Think about it. Was a father son is what they're
describing that one. Yeah. Father.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
So we'll get more details throughout the day on that
horrific situation, Lucy. You've seen when Harry met Sally I hope, right,
this has got to be one of those few films
we've both seen and like. Right, sure, you don't like
when Harry Matt Sally?
Speaker 2 (37:48):
Really, no, it's good? Are you good?
Speaker 3 (37:50):
It's good?
Speaker 1 (37:51):
Good, it's great. Well, this is one that Rob Reiner
was a part of as well. Let's see here did
he he did and write that? No, that was I
think Nora Ephron, but directed and produced it. And originally
Harry and Sally, Billy Crystal and Mey Ryan did not
end up together. But something happened. While Rob Reiner was
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making the movie. He met a girl who would go
on to be his wife, Michelle, and because that relationship
was blossoming, he didn't feel right about making this great
love story type romantic comedy and have it end where
those two don't get together. So you can credit his
wife Michelle for changing the ending of that movie.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (38:38):
Well, No, it's a sweet story, now you do.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
It is a sweet story too.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
He was married to Penny Marshall and one of the
he ended up adopting her daughter, Tracy Reiner, who has
a bit part in when Harry met Sally in the
baby Fishmouth pictionary scene. She was also one of the
various characters in Penny Marshall's film A League of their Own,
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one of the greatest movies of all time. And I
had a chance to talk with her a few years
ago and talk about, you know, growing up with Rob
Reiner and Penny Marshall in the house. And she was
still very very close to her adoptive father, even though
he's not her dad, and he and her mom were
together anymore. So she had nothing but great things to
say about him. It's just awful that not all of
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his kids were able to say that
Great to have you with us here seven minutes past
six o'clock on this Monday morning. This is Nebraska's Morning News.
My name is Scott Vorhees. I've got Lucy Chapman here,
I've got Jim Rose here, and I've got an inbox
full of people who Boy, how do I put this?
(00:20):
When Gary Sadelemeyer announced several weeks ago that he would
be retiring as of Friday, December twelfth, that was a
major blow and a big level of disappointment for a
lot of us, myself included. I didn't realize just how
much I would miss listening to Gary and Jim and
Lucy and Craig on the way into work until I
(00:41):
was coming into work this morning and I thought, number one,
there's a lot less traffic coming in regularly at this
time in the morning, and two, Gary's not on my radio,
so I get it, and I'm right there with you.
So when Gary made the announcement and then we had
the big celebration for him on Friday, obviously a lot
of people were wishing him well, but a tinge of
(01:04):
disappointment that was a collective feeling. Now here on Monday morning,
we're at the point where people are individually finding out
that Gary retired and he's not gonna be doing the
show every single day. He's welcome to pop in anytime
he wants. He said he would do that, but people
are just there are some people just hearing that message
(01:24):
for the first time, and that will be the case
later this morning, tomorrow morning, a week from tuesday, in
three months from now. So now we're going about the
process of disappointing people individually with the sound.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Of life lace that what's going on here?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Yet, Yeah, it doesn't exactly fill me with a lot
of Hey, hey, this is great, let's go. I do
enjoy the people have been asking me for the last
few days and emails today like hey, what are you
going to do? I can't wait to see what you're
gonna do. Here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna talk
about the news. We're going to talk with Jim Rose,
with Lucy Chapman. If I haven't mentioned this already, my
(02:03):
name is Scott Vorhees, and you're gonna get a full
snwit of my opinions on things. And we're gonna do that.
It's not like it's Nebraska's Morning News. The musical I
mean it's not gonna I don't think. I mean, we
might try a few different things. I hope you enjoyed
the Fox News Radio Hour and the five o'clock hour.
(02:23):
I admit it felt weird not to start the show
at five point thirty whatever like we would normally do.
It felt a little strange. But we're trying it on.
We'll see how it goes. If it turns out that
we hate it, we'll change. We'll do whatever. We can
do anything in the world except bring Gary back.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
I think i'd like to return this package. Please, Yeah,
get a lot of that this time of year.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
You know, I couldn't like I think everybody couldn't believe
it last night when we found out about Rob Reiner.
Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle dead at their home
in Los Angeles, and the suspect is their son, thirty
(03:07):
two year old Nick Reiner, drug addict, been in rehab
since he was a teenager. He has been very open
about his problems with substance abuse, his experience living on
the streets, as well as his horrible relationship he's had
with his dad.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
So this is.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
What I don't know, is whether he's in custody whether
the lapd Is officially listed him as a suspect. But wow,
is that sad. This is someone who Rob Reiner had.
I think he had a pretty good relationship with his father,
Carl Reiner, growing up. But Rob Reiner would say, yeah,
(03:52):
when I was a kid, I felt that my father,
Hollywood legend Carl Reiner, never thought I was funny. So
Rob Reiner then starts off as a writer on the
Smothers Brothers Show, would end up being meathead on All
of the All in the Family. That was Archie Bunker's
(04:15):
liberal son in law, and then Rob Reiner, from a
liberal perspective, would live out that political persuasion throughout the
rest of his life. He's been a guest on this
radio station a couple of times in the last decade.
We'll hear bits of that coming up throughout the morning.
But the number of like classic movies he's directed, Stand
(04:40):
By Me, Princess Bride, when Harry met Sally, that was man.
That was three in a row right there. Did he
do a few?
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Good gosh, he was a unique Hollywood personality. He was
one of those guys who had no trouble speaking out politically,
which drove a big wedge through the middle of his
fan base. And now we can appreciate Donald Trump, can
appreciate Rob Reiner's son, because Donald Trump's had trouble with
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Rob Reiner two for the last ten years. But he's
been extremely, almost vitriolically critical of the President and of
Republicans and all of that.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
But you know, this is a tale.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
You see a lot, Scott, and that is Hollywood families
have a lot of struggles.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Why is that?
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Is it the popular cultures at the narcissism is that
it's always about me, not about them. And you see
so many children of famous actors, Hollywood insiders who struggle
with drug and alcohol addictions. Maybe it's the environment, Maybe
it's just the atmosphere. Maybe it's the availability of it.
Maybe it's too much money, easy to get too money,
who knows.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Quite true, certainly families whose fathers are not Rob Reiner
suffering a lot of the same instances. But it is,
it is awfully prevalent, at least it seems we hear
about it in the high profile instances.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
See between the Marlon Brando's kids. You look at the
Kobaine kids, I mean you look at the I mean
the walking Phoenix and his family and all of that.
It's it's sad and it's tragic, but this one, this
is kind of the like the Menendez Brothers deal. You know,
mom and dad sitting there suddenly gone well between everywhere.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Between that, the shootings, what happened with Nebraska volleyball. I mean,
Oscar Nation is not waking up on the best side
of the pillar this morning. I have a message about that.
We'll get to it after traffic, weather and a news
update in just a minute here on news radio eleven
to ten kfa B. Going to take everything in my
power not to say Scott boorhies in for Gary Sandelmeyer,
(06:35):
who's back. Gary retired on Friday and then, and the
most infuriating thing possible, had a great weekend, walked out
of here with a big smile on his face on
Friday after everyone celebrated him on the radio for several hours.
It was a lot of fun. And I want to
(06:56):
say something about that too, because we had Jim Rose
did a wonderful job of guiding Gary throughout his life
and career, and the Rosie to Genozie on Friday was
absolutely a beautiful tribute to our friend Jim very very
well done. So all of that is posted. The entire
(07:16):
morning show is posted on the Morning Show podcast link
at kfab dot com. The Rosie de Genozi is up
there on the Jim Rose podcast. And then some people
thought it was incredibly disrespectful what I did after nine o'clock,
where we were playing some of Gary's less hall of
famey moments on the radio, some of the mistakes, some
(07:38):
of the errors, some of the flubs during commercials, some
of the goofier parts of the show over the years.
Some people thought that was disrespectful. You have to understand
not just where I come from, but also I think
where we come from as a team here on eleven
ten KFAB. I've always been of the impression that a
(08:00):
a friend, when you're hosting your final radio program of
a legendary career, a friend will send you a text
message and say, hey, great job, congratulations and well wishes
on retirement. That's what a friend does. A real friend
will send you a text message and say you've been
(08:21):
off the air for the last fifteen minutes. So that's
kind of where we come from on this program. I
just look at this news, whether it's Rob Reiner, the
shooting at Brown, the shooting in Australia, what Jim is
going to report in sports here about our volleyball team,
(08:44):
And you kind of feel all this stuff, and then
some people are going to get down because the forecast
just said a moment ago that with the beautiful weather
this week, the double edged sword on that one is
it's lessening our opportunity for a white Christmas. I think
we should know by now that with a week and
a half before Christmas, anything can happen with the weather
(09:05):
here within the next ten days. So I wouldn't discount
that yet. But there are a lot of people waking
up this morning with the news and so forth not
feeling in the Christmas spirit. I get that, But all
of these things, as sad as some of these news
events are, they should make you feel more in the
(09:28):
Christmas spirit. This should be an opportunity to say, look
at all of the sad things that happened. People who
didn't realize that when they woke up on Saturday to
take their finals at Brown in Providence, Rhode Island, that
this would be the kind of situation to even here
in Omaha, when people were shopping at West ROAs yesterday.
