Cop Shot / Govt Shut / UNO SWAT

Thankfully, it appears the OPD officer shot this morning will recover (after being shot in the head!), but we have a lot to say about that, the UNO swatting call over the weekend, the continued government shutdown, and more.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott Vordie.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
We're watching for details here this morning on any more
information from the city of Omaha on what happened just
a few hours ago. Now near one hundred and fourteenth
and Dodge, there's a Quick Trip gas station there and
that is where an Omaha police officer was shot. The
details are kind of weird here. It sounds like there

(00:25):
was a guy inside the gas station six am, and
this was closer to one hundred and twentieth and Dodge.
That's right. That Quick Trip is there at one hundred
and twentieth in Dodge. It's on the north east corner
of the street.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
There.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
There's a car wash there and then you go down
the street and you got all the businesses. You go
on the other side of the street. You got Burke
High School over there. So that Quick Trip there, northeast
corner issh of one hundred and twentieth in Dodge, that's
where a guy called nine to one one and hung up.
And it sounds like the individual who made that phone call,

(01:07):
according to some reports, was the guy who was bothering people,
employees and customers at the gas station. He grabbed the
business phone and was harassing people. So the officers show
up and that's when an officer was shot. That officer

(01:29):
was transported to Bergen Mercy. The last report we got
there was potential critical injuries to the Omaha police officer, which,
as I'm sure you know, is this could go one
way or the other when you have injuries like that,
and then the suspect takes off, police find him down

(01:53):
the hill. This is where you had the situation at
one hundred and fourteenth in Dodge, because the guy goes
down to McDonald's and he's in the drive through yelling
and talking about shooting and so forth. So the officers
show up there he's there at the drive through window,
just standing there. I guess. Officers take in into custody

(02:17):
at gunpoint, and apparently there was a guy it sounds
like the suspect who had a gunshot wound as well.
Interesting detail here from an online report says the suspects
vehicle had a security placard and a bulletproof vest in

(02:40):
the vehicle. This is scant information and I don't know
we can't corroborate how much some of that is true.
What we're waiting on here are would be, you know,
details from the City of Omaha Police Department on how

(03:01):
the officer is doing. We don't know the officer's identity.
Certainly people in law enforcement due and everyone's rallying around
this officer. We have a statement from the Mayor's office
and it's brief. Quote he Mayor Ewing is currently with
Omaha Police Chief Tad Schmater and is deeply concerned about

(03:24):
the officer. Unquote. This is the first time in four
and a half years that an Omaha police officer has
been shot in our town. The most recent one was
the guy who was accused of shoplifting at West Ros
and he was up there in like a back room
of I believe JC Penny, and the officer is like,

(03:47):
all right, so what happened in the suspect takes out
a gun and shoots the officer at point blank range.
And it's amazing that that officer, Jeffrey Witstrow, has recovered.
The guy who shot him is in prison forever. And

(04:08):
it's pretty rare when a police officer gets shot. Of course,
that leads some people to believe, Like, I don't know
why some people say that being a police officer is
such a dangerous job. Hardly ever, do they get shot
and killed. This situation exists every single time they put
on the uniform and go out. I mean, this was like,

(04:29):
all right, there's a kind of a crazy guy at
a gas station. All right, we'll go see what this
is all about. Probably some guy who's homeless and going
in there and who knows what. We'll go move him
along or see what resources we can offer him. I
imagine the officer didn't fully expect that he was dealing

(04:50):
with the potential armed suspect here, but they were ready
to go anyway, which then also brings up the issue
of like, well, I don't know why the cops, you know,
if they're pulling someone over and and immediately they start
acting all defensive and they've gotten you know, their hand
on their hip or whatever. How to I mean, they
should know that this is not a dangerous How the

(05:12):
world would they know? How would they know when any
of these situations are dangerous? Any possible time the police
are called, it is a potentially life altering situation. So
the next time you see an officer maybe be a

(05:32):
little brusque, maybe a little aggressive. You think you have
no idea what's going on. I'll give you an example
from my family. A few years ago there was a
shooting involving some groups of youths, and and and meanwhile

(05:54):
you had my son and his buddies out walking around
mill of the night. They were supposed to be staying
at a friend's house. Now this was a few miles
away from where the problem was, but it was within
the boundary of the kids who were firing guns or
whatever could have been walking. So now they're walking in
the street. I think one of my son's buddies thought

(06:17):
it'd be a fine idea to go ring someone's doorbell
and run. And far be it from me to judge
this behavior. We were somewhat expert at it back in
the day, back in the eighties, before people had motion
sensing lights and ring cameras and all the rest of

(06:39):
this stuff. I remember the first time, because yeah, maybe
I'd admit to doing a little bit of that myself.
I remember the first time. I thought it was interesting,
but I didn't think it was disqualifying that a friend
of mine said, all right, I want you to go
up there and ring that guy's doorbell. We didn't know
who lived in that. It seemed unusual to have this

(07:04):
specific house because we had to kind of walk over
and then kind of threw a half circle, and there
was a guy's house in this back corner, no real
good place to run to. I didn't know, and I
should have asked more questions, why are we targeting this house?
But then I found out pretty quickly they already knew
that this guy had installed motion lights, so that when

(07:25):
I approached the driveway, and as soon as I got
halfway up the driveway, suddenly the lights come on. I've
had bowel problems ever since it was the eighties. You
run off, you're laughing, you go hiding some bushes. At
no point did any of us think, hey, we're gonna
get potentially shot doing this. We probably should have thought that. Anyway,

(07:49):
my son and his buddies are out and we've got
hang on. I'll finish this dumb story in a second.
Police Chief todd Smoder now addressing the media.

Speaker 3 (08:00):
Data, what took place here? Had the convenience store one
hundred and twenty then Dodge About six o'clock this morning,
officers responded to nine one one call.

Speaker 4 (08:10):
Two officers responded.

Speaker 3 (08:12):
The employees of the business here called the police because somebody.

Speaker 4 (08:18):
Walked in the blackmail walked in. He was acting erratic,
making a lot of ankleherent statements. His body language was
very aggressive.

Speaker 3 (08:26):
He was talking about the KKKA, making statements like that.
The two officers arrived in front of him, just right
outside of the business. They had a conversation with the individual,
which turned into gunfi One officer was struck in the
head by around he did, from what I saw on

(08:47):
the video, continue in continue on with the gunfight. The
Mayor and I just left Bergen Mercy Hospital. We visited
with the officer. We were able to talk to him.
We feel that his condition looks very good at this
points as far as the prognosis. He's a fifteen year
veteran an Omah Police Department who spoke to him and
his family. After the shooting occurred. The suspect ran towards

(09:11):
one hundred and twentieth and Dodds at the McDonald's, where
we got another nyrong one call. Officers converged on that
scene and was able to take the suspect into custody
without incident, no further gunfire. Very lucky this morning we
did not lose an Omaha police officer. And for the
past week, if I've heard a lot of scrutiny put

(09:33):
on the Omaha Police Department, a lot of scrutiny that
wasn't true.

