February 17, 2026 • 55 mins
It turns out it was serendipitous that we started thinking of Rush Limbaugh in the wake of Rev. Jesse Jackson's death. Find out why here, and listen to us also talk about Robert Duvall, Mardi Gras, an Omaha woman who got clocked by a car during a donut session, and more.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Great to have you with us. Thank you so much
for hanging out here. On Nebraska's morning News, Jim Rose
is here, Lucy Chapman, Craig Evans as well. This is
News Radio eleven ten kfab ah I sends that Lucy
has something she wants to add to the conversation already.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
It's a question, really, Okay, did I hear you say
almost eighty and snow in the same breath?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
I think I took a breath and only because I'm
just I'm out of shape.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Well, you know.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
What, right it was? I speak and run on sentences,
a lot of broken sentences. Yeah, we're gonna we are
going to be potentially seventy six windy degrees today. Today
is Tuesday. By Thursday night and a Friday morning, we
might see a little light snow here in the area,
and then another chance over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Do I hear a harp playing?
Speaker 3 (00:59):
No?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Why would we hear harp?
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Government controlled weather?
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Oh? Oh, that that harp should have known. Sounds like
Lucy has a conspiracy theory. Now. The only thing as
I as I smell the air this morning, there's only
one thing I detect right now in the Omaha area.
I love the smell of play pup in the morning.
We lost both Robert Devall and Reverend Jesse Jackson since
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we ended yesterday's program, and I was thinking about these two,
how they both You could ask the question legitimately, and
I was trying to not have any political bias in
thinking about Reverend Jackson. So the question I was asking
about Jesse was what did the man accomplish in his life? Well,
(01:53):
he was influential and he inspired a lot of people.
Not discounting that, what did the man accomplish is in
his entire life? What one thing can you look at
and say, if not for Reverend Jesse Jackson, we wouldn't
have Well, he started a nonprofit, Yes, he did well,
(02:13):
he ran for the presidency? Sure, what did he accomplish?
And then, in kind of thinking about is there any
tie in between Reverend Jesse Jackson and actor Robert Devall,
I came up with this. I could ask the same question,
what did Robert Devall accomplish in his life? Well, he
(02:36):
was a very influential legend of the silver Screen. He
inspired and entertained a lot of people throughout his entire life. Okay,
that is an accomplishment and You could say the same
thing about Robert Devaal and Jesse Jackson. They entertained and
inspired through their own different ways a lot of people
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in their lives.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Jim Rose well, Jesse Jackson was very engaged in the
civil rights movement, and then later he was very engaged
in getting a lot of African American voters. He was
a disciple of Martin Luther King, and then when King
was assassinated, Jesse Jackson really took a leadership role and
for the next thirty years, the guy was very active.
(03:19):
Thirty forty years, the guy was really active in engaging
the African American community to be a part of the
political process. When King was assassinated, a lot of people say, well,
I guess that's it for us. And Jackson he was
famously said, you can kill the dreamers, but you can't
kill the dream So you know, you got to give
the guy props. Yeah, he ran for president a couple
of times. He knew he wasn't going to win. The
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idea was I want my issues to get lots of attention,
and they did. And how much did he advance the
cause for African Americans in this country, I don't know,
but he worked very diligently with a lot of Republican
presidents to get corporations to hire them, and so for
that he deserves a lot of credit. Now, Rush used
(04:02):
to have fun with Reverend Jesse Jackson was waiting how
long we'd get into the show. Remember that.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
That's gonna be the hardest thing here throughout the morning
is saying that name without giving the Rush Limbaugh impersonation
or Darryl Hammond as Jesse Jackson reading Green Eggs and
ham on Saturday Night Live. In fact, I already have
a Rush Limbaugh clip cutede up. We got to play this, okay, yeah,
(04:30):
all right, we'll find both here in just a moment.
Darryl Hammond was, but see, Jesse Jackson has been a
very influential media voice in my life. But if I
really sit and think about it and go, well, you know,
like anyone who lived a long time, you pretty much say, well, yeah,
he a lot of these people over here really loved him.
(04:52):
And then some other people said yeah, but he said, uh,
this about the Jews. I mean, he referred to New
York as Heiney Town. And he did not mean it
as a compliment now or a term of endearment. He
believed that the Jews who were holding back Black advancement.
He had a child at a wedlock that led to
CNN ending his TV show. He pretty much threw it
(05:12):
around him. Yeah, he so. I mean he was not
a perfect man.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
No, and you're looking for perfection, We're going to look
a long time.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Thankfully. That's not a standard that I hold people too.
Otherwise it wouldn't come in here and hang out with
you guys in the morning, exactly. Yeah, it's kind of
hard to separate though. You talk about politics in the nineties,
late eighties through the early nineties, Jesse Jackson and Rush
Limbaugh were those voices. And you'll hear Rush talking about
(05:41):
Jesse next here on news Radio eleven to ten Kfabe
calling to the latter day Saint suits. You do not
like Green Eggs and Ham.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
I do not like.
Speaker 6 (05:55):
Them, Sam, I am.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Such a great bit. Jesse Jackson goes on Saturday Night
Live and in a voice that no one else in
human history has, he is reading Green Eggs and Ham.
I have to dig in deeper in this and find
out whose idea it was to have Jesse Jackson read
(06:24):
that Doctor Seuss book dry like that, as if there
was nothing funny about it. On Saturday Night Live back
in nineteen eighty whatever ninety. This had to have been
probably on the presidential trail. Eighty eight, I would think
anything to get noticed. That's the year that he ended
up second in the Democratic primary to Tacacis in eighty eight.
(06:48):
And I think it's because a lot of people are like, Hey,
this guy's, you know, kind of interesting and fun and
he's kind of poking some fun at himself here, and
maybe we should take a look at Jesse Jackson.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Funny, Well, he stayed in the race. You know, he
ran a shoe string campaign. All these other guys like
Dick Kep Haart and Joe Biden blew it all in Iowa,
New Hampshire, and this guy was pretty much riding in
a cargo van across the country with his Rainbow Coalition
handmade signs, and it was a very grassroots campaign and
he was very, very powerful at the convention this year.
(07:21):
That year, two things happened at the convention that year.
Roblow had pretty much an orgy, and Jesse Jackson delivered
an incredible speech and everybody came away at the orgy.
No not at the orgy. He delivered the speech at
the convention. Roblo had an orgy at the hotel after
the Ducacas.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Rob I would check her id.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Yeah, so, but galvanized that movement because remember we were
coming off eight years of Ronald Reagan, and Ronald Reagan
changed the culture of the country. We went away from
activism to tribalism. We went away from you know, the government,
don't trust the bastards too, It's great to be an American.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
And so this was say, return to the.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Nineteen sixties civil rights activism, and Jackson was very powerful
voice for that. But people don't give him credit for this.
And again he wasn't perfect. He had some illegitimate kids,
he had one shaky business deals and all that. But
the man really did wrap his arms around the black
community in this country and picked up the baton left
(08:23):
by King and it was a really, really powerful movement
for most of thirty years.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Well there were I mean not every black leader embrace
Jesse Jackson, though no, I mean the people like, not
every black leader embrace King Abernathy not really big fans.
So it's kind of hard to discuss politics throughout that
late eighties throughout the nineties without adding in the voice
of Rush Limbaugh. And when talking about Jesse Jackson, you've
got to do Rush Limbaugh saying Jesse Jackson's name.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
We've got a couple of Reverend Jackson somebody.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
It's gonna be so hard.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
I really didn't understand that I have all of the
Limbaugh impressions.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Well, that's kind of how Jesse talks. I never made
that connection.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Everybody laugh, But I go, Okay, Rush is making fun
of Jackson's voice or cadence.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
But I don't get it. But it's the same thing
as Jesse's poking fun of himself in that Green Eggs
and ham bit. That's that's probably true all right now
the elevenfab Certified Transmission Sports Brief. Here's Jim row.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
No, we played those guys the next door neighbors tonight
over there in Iowa City.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Carver Hawkeys their blackout game.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
So I'm sure they've got a man rule orchestrating what
music's gonna play. They've taken all of the baselines and
made them all black. There, everybody's gonna wear black, and
ioways taken on nebrask at eight o'clock.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
This is a This is a.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Team according to Iowa coach Ben McCollum, that is radically
different because of the presence of one.
Speaker 6 (09:50):
Guy changes everything for them. I mean, he's he is different,
he's unique. He can shoot, he can pass, He plays
with such maturity. Obviously he's this is you're in college
and he you know, he plays with just his maturity
and his body language and his communication with his teammates.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Okay, which of the two sixth of your guys are
you talking about? You talking about rink Master Sam Heuberg.
I guess that was masked. What about Heiberg?
Speaker 6 (10:15):
I think defensively is where he's at in his body
language and energy is where it's really at. But then
you offensively, you can't forget about him, you know, because
he's he's pretty good offensively. I think he averages around
five assists a game, somewhere in that range. And what
happens is you think, always a good defender. You know,
we got to guard Price's who's gonna be a handful
(10:35):
of guard. You've got to guard rink Masks. You've got
to guard Lawrence. You know, you've got to guard Burkie.
You know, you gotta guard all those guys and then
you kind of forget about Sam Well Sam shooting like
forty plus percent from three.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Yeah, and he also leads the nation and assist a
turnover ratio. See how this goes. I always got blown
out at home by Purdue the other day. There Bennett
Sturts is probably the best point guard, most underrated point
guard in the country from an offensive standpoint. He scored
thirty plus points in three of the last five games
against Big Ten teams in the month of February. Hello
eight o'clock on the BTN tonight. Iowa State won. Last
(11:08):
night They beat the number two team in the country
seventy to sixty seven. Nate Heise hit a three with
ninety seconds to go, and then the Cyclones clampdown on
defense seventy sixty seven over the Houston Cougars. Iowa State
was down ten at the half, rallied to win. The
Nebraska women's basketball team is officially in the Greater Ditch.
They got beat again eighty sixty seven at home by Iowa.
(11:31):
That is a fifth consecutive loss for the Nebraska women.
They have lost eight of the last ten at the
Olympic Games. This is the most prolific Olympian Winter Olympian
of all time. He's the Michael Phelps of the Winter Olympics.
His name is Johannes Holz fat klask bowl Yeah from Norway.
He wins his ninth gold in the four x seven
(11:53):
point five kilometer relay. This is his fourth goal of
the twenty twenty six games and they won this by
twenty two seconds. This guy has a remarkable style that
has allowed him to fly uphill in this cross country
skiing competition and people are looking around going nobody can
touch the dude. I mean, he's really really impressive then, bra. Rather,
(12:16):
the US women's hockey team will be in action in
the gold medal round. They defeated the team from Sweden
five to nothing in the semifinals from Milan. Abby Murphy
led the way with a goal and an assist. Aaron
Franklin of the United States turned aside every shot she
faced to preserve the shutout. So Team USA is a
guaranteed at least a silver medal for the fifth consecutive
(12:39):
winner games. We last won gold in twenty eighteen. The
Nebraska men's baseball team gave up six runs in the
first inning and got beat up by Stanford in the
final game of that tournament out in Arizona. Final score
Stanford eleven to six, But the Huskers went three to
four out there, and you'll take that any time. They
are now headed to Texas for a tournament this weekend
against even tougher team Louisville, Florida State and k State.
(13:02):
But a good start for Nebraska baseball sports. His news
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Speaker 1 (13:07):
We of course brought up Rush Limbaugh as Will emails.
