I Can't Believe NE is Suing TikTok

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott Vordiez. About an hour and a half ago, Gary
Sandelmeyer and Jim Rose talk to Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers.
The idea here is that TikTok this is a social
media platform that basically allows people to be content creators.
You can either come up with your own whether it's

(00:21):
a dance craze or a funny little comedic skint skin
or a political rant or whatever it is. You can
just you can take a ninety seconds or so to
show people your collection of notes here. No matter what
it is, you take that you post your content, your
video to this platform, and other people might like it,
share it, and even build upon it. There's a lot

(00:45):
out there. And the idea here is that TikTok is
engaged in deceptive practices. This is separate from this argument
that TikTok is owned by China and we shouldn't allow
them to operate in the United States. This is just
the idea that TikTok is getting young people with this

(01:07):
app that is very very catchy. It locks them in,
it hooks them, and it makes them addicts. They have
to have it because as soon as you watch one video,
the next one pops up. Next, one pops up, next,
one pops up. This is not for Okay, I have
a couple of different problems with this lawsuit, which I've

(01:30):
described now as embarrassing for the state of Nebraska. First
of all, TikTok, which I'm not on, Well, how do
I know my kids have TikTok, and truth be told,
TikTok's like so twenty nineteen, it's not really a thing anymore.

(01:53):
You could add that as number one, it's not really
that big a deal, or maybe that's just my kids.
Number two, TikTok is not the only whether it's a
social media platform or an app or a game or whatever,
is definitely not the only thing online that you could say,

(02:14):
you know, kind of hooks people by trying to keep
them on the platform. Some people refer to this as
doom scrolling. You keep scrolling and scrolling, it never ends.
That's also true of Facebook, depending on how many friends
you have. It's true of Twitter, it's true of Instagram,
it's true of YouTube. It's it's kind of true of

(02:37):
kfab dot com or any news site. There's so much
out there. If you want to sit there and just
scroll and scroll and scroll, most any website's going to
give you the opportunity to do that. And then there
was this revelation that came in and this is the
biggest reason why I think Nebraska is barking up the

(03:01):
wrong tree when it comes to this lawsuit against TikTok.
Here's the end of Gary's conversation with Mike Kilger's Attorney
General of Nebraska.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
I'll give you another number I was in our complaint. Gary.
That's astonishing. Nebraska is one of the hot and this
is now public. Nebraska is one of the highest percentages
of people under the age of sixteen on actually out
of the age of fourteen who use the They track
this between one and four o'clock in the morning. You've
got young people all around the state of Nebraska who

(03:29):
are using it knowingly, and TikTok knows that they're using it,
and they know it impacts their sleep, and nevertheless they
continue to create this highly addictive slot machine casino effect,
bringing in more and more kids.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
All right, First of all, you get the impression that
TikTok is some sort of gambling it's a slot machine
casino effect, he described it. No, it's not. You watch
videos I don't think you can. I mean, it's probably
a way, somehow, some way, but I don't think you're
really buy anything. You're not. The app is free, you

(04:04):
don't pay for anything on the app. But the idea
I guess he's describing is it's addictive. And we have
one of the highest percentages in the country of young
people under the age of sixteen using TikTok between one

(04:24):
and four o'clock in the morning. Yes, someone is at
fault here. It's not TikTok. It's you. If you're a
parent and your kid is up one four o'clock in
the morning scrolling, goofing off using TikTok, and you know,

(04:48):
sometimes that's fine. I've got two high school kids, since
they both go back to school here for the freshman
and senior years of high school later this week. I
got two high I've got t teenagers. Sometimes you got
you know, your friends over, sleepover whatever. You can turn
off certain parental controls, but that's what we utilize in

(05:11):
our house. It is incredibly easy. Here's how it works.
You've got young kids in your home. Presumably you're paying
for their phone, so you can connect their phone to
your phone for parental controls. If anyone wants to know
how to do this, I'll get my wife on the program,

(05:34):
because she's responsible for all of this stuff. I haven't
you know, she's the one who does it, and she
just with a couple of clicks on her phone, she
sets up parameters for when the kids can be on
certain apps. They still have their phone. You know, there's

(05:55):
always the idea like, okay, are we going to let
our kids have a phone. And if you have two kids,
you know how that works, right, You got the one kid,
you know, the oldest kid, and you hold off, going
I don't think he or she needs a phone yet.
And then they get in situations where they have stuff
after school and sometimes that stuff gets canceled. They're waiting
there for an hour and a half because you're picking

(06:17):
them up here and they're sitting here going, well, a
thing got canceled. I've been sitting here on the curb
for an hour and a half. Well why didn't you
call me? I don't have a phone. You won't let
me have a phone. There's always the one example you're like,
maybe they should get a phone, all right, for emergency purposes. Well,
if they're gonna get a phone. Are we gonna let
them have this and that? And they're like, well, I
don't know, maybe when they get this age, we let
them have this thing. And you kind of do that

(06:37):
whole bargaining negotiating there with when is a kid gonna
get a phone, how much you're gonna let him be
on it? What apps are you gonna let him have?
And then the second kid comes and they get to
do all of those things the first kid did probably
a couple years earlier, and then the older kid goes,
why I had to wait until I was this age
till I did that? Yeah, I know tough, So yeah,

(07:01):
what else? You know, what else do you want to
complain about? I don't know nothing. It's not fair. Nope,
it's not fair. And if you have a third kid,
basically they cut the cord and you give the kid
a phone, you go sit over there and be quiet.
So that's kind of how all of that works. But
my wife has got parental controls that sets up when

