December 18, 2025 • 29 mins
After responding to the President's speech last night, we talk about a horrific reality for too many in the wake of the Reiners' murder and wonder whether this conversation happened between neighbors in Rhode Island.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott Vordes. The very first thing the President Trump said last.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Night, good evening American.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
There you go, good evening American, not America. He's talking
specifically to you, if you're American, good evening American. I
don't know if that's how he intended to come off,
or maybe in early Flubb teleprompter. He seemed to actually
be reading or at least referring to a teleprompter during
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the speech last night and started off full of it
and vinegar.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Eleven months ago, I inherited a mess, and I'm fixing it.
When I took office, inflation was the worst in forty
eight years, and some would say in the history of
our country, which caused prices to be higher than ever before,
making life unaffordable for millions and millions of.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Americans, millions and millions of Americans. I think the President
knew that as this morning the inflation report would be released,
that he knew it was going to be good, and
it is. Core inflation is at two point six percent.
It's the lowest it's been since March of twenty twenty one.
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President Biden took office in January of twenty twenty one.
Inflation was often up at least eight percent. That's core
inflation that doesn't usually impact things like food, or it
doesn't include things like food and gas. Because you know
your monthly budget that doesn't include things like food and gas.
Right I bet if you include food and gas that
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the inflation rate would be as lower, maybe even lower,
based on gas prices. Right now. Then the President started
talking about, you know who is really benefiting here from
this economy?
Speaker 2 (01:44):
After years of record setting falling incomes, our policies are
boosting take home pay at a historic pace. Under Biden,
real wages plummeted by three thousand dollars. Under Trump, the
typical factory worker has seen a wage in increase of
one thousand, three hundred dollars. For construction workers, it's one thousand,
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eight hundred dollars. For miners, we're bringing back clean, beautiful
coal is three thousand, three hundred dollars. And for the
first time in years, wages are rising much faster than inflation.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
So people hear that. Some people hear that and they say, well,
what do I care about those I don't work those jobs.
I'm too good to go and be a construction worker
or a miner or something like that. I wouldn't mind
being a miner. I mean, with my skin issues, very
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very fair skin ravaged by skin cancer, pre cancer and
all the rest of this stuff. I think my dermatologist
and a lot of other people would love to shove
me down into a cave.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
And it's so much cleaner than it used to be.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
I imagine it is.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
I'm going to go be a minor. They're up three
thousand dollars. I know, I'm going.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Yeah, I don't know up from what, but I know
that a lot of these jobs are up from nothing.
As President Biden was working to get rid of these jobs,
President Obama said these jobs would never be coming back
to America and it was useless to even suggest that
anyone would be able to do such a job, and
energy and mining things like that. So people though, point
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and say, well, these blue collar jobs, and you know,
the overall job picture, Yeah, the overall job picture is
a little in a bit of flux this year, and
as oftentimes doesn't look real good. And there's a reason
for that because Elon Musk and some kid named big
Nuts or whatever, you know, they went in there and
doged all of these government jobs out. These are taxpayer
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funded government jobs. A lot of these jobs were people
who have a mid level job who they talk to
the people underneath them in that occupation tree and say,
all right, give me your TPS reports, and then they
collect the reports and then they just hand them to
someone right above the corporate ladder and this is not
corporate government ladder above them. And then someone came in here,
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like Elon Musk, and said it wouldn't it be more
prudent for the people doing the work to then hand
it to directly to that person. What do they need
you for? Well, I'm a people person. I gotta work
with the people. By the way, dang all, this is
office space. But there you go your nineties movie reference
for the segment of the radio program. But that's what
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a lot of these jobs. There's a lot of that
happened in the corporate world too, But these were taxpayer
funded jobs, oftentimes for people who got one of these
cushy gigs because of some sort of political influence or hey,
I donated a bunch of money to your campaign. My
nephew needs a gig. Oh, we'll put you in charge
of looking out the windows. And there you go, here's
a government salary. No one's ever going to ask questions
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about what it is that you say that you do
here again office space, and they doged all those jobs out.
A lot of government jobs gone. Private sector jobs are up,
including in those industries that President Trump was just talking about, mining, construction,
blue collar work. This is from the President of the
United States, who his accusers will say all he cares
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about is Wall Street, fat cat billionaire friends, and he
doesn't care about the little guy. He spent last night
talking about the little guy. As far as Wall Street goes,
they like the un the inflation numbers, the Dow, Nasdaq
s and p all up right now by a lot.
This is so far good morning on Wall Street. I
don't know what happens at the end of the day.
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If I did, I'd be one of these guys who'd
make a lot of money on Wall Street. But the
biggest thing here from the President's speech last night, which
I was really surprised by only about eighteen minutes. I
thought it might go an hour or two. Wasn't really
sure what to do with the programming. By the way,
(05:56):
sorry for the few minutes of dead air on our
radio station last night. Lucy, did you know that Glenn
Beck no longer covers his his local breaks. No see
in radio syndication like Glenn Beck goes to break or
claim Buck go to break, and when they do, we
play our wonderful words from our local sponsors here as
well as some nationwide partners. And then if you were
(06:19):
listening to that satellite feed, you would hear some of
their promos and PSAs, maybe some commercials and all that.
But Glenn didn't do that anymore. I didn't know that.
