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The local paper had an interesting front page on America's 250th birthday, I have a knockout winner for the title of Most Patriotic Movie, and the President may have scored a big GOOOAAAALLLLL with a phone call.  All that and more today!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Nebraska's morning news news radio eleven ten KFAB.
I'm Scott Borhees here with Craig Evans, with Lucy Chapman,
with Jim Rose right there, and Courtney Donaho as well.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Glad to have you with us as well.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
Scottikfab dot com in the Zonker's custom Woods inbox to
communicate throughout the program. The feedback I got over the
weekend was several KFAB listeners asking us to comment on
one thing, and I think you're going to be disappointed
in my response. That one thing is the Saturday morning

(00:34):
front page of the local newspaper, the Omaha World Herald,
had two big stories there and the I got a
picture of it here. Let's see the first story, Jims.
It was shocking. It was a big headline. Funeral begins
for slain Iran Supreme leader and people they're crying in

(00:56):
the streets, says they apparently were gonna parade? Did they did?
They at least not drop him this time. The last
time they had a parade through the streets for the Ayatollah,
they dropped him out of the casket.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Now this one, this one stayed intact, did it?

Speaker 3 (01:10):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (01:11):
Was there even a body there. Well there there was
a body, but the leader of Iran was not there
because he's afraid that maybe a heat seeking missile shot
from one of the American battleships in the straits of
Horror MOUs that's now allowing traffic through might somehow find
its way right into that that that funeral procession. So

(01:35):
he stayed under under lock and key.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
Well, this was on Saturday. He might have been at
Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift's wet that's possible. So front
page article, funeral begins for slain Iran Supreme Leader, and
then underneath that a bunch of people waving rainbow flag,
says Scotus ruling another setback for trans people. A story
that was at that point several days old, was on

(02:00):
America's two hundred and fiftieth birthday, and a lot of
people felt that perhaps the timing of these stories was
purposeful and not patriotic. Now here's my response, and you
guys can take this any way you want.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
Thank you for that freedom. Yeah, somebody fought for it. Yeah,
well usually for it.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
Usually I give you a script like you, I say this,
and then you say that's right. Scott and you don't
do a great job of following. Now, So look on,
no one is forcing you to read the Omaha World Herald.
No one is taking it to your door, opening the
door and saying, here, take a look at this. This
is a subscription service. You pay for this. And I

(02:42):
imagine if people pay for that and this is what
they get and they say, well, this is fantastic, thank you,
then this must be what they want or expect from that,
and they continue to pay for it, and that service
comes to their door anywhere they are on their mobile device.
So it's a subscription service. They're either giving the people

(03:03):
what they want or not. And there will be people
who decide either to sign up or not sign up
based on what is being provided here. It's a subscription service.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
So I actually agree with you on this, Scott. I'm
one of these people that says, if you don't like
what's on television, switch the channels. If you don't like
what's on the radio, switch the channels. There are thirty
five licensed signals for the city of Omaha, lots of
variety out there, but I have to say it was
in very poor taste. Look, the newspaper is still a
very important part of the community. Is that as impactful

(03:36):
as it once was? I don't know. Do I read
it every day? Yes, there are a lot of other
people out there reading it every day, maybe not as
many as once was, maybe just as many, maybe more
people read it online. How much influence does it have
depends on you. I thought it was really remarkable that
on the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary that the local

(03:57):
paper would show that. But somebody made that decision. Somebody
down there decided, I'm either going to have a picture
of the United States, the fruited plane of the stars
and stripes, some other iconic photo from America's two fifty
or I'm going to have a banner headline above the
whole fold of the Iranian leader who was a really

(04:19):
bad guy getting buried. Now, most people in Omaha couldn't
give to you know, what's this about the leader of Iran,
especially since he died a long time ago. Most people
in Omaha, not breaking new, don't give you know to
you know, whats this about a Supreme Court defeat for
the LGBTQ community, Since that represents a grand total of

(04:40):
one percent of the people.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
It's also a lie. It didn't provide a setback for
trans people. Trans people can still compete in sports and
go into locker rooms and all that. It just has
to do that pesky thing where it corresponds with your
actual gender.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
So that's not a setback. It is people. It is
to them, but not to the rest of us. Again,
ninety nine percent of Americans think that boys should be
on a boys team, regardless of what he thinks he is,
regardless of what his psychologist thinks he is, and regardless
of what his third grade teacher thinks he is.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
Well, I suspect that the way that the world Harold
did all of this is is they're catering to a
possible a very large group of people. And I saw
a lot of that on social media over the large
group of Yah.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
So tell me who is impressed by the the decision,
editorial decision by the local paper, all of the Trump peters. Well,
the thing is that there aren't that many of them.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
Oh yeah, they're not. Half the nation not only didn't
vote for him, they revel in the fact that they
can't stand him. They can't stand as people that voted
for him. They're not happy with America. There's even stories
out there saying the decision on whether or not to
fly an American flag on Independence Day is a personal
one rooted in politics. I don't think this is a

(05:56):
large group of the American people. It's the same people
or pushing social to the forefront of democratic primaries.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
Across seven percent of Democrats voted in these elections, just
seven percent of registered Democrats. That doesn't include the independence
of the Republicans. We're making this bigger than it is now.
I will tell you that the media amplifies something that
may not be nearly as big a deal. Well here,
let's say I think there's more to it than that.

(06:24):
Let's say a lot more to it, and I'm coming
away frustrated.

Speaker 1 (06:28):
All right, well, I'll let you air your grievances coming
up here right now. The KFAB Certified transmission Sports brief Jim.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
World Cup Soccer tonight, Scott Page face America. We tried
for the Elite eight, playing Belgium and Seattle, and we
get our leading scorer back. FIFA does a sixty four
year about face, reverses a suspension for a red card
for our guy. Valarien Belogan was ready to sit under
Article twenty seven because he got one in the Bosnia

(06:57):
Herzegovina match. But under our article sixty six point four,
FIFA gives itself the chance to change its mind, which
it did. That caused Team Belgium to lose its mind.
Their head coach called the move astonishing. Seven o'clock tonight
on Fox. Yes, today, Norway beats Brazil in New Jersey,
even though eighty percent of the crowd was Brazilian and

(07:19):
we all know how popular Brazilians are. England was down
to ten men but still beat l Tree, which is
the Spanish nickname for the Mexican soccer team. The other
big match today is Spain against Portugal and Arlington, Texas
space ball Casey Royal's got a lead to nothing lead
on the Phillies in the first inning and route to
a win five to two. Outfielder Lane Thomas, A team

(07:40):
like that, you need all the runs you can get
because I've been on the reverse ind of these a
lot and they score runs quick, so it's nice to
get out there and ad a little insurance.