(07:24):
they can access what apps, including social media sites like TikTok,
during what hours we're horrible parents. We utilize the parental
controls and do you know what time they shut down?
During the week during school nights ten o'clock. But mom,
I gotta and if I don't you know this, how

(07:44):
apparently how they connect with each other and contact via
Instagram or whatever. I was watching and I gotta do.
Can I have fifteen more minutes? Sometimes say yeah, Sometimes
you go nope, sorry. Now it turns back on at
six o'clock tomorrow morning. If you want to wake up
early and get back after it, yeah, I know what

(08:06):
that means. It's super easy. You just shut it down.
So when Attorney General Mike Hilders says, we got all
these kids in Nebraska between the hours of one and
four o'clock in the morning and they're on TikTok, First
of all, I don't know what number that is. He
didn't give a number. Two. Nebraska is one of the

(08:28):
highest percentage of what per capita of kids under the
age of sixteen. I don't know what that means in
comparison to other states. Is that seventy percent of these kids?
Is it seven percent? Is at point zero seven percent?
I don't have any idea, but I know this. If
your kid is up when they're not supposed to be

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accessing in this example, TikTok at three o'clock in the morning,
not sleeping, all looped up on energy drinks, like when
Beavis would turn into Cornholio and it's just sitting up
there and just screaming about tpe and getting on TikTok, which,
by the way, would be a pretty entertaining TikTok video.
If your kid was doing that, you just take the

(09:12):
shirt and you pull it up on top of your head.
You raise your hands up. Are you threatening me? When
he saw Richard Nixon? Anyway? Where was I Beavis? Oh,
your kid's up doing that three o'clock in the morning.
That's on you. Well, I'm asleep. I don't know what
they're Yeah, how did your parents manage it? Sometimes when

(09:36):
you're a kid, you can sneak out of the house.
Isn't that great? Do you have any memories of sneaking
out of the house. Yeah, and sometimes you get caught
sneaking out of or back into the house. Yeah. That
wasn't great, was it? There was punishment for that kind
of thing, and as far as well, I turn off

(09:56):
the thing and then I've had parents on me that
they've even taken their kids, their teenage kids phone from
them because they were on it. So much and it
was so much of a problem. They took their phone.

Speaker 3 (10:12):
That's like cutting off a limb.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
I know, it's I know, Lucy's a couple toes at least,
you know, taking off a big toe or now. Oh,
here's the part of the show where Lucy says she's
glad she doesn't have kids. And then after the kid
you know, kind of started straightening up a little bit.
Suddenly it like switched too far over to the other side,
like they were too engaged, they were too happy, they

(10:35):
were too pleasant to be around. You're like, something's not right.
We got to go full scale investigation. They ransacked the
kids room, you know what, They found another phone. That's right,
They've got to burn her phone like a drug dealer.
So am I saying it's it's super easy. It isn't
super easy, but guess what, being a parent not easy.

(11:00):
It's I think it's worthwhile to engage in this battle though.
And if you set up these parameters early enough, then
you don't have to take hypodermic needles away from a
drug addict when they're already fourteen fifteen years old and
they're jones in for a hit. At three o'clock in

(11:20):
the morning because they can't possibly not be on social media.
It is possible to do this. I'm trying to empower
parents to be able to parent their little peons alliteration.

Speaker 3 (11:33):
Well, and the conservatives that are listening, and I'm one
of them. If you're conservative and you have had a
problem with the government raising your children, and you don't
see a problem with this as well, it's the same thing.
It's government trying to interfere with your children's lives.

Speaker 1 (11:53):
Right. I don't understand where the Attorney General is like, oh,
TikTok's like a casino. No, it's not, you know, it's
like a ca you know, a casino.

Speaker 4 (12:01):
You know.

Speaker 3 (12:02):
On that point, I don't kind of get it.

Speaker 1 (12:03):
I don't take my kids into a casina. You think
tiktoks Like, all right, we'll come right back there, and
just how long two minutes Scott Voice News Radio eleven
ten kfab reading your emails, I have to really watch
where the little cursor icon is on the screen because

(12:24):
I'd mentioned earlier my wife set up these parental controls
for our kid's phone and all this stuff, and I said,
if you want, I'll bring her on the show. And
she can describe how to do it. And this email
from Doug comes up, and I've got a cursor in
the way of one of the words, and it looks
like it says I want to and then I see
B and then NNG because the cursors in the middle,

(12:47):
I want to your wife. And I was like, you
want to do what to my I thought it was
And then I moved the cursor and says I want
you to bring your wife on the show. I'm like, oh,
I was like, I thought, Doug and I are about
to Like, Doug's a good guy, Doug's a Hall of
Fame listener to this program and a fantastic emailer. And

(13:08):
suddenly I thought he was like, you wants to take
a run at my wife. He says, I want to
bring your wife on the show, because every time I
try and take control of the use of my kid's phone,
that never works. There's always a way around all the
one I've seen. Okay, Lucy was going to push back

(13:30):
on my assertion. I was pushing back on the Attorney General.
Mike Hilgers was on with Gary this morning on kfab's
Morning News, saying Nebraska is doing TikTok because it's addictive
and it's like a casino effect, and it makes you
think like it's taking money away from these kids. There's
no money changing hands as a free app. You don't
buy anything in the app, to my understanding, but he

(13:52):
was talking about how addictive it is, like, well, that's
not true of just TikTok, and then Lucy said, you
agree with the Attorney general.

