Lucy Spiked My Eggnog

Drunk on Lucy's special blend of eggnog, we navigate our way through some health news, Rhule and Penn State possibilities, what a cruddy cop I was this week, "housing first" and Omaha's homeless problems, and more.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott Vordiez.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
At this moment, the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson,
is giving a briefing on the government shutdown, and I'm
looking here for the breaking news, and yes, it's true.
The government shutdown is still going on. So that's it.
That could have been an email, but we will monitor
that and if there's any other details that come out

(00:23):
of that, we will let you know. I think it
was the Babylon Bee that had the headline that said
the government's going to keep this thing shut down until
most American people notice that it's shut down. Lucy, if
our parent company, iHeartRadio said we're doing a shutdown, but

(00:43):
we want you to keep coming to work and we'll
pay you later, would you come in.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
It feels like I do that now.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
That is the correct answer. Congratulations. You've moved on to
the bonus round where we get to talk about health
issues and I am not calling you fat. That's in
case you just join us for the first time. You're like,
what the hell was that? That's a long inside joke.
Lucy is a velt model, Lucy. A lot of people

(01:15):
are really impressed because they're saying, well, I listen early
on kfab she's doing traffic reports. I hear her trying
to get a word in edgewise during your show. And
then I'm driving home from work listening to ninety nine
point nine KGr. Lucy's on KGr in the afternoon. You
don't even know what she does. After that. She goes
in and in college art classes, she's the model. She

(01:38):
goes in there. Sometimes she's wearing a partially open robe.
Sometimes she's holding an apple. Sometimes she's you know, just
flexing all of her muscles and all that, and makes
good money doing it. But here's the amazing thing about Lucy.
She always gives it back to the college. She says,
I don't need it. I'm happy to do this. I'm

(01:58):
a bit of an exhibitionist and I think people need
to see this, and then she motions to her body.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
But you know, here's the problem with that gig. Many
times I want to do something different, but all they
want me for are like sixteenth or seventeenth century photos
or I'm sorry, paintings of women who when they were
very large, it showed how they were very rich.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
Yes and healthy. Yes, that's the only ones they want
me for.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
The large ones.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
I know some of the girls that are found to
be attractive by these standards. Maybe not so much today,
but like in the nineties when Victoria's secrets, like here's
a toothpick wearing a wig and we're like, oh yeah,
look at that. You know, those girls would have been
considered just the hideous, skanky women back in the day,
like I need a woman with a little tummy on

(02:49):
her help. I need a woman with a healthy tummy
and berthing hips.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
Yeah, but you feel good, that's right.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
But I think it's great what you do for the
college of kids lose see, and I'm not gonna do
it anymore. To where there was a couple months ago
Lucy couldn't do it. Something came up and they're like,
we need someone, and so she called me and say
can you go in there and do it. I went
in there. I started to disrobe. They're like, oh no, no, no, no, no, no,

(03:18):
here put this on, and they painted me while wearing
one of those nineties era starter jackets.

Speaker 3 (03:25):
I heard that got real, Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
Yeah, and enough pairs that they're like, just keep putting
on sweatpants. Do we tell you to stop? I look
like the michelin Man, And I think that's probably what
the assignment was as they were doing a new logo
for Michelin.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
I see, yeah, that got a little dicey. I heard stories, Scott.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
You said that you were gonna tell us now what
it is that we do every morning that we thought
was good for us that might be bad for us. Yeah,
and here it is protein shakes. Oh tell me protein
shakes are bad for us? Well, I'm only reading the news.

(04:06):
Consumer Reports tested twenty three different protein powders and protein
shakes from established brands, and they found that more than
two thirds of them, or as recent OPS graduates would say,
two thirds, that's almost half. They found that more than

(04:26):
two thirds of these protein powders and protein shakes from
established brands packed more lead then experts consider safe, sometimes
ten times more lead than what experts consider safe. There
is a threshold for daily exposure to lead, and that

(04:49):
is zero point five micrograms. How much lead do you
get just whether you're you're just in the nature, just
eating and drinking what you normally do for your diet,
walking around, breathing, licking walls, you know, things that you
do every single day.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
Drink stab with pencils, drinking.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
Drinking drinking lead based paint, getting stabbed with pencils. Yeah,
I zero point five micrograms. How much is a microgame? Microgram?
It's about as much information as you provided so far
in the show today, Scott, all right, I've had just
about enough out of you. Let's see there's one Naked

(05:38):
Nutritions Vegan mass gainer. Excuse me, this is the name
of a plant based protein powder, Naked Nutritions. Naked is
a I don't know if this is the naked brand drinker,
if it's something different, but it says Naked Nutritions Vegan
mass gainer. When you got to put on mass as

(05:58):
a vegan right now? Vegans are offended. Hey, this is
for you. This is your people telling you, Yeah, you
don't look well, you look sick with this particular product.
You're growing towards the sun nicely. This particular product contained
nearly twice as much lead as the most contaminated product

(06:21):
found in the Consumer Reports test, which was seven point
seven micrograms of lead per serving. So again the daily
exposure limits point five, this is seven point seven. Can
you even see a microgram? How big is a microgram?
I don't know, Scott, take off your pants and show us.

Speaker 3 (06:37):
All Right, that's enough.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
Wow, I'm doing a radio show here and I don't
need this content interruption from people who are making fun
of me. Now Where was where was? I?

Speaker 3 (06:52):
Sure?

Speaker 2 (06:56):
So I started doing a protein shake every morning a
couple of years ago. And you know why, because suddenly,
now here I am in my mid forties and all
the stuff that I was told when I was sitting
here eating garbage by the pound every single day for
eight or nine meals a day. I used to work

(07:17):
on a radio station in Kansas City where the lead
in to my show was fitness coach rob coach k Kingsbury.
He hosted a show called Total Health, and when he
did his show, I would be usually devouring my lunch,
which was like a sixty piece chicken McNugget, and he
would look at me. I'd be sitting outside the studio.

(07:39):
He'd be doing a show talking about being healthy, and
I would just sit there with a bag of McDonald's
just staring at him. Drove him crazy, which is exactly
why I did it. And he said, yeah, you think
it's funny now being to eat like this in your twenties.
Someday you're going to be in your forties and it's
all going to come catching up to you, and I
will never calling back and admit that he's right. But

(08:05):
then started catching up and I was like, all right,
I should probably not eat grease for breakfast, but I
need something filling so I can do that. I can
have the stamina to do this exhilarating radio program.

Speaker 3 (08:21):
Eat steak, well, i'd like to.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
I also need something that's really fast because I'm not
gonna take the time to cook anything. Oh my wife's like,
just get up a little earlier, you're gonna make a breakfast. No,
So I centered on the protein shakes. It's a lot
better in that stuff I was putting in the microwave.
It's cheaper, and I thought it was better for me.
But now not only are they saying as some of

(08:44):
these protein powder shakes and all that, you know, they're
not subject to FDA approval. And I just winked at
our FK junior, like it's okay, they're not subject to
FDA approval. There's no federal cap on how much head
metal they can contain, right, I wink at Billy Idle

(09:05):
on that one is Billy Idle heavy metal? Yeah, it
depends on if you're a Barry Manilo fan.