So when I went back to the Glenn Back Show,
it was not there for a few minutes. Sorry America.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Anyway, it's called communication.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Well, I no one communicated, I know, no one communicated
with you. I know, yes, thanks a lot. STU presidents
spent eighteen minutes then basically delivering a message that says,
I know that the media and the consumer confidence in
disease will tell you that the economy is not all
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that great, but you're wrong. It is. It's a great economy,
probably the greatest economy that ever economied. Well, there is
also a reason why the economy isn't so great, according
to the Consumer Confidence Index, and that is because half
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of the country looks at that man in the Oval office.
They had horrible me and I admit sometimes rough around
the edges is the nicest thing you can say when
he makes ugly comments like he did about Rob Reiner. Yeah,
is he perfect? Oh oh no, no no.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
But.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
You've got at least half the people in the country
who when Donald J. Trump tells you it's Thursday, they
say he's a liar and a war criminal. He's an
illegitimate not my president, and he he's a liar and Epstein.
So Trump says, it's Thursday, Nope, it's Friday Eve. Trump
says the economy is good. Nope. Even though these people
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are making more money, their investments are doing very well.
There are new jobs for their kids to go into.
If you make these kids go to work, we are
eliminating crime from our streets from people who have no
business being here. And you've got people here just arms
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folded over their chest, going no, how do you feel
the economy is well? That depends on who you voted
for in November twenty twenty four, doesn't it you voted
for Trump? Probably inclined is saying I think the economy
is pretty good, could be a little better. Obviously, my
local taxes could be better. I have some questions about this,
but overall, I think the economy is doing all right.
If you didn't vote for Trump, you're looking at the
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exact same numbers, the exact same life, and you're saying,
this is the worst economy ever and it's Donald Trump's fault.
So it doesn't. I mean, I appreciate the effort by
the President to say, this economy is doing great. You
gotta believe it. It's gonna be fantastic. We're delivering these
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warrior checks to members of the United States military, one thousand,
seven hundred and seventy six dollars bonus as we kick
off this year. Here where we got from seventeen seventy six.
This is a two hundred and fifty year I don't
know what we call it, bi centennial and a half
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year of twenty twenty six, two hundred and fiftieth anniversary
of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. So in
an homage to seventeen seventy six, he's sending seventeen seventy
six checks one thousand, seven hundred and seventy six dollars
warrior dividends to one point four five million military members
(09:58):
You're welcome America. Now something else the president did. We
heard the other day that he changed up some of
the well, one of the official presidential portraits in the
Walk of Fame colonnade at the White House. You'd walk
through and you'd see all the portraits of all the
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presidents up there. Well, he took Biden's off the wall
and replaced it with a picture of an auto pin. Yes,
this is something a third grader does. Is it demeaning?
It is? Is it below the office of the Presidency, Yes,
it is. Is it funny? Yes, yes it is.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
I must be in third grade.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Yeah. Would President Reagan have done something like this, No,
he would not. I'm just stating facts right now. These
are just facts. So he's now added something else to
the hall. He has added plaques complete with stuff that
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he's written about each of the presidents. And it's written
like with random capital letters and exclamation points. It's it's
the same stuff on his social media. It's it's the same.
You think I'm making this up.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
This is the Presidential Walk of Fame. We now featuring
bronze plaques beneath the portraits of his predecessors that read
like campaign brought sides to historical notes. So Joe Biden
is a picture of an auto pen, the worst president
in America history, the most corrupt election we've ever seen,
(11:42):
and blames him for the Afghanistan withdrawal, to Russia's invasion
of Ukraine and Hamas's attack on Israel. He said that
Biden is in severe mental decline and slammed is used
to the autopin this is what it says in the
White House colonnade in the Presidential walk of President Obama,
one of the most divisive political figures in American history.
(12:06):
He spied on President Trump's twenty sixteen campaign and orchestrated
the Russia Russia Russia hoax. Let's see here. There's also
references to Hillary Clinton. She wasn't the president, and I
guess it just goes I have to see this. I
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have to see all of this just because, like I
know what he thinks about the recent presidents back through Clinton,
and he probably even share some of his thoughts on H. W. Bush.
He was a fan of President Reagan, because it says
he was a fan of President Donald J. Trump before
President Trump's historic run for the White House. Likewise, President
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Trump was a fan of his, so for President Reagan's plaque,
Trump made it about him the amazing right. I have
to keep walking, like, I have to see what Donald
Trump thinks about James K. Polk got us into the
Mexican American War, bad deal for America, took Zachary Taylor
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to get us out. I got along with very well
with him, total disaster James K. Polk, Like, I have
to see what this looks like.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Yeah, but you know, yeah, he probably didn't look anything
up as he came to each president. He probably knew
exactly what their accomplishments were or their failures, if the
case in that case, and I don't know that you
could find too many people in this country that can
tell you something about every president.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
President Grant RFK Junior would have liked to have a
word with him, big fat guy, big tubby fat guy,
big bathtub RFK Junior. If he'd been president when RFK
Junior was Secretary of the Health Department, Grant would have
weighed in and has spelt one hundred and ninety two
pounds full of muscle. That guy. He would have been great.
(13:59):
Too many preservatives and the food back then, That's what ar,
I have to read this stuff all right. That's the
end of the Trump date today, Trumpty dance. That wasn't
really a Trump date, that was just two stories about
President Trump usually takes at least three. I talked about
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this Monday, I guess in responding to the murder of
Rob and Michelle Reiner by their son. And we were
talking about this very early on Monday morning, and Jim
Rose started to say something like, well, you know, celebrity culture,
and I said, celebrity culture puts a spotlight on it.