(09:50):
It was a huge fight involving teenagers out there. Police
were called out, and people are like, what the heck's
going on with my holiday shopping? Stuff like this should
be a reminder it's even more important to reach out
to someone and say, I can't believe Rob Reiner died.
We love Sleepless in Seattle. Is there a chance this
week to get together and watch Sleepless in Seattle? Hey, Diane,
(10:11):
take a look at these swatches Rob Reiner's great line
in that movie with Tom Hanks. This would be a
great time to reach out to a Jewish friend of
yours and the wake of what happened in Australia and
say I'm embarrassed at just how little I know about Hanukkah.
It's pretty much limited to an Adam Sandler song. Can
we get together, have some some beverage and talk a
(10:35):
little bit. This would be a tremendous opportunity to reach
out to someone and fill yourself with that holiday spirit.
That's my attempt at optimism here this morning. In the
wake of all this bad news, including Jim has been
noticing online that Nebraska had volleyball coach Danny Busbooon Kelly
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celebrated and lauded and just swimming in out accolades throughout
this incredible year for the Huskers. Look, I want the
volleyball team to win. I will pay attention when I
see that they're playing, especially as a get towards a
national championship game. But I can't declare myself as I'm
a huge volleyball I'm not going to try there. I'm
(11:17):
not going to pass myself off as that. It seems
to me as a football fan. By the way, how
about the Husker basketball team on Saturday. This was great,
But it seems to me as a football fan, this
would be like if the Nebraska Cornescar football team barreled
through the regular season like no one even scored on them,
and then they end up losing in the first round
of the playoffs to Jackson State or something like that.
(11:40):
I mean, is that what just happened with the volleyball team?
And why is coach bus boom Kelly getting torn apart?
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Now?
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Well, Danny's remembering now quickly that there is no place
like Nebraska when it comes to sports. And you say
that with both great affinity, love and affection and also
iron consternation because Husker fans voiced their views and on
social media. She's getting hit pretty hard for her decision
(12:08):
to pull the All American Andy Jackson for much of
the match. Apparently she wasn't playing very well. Now, I'm
not nearly close enough to the game of volleyball. John
Bator was sitting here, he could explain it to his
chapter and verse. He's the radio guy for him. But
I know when you take your best, one of your
best players off the floor, it better be for a
really good reason. And when you lose the match, that
(12:32):
kind of thing starts bubbling up, and it takes me
back to the miracle on ice hockey game way back
years ago. A lot of fans will remember when we
beat the Russians. The Russians were the greatest team on
the planet Earth, maybe the greatest of all time, and
they had a goalie named Vladislav Tretiak. He was the
best goaltender in the entire world, maybe many solar systems.
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And the head coach pulled him because he gave up
a couple of early goals and he sat on the
bench and the United States who won the match, and
the coach was suddenly gone when he returned to Mother Russia.
No that's not true, but they wondered aloud from one
corner of the country, why would you do that? Well,
Danny pulled Andy Jackson and she didn't play much of
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that match by comparison, So you folks who know volleyball
and who have followed volleyball and our volleyball officionados, you'll
know why, or you could explain it, and maybe you're
okay with it. But all I was watching was social
media last night.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
What is she doing? You know? When she got pulled?
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Nebraska came back and won three and four, including the
dynamic correct and just about still pulled the thing up.
We also had an athlete, a volleyball player who was
hurt in.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Yes, right, stepped on a ball. What well, you trip
over a ball. It's something that happens in middle school, right, Actually,
I think it probably happens. It's pretty rare and it's crazy.
But the same thing happened and when I was in
high school, and now I didn't go to East High School.