Speaker 4 (09:36):
Some of them was false.

Speaker 3 (09:38):
White frankly got a little bit out of control. We
have a job to do in this city. These officers
were spun every day. They put their lives on the
line being police officers protecting this city. And sometimes that's
not the best circumstance that somebody may find themselves in.

Speaker 4 (09:54):
But they're doing their job. And I'm going to ask everybody.

Speaker 3 (09:57):
In the city to calm down the scrutiny on the
Omaha Police Department, who's doing an incredible job for this community.
The crime reduction has been unprecedented. The community relations is
something we put at.

Speaker 4 (10:09):
The forefront at all times. It's gone too far. This
is an example the dangers of this job were very lucky.
We didn't lose a police officer this morning.

Speaker 3 (10:18):
Okay, I'm gonna turn this over to the Mayor of Omaha,
John Ewing, and I will come back and take a
few questions.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
You guys are out of a busy intersection. That's why
there's so much background noise. Here's Mary Ewing.

Speaker 4 (10:28):
All right, Well, echo the chief stands.

Speaker 5 (10:31):
We have great any women on the Omaha Police Department
well every.

Speaker 4 (10:38):
Day for the people of this community.

Speaker 3 (10:40):
We want people to support the Omaha Police Department.

Speaker 4 (10:43):
We want people to stop for dangerous graduate.

Speaker 3 (10:47):
We want people to stop playing politics with public safety.

Speaker 2 (10:52):
All right, we'll break away there because that is so
difficult to hear. If I can find a different feed
from that, we will give you that and just a
bit here or read the transcript. But what Mary Ewing
just says, we got to stop playing politics with public safety.
Chief Schmater said the same thing. He says, calm down
the scrutiny. Scrutiny I think is the wrong word. Not

(11:13):
to edit the police chief as he's speaking passionately, as
one of his officers is in a hospital, which he
provided the details. We were able to talk with him,
a fifteen year veteran unnamed at this point, who he
Chief Schmater thinks his prognosis is very good. This officer
was shot in the head but continued the work this morning,

(11:35):
and it sounds like based on another report I saw,
he was able to call in and advise that he'd
been shot in the head. So we're hoping that's I mean,
I don't think it's a glancing blow, but certainly something
that is potentially sounds like recoverable. So Chief Schmater says,
calm down about the scrutiny. Scrutiny is one thing. The

(12:00):
issues related to just demonizing everything law enforcement does. That's
not scrutiny, and that's what Chief schmid is talking about.
He's back now before the microphone and sounds a bit
more clear. Let's go back to this news conference, Scott.

Speaker 3 (12:15):
Here is a nine one one call from the employees
inside the business.

Speaker 4 (12:19):
Employees inside the QT.

Speaker 3 (12:20):
Call because somebody came in and could instantly put them
on edge. He was very aggressive, he was a ratic,
he looked angry, and he's speaking incoherent and incoherent terms.
So law enforcement responded to that request of that nine
one one call.

Speaker 4 (12:36):
They met that individual outside.

Speaker 3 (12:39):
Did you show a weapon at all? I'm not inside
the store from what I understand. Two officers responded to
the scene.

Speaker 4 (12:45):
One more question.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
That's the timeline, I mean lot the McDonald's com actor to.

Speaker 3 (12:51):
Us relatively close after the original nine one call was
around six in the morning. That came fairly.

Speaker 4 (13:00):
Early, shortly after he left the scene.

Speaker 3 (13:01):
Here now the officers did talk to him for a
little bit before this broke down into a shooting. Okay,
we will keep the media updated on this particular matter today.
Of course, I'm giving you what I can right now
because I know it's of an importance to our community.
If I want to thank the media for coming out
and doing their job, and until we can get back
to everybody.

Speaker 4 (13:21):
I want to just say.

Speaker 3 (13:23):
Have a great day to the city of Omaha, and
we'll be back to as soon as we can.

Speaker 4 (13:26):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (13:26):
I'm a police chief Tash Moater there on the scene
at the Quick Trip near one hundred and twentieth in
Dodge where just a few hours ago police officer was
shot again. To bring you up to speed here, this
was a call that came in just after six am.
It sounded like the guy who was the suspect is
the one who called police. It was a nine to

(13:48):
one to one call and then a hang up and
then he was as chief Schmater just said, they're bothering
employees and customers, ranting about the KKK and so forth.
Officers respond and that's when this man allegedly pulled a
gun and shot at the officer who was hit in
the head. Great news there from Chief Smatters says it's

(14:14):
very good prognosis as far as his recovery. He's not
a doctor, but he says, we have been able to
talk to this officer, an unnamed fifteen year veter of
the Omaha Police Department, and he says, we could have
had this been just a centimeter of fraction the bullet
going the other way, we could have lost an officer
today and we're very, very lucky we did not. And

(14:36):
then he asked the city of Omaha to stop politicizing
law enforcement and calmed down the scrutiny of Omaha police.
A lot has been said on this and other forums
after just over a week ago, the boxing champion Terrence
Bud Crawford was pulled off over by police, and there

(14:56):
have been a lot of statements made about whether this
was aggressive over policing. The story I was just sharing
with you, I'll put a cap on the story here
shows that Omaha police officers some people who don't know
what's going on. Officers show up and suddenly they might
seem a little aggressive. They might seem a little brusque,

(15:16):
they might be yelling at you. They might seem a
little defensive, and you're like, well, what's their problem? So
my buddy, my son and his buddies are out running
around mill of the night. They're not supposed to be.
They're supposed to be spending the night at a friend's house,
and they decide to sneak out of the house and
go out and have some fun, which as a parent

(15:36):
I cannot be in favor of. As a guy who
used to do that stuff when I was his age,
I was kind of proud of him. Don't tell him
I said that. Anyway, they're out goofing around. Police now
pull up and they come out and they are being
very aggressive and yelling at my son and his two friends,
especially when one of his friends decided, I'm gonna take

(15:59):
off run. He has since been disabused of the notion
that that was a fine idea. That's his mom's problem.
What we find out later, after these guys are taken
back to my son's friend's house, my son's friend's father,
who is a disciplinarian in the education system, took turns

(16:26):
with his wife beating all of the kids involved, which
I was fully in favor of. What we found out
later was why the police were so aggressive with these kids.
Is not far away. There were some kids with firearms,
and they didn't know that these kids were just some
good kids out there doing stupid kid stuff. If my