(14:44):
But there are lots of families out there who are
not celebrities who have looked at the story about Rob
Reiner and his wife allegedly murdered by their son. I
will tell you that they haven't and police are not
looking for anybody else. But it's allegedly murdered by their son.
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And there are families across America looking at that situation
and having to ask themselves the question, is there someone
in my life, in my house, in my family who
would murder me? This is the reality for some families.
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There aren't resources to deal with it. And I did
hear from a member of KFAB Nation after talking about
that who is right here in the Omaha metro and
is living that very reality. I'll spare any more details,
but this is a very, very sad thing. One of
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the people out there who's grieving the passing of her
friend is Meg Ryan. Meg Ryan had been in some
movies before when Harry met Sally, but I I don't
know that you could look at any of them and
say Meg Ryan was a star before when Harry met Sally.
I remember her in Top Gun Goose's Wife, and there
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was the heck was that movie called have a Fun Movie?
John Candy, Eugene Levy, Meg Ryan, and they were somehow
like fighting crime or something. Hmm, can't remember the name.
But it'll come to me. At three o'clock in the morning.
I'll call into the radio station and tell you or
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you know, we could look it up, but why do that.
I'll wait for people to email me. But Meg Ryan
became a star in Rob Ryaner's film When Harry Met Sally,
and she's among those who paid tribute to her friend.
Showed a picture of them dancing together, said we'll miss
this man. Thanking them Rob and his wife for the
way that you believe in true love and fairy tales
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and in laughter, and for their faith in the best
in people and profound love of our country. Certainly there'll
be people who would put an asterisk on that based
on politics and politics and politics and all the rest
of this stuff. But she said that hopefully some good
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will come from this and some awareness raised. That's what
I'm talking about, people who have to stop ignoring. I
might have a kid or you know whoever, somewhere in
your family circle. I might have a kid who is
and I've been ignoring this for a long time, or
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I've been trying this and trying that, and God bless
you for trying, because Lord knows, there aren't a lot
of readily available or certainly affordable resources to deal with
stuff like this. But there are people coming to the
realization there should be. I got a kid, doesn't matter
how old, who I think, could possibly shoot up the house,
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the neighborhood, the local school, whatever. What am I gonna
do about it? The answer can't be nothing, because we
too often, whether it's shootings, whether it's what happened to
the winers, the answer can't be nothing. And when Meg
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Ryan says, hopefully some awareness will be raised about mental
health struggles, addiction struggles. Trying to deal with mental health
struggles through drug and alcohol not gonna work. This is
when people and the people who most need to look
at that situation and try and diagnose it and find
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the help to do something about it probably won't. So
then the awareness is, well, what are what's everyone else
gonna do to try and protect ourselves from that situation. Look,
I don't have a great answer. I don't have an
easy answer. I just hope that the people who need
to try and find those answers are doing so. It's
just sad that it's such a tragic situation that led
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to that. Zonker's custom woulds inbox Scott at kfab dot com.
Thank you to kfab Nation for hollering the name of
that movie we're talking about. Meg Ryan. She was in
a movie with John Candy and Eugene Levy called Armed
and Dangerous.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Oh yeah, I never saw it.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
I saw it when I was a kid. I thought
it was funny when I was a kid. I wonder
if it's one of those movies I thought it was
great when I was a kid, and I watched it
as adult and go boy, I was just entertained just
to be watching TV. You know that sometimes happens which
brings me to something else I watched when I was
a kid, and I wonder how many of you did
as well. Because it's star has passed away, Lucy, tell
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me when you know what show this is.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
In the year. In nineteen eighty seven, NASA launched the
last of America's deep space pros. Aboard this compact starship alone,
astronaut William Buck Rodgers was to experience cosmic forses beyond
all comprehension. In a freak mishap, his life support systems
were frozen.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
But.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Already gave you the name of the guys.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Planned projectory into an orbit some thousand times more vast.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
And an incident that defies comprehension. Buck Rogers in the
twenty fifth Century, starring guild Gerard, the honky sci fi
hero William buck Rogers.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Was he still hot?
Speaker 1 (20:41):
He was hot and Buck Rogers, I know that, But
right now I just got to the part in the
intro where it showed his female co star Aaron Gray.
He got guild Gerard, got to work with and have
as his on screen romantic interest Aaron Gray, and then
in real life married Connie Seleeka.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Okay, that's where I was getting confused.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Oh my gosh, Aaron Gray and Connie
Selka be still my my. I mean I was like
only in preschool or kindergarten, but there was something within
me that knew there's something special about these ladies. They're
not like the other moms.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
I see.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Yeah. At guilt, Gerard then turned to drugs, alcohol and
compulsive overeating. He once hit three hundred and fifty pounds.
Really didn't see him then, didn't know that, but he
returned to the Buck Rogers universe as a slim down
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version of Buck in something called Buck Rogers Begins, an
internet video series. This would have been about fifteen years ago.