Speaker 4 (07:48):
Late.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
A nice start for winning pitchers Uinda Avilla. He went
five innings allow just one run on three hits. America
League scorers it was Minnesota over the Yankees six to one.
The White Sox beat the Guardians seven to six. Detroit
and Houston, Seattle and Boston also got wins over in
the Nation League, with San Diego, Milwaukee, Colorado, the Cubs, Pittsburgh,

(08:09):
and the Mets getting wins other interleague play scorers. In
addition to the Royals five to two over the Phillies,
Reds beat the O's three to two, and Miami nine
to eight over the A's. In this game, Uri Perez,
the starting pitcher for Miami who's already had one major
arm operation, was pulled out in the seventh inning despite
the fact that he was pitching a perfect game. He

(08:32):
had a pitch count of ninety. He got to ninety
two and the Marlins pulled him out and they almost
lost the game, but they did hold on to win
it nine to eight. Perez said after the game, Yeah,
I didn't like coming out, but that was the plan
all ahead of time, and I'm okay with it. How
did Luke Kachwski do at the PGAs John Deer Classic
The Omaha Kid Mount Michael from the Golfing Bullies Gocheski's

(08:55):
of Ralston three rounds in the sixties and a tie
for fifty first eight under. He made twenty one thousand dollars.
It was the five bogies on Saturday that kept him
from a really nice check and yet last to this
last weekend's John Dear Classic, but a nice first ever
PGA Tour event for Luke Jichewski. Chris Gottarup by the
way won at twenty under par. It's fifth tour victory.

(09:18):
Ja Spriscoe is the winner of the Eero four hundred
in Joliet, Illinois. He gets the checker. The driver the
number nineteen car beat Chris bell To earned the victory
at the Chicago Land Speedway and Horseman's Park. And Hal
Madina wrote three winners yesterday, that's impressive to be aboard
three winners a big day of racing at Horseman's Park.

(09:39):
They'll race again on Saturday and then for another seven
days to wrap up the season. Sports his news on
Nebraska's News Wethern Traffic Station.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
Everyone's still alive after the Independence Day holiday, or our
roofs didn't catch fire, or houses didn't blow up, we
still got all our fingers.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
Everyone good, not everyone, everybody, not every well.

Speaker 5 (10:00):
I had some pretty bad accidents.

Speaker 1 (10:04):
Well, this happens every year. Yeah, and I don't mean
to minimize or make light of it, but I think
that we've seen before in this country the people can
lose big sections of their hand and still go on
to have a good career with the New York Giants.
That's Jason Pierre Paul right, defensive end for the Giants,

(10:24):
lost some of his fingers during a fireworks accident years
ago and went out and had the next like eight
sacks the next year. So yeah, it could be a benefit.
You know, It's all about how you look at things, right.
But did you have a nice Independence Day weekend?

Speaker 2 (10:41):
Lucy?

Speaker 5 (10:41):
Sure?

Speaker 2 (10:44):
Okay, Jim, good about you. Fantastic. I saw your video,
drank some.

Speaker 5 (10:49):
Eggnog, loved it, Yeah, very very cute.

Speaker 1 (10:52):
I went to Costco after Christmas and they still had
some because I don't like alcoholic eggnog, but for some reason,
that bottle of Costco alcoholic eggnog, like what alcohol is
in there? I don't know, eggnog. So it's really good.
And I'm not a big drink or anything, but kind
of enjoy a little bit of that over the Christmas holiday.

(11:14):
So I went to see if they had like one
more bottle, and they did. They had several and I
checked the expiration day and it said September twenty third,
twenty twenty six. I'm like, I'm doing this for Independence Day.

Speaker 5 (11:26):
Who knew eggs fermented would actually taste good?

Speaker 1 (11:30):
I don't know that there are actual eggs in that
egg Nog's eggnog?

Speaker 2 (11:34):
Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (11:35):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
It's magic, is what it is.

Speaker 1 (11:37):
So it survived until Independence Day and then I popped
that thing open, poured myself a glass, had a little video.
I don't think that anyone got my joke. Maybe one
person in the comments got the joke. One person was
mad that I threw it in there, like they don't
they shouldn't be on there, because he didn't like him.
But I said, we're paying tribute to great Americans like

(11:59):
President Reagan, coach Tom Osburn and the Beatles.

Speaker 2 (12:03):
All right, Lucy, I missed it, all right, So.

Speaker 5 (12:05):
I missed it at the time, But no, I get it.

Speaker 1 (12:07):
Yeah, I was throwing a lot at you. I had eggnog,
I had the American flag pants on, and I threw
that in there as just one guy's like they shouldn't
be on their their music's garbage, and they're like, okay,
that the joke is they're not Americans. See that's the
humor there.

Speaker 2 (12:23):
But the guy gave a ding to Yeah.

Speaker 1 (12:28):
Someone noted that there was a character in Napoleon Dynamite
the karate instructor had the same pants on. Yeah you
want to be roundhouse kicked in the face by a
guy wearing these pants. I don't think so, you know
whatever that line is, but it was. Yeah, it was
a great weekend. Spent some time with friends on Friday
and Saturday night, and didn't spend a dime on fireworks

(12:49):
for the second year in a row, which does not
make me feel great as an American. But if I
don't have anyone at my house to shoot them off for,
I'm not going to spend the money.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
Good point. I was a little disappointed on Friday because
it rained a lot on Friday. It was just not
a very good day top to bottom. And the big
fireworks display where I was was delayed until eleven fifteen.
Oh yeah, and I did not stay up for him.
That lightning was pretty impressive on Friday night. Yeah, the
natural fireworks were impressive, but other nature is like I

(13:18):
got something yeah, but you're supposed to Its supposed to
be hot and sunny and sticky and humid on fourth
of July, and that didn't happen. Well, it happened on Saturday.
Saturday was a lot better Saturday. You know. Went over
to a friend's house and he's right adjacent to Champions
Run and they have a nice big fireworks Yeah play, Yeah,
that's always saw those. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (13:36):
Did the I don't know what time the Ralston fireworks
finally kicked off, but they were still doing them on Friday.
I was in here doing severe weather coverage because we
had a couple of severe thunderstorm warnings pop up in
the area on Friday night. So I ran down here
and said, it's a thunderstorm and then went home, and
but Ralston was still doing it good.

Speaker 2 (13:56):
A lot of people, did you know now neighborhoods shoot
him off? You know, I don't know who. In the
sixties and seventies and eighties, shot Off had big fireworks
displays in Omaha Rosenblatt. Rosenblatt had one and they played
a game and then they played it there. They had
won their big show there. And did the city ever
do a big one or was that pretty much it.