I went to Lincoln Southeast High School. But the morning
of the state championship game for East High School, their
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greatest player, Alex Diverrens, stepped on a basketball during the
last few minutes of their walkthrough and he really badly
twisted his ankle. He hardly played in the state title
game and West Side won the state title game.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
People go, what the hell happened to Alex? Why's not
out there?
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Well, because there's a grapefruit forming just above his ankle bone.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
That's why, Scott Ford.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
He's here on news radio eleven ten kfab welcoming our
national correspondent Rory O'Neill to the program here. Rory is
a native of Rhode Island. So looking here at what
happened to Providence at Brown University, Rory, when you think
of Providence, when you think of this school, you don't
think about something that happened over the weekend. Especially now
(14:52):
the police there had a guy in custody as a
person of interest and now they don't.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Rory, what's the latest here.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
Yeah, big head spinner. Last night around eleven pm Eastern time,
when the mayor and police chief and the Rhode Island
Attorney General announced that their person of interest was not
the guy that did it. They did not leak the
person's name early Sunday, but they didn't object to it's
being leaked either, as the name sort of got out
into the public late Sunday morning, but by Sunday night
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it was clear he was not the person responsible. So
they're back to square one. There was a man on
the streets out there who conducted a mass shooting inside
a classroom at an Ivy League university, killing two people,
wounding nine others, and they don't have a clue who
this guy is. The video they do have just shows
barely the side of his body, maybe some of his back,
(15:44):
But they say the video from inside that classroom is
useless and provides no information to help identify this shooter.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Social media in the wake of a person in custody's
name being leaked out was an absolute shinola show. You
had some people saying, Oh, this is who the shooter is,
and he has this ideology and he has this kind
of the thoughts on this particular political and then you
read the next post and it's completely on the other
(16:12):
side of the spectrum. I think, I'll I'll just do
what everyone else should do when it comes to a
situation like this, I'll wait for Candace Owens to tell
me who the killer is.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
He said.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
So they just listen to your radio to find out
what the real deal is. But yeah, it really was
frustrating to watch that, and you know, and then the
criticism of the police and saying, oh, they're not talking enough,
they're talking too much, and you know, they don't know
what they're doing. And everyone has this mentality of this
is solved like it's a case of law and order,
right that you get thirty minutes for the cops and
(16:43):
thirty minutes for the prosecutors, and this is all tied
up with a neat little bow. And that isn't what's
happening here. This is difficult and they don't have really
a whole lot to go on right now.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Never been to Providence, Rhode Island, give me some sense
of how the commune unity is dealing with something like this, Rory,
you're from that area.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
Well, right, you know, Look, they've had tragedies obviously before.
Remember the Station nightclub fire from what twenty years ago
where one hundred people were killed Great White Concert that
was about fifteen miles away from from where this happened.
Brown University College Hill probably the best part of Providence
in terms of that's where the money is. Some of
(17:26):
the most historic homes in the US are in this community.
Two streets over, it's a street called Benefit Street. With
the light snow they got yesterday, that would have been
one of the most photographed streets in the country yesterday
because it is so darn picturesque right there with these
colonial pre colonial buildings, and and it really is just
an idyllic spot when you're trying to for a history boff.
(17:48):
And then you have, obviously this carnage happening inside the building,
the engineering building of one of America's most prestigious schools.
But we don't know why. Was this about religion? Then
the fact there was the of Hanukkah, Was someone angry
because they got flunked out or it was the anniversary
of Sandy Hook as well? Was that? We don't know
any motivation here. So that's why this investigation is so hard.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
And finally and quickly, here Rory, you and I are
of the same vintage. We grew up with Rob Reiner
ian both an acting and writer director. Standpoint, what's your
favorite thing that Rob Reiner ever produced?