Gilt Gerard passed at the age eighty two in hospice
as a result of cancer, and he knew that his
time was coming, so he wrote a message that was
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posted by his wife Janet on his Facebook page posthumously
as a message from Gil Gerard aka Buck Rogers that said,
don't waste your time on anything that doesn't thrill you
or bring you love. I gotta go see. Yeah, I
saw that coming. In fact, he said in there when
Scott Vorhees on kfab Omaha reads this on the radio,
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Lucy Chapman will make some snide comment like, well, I'm
out of here. Wow. He was a prophet and he
said see you somewhere in the cosmos. Buck Rogers in
the twenty fifth century. One of my earliest memories as
a kid was wanting to be Buck Rogers. I thought
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that Buck Rogers was about the coolest thing I've ever seen.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
You ended up here.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
In the yeah, in the twenty in the I'm in
the twenty first century, so I'm I'm working on it. Well,
I started here in Omaha.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
You're You're like a Buck Rogers in what you do
and making everybody smile and setting a course, blazing a trail.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Look at you trying to suck up now. Now, I'd
give anything just to be Duck Dodgers, Duck the Dodgers, Dodgers,
fantastic stuff.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Richard Hatch was still way cuter.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Richard Hatch, the guy from Survivor.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
No, from Battlestar Galactica.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Oh was that the name of the guy in Battlestar. Yeah, yeah,
I watched Buck Rogers, Battlestar Galactica, Morgan Mindy and then
and of course Duke's a hazard. And then the greatest
American hero came on TV and suddenly I was like,
never mind, forget everything. I just said, this is now
the greatest show I've ever seen. So I I was
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a kid, I kind of went from show to show.
But the biggest thing about watching TV in the late
seventies and early eighties was those shows were fantastic, great
TV shows. But if your friends were playing outside, you
would never say, hang on, guys, I gotta go inside
and watch Dukes of Hazzard. Now you're just like, well,
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guess I'm missing this week. I'm guessing that probably those
Duke boys led the cops in a car chase and
probably got away. I don't think this is probably the
episode of Roscoe Pee Coltrane shoots them dead. So I'll
just miss it and play outside with my friends. That
was our childhood. Ah jen X. Never been a better
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generation or a better time to be alive, And I
hope every generation can say that. Something occurred to me
as I was watching the news reports this week out
of Providence, they kept showing us the initial picture of
a suspect. The police wanted to talk to a p
of interest in the shooting at Brown University, and it
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was that that guy who'd I don't know if he
was three hundred and fifty pounds, he was not a
skinny guy. He's kind of walking across the street seemingly
without a care in the world, and police think maybe
that was the guy that had just murdered people at
Brown University and that and every time I saw that
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guy just walking around like no big deal, it's just
a Saturday be ba doo ba doo, and he's walking
along like nothing in the world's ever happened. And maybe
for him it wasn't, but or maybe he's a murderer.
I don't know. Every time I saw that that video,
I would get two very distinct separate emotions. One anger,
if that's the guy watching that, that sack of of
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sauntering sack of crap just walk across the street, just
fatting his way across the street, made me very mad.
The other thing was it was always accompanied by a
plea from the FBI or local authorities or whoever, saying,
if you have any idea who this guy is, there's
not much to go off on. It's the guy wearing
a mask. You can't see his face. You'd have to
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basically look at his body type in the way he walks,
and then call the police if you think you know
anyone who might be a murderer who does that. And
I'm looking at that going I know sixteen guys who
look and walk like.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
That, and probably a couple of ladies, right, and oh.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
There are no ladies. But I don't live in Providence,
but there are people who live in Providence think the
same thing. They're looking at that going mike, and so
they're calling the police saying, I don't think he did it,
but I can't help but think that that guy there
on the screen, you know, fat guy sauntering kind of
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looks like this guy. And now you're watching out your
window because it's the guy that lives across the street
and three doors down. And then here come the police
over to have a talk with him, and they're out
there talking to him in the lawn and he sees
you looking through the windows. And then later he comes
over and says, hey, just letting you know the police
cleared me of any wrongdoing, but I can't help. But wonder,
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did you see a fat guy waddling across the street
and think that I'm a murderer. How many times? How
many times did that conversation happen in and around Providence,
Rhode Island.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
There's nothing about this story that is funny, and you're
wrecking that.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
I'm not laughing now. I'm telling you this is the
reality of the situation and kind of where my brain goes.
But that was the secondary thought to number one being mad.
So now they're also looking for another guy, and this
is a guy who is he? I guess at one
point some surveillance video show saw him see the first
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guy we're talking about and run the other direction. But
before that, he's just kind of walking around campus. And
they're like, we don't know if he's just walking around campus,
if he's casing the joint, if he has anything to
do with this, Either way, we want to talk to him. Now.
The reality of that situation is how many people are
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just kind of walking around anywhere, college, campus, anywhere. They're
just aimlessly walking around. I know that we all watch
TV and think, I don't know why they can't catch
this guy in an hour. That's how it works on TV.
In real life, it takes a lot more time. I
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believe they'll find the person responsible, at least we all
certainly hope. So there's someone out there wondering right now,
are the police about to come busting through that door
and get me for what I did? And why in
the world did that person do it? So many questions.
Hopefully we get some answers. Hopefully those families get some
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level of being able to answer some of those questions,
none of them to their satisfaction.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Scott Voyes, Mornings nine to eleven, Our News Radio eleven
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Scott Vordes. The very first thing the President Trump said last.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Night, good evening American.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
There you go, good evening American, not America. He's talking
specifically to you, if you're American, good evening American. I
don't know if that's how he intended to come off,
or maybe in early Flubb teleprompter. He seemed to actually
be reading or at least referring to a teleprompter during
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the speech last night and started off full of it
and vinegar.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Eleven months ago, I inherited a mess, and I'm fixing it.