(16:47):
son and his friends had decided not to obey police
commands except for the idiot who ran, great kid, stupid idiot.
But everyone's got one of those in their friend group.
If they decided like, we're not going to show our hands,
we're not going to respond to police commands, that could
have ended very, very very badly. That's why the officers

(17:11):
are so aggressive. Some kids that kind of met this
description were out there with guns. So when police pull
up on you and you're like, why are they bothering
with me? I got pulled over and I was a
teenager because I was driving a car that fit a
description of a vehicle that had been going around and
causing problems with some kids on Halloween. And so I'm

(17:35):
in the car, My buddies are in the car, and
they wanted to ask me a bunch of questions, like
what's this guy's problem. Well, then they told me. I
was like, oh my gosh, you know, I'm glad to
say we're not the ones doing something like that you
don't know, just like the cops don't know when they
get a call, like there's a guy ranting at the

(17:55):
gas station. All right, we'll go out there and see
what the morons up to. That officer probably never expected
to meet up with someone with a gun ready to
fire at an officer, but they were ready. They're always ready.
That's why you know. Like, Okay, we pull you over.

(18:16):
You have no tags, you have no license and registration.
I see a gun on the floor of the vehicle.
Now the passenger in your car also says he's armed. Okay,
let's get out of the car and get everyone figured
out here. That's what happened in the Bud Crawford traffic stop.
It really wasn't that big a deal, and then it

(18:37):
started getting politicized, and Chief Schmater I believe alluded to
that when he says, look, we got to calm down
on this demonization of law enforcement. It emboldens people to
take a shot at cops. I mean that's true here
in Omaha, it's true of ice officers across the country.
It's true of people who go out and speak through

(19:00):
mind like Charlie Kirk. There are all kinds of people
think it's just ducky when an officer gets shot at,
or worse, or a conservative commentator, and that's what the
police chief was just responding to. We'll have more details
throughout the day here. The good news is it sounds

(19:23):
like this officer he is recovering well just a few
hours after being shot in the head, and we have
a suspect in custody. This after a swatting call at
UNO on Saturday afternoon. Give it to the details on
that after a Fox News update.

Speaker 1 (19:43):
Next, Scott Voice News Radio eleven kfab.

Speaker 2 (19:48):
Brief news conference featuring Omaha Police Chief Toad Schmater, who
shared the very good details where he pointed out, we
very well could have lost a police officer this morning.
After to bring you up to speed, just after six am,
there was a guy harassing employees and customers at a
gas station near one hundred and twentieth and Dodge Streets.

(20:12):
Police responds, the suspect pulls a gun, shoots at the officer.
The officer was shot. And I say this because I
don't mean to minimize what it means to get shot
in the head, but he was I'm not sure exactly.
I mean somewhere between. Obviously, bat he was taken in

(20:35):
a critical condition, but Chief Schmadter said that they've been
able to talk to him and he feels his prognosis
is very good for being able to make a recovery.
So sounds like, if you're going to get shot in
the head, this is the way you want to get
shot in the head. And I know as soon as
I say that that sounds so stupid, But I also

(20:57):
don't want to I don't want a maxim or minimize
this situation. What's a minor head wound injury when being shot?
That would be an injury that happens to someone else.
I don't think this officer is sitting there going that's
no big deal. But the officer was able to sustain
that wound and continue his police work, which then culminated

(21:21):
with the officer heading down or the suspect heading down
the street, and he was at another business down the
hill from one hundred and twenty ath the Dodge, and
that's where police took him into custody. We don't have
details on the suspect. The officer, as Chief Smater said,
is doing better and they expect him to make a recovery,

(21:42):
which is fantastic, but Chief Schmater also said we need
to calm down the rhetoric related to demonizing law enforcement
amen on that.

Speaker 4 (21:54):
Now.

Speaker 2 (21:54):
This happened after I had a couple of other police
situations here in the Omaha metro over the weekend. One
was very early yesterday morning, officers respond to a liquor
store on North thirtieth a couple of different shootings, one

(22:15):
at North thirtieth and then another one not terribly far
away at Levi Carter Lake Park. A woman with a
life threatening injury at the liquor store and then a
person with a live threatening injury at the park. And
police felt they're still looking for a suspect as of

(22:36):
this morning, but they feel like the two shootings are related,
so we'll wait for more details on that one. But
officers found four people in a vehicle that had been hit,
a couple of people treated for injuries from shrapnel in there,
and then we had the two people in both circumstances

(22:56):
that were the sustained life threat and injuries. So that's
in the middle of the night at a liquor store.
We had this morning situation at a gas station. Remind
me to come back to I write that down gas liquor.
I want to actually talk to Lucy Chapman here in

(23:17):
the studio in just a moment. But UNO on Saturday afternoon,
by five pm Saturday, suddenly police go full bore at
the University of Nebraska Omaha with everything they got, swat team,
dispatch and everything. Suddenly if you were on campus or
around a Starbon village. Though this was actually on the

(23:41):
UNO campus, not at the dorms, in some of the
buildings near Xarbon, but anywhere in that vicinity, there was
suddenly five pm Saturday, a very large police presence because
police received a report of an active shooter at the
library five pm Saturday, So here come all the cops.

(24:06):
And after investigating, police determined it was a fake phone call,
a swatting call that means where someone is able to
make it look like they're calling. I mean, it could
be someone calling from Russia who makes it look like
they're calling from a four h two area code and

(24:31):
it's not their phone number that pops up there and
it makes it look like, oh, this is coming from
within our community. They can even pinpoint it to where
it appears as though the call is coming from the
UNO campus. And someone says, please get here quick, there's
an active shooter. And then the police show up. And
these kind of calls, these fake phone calls, which happen

(24:53):
all the time and are incredibly difficult to trace. They
either happen because someone one just gets a kick out
of wasting police officers time. That's the best case scenario
of a call like this, or these calls happen because

(25:15):
they want the officers to show up. Sometimes this will
happen at someone's house and they want the officers to
show up. They want them barging down the doors, they
want the people inside to do something crazy and potentially
get shot. Because that's happened. Suddenly you have a chaotic scene,

(25:35):
and it's not unreasonable to think that in a chaotic
scene that either an officer shoots or gets shot in
something like this. So here come all the officers to
uno what did they want students to get shot? And
then another layer of god awful a situation like this

(26:01):
is officers get a call that there's an active shooter
U and O. They're only they get one call and
they're thinking, you know, I know, it's the middle of
the afternoon on a Saturday, and we're talking about the
UNO Library, So I don't imagine there are a lot
of people around there, but there are enough people in
that vicinity. Plus that library is right there on Dodge Street.

