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Scott Vordez. There's a lot oftalk around the nation's first black woman vice
president, not our current vice president, Kamala Harris, but rather Joe Biden.
By the way, I'm proud tobe, as I said, the
first vice president, first black woman. Yeah, he is proud to be

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the first black woman vice president inour nation's history. Do you have anyone
in your family who, since theywere much much younger, made a series
of verbal gaffes and are the kindof person who would walk into a room

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and suddenly look around and go,what am I doing here? Maybe that's
you, And you wonder how amI going to know when senility sets in
here and you're looking at this person, going this person for years, for
days, this person's made comments likethis, How are we gonna know when
it's galloping sinility to the point wherewe need to sit down and say,

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I don't know if you should driveor be president anymore. Because Senator Joe
Biden had a lifetime of things likethis when he was comparatively a much younger
man, and a lot of peopleare like, oh, come on,
it's just Joe be and Joe youknow, sometimes he gets some stuff wrong,

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But we know where his heart is, and when you know what he
does as president, do we Anumber of people are saying, all right,
we don't believe that Joe Biden isin charge anymore as the president of
the United States, and if heis, we have serious concerns as to
whether he should be. For example, in the George Stepanopolis interview on ABC

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News over this weekend, George asked, the question is on a lot of
Americans minds related to well, ifthis is how you deal with a debate
performance, and you say, well, I had jet lag. I was
in Europe. That was a weekand a half ago. What happens when

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you go to Europe on day oneor day two or day three of these
summit meetings where you're talking with otherworld leaders during this time when one might
reasonably expect you could be suffering fromjet lag. He didn't exactly ask him
that. I wish he would have, but pressed back on this jetlag excuse.

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You say you were exhausted, andI know you've said that before as
well, but you came and youdid have a tough mind. But you
came home from Europe about eleven ortwelve days before the debate spent six days
in camp David, why wasn't thatenough rest time, enough recovery time?
Because I was sick. I wasfeeling terrible. Matter of fact, the
docs with me, I asked thatthey did a COVID test. But you're

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trying to figure out what's wrong.You did a test to see whether or
not I had some infection, youknow, a lirus. I didn't just
set a really bad cold, allright, So all right, it was
jet lag is a really bad cold. It There are a lot of people
that say, I don't know ifhe's in charge. Who are the unelected

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people right now who are in chargeof this country? And it's stuff like
this that has a number of highprofile I don't know about a high profile.
We got a number of Democrats electedrepresentative five lawmakers have publicly called for
the president and the standard bearer intheir party to step down from I don't

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know if they're as if all ofthem are saying step down from the presidency,
or of course, fulfill your yourterm in office here, but step
down from running for re election,which would probably be a little easier for
them to hammer out here than tohave him step down from the presidency.

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If they don't want Kamala Harris tobe running for election here as president of
the United States. I wouldn't sayall of these guys are high profile.
Many of them I've never heard of. Lloyd Doggett, Seth Moulten, Raoul

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Grijalva, Angie Craig, and MikeQuigley. He's from down under Quigley Dunton.
These guys have publicly said this presidentneeds to know like, all right,
the charade is over, the jigis up, it's time for the

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president to bow out, and he'snot the strongest candidate to beat Trump.
And there's also this report here fromCNN that says there was a leadership call
with a lot of elected Democrats overthe weekend. Yesterday, they had this

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with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries,and a source tells CNN that the call
was quote brutal, unquote. Severaltop House Democrats allegedly told Jeffries that Biden
needs to step down and let someoneelse run against Trump. More than a
handful is how this was described.Says lawmakers called for Biden to step aside,

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and more lawmakers called for Biden tostep aside than those who said he
should stay in the race. Foursenior Democrats spoke out forcefully, Jerry Nadler
and Joseph more or Morelli of NewYork, Mark Takano of California, and
Adam Smith Washington, and even thosewho did not explicitly call on Biden to

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quit express concerns that he's not thestrongest candidate to beat Trump. And then
as the hits just keep on cominghere for the President of the United States,
Axios obtained this instructional material that wasgiven to the president, meticulous details

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and how to enter and exit fundraiserevent spaces, right down to pictures of
here's what the room is going tolook like when you're standing at the podium.
From a man who has spent mostof the last fifty years standing at
a podium. Have you ever stoodat a podium and addressed a crowd.

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Even if you haven't, I betyou can kind of imagine what that looks
like right in front of you asa podium. Maybe there's some notes on
it. And if you look outover the podium, there's people looking back
at you. There's a microphone thereand it's not they had a picture,

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a big picture view from podium.And they also had another one says view
from audience, that's a picture ofyou. They're looking at you standing up
there with a podium in front ofyou. Here's where you walk in,
here's where you walk out. Thishas become a difficulty for the president.

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But it's like big color pictures andbig type, big print, big bold
letters. First you walk to podium, and photos included, you know,
showed a clear pathway to the podium. And this isn't for a NATO's.

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This is like as a friendly fundraiserin Los Angeles where you're hanging out with
George Clooney and stuff. So allof this is going on. I haven't
even gotten to the radio interview stuff. We'll get to that in a moment.
But let me try and come tosome semblance of a point here,

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because I said at the start ofthe program, I need to hurl a
BS card at this. And it'snot against those who look at all of
this. The totality of evidence herethat when people look and say, I
don't know that the president is trulyin charge, I don't know who is
in charge. We have someone whosays, after a week and a half,

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he still suffered from jet lag.What happens when you go over to
the G seven summit and you're talkingwith world leaders and you're on day one,
two or three of your summit,when you just got there, Who
who's in charge? Here? Wehave to have people draw big pictures.
Here's what it looks like when youwalk on the stage. Here's what it

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looks like when you stand at thepodium. Here's where you go on and
go off. And he still managesto jack it up. You're doing an
interview with pre selected questions, andyou're still calling yourself the first black woman
to serve as vice president of theUnited States. This isn't even softball,

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it's t ball. The ball's notmoving. And people look at this and
go who's in charge? And ishe going to step down? They're even,
as I said, these democrats,a lot of elected democrats, saying
that he needs to step away fromthe campaign and maybe the presidency. And

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it is for them that I'm throwingout this BS card. I'm calling BS
on this because we have seen thisbefore, and this is the biggest,
most glowing and glaring evidence of somethingI've cited a number of times over the
last few years and that is,they are lowering expectations even more. Now.