Speaker 1 (14:16):
From my recollection of childhood, it was always the Omaha
Royals are playing at rosenblah, and then some combination of
some beach boys are playing at concert and then fireworks.
It seemed like every summer that was the big thing,
and we would go, we'd put a boat in the
river and watch them.

Speaker 2 (14:32):
Okay, yeah, well that's a good one because you know,
the river runs right along there. But bottom line, everybody's
got them. Now you can drive up and down Dodger,
up and down Maple, or up and down El Street
and you'll see fireworks displays going big ones.

Speaker 3 (14:47):
Now.

Speaker 2 (14:47):
I don't know if it's just individual people or if
it's an organized deal. I know a lot of streets
were sort of you know, blocked off for maybe fireworks
displays on Saturday, Friday and Saturday. But now, boy, it's
a smoky night, two smoky nights on both Friday and
Saturday night. And I'm sure the climatologists were losing their

(15:09):
minds with all of the smoke in the air. But
I guess what, We're all still alive. Oh my gosh.

Speaker 1 (15:14):
I love waking up early on the day after Independence
Day and going out there and just breathing in all
that sulfur. I think it smells like America. I love that.
That's one of my favorite smells. So in America's two
fiftieth birthday on Saturday, the Omaha World Herald, from their
parent company Lee Enterprise, has featured the funeral procession for

(15:35):
the slain Ayatola and a Scotis ruling days old on
trans rites with the rainbow flags flying. No patriotism, no
America two fifty, None of that now. And that's because
people go to the editorial board, their friends who hang
out there in these these democratic liberal parties, and they say,

(15:56):
under no circumstances, with people hurting as much as they
are right now, should you feature a flag this president,
our founding fathers, really any of that stuff? Oh yeah,
you think this was coordinated one hundred percent because they
want to be able to tell their friends, Hey, this
is how we resist. And there are a lot of
miserable people out there. I see it on Facebook. There

(16:18):
are people out there saying I've never been so ashamed
of being an American. Well, imagine carrying that sentiment around when,
by the way, not everything in this country's perfect. Leave
but go back fifty years, go back one hundred years,
go back two hundred and fifty years, and you look
at where we are right now, and you've decided to
look at all this and just focus on the fact

(16:39):
that you don't like the president. And there are a
lot of miserable people. I don't know what percentage there are.
I don't know how many people there are, but it's
a lot. And this is who they were catering to.

Speaker 2 (16:49):
That's it. Well, Limba, that's a good rant. Limbaugh used
to talk about this all the time. He'd say, there's
no more collection of miserable people in the world than liberals.
And if you look at poles that say Democrats, only
thirty percent of Democrats love the country. Eighty percent of
Republicans love the country. Why is it that only thirty
percent of Democrats love the country? Now, I personally don't
believe that. I believe thirty percent of Democrats polled may

(17:13):
have said that. I don't believe that that seventy percent
of Democrats in this country the hate the country. I
think that thirty percent hate the country and seventy percent
are disappointed in some of the Washington policies. But aren't
we all this is a coordinated attempt in your estimation
by a company that owns a bunch of newspapers, which

(17:34):
is owned by a hedge fund. By the way, Lee
Enterprise is owned by a private equity guy that has
multiple businesses. He's not just in the media business. And
that they said, we're going to make this happen. We're
going to put our virtue signaling on parade. We suffer
from a lot of white guilt and we got to
make sure that everybody out there understands we feel your pain.

(17:55):
So we're going to do this. All it will do, ultimately,
Scott just drive people away from the newspaper. It's unfortunate
because there's a lot of good stuff in there from
time to time, and I read it every day. I
don't like ingested, but I read it every day. I
find stories that I think are interesting and that might

(18:17):
fill in a little bit of a backfill of my
knowledge on an issue. But if you continue to do that,
if you continue to say to the largest audience or
marketplace that we really don't care about anything that you
care about, then ultimately they'll just move on to something else.
And I don't know if that matters to them. I

(18:39):
think it does. I know Aaron Sandiford, who's become the
new I guess major guy down at the World Herald.
I believe he's the news editor. He's the news news editor.
I know he doesn't hate the country. No, I don't
think there he may very well have been upset by
this decision. If what you say is true.

Speaker 1 (18:58):
A lot of people get the World Herald because they
like the sports component of it. This would be like
after Nebraska wins. The day after Nebraska wins the national Championship,
the front page of the sports section is WNBA Scores.
That's what they did on Saturday for America's two fiftieth. Now,
if that's what you want to subscribe to, then you
can go to the website and subscribe.

Speaker 3 (19:20):
Jim.

Speaker 1 (19:20):
Here's something else I saw on social media over the weekends.
A picture of the US men's soccer team says you
can't cheer Team USA and deny birthright citizenship. A diverse
America is America, says. The entire starting lineup of the
US men's national team is made up of naturalized US citizens.

(19:43):
Two are the children of immigrants, So in other words,
they're in the country legally. They are allowed to play.
It says that two or the children of immigrants doesn't
say legal illegal. No one's criticizing.

Speaker 2 (19:58):
Any of that.

Speaker 1 (19:59):
This is the the misnomer or the outright lie. And
that is is that the people who say I don't
think you should be able to come into the country,
have a baby here and then automatically have taxpayer funded
ties to the country with the ability to vote or
anything else. The lie is we don't want foreigners around here,
We don't want any of the And that's an outright lie,

(20:20):
that's categorically untrue. Yeah, there's nothing that No one who
was opposed to the Supreme Court decision allowing the continuation
of birthright citizenship because the president's executive order shouldn't be
the thing that ends it that Congress needs to end.
No one is looking at the soccer team going yeah,
and all these kids get out. No one's doing that.

(20:41):
But be that as it may. We have another soccer controversy,
that red card. The other night, two players running at
top speed, both going for the ball. One has his
leg up, the other guys has his foot up the
other guy's leg and it slides down and lands on
his ankle, and slow motion looks terrible at full speed.

(21:02):
There's no way that this person could have done this
on purpose. This is the US men's soccer team. Either
I don't know if he's the best player or that he's.

Speaker 2 (21:11):
The leading scorer.

Speaker 1 (21:12):
Goal scorer certainly, and he got the red card, which
means he has to sit out when ends up being
tonight's game. The President called the leader of FIFA. They
get along very well, get along very well with.

Speaker 2 (21:22):
Him, He gets along very well with everybody.

Speaker 1 (21:24):
And suddenly FIFA says, we took a look at this
one and we've decided he's on probation. He doesn't have
to sit out this game tonight.