Speaker 4 (09:09):
He is.

Speaker 2 (09:11):
If you're a Barry Manilo fan, Elton John is heavy
metal turn off Saturday nights all right for fighting. I
can't stand that racket. I've been listening to a lot
more Metallica lately.

Speaker 3 (09:24):
That is good to hear and Motorhead if you listen
to some motorhead.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
Uh lemmy, not really. I missed Metallica the first time around.
When one of my best friends when I was a
kid was a great kid named Damon. And then Damon
and I we would be out, you know, playing basketball,
throwing the football around, hanging out, like doing trading cards, baseball,

(09:50):
cars and all that stuff. And then there was a
fork in the road and he went one way and
I went the other. And that had to do with
musical tastes. He starts growing his hair out and listening
to Metallica. This is like eighty seven eighty eight. I
went the other way. I turned my hat backwards and
started listening to rap.

Speaker 3 (10:10):
You know that explains a lot.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
Yeah, And I've never seen that guy since he went
down that road, and so I went down rap. He
went down heavy metal and never the TwixT shall meet
until Public Enemy did that song with Anthrax, and then
there was a brief coming together. What am I talking

(10:32):
about now? Heavy metal? Anyway? I missed Metallica the first
time around, and I've been getting trying to get into
him now, I admit a little bit late. I also
admit my Metallica taste would probably not line up with
real Metallica fans. And they're like, what's your favorite song?
Is it O'Ryan? This never ending instrumental that goes nowhere?
Like that's all right? You know what I like? I

(10:54):
like the Unforgiven two. Like that's a ballad, dude, you're
not a Metallica fan. Like it's a good song. There's
no federal there's no FDA approval on protein shakes. There's
no federal caps on how much heavy metal they can contain.
You're impressed I mentioned Oriyan though, aren't you? Metallica fans

(11:15):
didn't think I knew that one. And here's the worst part.
Consumer Reports food safety researcher advises most people to just
skip protein shakes quote none are necessary to hit your
protein goals. For many people, there's more to lose than

(11:35):
you're gaining. The typical American diet supplies plenty of protein already,
so I'm wasting money time. Here's all I know. I
started doing the protein shakes, the weight gain leveled out,
and if I were better about my other meals, it

(11:57):
would probably go back a little bit. But I'm at
I'm at a good maintenance, I'm out a good fight
and weight right now. I weigh about the same as
my football coach told the statisticians to put on the
roster as how much I weighed in high school. See
at Ralston, we weren't a real big football team, so

(12:19):
we tried to let other coaches think that we were
bigger than we were. So the coach added like ten
to fifteen pounds to all of our weight when writing
it down on the roster. Did that change anything at
game time? No, they're like, hey, these guys are like
ten to fifteen pounds, easier to push around than I
thought they'd be. It had nothing to do with anything,

(12:39):
but it made us seem bigger. How much are you like?
One seventy one ninety sounds better? All right, get out there,
but I'm not one ninety. Yeah, no one knows that.
Get out there, put on some weight, go play. When
you put the pants on. You probably like, oh, yeah,
I want I put the pants on. Yeah, But doesn't
the other guy who's at a real waight also have

(13:00):
the pads on. Yes, So protein shakes, experts say, are
doing nothing for us, aren't necessary, not FDA approval, and
they might contain so much lead that they would make
us sick. And what happens if you have too much
lead exposure you start talking to your various voices out

(13:22):
loud on a radio program. At least that's what it
says in this report.

Speaker 3 (13:27):
It actually says that no.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
But that's what one of the voices said is here's
another bit of health news. And I've heard this one,
but it seemed like this is the kind of thing
that people with a problem would say. I never believe
this is real healthy. I'll tell you what it is next.

Speaker 1 (13:48):
Scott fordies news Radio eleven ten k FAD.

Speaker 2 (13:54):
I'm Scott Vorhees. There's Lucy Chapman and we're doing a
little bit of health news now on news radio eleven
ten KFAB with a healthy dose of lots of different
side roads which caused and here's another one. Ron to
email and say time to adjust Scott's meds again, and
Kyle to email and says, if anyone ever asks you

(14:16):
what your favorite Metallica song is, the correct answer is
Creeping Death, and then says, signed Creeping Death, Kyle, that's
my garbage pail kid's name. I was hot Scott Potty, Scottie.
I had two.

Speaker 3 (14:34):
You didn't actually have the stickers though.

Speaker 2 (14:36):
Yeah, and one of them still in my garage in
a hard case. My brother in law, Steve, found that
for me and gave it to me in the protective case,
and it's sitting right there by the workbench. I see
it every single day.

Speaker 3 (14:48):
I got a bunch of them, all in little sleeves.
The garbage pail kid, No, you do not. What was
the other one, garbage pail kids? But there was another
one fun of different brand names.

Speaker 2 (15:02):
I don't know. Cheap imitators. Now, are you the kid? Well,
the rest of us were playing with Transformers. Were you
playing with gobots?

Speaker 4 (15:09):
No?

Speaker 2 (15:09):
Come on, pony up the extra three dollars and get
the real stuff. What was your garbage pail kid's name?

Speaker 3 (15:14):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (15:16):
Juicy Lucy. Probably they throw you in a blender.

Speaker 3 (15:19):
Never heard anybody say that to me.

Speaker 2 (15:22):
I know, well, I'm trying to think what your garbage
pail kid name would be. I'll look it up right now,
probably Kyle's looking it up. Here's the bit of alcohol
related health.

Speaker 3 (15:33):
News whacky something, but it has to.

Speaker 2 (15:38):
Pretty much rhyme with your name or the brand.

Speaker 3 (15:41):
It was wacky wacky something.

Speaker 2 (15:45):
Yeah, online at whackysothing dot info. Mind wacky something. This
is referred to here in the everyone.

Speaker 3 (15:57):
Not going to be on the podcast.

Speaker 2 (15:59):
I know none of this is I don't think it's
allowed to be. Like, we have standards when this podcast
is going on to iHeartRadio. We have standards. Try harder.
Everyone pull out their most recent journal of b MJ
Evidence Based Medicine. It's a new study in that scientific journal.

(16:22):
I'll wait, how you got it right there, don't you, sar,
you already saw this. They're referring to what they refer
to as a decade's old belief that one drink a
day was an optimal sweet spot to be healthy, one
alcoholic beverage per day. Has anyone ever believed that to

(16:47):
be healthy? And people right now are like, eh, a
little glass of wine. Well, I don't care what you do,
just don't get any on. It's pretty much my my motto.