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They've done this a lot leading upto big speeches, leading up to
especially the debates. They want youto think, because there's going to be
another debate, I can't wait.It's got to wait till September. But
there's going to be another debate.I think September tenth is when this next

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one is scheduled. Reserve that nighton your calendar. We will have another
debate viewing party. There will beanother debate between these guys, and the
expect to help Joe Biden will stillbe in this race, and the expectation
will be so oh infinitesimally low thatit can't be measured by current equipment.

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People will say, if he doesn'tcome out there, fall asleep, like
get lost, walk into the podium, fall asleep three times during the debate,
fall down, and they have tohave lifeguards save him from drowning in
a pool of his own drool.Then if he doesn't do those things,

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it will be seen as a majorcomeback. And this is what they're setting
up. They're setting up the comeback. They're lowering the expectation so that when
he comes out and gives a debateperformance that is modestly better than what we
saw a couple of weeks ago.That suddenly is like, oh, hey,

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he was right. He did havea bad night. Must have had
a cold, little bit of jetlag. Haven't you ever had jet lag?
Sometimes it lasts for a while,especially when you're eighty one. But
I tell you what, this guyis a no regular eighty one year old.
He's out there eating ice cream andhe just mopped the floor with Trump.
The media is ready to stand behindthis. The Democrats are ready to

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stand behind this, that debate.The morning of September eleventh, when most
of us are flying flags and thinkingabout what happened, my goodness, twenty
three years ago, the media willignore all of the nine to eleven memorial
events. They'll be on most channels. There'll be no reading of names,
no tolling of bells, no imagesof the Trade Center towers. It will

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just be video after video of thecouple of second clips that they find of
Joe Biden looking and sounding so muchmuch better, and it'll be like,
ah, he's back. No,nothing to worry about here. This guy
is his virile and vigorous. Itell you why, Wiley like a fox.

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This guy and all the Democrats willsay, we were with him from
the start. He is absolutely thebest candidate to beat Trump. And they'll
be this rush ground. And plus, the American attention span is such that,
like by by early September, intwo months from now, people will

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barely remember any of this conversation aboutwhat happened at the last debate and who
was calling for him. They'll justsee the media and these Democrats rallying around
Joe Biden. They'll see the clipsand they'll go, oh, okay,
yeah, he's all right. Hehad a cold, he had a bad
night. We've all had a badnight, all right. So he went

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up to the plate and struck out. But boy did he take a swing
knocked out of the party in thisdebate last night. He is I'm with
Joe, and everyone will say so. And this is the lowest the expectations
can possibly get. They're going toset it up so low that if he

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comes out there and remains conscious,conscious for most of the debate, that
everyone will agree it is not onlythe best performance that he's ever shown in
a debate, but it'll be thegreatest performance any person has ever had in
a debate in the history of ever. They have lowered expectations with this candidate

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and this president so many times.This is exactly what they're setting up this
time. In the meantime, thebad month, now bad summer for the
president of the United States continues,and someone that they enlisted to assist him,
who was a willing participant in thisis now out of a job.

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I'll explain next. The bad summerfor President Biden continues here. And I
don't know if you saw the GeorgeStephanopolis interview, but it didn't do much
to quell people in saying, ohno, this was this big chance to
come out there and show people thathe's the goodest guy for the job.

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Was this a bad episode for thesign of a more serious condition. It's
a bad episode, no indication ofany serious condition. I was exhausted.
I didn't listen to my instincts interms of the parents and the bad nights.
It's a bad night. Well,here's a couple of things here about

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President Biden in the interviews that transpirethat you saw over the weekend. First
of all, I thought Stephanip dida good enough job in the interview.
He asked a lot of pressing questions. I don't know, and well,
I think I can say with almostone hundred percent certitude a couple of things

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that are rather diametrically opposed to oneanother. First, George Stefanopolis, this
is someone who's served in the ClintonWhite House. He is a foot soldier
for the Democratic Party scare is enoughe campaign and only ask pre approved questions.
I don't think that these were allpre approved questions. I think that

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they went to George Stefanopolis knowing thatit would be looked at as an interviewer
who was pushing back a little bit, but also give Joe Biden the chance
to kind of prove that, ohI'm good, don't worry about me.
And that's what we saw. Buteven a lot of people who are Biden
supporters, including his former press secretaryJens She watched that and said it was

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okay, just okay, is howshe described it. That was an interview
that was pre recorded, edited andthen put forth on ABC. And then
the White House changed the transcript ithad put in there where and I'm still
looking for this little clip here theyit had in there that where's the quote

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that Biden said he was the goodestquote I'll feel as long as I gave
it my all and I did thegooddest job as I know I can do.
That's what this is about, unquote, the goodest job that he could.

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And the White House changed the transcript, and what they changed it to
still doesn't make any sense. Theychanged it to good as job. So
the quote that they have is quote, I'll feel as long as I gave
it my all and I did thegood as job as I know I can
do. That's what this is about. Unquote. Well, that's simple.