Speaker 2 (21:30):
Yeah, he's on probation for a year, meaning don't do
it again. Yeah, it should never have been called in
the first place. That's not an American saying that. That's
somebody who looks at how contact sports exist. And yeah,
when you look at things in super slow motion instant replay,
they look a lot worse than they are. This was
not an intentional attack by Bolligan on this Bosnian player.

(21:52):
It should never have been a red card. And when
they look at the evidence before them, maybe the President
said something thing impactful in that phone call I tend
to doubt it. FIFA operates in a vacuum like the NFL,
the NCAA, the NBA and all the other governing organizations
of sports. They take input and then they pretty much

(22:13):
decide to do what they want to do. But they
reviewed it, which is allowed under rule sixty sixty four. Now,
Article twenty seven says, once you get a red card,
that's it. Well, that's what the Belgium team is saying today.
They wait a minute, Hall, you just time out what
happened here? You know, red cards are red cards. It
doesn't matter who the president of the United States is.

(22:35):
But it should never have been a red card to
begin Now they might say that's irrelevant. It was still there.
But if we have the technology and they provide the
avenue for a review, use it now. It's the first
time since nineteen sixty two that it's happened, so it's
happened before. It has happened before a long time ago.
But you know, a reasonable soccer fan, and I, by

(22:56):
no means would consider myself a fervent soccer fan. Like
most Americans, I get into this every couple of years
when the World Cup happens. But I don't consume soccer
like some Americans do who really understand the game, the
nuances of the game, and they also understand how penalties
are applied or not. I wouldn't consider myself one of those,

(23:17):
but as a just as casual observer, having seen contact
sports in everything from the NBA to the NFL to
the NHL, this was minor, very very minor. Yeah, this,
and it's a huge call. And this would be This
would be like the President of the United States calling
up the NCAA and saying, we think that that ball

(23:41):
was out of bounds as time expired and Nebraska just
beat Texas. I mean, that's I'm still clinging on that one.
Them calling up we review the play on Mike McCluskey's
out of bounds catch in nineteen eighty two at the
three yard line and that that catch wasn't made, nor
was the Kirk Bauman touchdown pass. It obviously was trapped.

(24:02):
So guess what, Nebraska wins that game and we've decided
they also win the nineteen eighty two National Championship.

Speaker 1 (24:08):
Yes they should. And also that was a face mask
against k State. This is the president just righting wrongs
and that illegal kick from Matt Davison. Ignore that was
away from that.

Speaker 2 (24:18):
That wasn't an illegal kick.

Speaker 1 (24:20):
He didn't do it on purpose, just like this player
in the soccer match did not do it on purpose.

Speaker 2 (24:26):
What I think is really funny about this instant replay
didn't exist in nineteen ninety seven.

Speaker 1 (24:30):
What I think is really funny about this. There are
a lot of people cheering this US men's soccer team.
They love this soccer team. There's all about the World
Cup and their whole livelihoods right now depends on game
to game and want to and some of these people
hate the President of the United States. Now they also
think that there was no way this player should have

(24:51):
gotten the red card and before it's to sit out tonight,
and now they have to rectify that. Perhaps the President
got their player back on their team to put them
at full strength to night, and they have to rectify
like maybe the President did this, And I don't know
how I feel about that. Now they have to they're
so opposed to the president, but they think that this

(25:11):
player ought to sit out, and there is some of
that sentiment it would be fair if he sat out
tonight's game.

Speaker 2 (25:16):
It would be but it would have been a lot
more unfair if we lost the match. Remember we were
we played with just ten men for the last oh gosh,
what was it, thirty six minutes of the match. What
if we lose that match? Which is all these conditions.
It's also stupid. You know what, a defensive back gets
thrown out for targeting. You don't play defense with ten guys. See,

(25:37):
this is why football is better than football. Well, now,
hold on, it is a whole different experience. Yeah, And
the world prefers soccer over American football. And the reason
for that is because the rest of the world doesn't
have American football. Why is it that soccer has never
taken hold in this country because we have football, basketball, baseball,

(25:58):
and hockey? And that's stupid. Rules like this, and there
are rules that make you wonder what the hell is
going on here? Right?

Speaker 1 (26:04):
What in the wide wide world sports in honor of
America two fifty would be wrong not to hear from
the President of the United States.

Speaker 6 (26:13):
Two hundred fifty years ago we beat not so great Britain.
You know, they're not so great, And two hundred and
fifty years later, we defeated the algae in the reflecting pool?
Is algae and we defeated them. You know, the Algae
has no military, it has no navy. They're completely and
totally defeated. And now you have teds people, stupid people

(26:33):
when you look at it, vandalizing the reflecting pool. We're
not letting it happen. But we are now waging war
against communists in our own country as communists the Democrats.
The Democrats are communists, and they don't do very well
with yours. Truly. Therefore, we are happy to announce that
we're endorsing breathing.

Speaker 3 (26:53):
We love to breathe.

Speaker 2 (26:54):
You know what to do.

Speaker 6 (26:55):
You're crazy leftist freaks.

Speaker 1 (26:58):
That's save went from the President of the United States
here in honor of America two fifty. You know, the
President was up there at Mount Rushmore on Friday night.
He delivered the speech up there, and it was pretty
hardcore against comedis and socialists. And the commedis and socialists
had the nerve to act surprised and offended by that,
and so we wish the President would have paid more

(27:18):
tribute to America. That's rich. They hate this country, which
is why they're comedies and socialists. They want the president
not to call them comedies and socialists, which they proudly are,
and they want him to speak proudly about America. Now,
by the way, the next night, on Independence Day itself,
the President went out there and gave a great speech
on honor of America. Did anyone say, oh, this is

(27:40):
more what we wanted to hear from the president. No,
no one said anything about any offense.

Speaker 2 (27:45):
Well, the double standards got is really almost intolerable because
look at what Zoron Mondami did. This guy sat behind
the desk that was once used by George Washington and
delivered a speech with all soor of communist themes. Socialist themes,
I mean, it was right out of the communist manifesto,

(28:07):
and he sat behind the desk. Not just the father
of the country and the first president, but the conditions
in the country in seventeen seventy six. Although he took
office back in the seventeen eighties, the conditions in this
country were so radically different then than they are now.
Consider for just a minute that in those days we

(28:27):
had slavery. In fact, the president of the United States
owned slaves. In those days, women were not allowed the
right to vote, There were no child labor laws. In
other words, these people think the country has made no
progress since seventeen seventy six. And the audacity of sitting
behind the very desk of the man who fathered the nation,

(28:48):
who led us to victory in the Revolutionary War to
talk about American principles under those conditions made me laugh
out loud. And yet, and yet a lot of Americans
looked at that and said, yeah, that's how I think,
That's what I believe.