He says, Rush Limbaugh's impression of the Reverend Jackson was
the first thing that went through my head when I
learned of Jackson's passing. Yes, for several people, it can't
help but pop in there. It just became part of
(13:28):
the zeitgeist, Rush Limbaugh saying Jesse Jackson's name. But it's
interesting that we bring up Rush Limbaugh today, as today
is the fifth anniversary of the passing of Rush Hudson Limbaugh.
Jim Rose, can you believe that the look on your
(13:50):
face suggests that five years has gone by a lot
quicker than we thought here, that's hard to believe five
years ago. Miss him every day, I know. I think
Clay and Buck do a great job of carrying on
his legacy. They're rush babies, you know, they're guys in
their forties now who they like?
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Me?
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Became introduced to Rush Limbaugh in the car as my
dad was driving me around town, and who's this guy?
But even as a kid listening to rush Limbaugh, just
from his inflection, the way that he would deliver the
news of the day, and throughout so much of his career,
Rush Limbaugh was not successful because he was a conservative commentator.
(14:33):
This is what a lot of people failed to understand
about the popularity of Rush Limbaugh. Wasn't that he was
a conservative. That certainly helped with that part of his base.
But Rush Limbaugh was successful and the best in the
genre because it seemed like every single day he was
on the radio, he was having the time of his life,
(14:53):
and most every day he was. This is a guy
who got fired from job after job across the this country,
who worked in the Kansas City Royals organization, is like
a like a statistician. He was a pr guy.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
He says, my job was to parade to somebody from
some business out onto the pitcher's mound to throw out
the first pitch. But he did have a radio show
on the side on the weekends down there. It's hard
to believe it's been five years. But what Rush Rush's
legacy to me? And I'm just like everybody else. I
listened to him one more said who is this guy?
(15:31):
There was nobody else on there like him. But his
legacy is that he made conservatism fun. Conservatism had been
the purview of old white guys in country clubs, but
he made conservatism hip. He made conservatism fun. He reminded
us of what makes America great. For three hours every day,
(15:51):
he appealed to the commissioned sales guy. His audience was
the guy who goes to work every day, tries to
get ahead. The government gets in the way. The government
takes more of what I earned when I earned more,
the government takes more rather than me getting to keep it.
And he just railed against some of those institutional things
that he thought were on American We should be able
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to keep more of what we earn here in this country.
You should reward performance, but we punish performance in this country.
And it really woke up a lot of people to
what made America great and what we need to get
back to doing. And he did it as a radio
personality in a time that was not thought to be
a good time to be on the radio. The middle
(16:34):
of the afternoon and people are working. Maybe they might
catch you for fifteen minutes running to get a sandwich somewhere,
but people are working. If you want to be in radio,
you got to be in the morning or afternoon.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
And they put Rush kind of almost as an afterthought
on in the middle of the day, and that led
to the radio ratings known as the Middle Finger. When
you look at the ratings where it started off down
here and then spiked in the middle of the afternoon
with the Rush. I went back down. I came back down.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
We're celebrating that Tuesday by skipping the gym.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Happy Marty Gras from news radio eleven ten KFAB. That's right,
we're in Marty Gras now, Happy Fat Tuesday to you
and yours with Craig Evans, Lucy Chapman, Jim Rose, I
am Scott Voorhe's this is news radio eleven ten KFAB.
(17:25):
Where's our cake with the baby in it? I still
don't understand what that's about. Oh, it's just tradition. Yeah,
it was a weird tradition. There's a cake with a
baby in it for Marty Gras. Lucy ever been to Nollins.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Oh several times? Really not during Marty Graus.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
What's you'd know? But I always I always kind of
thought that Marty Gras there on Bourbon Street was kind
of a once a year thing.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
There once in a lifetime, once a year, once a year.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
But you go to Bourbon Street any time of the year, June, August, October,
what can can? Bourbon Street is happy to treat you
to your own miniature Marti Gras anytime that you go
down there, and that's what makes that play so much fun.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Yeah, but going outside of Marty Gras, you get the
best of Bourbon Street because it's not nearly as crowded,
but it's crowded enough to have some really fun times.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
You want to share your Bourbon Street story with.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Us this morning, I was there with my husband.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Well, that could be fun, that's all good.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
It was fun. But you made it sound like, did
you flash anybody? Did you get any beads?
Speaker 1 (18:33):
I no, I honestly wasn't thinking that, but now I
am no I did. I was twenty years old when
I was on Bourbon Street, and as it turns out,
Bourbon Street doesn't check IDs. It was a little age, right,
It was a little bit of a concern that I
was going down there with a bunch of radio guys
(18:54):
from Omaha back in nineteen ninety whatever that would have been.
And I was the young guy obviously in the crowd,
and they were a little concerned, like, well, are we
just gonna have to ditch Scott to go into some
of these bars and clubs and stuff. And as it
turns out, Bourmon Street did not give a rip that
I wasn't twenty one, and several.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
The bartenders probably did no.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Several thirty two hours hurricanes later sold directly to you,
one hundred percent not checked. I didn't get my ID
checked one single time down there. And I have several
stories in the wake of that, some I'm embarrassed to
share all these years later, when I have allegedly matured
(19:36):
with children. I'll tell you this. Yeah, well I do
have children, that's not a let. Well, yeah, I'll tell
you this. I woke up in my hotel bed, Thank goodness,
I was still wearing my clothes which were soaking wet.
(19:58):
It was not raining. I got back to the hotel
room and thought I'm kno getting into bed without taking
a shower, and I guess I didn't feel like I
needed to take my clothes off before I got in
the shower. That's in my entire life. That's about the
only story that it well, well.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
It was. It was very good for the EMTs to
show up with you were very.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Dressed, thankfully. Yeah, it was. It was all fine. I
looked back on my misspent youth and I have very
few regrets as misspent. Oh no. It If you get.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
To New Orleans with no responsibilities at age twenty one,
you're in the green zone.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
I was just twenty though.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
But I will say this about New Orleans. If you
have not been, you need to go. If you like.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Food, Oh my gosh, great food, great atmosphere.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Great atmosphere, great music. It's not they don't have as
much blues as they used to it. A lot of
those bars on Bourbon Street have kind of crossed over
to more heavier rock, which I like. But I'm in
New Orleans. I want blues.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Same thing as Nashville. You think you go from bar
to bar and it's all country music because it used
to be. Now it's you know, rock, it's yeah, you
can find just about anything in there.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Same funny.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
I imagine it's the same with New Orleans, like, all right,
let's go hear some blues and some zydeco. Yes, well, yes,
some of that, and that's some of it. Whatever you
want to find a little goes a long ways. But
in New Orleans it's it's fun. Pete emails in the
Zonker's custom was inbox, says I always thought about New
Orleans the same way Scott did. I don't remember what
I said, but we were align. He's drinking, Yeah, he says.
(21:32):
That was until I went there in December a few
years ago for the American Society of Hematology conference. That
sounds fun, he says. You have to understand, this is
a conference of about forty thousand of the biggest nerds
on the planet getting together. So I was not expecting
a huge party. I was wrong. I think New Orleans
(21:55):
does something to people, kind of like Vegas, but different.
I've never seen someone PhDs and mds get overserved in
my life. That's from Pete, who I'm sure behaved himself
during that week.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Well he can still write about it.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Man. We got to go to the American Society of
hematology conference here. You gotta love a conference like well,
we have a very sober conference coming up here. We're
gonna be there for four days, a lot of breakout sessions,
some great keynote speakers. It's going to be a real
good time to network and really think about your craft.
Where is it Vegas? Yeah, there's no one in the
(22:34):
morning seminars, sir, huh, Yeah, where is this? A very
important conference? New Orleans? Okay. Been talking a lot about
Jesse Jackson passing away, and he kind of overshadowed a
huge passing yesterday in Hollywood at the age of ninety five.
Robert devaal Jim rows anything you want to say here
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about Robert devall uh.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
One of the signature actors of my lifetime, started out
with a non speaking role in his first major motion
picture that catapulted him to the top tier, and that
was as Arthur Boo Radley in To Kill a Mockingbirds, Right,
And it was a remarkable role that you really never
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anticipated being a big deal. But when it went from
the pages of the book to the silver screen and
Duval played Radley, the mentally challenged, highly intellectually undeveloped shut
in that ultimately saved the life of the main character
in the movie.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Well, now, thanks for giving that away.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
I don't think there are too many people listening to
Kaevibye who don't know how to kill a mockingbird. I
was just about to read, Yeah, I'm sure you were.
So that's when it started. And then he just kept
making good movies right after that. He was never the
number one guy, but he was always the number one
number two. In other words, he was always the best
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runner up in all major movie roles. That said, his
role in Lonesome Dove probably is one of the signature
Western roles of the last thirty five years. And he
played the conciliary Tom Hagen and Godfather one and two,
Apocalypse Now, Apocalypse Now, and he said the smelling napalm
(24:25):
every morning.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
We referenced that an hour ago. Yeah, that was really impressive.
But I liked him later in life and for, among
other things, Jack Reacher. This is the Tom Cruise movie
Jack Reacher, where Tom Cruise is kind of, you know,
checking out something with a gun and a rifle range
and goes into Deval's place, and Devall immediately sees right
(24:47):
through the bs and is willing to bend the rules
to get some bad guys and like, look, don't get
me involved in this, but I'm keeping tabs on you, Jack.
And it's a really great performance in a fun little
action movie. And you know he did that. He did
a hustle with Adam Sandler the Basketball movie. Into his nineties. Yeah,
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the guy was always working and everyone prolific loved to
listen to this. After serving in the army during the
Korean War, Robert Deval decides he wants to study acting.
And he's there in New York and he's studying acting
alongside Dustin Hoffman and Gene Hackman. There were roommates. That
makes a teacher look really good. Think of all the
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oscars in that apartment. These these are my students. If
I did this for these humps, that's what I could
do for you. He's not good looking white guys, right.
I took you know, these these hacks like Hackman and
Devall and Hoffman, and I turned him into something well.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
I mean he he was again a stage actor to start,
which is really kind of where you want to cut
your teeth if you're an actor, if you just want
to be a movie star. He just got to be
good looking and have the right role. But he wanted
to be an actor like Hackman and like Offmann. But
he was nominated for an Oscar I believe eight times
and he won one.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
But if you can name, if you can name the
movie he won the Oscar for, I'll give you a dollar.
It's not worth it. Nineteen eighty three's Tender Mercies Best Actor,
seven Oscar nominations, one win, go all right? Coming up
next year, I'm gonna get We do play requests on
this program, and Jim wanted to hear this on Jesse Jackson.
That's coming up next. Happy Chinese New Year. I'm Scott
(26:30):
Voorhees here with Lucy Chavian, Craig Evans, Jim Rose. This
is News Radio eleven ten kfab we are Nebraska's morning
news and talking about Jesse Jackson. It went from a
conversation about an influential leader, not a perfect man, but
one who certainly picked up the torch that was lit
(26:51):
by doctor King, and then it evolved into Rush Limbaugh
impersonations the Green Eggs and ham bit from Saturday Night Live,
and Jim Rose said, I gotta hear Darryl Hammond. Now
I wonder if the impression loses something by not seeing
what Daryl Hammond is doing right while doing this the
little ticks, the eyes right, you know, the pauses and
(27:13):
so forth, and the fact he's cracking up Nora McDonald
just by the ticks and the facial expressions. Here in
impersonating Jesse Jackson on Saturday Night Live, I want to
know that the Hall of people a sudden not Montgomery
Water people as man Jessa Jackson. What do you want?
(27:33):
What do I want? I want to serve our nation?
What do I want? I want to raise a moral
tone about nation. What do I want? I want a pitcher,
not an underwell stitcher. What do I want? I want
Fred Flintstone in that house. I want friend's.