When I took office, inflation was the worst in forty
eight years, and some would say in the history of
our country, which caused prices to be higher than ever before,
making life unaffordable for millions and millions of.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Americans, millions and millions of Americans. I think the President
knew that as this morning the inflation report would be released,
that he knew it was going to be good, and
it is. Core inflation is at two point six percent.
It's the lowest it's been since March of twenty twenty one.
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President Biden took office in January of twenty twenty one.
Inflation was often up at least eight percent. That's core
inflation that doesn't usually impact things like food, or it
doesn't include things like food and gas. Because you know
your monthly budget that doesn't include things like food and gas.
Right I bet if you include food and gas that
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the inflation rate would be as lower, maybe even lower,
based on gas prices. Right now. Then the President started
talking about, you know who is really benefiting here from
this economy?
Speaker 2 (01:44):
After years of record setting falling incomes, our policies are
boosting take home pay at a historic pace. Under Biden,
real wages plummeted by three thousand dollars. Under Trump, the
typical factory worker has seen a wage in increase of
one thousand, three hundred dollars. For construction workers, it's one thousand,
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eight hundred dollars. For miners, we're bringing back clean, beautiful
coal is three thousand, three hundred dollars. And for the
first time in years, wages are rising much faster than inflation.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
So people hear that. Some people hear that and they say, well,
what do I care about those I don't work those jobs.
I'm too good to go and be a construction worker
or a miner or something like that. I wouldn't mind
being a miner. I mean, with my skin issues, very
(02:38):
very fair skin ravaged by skin cancer, pre cancer and
all the rest of this stuff. I think my dermatologist
and a lot of other people would love to shove
me down into a cave.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
And it's so much cleaner than it used to be.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
I imagine it is.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
I'm going to go be a minor. They're up three
thousand dollars. I know, I'm going.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Yeah, I don't know up from what, but I know
that a lot of these jobs are up from nothing.
As President Biden was working to get rid of these jobs,
President Obama said these jobs would never be coming back
to America and it was useless to even suggest that
anyone would be able to do such a job, and
energy and mining things like that. So people though, point
(03:20):
and say, well, these blue collar jobs, and you know,
the overall job picture, Yeah, the overall job picture is
a little in a bit of flux this year, and
as oftentimes doesn't look real good. And there's a reason
for that because Elon Musk and some kid named big
Nuts or whatever, you know, they went in there and
doged all of these government jobs out. These are taxpayer
(03:44):
funded government jobs. A lot of these jobs were people
who have a mid level job who they talk to
the people underneath them in that occupation tree and say,
all right, give me your TPS reports, and then they
collect the reports and then they just hand them to
someone right above the corporate ladder and this is not
corporate government ladder above them. And then someone came in here,
(04:07):
like Elon Musk, and said it wouldn't it be more
prudent for the people doing the work to then hand
it to directly to that person. What do they need
you for? Well, I'm a people person. I gotta work
with the people. By the way, dang all, this is
office space. But there you go your nineties movie reference
for the segment of the radio program. But that's what
(04:29):
a lot of these jobs. There's a lot of that
happened in the corporate world too, But these were taxpayer
funded jobs, oftentimes for people who got one of these
cushy gigs because of some sort of political influence or hey,
I donated a bunch of money to your campaign. My
nephew needs a gig. Oh, we'll put you in charge
of looking out the windows. And there you go, here's
a government salary. No one's ever going to ask questions
(04:51):
about what it is that you say that you do
here again office space, and they doged all those jobs out.
A lot of government jobs gone. Private sector jobs are up,
including in those industries that President Trump was just talking about, mining, construction,
blue collar work. This is from the President of the
United States, who his accusers will say all he cares
(05:14):
about is Wall Street, fat cat billionaire friends, and he
doesn't care about the little guy. He spent last night
talking about the little guy. As far as Wall Street goes,
they like the un the inflation numbers, the Dow, Nasdaq
s and p all up right now by a lot.
This is so far good morning on Wall Street. I
don't know what happens at the end of the day.
(05:35):
If I did, I'd be one of these guys who'd
make a lot of money on Wall Street. But the
biggest thing here from the President's speech last night, which
I was really surprised by only about eighteen minutes. I
thought it might go an hour or two. Wasn't really
sure what to do with the programming. By the way,
(05:56):
sorry for the few minutes of dead air on our
radio station last night. Lucy, did you know that Glenn
Beck no longer covers his his local breaks. No see
in radio syndication like Glenn Beck goes to break or
claim Buck go to break, and when they do, we
play our wonderful words from our local sponsors here as
well as some nationwide partners. And then if you were
(06:19):
listening to that satellite feed, you would hear some of
their promos and PSAs, maybe some commercials and all that.
But Glenn didn't do that anymore. I didn't know that.
So when I went back to the Glenn Back Show,
it was not there for a few minutes. Sorry America.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Anyway, it's called communication.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Well, I no one communicated, I know, no one communicated
with you. I know, yes, thanks a lot. STU presidents
spent eighteen minutes then basically delivering a message that says,
I know that the media and the consumer confidence in
disease will tell you that the economy is not all
(07:00):
that great, but you're wrong. It is. It's a great economy,
probably the greatest economy that ever economied. Well, there is
also a reason why the economy isn't so great, according
to the Consumer Confidence Index, and that is because half
(07:20):
of the country looks at that man in the Oval office.