Speaker 5 (18:23):
I love stand by Me, I love that, and then
a few good men and the American President.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
I mean, come on, yeah, oh, my God, and when
Harry met Sally of course the Princess Bride. There's so
much Rory, thank you so much for joining us here
this morning. As always, Thanks gott Lucy. This kind of
is the underlying theme throughout the program, and that is
a favorite Rob Reiner movie. And you could either go
with something he wrote, directed, produced, wrote, directed and produced,
(18:53):
or start in as an actor. Surely there's something that
Rob Reiner produced over the years that even Lucy And
if you're not familiar with this dynamic, Lucy and I've
been hanging out in the radio together after nine o'clock
for several years, will still do so until ten. In
this new little I think I will post Sattlemeyer World,
I hope, and Lucy and I have never seen the
(19:17):
same movies. And in that rare intersection where we've seen
the same films, Lucy doesn't like it or she's seen
something that I don't like. So Rob Rein or anything.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
You said he did Sleepless.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
He did do Sleepless Love that well, No, no, he
was an actor.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
That was one. He was just an actor. And Sleepless
in Seattle.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Well, I like that movie.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Tom Hanks, Tom Hanks buddy in there where they're doing
Kerry Grant impersonations. Yes, Princess Bride. He was director. I
don't think he wrote it, but he directed it.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
What's left?
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Give me some options here.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Spinal Tap loved it well. A Few Good Men is
his number one movie of all time.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
I kind of hard to disagree with that. It's not
my favorite, though. My favorite is either Princess Bride or
stand By Me. I love those movies. So there's a
there's a few more for you.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Stand by Me excellent.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
You don't see too many people playing clips from stand
By Me, but you hear you can't handle the truth.
That's true all the time. Oh yeah, Nicholson. Nicholson in
that movie was unbelievable. And how he didn't win Best
Supporting Actor. He dominated. He was on screen for twenty
one minutes of the whole movie and dominated it.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
We were talking, I don't remember what led us to
discuss that a couple of weeks ago. But greatest scene
in movie history, which is not greatest quote though that's
probably a big part of it, but the greatest scene
and that courtroom scene you're talking about here between Tom
Cruise and Jack Nicholson as Colonel Jessup is absolutely riveting.
(20:55):
I don't know that it gets any better than that. Well,
and it's quite essential Nicholson. It's it's that the eyes,
it's the scowl, it's you know, the remarkable skill he had.
But the scene that doesn't get a lot of play,
but may I think actually even make a better Nicholson
case in that movie was that opening sequence when you
(21:16):
know they flashed to him reading the letter this is
for Santiago is killed.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
He's reading the letter that they'd intercepted it. He was
sending home. That whole sequence was ad libbed by Nicholson.
That was not in the copy, that was not in
the script. He ad libbed that whole diatribe about let's
get the president on the phone, we're surrendering the island,
that kind of thing, And later it came out that
(21:42):
Nicholson improvised that whole thing.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
So you're directing and producing it, you're in Rob Reiner's
shoes right now, and you're watching.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
It's it's this is genius. This is acting genius.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
So to him, to his credit, he recognized that and
checked his ego as Nicholson performed remarkably in that movie.
And this for this man's vote.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
From the talkback mike, which, of course, if you're listening
to us on our free iHeartRadio app, there's a little
microphone right there on the screen. You can tap that
microphone and send us a message into the Zonker's Custom
Woods in box.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Hey, good morning.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
You know, speaking of Rob Reiner, can anybody remember the movie.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Throw Mama from the Train.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Yes, it was directed by Dan Debto, but Rob Reiner
was the one in there who.
Speaker 6 (22:29):
Was Billy Crystal's agent or something, and he's the one
who told him he sucked at writing. And he's been
writing the same book for five years.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Anyway.
Speaker 7 (22:37):
Rob Reiner was in Throw Mama from the Train.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Too, in case anybody forgot.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Yes, God bless you, Marry Christmas Todd you on the
Morning Show, Scott.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Thank you very much. I spent a lot of time
on this morning show over the years. But it's gonna
feel a very, very different here sitting in Gary's chair.
I just wish he wasn't also sitting in it. But
you know, he's guiding me through how to do this,
and it's like it's like that golf trainer who's wrapping
his arms around you going it's all in the hips.
(23:07):
So Gary's here, I'm sitting on his life. Yeah, I
told him, I said, look, this is not a good
look for you. Go home, go back to bed. You're
done here? Yeah? Oh yes. Rob Ryner was Billy Crystal's agent.
The night was Moist and throw Mama from the train.
Ohen youko from Omaha. That is the great Anne Ramsey
(23:29):
in that film. On the talk back Mike and the
Zonker's custom was inbox.