Speaker 3 (17:02):
But I don't think you're asking that question correctly.

Speaker 2 (17:06):
And how Lucy? Please tell me how to do my job? Someone,
anyone please?

Speaker 3 (17:12):
I do every day. You just don't listen. I don't
think the question is does anybody believe a glass of
wine is healthy every day? I think what you should
say is does anybody believe you should never drink wine?

Speaker 2 (17:29):
It's wine thirty in Lucy world?

Speaker 3 (17:32):
And yet here I sit by the way, was it nothing?

Speaker 2 (17:35):
That was a great impression of former Omaha Mare Jim Subtle.
That's not the question. The question is like, well, I
asked you the question. Why am I even here? You're
just gonna ask yourself questions and answer them. Well, that's
not the question. The question every single time I never
once asked him a question he wanted to hear. Uh.
They say one drink a day, sweet Spot considered it

(17:57):
optimal to be healthy, and now they're.

Speaker 3 (18:00):
Saying I'm doubly healthy.

Speaker 2 (18:03):
I know if one drink a day is healthy, then
if I have a case a day, I'm a regular
lou Farigno.

Speaker 3 (18:11):
Twenty four times healthier than you.

Speaker 2 (18:13):
I'll tell you what.

Speaker 3 (18:17):
I mean.

Speaker 2 (18:17):
If you normally would drink three or four drinks a
day if you're just you know, whacking down a bottle
of Southern comfort, if you're Janis Joplin and you're brushing
your teeth with gin, and you move back to let's
just go with one drink a day, that's probably healthier
than what you were doing. But if like me, I

(18:41):
might have any more, maybe one drink a week, Scott,
then what are we blaming?

Speaker 3 (18:49):
It's just that it starts up Monday morning?

Speaker 2 (18:51):
Right right? What are we blaming? This hole keeps filling
up or around you on? Oh, there's let's not get
into it. I don't I don't drink very much, and
when I do drink, I still don't drink very much.
So what am I supposed to like suddenly step it up? Like, hey,

(19:11):
you know, I went to the doctor today. He says
you're not drinking enough alcohol? What doctor is that? Feel good?
He's the one that makes you feel all right? Is
Motley Crue considered heavy metal? Well, if you were listening
to nothing, but.

Speaker 3 (19:30):
No, that's glam rock.

Speaker 2 (19:32):
Yeah, that's true. So now they're saying they again BMJ
evidence based medicine. They've they did, they tracked more than
five hundred and fifty thousand people aged fifty six to
seventy two, and they analyzed genetics data. And they had
to do that because previously they were just asking people

(19:55):
how much do you drink a day? And Barney from
The Simpsons was to them, they think.

Speaker 4 (20:02):
Very much.

Speaker 2 (20:04):
It's a pretty bad person. Yeah, but.

Speaker 3 (20:10):
I'm gonna giggle about that all day.

Speaker 2 (20:11):
Yeah. Before they were just asking people, did you drink
a lot? A lot? So they just studied genetics data
from around two point four million individuals and this must
have been a great party. They did this study and
they found no amount of drinking is truly safe when

(20:33):
it comes to an increased risk of dementia. They also
found that no amount of drinking was truly safe when
it came to an increased risk of dementia.

Speaker 3 (20:48):
I'm sorry, I forgot what you said.

Speaker 2 (20:51):
Let me read it. Oh did I point this out?
They found no amount of drinking, no amount of drink
was truly safe when it came to an increased risk
of dementia. Apparently there are be an increased risk of
dementia the more you drank. Also, the more you drink
leads to an increased risk of dementia.

Speaker 3 (21:12):
So it's like two times times two times times three, yes, eighteen.

Speaker 2 (21:17):
Yeah, thankfully there's none of that here. I'm Stephen Gina
on Cat one O three Scott, Lucy, are you talking
about wacky packs? The kind of garbage pail alternative whack
wacky packs? H?

Speaker 1 (21:36):
Are you?

Speaker 2 (21:36):
There is your mic on?

Speaker 4 (21:38):
Hell?

Speaker 3 (21:38):
It's not on, it's on.

Speaker 2 (21:40):
Is that what you're talking about? Wacky packs?

Speaker 3 (21:41):
That's what I say. You a picture of Yeah, but it.

Speaker 2 (21:44):
It doesn't have the name on it.

Speaker 3 (21:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (21:48):
Jim and Eric both say it was wacky packs, and
it was a parody of actual consumer items. So rather
garbage pail kids was a baby who was probably in
some various stages of duress or mischief with a with
a I would have had that actually right with a

(22:10):
take on someone's name, Looney Lucy was yours, and it's
a take off on the Lucy stuff in her face
with food on the conveyor belt onsight. Love Lucy, I
Love Lucy. A show that came out before Lucy Chapman

(22:30):
was born.

Speaker 3 (22:31):
Yesterday was Lucy Day. I Love Lucy Day because it
came out in nineteen fifty one. Yesterday it did I
saw no Cake?

Speaker 2 (22:41):
Did you? And your husband, Ricky watch it at home?
Did you say nay? No, prety good impersonation of Lucy.
So there, wacky packs, looney Lucy. We got those issues answered.
I'm just going to zip right down here because I've

(23:02):
got a number of emails that I've noted, like, oh,
I got to get back to this sometime now, how
do I filter? Oh? Flagged? Okay, because every day I
get to the end of the show, I'm like, all right,
flag these emails. We'll get to him tomorrow, and then
I never do. All right, So let's just go back

(23:26):
in time here, Gary, these emails probably have no rhyme
or reason, kind of like the show we've done thus far.
Gary says it will show Matt Rule's true colors if
he's offered the job by Penn State and accepts the
job at Joe pa ped State. That's from Gary and

(23:46):
Lincoln referring to a scandal that happened years ago, not
too many years ago, but yeah, scandal, and people are like,
Paterno knew, yeah, that thing. It's funny that the same
people that say, yeah, Joe, Paterno knew it was going

(24:08):
on in there, they're the same people that email and say,
Joe Biden had no idea what he was doing in
the White House. It was all you know, people behind
the scenes doing whatever they wanted, and Biden was clueless.
But Joe paterno knew. I hope you catch my drift. Anyway,

(24:28):
I am glad that they rooted out that hideous cancer
that was not just the one guy doing this. But
and this is where Penn State would really, really, really
got it wrong because they say, and you can understand
this to a point, They're like, look, someone comes to
us and they have an accusation. There's no proof. It's

(24:51):
your word against his. His word is from someone I've
worked with for a long time. I'd never believed that
he would be capable of something like this. So we
have no proof and nothing to investigate. So nothing's gonna happen. Sure,
But you also then this is where you fall way
way short of that standard. And this happens in education

(25:12):
as well. You get something that's an unproof and accusation,
it's someone's word against someone else's, there's no proof, and
you're like, look, I just don't know that there's enough
here that we know how to act on it. Yeah,
you know why, because you're a football coach, or you're
a third grade math teacher or a middle school principal,
you're not trained in investigations to try and dig a

(25:34):
little deeper and uncover this stuff. When you don't then
hand over these accusations to the police, or when you
the accuser say well, I've had something absolutely horrible and
unspeakable happened to me. I'm gonna go tell my cornerbacks coach, Like,
call the police. They're there, everyone knows their phone number.