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They changed it enough for it tomake sense, but didn't change it enough
to make it sound like he didn'thave some some bit of a gaff.
Goodest goodest sounds much worse than goodas even even out of order like that,
I suppose. So I think Stephanopolisdid a goodest, goodest job as

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he could, but I don't thinkthat he asked the pre approved questions.
This was not true of a coupleof radio interviews that the President did,
and those who are making the acknowledgmentare the hosts themselves. There was a
piece that came out from CNN wherehe had on the host of a couple

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of different radio stations, including wurD, rather small radio station in Philadelphia,
and had the hosts on and thiswas on CNN. Asked the host
that it looks like both of youguys asked the exact same questions. The
questions were essentially the same. Didthe Biden campaign give you the questions in

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advance? And both hosts admitted yesthey did. But this host from WURD
her name Ana Lawfel Sanders, shesaid, well, they gave me the
questions, the approved questions, andthen I approved the questions they gave me.

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Where she tried to hang on tosome measure of journalistic integrity because this
is a no no in this job. We don't have people either give us
the questions. And now sometimes they'llsay, like, here's a whole list

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of questions you can ask this guest, but it's never with the condition like
these are the questions you are goingto ask this guest, or they're not
going to come on your radio show, your TV show, you're do an
interview with your newspaper or whatever.It's commonplace for them to give sample questions

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and that's fine. Sometimes you lookat and go, oh, that's actually
a good question, I am goingto ask that, or a lot of
times the questions will give are kindof along the lines of what you're going
to ask anyway, which I thinkthese hosts probably could have gotten by and
said, yeah, I was goingto ask him about his debate performance and
how he's feeling, and what doyou think about the calls for him to

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resign. These aren't unreasonable questions,but the fact that both hosts said that
the that they approved the questions andthe host had to approve the questions they
were going to ask the president asa condition for him coming on their radio
programs, there's no journalistic integrity.You're no longer a journalist at that point,

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or even as Chuck Hagel once calledme, in the entertainment business.
Instead, you're an unpaid staff memberon the Biden for President campaign. And
it was for that reason that thisradio station in Philadelphia just fired the aforementioned
Andrea Lawful Sanders after she admitted,yes, I was given the questions in

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advance and I didn't push back onit. WRD fired her, saying that
agreeing to a pre approved list ofquestions jeopardizes the trust the audience is placed
in them for twenty years to holdelected officials accountable. The statement says,

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this is something we take very seriously. This practice of delegitimizing black voices continues
today. This is a black ownedradio station, says WRD Radio is not
a mouthpiece for the Biden or anyother administration. Now, it's unfortunate that

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this host, who I don't knowwhat her background is. It's unfortunate she
had to fall on the sword.But I am amazed that this radio station
stood up, admitted this and swiftlymoved forward. I wonder if ABC is
going through the same process and talkingwith George Stephanopolis now again. I think
George has enough journalistic integrity that it'syou know, like I put the Democratic

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Party very high on my list ofpriorities having worked in the Clinton White House,
but I put them below my ownpriorities of how I'm viewed my reputation.
And he's been in the game longenough that he would not do this.
But this host got fired. TheZonker's custom was inboxes open for you

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all the time. It's Scott atkfab dot com. John in Fremont leads
this parade of emails in this segmentwhen he says, Scott, I think
it's BS two. Now let meclarify and I'll read the rest of John's
email. Started off the program saying, I think that those especially these elected

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Democrats or major mouthpieces in liberal leaningmedia saying that they believe it's time for
President Joe Biden to either step downfrom the presidency or at least step down
from the campaign for reelection. It'snot going to happen. The Emperor has
no close there's no way he canbeat Trump. That debate performance was disastrous,

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and the red flags are so numerousthat there's more red flags around this
president than flags flying at the UnitedNations. We can't do this anymore.
I think it's BS one, andI asked this last week. I'll re

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ask the question for all of thesepeople who have up until the last almost
two weeks said, oh, no, Joe Biden's the best. He's the
best in twenty twenty. By theway, that was another thing the President
Biden said that was wrong over thelast few days. He said he was

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going to beat Trump again in twentytwenty. It's well what he meant was
in twenty twenty four, like hedid in twenty twenty. Okay, well,
why didn't he say that it's notthat Well wait, know, whatever,
you get going on a roll,sometimes stuff flies out of your mouth.
We've all been there. It seemsto happen a lot with this president.

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But whatever. So all these peoplethat said Joe Biden's the guy,
he's the best candidate in twenty twenty, he's the best president over the last
three and a half years, andnow they're acknowledging the same things that so
many other people have seen related tothis president. And now they're saying,

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well, we have questions. What'sreally different over the last two weeks compared
to the last decade with this man? What really changed? The polling is
that the because it has nothing todo with the behavior, it must be
the polling. It must be thatthe writing on the wall is so glaring

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that they now have these concerns thatthey feel like for their own because they
will absolutely look out for their ownpolitical aspirations more so than this president's.
If they feel like they have todistance themselves like a lot of conservatives did
with Trump to try and win reelectionand forget whatever happens with him, they'll

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do it. And seeing some breakingNews here. I'm reminded of something else
weird that Biden said during the Stephanopolisinterview. We have the breaking news that
a Russian missile has hit a children'shospital in Kiev, the Ukrainian capital.