Speaker 1 (29:03):
There were a lot of people who saw this, this
opportunity to get together and celebrate America's two hundred and
fifty years of this incredible experiment, and instead they decided
to fold their arms, get their sour look on their face,
and be very, very angry this weekend. And that makes
me sad for them. Now, the thing that cheers me
up is some of them really like being very, very miserable.

(29:26):
They're very happy when they're miserable. They're really happy when
they're miserable at the crowd of other people who are miserable.
So I hope, at least on that front, they were
able to get together and do that. They're happy when miable,
they're happy when they're miserable with other people who are
also miserable and happy being with other miserable people, So
there is some silver lining on that one. Scott at
kfab dot com is the email address via the Zunkers

(29:48):
custom woods inbox. Bob says, since most of the soccer
world and probably Team USA hate Trump, Team USA should
put their money where their mouth is and forfeit tonight's
game to show their collective disdain for his getting involved.
They will probably refuse the invite to the White House
if they were to win the Cup. Anyway, I'm so

(30:10):
sick of all the tds. Signed Bob in Omaha. You
can send your message as well, Scott at kfab dot com.
All right, Lucy Jim question for you guys, Now bear
in mind I'm gonna give you a big hint gen
X someone who loves to quote eighties movies. The question

(30:30):
is what do I think is the most patriotic film
of all time? And the star of this movie is
celebrating his eightieth birthday.

Speaker 5 (30:40):
Today Independence Day. Tommy Lee Jones.

Speaker 1 (30:44):
Oh, that's a really good It's a really good guess.
Tommy Lee Jones is not in Independence Day, but it's
a really good guess. Tommy men in black Independence Day
to me the greatest revolutionary war film, and my view
is The Patriot starring Mel Gibson.

Speaker 2 (31:01):
That's really good.

Speaker 1 (31:02):
But no, I think the most patriotic film of all time.
And this is My wife and I were thinking on
Saturday night after we had a little party and it
was we had some time there before fireworks started, like
we should watch a movie? What should we watch? And
my wife said, I think we should watch this movie?
And I think, I said, absolutely, the most patriotic film

(31:23):
of all time.

Speaker 2 (31:27):
You know what this is? What is it out? Let
it play out?

Speaker 1 (31:33):
Awesome soundtrack, maybe the greatest soundtrack of any film of
all time.

Speaker 2 (31:41):
Rocky Rocky four. This is Rocky Balboa up against drag
against from the Soviet Union.

Speaker 1 (31:50):
Oh man, I just get sad right now thinking of
Apollo Creed. This movie's got it all. Most patriotic movie
of all time. Rocky Boa had the comedies channing Rocky
Rocky as he draped himself in the American flag. I
don't mean to spoil the ending for you. Rocky managed
to pull this one out.

Speaker 2 (32:12):
No, it was a great movie, but it's not the
most patriotic movie of all time. It might it might
have stirred the American emotion. But uh, it's not look
saving Private Ryan. Even though that was fiction, Hacksaw Ridge
was not fiction. That was actually about a real guy.
Rocky four was nonfiction. A lot of people don't know

(32:33):
it was nonfiction. Somehow Rocky is not listed on any
of the w B A w VC. You got a
statue of him, and they do that for a fictional character. No,
they would arrest my case. They would. No, the Rocky
movies were awesome, but no, that's not the most patriotic
movie of all time.

Speaker 1 (32:50):
I can convince me otherwise, and you can't. Have you
seen The Patriots? Scott A. Kfa B dot com. Have
you watched The Patriots?

Speaker 2 (32:56):
Yeah, it's really really good. The Patriot is a very
very accurate depiction of mel Gibson single handedly red gun. No,
not of that, but of the rigors of that war
and the awful, dreadful things that happened in that war.
It was it was true. It was extremely authentic what happened.

(33:17):
The British went through those colonies and used fear tactics
to try and break the militias and the Continental Army.
They burned down people's homes, they killed women and children.
It was a dreadful, awful, horrible stretch of time.

Speaker 1 (33:31):
And when I watch a movie, I want to come
away from it feeling like I can run through a
brick wall while wearing the American flag. And Rocky four
instilled war the attitude, Yeah, instills that attitude. You know,
the patriot makes me sad and several times, so I
should inspire.

Speaker 2 (33:50):
You that the courage of those those colonists was just
so inspiring to me. They gave up so much against
such over whelming odds. The odds of us winning that
war were very, very low. Oh my gosh.

Speaker 1 (34:07):
And if we don't and if two hundred and fifty
years ago Saturday, those founding fathers don't sign their own
death warrant, and then who knows what happened.

Speaker 2 (34:15):
We're drinking tea and we're a socialist country. Well, it
looks maybe we're moving in a direction now, but I
still don't think we're a socialist country, even though we
have socialists that are gaining in power, and we're doing
it because of an uneducated electorate. Don't you drink tea?
I do drink tea, but not as much as they
do in Britain. But we Scott. It's like there's a

(34:39):
in our industry right now, there's this growing trend that
young people don't listen to the radio, and there's a
reason for that. They didn't leave. We invited them to leave.
The industry stopped doing things that young people enjoyed on
the radio. Well, it's the same notion with socialism and capitalism.
It's not the young people don't believe in capitalism. They

(35:02):
don't know anything other than socialism. This is what they've
been taught, this is what they believe the world should
be about. And then American exceptionalism is just not that
big a deal.

Speaker 1 (35:11):
Do you want me to be more socialist? I mean
I can. If that's what you're trying to tell me.

Speaker 2 (35:16):
I'm suggesting is it's not that the idea is bad,
it's just that we've given it away. We just assumed
that at some point young people will grow up enough
to say, well I need to be a capitalist. No no, no,
no no. We have spent the last generation training our
people to think that this isn't as good a situation

(35:37):
as it could be.

Speaker 1 (35:38):
They should all watch the Patriot. To Lucy's point, they
should watch Independence Day. Wrap it up with Rocky Fen
wrap it up with Rocky for Kyle. By the way,
email says one hundred percent agree.

Speaker 2 (35:50):
If I can change, then you can change, so we
all can change. Lucy, Look, I love the movie, but
you know it was It's like, Okay, it's Rocky, It's
a boxer, that's instructible.

Speaker 1 (36:02):
Most patriotic movie? Do you have a submission?

Speaker 5 (36:05):
Abraham Lincoln Versus the Vampire.

Speaker 1 (36:10):
That's a really fun movie. By the way, I like
that a lot more than I should have.

Speaker 2 (36:13):
Speaking of Abraham Lincoln, that's a that's one of the
most patriotic movies. You can just watch Lincoln. I am
the last thing of the thirteenth fourteenth Amendment. I suggested
that on Saturday night, but we wanted to watch something
fun and it's it is a disturbing movie.