Speaker 7 (27:56):
Cat at that house, stay outside.
Speaker 5 (27:58):
For the night.
Speaker 6 (28:00):
I won't shoes on Fred and Bonne at a time
they take that big o Littlestone car down.
Speaker 5 (28:06):
The street to the courtesy and Franz tool feet say
it with me.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
So you know people have long said, you know, that's
a racist bit because Darryl Hammond's face is very slightly
to its nine black face. It's it's ted. Now. Look,
I know no one's looking for a white guy like me,
(28:32):
the whitest white guy there is to be able to
make a judgment call as to what is or is
not racist. No one is waiting for me to make
that that big judgment call. But blackface was something that
white people used to do because they would not hire
black actors and they would make them look ridiculous and
they wouldn't give jobs to them. That was blackface stuff
(28:55):
like what what Darryl Hammond or yeah, Jimmy Kimmel as
Carl Malone or even Eddie Murphy as a white guy,
which he did on SNL and in coming to America.
Was not something like I'm not going to give these
other actors a chance or anything like that. It was
(29:15):
to pay respect, homage, to do an impersonation, and it
was all done.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
It's funny, it's pure satire. This is what was hijacked.
When they start talking about Jim Crow, the Jim Crow South,
this is when you know Ding Dong Biden was way
off base discussing the All Star Game getting moved out
of Atlanta because of the voter ID law in Georgia.
They completely rewrote the history of the Jim Crow laws.
The Blackface theatrical experiment was an example of that because
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black folks were denied entry into virtually every public institution
in the South. It had nothing to do with today's comedy,
satire or today's actors. Now that was lost in the
national narrative because most people in the national media don't
know anything and they just listened to the left or
right wing talking points that comes out of the agendaits
(30:08):
either in the White House, Congress or anywhere else.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
When Justin Trudeau painted his face to dress up like
Michael Jackson, it's because he liked Michael Jackson, not because
he was a racist.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
Come on, I know that's an argument we simply can't win,
but that's the reality.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Then the Zonker's custom was inbox Scott at kfab dot
com and talking about Robert Davall and some of our
favorite Deval performances. Marine accurately points out, you guys left
out second Hand Lions, my favorite Devall movie. She says, Lucy,
you ever see Secondhand Lions? That was Robert Devaal and
Michael Caine with the kid Hayley Joe Osmond when he
(30:46):
was a kid.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Uh? Is that where the lions attacked the people in the.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
No No, No, The second Hand Lions is about two
guys who want to buy lions, but not like new
They want them secondhand, so they go into a lion
thrift store and they get lions, kind of like the
Rams do with Matthew Stafford. It's about basically that movie.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
I've not seen them.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Yeah, that's also not true. All right, I stretched for
a second to give Jim Rose a chance to rejoin
us here in the studio. All right, he's got his
coffee and he has his newspaper. Now come back in here, Jim,
because I have our next guest waiting to answer a
question that you hollered repeatedly last week. Now, the perception
(31:35):
is is that all these these great historic restaurants have
been closing here in the Omaha area. And Jim Rose
did a commentary last week where he asked the question
very unsettling, the question is where am I going to eat?
To answer that question, we have here from the Grow
Omaha Show Saturday mornings at nine here on news radio
(31:55):
eleven ten KFAB. It is Jeff Biel's Hello, Jeff, good.
Speaker 5 (31:59):
Morning, Hey, good morning Scott.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
So the perception is, as all these restaurants are closing,
Where's Jim gonna eat is the reality that we are
losing restaurants in Omaha. Jeff, well, well.
Speaker 5 (32:11):
Jim is not gonna starve, and we're going, we're going,
we're going through a little bit of a cycle. This
time of year. The time of year where you're most
likely to see restaurants close is after New Year's Day
and before you get into real spring, not this fall spring.
So that's kind of normal right now. And you know,
we report on Girl Mah. We report restaurants closing, restaurants opening,
(32:36):
and we've always noticed that the restaurant closing news gets
way more attention and way more traffic, and sometimes people think, oh,
my goodness, this is really terrible. But we went back
to all at twenty twenty five and the number of
new restaurants we reported outnumbered the number of closing restaurants
we reported about six to one. And so what happens
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is in Omaha, we are adding restaurants far faster than
we are adding population, and so the number of restaurants
we have are flat out unsustainable. And so then you
match that with the fact that restaurant customers tend to
be sickle and taste change over time, and so frankly,
I guess my answer is you probably are going to
(33:23):
see more closing in the not too distant future because
we're over restauranted.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Obviously, though, when a restaurant like Jericho's, which has been
here for several decades and people love going in there
getting prime rib and as I believe it was you
and not Trenton who mentioned this on the show the
other day, Jeff, it felt like you'd go in there
for like a business lunch and you were you would
walk in there in twenty seventeen and suddenly you'd step
(33:49):
into nineteen seventy three.
Speaker 5 (33:52):
Yeah, I used to love having business lunches there, and yeah,
it was like the throwback and everything. But for any
restaurant to make it fifty years is a tremendous upset.
It's you know, they defy a lot of odds for
a restaurant to go that long. And you know, when
you think, okay, it's also a family owned or privately
(34:13):
not owned by a big company or something like that,
it's a big sacrifice on the people who own those restaurants,
and sometimes families just don't want to do it anymore.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
Yeah, that's that's happened with some of these heritage restaurants
in Omaha the last few years. Well, it's hard.
Speaker 4 (34:27):
It's hard to hold on to one because everything is
more expensive. It's more expensive to have people there, the
ingredients that you put into the stuff is more expensive.
And if you can't do it right the way you
want to do it, then it's frustrating and disappointing. But
a lot of these multi generational restaurants, in many cases
family worked there for next to nothing. Yeah, Jeff, I
(34:49):
want to ask you about one more thing here before
we cut you loose. So, as we reported yesterday, there
are a group of downtown, largely restaurant bar owners that
they're concerned that they're going to be closing from downtown
up through midtown because of the streetcar construction and everything
else going down there. That makes it hard for people
to get down there, hard for them to find a
place to park, hard for them to walk into the restaurants.
(35:11):
Since a lot of these sidewalks are closed, and they're
coming together as one unit to complain to the city
as a group, you've got to do I don't know
what the city can do about this, Jeff, but someone's
got to do something that a lot of these places
are going to close.
Speaker 5 (35:26):
Yeah, and sadly a lot of them already have and
they're almost certainly will be quite a few more to come.
The construction impacts right now. I got to admit our
brutal on those local businesses, and I don't blame them
one bit for wanting to band together and find ways
to survive. You know, back a few months ago, the
(35:47):
Chamber found some philanthropic people that were willing to come
up with a fund for some of those midtown businesses.
Maybe when they work together, they can find similar resources.
Believe that the street car will eventually make that one
of the greatest restaurant in bar corridors in this region
of the country. The next two years are going to
(36:08):
be rough and uh, and I feel for those those
businesses are there because a lot of it will not
make it.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
Yeah, they're they're getting driven out of business. And this
was part of the conversation that nobody wanted to have,
and that is what about the businesses that are there now?
And I've talked to several of them, and they are struggling,
they are having they're really stressed financially.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Well, don't talk to them, go eat there. I'm going
down to night restaurants. This place of them, this place
I used to go to before COVID and construction was
hopping for lunch on Thursdays and Fridays. And now I
go and it's the only I'm the only one in there. Jeff,
A great program. This passed to Saturday. You and Trenton
hosted the Notele Family Empire. That was great. You can
(36:51):
hear that on the grow Omaha podcast link at kfab
dot com and listen to Jeff and Trenton this and
every Saturday morning at nine. The grow Omaha Minute with
Jeff Beal's is coming up in a moment. Jeff, thanks
a lot for joining us live this morning.
Speaker 5 (37:03):
You bet see you guys later.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Scott atkfab dot com. A couple of Chris is emailing here.
The first one says the problem is not restaurants opening,
it's a problem of chain restaurants that are garbage opening
all right. Chris doesn't like chain restaurants. All garbage, says Chris.
Other Chris says, to answer the question where's Jim gonna eat?
(37:29):
He says, go get yourself ahead of lettuce and make
yourself a salad, cook your own food dipstick.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
They no need to get personal. We're just having fun here.
Everybody calm down. Well, everybody is a guy named Chris.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Everybody's settled out. Well. JD's all fired up here as usual. Yeah,
he emails, says and Craig Evans report he said the
city is going to install ninety new signs on the
paved trail system that will, among other things, encourage more
people to use the trails. And to I say no,
(38:05):
there are already too many people on the trails that
don't know the trail rules and make it a hazard
for all of us trying to ride our bikes. That's
from j D. How do people not know the trail rules?
There's just one rule on your left, which is best
said as you're already past the person and you scared
(38:25):
the wits out of them as they already came barreling up. Yeah,
just on your left. Is that not the rule?
Speaker 2 (38:32):
I don't know. Maybe we can adopt this to the streets.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
We get it. Yeah, your on your left on the streets,
on your left, on the trails, on your left in
Walmart by the people and their shopping carts, Like, hey,
the rules of the road here apply. You go here.
This is my lane, that's yours move. We've been trying
to talk about the Reverend Jesse Jackson and not fall
into one of our favorite impressions over the years, and
(38:57):
that is Rush Limbaugh saying the name the Reverend Jackson.
Speaker 4 (39:01):
We got a couple of Reverend Jackson sound bites.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
And we got an email earlier this morning is so
buried in the zonker's custom was inbox. I apologize for
not being able to credit the emailer, but he points
out that it was Rush Limbaugh would say, that's not
an impersonation that he came up with. He says, I
took that from William F. Buckley on his old TV show,
(39:29):
saying the name Reverend Jesse Jackson. We've gone back in
time here to the seventies when everything was a little
bit slower. This is William Buckley introducing Jesse Jackson to
his show firing Line. When the assassin fired the shot
that killed the Reverend Martin Luther King, he might have
(39:50):
killed if.
Speaker 3 (39:50):
His name had been a few inches off the Jesse Jackson.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
So you can hear the same intonation in his voice.
And Rush was a fan of Buckley. Yeah, that he
you can at once you hear that you're like, oh, okay,
that's where it is now. It was a slower time
in the early seventies, but obviously Jesse Jackson. I always
thought it was Rush doing kind of a fun impression
(40:16):
of Jesse Jackson's voice, which he did himself on Saturday
Night Live, famously reading from the Doctor Seuss book Green
Eggs and Ham.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
I could not would not on a boat, I will not,
will not with a goat.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
I will not eat them in the rain. I will
not eat them on a train, nothing the dog, not
on a tree, not in the car. You let me be.
And he had a great sense of comedic timing, even
taking off his glasses for effect and impact on what
he was saying. So was was that the Jesse Jackson?
(41:01):
Who was the man Reverend Jesse Jackson? Or here's another
clip we've unearthed. This is from the Rush Limbaugh TV
show in nineteen ninety three. Reverend Jesse Jackson could also
get after it, and in this instance Rush was surprised
that he was going after black people, no clan threatening us.
(41:29):
We've lost more lives.
Speaker 2 (41:31):
Too, dope, then we haven't lost to the rope.
Speaker 1 (41:35):
Years later, here's Russia's reaction.
Speaker 7 (41:39):
I mean, I'll tell you, folks, this is amazing what
we're witnessing. Contrast this to the man who walked the
streets of Los Angeles South Central after the riots out
there and said, you can't call them thugs, can't call
them hodles. Got to understand their rage, and we need
more federal.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
Dollars to fix this up.
Speaker 7 (41:56):
This is because of the last twelve years of regular
Bush that we burned this city and so forth.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
You knowize what he's saying here.