(26:00):
You call them. That's why you got to get the
authorities involved. But as far as Matt Rule and going
to Penn State with all that shroud of controversy surrounding
that program, once proud program that's trying to get back
to that level again despite the hideous content, and just

(26:23):
in case, Simon's like, I don't know what happened to
Penn State. Oh boy, there was a longtime assistant football
coach who was accused of like fondling and abusing players.
You're like, how does that work? How does some old
guy just get to have his way with some young

(26:46):
college athlete who at any time could pick him up
and throw him through a wall. Yeah, I don't get
it either. But I've never been a victim of abuse.
So if Rule wanted to go back to that place,
put yourself in the Adidas of Matt Ruhle for a second.

(27:07):
Let's say you're a football coach, you got a good gig,
you like where you are, but here's your alma mater.
You played for them. You were in there just bleeding
and sweating and crying and laughing with all the guys
on that team, the coaches in that program, and you

(27:28):
just love. Even anytime you see a car that's even
close to your school colors, you're like, yeah, you love
that place. Not to take anything away from where you
are now, but that place had horrible controversial things happen there,
and now they come to you and say, look, we
need to take another step forward to get from where

(27:51):
we were here in the controversy. This needs to be
a proud program. We need a good man to lead it,
who's a man of impeccable care, to bring along a
coaching staff that follow suit, and to make this a
program that once again we can be proud of. So

(28:11):
to Gary's point, it would show Matt Rule's true colors
if he offered an accept a job at Joe Pop
ped State. Gary, blow it straight out your butt. What
in the world are you talking about, Matt like Matt
ruhle like. Oh yes, my entire coaching life has been
waiting for this moment so I can go to a

(28:31):
college that has looked the other way while people are
being molested. This is what I want, is all right?
So let's agree to the terms of the contract here.
I get to coach the team. Yes, I make this
much money.

Speaker 4 (28:43):
Great.

Speaker 2 (28:43):
If you guys win, you guys fire me. Because I
have a couple of bad weeks. I get this much
to leave. We can still molest the players, right, what
world do you think that there's anything surrounding this man
that has anything close to that mindset that would have
anything other than let me go back and try and

(29:05):
save this program that I love so Gary, if you
intended that to be a funny, lighthearted comment, I'm sorry.
I just don't find abuse as funny as some of
the people might do. I can be as glib with
it as I do everything else on this program. Apparently,
But and then Ron emails Scott atkfab dot com says,

(29:33):
even if coach rule doesn't go to Penn State, he
won't be here much longer, as his pattern seems to indicate,
there's simply no brand loyalty or school spirit in college
football anymore. They'll be eventually a transfer portal for coaches.
I'm a lifelong Husker fan, but I'm seriously wondering why
should fans be loyal if coaches and players won't be.

(29:53):
This goes exactly lousy to what we were talking about
the other day. This is a girlfriend who thinks my
man's gonna leave me goes to the man, are you
gonna leave me?

Speaker 4 (30:05):
No?

Speaker 2 (30:05):
I I like where I am. I thought we were
having a good time. We have plans on Friday night,
we're gonna play a football game. You're gonna leave me
before Friday? No, I'm preparing for the plan. We're going
up to Minneapolis. We're gonna have a nice time. We're
gonna we're gonna stomp on some Gophers and then you know,

(30:26):
hit the town, the good parts of the town. But
are you gonna leave me on Saturday?

Speaker 4 (30:36):
Like?

Speaker 2 (30:36):
Stop kicking this man out. You're like, there's no brand
loyalty and all. Well, all this guy has done is
take his star quarterback and running back and these guys
have been going out there to high school basketball games
and charity events and doing selfies with kids and trying
to get people excited about Nebraska football. That's exactly what

(30:58):
we want. We did see it from previous coaching staffs.
We're seeing it now. And we also wanted better performance
on the field. We're seeing that too. How can you
be a lifelong Husker fan sitting there and going, well,
I think it's all just good about to end. He

(31:21):
doesn't care about it like he's coaching here now. He
didn't come out this week and go, oh, hey, all
that stuff I said about, you know, liking to live
here and being a part of this program in this
culture here. I love it, My family loves it here.
It's all a bunch of bs. See you later, suckers.
I'm going to Penn State. How does one get to

(31:42):
Happy Valley Wagons East? So stop being the clingy bad
girlfriend right now now. This email, Lucy, did not come
from a listener. It came from a teacher of my
kid in his high school class, and it was just

(32:05):
just a standard email that went out to all the
parents who have kids with this teacher. He is an
English teacher, and it says, Hey, if you don't know me,
this is me. I'm your teacher and all this. So
he says blah blah blah blah blah. With all that
being said, I warned all students that the usage of

(32:28):
AI is strictly forbidden on all assignments and an automatic
zero with no chance to redo it. I told all
the students I would rather have an essay with all
the spelling and grammar mistakes in the world, knowing it
came from your own brain. This is my one and

(32:49):
only zero tolerance policy. I'll always accept late work till
the end of the quarter the semester, but I draw
a hard line on AI. I apologize in it advance
if it's detrimental to your child's grade. I don't think
he's apologizing one bit for that. I wouldn't no, So
I was really happy to see that. And then I

(33:13):
found out one of the reasons why this email went out.
It's because of my son. What I said, you're the
I said, did you turn in a He's like no, no, no, no, Dad, no,
no no no. So he and he went to the
teacher and explained because suddenly my son turned in an
assignment with some words in there that were traditionally not

(33:34):
words that he would use in different assignments, you know,
big like two syllable words, you know, that kind of thing.

Speaker 3 (33:42):
So I thought, well.

Speaker 2 (33:45):
Here's what my son would. He ran his essay not
through AI but through Grammarly that offered suggestions on misspellings
or maybe use this word, and he's like great, and
he thought it was okay to just click the Yeah,
we'll do this. But he wrote the essay. He just
got some help with a couple of words in there,
and the teacher said now and my son said wait

(34:06):
and the teacher said okay, And then the email went
out to everyone saying, hey, just letting you know zero.

Speaker 3 (34:14):
Did he include grammarily on that Grammarly.

Speaker 2 (34:17):
No, but he told my son just turn in the
assignment with the errors. I want to see what you're
capable of, right, and would I'll tell the teacher and
parent teacher conferences. Are you sure you want to see
what my son is capable of?

Speaker 3 (34:31):
I like this teacher.