Speaker 1 (36:28):
All right, what do you think the most patriotic movie
of all time? Scott at kfab dot com. You can
also send us a message with your own voice via
the talkback mike. That's a little microphone button right there
in our free iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 2 (36:43):
The music was great. Oh my gosh. When the survivor
got involved in the Rocky movies untouched.

Speaker 1 (36:49):
How was the soundtrack to The Patriot. Melgim not as
good as this case rested.

Speaker 2 (36:54):
No, I went again because the music is better. I
can't mean the movie is better. Come on, man, please
all right.

Speaker 1 (37:02):
That's Jim Rose, Chip Maxwell, by the way, in for
Gene Stoth with the kfab comment line today, Lucy Chapman,
Craig Evans, Courtney Donahoe. Here, I'm Scott Voorhees. I say
the most patriotic movie of all time is.

Speaker 2 (37:16):
Rocky four.

Speaker 1 (37:20):
You can email Scott atkfab dot com and send me
your submission.

Speaker 2 (37:24):
Great movie.

Speaker 1 (37:26):
Check here a great movie in the Zunkers custom was inbox.
Melissa says Miracle is better than Rocky. You know all right,
I'm a bad American. I've never seen Miracle. What I
already know how it ends? Oh my gosh, I haven't
seen it. I need to see that one. I need
to see it. Melissa, don't yell at me, Jim, don't
yell at me. John emails Scott atkfab dot com and says,

(37:50):
Sergeant York it was a great one. Gary Cooper played
Sergeant York, the hero of World War One. Chris says,
I have three words band a brother.

Speaker 2 (38:00):
That was a series that was a TV series. Yeah, sorry,
that doesn't work. Ryan says.

Speaker 1 (38:05):
The most movingly patriotic movie for me is Triple X
with Vin Diesel. When Vin Diesel looks at the camera
and says the things I do from my country, I
wanted to go join the CIA right then and there.
All right, kind of hard if you've not seen the
movie Triple X with Vin Diesel, it is hard to
search for that online without finding a lot of interesting

(38:27):
options for your search. It is XXX, that is the anyway,
James says, Patten, George C. Scott, that's maybe the best
opening scene if you want to feel good.

Speaker 3 (38:41):
Great.

Speaker 1 (38:42):
The most cinematic and amazing opening scene in any movie
is certainly Saving Private Ryan. But Patten, you come away
with that one just like you give me a gun
and point me towards the bad guys.

Speaker 2 (38:54):
Let's go. Yeah, No, I mean Saving Private Ryan. It
was Spielberg, who's the greatest director of his time, maybe
the greatest director in the history of Hollywood. Saving Private
Platoon was the first movie that brought the real agony
of war to the big screen. Oliver Stone did that one.
Before that, our war movies showed people getting killed but

(39:17):
we didn't see the real, up close and personal, just
earth shattering, heartbreaking, searing images of what war really looked like.
Saving Private Ryan did that too. You know, where the
good guys get shot up and there's a lot of blood,
a lot of guts, a lot of gore. In the past,

(39:39):
like Patten, you saw some of that, but not a
lot of it. But in Platoon that was the first one.
Then I saw, Oh my god, that's what it was
really like over there. It wasn't the g I Joe.
He man put a knife in your in your teeth
and go after the bad guys and take him out
one at a time. And that I think was very
sobering to a lot of Americans. But Save I think

(40:00):
Private Ryan was very inspirational.

Speaker 1 (40:02):
Let's look at what the President did on Saturday night.
This is where he was at the National Mall. After
a two hour evacuation of the National Mall because the
storms that blew through there, the President came back and
I guess he's saying on true Social that they wanted
to cancel the whole thing. And President Trump's said, I said, sir,
we're not canceling this. We're gonna do It's gonna be great.

(40:25):
Everyone's gonna stay up all night, be fantastic. People love it.
So he finally, after a couple of hours, goes up
their honors veterans, including several from World War Two and
one of the first black officers to lead a special
forces team in combat in Vietnam, and they appeared before
flags that symbolize some of the most significant and challenging
moments in American history. One of the flags there was

(40:47):
the one draped over President Lincoln's casket. Another one is
one that flew on the plane piloted by the Right Brothers.
So for those who heard, are saw on social media,
saw on media media, the president was up at Mount
Rushmore on Friday night and he was going to lighten
up Comedi's and all that stuff that people aren't saying.

(41:09):
This is not the kind of speech a president should
deliver on Independence Day. No, but it's the one you
got from Trump on Independence Day eve. But the one
you got from the president on Independence Day was exactly
what people wanted to hear, And no one said anything
about this A little.

Speaker 2 (41:25):
Less partisan, Yes, it's still it's still talked about communism
versus socialism. A little he said, we got to have
the Save Act. Yeah, it was. It was less partisan
than the Mount Rushmore speech. But look, this president, he
understands the power of the media influence, he understands the
power of reverberation, and he only has a little over

(41:47):
two plus years to do the gig and then he's
out and he realizes that, I mean, it's a race
to the finish line. Now, let's see what happens a
week from today when they reconvene from the July fourth,
Ree says on Capitol Hill, it seems to me, Scott,
without getting into the weeds of how the legislation has passed,
they're going to have to pass the Save Act in parts.

(42:09):
And Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House, the leader
of the Republican Party in the House of Representatives, is said,
this is the only way we can get some of
this done is to put it in a reconciliation bill,
which wouldn't require sixty votes in the United States Senate.
I've always been of the belief that at the end
of the day, both Democrats and Republicans will keep the

(42:31):
filibuster in place in the United States Senate because it
allows the minorities voice to still have influence on legislation.
But I'm not so sure that history is a guide
for tomorrow because if you look back, the last time
the Democrats owned both the presidency and the Senate, it

(42:51):
was in twenty twenty when Joe Biden was elected, and
the only thing that kept that from happening the suspension
of the Phi at the time to push through all
of these Joe Biden plans that would have really really
hurt the country. Or Joe Manchin, who is a moderate
Democrat Senator from West Virginia who chose not to run
for reelection in twenty twenty two, and Kirsten Cinema, a

(43:16):
fairly moderate Democrat senator from Arizona. Both of them took
a barrage from the left for their moves. Now, if
we get to twenty twenty eight or twenty thirty and
the Democrats are in charge of the Senate again, which
is distinctly possible, then is there a Cinema Is there

(43:38):
a mansion out there to stop it? And the answer
is maybe not.

Speaker 1 (43:42):
That would be during President Trump's third term, so he'll
have some opportunity to blund it.