Speaker 7 (42:02):
He saying, we have no excuses to black people, no
excuses for the use. We can't blame anybody but ourselves.
Speaker 1 (42:07):
That is Rush Limbaugh reacting to Jesse Jackson saying we've
lost more people to dope than from the rope, and
he says we have more people to blame for black
deaths within the black population than through the Klan.
Speaker 4 (42:22):
Now, it's all very categorically empirically true.
Speaker 1 (42:26):
Here in this segment, of course, we're featuring as much
Rush Limbaugh as Jesse Jackson, not just because it's hard
to talk politics of the eighties and nineties without both
of their voices, but also it's five years ago today
since Rush Limbaugh passed away, February seventeenth, twenty twenty one.
Five years, Jim, I can't believe it's been five years.
(42:48):
And I miss him.
Speaker 4 (42:49):
And I miss him not only because I really really
loved how he loved the country and inspired us to
love the country, but he just continued to imbue a
remarkable optimism even when elections were lost and bad policy
turned into disasters results. He never ever stopped being optimistic.
(43:11):
And I think he got that from President Reagan. He
was probably Ronald Reagan's most public, biggest fan, and Reagan's
enduring optimism was at the heart of his popularity. And
I think that russia Is enduring optimism was too. And
if you listen to the people who were around him
closely for most of his career, they would tell you
that he refused to let any of us. And Laura
(43:34):
Ingram was one of them, as Sean Hannity was one
of them, and all of the others, the national Conservative voices,
they said the same thing. He wouldn't let us lose
our sonny optimism and our outlook. He'd say, Hey, suck
it up, Buttercup, you know we got work to do.
We're going to be the loyal opposition and after Barack
Obama just thumped John McCain in the two thousand and
(43:57):
eight election, and things were really really bad for the
Republican Party in this country, even though the housing crisis
and the ultimate meltdown of the economy had nothing to
do with George W.
Speaker 1 (44:08):
Bush.
Speaker 4 (44:08):
In fact, he tried to fix it but was blocked
by Congress. Tried to impose some sort of controls on
subprime mortgages and the housing sector, which was the precipitous
of the big meltdown Rush. I remember the morning after
the election, he said, we are now the loyal opposition,
and he stayed very optimistic, and he stayed very upbeat
(44:28):
about the country, and he said, we're going to fight this,
you know, we're We're gonna be the voice that constantly
harasses this guy. And he did the same thing after
Bill Clinton b George H. W. Bush in ninety two.
Speaker 1 (44:40):
Five years since his widow came on this radio station
and across the Rush limbaught EIB Network to deliver the
news to his fans.
Speaker 4 (44:48):
We need that we need conservatism is optimism.
Speaker 1 (44:52):
That story that Craig just referenced there, and Lucy, have
you seen that video of the street racing here in
Omaha the other night, where a guy is doing and
cookies in a parking lot and some woman gets a
little too close to where the back end of the
car is swiveling towards her, and just like bo Jackson
(45:13):
cranking a home run, he absolutely up ends this woman
and sends her flying head over feet through the air,
and then she just lies. She's lying there in a
heap in the parking lot. Sheriff Hansen is among those
saying does anyone know who this is? We want to
make sure she's not dead somewhere, And I don't know
(45:35):
that anyone's reached out to the sheriff going, oh that's Cindy,
she's fine. You saw that video.
Speaker 2 (45:40):
I did what are I was shocked that nobody knew
who she was or where she was.
Speaker 1 (45:46):
Well, they know who she is, but they're not going
to tell law enforcement because they're doing illegal activity there.
Not only was she well no, well then, but in
order to let anyone know that she's okay, you would
have to then find out who the associates were who
(46:06):
were destroying that parking lot. See that's another thing. You're
out there doing donuts in the parking lot and the
businesses have to pay to redo the parking lot, clean
it up and all that stuff. They don't want these
big black skid mark you know, these marks all over
their parking lot. That costs a lot of money. It
looks trashy. You're not supposed to do that.
Speaker 2 (46:28):
Hey, at least they're out away from their computers socializing.
Speaker 1 (46:32):
At least they're not getting some fresh air. Lucy way
to put a good fresh spin on it. Now Here
in the inbox, Tim is responding to everything we've talked
about this morning. Says condolences to the families of Jesse
Jackson and Robert Duvall, and locally to the family of
Mike Yanni, truly influential man and mentor to many in Omaha.
(46:52):
We talked about him yesterday. Tim says the green eggs
and ham bit by the Reverend Jackson was hilarious. I'd
forgotten that, and he really did help get more voices
heard by getting people signed up to vote. Yep. There's
a movie with Robert Duval called Get Low, pretty good
about a guy who wants to have a wake for
himself while he's still alive, and Tim says, you also
(47:13):
brought up Rush Limbaugh. Can you imagine what this country
would be without the conservative voices of Rush, Fox News
and others to counteract the nutballs on the left. I
shudder to think of it. Tim, Thanks for responding to
everything this morning here on news Radio eleven ten Old
days work this morning. Welcoming back here to news radio
(47:35):
eleven ten KFAB from Fox News Radio. It's Tanya, Jay
Powers and Tanya. We're in the midst of another government shutdown.
Does anyone in America care at this point? Are they
noticing that's government shutdown?
Speaker 3 (47:49):
Well, the folks pay work for some of these agencies
under VHFs who are not getting funding right now and
not getting paychecks. As soon as this continues, they're definitely
going to notice. The agencies under the Department of Homeland Security,
which is what affected the pause, and funding for DHS
is what's affected by this partial shutdown, So that is
(48:09):
the PFA, FEMA, the Coast Guard, the Secret Service, ICE,
and Customs and Border Protection now ICE and CVP. You
know they're going to go on because of the tax
and spending cut law from from last year and the
billions they got in funding for that what you know,
what we're talking about is the folks who are you know,
(48:30):
kind of like the last government shutdown we saw last
year that went on for our record forty three days.
We saw them, you know, some of them. You know,
they have to work, They have to go to work
anyway and report to their jobs, but they just aren't
getting paid to do so. I can only imagine what
a what a sunny disposition that would be for the
(48:51):
rest of us if we were in that position. This
has happened, you know how many times in the last
eighteen months. I mean it is we've you know, I
feel for him. I mean, if you're flying anytime soon,
the agent is grumpy, just give them a smile and
keep on trucking, because I'm telling you, those folks aren't
getting paid, and I'd be grumpy too. I mean, I'm
(49:11):
sure probably most doubles would be.
Speaker 1 (49:13):
You think about it there at Fox News Radio obviously,
like Evan Brown, Jeff Banasso, they're making a ton of
money and leaving scraps for the rest of you. Tanya.
So when if your company here for the third time
in the last three months, Cubs says, hey, Tanya, keep working,
call KFA being Omaha, do this report and we'll pay
(49:34):
you eventually it's okay, whoa well, and maybe the money
has gone out there right there? Man, I was gonna
see she got mad. At what point would you just
decide to check out and leave? Apparently we have reached
that point here, I'll put her back on here. So
as I was saying, at what point would you check
out and leave if you weren't getting paid? Apparently we've
(49:55):
reached that point, Tanya.
Speaker 3 (49:56):
See, that's what it would sound like if that happened
to me, and I was told, oh, by the way, yeah, no,
that that would that's a hard path. And there are
you know, a people in our federal government who are
in this exact position, and if this does continue to
go on and they meant paychecks, that is where we're
going to see a lot more stories about you know, okay,
(50:18):
that seems there would be where things get to the
discomfort level, you know, where the rubber meets the road,
so to speak, Like how long are you willing to
keep a government shut down? When you're starting to hear
stories about families who are not making ends meet because
they're working, they're just not getting paid because of all
of this. So that's that is one of the things
we saw last year where people were you know, government
(50:38):
employees had to call out of work and you know
they said, hey, look we got to go drive an uber.
We've got to go do something to make some money
to feed our family and to make ends meet. So
hopefully it doesn't get to that point and they don't
have to miss a paycheck and then a pay period
in a couple of weeks. But you know, the Congress
is on recess until the twenty third, that's Monday, anyway,
(50:59):
so you kind of have to wonder, Okay, you know,
what's how's this going, how's it all going to end?
Speaker 1 (51:05):
Yeah? And who's going to be blamed on? I mean,
you look at the Democrats, they say we want to
shut this down because we don't want ICE funded. Well,
ICE is funded. You're affecting TSA and FEMA. It doesn't
make any sense. We'll well, I guess see by the
midterms and see how many partial government shutdowns we have
between now and then. Tanya great reporting is always thank
you very much for calling us twice here and being
(51:26):
a part of this from Fox News Radio. That is
Tanya Jay Powers here on News Radio eleven ten KFAV
and longer lines of the airports, some potentially grumpy TSA workers.
Sometimes it's kind of hard to notice those, you know what.
I've always found though, here in Omaha, the TSA here
at Epley not that bad. I find them to be really,
(51:48):
really good professionals. Sometimes you get into some other airports
and it's kind of like, wow, who whizzed in your weedies?
My goodness. But it's a tough gig, man, it is.
Speaker 4 (51:59):
It's it's not the world's greatest gig. Your job is
basically to stand there and shifts and say, put everything
in a bin, take everything out of the briefcase, everything
take take the computer out of the case, empty your pockets.
And then somebody walks through there with stuff in their pockets.
Still you go, do you mean my chain wallet?
Speaker 1 (52:20):
Yes? Yeah, chain wallet.
Speaker 4 (52:22):
When I said everything out of your pockets, I didn't
mean everything, but that that that and that, you know,
I mean, you can just imagine these people want to
go to the are the are they just are they
just sortifiably stupid?
Speaker 1 (52:34):
Yeah? Do they are they hard of hearing? Yes? Uh?
Speaker 4 (52:37):
And how many times over the last twenty five years
since nine to eleven have you traveled and been asked
to take everything out of your pockets every freaking time.
Speaker 1 (52:49):
You know, I remember my first flight. Thanks for being
with us. On Nebraska's morning news news radio eleven ten
KFAB I received an email from an esteemed member of
law enforce and in sense, an official press release is
going out a bit later today. I will let that
official release officially deliver this news. But Craig, this is
(53:11):
for you too. We do have an update, unofficial official
update here on that girl who was hit by the
car doing cookies in the parking lot the other night
and got She got flying through the air as the
back end of the car swung towards her and knocked
her towards the right field fence. Law enforcement has connected
(53:34):
with her. She is overall no serious injuries, moving very slow.
Did suffer a concussion, so she'd not dead. I mean
the video ended here in Omaha of her just in
a heap in the parking lot, So not dead, that's good.
And they did arrest the driver of that vehicle as well,
(54:02):
so I don't know, I don't know if it's if
it's Sheriff Hanson on there. Sheriff Hanson is gonna have
to build a lot of I mean basically like hangars
for all the cars that he is personally towing and
and bringing into custy, seizing the vehicles of a lot
of these street racers. And good he can he can
(54:24):
have all. I don't think he gets to keep him
but a finder's keepers. And then yeah, that's right. And oh,
I've got a great story of faffo which is called
mess Around to find out coming up here at nine
oh five this morning, a little bit of what Craig
has already reported a few times here. James also wants
us to point out he liked Robert Devall in the
(54:44):
movie The Apostle. I haven't seen that one. I've heard
great things about it. He plays a preacher, wrote, directed,
and starred in that movie. Yeah, I think a lot
of KFA B Nation agrees Robert Devall was pretty good
as an actor.
Speaker 4 (54:59):
Well, now I'm gonna have to hinge watched de Vall
this weekend. I finally got through my last Catherine O'Hara's
and now it's gonna be about him.