(26:22):
You would think that we would get more than one
nine to one one call, right, So now they have
to wonder is this fake? Is this real? Well, they
can't obviously respond like as probably nothing. Send Frank in
there to take a look. Hey, Frank, head over to
you and O and make sure everything's okay if it's real.

(26:46):
And they just send one officer on a well being call,
and they don't have all the resources to either stop
the situation or help the people. Obviously you know how
that's going to go. So they have to respond though
it is a real call, which is a tremendous waste
of resources if it's an actual call and they have

(27:08):
it in their heads like this is probably fake, but
let's go through the motions and see and then it
ends up being real. How much are they mentally prepared
to go deal with it. I imagine their training and
their professionalism would take over. But when you have an emergency,

(27:28):
you want the police to show up like ready to
deal with that emergency and not be wondering is this fake?
So that's what happened on Saturday, A whole bunch of nothing,
but these kind of calls, these fake calls to police
to say, oh, there's an active shooter or there's a

(27:50):
guy with a gun running into this house. I don't
know how they stop it because this happens all the time,
so apparently it's difficult to stop, if not impossible. You
don't really hear about a lot of people being taken
into custody for making these fake phone calls from China

(28:10):
or whatever. Now back to the previous two shootings. Early
yesterday morning liquor store, early this morning at a gas station.
There are some people who have said, like, I wouldn't
work in those places because it's dangerous. I don't know.

(28:30):
It's six o'clock in the morning on a Monday, whether
you're just getting there for your very early shift, or
whether you pulled the overnight shift and you're just about
ready to get out of there. I would think that
a six am on a Monday, you'd probably feel pretty safe, right,
don't you think. Lucy Chapman here on news radio eleven

(28:52):
ten kfab Lucy doesn't like to go anywhere, and she
feels every place is dangerous. But at six am at
a gas station on a Monday morning, that's gotta be
about the most safe place you could be, Right.

Speaker 5 (29:03):
The average person is probably safe at that point. I
would not stop at a gas station, not early, little
size on the road, six o'clock in the morning. I
was in an armed robbery at a gas station when
I was twenty, So I mean, it sticks with you.

Speaker 2 (29:17):
What time that was mill the night though, about.

Speaker 5 (29:20):
Ten thirty or eleven at night? Yeah, so but yeah,
the average person, I think that you're you're pretty safe,
but it's so random, you don't know.

Speaker 2 (29:31):
Places are finding a hard time, Places are having a
hard time finding employees, whether it's a gas station, convenience store,
liquor store, any place. There's people are short staffed all
over the place. And then something like this happens. And
I can't imagine that there'd be a lot of people

(29:53):
immediately saying like, yeah, I was just thinking about going
to work a place like that. But you know, where's
the safe place? Because if you think, well, that's a
good place to work, there probably been either here in
Omaha or in other communities, dangerous things that have happened
in a place like that too.

Speaker 4 (30:10):
So.

Speaker 2 (30:12):
I would think that if you're working someplace, six am
on a Monday would be about the most safe thing.
Who's running in there with a gun deciding well, this
is the day I wreak havoc. I've either been up
all night or I got up early from my havoc
wreaking ways. You know, you can't wreak havoc all week
unless you start very early on Monday. I can't imagine

(30:36):
anyone working there or going to that gas station, especially
it's a great location there.

Speaker 5 (30:41):
Busy, Yeah, a lot of people.

Speaker 2 (30:43):
Busy place. I can't imagine anyone thought anything like this
would happen now the middle of the no I'll give
you a couple of examples here of where you might
think that maybe it would be a dangerous situation, including
one this happened in Texas that got a girl killed.
And we all need to talk to our teenagers to say, look,

(31:06):
I know this sounds like a great time. This is
a really, really bad idea. I'll explain next.

Speaker 1 (31:11):
Scott bodes Well, News Radio eleven ten kfab.

Speaker 2 (31:15):
Double edged sword of a news story as an officer
was shot this morning here in Omaha. That's obviously awful.
The good news about that, really bad news is Chief
Schmater says it sounds like the officer is going to
make a full recovery. They have a suspect and custody.
The latest from the KFAB radio newsroom on that and

(31:36):
much more coming up here after a Fox News update
at ten and then the KFAB update and then a
chance for you to win one thousand dollars here on
eleven ten KFAB. But we were talking about just responding
law enforcement, responding to situations and and you know, people
going out there going I don't know why the cops are,
you know, so mad all the time. Well, they don't

(31:57):
know what they're dealing with. And there's some dangerous situations.
Places you could be, places you could work.

Speaker 4 (32:06):
But this is.

Speaker 2 (32:08):
An example of a bad idea that many of us
when we were this girl's age, probably would have run
headlong into because it sounded like a great time. There's
a girl named Aliana in the San Antonio Era area
of Texas who died the other day because someone decided

(32:31):
to get guns out during a party. The party is
called a team takeover. Here's how this works. Someone on
social media finds out where a house has been either
empty like we know these people are out of town,
or abandon properties and they find out like, hey, someone

(32:53):
has been trying to sell this house. It's been sitting
there for a while. The famili's moved out. So Saturday night,
we're going to have a part at this house. We're
just going to break in and have a party. We're
going to take over this house. A team takeover. Lucy Chapman,
you're seventeen years old. You get a call like, hey,
we're all breaking into an abandoned house and everyone's going

(33:15):
to be there. It's going to be a great time.
The question is not do you go? The question is
what beer do you take with you to this party?
You go, Natty Keystone Bush, what do you do?

Speaker 5 (33:26):
PBR?

Speaker 2 (33:27):
Okay, Lucy's grabbing a case of PBR she got from,
you know, an older the older brother of her friend,
and she's over there with PBR. I know we all
would have done this stupid thing. Oh don't act, I'll
good you two shoes on me.

Speaker 5 (33:43):
Not like you described, somebody's somebody else's property like that,
breaking in and yeah, not like that. Would we have
taken over a parking lot someplace.

Speaker 2 (33:54):
Sure, Yeah, okay, well yeah, I'll go with you on
that one. I will agree that you probably but probably
you didn't have those details, especially back when we were teenagers.
You just kind of show up like someone's someone's driving
us down to this property. Okay, great, you know, be
nice to their parents, you know, and then you show

(34:15):
up there and it's crazy, and then you have to
wonder like do I leave? Do I stay? So this
girl's there at this teen takeover party, and there's hundreds
of people at this thing. And I think we all
were teenagers enough to know that the bigger a party gets,
the faster the cops are going to get there. You

(34:36):
can't hang out at this thing. But now you have
a situation where someone pulls guns. Someone fired a gun
during a fight at this party, and this girl got
caught in the crossfire and she died. Seventeen year old girl.
Her family says, she just graduated from high school early,
had a job, and was eager to, you know, take
on the world.