Speaker 3 (14:01):
I agree with him in that the addiction to gambling
can be just as dramatic as the addiction to anything.
And yes, it doesn't take any money per se away
from you. But when you live and breathe for anything,
when you have to be connected to something, whether that's gambling, drugs, alcohol,

(14:26):
social media, then yeah, there should be something that is
done within your own life, which takes us back to
the original thought that I had that this is interfering
with the way parents are allowed to raise their kids.
If he bans TikTok for kids, now, if you want
to talk about banning TikTok for the entire country, I'm

(14:47):
all for that. And that's well because of the alleged alleged.

Speaker 1 (14:52):
Wait wait, wait wait, the allegation is TikTok is dangerous
and it's addictive, right, Yes, you can't possibly help yourself. Well,
do you have TikTok on your phone? I do not
know either, do Why? How are we so amazing that
we managed to not get sucked down this rabbit hole?
So we don't have this thing on our phones?

Speaker 3 (15:12):
I don't think that's the case for me. I didn't
get on TikTok in the beginning because I already had
too many social media platforms.

Speaker 1 (15:20):
I was trying to I don't have any room in
my life for a new friend right now. Right, there's
your what nineteen nineties movie reference for this segment of
the radio program, and that's a rather obscure line. Let's
let's take a run at it. I don't have any
room in my life for a new friend right now.
Matthew Broderick is the one that says the line, it's
not Ferris Bueller's day off. Take a guess election, good guess,

(15:45):
but incorrect. Cable guy anyway, go on, Oh, I don't Yeah,
I derailed I derailed your I derailed your tona thought.

Speaker 3 (15:51):
But I think that TikTok should be banned because of
the alleged ties to China, not because I need China.
But because it has, the allegations are that your information
is being stolen, that they're getting that they're spying on
Americans through TikTok, And if that was even possibly the case.

Speaker 1 (16:12):
Who cares? Who cares? Because my kids have TikTok. Here's
what happened. My son comes up to me with TikTok
on his phone, says, Dad, look at this, and it's
Steph Curry knocking down a three pointer to win gold medal.
It's my daughter's saying, Dad, watch this. It's someone dancing
to For a while there a few years ago, there
was a trend where people were dancing to a Billy

(16:34):
Joel song an obscure one too, Zanzibar, and like that's
kind of fun until an involved the middle finger for
some reason in the dance. Grace. Be that as it may.
This is what China is seeing. They're seeing young people
dancing or are doing some quick comedy bit or the

(16:55):
hawk two girl. This is what they're seeing, and it's
not just on tiki talk. What are they what are
they going to? How are they going to invade us
based on what we're giving them on TikTok.

Speaker 3 (17:08):
I don't I am not Thor Schrock, so I don't
understand all the ins and outs of computers. But what
I do understand is that when you have a signal,
when you have an open avenue to get into information,
whether it's in your phone or maybe that phone is

(17:28):
connected to another phone. And I think that the technology
today is so far beyond most of us average people
how much actually can be done. Then that's when I
have a problem with it. If they're already being accused
if TikTok, and I'm not going to say they as
in China because I don't know who runs TikTok, but
if TikTok is being accused of stealing information and spying

(17:51):
on Americans, then I got a problem with that. And
if that isn't enough, what about the TikTok challenges that
have killed children. Yes, they could get the same thing
on YouTube, can get the same thing on Instagram or
whatever the latest thing is, right, but TikTok is really
I don't know if they're pushing it, but they're they're

(18:12):
certainly the biggest culprit of that.

Speaker 1 (18:15):
Like any social media you see that which you willingly
connect yourself to if you're searching a bunch of stuff like,
here is a bunch of dangerous things you could do
that would be an awesome challenge, and they're not presented
that way, might get you killed.

Speaker 3 (18:29):
They're not presented that way.

Speaker 1 (18:30):
How are any kids still alive if they're all on
TikTok and there's a bunch of stuff up there that
might get them killed. This is the walking in front
of a bus challenge, you know, whatever it is. This
is drink a gallon of bleach challenge week on TikTok
and there's stuff like that. How is anyone still alive?
Because some kids have the sense not And it's the
same same, the same concept of the stuff. When we

(18:54):
were growing up before we all had phones, and I
don't even mean cell phones. I mean we didn't even
have phones in our room. We had we had a
couple of phones in the house and you had to
get off it because Dad's expecting a call, you know.
So that's how we grew up, and there was still
this poll of there were things out there that kids
could do that were stupid and dangerous, Like I'm going

(19:14):
to reenact the stunt I just saw Tom Cruise do
in the Olympics, you know, I'm going to jump off
the house with a wire in my back, you know.
So there's there's always this, and I'm I don't mean
to seem cavalier about Yeah, some kids have done some
really dumb things and died. I'm not cavalier about that
at all. That's horrible. But let's not blame TikTok for

(19:37):
these things when this concept has always been there of
some people of various ages doing things that in retrospect
from heaven you look down and go, yeah, that wasn't
a great idea, you know. So I don't know why
Nebraska has to sue TikTok. I think Nebraska could sue
a lot of shoddy parents when they're saying, all these

(19:59):
kids are, you know, in the wee hours of the
morning when they haven't been to sleep yet. It's not
like these kids are go getters and like I'm gonna
wake up at three, I'm gonna work out, spend a
little time on social media. See what I missed in
the last few hours since I've been sleeping. And it's
not like that, And that's bad parenting, it's not TikTok.

Speaker 3 (20:17):
Well, we flit back up here because I thought we
were the discussion was about banning TikTok, and now you
are saying that that we're suing Yeah, so what are
the actual what's the actual lawsuit saying we're suing them.