Speaker 1 (55:05):
Did you see Beetle Juice too? No, she was good
in it. Yeah, not a great movie.
Great to have you with us. Thank you so much
for hanging out here. On Nebraska's morning News, Jim Rose
is here, Lucy Chapman, Craig Evans as well. This is
News Radio eleven ten kfab ah I sends that Lucy
has something she wants to add to the conversation already.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
It's a question, really, Okay, did I hear you say
almost eighty and snow in the same breath?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
I think I took a breath and only because I'm
just I'm out of shape.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Well, you know.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
What, right it was? I speak and run on sentences,
a lot of broken sentences. Yeah, we're gonna we are
going to be potentially seventy six windy degrees today. Today
is Tuesday. By Thursday night and a Friday morning, we
might see a little light snow here in the area,
and then another chance over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Do I hear a harp playing?
Speaker 3 (00:59):
No?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Why would we hear harp?
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Government controlled weather?
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Oh? Oh, that that harp should have known. Sounds like
Lucy has a conspiracy theory. Now. The only thing as
I as I smell the air this morning, there's only
one thing I detect right now in the Omaha area.
I love the smell of play pup in the morning.
We lost both Robert Devall and Reverend Jesse Jackson since
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we ended yesterday's program, and I was thinking about these two,
how they both You could ask the question legitimately, and
I was trying to not have any political bias in
thinking about Reverend Jackson. So the question I was asking
about Jesse was what did the man accomplish in his life? Well,
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he was influential and he inspired a lot of people.
Not discounting that, what did the man accomplish is in
his entire life? What one thing can you look at
and say, if not for Reverend Jesse Jackson, we wouldn't
have Well, he started a nonprofit, Yes, he did well,
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he ran for the presidency? Sure, what did he accomplish?
And then, in kind of thinking about is there any
tie in between Reverend Jesse Jackson and actor Robert Devall,
I came up with this. I could ask the same question,
what did Robert Devall accomplish in his life? Well, he
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was a very influential legend of the silver Screen. He
inspired and entertained a lot of people throughout his entire life. Okay,
that is an accomplishment and You could say the same
thing about Robert Devaal and Jesse Jackson. They entertained and
inspired through their own different ways a lot of people
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in their lives.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Jim Rose well, Jesse Jackson was very engaged in the
civil rights movement, and then later he was very engaged
in getting a lot of African American voters. He was
a disciple of Martin Luther King, and then when King
was assassinated, Jesse Jackson really took a leadership role and
for the next thirty years, the guy was very active.
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Thirty forty years, the guy was really active in engaging
the African American community to be a part of the
political process. When King was assassinated, a lot of people say, well,
I guess that's it for us. And Jackson he was
famously said, you can kill the dreamers, but you can't
kill the dream So you know, you got to give
the guy props. Yeah, he ran for president a couple
of times. He knew he wasn't going to win. The
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idea was I want my issues to get lots of attention,
and they did. And how much did he advance the
cause for African Americans in this country, I don't know,
but he worked very diligently with a lot of Republican
presidents to get corporations to hire them, and so for
that he deserves a lot of credit. Now, Rush used
(04:02):
to have fun with Reverend Jesse Jackson was waiting how
long we'd get into the show. Remember that.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
That's gonna be the hardest thing here throughout the morning
is saying that name without giving the Rush Limbaugh impersonation
or Darryl Hammond as Jesse Jackson reading Green Eggs and
ham on Saturday Night Live. In fact, I already have
a Rush Limbaugh clip cutede up. We got to play this, okay, yeah,
(04:30):
all right, we'll find both here in just a moment.
Darryl Hammond was, but see, Jesse Jackson has been a
very influential media voice in my life. But if I
really sit and think about it and go, well, you know,
like anyone who lived a long time, you pretty much say, well, yeah,
he a lot of these people over here really loved him.
(04:52):
And then some other people said yeah, but he said, uh,
this about the Jews. I mean, he referred to New
York as Heiney Town. And he did not mean it
as a compliment now or a term of endearment. He
believed that the Jews who were holding back Black advancement.
He had a child at a wedlock that led to
CNN ending his TV show. He pretty much threw it
(05:12):
around him. Yeah, he so. I mean he was not
a perfect man.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
No, and you're looking for perfection, We're going to look
a long time.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Thankfully. That's not a standard that I hold people too.
Otherwise it wouldn't come in here and hang out with
you guys in the morning, exactly. Yeah, it's kind of
hard to separate though. You talk about politics in the nineties,
late eighties through the early nineties, Jesse Jackson and Rush
Limbaugh were those voices. And you'll hear Rush talking about
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Jesse next here on news Radio eleven to ten Kfabe
calling to the latter day Saint suits. You do not
like Green Eggs and Ham.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
I do not like.
Speaker 6 (05:55):
Them, Sam, I am.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Such a great bit. Jesse Jackson goes on Saturday Night
Live and in a voice that no one else in
human history has, he is reading Green Eggs and Ham.
I have to dig in deeper in this and find
out whose idea it was to have Jesse Jackson read
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that Doctor Seuss book dry like that, as if there
was nothing funny about it. On Saturday Night Live back
in nineteen eighty whatever ninety. This had to have been
probably on the presidential trail. Eighty eight, I would think
anything to get noticed. That's the year that he ended
up second in the Democratic primary to Tacacis in eighty eight.
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And I think it's because a lot of people are like, Hey,
this guy's, you know, kind of interesting and fun and
he's kind of poking some fun at himself here, and
maybe we should take a look at Jesse Jackson.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Funny, Well, he stayed in the race. You know, he
ran a shoe string campaign. All these other guys like
Dick Kep Haart and Joe Biden blew it all in Iowa,
New Hampshire, and this guy was pretty much riding in
a cargo van across the country with his Rainbow Coalition
handmade signs, and it was a very grassroots campaign and
he was very, very powerful at the convention this year.
(07:21):
That year, two things happened at the convention that year.
Roblow had pretty much an orgy, and Jesse Jackson delivered
an incredible speech and everybody came away at the orgy.
No not at the orgy. He delivered the speech at
the convention. Roblo had an orgy at the hotel after
the Ducacas.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Rob I would check her id.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Yeah, so, but galvanized that movement because remember we were
coming off eight years of Ronald Reagan, and Ronald Reagan
changed the culture of the country. We went away from
activism to tribalism. We went away from you know, the government,
don't trust the bastards too, It's great to be an American.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
And so this was say, return to the.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Nineteen sixties civil rights activism, and Jackson was very powerful
voice for that. But people don't give him credit for this.
And again he wasn't perfect. He had some illegitimate kids,
he had one shaky business deals and all that. But
the man really did wrap his arms around the black
community in this country and picked up the baton left
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by King and it was a really, really powerful movement
for most of thirty years.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Well there were I mean not every black leader embrace
Jesse Jackson, though no, I mean the people like, not
every black leader embrace King Abernathy not really big fans.
So it's kind of hard to discuss politics throughout that
late eighties throughout the nineties without adding in the voice
of Rush Limbaugh. And when talking about Jesse Jackson, you've
got to do Rush Limbaugh saying Jesse Jackson's name.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
We've got a couple of Reverend Jackson somebody.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
It's gonna be so hard.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
I really didn't understand that I have all of the
Limbaugh impressions.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Well, that's kind of how Jesse talks. I never made
that connection.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Everybody laugh, But I go, Okay, Rush is making fun
of Jackson's voice or cadence.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
But I don't get it. But it's the same thing
as Jesse's poking fun of himself in that Green Eggs
and ham bit. That's that's probably true all right now
the elevenfab Certified Transmission Sports Brief. Here's Jim row.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
No, we played those guys the next door neighbors tonight
over there in Iowa City.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Carver Hawkeys their blackout game.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
So I'm sure they've got a man rule orchestrating what
music's gonna play. They've taken all of the baselines and
made them all black. There, everybody's gonna wear black, and
ioways taken on nebrask at eight o'clock.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
This is a This is a.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Team according to Iowa coach Ben McCollum, that is radically
different because of the presence of one.
Speaker 6 (09:50):
Guy changes everything for them. I mean, he's he is different,
he's unique. He can shoot, he can pass, He plays
with such maturity. Obviously he's this is you're in college
and he you know, he plays with just his maturity
and his body language and his communication with his teammates.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Okay, which of the two sixth of your guys are
you talking about? You talking about rink Master Sam Heuberg.
I guess that was masked. What about Heiberg?
Speaker 6 (10:15):
I think defensively is where he's at in his body
language and energy is where it's really at. But then
you offensively, you can't forget about him, you know, because
he's he's pretty good offensively. I think he averages around
five assists a game, somewhere in that range. And what
happens is you think, always a good defender. You know,
we got to guard Price's who's gonna be a handful
(10:35):
of guard. You've got to guard rink Masks. You've got
to guard Lawrence. You know, you've got to guard Burkie.
You know, you gotta guard all those guys and then
you kind of forget about Sam Well Sam shooting like
forty plus percent from three.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Yeah, and he also leads the nation and assist a
turnover ratio. See how this goes. I always got blown
out at home by Purdue the other day. There Bennett
Sturts is probably the best point guard, most underrated point
guard in the country from an offensive standpoint. He scored
thirty plus points in three of the last five games
against Big Ten teams in the month of February. Hello
eight o'clock on the BTN tonight. Iowa State won. Last
(11:08):
night They beat the number two team in the country
seventy to sixty seven. Nate Heise hit a three with
ninety seconds to go, and then the Cyclones clampdown on
defense seventy sixty seven over the Houston Cougars. Iowa State
was down ten at the half, rallied to win. The
Nebraska women's basketball team is officially in the Greater Ditch.
They got beat again eighty sixty seven at home by Iowa.
(11:31):
That is a fifth consecutive loss for the Nebraska women.
They have lost eight of the last ten at the
Olympic Games. This is the most prolific Olympian Winter Olympian
of all time. He's the Michael Phelps of the Winter Olympics.
His name is Johannes Holz fat klask bowl Yeah from Norway.
He wins his ninth gold in the four x seven
(11:53):
point five kilometer relay. This is his fourth goal of
the twenty twenty six games and they won this by
twenty two seconds. This guy has a remarkable style that
has allowed him to fly uphill in this cross country
skiing competition and people are looking around going nobody can
touch the dude. I mean, he's really really impressive then, bra. Rather,
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the US women's hockey team will be in action in
the gold medal round. They defeated the team from Sweden
five to nothing in the semifinals from Milan. Abby Murphy
led the way with a goal and an assist. Aaron
Franklin of the United States turned aside every shot she
faced to preserve the shutout. So Team USA is a
guaranteed at least a silver medal for the fifth consecutive
(12:39):
winner games. We last won gold in twenty eighteen. The
Nebraska men's baseball team gave up six runs in the
first inning and got beat up by Stanford in the
final game of that tournament out in Arizona. Final score
Stanford eleven to six, But the Huskers went three to
four out there, and you'll take that any time. They
are now headed to Texas for a tournament this weekend
against even tougher team Louisville, Florida State and k State.
(13:02):
But a good start for Nebraska baseball sports. His news
on Nebraska's News Weather in Traffick Station.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
We of course brought up Rush Limbaugh as Will emails.
He says, Rush Limbaugh's impression of the Reverend Jackson was
the first thing that went through my head when I
learned of Jackson's passing. Yes, for several people, it can't
help but pop in there. It just became part of
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the zeitgeist, Rush Limbaugh saying Jesse Jackson's name. But it's
interesting that we bring up Rush Limbaugh today, as today
is the fifth anniversary of the passing of Rush Hudson Limbaugh.