Speaker 2 (34:32):
I know I do too, and we appreciate you being
with us coming up here at ten thirty five this morning. Yes,
Omaha has a growing homeless issue, But what's it going
to take to happen here before it explodes into a
problem like you see in Denver, like you see in
San Francisco, you see in other parts of the country.

(34:54):
What do we need to really avoid here to keep
this problem from getting even worse? How do we get
to this point? I got an expert in not just homelessness,
but the societal and governmental local governmental issues that contribute
to it. Coming on here at ten thirty five this morning,

(35:15):
all right, I can't take it anymore before I tell
you about why I would be the worst cop of
all time. Lucy, get out of my head. I was
walking into the dairy section of my grocer's freezer the
other day, my local high v and I was grumbling.
I didn't look real hard, but I was grumbling. Going

(35:37):
kind of jonesing for some eggnog right now, but I
gotta wait probably another month or month and a half
till eggnog. They used to do Halloween nog around this
time of year. I don't see Halloween nog anywhere. I
want some eggnog. And then I come to work this
morning and they're sitting there on my desk is a

(35:59):
little jug of eggnog.

Speaker 3 (36:01):
Not just eggnog.

Speaker 2 (36:02):
Anderson ericson agnog bestgn a e eggnog shake well, twelve
floor accounts of proof that God's God loves us eggnog.
Don't even bother to come at me with your stupid
emails about ignog terrible will Hey, no one wants to

(36:23):
hear it.

Speaker 3 (36:26):
And Anderson Erickson if you're if you're listening, I'm happy
to you know, endorse you. This is the best eggnog.
People say that about eggnog, that it's terrible, and a
lot of it is.

Speaker 2 (36:37):
No, not this bad eggnog is still pretty good.

Speaker 3 (36:41):
No, I disagree now.

Speaker 2 (36:44):
Also, don't come at me with your stupider emails about
how can you drink eggnog without alcohol in it? Because
why ruin perfectly good eggnog by putting booze in it?
Why ruin perfectly good booze by putting eggnog in it?
Neither is improved with the other eggnog does just find
by itself like hamburger helper ow. I was racing to

(37:09):
hit the I was racing to hit the ding. I
knocked over my eggnog. Thankfully I haven't opened it yet.
That would be worse that Megnog and I spill it
all over everything. We just got a new carpet. Yeah,
that Hamburger Helper. I don't know why they call this
stuff Hamburger helper does just find by itself. There's your
eighties movie reference. That's your eighties movie reference. For the

(37:31):
segment of the radio program that's gonna be Twins Vacation
Twins nice. Guess if I ever referenced Twins on this show?

Speaker 3 (37:39):
No, but you should.

Speaker 2 (37:41):
Yeah, I think you're the crap. I think would be
the line from Twins. So eggnog is fantastic, but I
I shouldn't drink it because it doesn't exactly contribute to
not having cotton mouth when doing a radio program. But
because this radio show went off the rails early and often.

Speaker 3 (38:02):
What the heck are you saying that it went off
the rails early? No, because I'm here, No, just me,
because I have got lots of stuff to do.

Speaker 2 (38:12):
Did you bring eggnog for yourself? Or is this just
for me?

Speaker 3 (38:15):
It's just for you?

Speaker 2 (38:15):
Hey, it's an Emory song er. Thursday, Thursday. I'm drinking eggnog.

Speaker 3 (38:20):
Yeah it is Thursday. How is it? M?

Speaker 2 (38:26):
I didn't even shake it. I should probably shake it oh, gross.
After I'm done shaking it, I'll shake the eggnog like
a polaroid picture. All right, let's try this again. Well,
there's no point in shaking it. When it's filled up
to the brim. It doesn't shake very well. You gotta
drink a little bit, give yourself some room to shake.

(38:46):
Mm hmm mmm mmm.

Speaker 3 (38:51):
Are you gonna be all right in there?

Speaker 2 (38:53):
M Oh, that's so good.

Speaker 3 (38:59):
I'm glad that made you happy.

Speaker 2 (39:01):
I dripped it on my pants. Now I look like
I really enjoyed this egnug.

Speaker 3 (39:08):
That's not gonna make the podcast.

Speaker 2 (39:12):
No, I just mean that I drank it haphazardly and recklessly.
That's good stuff. The other day here in Omaha, a
police officer and I went on a deep, a very

(39:33):
weighty rant on what got this police officer shot in
the head here in Omaha the other day with amazingly
a bullet wounded the head, that didn't kill him, And
he's going to end up being okay. Through the grace
of God and quick movements and probably erratic shooting on
the perpetrator's part, this police officer is going to live.

(39:55):
But one of the reasons why he was even in
a position to be able to get shot at was
all these so called leaders community activist types that say
we don't need police being called out to a mental
health disturbance call. There's a guy at a gas station
who's got some mental issues. He's bothering customers and acting erratically.

(40:18):
This is where you send out a therapist. You sent
out a counselor, you sent out a mental health expert
to say, hey, Pumpkin, are you having a case of
the mondays? We don't need cops out there. Cops are
only going to escalate the situation. Plus they know this
guy is not dangerous, he just needs a hug. Cop

(40:38):
goes out there, grabs a taser because this guy is
not backing down. And a cop grabs a taser, the
other guy pulls a gun out of his waistband and
very quickly as the officers like I just brought a
taser to a gunfight in trying to switch hands with
the taser and reach for his firearms. So when the

(41:00):
perpetrator is able to pull the trigger. Now, in the
wake of that, you had more people saying stuff. You know,
and this happens all the time. I don't know. Cops
shouldn't have to worry about this stuff is not that
big a deal. The Bud Crawford saying, hey, you know,
why do they have to do all this? There's a
gun in the car. Shouldn't they know it is not
a problem in all this. So we've been talking a

(41:22):
lot about these issues. Douglas County Sheriff Aaron Hanson invited
me and three other individuals to be a part of
a training seminar a couple of afternoons ago to see
what it's like to walk up on a vehicle and

(41:43):
wonder whether or not the guy in the vehicle has
a gun and how to handle it if you realize
that he does. This is I kind of thought I
was going into shoot don't shoot training. Basically, they bring
out me and I hope these other guys don't mind
me mentioning their names. But our good friend William King,

(42:07):
who does a great podcast in community radio broadcast on
The Boss out of Northeast Omaha. William King is a
great guy, and then Brian Mastery, lead anchor on First
Alert six News. The other individual, good guy. I'd never

(42:27):
met him before. He serves as kind of a community
liaison with the Douglas County sheriffs on a supervisory board,
and so they asked him to be a part of
it as well, and so, individually, without seeing how the
other one was doing, we put on the bulletproof vest
with the bodycam footage and helmet just in case things

(42:48):
got sideways. So I had a full tactical gear on
RoboCop reporting for duty. I looked more like Cobra commander,
but still it was I felt I felt cool, I
felt like and I And they even let me drive
the squad car.