Speaker 1 (20:30):
For addictive practices where they knew it was getting kids
with addictive practices and causing them to become addictive to TikTok,
addicted to TikTok, and they knew that, and they were
trying more so to get these kids addicted to TikTok.
You know, here's but if you're going if the Stay
of Nebraska is going to say there are some people

(20:50):
who are addicted to something, think of all the things
we could sue. We could sue alcohol, We could sue
for gambling, we could sue for exercise, we could some
people are addicted to You see some people like yep,
I'm thirty days sober, Like wow, you look great. Yep,
that's because I work out eighteen times a day. Like
all right, it seems like you've traded an unhealthy addiction

(21:13):
for a health a healthy fine you could you know what,
I'm addicted to chapstick. I'm addicted to chapstick. And the
fact that I'm saying it right now makes me want
to reach my holster. I carry a chapstick and a
holster and quick draw it and apply.

Speaker 3 (21:29):
It is chapstick gonna hurt you?

Speaker 1 (21:31):
I'm you could if I don't, because I think psychosomatically,
because sometimes suddenly you're like, oh my gosh, I took
I changed pants and I forgot to put the chapstick
from the pants I was wearing into the shorts I
have on now. And now I'm out some place and
I don't have my chapstick, and psychosomatically, my lips suddenly

(21:52):
start turning to desert sand.

Speaker 3 (21:54):
And I boom anxiety attack.

Speaker 1 (21:57):
Yep. I so chapstick there could kill me. Now I
have to apply some chapsticks. Scott voice, Lucy. I don't
remember what this is about. I remind myself of things,
and then these reminders pop up on my phone and say, hey,
play that thing, or in this case, it said play
that voicemail that came in on Friday. Oh yeah, So

(22:19):
I pulled it up and I don't remember what it
was about, but I remember hearing it on Friday and
thinking I have to play that on the radio.

Speaker 3 (22:28):
This could be dangerous.

Speaker 1 (22:30):
Let's do it, Hey, Scott.

Speaker 5 (22:32):
I think this is right up your alley. Yesterday, my
husband went for just a very routine doctor visit. He
had had an upset stomach a couple of days and
went in and when did he do the blood pressure
and the weight? The nurse, you know, beforehand. The next
thing she did was ask him were you born a
male or a female? And he was like, what, he's

(22:52):
this big burly guy with a beard, you know. He
answered male. And the next question was today, what do
you ide to identify more with a male or female?
And I thought, now, I think I've officially heard everything. Yes,
a great day, thank your show, Bye, thank.

Speaker 1 (23:09):
You, see, Thank you very much. And you can reach
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I'm Scott Vorhees. There's Lucy Chapman. Yeah, you got a

(23:32):
guy in there looking like Hillbilly Jim from the WWF
Wrestling Days. Hello, there it's a Haystack Calhoun just came
in here. Mister Calhoun. Do you feel like you are
a male or female? I mean today, do you identify? Well,
let's see, I just picked up my gold medal in

(23:54):
the Olympics beating up on women in a boxing event
for my home country of Algeria. So I am a woman.
That Algerian boxer who failed a gender All these people say,
I'm not going to do yet the last week's show again,

(24:15):
but just to recap, there are two international bodies that
decide whether you are fighting as a male or a female.
One of them did a blood test to determine chromosomally,
do we have a man or a woman here? The
boxer from Algeria failed that gender test, came back with
male chromosomes. They said, you're not going to be allowed

(24:37):
to fight women. You're a man man. The other one
is the International Olympic Committee. What do they do? What
science based test did they do? They just take your
word for it. Are you you're a woman? Right? I am?
All right, ma'am. Get in the ring, good luck. Yeah.

(24:59):
You know, if you complain about it, you're some sort
of bigot science tonight. I don't like watching women get
beat up by guys. I don't like watching women get
beat up by other women.

Speaker 3 (25:08):
I think this is really actually very easy. If you
have women who identify as men or men who identify
as women, then if there are so many of these individuals, now,
then we have another category, yes, and then they can fight.

(25:29):
They can box as dressed as women identifying as women.
But the strength of a man would just.

Speaker 1 (25:36):
Let you get in the ring with someone else who
is confused about their gender and you can just you know,
you can beat each other up until you're not confused anymore.

Speaker 3 (25:46):
It's just going back to the weight class, the size
class that that's been an issue, or not an issue,
but a rule of boxing since boxing was except for
when it was bare knuckle in the old New York
days on the streets New York.

Speaker 1 (26:00):
You're not putting me in the cave like it did me, brother,
And so you go out there with you got to
get your hands and whatever gets your hands as far
away from your face as possible, and you just hold
them up like this. I'm I'm doing a physical bit
on a radio show. I will never learn. Did you see,
speaking of physical bits, did you see Tom Cruise plummet
into the closing ceremonies. No, Tom Cruise is sitting up

(26:24):
on a platform, standing up on a platform high above
the ground below and then just falls off.

Speaker 3 (26:33):
Ay they catch him.

Speaker 1 (26:34):
Yeah, they had a net jump here, Tom. They were
holding a coat. They had four strong guys holding a
big raincoat below and so they caught him. It was amazing.
What did you say, net food, Yes, they were holding
a net Funaceello.

Speaker 3 (26:51):
Well, net betting was on the other side here a.

Speaker 1 (26:55):
Dork, thank you for that, a net Funacello reference that
we don't reference Frankie inn Anette nearly often enough here
on eleven ten kfab You know what. One of way
my guilty pleasure favorite movies.

Speaker 3 (27:09):
Is Beach Baked Bingo.