Jim Rose, can you believe that the look on your
(13:50):
face suggests that five years has gone by a lot
quicker than we thought here, that's hard to believe five
years ago. Miss him every day, I know. I think
Clay and Buck do a great job of carrying on
his legacy. They're rush babies, you know, they're guys in
their forties now who they like?
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Me?
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Became introduced to Rush Limbaugh in the car as my
dad was driving me around town, and who's this guy?
But even as a kid listening to rush Limbaugh, just
from his inflection, the way that he would deliver the
news of the day, and throughout so much of his career,
Rush Limbaugh was not successful because he was a conservative commentator.
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This is what a lot of people failed to understand
about the popularity of Rush Limbaugh. Wasn't that he was
a conservative. That certainly helped with that part of his base.
But Rush Limbaugh was successful and the best in the
genre because it seemed like every single day he was
on the radio, he was having the time of his life,
(14:53):
and most every day he was. This is a guy
who got fired from job after job across the this country,
who worked in the Kansas City Royals organization, is like
a like a statistician. He was a pr guy.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
He says, my job was to parade to somebody from
some business out onto the pitcher's mound to throw out
the first pitch. But he did have a radio show
on the side on the weekends down there. It's hard
to believe it's been five years. But what Rush Rush's
legacy to me? And I'm just like everybody else. I
listened to him one more said who is this guy?
(15:31):
There was nobody else on there like him. But his
legacy is that he made conservatism fun. Conservatism had been
the purview of old white guys in country clubs, but
he made conservatism hip. He made conservatism fun. He reminded
us of what makes America great. For three hours every day,
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he appealed to the commissioned sales guy. His audience was
the guy who goes to work every day, tries to
get ahead. The government gets in the way. The government
takes more of what I earned when I earned more,
the government takes more rather than me getting to keep it.
And he just railed against some of those institutional things
that he thought were on American We should be able
(16:13):
to keep more of what we earn here in this country.
You should reward performance, but we punish performance in this country.
And it really woke up a lot of people to
what made America great and what we need to get
back to doing. And he did it as a radio
personality in a time that was not thought to be
a good time to be on the radio. The middle
(16:34):
of the afternoon and people are working. Maybe they might
catch you for fifteen minutes running to get a sandwich somewhere,
but people are working. If you want to be in radio,
you got to be in the morning or afternoon.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
And they put Rush kind of almost as an afterthought
on in the middle of the day, and that led
to the radio ratings known as the Middle Finger. When
you look at the ratings where it started off down
here and then spiked in the middle of the afternoon
with the Rush. I went back down. I came back down.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
We're celebrating that Tuesday by skipping the gym.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Happy Marty Gras from news radio eleven ten KFAB. That's right,
we're in Marty Gras now, Happy Fat Tuesday to you
and yours with Craig Evans, Lucy Chapman, Jim Rose, I
am Scott Voorhe's this is news radio eleven ten KFAB.
(17:25):
Where's our cake with the baby in it? I still
don't understand what that's about. Oh, it's just tradition. Yeah,
it was a weird tradition. There's a cake with a
baby in it for Marty Gras. Lucy ever been to Nollins.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Oh several times? Really not during Marty Graus.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
What's you'd know? But I always I always kind of
thought that Marty Gras there on Bourbon Street was kind
of a once a year thing.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
There once in a lifetime, once a year, once a year.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
But you go to Bourbon Street any time of the year, June, August, October,
what can can? Bourbon Street is happy to treat you
to your own miniature Marti Gras anytime that you go
down there, and that's what makes that play so much fun.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Yeah, but going outside of Marty Gras, you get the
best of Bourbon Street because it's not nearly as crowded,
but it's crowded enough to have some really fun times.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
You want to share your Bourbon Street story with.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Us this morning, I was there with my husband.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Well, that could be fun, that's all good.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
It was fun. But you made it sound like, did
you flash anybody? Did you get any beads?
Speaker 1 (18:33):
I no, I honestly wasn't thinking that, but now I
am no I did. I was twenty years old when
I was on Bourbon Street, and as it turns out,
Bourbon Street doesn't check IDs. It was a little age, right,
It was a little bit of a concern that I
was going down there with a bunch of radio guys
(18:54):
from Omaha back in nineteen ninety whatever that would have been.
And I was the young guy obviously in the crowd,
and they were a little concerned, like, well, are we
just gonna have to ditch Scott to go into some
of these bars and clubs and stuff. And as it
turns out, Bourmon Street did not give a rip that
I wasn't twenty one, and several.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
The bartenders probably did no.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Several thirty two hours hurricanes later sold directly to you,
one hundred percent not checked. I didn't get my ID
checked one single time down there. And I have several
stories in the wake of that, some I'm embarrassed to
share all these years later, when I have allegedly matured
(19:36):
with children. I'll tell you this. Yeah, well I do
have children, that's not a let. Well, yeah, I'll tell
you this. I woke up in my hotel bed, Thank goodness,
I was still wearing my clothes which were soaking wet.
(19:58):
It was not raining. I got back to the hotel
room and thought I'm kno getting into bed without taking
a shower, and I guess I didn't feel like I
needed to take my clothes off before I got in
the shower. That's in my entire life. That's about the
only story that it well, well.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
It was. It was very good for the EMTs to
show up with you were very.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Dressed, thankfully. Yeah, it was. It was all fine. I
looked back on my misspent youth and I have very
few regrets as misspent. Oh no. It If you get.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
To New Orleans with no responsibilities at age twenty one,
you're in the green zone.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
I was just twenty though.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
But I will say this about New Orleans. If you
have not been, you need to go. If you like.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Food, Oh my gosh, great food, great atmosphere.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Great atmosphere, great music. It's not they don't have as
much blues as they used to it. A lot of
those bars on Bourbon Street have kind of crossed over
to more heavier rock, which I like. But I'm in
New Orleans. I want blues.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Same thing as Nashville. You think you go from bar
to bar and it's all country music because it used
to be. Now it's you know, rock, it's yeah, you
can find just about anything in there.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Same funny.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
I imagine it's the same with New Orleans, like, all right,
let's go hear some blues and some zydeco. Yes, well, yes,
some of that, and that's some of it. Whatever you
want to find a little goes a long ways. But
in New Orleans it's it's fun. Pete emails in the
Zonker's custom was inbox, says I always thought about New
Orleans the same way Scott did. I don't remember what
I said, but we were align. He's drinking, Yeah, he says.
(21:32):
That was until I went there in December a few
years ago for the American Society of Hematology conference. That
sounds fun, he says. You have to understand, this is
a conference of about forty thousand of the biggest nerds
on the planet getting together. So I was not expecting
a huge party. I was wrong. I think New Orleans
(21:55):
does something to people, kind of like Vegas, but different.
I've never seen someone PhDs and mds get overserved in
my life. That's from Pete, who I'm sure behaved himself
during that week.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Well he can still write about it.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Man. We got to go to the American Society of
hematology conference here. You gotta love a conference like well,
we have a very sober conference coming up here. We're
gonna be there for four days, a lot of breakout sessions,
some great keynote speakers. It's going to be a real
good time to network and really think about your craft.
Where is it Vegas? Yeah, there's no one in the
(22:34):
morning seminars, sir, huh, Yeah, where is this? A very
important conference? New Orleans? Okay. Been talking a lot about
Jesse Jackson passing away, and he kind of overshadowed a
huge passing yesterday in Hollywood at the age of ninety five.
Robert devaal Jim rows anything you want to say here
(22:57):
about Robert devall uh.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
One of the signature actors of my lifetime, started out
with a non speaking role in his first major motion
picture that catapulted him to the top tier, and that
was as Arthur Boo Radley in To Kill a Mockingbirds, Right,
And it was a remarkable role that you really never
(23:22):
anticipated being a big deal. But when it went from
the pages of the book to the silver screen and
Duval played Radley, the mentally challenged, highly intellectually undeveloped shut
in that ultimately saved the life of the main character
in the movie.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Well, now, thanks for giving that away.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
I don't think there are too many people listening to
Kaevibye who don't know how to kill a mockingbird. I
was just about to read, Yeah, I'm sure you were.
So that's when it started. And then he just kept
making good movies right after that. He was never the
number one guy, but he was always the number one
number two. In other words, he was always the best
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runner up in all major movie roles. That said, his
role in Lonesome Dove probably is one of the signature
Western roles of the last thirty five years. And he
played the conciliary Tom Hagen and Godfather one and two,
Apocalypse Now, Apocalypse Now, and he said the smelling napalm
(24:25):
every morning.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
We referenced that an hour ago. Yeah, that was really impressive.
But I liked him later in life and for, among
other things, Jack Reacher. This is the Tom Cruise movie
Jack Reacher, where Tom Cruise is kind of, you know,
checking out something with a gun and a rifle range
and goes into Deval's place, and Devall immediately sees right
(24:47):
through the bs and is willing to bend the rules
to get some bad guys and like, look, don't get
me involved in this, but I'm keeping tabs on you, Jack.
And it's a really great performance in a fun little
action movie. And you know he did that. He did
a hustle with Adam Sandler the Basketball movie. Into his nineties. Yeah,
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the guy was always working and everyone prolific loved to
listen to this. After serving in the army during the
Korean War, Robert Deval decides he wants to study acting.
And he's there in New York and he's studying acting
alongside Dustin Hoffman and Gene Hackman. There were roommates. That
makes a teacher look really good. Think of all the
(25:30):
oscars in that apartment. These these are my students. If
I did this for these humps, that's what I could
do for you. He's not good looking white guys, right.
I took you know, these these hacks like Hackman and
Devall and Hoffman, and I turned him into something well.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
I mean he he was again a stage actor to start,
which is really kind of where you want to cut
your teeth if you're an actor, if you just want
to be a movie star. He just got to be
good looking and have the right role. But he wanted
to be an actor like Hackman and like Offmann. But
he was nominated for an Oscar I believe eight times
and he won one.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
But if you can name, if you can name the
movie he won the Oscar for, I'll give you a dollar.
It's not worth it. Nineteen eighty three's Tender Mercies Best Actor,
seven Oscar nominations, one win, go all right? Coming up
next year, I'm gonna get We do play requests on
this program, and Jim wanted to hear this on Jesse Jackson.
That's coming up next. Happy Chinese New Year. I'm Scott
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Voorhees here with Lucy Chavian, Craig Evans, Jim Rose. This
is News Radio eleven ten kfab we are Nebraska's morning
news and talking about Jesse Jackson. It went from a
conversation about an influential leader, not a perfect man, but
one who certainly picked up the torch that was lit
(26:51):
by doctor King, and then it evolved into Rush Limbaugh
impersonations the Green Eggs and ham bit from Saturday Night Live,
and Jim Rose said, I gotta hear Darryl Hammond. Now
I wonder if the impression loses something by not seeing
what Daryl Hammond is doing right while doing this the
little ticks, the eyes right, you know, the pauses and
(27:13):
so forth, and the fact he's cracking up Nora McDonald
just by the ticks and the facial expressions. Here in
impersonating Jesse Jackson on Saturday Night Live, I want to
know that the Hall of people a sudden not Montgomery
Water people as man Jessa Jackson. What do you want?
(27:33):
What do I want? I want to serve our nation?
What do I want? I want to raise a moral
tone about nation. What do I want? I want a pitcher,
not an underwell stitcher. What do I want? I want
Fred Flintstone in that house. I want friend's.
Speaker 7 (27:56):
Cat at that house, stay outside.
Speaker 5 (27:58):
For the night.
Speaker 6 (28:00):
I won't shoes on Fred and Bonne at a time
they take that big o Littlestone car down.