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We'll get more details on this fromFox News throughout the morning. It's amazing
that that would happen, considering thePresident. Biden, in his ABC News
interview with George Stephanopolis, said thathe shut What did he say, I
shut Putin down? I kept himin check? How did he phrase it?
Where's mike transcript? Let's see here. Quote. I'm the guy that

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shut Putin down. No one thoughtthat can happen. Quote Yeah. The
larger quote is, I'm the guythat put NATO together the future. No
one thought I could expand it.I'm the guy that shut Putin down.
No one thought that could happen.I'm the guy that put together a South

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Pacific Initiative with Aucus. I'm theguy that got fifty nations out not only
in Europe, out of Europe,outside of Europe as well, to help
Ukraine. I'm the guy that shutPutin down. Putin invaded Ukraine in February
of twenty twenty two, a yearinto the Biden presidency, and has continued

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its offensive on Ukraine, so muchso that just a day after this interview
with George Stephanopolis aired where Biden says, I'm the guy that shut Putin down,
Putin apparently just launched a rocket intoa children's hospital in Ukraine. I'd
hate to think what Putin would doif Biden didn't shut him down. All

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right, So all these guys whoare saying, who have been saying Biden's
the best, are now saying,well, we have questions about that.
I would say that you should havehad questions long before this, and that's
partly why I've thrown out the BScard. I don't think they have questions
at all. I think they're collectivelytrying to lower the bar and the expectations

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even more than they already have,knowing and they've had success with this in
the past, that for this nextdebate, which will be much closer to
the election, mail out mail inballots will already be out and they're ready
to go. They know for thenext debate Biden. They don't think they're
hedging their bets. They don't thinkhe could possibly do worse than in the

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last debate. So they're hedging theirbets here and they're lowering expectations even more.
That way, if Biden doesn't comeout and go like right, bicycle
out on the stage, fall downand have to be saved by David Hasselhawk
before he drowns in a pool ofdrool, then they and the media will

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all trumpet. Yep, Biden didhave a bad night back in late June.
Everything's great now, sorry about allthat. Just a minor hurdle,
no big deal, Joe in twentytwenty four, Joelton, Joe is ready
to do another four years of thepresidency. They're lowering the expectations so much,

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and I'm I'm thinking that's where thisis coming from. John agrees.
So Scott, I think it's BStwo. If the Democrats really want Joe
to step down, why didn't theydemand that Merrick Garland released the her audio
tapes that would settle everything. Thisis the conversation that the president had with

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a special counsel, and this isthe special counsel who decided I'm not going
to press charges against Joe Biden inthe classified documents case. He's an elderly
man with a bad memory and peoplewant the audio of what that sounded like.

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Yeah, that's a great point,John, If the Democrats really wanted
and they like, we need moreground swell support in our own party and
maybe in the Biden reelection campaign toprove he's not the guy, let's release
those audio tapes. But they're notsaying that they're fighting. They're circling the

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wagons. All part of me callingbs on those in the Democratic Party calling
on Biden to resign. Now,Ryan says, please don't defecate on Biden.
He's our best chance at a landslidevictory in November. The more you
bring it up, the better chancewe get a more serious contender. Gavin

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Newsom would probably beat Trump. That'sthe assessment from Ryan. Scott emails and
says Pool of Drool would be agreat band name. Thank you, Scott.
Dave emails to your point, Conservativesneed to be careful here. It's

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easy to pounce when blood is inthe water. However, it's peril that
we keep Joe vertical and doped upon whatever drugs he needs to get over
the finish line and eventually be retiredby Trump. Can you imagine the optics
of Joe starting to cry, followedby him passing the baton to whoever is

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willing and able to take it.And by that I mean our just as
confused Vice President. God help us. That is from David Mary says Scott.
I find a comical that Biden andothers can still use the exhausted excuse
for his poor performance. He flieson Air Force one, not economy commercial

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flights. He has a bed tolie in and pills he can take that
help him sleep on his way backto Washington. Plus he had twelve days
to recuperate. Yeah, no pointis President Biden having to stand in a
long line like do you have anythingto declare? Lucy? Have you been

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overseas and had to try and getback into America by justifying your americanness.
I didn't have to justify my americanness. It was Italy. We were coming
back from Italy, and the customsagent was pressing me to see if I
really was from this place, Omaha, Nebraska. Questions like if I came

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to your town of Omaha, whatwould I do there? Really? And
I went into full Chamber of comra. Heath Mellow, the head of the
Chamber of Commerce, would have beenproud. Well, every summer we host
the College Baseball Championships, the CollegeWorld Series. It's a great couple of
weeks of baseball in my hometown ofOmaha, which, by the way,
hosts the best zoo in the world, not in Nebraska, not in America,

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the best zoo in the world.You would love. You be blown
away by how great our zoo is. Plus all the food. The food
is like, okay, fine,we our idea of being, of having
to justify where you're from, arevery different. You and I. I
would have come up with a wholebunch of different stuff than that. What
would you call that stuff? Wastrue? All right, I'm the customs

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agent. If I were to cometo your hometown, Lucy of Omaha,
Nebraska, what would I do there? Well, you would find a lot
of tornadic activity. You would findincredibly high property taxes. You would find
a streetcar. Yeah, that's thewhy you're not ahead of the Chamber of

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Commerce stock by these news radio eleventen k FA. What did you do
for your weekend? Well, Icontributed to the famine on this planet.
I do feel it's my fault andI'm suffering from my gluttony there's a difference

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between eating to sustain yourself, overeating by over indulgence, and doing what
I did over the last several days. I mean, I'm paying for it
right now. It feels like allthe food I ate, which I will
gladly list offer you in a moment, is right here at the top of

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my esophagus. I've spent the lasthour doing this radio show with a horrible
case of heartburn, and I don'thave any roll aids or tombs or insert
brand name here antacid here that Ican use to help me out. So
instead I'm just dealing with it.You know, people think, like Scott,

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your job seems easy. Oh yeah, you've ever done a talk radio
show with a horrible case of heartburn, of horribly self induced heartburn? Yeah?
I didn't think. So tell meabout how job your how hard your
job is? Well, first ofall, drink a big glass of water
because that helps to dilute the acid. We don't have any cups out here,

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and I have to walk all theway. I have to walk all
the way across the hall and upstairsto get cups. So come up with
another reason was something I should do? Here's what I ate on fourth of
July, I was gonna get cheesebird. They had the grill going at oak
Hills Country Club and I was outthere losing a whole lot of money.