Speaker 3 (43:06):
Did you just squeal almost like a little girl?

Speaker 2 (43:08):
Did they? We were walking out to the car because
I didn't know what in the world I was getting
myself into. You know, as a radio guy, I get
asked to do things all the time, and usually it's
just like, let me see if I'm available. Yep, I'm available.
What time do I need to be and ware? Do
you need to know more details before you get here?
I do not. Let's just go. And because of things

(43:30):
like that, I have repelled down the side of a
woodman tower horrible idea, jumped out of an airplane even worse,
skydiving terrible idea. So glad I had those experiences. Though
people are like do you need to do them again. No,
it's the thing about a once in a lifetime situation.

(43:50):
So I get asked to do all kinds of crazy stuff.

Speaker 3 (43:53):
Yeah, I want to know why I was not asked
to also right.

Speaker 2 (43:58):
Along with this, I'm sure they'd love to have you.

Speaker 3 (43:59):
Well, I would like to ride in traffic.

Speaker 2 (44:02):
I think I think probably they didn't ask you, Lucy,
because you know it's uh, it's it's police work, it's
it's man's work.

Speaker 3 (44:11):
I bet that's it. Yeah, I bet that's it. Either
that or they didn't have cake to offer it. Right,
Go ahead, next story.

Speaker 2 (44:16):
Next time they're asking the men to come in there
and do some law enforcement stuff. I'll see if they
have an opportunity for you to do some coffee serving training,
some light light filing of paperwork, you know, something like that.
How are you as a receptionist.

Speaker 3 (44:31):
I could probably do that, Okay, I'd have to reach
back into the you know, back in the history of
women that we were the only ones that did it,
so we did it best.

Speaker 2 (44:41):
I think it's funny you think women can be cops
or doctors. That's that's so funny. Keep keep trying, little one,
realize your dreams.

Speaker 3 (44:53):
I'm just I'm going to turn This looks.

Speaker 2 (44:56):
Like someone's butting her female head against the glass ceiling.
That's adorable when that happens. Anyway, they had the men
out there doing police work, and they at first I
thought it was like shoot, don't shoot against like a
training seminar, like a TV screen or something. No, No,
it was the real thing.

Speaker 3 (45:18):
Were pulling people, real people. That you were pulling real
people over that had just done was kind of traffic something.

Speaker 2 (45:25):
I they first we walk out to the parking lot,
They're like, do you want to drive the squad car?
Like yes, and then and then it's like all right,
pull around the parking lot. Oh, look look at this guy.
And then we had an actor, also a member of
law enforce, who was driving the car and barreling through

(45:46):
stop signs, not using a turn signal, and in one
instance weaving erratically. So we had flip on the lights,
body camera on, get out of the car, approach the car,
and have a conversation with the driver. Now, I admit it,
my my law enforcement attitude personality and all that was

(46:08):
incredibly stilted because I thought the whole thing was we're
gonna do this three times, one none. All these times,
this this guy is going to pull a gun on you,
and you're going to see how fast he can do it.
You know, they can pull a gun on you in
just a fraction of a second, and then you have

(46:29):
to decide, you know, how quickly you're able to respond,
get into a tactical position. And so I was kind
of waiting for that. So I'm talking to the guy
and all that. And the first guy was a good dude,
and he let me know, Hey, just letting you know,
I do have a gun in the car. Okay, where
is the firearm located? It's over here. Okay, thank you

(46:50):
very much for letting me know. Why don't you keep
your hands on the steering wheel. We'll continue this traffic stop.
He was good. We let him go with a warning.
Second guy, Second guy, I'm proud. Yeah, second guy had
a gun in what I thought, what everyone in the

(47:10):
world should have thought, was plain sight in the car.
Guess who didn't notice it is that basically, this this
driver was being a total jerk, gonna meet your quota.
I don't know what you guys have bothered me all
that stuff. So I'm trying to de escalate that situation
and not noticing that they're in the cup holder. Right
next to his hand is his gun that he has

(47:34):
previously not told me about. In fact, when he finally
was like let's move this along, told me about the gun.
I asked him where it was and he's like, it's
right here. Yeah. I terrible, terrible cop. And then the
third instance, I just walked up to the car and

(47:55):
just shot him, like I'm not no, I'm kidding. Third
instance was a drunk driver didn't know left from page five.
A gun falls out of the glove box as he's
reaching for his registration. We got him out of the
car and try well he's he's still in he's still

(48:17):
trying to sober up. So the reality of what I
recognized here, and I know that I was coming up
against an actor who was not going to kill me,
but it shows a couple of things you have. Law
enforcement has no idea what they're coming up against when

(48:39):
they approach a vehicle, no idea. They don't know what's
going on with this person. And in broad daylight, I
didn't notice the gun. Now I'm not a trained member
of law enforcement. I am now by God, But you know,
think about it's the middle of the night, You're out
on a county road, there's no moon, you can't see anything.

(49:01):
The gun is black, and it might be partially obscured.
Officers have to take all this into account, and you
basically have to realize, if this driver of this car
wants to take a shot at you, he's gonna be
in the position where he's gonna have first draw capability.

(49:21):
Because officers can't just come up to the car just
like got out of the car, like I ran a
stop sign. I'm sorry, you know, it's very very difficult,
split second thinking work. I'm very grateful that the Douglas
County Sheriff's Office gave me the opportunity to see kind
of what it was like to be a cop in

(49:43):
one of these interactions with citizens that they have multiple
times every single day, all not knowing, and also to
make me realize just what a really shoddy cop I
would be. Scott back to the emails I flagged for
or a rainy day? Is it raining somewhere? There's there's

(50:04):
Lucy Chapman. I'm Scott Vorhees.

Speaker 3 (50:06):
Overcast Does that count?

Speaker 2 (50:08):
Yeah, it counts for an overcast day. I received my
email my annual email from the Nebraska Poison Center about
what to do or not do when sending your kids
out trick or treating on Halloween.

Speaker 3 (50:22):
Please share that with me, mah.

Speaker 2 (50:24):
Basically, the Nebraska Poison Center says, don't allow your kids
to do anything. Ever, it's all poisoned. These guys are
the biggest buzzkills. It says some poisons like to play
dress up.

Speaker 3 (50:43):
They does it really say that?

Speaker 2 (50:44):
Yes, some poisons actually know. It says some poisons love
to play dress up. They've anthromorphophized some variation of that word.
They've they've assigned a personality to poison.

Speaker 3 (51:01):
Hi, I'm poison.

Speaker 2 (51:02):
Brett Michaels agrees, right, Yeah, not that personality to poison. Yeah,
some poisons love to play dress up. It might look
like a tasty item, however, is anything but a sweet treat.
Keep products in the original container and up high out
of reach of kids. What poison likes to play dress up?
The rat poison with the big skull and crossbones on it.