Speaker 1 (27:11):
No No, I go. I'm an eighties kid back to
the beach. That's where Frankie Avalon and a Nette Funicello
go back to the beach where Frankie was the big
cahuna surfing champ, except this time they they're gonna go no, no.
They're probably only in their sixties, if that maybe at

(27:31):
this time. So they're going to visit their daughter and
they're bringing along their son, who is a total mouthy,
little leather clad jerk, nothing like his parents, and it's
it's just this guilty pleasure, dumb fun movie. I made
my daughter watch it with me, and for the first

(27:53):
fifteen minutes I thought she was having a seizure because
her eyes were rolling so much. And then she kind
of caught the concept and by the end she's like,
that was a really fun movie. She loved that movie.

Speaker 3 (28:05):
Speaking of fun movies, real quick, I have to tell
you about this bet we have going on at my
house tonight. We're watching Greece, because the bet is the
hairstyle of Sandy when she was singing hopelessly devoted. He
says it was pulled back in a ponytail. I said, no,
it wasn't. It was pulled back in a headband. I'm winning.

Speaker 1 (28:29):
But you can YouTube that right now and find out
what that was.

Speaker 3 (28:32):
I was kind of surprised when I got we're watching
Greece tonight.

Speaker 1 (28:35):
All right, Well I won't ruin it. People are gonna
email and tell me. Nobody answer, But well, what's at
stake here?

Speaker 3 (28:44):
Well, that hasn't been set up yet.

Speaker 1 (28:47):
I know what I'd do if I win, and this
was between my wife and I, then you know, you'd
have to dress up like Sandy so we can go
have a nice dinner, all right, Tom Cruise, Yes, plummeting,
plummeted to the ground. He was at the top of

(29:10):
a stad de France. That's a French word, that means
stad de France. And he plummets with only like a
he's They call it repelling. Now, repelling is usually when
you go down the side of a building or a
rock formation, the Woodman Tower, whatever, and which Lucy and

(29:32):
I both did at the Woodman Tower still blows me away.
And he didn't do that. He just dropped just a
free fall drop with a ripcord. Ripcord is the wrong thing,
with just a chord that he had like a little
joystick on his hip that he could move back and

(29:53):
forth that would determine how fast or slow he would
be going. And he's working this thing and he's controlling
the speed and lands harmlessly on the ground below. If
that thing fails or if he's like I'm a Hollywood actor,
I don't know what I'm doing.

Speaker 3 (30:12):
He's Tom Cruise. You know he's gonna land. But I
don't think he's human.

Speaker 1 (30:18):
He's this guy's amazing and he's not gonna stop doing
this stuff until he dies. I'm surprised he didn't do
it by flying a motorcycle off the thing. And then
they're like, yeah, but the motorcycle doesn't know how to
get itself safely to the ground, and we got people
down here, so you're just gonna have to fall off
of there, okay, And he just falls off.

Speaker 3 (30:38):
He wasn't the one that was climbing the Eiffel Tower,
was he?

Speaker 5 (30:42):
No?

Speaker 1 (30:44):
Was that one of the Olympic competitions?

Speaker 3 (30:46):
Yes? No, I don't know. I didn't watch.

Speaker 1 (30:50):
Yeah, So Tom Cruise does a free fall off the yeah,
and survives, and then and he's got the Olympic flag
and all this stuff, and then does this bit where
he jumps in a motorcycle and takes the Olympic flag
to Los Angeles. So's he now rides his motorcycle from
Paris to Los Angeles.

Speaker 3 (31:10):
Well, he's the only one that could do it over.

Speaker 1 (31:12):
An ocean, Yes, he could. Do.

Speaker 3 (31:14):
You think that he's just wanting to say, hey, hey,
what about me, because we haven't heard much from him lately.
Don't forget about me. No been, I'm Tom Cruise.

Speaker 1 (31:23):
You haven't been paying attention. We're right between Mission Impossible,
probably franchise ending movies. I think that this is part
two coming up, but what will be the last? But
maybe not. You never never know. Michael Keaton's doing another
Beetlejuice movie. It comes out here in a month. I
can't wait, So who knows?

Speaker 3 (31:38):
It's probably because I haven't seen tiny Tom Cruise on
Family Guy in a while.

Speaker 1 (31:42):
Been a long time, but no Tom Cruise. Well, that's
also kind of the thing. There was this guy who
wrote for Vulture that said, let's just take a moment
to think about Tom Cruise, who it wasn't that long ago.
His career was kind of in a free fall. People
were making fun of him, they thought he'd lost his mind.
And now he's celebrated again, and people love Tom Cruise.

(32:02):
Count me as among those who always loved Tom Cruise.
It's Tom Cruise Corley in the inbox here Zonker's custom
was inbox got at kfab dot com. Coraly is crabby
this morning. He didn't like hearing us fight earlier when
we were disagreeing about TikTok and addicted practices and so forth.

(32:23):
And then he says he thought maybe the two of
us were crabby because it's Monday. I'm not crabby, are you?
Crabby if you met me. Yeah, it's probably because your
hair looks like to that. Today your hair looks super cool.

Speaker 3 (32:37):
You made fun of me.