They had horrible me and I admit sometimes rough around
the edges is the nicest thing you can say when
he makes ugly comments like he did about Rob Reiner. Yeah,
is he perfect? Oh oh no, no no.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
But.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
You've got at least half the people in the country
who when Donald J. Trump tells you it's Thursday, they
say he's a liar and a war criminal. He's an
illegitimate not my president, and he he's a liar and Epstein.
So Trump says, it's Thursday, Nope, it's Friday Eve. Trump
says the economy is good. Nope. Even though these people
(08:09):
are making more money, their investments are doing very well.
There are new jobs for their kids to go into.
If you make these kids go to work, we are
eliminating crime from our streets from people who have no
business being here. And you've got people here just arms
(08:31):
folded over their chest, going no, how do you feel
the economy is well? That depends on who you voted
for in November twenty twenty four, doesn't it you voted
for Trump? Probably inclined is saying I think the economy
is pretty good, could be a little better. Obviously, my
local taxes could be better. I have some questions about this,
but overall, I think the economy is doing all right.
If you didn't vote for Trump, you're looking at the
(08:52):
exact same numbers, the exact same life, and you're saying,
this is the worst economy ever and it's Donald Trump's fault.
So it doesn't. I mean, I appreciate the effort by
the President to say, this economy is doing great. You
gotta believe it. It's gonna be fantastic. We're delivering these
(09:14):
warrior checks to members of the United States military, one thousand,
seven hundred and seventy six dollars bonus as we kick
off this year. Here where we got from seventeen seventy six.
This is a two hundred and fifty year I don't
know what we call it, bi centennial and a half
(09:35):
year of twenty twenty six, two hundred and fiftieth anniversary
of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. So in
an homage to seventeen seventy six, he's sending seventeen seventy
six checks one thousand, seven hundred and seventy six dollars
warrior dividends to one point four five million military members
(09:58):
You're welcome America. Now something else the president did. We
heard the other day that he changed up some of
the well, one of the official presidential portraits in the
Walk of Fame colonnade at the White House. You'd walk
through and you'd see all the portraits of all the
(10:19):
presidents up there. Well, he took Biden's off the wall
and replaced it with a picture of an auto pin. Yes,
this is something a third grader does. Is it demeaning?
It is? Is it below the office of the Presidency, Yes,
it is. Is it funny? Yes, yes it is.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
I must be in third grade.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Yeah. Would President Reagan have done something like this, No,
he would not. I'm just stating facts right now. These
are just facts. So he's now added something else to
the hall. He has added plaques complete with stuff that
(11:05):
he's written about each of the presidents. And it's written
like with random capital letters and exclamation points. It's it's
the same stuff on his social media. It's it's the same.
You think I'm making this up.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
This is the Presidential Walk of Fame. We now featuring
bronze plaques beneath the portraits of his predecessors that read
like campaign brought sides to historical notes. So Joe Biden
is a picture of an auto pen, the worst president
in America history, the most corrupt election we've ever seen,
(11:42):
and blames him for the Afghanistan withdrawal, to Russia's invasion
of Ukraine and Hamas's attack on Israel. He said that
Biden is in severe mental decline and slammed is used
to the autopin this is what it says in the
White House colonnade in the Presidential walk of President Obama,
one of the most divisive political figures in American history.
(12:06):
He spied on President Trump's twenty sixteen campaign and orchestrated
the Russia Russia Russia hoax. Let's see here. There's also
references to Hillary Clinton. She wasn't the president, and I
guess it just goes I have to see this. I
(12:29):
have to see all of this just because, like I
know what he thinks about the recent presidents back through Clinton,
and he probably even share some of his thoughts on H. W. Bush.
He was a fan of President Reagan, because it says
he was a fan of President Donald J. Trump before
President Trump's historic run for the White House. Likewise, President
(12:52):
Trump was a fan of his, so for President Reagan's plaque,
Trump made it about him the amazing right. I have
to keep walking, like, I have to see what Donald
Trump thinks about James K. Polk got us into the
Mexican American War, bad deal for America, took Zachary Taylor
(13:12):
to get us out. I got along with very well
with him, total disaster James K. Polk, Like, I have
to see what this looks like.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Yeah, but you know, yeah, he probably didn't look anything
up as he came to each president. He probably knew
exactly what their accomplishments were or their failures, if the
case in that case, and I don't know that you
could find too many people in this country that can
tell you something about every president.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
President Grant RFK Junior would have liked to have a
word with him, big fat guy, big tubby fat guy,
big bathtub RFK Junior. If he'd been president when RFK
Junior was Secretary of the Health Department, Grant would have
weighed in and has spelt one hundred and ninety two
pounds full of muscle. That guy. He would have been great.
(13:59):
Too many preservatives and the food back then, That's what ar,
I have to read this stuff all right. That's the
end of the Trump date today, Trumpty dance. That wasn't
really a Trump date, that was just two stories about
President Trump usually takes at least three. I talked about
(14:20):
this Monday, I guess in responding to the murder of
Rob and Michelle Reiner by their son. And we were
talking about this very early on Monday morning, and Jim
Rose started to say something like, well, you know, celebrity culture,
and I said, celebrity culture puts a spotlight on it.