Speaker 2 (43:47):
I referenced the Senate. The Senate can make its own rules,
irregardless of the regardless of what the White House thing.

Speaker 1 (43:52):
Yeah, I referenced the story a couple of hours ago.
It speaks to patriotism and how people were feeling over
the weekend. But this story here from the Associated Press
on the nation's two hundred and fiftieth birthday, said that
the decision whether or not to fly the American flag
in this country in America is a deeply personal and

(44:12):
political one. It starts off talking about two black people.
For one, the flag represents the opportunities that allowed the
great great grandson of slaves to find success and flourish
in this country. And the other person says that America
identified by that American flag isn't the same country she

(44:33):
saw growing up. And she says at no point, there's
no scenario under which she would allow the stars and
stripes to cast its shadow where she lives now. I
don't know what she's talking about. She's about eighty years old.
She says the America identified by the flag isn't the
same country she saw growing up. Over that time, she

(44:54):
saw a deeply divided, scarred country where there wasn't fairness,
there wasn't equal And now we have made such great
strides forward, you would think that she would be proudly
flying that flag. But no, and it comes down to
partisan political politics. Only about six in ten Democrats and

(45:16):
independents say that they never fly the United States flag,
and that includes the vast majority of Democrats under the
age of forty five. Seventy five percent of Democrats under
forty five say they would never fly the US flag.
That's how America was feeling on this two hundred and
fiftieth anniversary. That's how some of America was feeling. I

(45:37):
got together with a bunch of people I done. I
don't know who for whom they've well, actually I do.
Some of the people I was hanging out with on
Saturday night not Trump supporters, and no one was talking politics.
We were all just either sharing alcoholic or dirty soda beverages.
There was a dirty soda bar. All of our kids
were hanging out playing some basketball in the driveway, and

(45:59):
my buddy Josh was loading up an SUV with a
enough fireworks that he should be on a terrorist watch list.
And that's the America I was celebrating on Saturday night.
So I hope that you had a great weekend. I
asked the question, what's the most patriotic film as far
as your concern? Scott atkfab dot com. Let's zip through

(46:19):
some emails sent here in the Zonkers Custom Woods inbox.
Anthony says Chuck Norris and Lee Marvin in Delta Force.
Hollywood would not make that movie today because of the
pro USA stands. Sue says, here's what we watched over
the weekend, Jaws, National Treasure and The Patriot. I wanted
to watch The Music Man, but my husband vetoed, so

(46:42):
we watch Braveheart instead. That's a very patriotic movie for Europe,
for Scotland. Yeah, Michael agrees with you. Jim says The Patriot.
Roberts says we were Soldiers with Mel Gibson. That's really
good one. Chris backs that up.

Speaker 2 (46:56):
Only one of the better Vietnam War movies.

Speaker 3 (46:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (46:59):
Joel said Red Dawn got a lot of people saying
Yankee Doodle Dandy and says great music. You'll be singing
all day. Yeah, I already am singing all day. People
have tried to shut that down. Let's see here. Jackie says,
the last full measure. Not familiar with that one, Laurie

(47:19):
says Gettysburg it's a long one, like four hours, and
she says also, I have to agree the patriot over
Rocky for sorry, let's see, as Lorie a girl, Yep,
it's probably it. Karen says Yankee Doodle Dandy, as does
this email. Let's see, Mark says Hacksaw Ridge in seventeen
seventy six, as well as Yankee Doodle Dandy, and Jack

(47:43):
says the Gabby Johnson speech at the town meeting from
Blazing Saddles is very patriotic.

Speaker 2 (47:50):
I don't know, Hey, we're gonna hit it roun. Yeah, yeah,
I don't know if it's patriotic, but it is genuine
frontier gibberish and says you got to go with Mars attacks.
It's a very patriotic movie.

Speaker 1 (48:04):
Yeah, thank you, Thank you for those keeping coming Scott
at kfab dot com in this free nation that just
celebrated two hundred and fifty years of this incredible experiment.
I'm Scott Vorhees. I've been alive for twenty percent of it.
I'm not going to ask Lucy and Jim to do

(48:25):
the math here. Craig Evans as well, and we now
welcome news Radio eleven ten KFABE national correspondent Rory O'Neil
to the program. Rory, was a very busy weekend, a
lot going on here, from soccer at a weddings to revelry.
Let's catch people up on what they missed over the weekend.

Speaker 2 (48:44):
I'd like to start with soccer, especially since Belgium, who
I want to lose very badly tonight, but they rightfully
have they have a concern here that they're bringing to FIFA.
Can you explain all this?

Speaker 3 (48:58):
Sure, Let's set things up.

Speaker 4 (49:00):
Last week, Team USA was playing Bosnia Herzegovina when our
star player Flow Baligan was given a red card. It
was a lousy red card called by the referee, but
the card not only meant was he done for that game,
but it also meant he would not be allowed to
play tonight. Well, over the weekend, apparently President Trump made
a phone call to the head of FIFA. Lo and behold,

(49:22):
here comes article twenty seven and the suspension of Flow
is lifted and he will be allowed to play tonight.
But just a couple hours ago, Belgium filed an appeal
of that ruling by FIFA. So while it's likely he's
going to play. It's not one hundred percent right now,
we're still standing.

Speaker 1 (49:39):
By now, obviously Belgium can appeal this, but aren't they
appealing the same person or persons who just reverse the
red card? So hey, are you sure you know what
you're talking about?

Speaker 2 (49:52):
Yes, I am. Good luck to night.

Speaker 3 (49:55):
Well, right, so.

Speaker 4 (49:55):
That's why they're unlikely to flip. But again, I think
a lot of people say that the outcome was.

Speaker 3 (50:02):
Correct, although we don't like how this was done because we.

Speaker 4 (50:04):
Also never really got a good explanation from FIFA as
to why they didn't say that, oh we thought there
was an error upon further review, they just sort of
did it, and we didn't get a good explanation except
to suggest that maybe President Trump was twisting arms.

Speaker 2 (50:20):
Jim rows, well, it's possible, Rory. The thing about it
is they reviewed this at the time. It wasn't like
they made the snap decision based on just the app
the episode as it occurred in real time. They went
back and reviewed it at the time at the venue
in slow mo, which of course at the time made

(50:40):
it look a lot worse than it actually was. So
what does this do in your mind to the conduct
of officials and the use of replaying well.

Speaker 4 (50:50):
And I think it's also important to note the initial
call was no call, right, and then ben it was reviewed,
and then they went back and issued the card, and
then at the time they reviewed it again and said, okay,
we're going to let the red card stand. So initially
there was no call at all in the play, but
then it all sort.

Speaker 3 (51:06):
Of went down this rabbit hole.