Speaker 7 (23:35):
Good morning Scott and Gary. Jim. I almost said, Gary,
I must have missed something on Friday because with all
the accolades and everything else. And by the way, you
guys did a great show on Friday for Gary. But
I didn't hear anything from Warren Buffett. Isn't that a
little loud? I mean, Gary and he are probably the
(23:58):
two most iconic people in Omaha. I don't know what's
up with that.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Well, Jim, were you? I just don't get up that
early anymore. That's part of it.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
You started here just a few years before I joined
the Proceedings. I think it was well before that, probably
before Rush Limbaugh was on KFAB. Warren, who lives down
the street, he would pop in here and bring donuts
and say good morning to everybody and hang out. And
once the political and once everything got super political, and
(24:28):
Rush Limbaugh of course ushered that in on this radio station,
Warren decided he couldn't be a part of it.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
That's my understanding, that's what happened.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
Yeah, he grew up listening to KFAB, you know not
he wasn't alone. Pretty much two thirds of the community
grew up listening to the radio station. He did not
like the turn that we took when Rush, it was
really in the wake of the two thousand election. He
didn't think that that was handled very well by the
United States Supreme Court. And then when Rush came on,
that was pretty much same thing with Alexander Payne.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Had to take it out on us. All right, Lucy
is letting me know that we got a little extra
traffic we need to detail.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Yeah, the problem with six to eighty southbound was that
stalled vehicle that has been moved off to the shoulder,
but you are still backed up now all the way
to Maple. That's due to a crash on six' eighty
southbound at Pacific. If you're stuck in that, stay to
the left. The two right lanes are blocked and again
you're just slow to stop and go all the way
back to Maple. You might want to avoid six eighty
southbound until Pacific. If you get on from Pacific, you
(25:24):
can bypass all of that slow down.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Time Saver traffic updates every ten minutes on the fours
ish or anytime we need them.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Thank you so much, Lucy.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Speaking of political divisions, back to the talkback mic and
another comment here on Rob Reiner.
Speaker 8 (25:41):
Hey, Scott, Rob Reiner in The Wolf of Wall Street
at Jordan Belford's dad. Yeah, it's probably my favorite Rob
Reiner movie that he acted in, And I would say
stand By f stand By Me is my favorite movie
(26:02):
he directed. It may not be quoted that much.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
But yeah, it's so good. I forgot about him.
Speaker 6 (26:09):
Man.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
That was very good street. Yeah, yeah, he has Leonardo
DiCaprio's dad.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
It was very good. Stand By Me was a really
good movie. It just didn't have the cultural impact of
a Few Good Men because of the use of Nicholson,
constant use of Nicholson and clips and other conditions some
unrelated to the crime and punishment of the movie itself.
But when he was when he was Michael Stivick okay,
this was Archie Bunker's liberal son in law, meathead, the
(26:38):
meathead he goes. In fact, there was that famous scene
when when Bunker actually says you're a meathead.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Okay, and it just stuck for the rest.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
That's when the show really took on a cultural place
unlike anything else, because you had not only disparate political views,
but it was within a family. And it wasn't even
a natural family. It was an in law, and so
millions and millions of Americans could relate and still can.
Archie's generation absolutely could relate to having a son in
(27:11):
law move in with you, eat all of your food,
and then criticize how you think and if you're just
joining us going, what happened Rob Reiner?
Speaker 1 (27:20):
That great question, it sounds. I mean, the police in
Los Angeles are investigating the homicide of Rob Reiner and
his wife, and in custody is their son troubled sense
a teenager, he's now in his early thirties. He has
spoken all throughout his entire life about substance abuse and
(27:40):
problems with his dad. It's just absolutely tragically sad. So
we're celebrating Rob Reiner's movies that he's acted in that
he directed, wrote, produced. It was September twenty seventeen. Rob
Reiner was going around talking about some political thing he
was involved in, which I tolerated and dealt with, because
(28:02):
even though I disagree with his politics, for me, I
don't care. You can have all the political opinions in
the world, but if you're going to give us some
of the greatest movies of all time, I'll deal with
it just fine. And at this point in the conversation
we'd reached the point where I was asking him about
some of my favorite Rob Ryder movies. With the success
(28:24):
of it, would you ever want to do another Stephen
King movie? Having done Misery? And stand by me?
Speaker 6 (28:30):
Well, sure, I mean, he's a brilliant writer. And at
Castle Rock, you know which we took the name castle
Rock from the town that Stephen King uses in many
of his books. We actually made seven or eight Stephen
King movies. So yeah, he's a brilliant writer, and if
the right project were there, of.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Course, all right.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Also, I really enjoyed reading Kerry Elway's book As You Wish,
which had a lot of great stories by you in
there as well about the making of The Princess Bride.