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I'm basically I'm a human atm forthe fine fellow golfers, my friends at
oak Hills Country They're like, hey, Scot, you want to play golf
on the fourth? Oh, I'dlove to good. And then they just
start extracting twenty dollars twenty dollars billsfrom me in this case several at a
time. So it was it wasa humbling experience. I'm very beatable right

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now. And then I was goingto get a cheeseburger at the grill.
We had the grill growing outside.That's all money smells good and I have
no money. And then I sawthe piece of paper Independence Day specials,
full rack of ribs? What withthree sides? What? Okay? What

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do you want to your sides?What are my options? Well? You
could do a baked potato, cornon the cob and coleslaw. I was
like, how about corn on thecob, Corn on the cob and corn
on the cop with a full rackof ribs? Great? So, and
then the rest of the boys likethat looks pretty good. So we all
just sat there and ate so manyribs, so good, fall off the

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bone, melt in your mouth,barbecued ribs, and that set the tone
for the weekend. Did that onIndependence Day Friday night, we varied.
I varied from the shoving copious amountsof barbecue down my throat by going to
Maria's in Ralston for the puffy tacos. If you've never been to Maria's in

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Ralston, here's what they do.Now this is gonna sound unappetizing, and
you're wrong that it's not very good. What they do is they take all
the meat, all of it,and cheese and lettuce, and they shove
it in a catcher's mitt and thenthey fry the whole thing and then you

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eat it and I eat. Inmy case, I eat too because I'm
trying to watch my girlish figure.And so that was the big puffy tacos.
They're You're like, you can onlyeat two tacos, dude, if
you haven't, if you don't know, then you'd don't know. Well,
surely they don't leave the lettuce inwhen they fry it. I think it's
all fried. They just take acatcher's make. It's the size of a

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catchers and it's all the meat inthere. And actually, now that I
think about it, I just liedto you. I didn't just eat two
of these monstrous tacos. My wifecouldn't finish hers. So I almost two
and a half of these tacos.The most normal people can only eat one.

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So that was on Friday. OnSaturday, family reunion, my stepmother's
family had a big family reunion,and it was great to see a whole
bunch of people that I've never metand we'll probably never see again, as
you know, like I'm not Imean, I'm in the family, but
in that family tree, we're offsomewhere in the shrubbery, you know,

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by marriage, and so it's uhA. It was a chance to meet
some very nice people, and theycatered in barbecue. So I'm like,
well, what do we got here? Pulled pork burn ends okay, And
so then I just loaded up onthe barbecue on Saturday afternoon, and then

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last night there was a wonderful barbecuefor this tremendous veterans organization called the Better
Back Nine Foundation. It's a blendingof veterans and golf. These are a
few of my favorite things. Andwe had barbecue, so I couldn't not

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go back for fourths on the barbecuelast night. You know what else they
did? They fried like they barbecued. I don't know. They didn't fry
it. They barbecued. They smoked, that's the phrase. They smoked cheesecake.
And we had smoked cheesecake for disat this event last night. So

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I don't wonder why I have heartburn. Right now, I know why I
had heartburn. I'm gonna have tostart hanging out with you and your wife
on the weekends just for the foodalone't just the opposite the whole weekend,
just the opposite of everything you justsaid. I had like a rind of
a raisin and a part of asalary stalk. Yes, are you stalking

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me? No, it was Imissed the barbecue at a party I went
to because I had to leave andit was going too late. I was
only there an hour. Well,you showed up late and left early,
huh. I showed up right ontime because it was a surprise party.
See yeah, yeah, okay,And so I didn't get barbecue there,
and I thought I was going toanother party later of my niece who is

(40:52):
a great cook, and I wasvery excited about that. Turns out that
party started at seven, so therewasn't any dinner. Yeah, get to
eat. Then, when you havea party that starts at kind of a
weird time, you got to wonder, like, all right, the party
is at two o'clock in the afternoon. I don't think I'm getting any food
at this party. They are notbringing in food. You got to eat

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before and after this event. SoI get really excited about breakfast yesterday,
going to a really good place toeat that we've been to before. And
it is that the name of theplace. No, I'm not going to
say the name of the place becauseit was dreadful. Oh no, everything
was cold. The eggs were notdone correctly. So he sent them back,

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big mistake and sent them back.They were not done enough. Yeah,
they were not done enough because hewanted over medium and they came over
easy. So when he got themback, they were just a little crispy
fried. Yeah, all solid char. It char those eggs and it was
just a dress. It says hiseggs aren't done enough. Oh, just

(41:58):
give me about eight minutes well ornot. If you don't know how to
do over medium, don't ask,don't offer to do over medium if you
can't. It's not something everybody knowshow to do. How about you just
get your eggs like a normal person. Over medium is normal. No,
it's not over easy scrambled hack poachthem if you want poach them. We
could have lived with that, andwe did live with all of it anyway,

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but it was everything that was justone I won't go back, and
that's sad. I'm sorry that yourgastro intestinal weekend was not nearly as gut
busting as my own. I don'thave heartburn today. No, you don't
have heartburn. You also don't havea paunch. Oh yeah, I'm calling
myself fat today. That's a goodpizza yesterday. That kind of made it

(42:44):
better. I ate so much foodthat if I put a wig on people
saying how far along are you?Not twice? I ate so much food,
and I have such a ponch rightnow that I can't say with one
hundred percent certainty that I'm not pregnant. Maybe I am. I don't know.