Speaker 5 (34:57):
That happened here just a few years ago.

Speaker 2 (34:59):
Yet well different than a teen takeover, but a similar
circumstance where a young woman named Carly Rain was at
a party like that, and the same thing happened. These
guy's got in a fight and she gets a shot
in the in the crossfire between these groups. So yeah,
this is something where you talk to your kids and go, look,

(35:21):
I know it sounds like fun. You can't do these things.

Speaker 5 (35:29):
Can you imagine this Sprite Night was still happening. It
wouldn't be.

Speaker 2 (35:33):
It wouldn't be. We're very lucky to have grown up
when we did yes spright Night. In case you're not familiar,
fantastic Peenie Park promotion involving sprite and Hot Scott from
sweet ninety eight. Terrible news about four hours ago and
Omaha police shot officer as you just heard in that
KFAB news update a moment ago, was a shot when

(35:57):
responding to a call of a disturbance at a gas
station near one hundred and twentieth and Dodge Streets. Officer shot.
Good news is they expect this officer to make a
full recovery despite the wound being to his head. We
don't know who the officer is, fifteen year veteran of

(36:17):
the forest, but Chief Schmater and meyrit Ewing said, we
went up talked to him. We were able to talk
to him, which is amazing, and he was able to
not only get shot, but continue trying to bring this
suspect into custody despite suffering a gunshot wounded the head.
So these are it's got amazing individuals who work with

(36:41):
the Omaha Police Department, and they're hurting this morning with
the injury to one of their own, knowing this could
have been any single one of them. And as we
noted in the last hour, you get a call of
a guy like he's just bothering customers at a gas station,
you probably don't think gunfight. But if an officer does

(37:05):
pull you over, or if you see an officer responding
to something and you're like, why is that copying so aggressive?
Shouldn't he know this is not a big deal. It's
just kind of some ranting guy. This is why if
an officer is a bit brusque, forgive them. I think
everyone needs a little grace right now. How many of

(37:27):
us are at our breaking point? A lot of hands
in the air except Lucy's. Lucy's got a lot more
she can take. So if you have any problems, dump
them on Lucy. She can handle it.

Speaker 5 (37:41):
I don't think that's a can of worms you want
to open. I think some cans of just should be
ye lift.

Speaker 2 (37:49):
If you wanted to vent, I would just let you
and we would all by eleven o'clock. We'd probably have
to blow out the first hour Clay and Buck, and
then at noon say all right, Lucy, Lucy's gotten about
halfway through this bent. We're gonna put a pin in
that one and come back to you tomorrow and then
you can just keep going. Oh but you won't do it.

(38:12):
I will say this, but no one. I don't know
anyone who needs do more than you.

Speaker 5 (38:16):
I will say this about this whole situation this morning,
when you have the You've got so many stories of
people that just seemingly are just snapped what happened. And
I think that whether it's morally, or it's religiously, or
it's politically, or it's chemically, narcotically or narchronically, that's chemically,

(38:40):
we're chemically. Brains have been changed. People are not the
same that you could look back on any generation, generations
where we had upheaval, generations where we had disagreements, where
we had rioting, people are different today than they were

(39:01):
at any of those times.

Speaker 1 (39:02):
Sounds like Lucy has a conspiracy theory.

Speaker 2 (39:05):
And thankfully they all have guns.

Speaker 5 (39:10):
But you know what, they had guns in the Old West. Yeah,
but everybody had a gun then.

Speaker 2 (39:15):
Right, Yeah, But the difference then is like, hey, that
guy over there is bothering the ladies. I'll handle it,
and then it was done right.

Speaker 5 (39:23):
But also, as I'm saying that, I'm thinking, wait a minute,
back in the fifties and the sixties, even teenagers had guns,
farm kids and stuff that maybe rural kids. I don't
want to say farm only, but rural kids. There' even
some city kids if they were hunters, they had guns.
Teenagers had access to guns in the fifties, sixties, seventies,

(39:44):
all the time. I know didn't happen like this.

Speaker 2 (39:46):
I just love the idea that someone's listening with half
an ear going, did Lucy just say that Matt Rule's
kids are carrying guns? No, rural kids had guns? What
you were saying, not rural kids.

Speaker 5 (39:58):
I watched part of that game this weekend.

Speaker 4 (40:00):
Go be gred.

Speaker 5 (40:02):
By the way, did we win?

Speaker 2 (40:03):
Yeah? I only yeah? And how many of you decided
to send text messages as Nebraska was suddenly looking real
real peaked from about the middle of the second quarter
to the middle of the third quarter, especially offensively looking
real real peaked. How many of you sent text messages
to your friends and family members going that's it, I'm done,

(40:24):
I'm done with this team. I can't watch it waste
this time. Hey, we don't need fans like you. I
sent back to all the friends and family members of
mine who sent me those text messages on Saturday.

Speaker 5 (40:36):
Why would they send them to you? They know they're
going they're going to get that response or something like it.

Speaker 2 (40:41):
Actually, I just ignored them. I was there watching the
game with a bunch of friends, including a former Husker
who because we were yelling at each other, you know,
because I tried to rally during that time. I was like,
are we fake Husker fans? Are we real Husker fans?
Let's go come on, you know. And then so that

(41:01):
fired this guy up that used to play for the team.
And now when Nebraska starts coming back, defense is playing great,
offense starts kicking in, this former Husker gave me a
high five that I still can't use my right hand.
It hurt so bad. Did I let him know that
at the time, Oh, heck no, I just like.

Speaker 5 (41:26):
I could take it.

Speaker 2 (41:27):
Yeah, all right, Frank emails Scott at kfab dot com.
Am I the only person who hasn't been affected by
the government shutdown. According to the news, we're all feeling
the effects. Am I missing something?

Speaker 4 (41:44):
Yep?

Speaker 2 (41:44):
Frank. In fact, if you continue to read the news,
all of the various news sources will say the government
shutdown is affecting everyone, and then there's a little asterisk.
Then you have to scroll all the way to the
bottom of the story says except Frank. So this was
something that Congress set up in advance, a very special

(42:07):
It's really the only thing that Republicans and Democrats could
agree on, Like, we're gonna burn this mother down. I
will shut this thing down forever. All right, Well, let's
just all agree this is not going to affect Frank. Well,
certainly not Frank. No, we want Frank to be No, Frank,
you are forgiven for not feeling the effects of the
government shutdown, which is in day six with no end

(42:32):
in sight. I saw that again today. If some media
outlet and you'll put out this not even thinking about
it headline, government shutdown continues into a sixth day with
no end in sight. That's right, this is going to
go on in perpetuity.