Speaker 1 (32:38):
I like it, and you said you look like a
slee stack from what is that? Land of the Loss?
Is that the reference the big yeah, I know thead thing. Yeah, No,
you look cool. So uh and now Corley says he's
crabby after hearing that. Uh. The talkback lady sent the

(32:58):
message that her big, burly bearded husband went to the
doctor and they had to ask him if he was
born male or female? And how does he identify today?
This is the common question you're now going to get
when you go to the doctor. Well, he was at
the obgyn. So maybe all right? Metal count the United
States easily out distances the rest of this world when

(33:22):
it comes to the Olympic medal count. We've got so
many more medals than everyone else, but I don't care
about silver medals. Second place is the first loser. It's
your two thousands movie reference for the second with the
radio program, it is Dodgeball. Oh that's Talladega Knights.

Speaker 3 (33:39):
That's what I said. Bubby, Bubby, Bobby.

Speaker 1 (33:42):
Ricky Bobby, Ricky Bobby and but it's it's the gold
medal count. America and China tied forty gold medals apiece,
and we had to barely beat France and basketball do
it France. We got the best professional basketball players that
America has to offer, and we could barely beat France.
Who are these guys from fred They got a couple
of NBA guys, They got a rookie and weben Yama

(34:05):
and then they got Gobert. But yeah, well we got
Steph Curry, we got Lebron James, we got Kevin Durant.
What's going on? Why are we barely beating frank Anyway?
A lot of attention though today is on a bronze
medal because Jordan Chiles. Who wasn't that the attorney from Seinfeld,
That was Jackie Chiles. So Jordan Giles won bronze medal

(34:28):
in a gymnastics floor exercise, and then they looked at
the they appealed and said, well, I think that she
did this routine that they didn't give her enough points
for and she got like point one more points which
gave her the bronze. But then the other team came
back and said, you have to appeal that judge's decision

(34:51):
within one minute or it's too late and doesn't count,
and it was at one minute and four seconds. Well,
now the United States appeal to the judges is now
appealing the decision that their appeal came in too late.
USA Gymnastics says we have video evidence that child's coach
filed the inquiry into that score within well within the

(35:14):
one minute window coaches have to file such inquiries. They
said it was forty seven seconds after the score was posted,
well within the one minute. So now whether or not
Jordan Chiles gets a bronze medal is still up in
the air, even though this is a floor routine. I

(35:36):
love this quote from Kerrie Walsh Jennings, the most decorated
beach volleyball Olympian of all time. She didn't compete this year,
but she was talking to Fox the other day about
just getting a gold medal and representing your country in
the Olympics. And listen to this quote. We're about to
blow out of the water. She said that you're supposed

(35:58):
to show up there, represent your country, be proud of
the nation you're representing. Quote, it's okay to be proud
of where you're from. No country is perfect. Embrace the good.
And when I look at that flag talking about the red,
white and blue, America is red, white and blue. Our
country is not our politics. It's our people and our spirit.

(36:21):
I think that's on display in the Olympics. Wonderful quote
Kerrie Walsh Jennings, longtime American beach volleyball Golden medallist, strong
patriotic ties here. Know, our country is not our politics.
We don't need to be divisive all the time. Now,

(36:42):
with that said, let's do something we do occasionally on
this program that will automatically be deemed incredibly divisive, not
just with the stories I pick and the subject of
these stories, but also something our current presidents said about
the former one. When we have lots of different stories
that all have to do with one man who happens
to be the former president of the United States, we

(37:03):
put them together in something we call a Trump date.

Speaker 4 (37:11):
Just shake you Trump, Just shake you truck. Just shake
it Trump.

Speaker 1 (37:21):
Are you shaking your Trump?

Speaker 3 (37:24):
I am, yes, Just shake it Trump.

Speaker 1 (37:27):
Check baby, check baby, one, two, three, four, Just shake
it Trump. All right. We'll start here with the comments
about Trump by the current president, Joe Biden. I'm sorry
the co President of America Joe Biden, he and Kamala
Harris co presidents. Apparently President Biden's surface the other day

(37:47):
and was asked about UH again. Since he gave his
address to the nation about why he was dropping out
of the presidential race, and he didn't actually give it
reason why he was dropping out of the presidential race,
he was asked again and he basically said that as

(38:11):
regarding the pressure, he said, a number of my Democratic
colleagues in the House and Senate thought that I was
going to hurt them in the races, and I was
concerned if I stayed in the race that would be
the topic. So now he's conceding that he was asked
to get out of there, but for what reason. He
didn't give a reason. He didn't say. He said, I

(38:33):
don't have any serious health problems, and I have no
doubt I can handle the job. But he didn't give
a reason. But he said, well, my colleagues thought I
was going to hurt them by staying in the race. Yeah,
but that story was out there for a couple of weeks,

(38:53):
and he was still saying, I'm not going to drop out.
They're not going to get rid of me. And all
the rest of this stuff. All right, So why do
you step aside? He says, I'll just do anything I
need to do. Oh and here's the other thing that
he's now referring to. He's now trying to couch this
as this was never going to be a two term presidency.

(39:13):
He said, you know, look, I intended to be a
transition president from Trump to the next. So I wasn't
even going to run for president in twenty twenty until
Trump was running for reelection. I felt like I had to.
And then I won, of course, because you know, I'm
Joe Biden, and I was just going to be a

(39:33):
transitional president. That's the new excuse. I wasn't even then.
I thought, yeah, I better run just to stop Trump,
he says, stopping the threat that Trump poses. We must,
we must, we must defeat Trump, he said, stopping short
of saying we must, we must, we must increase our bust.

(39:56):
And there's your Judy Bloom reference for this of the radio.

Speaker 3 (40:01):
Program anything prior to nineteen sixty.

Speaker 1 (40:05):
Hmm.

Speaker 3 (40:06):
Yeah, I think that was in Greece too.