(14:44):
But there are lots of families out there who are
not celebrities who have looked at the story about Rob
Reiner and his wife allegedly murdered by their son. I
will tell you that they haven't and police are not
looking for anybody else. But it's allegedly murdered by their son.
(15:05):
And there are families across America looking at that situation
and having to ask themselves the question, is there someone
in my life, in my house, in my family who
would murder me? This is the reality for some families.
(15:29):
There aren't resources to deal with it. And I did
hear from a member of KFAB Nation after talking about
that who is right here in the Omaha metro and
is living that very reality. I'll spare any more details,
but this is a very, very sad thing. One of
(15:49):
the people out there who's grieving the passing of her
friend is Meg Ryan. Meg Ryan had been in some
movies before when Harry met Sally, but I I don't
know that you could look at any of them and
say Meg Ryan was a star before when Harry met Sally.
I remember her in Top Gun Goose's Wife, and there
(16:11):
was the heck was that movie called have a Fun Movie?
John Candy, Eugene Levy, Meg Ryan, and they were somehow
like fighting crime or something. Hmm, can't remember the name.
But it'll come to me. At three o'clock in the morning.
I'll call into the radio station and tell you or
(16:33):
you know, we could look it up, but why do that.
I'll wait for people to email me. But Meg Ryan
became a star in Rob Ryaner's film When Harry Met Sally,
and she's among those who paid tribute to her friend.
Showed a picture of them dancing together, said we'll miss
this man. Thanking them Rob and his wife for the
way that you believe in true love and fairy tales
(16:55):
and in laughter, and for their faith in the best
in people and profound love of our country. Certainly there'll
be people who would put an asterisk on that based
on politics and politics and politics and all the rest
of this stuff. But she said that hopefully some good
(17:15):
will come from this and some awareness raised. That's what
I'm talking about, people who have to stop ignoring. I
might have a kid or you know whoever, somewhere in
your family circle. I might have a kid who is
and I've been ignoring this for a long time, or
(17:37):
I've been trying this and trying that, and God bless
you for trying, because Lord knows, there aren't a lot
of readily available or certainly affordable resources to deal with
stuff like this. But there are people coming to the
realization there should be. I got a kid, doesn't matter
how old, who I think, could possibly shoot up the house,
(18:02):
the neighborhood, the local school, whatever. What am I gonna
do about it? The answer can't be nothing, because we
too often, whether it's shootings, whether it's what happened to
the winers, the answer can't be nothing. And when Meg
(18:23):
Ryan says, hopefully some awareness will be raised about mental
health struggles, addiction struggles. Trying to deal with mental health
struggles through drug and alcohol not gonna work. This is
when people and the people who most need to look
at that situation and try and diagnose it and find
(18:45):
the help to do something about it probably won't. So
then the awareness is, well, what are what's everyone else
gonna do to try and protect ourselves from that situation. Look,
I don't have a great answer. I don't have an
easy answer. I just hope that the people who need
to try and find those answers are doing so. It's
just sad that it's such a tragic situation that led
(19:07):
to that. Zonker's custom woulds inbox Scott at kfab dot com.
Thank you to kfab Nation for hollering the name of
that movie we're talking about. Meg Ryan. She was in
a movie with John Candy and Eugene Levy called Armed
and Dangerous.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Oh yeah, I never saw it.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
I saw it when I was a kid. I thought
it was funny when I was a kid. I wonder
if it's one of those movies I thought it was
great when I was a kid, and I watched it
as adult and go boy, I was just entertained just
to be watching TV. You know that sometimes happens which
brings me to something else I watched when I was
a kid, and I wonder how many of you did
as well. Because it's star has passed away, Lucy, tell
(19:46):
me when you know what show this is.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
In the year. In nineteen eighty seven, NASA launched the
last of America's deep space pros. Aboard this compact starship alone,
astronaut William Buck Rodgers was to experience cosmic forses beyond
all comprehension. In a freak mishap, his life support systems
were frozen.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
But.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Already gave you the name of the guys.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Planned projectory into an orbit some thousand times more vast.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
And an incident that defies comprehension. Buck Rogers in the
twenty fifth Century, starring guild Gerard, the honky sci fi
hero William buck Rogers.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Was he still hot?
Speaker 1 (20:41):
He was hot and Buck Rogers, I know that, But
right now I just got to the part in the
intro where it showed his female co star Aaron Gray.
He got guild Gerard, got to work with and have
as his on screen romantic interest Aaron Gray, and then
in real life married Connie Seleeka.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Okay, that's where I was getting confused.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Oh my gosh, Aaron Gray and Connie
Selka be still my my. I mean I was like
only in preschool or kindergarten, but there was something within
me that knew there's something special about these ladies. They're
not like the other moms.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
I see.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Yeah. At guilt, Gerard then turned to drugs, alcohol and
compulsive overeating. He once hit three hundred and fifty pounds.
Really didn't see him then, didn't know that, but he
returned to the Buck Rogers universe as a slim down
(21:48):
version of Buck in something called Buck Rogers Begins, an
internet video series. This would have been about fifteen years ago.