Speaker 5 (42:47):
Oh, it's gonna end, of course it will.

Speaker 2 (42:50):
It always does.

Speaker 5 (42:51):
May end when the world burns down, but it will end.

Speaker 2 (42:55):
We all just need better glasses. There's an end in sight.
I don't I can't tell you when, but it will happen.
It always does. And what if it doesn't, then I'll
tell you why it's going to end. Because if the
shutdown doesn't end, that gives the executive branch all the power.
And Trump is like, and I want this and I

(43:17):
want that. Trump would be like a fat kid in
a candy store. He's like, these guys are all fire.
These guys are fired. Troops are going in here, and hey,
check out this new Trump gold bar I'm selling. And
that's why the Democrats are like, all right, we'll end
the shutdown and put the legislative branch back into some

(43:38):
level of power. Of course that's going to end. Is
going to end when one side decides, hey, we're really
looking bad in this government shutdown. The polls are not
in our favor. We're gonna have to find a way
to save face and move on. So that's what's going
on here with the shutdown. As far as are you
feeling the effects. No, Frank, I presume doesn't work for

(44:02):
the government, but and I don't either, so I'm not
personally feeling the effects of the shutdown. Shutdown like this
it happens where essential employees who get a paycheck from
the national government, whether that's the the first responders when
it comes to something like FEMA or the actual responders

(44:24):
like our United States military. They are continuing to work.
Air traffic controllers are continuing to work. They don't get
a paycheck right now. Now, they all know they're going
to get their back pay. They're going to get paid eventually.
But you've you say, Frank, you're married to a nice
fella and he's out serving our country and Kenya, Like,

(44:51):
is there a problem in Kenya? I don't know, not
because because Frank's you know, lover boys out there in Kenya,
and he's the only I stationed out there. He's like,
I'm keeping Kenya together. Let me know if there's anything
else I can do here. There's not a lot to do.
I hope I don't have to run after these people
because Kenyon's are fast and they can run forever. But

(45:13):
right now, everything's good because Frank's husband's over there keeping
the peace, but Frank's here at home wondering is he
calling me gay? Just Frank's at home, and Frank has
bills to pay, and it's paycheck to paycheck, and suddenly

(45:35):
it's like, well, I got to find a way to
cover this bill, or I got to work with the
person I owe money to and try and get him
to say, Hey, look, we're subject to the government shutdown.
You know, we're gonna get our money. I don't know
when that's gonna be. It could be the end of
the week, could be the end of the month. I
don't know, but we'll pay you. Can you help a
brother out here? And that's a whole lot to deal with, especially,

(45:58):
I mean decades ago, you could probably just call a
guy and say, hey, you know me, and you know
what our situation is. Yeah, yeah, don't worry about it. Well,
we'll work together. We'll make it work. It's okay, now,
it's hang on. Let's put you on hold. And next
thing you know, you're talking to someone on the other
side of the world. They don't know you, they don't

(46:19):
know your situation, even if they put it down in
a computer somewhere like Frank's subject to a government shutdown
and will pay. That's not going to get over to
this AI system that's in charge of firing out the
past du notices. And it's a hassle. You're never gonna
get a chance to talk to anyone on the phone.

(46:43):
I my son was parked in a high school parking
lot a week ago Friday night at the football game.
Person next to him decides to go tearing out of
their parking spot, makes a real knife cut and slams
into the full back side panel of my son's car. Now,

(47:03):
it's it's an old car, it's a piece of junk.
I probably wouldn't care, but hit this car with such
force that the back tailgate won't open, now, which I'd
kind of like for that to happen.

Speaker 5 (47:15):
So it was a back tailgate that stuck. I thought
it was one of the passenger doors.

Speaker 2 (47:20):
A passenger door, the panel behind it, which pushed it
into this tailgate which opens from the left over to
the right. It's not a tailgate on a pickup truck.
It's an sup it's super old.

Speaker 5 (47:33):
Come across the prairie.

Speaker 2 (47:34):
It's old. It's an old car. It's older than my son.
This car. It's exactly the kind of car that kids
should be driving these days. So their insurance company is
I will cover it. So I'm getting calls like, hey,
we were gonna call you about your claim. I missed
the call and then tried to call them back. That

(47:54):
was on Friday. It still can't reach anyone. And this
is from an Amurrican based insurance company. And I've got
a claim number and a phone number and a person
I need to talk to. This is apparently impossible.

Speaker 5 (48:06):
It's a nightmare.

Speaker 2 (48:07):
Yeah. So I mean when someone is the spouse of
a member of the military who's overseas and you're like,
I've got to pay daycare, either the mortgage payment or
the rent payments due, i gotta pay the water bill
and all this stuff. Who do you talk to about that?
You can't get anyone on the phone, and so it's

(48:28):
it'll eventually work out, but wow, a big hassle and
you can't help. But in the back of your mind, go,
why am I, as a military spouse dealing with all
of this When someone getting welfare payments is getting the
checks coming out like clockwork? Why am I the one
impacted by this?

Speaker 5 (48:49):
Maybe you should just get on welfare.

Speaker 2 (48:51):
Why can't we do here? Why can't we do the
government shutdown to where the military still gets paid. Is
that impossible to ask? No, both sides want this to
happen because they want military families coming out there saying
I just don't know what we're gonna do here until
we get this paycheck because they think it'll be blamed

(49:11):
on the other side, and no one cares if it's
a welfare recipient out there going I just don't know
what I'm gonna get paid, and people, you know, working
people across America, like what should I care? You know,
that doesn't tug at the heart strings. But the military
spouse like Frank saying I don't know what I'm gonna
do here until I get this paycheck. Now, that's a

(49:34):
heart string tugger right there. And they want them out
there crying to the local media. They want them out
there on national media because they think that the other
side will get blamed for it and make their side
look better. Hey, we're trying to take care of all
the Franks out there. So that's why this continues. As

(49:55):
far as what the president might do if this continues
here and do a couple more days. I I think
he's already trying to do some of it. I'll explain next.

Speaker 1 (50:04):
Scott Voriez NewsRadio eleven ten kfab.