(43:07):
You know what we call that.That's a food baby giving birth to
a rack of ribs. I hadmore ribs last night. Oh man,
that I overdid it, and that'swhy we have famine on this planet because
of me. I don't feel goodabout this. I physically don't feel good.
I emotionally don't feel good about it. I'm sorry, world. I

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thought that perhaps Lionel Ritchie and therest of those guys in USA for Africa
previously solved the problem when they sangwe are the World, and apparently they
did a good job until I camealong and ate everything over the last four
days. You know what else Idid, though, I got sad.

(43:51):
I got sad. I think I'mvery sad. Why are you sad because
I watched meat Balls, the originalfrom nineteen seventy nine. You're sad that
you have anything better to do?I know. I was sad because you
couldn't do anything in that movie today, virtually nothing. And the kids all
came out, they were just fineand had a great summer. And then

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I watched I was I was alittle nostalgic, wanted something Christmas, Christmas,
Christmas in July. Yeah, soI watched while you were sleeping,
and it just broke my heart.Oh I wouldn't call that a Christmas movie.
It is. It's as Christmas asDiehard. Yeah, but it broke

(44:34):
my heart because I have Yeah,I spent many weekends in Chicago, and
it broke my heart to see theway it used to be. Okay,
just sad she got She left thehouse at two am to go to the
hospital. I don't know if youremember this very well. I didn't even
remember that part, but she leftthe on her own at two o'clock in
the morning and got on the subway. You couldn't do that in broad daylight

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and not worry about your safety.Today. Well, it's a movie.
They would still do it in amovie, but it was still it's it's
heartbreaking to see what's happened to thatcity. A lot of cities. I'm
not just singling out Chicago. It'sjust because I can compare it to what
I've seen there before. Yeah,and I'm getting yelled at by my wife.
As soon as you mentioned one ofher favorite movies while you were sleeping,

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I just get a text message,Yes, it is a Christmas movie.
Right. The whole thing is setin the week of Christmas. If
you want some nostalgia, Beverly HillsCop. Axel F is on Netflix right
now. It's Beverly Hills Cop fourand it's still good. Yeah, it's

(45:45):
it's fun. I mean, isit is it great? No? Is
it fun? Absolutely right? Ifyou like the first two I did.
And there's a great reference to thethird one where they're reading as axel F
Eddie Murphy axle fully is back inBeverly Hills from Detroit, and they're going
over his list of accomplishments slash dubioushonors from previous trips to Beverly Hills,

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and they're like, all right,in nineteen eighty four, this in ninet
eighty seven, nineteen ninety four,not your finest hour dot dot. And
so that was a jab at BeverlyHills Cop three, and I enjoyed that.
I get it mixed up with fortyeight hours. Yeah, forty eight
hours is a better movie than BeverlyHills Cop. I think. But the
new one is fun. It's fun. And then one more thing on movies.

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He reminded me of something when yousaid, like, oh, we
watch meatballs. You can't do thatstuff anymore. It made me think about
this stupid joke you want to hearit. This is true, but I
don't know if I want to hearit. But yes, on Independence Day
night, after watching some of thefireworks, it turns out my wife and
I had the house to ourselves.My wife and my daughter was out with

(47:00):
her friends, and my son wasout with his friends, and we had
the house to ourselves, and wedid something that we can't do when the
kids are around. We watch blazingsaddles. Right, is that still unedited?
What do you think I was gonnasay? Scott Boyes News Radio eleven

(47:22):
KFAB. Now, this is aninteresting way to battle the flooding around here.
As you know, we are inwhat our third or fourth round depending
on where you are, of historiclike five hundred or thousand year floods in
the last thirteen years. So it'sbecome quite commonplace, and there are a

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few things you can do when youhave that. You can either move.
I don't want to live in afloodplain. Didn't think I previously lived in
a floodplain. Apparently I do now, or my field is or my interstate
is or whatever. You can dothat, or you can try and build

(48:06):
up the levees a little bit higher. But no, you can't because the
Corps of Engineers and the Iowa Departmentof Transportation, which is working on that
which the Corps of Engineers has dictatedin terms of the rivers, and the
Corps of Engineers is working on thatwhich has been dictated by Congress. Say

(48:28):
no, we're not going to buildthese levees up anymore. If you've been
following the flooding around here for thelast thirteen years or so, you know
that communities like Hamburg, Iowa,got flooded twice because after the first time,
they tried to build the higher leveesso they didn't get widespread flooding.

(48:50):
And then the Army Corps of Engineerssaid, you can't build a levee that
high, you got to knock itdown, and then they did, and
then they got flooded out after that. Well, up north of Council Bluffs,
Honey Creek Pigeon Drainage District is whatthis is called. You've got some
home property owners as well as farmersegg producers up there, for whom the

(49:15):
flooded farmland is all too familiar tothem in these lowlands near the river,
and they're getting it again. Thestory here from k ETV News Watch seven
hundreds of acres of Dale's bean crophas been ruined. Another guy named Frank,
he's got stuff up there that's allwashed out. And not only is

(49:37):
the levee not high enough, aswater has breached their levee flooded their property
as well as closed down six eightyand I nine in that area. But
now it's kind of boxed in.It's going to be very difficult to drain
this floodwater because the water breached thelevees and now the water's got no place

(50:01):
to go. It's basically in aswimming pool created by the levee, and
it's going to take a long timefor this water to drain. It could
take months for the water to clear. And if you're an agg producer,
you know the first you got towait for the water to clear, which
in this case, because of howthis is all set up up there,
it could take months, and dependingon how much more rain we get,

(50:23):
and then you got to deal withthe sentiment left behind after the water clears,
it could very easily be years beforethis land is able to be farmed
again. And by the way theydealt with this in like this is the
third or fourth time up in thisarea in the last fifteen years or so

(50:46):
that they've dealt with this, andeach time they tell the Iowa Department of
Transportation, you need to build thelevee higher to protect not just our lands
but the from this constant flooding.And each time they say, well,
we don't have enough money, nordo we feel like there's enough reason to

(51:10):
cover the cost. You're closing theinterstate, what do you mean? And
they say, well, you know, we got to build it back and
open that interst rate as quick aspossible. And if we build the levee
higher, we build the interstate higher. That's going. Now we got to
have more people come out there,and they're gonna have to rate this and
that and try and figure out howhigh to make it. And then we

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got to try and rate this,and it's going to take a lot longer
time to get approval on all thisstuff. So do you want it done
right or do you want it donefast? We're going to get it done
fast. So we're going to justgo ahead and do it the same way
and hopefully it won't flood again.After all, this flooding is historic.
It almost never happens, except inyour case. Four times in the last
thirteen years. So these property ownersare doing something new. They're suing.