When you look back on that movie, now, what from
that film still makes you laugh?
Speaker 6 (29:03):
Billy Crystal When we were doing the scene with Miracle
Max and he started explaining the beauties of a mutton,
lettuce and tomato sandwich, and I started laughing out loud.
I mean, I couldn't contain myself. I actually destroyed.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
A number of takes that scene.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
And what I love in that movie more than Billy Crystal,
I think, and I love Billy Crystal is Carol Caine
in that same scene.
Speaker 6 (29:31):
Yeah, she's great, great, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Yeah, all right.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Another one of my favorite films is When Harry met Sally.
It must have been a rather bold move to cast
Carrie Fisher in the role of Meg Ryan's friends and
she hadn't really done any successful comedies in several years.
Why did you go with Carrie Fisher for that role?
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Well?
Speaker 6 (29:48):
I knew Carrie very well, and I knew how funny
she was. I mean, she was brilliantly funny. I spent
a lot of time with her. She was good friends
with myself and Albert Brooks, who was also a good friend.
So she was like the first choice and the perfect
choice for it.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Rob Reiner just some of the most best loved films
of all time that he was a part of everything
from Spinal Tap to as we mentioned there Stand by Me,
Princess Bride, when Harry Matt Sally Misery, a few good Men,
the American President, and then here recently Spinal Tap two.
The end continues. I understand it's not that great a movie,
(30:28):
but it has a fantastic title. I've been talking so
much about Rob Reiner this morning. Lucy, here's one that's
right up your alley. I don't know how many listeners
to this program realize this, but Lucy is the official
conspiracy theorist of eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Sounds like Lucy has a conspiracy theory.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
So we have another actor to discuss, and it has
to do with every conspiracy theorist's favorite subject. Over the
last few years, COVID. Liam Neeson has lent his voice
to a documentary called Plague of Corruption. It's about a
former researcher who rose to prominence during the COVID pandemic
(31:11):
by spreading claims about COVID its origin vaccines.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
And it's just.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
No, no, this would go on the other side of it.
This is a much more like QAnon right leaning stuff
that becomes more and more obvious and truthy as we
go through the years. It's it's so it asks a
lot of questions about as I mentioned, the origin of COVID,
(31:44):
the vaccines, uh, the the social distancing mandates you couldn't work,
and all that suff So, look, we've had this conversation
over and over again. But this movie here is voice.
It's a documentary voice by Liam. And I've not known
Liam Neeson to be one of the very few in
(32:05):
Hollywood who would ask these questions or point these things out.
I mean, he's not Rob was his name from Saturday
Night Live. I suddenly just lost his name, Rob Schneider.
He's not Rob Schneider, He's Liam Neeson.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
Yeah, but you just got to take some monies where
you can get it.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
So well, I didn't know Liam was hurting for cash.
His people are saying, no, no, no, don't suggest that
just because he is voicing a documentary that seems to
be anti vaccination. Don't think that Liam is himself anti vaccination.
We didn't shape the film's editorial content. Yeah, but you're
(32:44):
providing your very recognizable voice to it. I gotta say
it looks like a pretty good film. Here's a part
of this film, Plague of Corruption, where Liam Neeson is
talking to those who released the COVID vaccine from that
lab in Wuhan, China.
Speaker 9 (33:04):
I don't know what you want. If you are looking
for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money.
But what I do have a very particular set of skills,
skills I have acquired her for a very long career,
skills that make me a mitemare for people like you.
If you let my daughter go, now, that'll be the
(33:24):
end of it. I will not look for you. I
will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will
look for you. I will find you, and I will
kill you.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
Wow, I mean he which characters he plays? Not happy
playing the virus character in that one.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
He's talking to the people who spread that virus out
of the lab and Wuhan.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Very intense. That might have been from the film taken. Yes,
I think I was.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
I can't remember his daughter here. If that's wrong, than
I apologize. But yes, so Liam Neeson's people are distancing
himself from that.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
I'll tell you who.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
They need to make at least some sort of movie
about and that is Jim, the guy who ran up
on one of the gunmen in Australia. Amazing that we
don't have really any more details about these gunmen in Australia,
even though are they one of them's dead and the
other ones in in custody. Okay, yeah, but also yeah,
(34:36):
we don't know who they are. They see the father
is was killed by police at the scene. The son
was hospitalized and he was the one who a bystander.