Speaker 2 (50:08):
So, regarding the shutdown, here's where things stand. They left
Washington with the hope that, you know, maybe a weekend
at home where they go talk to their constituents and
they say, you've got to go sign this bill would
help the Democrats come to the table and sign the bill. Well,
the Democrats don't want to and the Republicans are seemingly

(50:32):
okay with it because here's the ulterior motive involved on
both sides. The Democrats want to keep pressure up on
the Republicans to invoke the nuclear option. That's why they
keep saying. The Democrats keep saying like, hey, Republicans are
in the majority here. If they want to pass this bill,
they can pass the bill. Well, the Senate rule is,

(50:53):
in order to pass a bill like this, you have
to have a super majority, which means sixty votes. And
the Republicans don't have sixty votes. Among the Republicans, they
barely have fifty one. So you're not going to get
sixty until some Democrats come over. But the Democrats want
the Republicans to do. You'll hear the phrase nuclear option

(51:14):
where they say, all right, we're getting rid of the
filibuster proof majority and we're going to a straight majority vote. Well,
that gives the Democrats the cover because they think after
the mid terms and thirteen months from now that they'll
be in power for the next Congress and they're going
to say, well, it's the Republicans the one that made
everything a majority vote. And if they feel like they

(51:37):
can do their agenda with the rules that the Republicans
set up, then they feel like they get the political
cover they need to go and do whatever in God's
name they want to do should they become in power.
There's a lot that could happen in the next thirteen months.
But that's their thinking. The Republicans' ulterior motive is they

(51:58):
keep saying the Democratics shut down them. They want this
to be blamed on Democrats because they want you in
thirteen months from now to think, well, those evil Democrats
shut down the government. But here's the thing we're talking
about the American voters. This shutdown is going to last
a few more days, maybe a week or two, I
don't know, but it's not gonna last very long, and
in thirteen months from now, not a single voter is

(52:20):
even going to remember. They'll be going to vote based
on whatever they said Trump did that day, and they're
going to go say I like it or I don't,
and they're gonna go vote. Now. The more immediate ulterior
motive for the Republicans is, well, if we keep the
government shut down, that gives Trump more power and the
White House that says we're going to do it mass firings.

(52:44):
Anyone not an essential worker within the federal government might
get fired. Now to a lot of us, that sounds
pretty darn reasonable, like, well, if you're not essential, what
are you doing there? So Doge, Yeah, it's still a thing.
Doese has updated their website for the first time since

(53:05):
September eighth to announce what they say is two hundred
and fourteen billion dollars in savings. That amounts to one thousand,
three hundred twenty nine dollars per taxpayer. If Trump is
able to just fire away with all of these firings,
three hundred twenty nine dollars per taxpayer, And you're thinking,

(53:25):
do we get that back? No, they'll spend it on
some other garbage. You'll never see a dime, but it politically,
it's an interesting conversation. So that's Doze trying to reach
what Elon Musk said initially was their one trillion dollars
in savings goal, which of course a lot of judges
has stopped any of this from happening. But they're thinking,

(53:48):
if the government shut down and Trump can do whatever
he wants, then we can just let all these employees go,
which would be big savings for the taxpayer. So there's
some of the ulterior motive of what these guys are
fighting about. Meanwhile, the president and a judge, a judge

(54:10):
that they say, well he appointed President Trump doesn't know
this judge from your mom, so but they're gonna make
a big deal about this. So President Trump and a
judge who took the bench during his first term are
fighting over whether or not he can send troops into
an American city. We'll get to that after a Fox

(54:32):
News update.

Speaker 1 (54:33):
Next Scott Byes News Radio eleven ten k FA.

Speaker 2 (54:39):
Let's look at the community of Portland served by NAIN
or sorry Portland, Oregon served by other radio stations. Portland
is where the president says a judge ought to be
ashamed of herself, and people are quick to point out, well,
you appointed her. As I said in a moment ago,
President Trump doesn't know US District Court Judge Karen Immergut

(55:04):
from your mom. But she's the one who issued a
temporary restraining order over the weekend to halt the Trump
administration from deploying two hundred members of the National Guard
to Portland. Now, the reason why the President says he
wants to do that is, according to him, because there's

(55:25):
an ICE facility there, Immigration Customs Enforcement, and these are
nationalized members of law enforcement who are subject to riots, protests,
problems and more in that community. And he said it's
the same thing we're seeing in Chicago and other places

(55:46):
where the protesters are there. In Chicago, the details, according
to some people, are the chief of police in Chicago
told local law enforcement, if you get a call from
ICE that people are throwing malotov cocktails or rocks or
whatever or trying to break into the place, don't respond

(56:06):
to the scene. That's what multiple law enforcement sources have
told Fox News Radio that Chicago police officers were ordered
by their chief not to respond to Border Patrol and
ICE agents calls for help. After about thirty such agents
in Chicago were surrounded by a large group of protesters.

(56:28):
Now that's the accusation from Chicago and Portland. It's much
the same. So, according to the President, we had to
send additional resources to help these people because we don't
know that we can get the help from local law enforcement.
According to democrats in the national media, a distinction without
a difference. In some instances, the president wants to send

(56:49):
troops into America's streets. What is that the impression that
you're getting that the President said, Hey, I heard there's
some crime in Portland. Send the military, Send the Marines
in there. I want tanks rolling down Main Street and

(57:10):
Portland by noon. This is not what the president's talking about.
This is the impression everyone wants you to get that
the President is sending troops into America's streets to go
to war with Americans. We have violent incidents that are

(57:33):
not being handled or assisted by local law enforcement in
some of these sanctuary cop hating communities, Trump hating communities, Chicago, Portland, Memphis,
and so the President said, all right, then if they
won't protect our people, we will. And then judges said, well,
you can't send the National Guard in here. So the governor, So,

(57:56):
I think the way this works, and I apologize if
I have some little bit of minutia wrong here. But
the President says, we're sending in the National Guard. Well,
that technically has to or traditionally has been done with
or in connection with the governor. Well, if the governor
doesn't want to do what the President's telling him to do,

(58:18):
and they certainly don't in Illinois and they don't in Oregon,
then the President says, final'll do it myself. And that's
where a judge says, you can't send the Oregon National
Guard into Portland. The governor said that you can't do it.
So then the President has said, all right, then we'll
send the National Guard in from California. And then Governor

(58:39):
Newsom said, you're not going to use the California National
Guard to send them into Oregon, which is what they've
tried to do. They tried to get three hundred National
Guard personnel into Oregon from California. So Newsom starts suing
the administration for as the governor says, a breath taking
abuse of the law and power. So then Governor Abbott

(59:00):
so Texas says, you can send the Texas National Guard,
and so the President says, fine, we'll send in the
National Guard from Texas. We'll send the Texas Rangers in
there if we have to, And no one seems to
be quite sure whether that's anything that the President can do.
So in the meantime they find a judge to say,
all right, hang on, don't send anyone anywhere until we

(59:22):
can take a look at this. So it's a temporary
restraining order and that's only for about the next week
or so. It buys them some time, but you know
who else, It buys time for the protesters, not only
home grown there in Portland, but people coming from around
America to say, oh, I heard this is a good

(59:42):
place to go after Trump's gestapo and maybe take some
of them out there. You don't think that there are
people who want to do that. That's what's happening Chicago
and Portland, and not only that. So here you have
a community like Boston. This doesn't involve ice, but this