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Now, this is a very novelconcept. They don't know who they're suing.
It starts off, I guess withthe Iowa Department of Transportation. Now
i DOT is going to say,well, we're doing what the Corps of
Engineers tells us we can do here, and the Army Corps of Engineers says,

(52:23):
we're doing what Congress tells us wecan do here. And these guys
are like, we don't care.We're suing everybody. We're suing all these
people. We could raise this leveyjust a couple of feet and not have
to deal with all this, includingclosing the interstate causing headaches for traffic interstate

(52:46):
commerce if we just raise it alittle bit more. And they're like,
well we have regulations, Well thenwe're suing. So they've sued and a
judge is taking a look at thisto see if their lawsuit can go forward.
Now that is an idea. Iimagine they've reached out to their elected

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representatives saying, we need to changethe whole Missouri River Floodplain plan. Tell
the Army Corps of Engineers what differentthings they can do with this. They're
like, yeah, that could takea long time and I don't know.
We'll see. Sorry for what you'regoing through, there's grants that you can

(53:30):
like, all right, forget it. You're all under federal lawsuit right now.
These guys are suing. Will thatwork? I don't know. I
can tell you that nothing they've donesince twenty eleven has been working. Why
not try this? We'll see howit goes. Fox News update in just

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a moment. Here's another ongoing sagahere for the Omaha Metro, and there's
a legal ramification for this one aswell. I'll explain next. Scott Voice.
Lucy wanted some nostalgia over the weekend, so she watched meat Balls.
I watched Beverly Hills Cop four.Beverly Hills cop Axel F just released on

(54:15):
Netflix. I wasn't the only one. Gene Email says we watched that movie
last night too. Not as funnyas the original. Boy, those guys
have gotten old love Axel though,and Karen says, you're so right,
Scott. When they started the moviewith the Pointer sisters, actually they in
the first ten to fifteen minutes.They got in three of the pop songs

(54:38):
that were big hits, in additionto variations on the Harold Faltermeyer keyboard music
including axel f the bum boom bumpbut bump bump bump bump bump, bump
bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, ump bump bump
that all of us aid, ourlittle Cassio keyboards were trying to figure out
how to play back in nineteen eightyWhatever they started with the heat of by

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Glenn Fry quickly transitioned a moment laterduring a pretty awesome snowplow chase, It's
the movie starts in Detroit to Shakedownby Bob Seeker. What is the only
number one hit by Bob Seeker?Alex, That's right, you control the
board. That's true. By theway, that is the only one.

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Shakedown Bob Seger and the Silver BulletBand nineteen eighty seven from the Beverly Hills
Cop two soundtrack is Bob Seeger's onlynumber one hit. I feel like I
want to challenge that, but Iwon't look it up. I'll I'm if
I need to check my fact fool, I'll check my fact fool. But
I think I'm right on this itdoesn't feel like it should be accurate,

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but it is, I think.And then moment, now he's in Beverly
Hills, there's another interesting chase,and that's when they worked in Neutron Dance
by Pointer Sisters. So she says, yeah, when they started the movie
with those songs and then played theAxe Left theme song, I was so
excited and nostalgic. It brought tearsto my eyes. Wasn't as good as

(56:10):
the original, but the flavor wasthere, and Bronson Pincho's accent to steal
a riot. Love seeing Taggart andRosewood together again, and Kevin Bacon was
great as well. So that's fromKaren sent to scottatkfab dot com. I'm
happy to see that people were watchingsome old nostalgic movies. Yeah. I

(56:31):
felt the same way about the newBeverly Hills cop movie as I did about
Eddie Murphy's other sequel that was releasedto Netflix Coming to America, which all,
right, not as good as theoriginal, but it's you know,
it's an hour and a half totwo hours long for both of these movies,

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and you know, sometimes when you'rehanging out with old friends, you
love getting together. Yeah, it'sthe same stories, the same story.
If you talk about every single time, you know you're not breaking any new
ground or anything. But it's justgood to hang out with those old friends
again in about an hour and fortyfive minutes is just about long enough.
And then you say, all right, man, we got to do this

(57:12):
again, and maybe somewhere down theline you do it again. That's how
it works. There's nothing wrong withthat. And I'll I'll do it for
Beetlejuice this fall as well when theycome out with a new Beetlejuice movie.
All right, back to boy,do you want to talk about movies anymore
before I bring up this next story, because I don't know what are my

(57:35):
choices? I hate talking about thisguy. Okay, then no, but
we got to do it. WhenI tell you this part of the story,
you have to want to learn more. Right Nico Jenkins Attorneys, If
you've recently moved to the Metro Nico, who just over a decade ago murdered

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four people in the span of tendays. He's been sentenced to the death
penalty. Since he's been in prison, he's had an interesting run, including,
among other things, eating his ownexcretions, and during one delightful circumstance

(58:23):
while behind bars, Nico thought itwould be just a fine idea to how
do I put this attempt to bifricatehis privates, much in the same way
that you might take a thing ofbread and try and turn it into that