Speaker 5 (28:06):
The street to the courtesy and Franz tool feet say
it with me.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
So you know people have long said, you know, that's
a racist bit because Darryl Hammond's face is very slightly
to its nine black face. It's it's ted. Now. Look,
I know no one's looking for a white guy like me,
(28:32):
the whitest white guy there is to be able to
make a judgment call as to what is or is
not racist. No one is waiting for me to make
that that big judgment call. But blackface was something that
white people used to do because they would not hire
black actors and they would make them look ridiculous and
they wouldn't give jobs to them. That was blackface stuff
(28:55):
like what what Darryl Hammond or yeah, Jimmy Kimmel as
Carl Malone or even Eddie Murphy as a white guy,
which he did on SNL and in coming to America.
Was not something like I'm not going to give these
other actors a chance or anything like that. It was
(29:15):
to pay respect, homage, to do an impersonation, and it
was all done.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
It's funny, it's pure satire. This is what was hijacked.
When they start talking about Jim Crow, the Jim Crow South,
this is when you know Ding Dong Biden was way
off base discussing the All Star Game getting moved out
of Atlanta because of the voter ID law in Georgia.
They completely rewrote the history of the Jim Crow laws.
The Blackface theatrical experiment was an example of that because
(29:46):
black folks were denied entry into virtually every public institution
in the South. It had nothing to do with today's comedy,
satire or today's actors. Now that was lost in the
national narrative because most people in the national media don't
know anything and they just listened to the left or
right wing talking points that comes out of the agendaits
(30:08):
either in the White House, Congress or anywhere else.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
When Justin Trudeau painted his face to dress up like
Michael Jackson, it's because he liked Michael Jackson, not because
he was a racist.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
Come on, I know that's an argument we simply can't win,
but that's the reality.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Then the Zonker's custom was inbox Scott at kfab dot
com and talking about Robert Davall and some of our
favorite Deval performances. Marine accurately points out, you guys left
out second Hand Lions, my favorite Devall movie. She says, Lucy,
you ever see Secondhand Lions? That was Robert Devaal and
Michael Caine with the kid Hayley Joe Osmond when he
(30:46):
was a kid.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Uh? Is that where the lions attacked the people in the.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
No No, No, The second Hand Lions is about two
guys who want to buy lions, but not like new
They want them secondhand, so they go into a lion
thrift store and they get lions, kind of like the
Rams do with Matthew Stafford. It's about basically that movie.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
I've not seen them.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Yeah, that's also not true. All right, I stretched for
a second to give Jim Rose a chance to rejoin
us here in the studio. All right, he's got his
coffee and he has his newspaper. Now come back in here, Jim,
because I have our next guest waiting to answer a
question that you hollered repeatedly last week. Now, the perception
(31:35):
is is that all these these great historic restaurants have
been closing here in the Omaha area. And Jim Rose
did a commentary last week where he asked the question
very unsettling, the question is where am I going to eat?
To answer that question, we have here from the Grow
Omaha Show Saturday mornings at nine here on news radio
(31:55):
eleven ten KFAB. It is Jeff Biel's Hello, Jeff, good.
Speaker 5 (31:59):
Morning, Hey, good morning Scott.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
So the perception is, as all these restaurants are closing,
Where's Jim gonna eat is the reality that we are
losing restaurants in Omaha. Jeff, well, well.
Speaker 5 (32:11):
Jim is not gonna starve, and we're going, we're going,
we're going through a little bit of a cycle. This
time of year. The time of year where you're most
likely to see restaurants close is after New Year's Day
and before you get into real spring, not this fall spring.
So that's kind of normal right now. And you know,
we report on Girl Mah. We report restaurants closing, restaurants opening,
(32:36):
and we've always noticed that the restaurant closing news gets
way more attention and way more traffic, and sometimes people think, oh,
my goodness, this is really terrible. But we went back
to all at twenty twenty five and the number of
new restaurants we reported outnumbered the number of closing restaurants
we reported about six to one. And so what happens
(33:00):
is in Omaha, we are adding restaurants far faster than
we are adding population, and so the number of restaurants
we have are flat out unsustainable. And so then you
match that with the fact that restaurant customers tend to
be sickle and taste change over time, and so frankly,
I guess my answer is you probably are going to
(33:23):
see more closing in the not too distant future because
we're over restauranted.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Obviously, though, when a restaurant like Jericho's, which has been
here for several decades and people love going in there
getting prime rib and as I believe it was you
and not Trenton who mentioned this on the show the
other day, Jeff, it felt like you'd go in there
for like a business lunch and you were you would
walk in there in twenty seventeen and suddenly you'd step
(33:49):
into nineteen seventy three.
Speaker 5 (33:52):
Yeah, I used to love having business lunches there, and yeah,
it was like the throwback and everything. But for any
restaurant to make it fifty years is a tremendous upset.
It's you know, they defy a lot of odds for
a restaurant to go that long. And you know, when
you think, okay, it's also a family owned or privately
(34:13):
not owned by a big company or something like that,
it's a big sacrifice on the people who own those restaurants,
and sometimes families just don't want to do it anymore.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
Yeah, that's that's happened with some of these heritage restaurants
in Omaha the last few years. Well, it's hard.
Speaker 4 (34:27):
It's hard to hold on to one because everything is
more expensive. It's more expensive to have people there, the
ingredients that you put into the stuff is more expensive.
And if you can't do it right the way you
want to do it, then it's frustrating and disappointing. But
a lot of these multi generational restaurants, in many cases
family worked there for next to nothing. Yeah, Jeff, I
(34:49):
want to ask you about one more thing here before
we cut you loose. So, as we reported yesterday, there
are a group of downtown, largely restaurant bar owners that
they're concerned that they're going to be closing from downtown
up through midtown because of the streetcar construction and everything
else going down there. That makes it hard for people
to get down there, hard for them to find a
place to park, hard for them to walk into the restaurants.
(35:11):
Since a lot of these sidewalks are closed, and they're
coming together as one unit to complain to the city
as a group, you've got to do I don't know
what the city can do about this, Jeff, but someone's
got to do something that a lot of these places
are going to close.
Speaker 5 (35:26):
Yeah, and sadly a lot of them already have and
they're almost certainly will be quite a few more to come.
The construction impacts right now. I got to admit our
brutal on those local businesses, and I don't blame them
one bit for wanting to band together and find ways
to survive. You know, back a few months ago, the
(35:47):
Chamber found some philanthropic people that were willing to come
up with a fund for some of those midtown businesses.
Maybe when they work together, they can find similar resources.
Believe that the street car will eventually make that one
of the greatest restaurant in bar corridors in this region
of the country. The next two years are going to
(36:08):
be rough and uh, and I feel for those those
businesses are there because a lot of it will not
make it.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
Yeah, they're they're getting driven out of business. And this
was part of the conversation that nobody wanted to have,
and that is what about the businesses that are there now?
And I've talked to several of them, and they are struggling,
they are having they're really stressed financially.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Well, don't talk to them, go eat there. I'm going
down to night restaurants. This place of them, this place
I used to go to before COVID and construction was
hopping for lunch on Thursdays and Fridays. And now I
go and it's the only I'm the only one in there. Jeff,
A great program. This passed to Saturday. You and Trenton
hosted the Notele Family Empire. That was great. You can
(36:51):
hear that on the grow Omaha podcast link at kfab
dot com and listen to Jeff and Trenton this and
every Saturday morning at nine. The grow Omaha Minute with
Jeff Beal's is coming up in a moment. Jeff, thanks
a lot for joining us live this morning.
Speaker 5 (37:03):
You bet see you guys later.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Scott atkfab dot com. A couple of Chris is emailing here.
The first one says the problem is not restaurants opening,
it's a problem of chain restaurants that are garbage opening
all right. Chris doesn't like chain restaurants. All garbage, says Chris.
Other Chris says, to answer the question where's Jim gonna eat?
(37:29):
He says, go get yourself ahead of lettuce and make
yourself a salad, cook your own food dipstick.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
They no need to get personal. We're just having fun here.
Everybody calm down. Well, everybody is a guy named Chris.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Everybody's settled out. Well. JD's all fired up here as usual. Yeah,
he emails, says and Craig Evans report he said the
city is going to install ninety new signs on the
paved trail system that will, among other things, encourage more
people to use the trails. And to I say no,
(38:05):
there are already too many people on the trails that
don't know the trail rules and make it a hazard
for all of us trying to ride our bikes. That's
from j D. How do people not know the trail rules?
There's just one rule on your left, which is best
said as you're already past the person and you scared
(38:25):
the wits out of them as they already came barreling up. Yeah,
just on your left. Is that not the rule?
Speaker 2 (38:32):
I don't know. Maybe we can adopt this to the streets.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
We get it. Yeah, your on your left on the streets,
on your left, on the trails, on your left in
Walmart by the people and their shopping carts, Like, hey,
the rules of the road here apply. You go here.
This is my lane, that's yours move. We've been trying
to talk about the Reverend Jesse Jackson and not fall
into one of our favorite impressions over the years, and
(38:57):
that is Rush Limbaugh saying the name the Reverend Jackson.
Speaker 4 (39:01):
We got a couple of Reverend Jackson sound bites.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
And we got an email earlier this morning is so
buried in the zonker's custom was inbox. I apologize for
not being able to credit the emailer, but he points
out that it was Rush Limbaugh would say, that's not
an impersonation that he came up with. He says, I
took that from William F. Buckley on his old TV show,
(39:29):
saying the name Reverend Jesse Jackson. We've gone back in
time here to the seventies when everything was a little
bit slower. This is William Buckley introducing Jesse Jackson to
his show firing Line. When the assassin fired the shot
that killed the Reverend Martin Luther King, he might have
(39:50):
killed if.
Speaker 3 (39:50):
His name had been a few inches off the Jesse Jackson.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
So you can hear the same intonation in his voice.
And Rush was a fan of Buckley. Yeah, that he
you can at once you hear that you're like, oh, okay,
that's where it is now. It was a slower time
in the early seventies, but obviously Jesse Jackson. I always
thought it was Rush doing kind of a fun impression
(40:16):
of Jesse Jackson's voice, which he did himself on Saturday
Night Live, famously reading from the Doctor Seuss book Green
Eggs and Ham.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
I could not would not on a boat, I will not,
will not with a goat.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
I will not eat them in the rain. I will
not eat them on a train, nothing the dog, not
on a tree, not in the car. You let me be.
And he had a great sense of comedic timing, even
taking off his glasses for effect and impact on what
he was saying. So was was that the Jesse Jackson?
(41:01):
Who was the man Reverend Jesse Jackson? Or here's another
clip we've unearthed. This is from the Rush Limbaugh TV
show in nineteen ninety three. Reverend Jesse Jackson could also
get after it, and in this instance Rush was surprised
that he was going after black people, no clan threatening us.
(41:29):
We've lost more lives.
Speaker 2 (41:31):
Too, dope, then we haven't lost to the rope.
Speaker 1 (41:35):
Years later, here's Russia's reaction.
Speaker 7 (41:39):
I mean, I'll tell you, folks, this is amazing what
we're witnessing. Contrast this to the man who walked the
streets of Los Angeles South Central after the riots out
there and said, you can't call them thugs, can't call
them hodles. Got to understand their rage, and we need
more federal.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
Dollars to fix this up.
Speaker 7 (41:56):
This is because of the last twelve years of regular
Bush that we burned this city and so forth.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
You knowize what he's saying here.
Speaker 7 (42:02):
He saying, we have no excuses to black people, no
excuses for the use. We can't blame anybody but ourselves.