Speaker 1 (40:08):
No, No, that's uh. That's from a Judy Bloom book
that was recently made into a movie, got it. We must,
we must, we must increase our bust. Hello, God, are
you there, Goddess me market?

Speaker 3 (40:22):
Oh yeah, that I never read it.

Speaker 1 (40:25):
So now he's talking more about the threat that Trump poses.
It's not just now, it's not that Trump is a
threat to democracy. It's that he's the grand wizard of
the Ku Klux Klan. Apparently, he says, quote, every other
time the Ku Klux Klan has been involved, they wore hoods,
so they're not identified under Trump's presidency. They came out

(40:49):
of those woods with no hoods, knowing they had an
ally unquote who wrote this, Jesse Jackson, not just for
the racial component, but also the fantastic rhyming. I mean,
as much as I am about to bemoan what Biden
just said, the phrase they came out of those woods

(41:10):
with no hoods. That's a good phrase. But now we've
got the president of the United States saying anyone who
has supported, currently supports, or would think to vote for
Trump in November is not just someone who has different
ideas about things like border security, the national economy, inflation, crime,

(41:34):
things like that. No, you are not just racist. You're
put the hood on or be so brazen as to
take your KKK hood off and go out there and terrorize,
like burn crosses in the yards of black people, terrorize, lynch,

(41:55):
murder all that stuff. Yeah, this is These are the
tactics of the KKK threats, murders, lynchings, cross burnings, redlining,
all the rest of this stuff. And he says, this
is what we have in this country. If Trump were elected, Well,

(42:16):
let's look at four years under President Trump. Did any
of that happen. Yeah, here's how racist Trump was and
his KKK unhooded supporters. Anyone else remember Trump going around
during these Trump rallies when he was president, especially as
he was running for reelection, and talking about not just

(42:37):
the unemployment numbers, but the labor participation rate among segments
of working Americans that had previously been ignored, and he
was specifically citing Black Americans. Black more are working, fewer unemployed,
more have more money in their pockets than in any
other administration in history, which by the way, is true.

(43:01):
Now they'll look at the numbers there that happened to
all Americans during the last months of Trump's presidency when
we were in the pandemic, and they'll use that to
average out his four years. But during the pre pandemic
years of Trump, not only was that true about unemployment,
about the labor participation rate, about wages going up and

(43:22):
inflation being low, he was touting it in these rallies.
And these horrible racists Trump supporters out there at these
KKK style Trump rallies are all cheering. They're excited at
something at talking about how great America was going for

(43:45):
working class black Americans. Now, if you really wanted to
go into and see what this might look like, here's
something you can do it. I'm not going to I
don't know where they meet. I don't get these memos.
But if you wanted to infiltrate the KKK head to

(44:05):
one of their meetings and during the time they were
talking about how so and so's wife, you know, shrunk
their sheets or couldn't get the stains out of there.
Oh no, that was so and So's wife cut made
the eye holes in their hoods too small and they
can't see out of these things. There's your two tens

(44:27):
movie reference for this segment of the radio program, one
of the funniest scenes in movie history. In a movie
that is otherwise not funny. Lucy go ahead and take
a wild stab at it.

Speaker 3 (44:39):
Is that the one with Billy Crystal when they were
trying to be cowboys.

Speaker 1 (44:42):
That is a wild stab. Well, first of all, you're
talking about city slickers, slickers from the eighties. I already
said twenty ten. So you're off with them with thirty years.
I know it's from Django unchained. These guys they want
to go out and do a lynching, but they can't.
They can't see out of the small eyehole that you know,
Marty's wife cut out of the hoods or whatever. So anyway, anyway,

(45:07):
try going to a Trump or a KKK rally. Oh,
Freudian slip. No, just calm down. Try going to a
KKK rally. And when they're talking about all this stuff
they want to do, like all right, who brought the cross,
who brought the you know, all this stuff. Just go
in there and go I think it's great that under
Trump so many black Americans were working and had more
money in their pocket and life was going really well

(45:29):
and crime was down and all. And see if they
go yeah, or if suddenly you've got some question, you've
got some splaining to do. I suspect it'll be the latter.
Trump is not leading the KKK. Trumps supporters are not
KKK members. And for the President of the United States
to suggest that half the country is so racist that

(45:52):
they've taken their hoods off, they come out of the
woods with no hoods, fresh face say yeah, you're right,
I know, I got an ally in the wire house
and so forth. This isn't this isn't funny. Am I
trying to make as much light out of it as
I do just about anything on the program. This isn't funny,

(46:13):
and this isn't something that should get a pass. The
President of the United States is just called half the
country racist. Oh okay, well that's political rhetoric. Just a
couple of weeks after and we got to soften the
political rhetoric. We don't want to make it seem like,
you know, we're out to you know, get Trump, the

(46:34):
guy who's going to fundamentally destroy our country and is
leading a group of racist people as the Grand Wizard
of the ku Klux Klan.

Speaker 3 (46:43):
That's almost to the point of defamation, and some lawsuits
need to start coming out. That is an outrageous thing
to say.