Speaker 3 (51:26):
Are we talking wig and dress Yeah?

Speaker 2 (51:29):
What et in the closet dress up? Okay, that's right?
E T was gay, That's what I was referencing. There
a lot of people don't know that.

Speaker 3 (51:42):
It's not what he got here.

Speaker 2 (51:43):
All right, It says, choose non toxic face paint instead
of masks. Kids can't wear masks anymore.

Speaker 3 (51:53):
They want you to put paint on your face.

Speaker 2 (51:57):
Non toxic face paint instead of masks for a safe,
spooky look.

Speaker 3 (52:03):
Wait a minute, Masks.

Speaker 2 (52:04):
Are awesome until you realize what. You can't eat candy
while wearing the mask. Two, it's hot in here. Three
all your condensation of your breathing as you're running around
the neighborhood is now starting to get moist inside the mask.
You can't see where you're going. But hey, it's a
cool mask. But you're not wearing the thing for days
and hours on end. It's for a couple hours or whatever,

(52:27):
trick or treating. And most of the time it's kind
of up on your head because you're like, I can't
breathe in this thing. We can't wear a mask anymore.
I wear a mask every day. There's your Billy Joel
reference for this segment of the radio program The Stranger.
We all have a face we hide away forever.

Speaker 4 (52:47):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (52:47):
Then it says don't let your kids eat glow sticks. Wow.
Way I'm writing this down.

Speaker 3 (52:54):
Is this a problem?

Speaker 2 (52:56):
Kids? Even if you wanted to eat a glow how
do you break those things open and eat that stuff?

Speaker 3 (53:03):
Oh? You can.

Speaker 2 (53:05):
I always wanted to eat a glow stick to see
what would happened. About an hour later when I was
in the restroom. Cool, Hey, everyone, come in here and
look at this.

Speaker 3 (53:13):
As you pass out ambulance cause called.

Speaker 2 (53:18):
Let's see here. Oh here's a fun one. Is it
medication or is it candy?

Speaker 3 (53:24):
Now?

Speaker 2 (53:25):
Hang on, what are we handing out?

Speaker 3 (53:28):
I want to go there?

Speaker 2 (53:29):
Yeah, if you go to the crazy old bats housed
up the street. Hey, young out kids, and she just
pouring pills from a bottle into the pillowcase.

Speaker 3 (53:37):
I'm so there.

Speaker 2 (53:38):
Don't do it? Give that stuff to dad?

Speaker 3 (53:41):
Yeah? No, still do it?

Speaker 2 (53:42):
Yeah? What's this for?

Speaker 3 (53:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (53:46):
Never call medicine candy.

Speaker 3 (53:50):
It's going to be a problem. But it's okay because
I don't have kids. You don't hear me say it?

Speaker 2 (53:56):
Right? And and chocolate is bad news for dogs. To
keep the chalk away from the dogs, Thank you, Nebraska
Poison Center. Yeah, that's how in the world do we
ever get by without the annual dispatch from the buzzkills
at the Nebraska Poison Center. Hey, you never know what's
in that stuff. Don't eat anything up. Next, what is

(54:17):
Omaha doing or not doing to have the homeless issue
we have and to prevent it from being an even
bigger problem. We'll talk with an expert next.

Speaker 1 (54:26):
Scott Bhees where you're going News Radio eleven to ten KFAB.

Speaker 2 (54:31):
It's an issue that comes up often on this program
and has for years. It's a problem that seems to
many people in Omaha, myself certainly included, to be getting
worse and worse on not just our streets, but in
our alleys, in wooded areas, in some areas like under
bridges near your home. Even if you're in West Omaha

(54:55):
or Millard. This is a problem all over our community.
And I'm curious whether Omaha has policies that are trying
to stop the problem of homelessness or contribute to it.
We have an expert who just released a major report
on this subject. He's the president of the Capital Research Center,

(55:17):
Scott Walter, who joins us now on eleven ten KFAB. Scott,
thank you very much for joining us here on the program.

Speaker 3 (55:25):
To be with you.

Speaker 2 (55:26):
Let's define this report here you use the phrase housing
first when it comes to a response to homelessness. Talk
about that, please.

Speaker 4 (55:36):
Sure, it's a very trendy notion, and like most trendy notions,
it's amazingly foolish. The idea is, hey, you may be
schizophrenic and off your meds, you may have a pensil addiction,
but if we slap you up in a nice place

(55:58):
to live, every pain is just going to turn out swell.

Speaker 2 (56:04):
They talk a lot here in Omaha about well, we
need housing, we need affordable housing, affordable house. Who is
paying for affordable housing? What housing is affordable? And if
you have someone with the issues you're talking about, who
has nothing, even five dollars rent a month is too much.
They've got nothing. Who's paying for all this?

Speaker 4 (56:26):
Well, of course you know the answer to that. You
and I get to pay. All the taxpayers get to pay.
And honestly, if it works the miracle that they pretend
it works, right, people you know might be willing to
do that. I mean, Americans are incredibly generous. And by

(56:47):
the way, this is why, this is why some of
the scam artists in this world are so successful. People
want to help folks. I mean, if you've got a
fedel addiction, I feel very sorry for you. I really
hope you can get help. I might even contribute to
that help. But it needs to be help for your
fentanyl addiction or your mental illness. It doesn't need to

(57:11):
be someplace taxpayers are going to pay for and then
you're going to trash and still be just as bad
off as you were before. I mean, that's just that's crazy.

Speaker 2 (57:22):
We did at a report on this on this program
a couple of weeks ago, talking about some Section eight housing,
which is subsidized housing to help people. Because I know
that you got people on one side of the political
spectrum says every homeless guy is a drug addicted, mentally
crazed homeless bum and there's no helping them. And then
people on the other side might say they're just people

(57:45):
who just missed a paycheck or had a bad medical
diagnosis and they have no other choice. Somewhere in the
middle is the great amount of people who are choosing
to live on the streets, even if they have a
mental issue or an addiction problem. That doesn't exactly lead
them to make a real smart choice on that. But
we have subsidized housing and they're they're closing this down

(58:06):
in many instances here in Omaha because it's all trashed out.
There's rampant crime in there. Everything's falling apart. Good people
who live there don't want to live there. It's infested
with pests and all kinds of things, and it's constantly
a problem for crime and vice. That's what we're having
here in some instances in Omaha. What do you see

(58:28):
as you look across the country?

Speaker 4 (58:31):
Good, That's exactly what you find in you know, most
major big cities in America, and some of them, you know,
places like San Francisco, it's it's just notorious how how
bad it is. And you know, there's a it's even
converting folks who thought they were very left wings into saying, like,

(58:55):
wait a minute, my local left wing government is actually
really hurting me people and they're not really helping much
of anybody.