Speaker 1 (42:07):
That is Rush Limbaugh reacting to Jesse Jackson saying we've
lost more people to dope than from the rope, and
he says we have more people to blame for black
deaths within the black population than through the Klan.
Speaker 4 (42:22):
Now, it's all very categorically empirically true.
Speaker 1 (42:26):
Here in this segment, of course, we're featuring as much
Rush Limbaugh as Jesse Jackson, not just because it's hard
to talk politics of the eighties and nineties without both
of their voices, but also it's five years ago today
since Rush Limbaugh passed away, February seventeenth, twenty twenty one.
Five years, Jim, I can't believe it's been five years.
(42:48):
And I miss him.
Speaker 4 (42:49):
And I miss him not only because I really really
loved how he loved the country and inspired us to
love the country, but he just continued to imbue a
remarkable optimism even when elections were lost and bad policy
turned into disasters results. He never ever stopped being optimistic.
(43:11):
And I think he got that from President Reagan. He
was probably Ronald Reagan's most public, biggest fan, and Reagan's
enduring optimism was at the heart of his popularity. And
I think that russia Is enduring optimism was too. And
if you listen to the people who were around him
closely for most of his career, they would tell you
that he refused to let any of us. And Laura
(43:34):
Ingram was one of them, as Sean Hannity was one
of them, and all of the others, the national Conservative voices,
they said the same thing. He wouldn't let us lose
our sonny optimism and our outlook. He'd say, Hey, suck
it up, Buttercup, you know we got work to do.
We're going to be the loyal opposition and after Barack
Obama just thumped John McCain in the two thousand and
(43:57):
eight election, and things were really really bad for the
Republican Party in this country, even though the housing crisis
and the ultimate meltdown of the economy had nothing to
do with George W.
Speaker 1 (44:08):
Bush.
Speaker 4 (44:08):
In fact, he tried to fix it but was blocked
by Congress. Tried to impose some sort of controls on
subprime mortgages and the housing sector, which was the precipitous
of the big meltdown Rush. I remember the morning after
the election, he said, we are now the loyal opposition,
and he stayed very optimistic, and he stayed very upbeat
(44:28):
about the country, and he said, we're going to fight this,
you know, we're We're gonna be the voice that constantly
harasses this guy. And he did the same thing after
Bill Clinton b George H. W. Bush in ninety two.
Speaker 1 (44:40):
Five years since his widow came on this radio station
and across the Rush limbaught EIB Network to deliver the
news to his fans.
Speaker 4 (44:48):
We need that we need conservatism is optimism.
Speaker 1 (44:52):
That story that Craig just referenced there, and Lucy, have
you seen that video of the street racing here in
Omaha the other night, where a guy is doing and
cookies in a parking lot and some woman gets a
little too close to where the back end of the
car is swiveling towards her, and just like bo Jackson
(45:13):
cranking a home run, he absolutely up ends this woman
and sends her flying head over feet through the air,
and then she just lies. She's lying there in a
heap in the parking lot. Sheriff Hansen is among those
saying does anyone know who this is? We want to
make sure she's not dead somewhere, And I don't know
(45:35):
that anyone's reached out to the sheriff going, oh that's Cindy,
she's fine. You saw that video.
Speaker 2 (45:40):
I did what are I was shocked that nobody knew
who she was or where she was.
Speaker 1 (45:46):
Well, they know who she is, but they're not going
to tell law enforcement because they're doing illegal activity there.
Not only was she well no, well then, but in
order to let anyone know that she's okay, you would
have to then find out who the associates were who
(46:06):
were destroying that parking lot. See that's another thing. You're
out there doing donuts in the parking lot and the
businesses have to pay to redo the parking lot, clean
it up and all that stuff. They don't want these
big black skid mark you know, these marks all over
their parking lot. That costs a lot of money. It
looks trashy. You're not supposed to do that.
Speaker 2 (46:28):
Hey, at least they're out away from their computers socializing.
Speaker 1 (46:32):
At least they're not getting some fresh air. Lucy way
to put a good fresh spin on it. Now Here
in the inbox, Tim is responding to everything we've talked
about this morning. Says condolences to the families of Jesse
Jackson and Robert Duvall, and locally to the family of
Mike Yanni, truly influential man and mentor to many in Omaha.
(46:52):
We talked about him yesterday. Tim says the green eggs
and ham bit by the Reverend Jackson was hilarious. I'd
forgotten that, and he really did help get more voices
heard by getting people signed up to vote. Yep. There's
a movie with Robert Duval called Get Low, pretty good
about a guy who wants to have a wake for
himself while he's still alive, and Tim says, you also
(47:13):
brought up Rush Limbaugh. Can you imagine what this country
would be without the conservative voices of Rush, Fox News
and others to counteract the nutballs on the left. I
shudder to think of it. Tim, Thanks for responding to
everything this morning here on news Radio eleven ten Old
days work this morning. Welcoming back here to news radio
(47:35):
eleven ten KFAB from Fox News Radio. It's Tanya, Jay
Powers and Tanya. We're in the midst of another government shutdown.
Does anyone in America care at this point? Are they
noticing that's government shutdown?
Speaker 3 (47:49):
Well, the folks pay work for some of these agencies
under VHFs who are not getting funding right now and
not getting paychecks. As soon as this continues, they're definitely
going to notice. The agencies under the Department of Homeland Security,
which is what affected the pause, and funding for DHS
is what's affected by this partial shutdown, So that is
(48:09):
the PFA, FEMA, the Coast Guard, the Secret Service, ICE,
and Customs and Border Protection now ICE and CVP. You
know they're going to go on because of the tax
and spending cut law from from last year and the
billions they got in funding for that what you know,
what we're talking about is the folks who are you know,
(48:30):
kind of like the last government shutdown we saw last
year that went on for our record forty three days.
We saw them, you know, some of them. You know,
they have to work, They have to go to work
anyway and report to their jobs, but they just aren't
getting paid to do so. I can only imagine what
a what a sunny disposition that would be for the
(48:51):
rest of us if we were in that position. This
has happened, you know how many times in the last
eighteen months. I mean it is we've you know, I
feel for him. I mean, if you're flying anytime soon,
the agent is grumpy, just give them a smile and
keep on trucking, because I'm telling you, those folks aren't
getting paid, and I'd be grumpy too. I mean, I'm
(49:11):
sure probably most doubles would be.
Speaker 1 (49:13):
You think about it there at Fox News Radio obviously,
like Evan Brown, Jeff Banasso, they're making a ton of
money and leaving scraps for the rest of you. Tanya.
So when if your company here for the third time
in the last three months, Cubs says, hey, Tanya, keep working,
call KFA being Omaha, do this report and we'll pay
(49:34):
you eventually it's okay, whoa well, and maybe the money
has gone out there right there? Man, I was gonna
see she got mad. At what point would you just
decide to check out and leave? Apparently we have reached
that point here, I'll put her back on here. So
as I was saying, at what point would you check
out and leave if you weren't getting paid? Apparently we've
(49:55):
reached that point, Tanya.
Speaker 3 (49:56):
See, that's what it would sound like if that happened
to me, and I was told, oh, by the way, yeah, no,
that that would that's a hard path. And there are
you know, a people in our federal government who are
in this exact position, and if this does continue to
go on and they meant paychecks, that is where we're
going to see a lot more stories about you know, okay,
(50:18):
that seems there would be where things get to the
discomfort level, you know, where the rubber meets the road,
so to speak, Like how long are you willing to
keep a government shut down? When you're starting to hear
stories about families who are not making ends meet because
they're working, they're just not getting paid because of all
of this. So that's that is one of the things
we saw last year where people were you know, government
(50:38):
employees had to call out of work and you know
they said, hey, look we got to go drive an uber.
We've got to go do something to make some money
to feed our family and to make ends meet. So
hopefully it doesn't get to that point and they don't
have to miss a paycheck and then a pay period
in a couple of weeks. But you know, the Congress
is on recess until the twenty third, that's Monday, anyway,
(50:59):
so you kind of have to wonder, Okay, you know,
what's how's this going, how's it all going to end?
Speaker 1 (51:05):
Yeah? And who's going to be blamed on? I mean,
you look at the Democrats, they say we want to
shut this down because we don't want ICE funded. Well,
ICE is funded. You're affecting TSA and FEMA. It doesn't
make any sense. We'll well, I guess see by the
midterms and see how many partial government shutdowns we have
between now and then. Tanya great reporting is always thank
you very much for calling us twice here and being
(51:26):
a part of this from Fox News Radio. That is
Tanya Jay Powers here on News Radio eleven ten KFAV
and longer lines of the airports, some potentially grumpy TSA workers.
Sometimes it's kind of hard to notice those, you know what.
I've always found though, here in Omaha, the TSA here
at Epley not that bad. I find them to be really,
(51:48):
really good professionals. Sometimes you get into some other airports
and it's kind of like, wow, who whizzed in your weedies?
My goodness. But it's a tough gig, man, it is.
Speaker 4 (51:59):
It's it's not the world's greatest gig. Your job is
basically to stand there and shifts and say, put everything
in a bin, take everything out of the briefcase, everything
take take the computer out of the case, empty your pockets.
And then somebody walks through there with stuff in their pockets.
Still you go, do you mean my chain wallet?
Speaker 1 (52:20):
Yes? Yeah, chain wallet.
Speaker 4 (52:22):
When I said everything out of your pockets, I didn't
mean everything, but that that that and that, you know,
I mean, you can just imagine these people want to
go to the are the are they just are they
just sortifiably stupid?
Speaker 1 (52:34):
Yeah? Do they are they hard of hearing? Yes? Uh?
Speaker 4 (52:37):
And how many times over the last twenty five years
since nine to eleven have you traveled and been asked
to take everything out of your pockets every freaking time.
Speaker 1 (52:49):
You know, I remember my first flight. Thanks for being
with us. On Nebraska's morning news news radio eleven ten
KFAB I received an email from an esteemed member of
law enforce and in sense, an official press release is
going out a bit later today. I will let that
official release officially deliver this news. But Craig, this is
(53:11):
for you too. We do have an update, unofficial official
update here on that girl who was hit by the
car doing cookies in the parking lot the other night
and got She got flying through the air as the
back end of the car swung towards her and knocked
her towards the right field fence. Law enforcement has connected
(53:34):
with her. She is overall no serious injuries, moving very slow.
Did suffer a concussion, so she'd not dead. I mean
the video ended here in Omaha of her just in
a heap in the parking lot, So not dead, that's good.
And they did arrest the driver of that vehicle as well,
(54:02):
so I don't know, I don't know if it's if
it's Sheriff Hanson on there. Sheriff Hanson is gonna have
to build a lot of I mean basically like hangars
for all the cars that he is personally towing and
and bringing into custy, seizing the vehicles of a lot
of these street racers. And good he can he can
(54:24):
have all. I don't think he gets to keep him
but a finder's keepers. And then yeah, that's right. And oh,
I've got a great story of faffo which is called
mess Around to find out coming up here at nine
oh five this morning, a little bit of what Craig
has already reported a few times here. James also wants
us to point out he liked Robert Devall in the
(54:44):
movie The Apostle. I haven't seen that one. I've heard
great things about it. He plays a preacher, wrote, directed,
and starred in that movie. Yeah, I think a lot
of KFA B Nation agrees Robert Devall was pretty good
as an actor.
Speaker 4 (54:59):
Well, now I'm gonna have to hinge watched de Vall
this weekend. I finally got through my last Catherine O'Hara's
and now it's gonna be about him.
Speaker 1 (55:05):
Did you see Beetle Juice too? No, she was good
in it. Yeah, not a great movie.
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