This is at a start of Hanukkah event at Bondai
Beach in Sydney, Australia, where there was a mass shooting.
Fifteen people killed they range in age from ten to
(34:59):
eighty seven, about forty people injured, and there could have
been more. But a guy runs up from behind and
attacks one of the gunmen and is able to get
his gun from him and have the restraint not to
just shoot him right there. It's an impressive act there.
(35:21):
We don't have any details about who these guys are,
what their particular reasons for doing this. Might be potentially
rooted in political ideology which is not favorable of Israel
and Jewish people being allowed to exist. I'm being a
(35:41):
little careful how I put this I don't know who
these guys are, what they did. I'll tell you that
the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netan, Yahoo, he's blaming
Australia's policy on being one of those nations to say
that Palestine should be a recognized nation state.
Speaker 4 (35:57):
Two state solution to the problem. Yeah, many in America
don't believe that. In fact, yesterday on some of the
morning talk shows, they were very emphatic about it, led
by Lindsey Graham, who says, this is what happens when
you essentially compromise with terrorists. Because the Palestinian state is
run by terras Hamas. These people have a vow to
(36:18):
kill all Jews. Now, the guy you're talking about is
Ahmed al Ahmed, who is a Muslim. This is the
dude who tackled the guy shooting the Jews and then
he was shot twice by his brother from one hundred
yards away. So you had the one guy on the
ground shooting at Jews, and then you had another brother
of his on a footbridge about one hundred yards away
(36:38):
shooting at Jews. When the guy on the bridge saw
that this dude, mister ah Ahmed tackled his brother and
took the rifle away from him. He shot the hero,
He shot the good Samaritan, and we don't know what
condition he is in. He's undergone surgery, thankfully, he was
on his arm in his hand, and I'm sure it
was a serious surgery. But he's a forty three year
(37:00):
old father of two young girls who was there, and
we all saw the video. He was kind of sneaking
up on the guy, grabbed him, wrestled the gun away
from him, and then didn't shoot him.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
How many of us would do that.
Speaker 4 (37:11):
I would have shot him, but then you know it's
on video and then chances are I'm gonna get Yeah,
if you don't have a gun, how would you How
many of us would run up there and involve ourselves
in the situation.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
You don't know what you do until you're in that situation.
This guy did the run.
Speaker 4 (37:24):
And he probably didn't know about the brother on the bridge,
and if he had, he might have been a little
more I don't.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
Think about it. Was a father son is what they're
describing that one. Yeah. Father.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
So we'll get more details throughout the day on that
horrific situation, Lucy. You've seen when Harry met Sally I hope, right,
this has got to be one of those few films
we've both seen and like. Right, sure, you don't like
when Harry Matt Sally?
Speaker 2 (37:48):
Really, no, it's good? Are you good?
Speaker 3 (37:50):
It's good?
Speaker 1 (37:51):
Good, it's great. Well, this is one that Rob Reiner
was a part of as well. Let's see here did
he he did and write that? No, that was I
think Nora Ephron, but directed and produced it. And originally
Harry and Sally, Billy Crystal and Mey Ryan did not
end up together. But something happened. While Rob Reiner was
(38:12):
making the movie. He met a girl who would go
on to be his wife, Michelle, and because that relationship
was blossoming, he didn't feel right about making this great
love story type romantic comedy and have it end where
those two don't get together. So you can credit his
wife Michelle for changing the ending of that movie.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (38:38):
Well, No, it's a sweet story, now you do.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
It is a sweet story too.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
He was married to Penny Marshall and one of the
he ended up adopting her daughter, Tracy Reiner, who has
a bit part in when Harry met Sally in the
baby Fishmouth pictionary scene. She was also one of the
various characters in Penny Marshall's film A League of their Own,
(39:05):
one of the greatest movies of all time. And I
had a chance to talk with her a few years
ago and talk about, you know, growing up with Rob
Reiner and Penny Marshall in the house. And she was
still very very close to her adoptive father, even though
he's not her dad, and he and her mom were
together anymore. So she had nothing but great things to
say about him. It's just awful that not all of
(39:27):
his kids were able to say that
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