Speaker 2 (59:04):
What should cities like San Francisco, like Los Angeles, Denver
has a burgeoning homeless issue. What should some of these
communities be doing to help these people so Omaha can
see what they're doing and hopefully follow suit. If we're
doing the right things, what would that look like?

Speaker 4 (59:26):
Well, it's definitely very complicated. I'd be the first to
admit it's not easy to make this work well. But
one of the things is that that matters is the
for the folks with serious addiction and mental illness issues,

(59:49):
that is going to take some you know, involuntary commitment
of folks with grave problems. I have a friend whose
son is schizophrenic, and as his father, he has struggled mightily.
Even though he's his father, and even though the poor
kid is schizophrenic and harming him a danger to himself

(01:00:11):
and others, it's incredibly hard to have him committed to
an institution that can deal with people who have schizophrenia.

Speaker 2 (01:00:21):
When people start hearing phrases like we need to institutionalize
someone against their will, a lot of people suddenly get
very very tight in the shorts over that. To your point, though,
the people who don't are the family members, the parents,
the friends, roommates of people who need this help, and

(01:00:41):
they know if they don't get the help that you're
talking about, that they're going to be a danger to
themselves or others. So address that for the people who
get real, real upset when they hear about institutionalizing people.

Speaker 4 (01:00:58):
Well, as you said before, right, truths can be in
the middle of extremes and usually are. So, uh, yes,
we want to be very careful about any law that
that institutionalizes anyone against as well. You need to you know,
the laws need to be drawn carefully, they need to
be enforced properly. There have been abuses in the past.

(01:01:21):
There have been lousy, lousy institutions. But beginning in the seventies,
you had these utopian notions that, oh, some of these
institutions are bad, so we're just going to empty them
all out. Well, that has contributed massively to homelessness and misery.
Uh and misery not both for the four folks on

(01:01:43):
the street and also for the ordinary folks going to
use the street. So uh, you know, yes, you have
to be careful and balanced, but that means not saying
we're never going to institutionalize anyone.

Speaker 2 (01:01:59):
The argument before the Omaha City Council here is whether
if you've got someone who is choosing to live on
private property and they won't move and it's a continued problem,
and you got the issues you're talking about. Basically, when
police get called, they're there is to service the battering ram.
They're not mental health therapists who are going to turn

(01:02:19):
someone's lives around. But they don't know what to do
with these people. So someone calls up and says, yeah,
there's a guy that keeps coming in here and disrobing
in front of my customers in this restaurant. We would
prefer this not to happen. What should police do when
they come up in these situations? What should they be
given the authority to do? Scott?

Speaker 4 (01:02:39):
Well, clearly they need to have the authority to, you know,
to bring order into public places, right, That's like one
of the most basic things. Now, obviously a city is
going to need to have other things. Other they're going

(01:02:59):
to have to have institutions and programs that can affect
work with people like that that the policee can deliver
those folks too. But you know, nobody has a right
to destroy the public order, you know, public decency, public order,

(01:03:19):
non prime those are all absolutely legitimate things and we
all know this.

Speaker 2 (01:03:28):
Talking here with the president of the Capital Research Center,
Scott Walter with us here for a couple more minutes
on news radio eleven ten kfab In your study here
looking at housing first, you say some of these policies
are run by groups with some interesting agendas that keep
people trapped purposely instead of rebuilding lives. Can you explain

(01:03:50):
that point for us, please?

Speaker 4 (01:03:53):
Sure. Now, I'm not saying this is true of every
you know, every group trying to help the homeless, every
activist talking about the homeless. But it is true of some,
and that is they are extremely radical. And my definition
is simple. They think America is an absolutely horrible country,

(01:04:14):
not flawed and imperfect, horrible, And they actually kind of
like having the homeless out there in your face because
their interpretation of that is they're not out there because
of these reasons we've been talking about, or because they
missed the paycheck or two. They're out there because America

(01:04:34):
is a monstrous country and she destroys all these people's lives,
and the country is entirely to blame and nothing else.
And therefore we need to have very radical changes, the
fundamental transformation, you might say, of America.

Speaker 2 (01:04:55):
Wow, they want people out there with this, brother, can
you spare a dime? Idea deal like, Hey, i'd have
a job, but you know Trump took it, or America's bad,
or there's institutional this or that. Meanwhile, you've got crime,
you've got these poor people who are danger to themselves
and others sometimes with unchecked, untreated issues, and there are

(01:05:17):
people there pushing for that. If there are people pushing
for that, they must think that the American people are
seeing it and having that idea. Does the research bear
that out?

Speaker 4 (01:05:30):
Well, that's a wonderful question that I've not heard anybody
be smart enough to ask before. But I doubt it
because I don't think the average person, even in San Francisco, say,
looks at a homeless person and thinks, well, you know,
that's just capitalism. You know, when he's raving crazily and

(01:05:52):
tearing his clothes off. I don't think the ordinary person
thinks capitalism is making him do that.

Speaker 2 (01:05:59):
The Capital Research Center is a Washington, DC nonprofit watchdog
group online at capitalresearch dot org. Been talking here with
the President, Scott Walter. Scott, thank you so much for
shining the light on just part of this major issue which,
as you said, not easy to get a handle on.
But we need to be real vigilant here in Omaha

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to not do the things that Scott talked about here
that might make this issue worse. Scott, thank you very
much for your time today.

Speaker 4 (01:06:28):
Great to be with you here on news.

Speaker 2 (01:06:30):
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Speaker 1 (01:06:40):
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Speaker 2 (01:06:46):
Thank you very much, Lucy Chapman. I just finished the
eggnog that you brought me today. It was so good,
absolutely delicious. I couldn't even taste the poison you put.

Speaker 3 (01:06:58):
In it sealed. As much as you know.

Speaker 2 (01:07:03):
I love eggnog so much. You could give me the
little container of eggnog and say here's some eggnog. It's
got poison in it. I'm like, how much.

Speaker 3 (01:07:13):
Poison it's dressed up as eggnog?

Speaker 2 (01:07:16):
Right, I'd drink it anyway. Bridget says, I just bought
Anderson ericson eggnog at High v in Lincoln yesterday. It's
the absolute best. If I should ever fall into a
deep depression, my husband need only give me a small
glass of eggnog, see to remind me that life is
worth living.

Speaker 3 (01:07:35):
See this is what I'm talking about. Anderson Erickson, if
you're listening, we love you and.

Speaker 2 (01:07:39):
I'm with you on this one. Bridget says, I refuse
to do anything Christmas related until the day after Thanksgiving.
AE eggnog is my one exception. Well there's no reason why.
I mean, you can have turkey year rounds like no, no,
only once you know. Eggnog is good all.

Speaker 3 (01:07:57):
Year, all year Thanksgiving agnog.

Speaker 2 (01:08:00):
Stand by that Halloween nog, Any Arbor Day nog, Play
and buck Nog their next.

Speaker 1 (01:08:08):
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