(01:00:03):
is an example of what law enforcement has been dealing with.
And this is why Chief Taschmader here in Omaha. After
an Omaha police officer was shot and is recovering this
morning with a suspect and custody. Chief Schmater came out
there and said, we got to tone down the demonization
of law enforcement rhetoric. Early yesterday morning in Boston, police

(01:00:27):
cruisers were attacked by a violent mob after officers responded
to a report of several vehicles blocking an intersection in
Boston's South End neighborhood. It's about two o'clock in the morning,
and people just start blocking the streets. Officers come out
to say, you guys, can't poke you a cause there

(01:00:48):
in that street. So then the mob takes on the
cops and they start a large scale vehicle takeover of
trying to take over the cop cars and individuals started
attacking marked Boston police cruisers yesterday morning, throwing fireworks, rocks, cones, poles,

(01:01:10):
whatever they get their hands on. Apparently this is not
something that is brand new. Vehicle takeovers are described as
large crowds of cars and pedestrians to block the streets
so they can engage in unlawful activities such as illegal
street racing and burnouts and all the rest of this stuff.

(01:01:32):
So these guys just like, hey, we want to do
a street race. We just blocked the streets. Then the
cops show up and go you can't block the streets,
and they're like, I find we're just gonna start chucking
everything we can at the officers and their cars.

Speaker 5 (01:01:45):
Well, you get pretty bored when you refuse to have
a job, refuse to be a responsible citizen with a family,
and try to be in society. Yeah, you get pretty bored.
You gotta do some fun, crazy stuff like destruction of property.

Speaker 2 (01:02:03):
And I don't think I'm all that unusual a person.
Don't respond to that unless you're like, yes, Scott, I
agree with you. I don't think I'm too crazy. But
then and now in my life, and there's certainly a
sliding scale for what I found to be fun and

(01:02:25):
at what hours I would do what, But at no
point and I had so much fun as a teenager,
as a college student into my twenties, I don't have
any fun now except Morning's nine to eleven. In case
you think that I just put on the Steve Martin
Bunny ears and just wild and crazy guy around the
office all day. I generally don't. But Morning's nine to eleven,

(01:02:47):
I have a lot of fun. The rest of it
is waiting for the next radio show to have some fun.
Let's put it that way. I've had a lot of
fun in my life, yep. And some of the fun
I had as a teenager and you too, Lucy, was
stuff like I'm glad my parents didn't know then and

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certainly don't know now. Yep, what I used to do.
We had a blast doing stuff, and at no point
was it like and now it's time to start going
after cop cars, throwing things at police officers, blocking traffic,
grabbing a gun. We're not supposed to have all the
rest of this stuff. It's possible. It's possible to have

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an enjoyable evening, even if it goes late into the night,
and not potentially be arrested. It's possible. Am I so
crazy in thinking that it's still possible to be a
crazy young person and not do stuff that's illegal, get arrested,
maybe shot and killed.

Speaker 5 (01:03:49):
No, I think I have to go back to what
I said before. Brains have been changed, and the thinking.
When was Ferguson Saint Lewis area.

Speaker 2 (01:03:59):
That was before before COVID fifth I know that. No,
I think it was like twenty and seventeen.

Speaker 5 (01:04:05):
No, I don't think it was quite that. I think
it was a little bit longer ago than that. But
when you look about it, let's let's say let's say.

Speaker 2 (01:04:11):
It was two thousands. Why gosh, you're right, that was
over ten years ago, twenty fourteen.

Speaker 5 (01:04:16):
That's why I thought it was a little bit. Okay. So,
so you're talking about eleven years of constant, constant barrage
through media, through internet, through social media, constant barrage of
the message of cops are bad, you are opressed. And
I am not talking about the black community, or the

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Hispanic community, or the white community. We have been we
have been given this message for eleven years straight. So
now you have the product of that where they don't.
There's a lot of people and again brains have been changed.
There's a lot of people who do not believe that
a normal lifestyle of having a family, of getting a job,
kind of like what Charlie Kirks to talk about, get married,

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have kids, and have a wonderful life, because a wonderful
life is what you'll have. Problem.

Speaker 2 (01:05:07):
Sure, Oh yeah, yeah, there's certainly been a move during
that time where you just find anything that is an
old pillar of society or even an old statue, just
anything that's old. It's got to be gone, it's probably racist.
And so everything from statues to the family to aunt Jemima,

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they all had to go. And that name of that
football team has to go, you know whatever, It all
had to go. All right, So now we are a
decade or so later, and I asked sarcastically at the time,
anytime a statue was pulled down or whatever, I was like, Okay,

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has that taken care of it? Everyone? Good? Now did
that make anyone's life better? Asking sarcastically, knowing the answer
is no. And so you have the same thing. I
didn't even know if I was going to get to
this story today, but I'll bring this up as well.
Today or this week is Banned Books Week. This is
where the National Library Association people say, I can't believe

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that the people are banning these books in schools. And
then they have books out there, and there's always in
the top ten list. There's always a couple that are like,
I don't know why that book is banned, and then
there's some that are just like, here's the number two
book on the list. Is a book and it has
explicit sexual contact from the vantage point of a sixteen

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year old girl who's in a relationship with an older man,
and this is something that they don't allow in schools
because it's porn. The number one book A Clock Clockwork Orange,
A Clockwork Orange, which I don't know about the book,
but the movie is. It's brutal. And why in the

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world would this be in a middle or high school library.
This be something the teachers would be teaching. Well, they wouldn't,
and so they don't put it in the libraries. And
then the American Library Association says, well, it's Banned Books
Week and the dangers of censorship, and so because if
they can ban that book, then they can cancel Jimmy

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Kimmel and then all they're okay. None of these books
have been banned. If you have a kid who wants
to read any of the books on this list, then
you go to the bookstore and you can buy one.
You can go to the website and you can have
it sent right to your house and you can go here,
you go, kid, here's a book you can read. None

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of them are banned. They're not allowed in the libraries
for the same reason that Jugs magazine isn't allowed in
the libraries because it's smut. It serves no literary scholastic purpose.
They're not banned though, So I got to look at
the clock and see what I'm doing here. Six Okay,

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I've only got a few seconds. And then then we
gotta go, what was my point going to be in this?
Oh yeah, stop fighting with cops. As Chief Schmater said
at the start of this program, we have to tone
down the rhetoric and stop demonizing law enforcement because it's
emboldening people to not only take shots of cops, but

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just have a miserable life. The people who are celebrating
like oh yeah, this guy and that guy and all,
that's a miserable existence. So knock it off. There.

Speaker 1 (01:08:38):
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