Gilt Gerard passed at the age eighty two in hospice
as a result of cancer, and he knew that his
time was coming, so he wrote a message that was
(22:11):
posted by his wife Janet on his Facebook page posthumously
as a message from Gil Gerard aka Buck Rogers that said,
don't waste your time on anything that doesn't thrill you
or bring you love. I gotta go see. Yeah, I
saw that coming. In fact, he said in there when
Scott Vorhees on kfab Omaha reads this on the radio,
(22:33):
Lucy Chapman will make some snide comment like, well, I'm
out of here. Wow. He was a prophet and he
said see you somewhere in the cosmos. Buck Rogers in
the twenty fifth century. One of my earliest memories as
a kid was wanting to be Buck Rogers. I thought
(22:56):
that Buck Rogers was about the coolest thing I've ever seen.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
You ended up here.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
In the yeah, in the twenty in the I'm in
the twenty first century, so I'm I'm working on it. Well,
I started here in Omaha.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
You're You're like a Buck Rogers in what you do
and making everybody smile and setting a course, blazing a trail.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Look at you trying to suck up now. Now, I'd
give anything just to be Duck Dodgers, Duck the Dodgers, Dodgers,
fantastic stuff.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Richard Hatch was still way cuter.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Richard Hatch, the guy from Survivor.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
No, from Battlestar Galactica.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Oh was that the name of the guy in Battlestar. Yeah, yeah,
I watched Buck Rogers, Battlestar Galactica, Morgan Mindy and then
and of course Duke's a hazard. And then the greatest
American hero came on TV and suddenly I was like,
never mind, forget everything. I just said, this is now
the greatest show I've ever seen. So I I was
(24:01):
a kid, I kind of went from show to show.
But the biggest thing about watching TV in the late
seventies and early eighties was those shows were fantastic, great
TV shows. But if your friends were playing outside, you
would never say, hang on, guys, I gotta go inside
and watch Dukes of Hazzard. Now you're just like, well,
(24:21):
guess I'm missing this week. I'm guessing that probably those
Duke boys led the cops in a car chase and
probably got away. I don't think this is probably the
episode of Roscoe Pee Coltrane shoots them dead. So I'll
just miss it and play outside with my friends. That
was our childhood. Ah jen X. Never been a better
(24:42):
generation or a better time to be alive, And I
hope every generation can say that. Something occurred to me
as I was watching the news reports this week out
of Providence, they kept showing us the initial picture of
a suspect. The police wanted to talk to a p
of interest in the shooting at Brown University, and it
(25:03):
was that that guy who'd I don't know if he
was three hundred and fifty pounds, he was not a
skinny guy. He's kind of walking across the street seemingly
without a care in the world, and police think maybe
that was the guy that had just murdered people at
Brown University and that and every time I saw that
(25:23):
guy just walking around like no big deal, it's just
a Saturday be ba doo ba doo, and he's walking
along like nothing in the world's ever happened. And maybe
for him it wasn't, but or maybe he's a murderer.
I don't know. Every time I saw that that video,
I would get two very distinct separate emotions. One anger,
if that's the guy watching that, that sack of of
(25:49):
sauntering sack of crap just walk across the street, just
fatting his way across the street, made me very mad.
The other thing was it was always accompanied by a
plea from the FBI or local authorities or whoever, saying,
if you have any idea who this guy is, there's
not much to go off on. It's the guy wearing
a mask. You can't see his face. You'd have to
(26:11):
basically look at his body type in the way he walks,
and then call the police if you think you know
anyone who might be a murderer who does that. And
I'm looking at that going I know sixteen guys who
look and walk like.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
That, and probably a couple of ladies, right, and oh.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
There are no ladies. But I don't live in Providence,
but there are people who live in Providence think the
same thing. They're looking at that going mike, and so
they're calling the police saying, I don't think he did it,
but I can't help but think that that guy there
on the screen, you know, fat guy sauntering kind of
(26:49):
looks like this guy. And now you're watching out your
window because it's the guy that lives across the street
and three doors down. And then here come the police
over to have a talk with him, and they're out
there talking to him in the lawn and he sees
you looking through the windows. And then later he comes
over and says, hey, just letting you know the police
cleared me of any wrongdoing, but I can't help. But wonder,
(27:12):
did you see a fat guy waddling across the street
and think that I'm a murderer. How many times? How
many times did that conversation happen in and around Providence,
Rhode Island.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
There's nothing about this story that is funny, and you're
wrecking that.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
I'm not laughing now. I'm telling you this is the
reality of the situation and kind of where my brain goes.
But that was the secondary thought to number one being mad.
So now they're also looking for another guy, and this
is a guy who is he? I guess at one
point some surveillance video show saw him see the first
(28:01):
guy we're talking about and run the other direction. But
before that, he's just kind of walking around campus. And
they're like, we don't know if he's just walking around campus,
if he's casing the joint, if he has anything to
do with this, Either way, we want to talk to him. Now.
The reality of that situation is how many people are
(28:25):
just kind of walking around anywhere, college, campus, anywhere. They're
just aimlessly walking around. I know that we all watch
TV and think, I don't know why they can't catch
this guy in an hour. That's how it works on TV.
In real life, it takes a lot more time. I
(28:47):
believe they'll find the person responsible, at least we all
certainly hope. So there's someone out there wondering right now,
are the police about to come busting through that door
and get me for what I did? And why in
the world did that person do it? So many questions.
Hopefully we get some answers. Hopefully those families get some
(29:09):
level of being able to answer some of those questions,
none of them to their satisfaction.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
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