Speaker 1 (46:52):
It is and President Biden just said it. Co President
of America. All right, now Trump, We're still in a
Trump date. He Trump is suing the FBI, and Seline
Dion is thinking about suing Donald Trump. Our Trump date
continues in just a couple of minutes. Scott Voriez News
Radio eleven tien kfab We are in the middle of

(47:15):
a Trump date. A lot of different stories. The only
thing they have in common, they all have to do
with Donald Trump talked about Biden's assessment that Trumps supporters
are not only racists but KKK members, saying, quote, every
other time the Ku Klux Klan has been involved, they
wore hoods, so they're not identified. Under his presidency, they

(47:39):
come out of those woods with no hoods, knowing they
had an ally half the country horrible racists, according to
President Biden. There terrorizing, lynching, murdering, killing, redlining, horrible, horrible racist. Again.
Trump would often mention at his rallies under his presidency

(48:04):
the number of Black Americans who were no longer unemployed
and were in the workforce, the labor participation, how that
rate was at a historic high in his presidency. And
he would talk about that and all these horrible races
would go, Eh, I don't like that. No, they would
cheer and excited, including several Black Americans who went to

(48:27):
the rallies.

Speaker 3 (48:30):
Up.

Speaker 1 (48:30):
Next, Trump is apparently now suing the FBI. Well, he's
suing the Justice Department. One hundred million dollar lawsuit against
the Justice Department. Let's see if Trump wins in November,
gets sworn in in January, resuming this lawsuit still hasn't

(48:53):
seen a verdict, you would have the president of the
United States suing his own Justice Department. I don't know
how that would really work, But the argument here is
that the surprise search for classified documents was done with
clear intent to engage in political persecution. According to his
legal team, the Attorney General Merrick Garland and the chief

(49:16):
of the FBI, Chris Ray, should never have approved a
raid and subsequent indictment of President Trump because the well
established protocol with former US presidents is to use non
enforcement means to obtain records of the United States. According
to his attorney, notwithstanding the fact that the raid should
never have occurred, Garland and Ray should have ensured their

(49:40):
agents sought consent from President Trump, notified as lawyers, and
sought cooperation to get these documents that either were or
weren't or only recently classified, and whether or not they
were something that he had that he shouldn't have had.
The raid was only there to engage in political persecution.

(50:01):
That search turned up documents that led to thirty seven
felony counts against Trump by this brought by the special prosecutor,
a special prosecutor who was put there illegally, unconstitutionally. Therefore,
the felony counts were dismissed, even though the prosecutor and
the Biden administration are appealing that. So Trump is now

(50:24):
looking for one hundred million dollars from the Justice Department.
That's about half what he got during that presentation of
that news story from Elon Musk. Just during that time,
a video of Celine Dion performing her iconic hit the

(50:49):
Power of Love. No uh, It's all coming back to me.
No oh yeah, that one from Titanic. My Heart Will
Go On a video of Selene Dion performing that song
My Heart Will Go On was played at a Trump
rally in Montana on Friday, And, as is always the case,

(51:09):
just in case anyone was confused by this, anytime you
get a Trump rally, and this has been true of
a lot of different well, a lot of different Republican politicians,
especially presidential contenders over the years, when they had these
rallies and they got some music playing and all that,
unless the artist is right there playing the song live.

(51:31):
The artists themselves say, hey, I didn't approve of Reagan
to use Born in the USA, Bruce Springsteen, I didn't
approve of Trump playing this video of me singing my
Heart Will Go On at this Trump rally on Friday.
That's the statement from Selene Dion, which also she says

(51:51):
the use of this song was unauthorized, as in, no
way is this use authorized, and Selene Dion does not
endorse this or any similar use. Blah blah blah blah blah.
And then the statement concludes with I think something that
even people at that rally might have thought. The statement

(52:13):
concludes with, and really that song, it's not exactly a
you know, let's get everyone all hyped up. Here comes
jd Vance and Donald Trump at a or a you know,
whoever would be out there. It's not exactly that which
is going to get everyone real excited. My Heart Will

(52:33):
Go On by Celine Dion. People are probably crying, hugging,
wondering if there was enough room on the door, you
know that kind of thing. So just in case anyone
thought that Celine Dion was a Trump supporter, In fact,
I didn't realize this. Trump reached out for his inaugural
ball in twenty sixteen to Celine Dion to perform a

(52:56):
French Canadian whatever, and she refused to perform. I don't
know if she was even asked, but that's what they're
saying here. I don't know. And a number of other
musical acts have spoken out against Trump using their songs
at Trump rallies, including the Rolling Stones Start Me Up.

(53:18):
I imagine village people Trump dancing to the ymcarem It's
the end of the world as we know it. You
could probably make a case, Yeah, you could probably make
a case some either side that that's an appropriate song
right now, Neil Young, keep on rocking in the free world.
I imagine Aerosmith dude looks like a lady loving an elevator.

(53:43):
What Aerosmith's song would be used at a dream on
sweet emotion?

Speaker 3 (53:50):
Yeah, I could see that.

Speaker 1 (53:52):
Ever Last aka House of Pain. That's probably jump around.
I don't think you probably played what It's like or
put your lights on there's a good ever last song
Adele Hello, Yeah, I could see it. Yeah, rolling, rolling
in the deep, I imagine. And Rihanna don't stop the music, Rihanna.

(54:16):
When they were using don't stop the music at these rallies,
she said, neither me nor my people would ever be
at or around one of those tragic rallies, Rihanna.

Speaker 3 (54:31):
So this is probably, like you said, bumper music or
in play me play me in play me out music.

Speaker 1 (54:36):
No, it's just music played before Trump takes the stage,
in some cases a couple of hours before Trump takes
the stage. So all the artists just want their fans
and know we didn't approve of this. They got to
release a statement. And I don't think that this artist
approved of me taking their song and turning it into

(54:56):
a Trump date bed but I think, I think, I
think that's the end of our Trump date. This one
is from Oh Yeah, the President's He's He's president, he
was president. We've been using these a long time. He's up,
he's dup, He's tough. Another Trump Si

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