Speaker 4 (51:08):
And this is the frustrating thing for soccer fans, I think,
and you know, to have this happen at the you know,
at the biggest event that they have in the sport,
I think it adds to the frustration. And of course,
now you know this whole idea that oh, sure America
gets special.

Speaker 3 (51:24):
Treatment out there. It's turning us into.

Speaker 4 (51:26):
The bad guy of this whole World Cup tournament that
really has been a remarkable success so far.

Speaker 2 (51:31):
And it might have been that that really compelled the
FIEF executives to pull it out, that initially it was
not called a red card, and if it hadn't been
for replay, they never would have thrown the red card
to start with.

Speaker 1 (51:42):
Or maybe it was the president, as we talked here
with eleven to ten kfab National correspondent Rory O'Neil let's
hit on a few other things here. Rory the President
was at Mount Rushmore on Friday night to the National
Mall on Saturday, and in Tehran they were shouting death
to Trump as they had a funeral for their eye atoll.
Quite a weekend on in the trumpet sphere, certainly for.

Speaker 4 (52:04):
Me though, the America two fifty celebration, I think, yes,
the fireworks were unbelievable.

Speaker 3 (52:08):
On the National Mall.

Speaker 4 (52:10):
I love the parade of sale with the tall ships
in New York Harbor on Saturday morning. I thought that
was a sight to behold, reminiscent of what I saw
in nineteen seventy six. Because I'm more than twenty percent
of my country's age, but I thought that was a
spectacular display. And with the drone technology and flying around now,
it just looked amazing.

Speaker 3 (52:29):
But as you said, we are this whole week.

Speaker 4 (52:32):
We're going to have that funeral for Iran's supreme leader.
This is the guy who was killed on February twenty eight,
so this has been a while, so they're finally having
the funeral, but we have not seen his son. Remember
the Iatola who was killed back in February twenty eight,
his son was named the new Supreme leader, mosht Taba. Well,
mosht Tamba who there are all these rumors he lost

(52:52):
a leg.

Speaker 3 (52:53):
Was burned in a coma, or whatever.

Speaker 4 (52:55):
He has not been seen at the funeral for his
own father, which of course is leading to a lot
more speculation.

Speaker 2 (53:01):
Possibly he's afraid of tomahawk missile might come in while
he's there at the funeral site and has been advised
to stay underground.

Speaker 4 (53:10):
Which do you want to admit that your leader is
afraid and hiding in a cave, or that he's too
ill to go to his own debt?

Speaker 2 (53:16):
Exactly a good point.

Speaker 1 (53:17):
There was more security I think at the Taylor Swift
Travis Kelsey's wedding looked like a good time. Adam Sandler
was the officiant. Paul McCartney played a song. It looked
like a good time.

Speaker 3 (53:28):
Yeah. Stevie Nicks apparently performed as well.

Speaker 4 (53:31):
But yeah, Madison Square Garden, I mean, who wants to
be in New York City in July but black Tie
on the hottest day of the year too. But yeah,
the thousand plus guests, the handful who are talking saying
it was a beautiful ceremony. Everyone had a great time.
But yeah, it's amazing how few details really have emerged
since what this highest profile couple and the wedding of

(53:54):
the century. We really don't know too much about exactly
what it was like inside.

Speaker 1 (53:58):
Well, I imagine they got married and there was a
lot of fancy celebrity guests there and good for them.

Speaker 2 (54:04):
Well, they probably went to the courthouse in montac got
officially married there and this was the party.

Speaker 1 (54:09):
It could be, all right, Rory, always always a pleasure,
my man. Thank you very much.

Speaker 3 (54:14):
Hey, thanks guys.

Speaker 2 (54:15):
Eleven to ten.

Speaker 1 (54:15):
Kfab national correspondent Rory O'Neil here on Nebraska's Morning News. Lucy,
I've been looking into who is eligible for a Trump account.
This might be one where you, if you've got a
kid under the age of eighteen, check with your financial advisor,
because newborns are eligible for that thousand dollars seed money
into the account. That's where I was right, it's just

(54:37):
for newborns. Okay, But you said, I don't think it's
just newborns. Well it does. That newborn status does go
back about a year, maybe a year and a half,
and for those who are under the age of eighteen.
Now you can contribute to the account. I don't think
you get the thousand bucks. Like if your kid's sixteen
and you say, all right, let's do this for two years,

(55:00):
see what happens.

Speaker 2 (55:01):
They have to have been born in twenty twenty five,
twenty twenty six.

Speaker 1 (55:05):
Right says children born between twenty sixteen and twenty twenty
four who wouldn't qualify for the thousand dollars contribution could
get two hundred and fifty dollars. If they live in
a zip code where the median income is one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars or.

Speaker 2 (55:20):
Less, then that's the Dell Computer Family content is exactly
where that's from here. I see we read the same news. Well,
it was a pretty big deal with Michael Dell's said
I'm going to give you like billions of dollars for this.

Speaker 1 (55:33):
But don't you think it's interesting that there aren't a
lot of people in the media pushing this out. This
is the chance for families to get money. It's a
game change, and this is this is huge to go
into the stock market, which right now the Dow is
over fifty three thousand points for the first time ever.
Now where's it going to be in eighteen years. I
don't know, but this is a tremendous opportunity to get

(55:54):
that kid either set on a great financial path to
college or maybe workforce, or maybe a new home. And
the media is like, it's called Trump accounts, so you
don't say anything about it.

Speaker 2 (56:05):
Scott. This is I personally believe, of all of Donald
Trump's initiatives that he has launched since he became president
in twenty sixteen, then took a little time off and
came back in twenty twenty a little time off. This
thing right here you had to go find himself be
If it is taken full advantage of by the American people,

(56:26):
this will be literally a financial game changer. Now, just
think for a minute as a grandfather, I do think
for a minute of all of the things you buy
for a newborn, a newborn grandson or a granddaughter or
a new kid. You know, you spend thousands of dollars
on stuff that they don't know you gave it to
him because they're an infant, okay, or they might play

(56:47):
with it for a day and then throw it out.
If you take the money, just take half of the
money that you're going to spend on stuff like that
and put it into this account for your kid on
an annual basis, or grandchild for an annual basis. This
child will be a millionaire by age sixty five, many
times over, could be without having to put a single

(57:10):
dime in it themselves.

Speaker 1 (57:12):
No guarantee, but for the people to say, well, it
could all be gone, all right, then don't do it,
and you'll get zero and one hundred percent of zero
still some zero.

Speaker 2 (57:21):
Some people have no confidence in this country. It's just
astounding how many people are so pessimistic about this country,
and they root against it, and they root against it.
But this thing, man give till it hurts.