(58:47):
which could be used for a subwaysandwich. He looked down and thought,
what a concept. This needs tobe serpentine on some level, like a
serpent's tongue, and proceeded by theway he also did that to his own
tongue. So why is he doingthis? Why are his attorneys now asking

(59:12):
for fifty thousand dollars from the statebecause they say that the work done by
previous attorneys for Nico Jenkins has beeninadequate. They say that the state has
not followed up on all the evidencethere to suggest that Nico jenkins mental health

(59:37):
is such that he should be foundnot guilty by reason of insanity, and
the fact that he hasn't yet meansthat we've got inadequate people with the state
looking at this and it's not fairto our client, which makes you wonder

(01:00:00):
is the goal for all of this? Like, all right, Nico,
you haven't been found not guilty byreason of insanity. Yet they don't believe
you're insane yet have you tried splittingyour pen into And if he's doing these
things in an attempt to try andget some judge to go all right,

(01:00:24):
this guy is clinically insane, thenI'll tell you. I'll say this because
I don't think there's more. Idon't know. I mean, there are
some names in Omaha's history that areso vile that you you dast speak them
out loud. Let's name all ofthem, well, you know, I

(01:00:47):
mean, going back to my childhood, it was John Jubert Walking. Willie
is another one. Hal Dobb.I mean, there's sorry, I couldn't.
I'm kidding. I'm kidding. Ilike, I love taking shots at
Hal Dobb. Love the guy,all right, And of course this guy's

(01:01:09):
name we're talking about. They're justhorrible, horrible episodes in our city's history.
But I'm fine with somewhere down theline because he's been sentenced to the
death penalty, which is like beingnot sentenced to the death penalty. In
fact, I don't know why hisattorneys are trying to get him off death

(01:01:29):
row. We don't have a deathpenalty we don't have one in Nebraska because
we don't have them meds. Right, we said, we have the death
penalty, but we don't have anapproved method of carrying it out. We
can't get where do we need toget the approval for this the meds.
Meds would not be the right wordhere, considering medication is generally supposed to

(01:01:52):
make you well, not make youdead. So we don't have the angreened
in the cocktail necessary to be ableto carry out a death penalty in Nebraska.
So we don't have one. Sobut I'm fine someday with a judge
saying all right, Nico, it'snot like they find him not guilty by

(01:02:13):
reason of insanity and let him out. He's still gonna be I realize as
I say this, anything can happendown the line, but it's presumptive that
he will still be behind bars somewhere. It's just what level of care and
where this would happen that he wouldget. I'm fine what they judge doing
that someday, But in the meantime, let's see how this plays out.

(01:02:36):
I mean, if these are thethings, they're like, Hey, Nico,
have you eaten your own human waste? Yet try that cut that thing
in half and see what happens there. I don't know what else is on
the list. I mean, ifhe's done these things and they haven't found
him insane yet, there are otherthings on the list. They're talking to
him saying, all right, here'san idea. Tried to shove your own

(01:03:00):
head in your own lower orifice.I mean, in a figurative sense.
There's a lot of people out therewalking around who have done this. But
I mean, let's think about this. There's got to be brainstorming meetings about
what literal things he can do tofinally have a judge declare him insane.

(01:03:22):
I want to know what else ison that list. I'm gonna have to
see two or three more actions fromNico in an attempt to be found insane,
and I think we'll all realize itwhen we see it, where we're
like, all right, this hasall been building towards that thing he just
did. Fine, we'll let ajudge declare him not guilty by reason of

(01:03:46):
insanity and get him off death row, which is stupid because we don't have
a death row right now. Anyway, if he has an object that is
sharp enough to do as you described, and he wants to be off death
row or he wants to die.I don't know what he wants. Well,
if he's got an object, doesn'twant to die, well, because

(01:04:09):
he hasn't yet, how does heget an object that that is that sharp?
I mean, that's a lot oftoothbrushes melted down. Well, let
me tell you how. Let metell you how I've done things anything.
I mean, I have a sidegig and you know this, Lucy,
and I haven't brought this up onthe radio, but you know radio salary
being what it is. I havea side gig where I sell items to

(01:04:30):
prisoners. And you know, dueto drone activity, you can't just throw
things over the wall. And plusyou throw things over the wall and they're
supposed to throw the money back tiedto a rock, and sometimes they don't.
Why like a foiled again, youknow that that guy should be in
prison. And so what I dois ikeyster these things in to prison.

(01:04:56):
And then there's the transaction. Hejust put the money on the books for
the Tomisari. You get enough honeybuns and those rappers can really be melted
into something stuff. Funny you mentionedthat that's actually my nickname as I do
this in prison. Honeybun. Yeah, Honeybuns. You want your head to
really explode here? Yes, Inthis story from WWT six News about Nico,

(01:05:18):
they reference his wife. Just thinkabout that for a second. If
you're out there lonely and single thinking. I don't know if I can find
the person for me. Guess whoapparently has a soulmate? His wife?
Well, how long has she beenhis wife? I don't know, but

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she's still there that stand by yourman to a power that I'm almost impressed
by. But I guess if shemarried him, why wouldn't she still be
with him? Scott Time for athirty second story. Lucy, you know
I love old school rap, notso much the new stuff. But I
can't wait to hear the latest songsfrom BG, which stands for Baby Gangsta

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because due to all of his charges, the federal government has told him.
You're not allowed to release any morerap songs until we, the US government,
approves of your lyrics in advance.We don't want you to glorify guns
or crime in your rap songs,so we want to approve of your lyrics
in advance. I don't know aboutyou, but I can't wait to hear

(01:06:25):
government approved rap. There's your thirtysecond story. No, Lucy's not in
Scott Voices mornings nine to eleven onnews radio eleven ten KFAB