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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott Vordiez.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
The way that this looks, especially with a lot of
people posting some similar version of this online, is the
President of the United States is a Republican, the majority
in the House is Republican, the majority in the Senate
is Republican. So who's to blame for this government shut down? Democrats?

(00:22):
And so when you look at it like that, it
does tend to cause you to cock your head to
one side and go, yeah, wait, why are we doing
anything with the Democrats at all? Because that twenty four
pages that Senator John Thune held up there has to
be passed by the Senate before it can be signed

(00:42):
by the president. So, in other words, the House has
already passed this. That Republican majority block is done. They've
passed a resolution to at least keep the government open
for a matter of months. I forget what it was,
seven months or something like that. We'll kick the can
down the road just a little bit. So the House
already passed that. That's done. You can take that Republican

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majority group out of the equation. You can take the
President of the United States out of the equation. He
can't just through executive order or hey, I'm the president.
I'm Donald Trump. I'll do what I want, you know,
like cartman with all of his authority, whatever I do
what I want. The president can't by himself keep the
government open, So you can take that Republican out of

(01:30):
the equation. So this comes back to the United States
Senate very slim majority. Oftentimes it would be a tie
breaking vote by the Republican Vice President J. D. Vance
to provide the Republicans with that Senate majority. But they've
got something special, unique, fun, and absolutely asinine going on

(01:50):
in the United States Senate, and that is you don't
need majority to pass something like this. You need a
filibuster proof majority. At least that's what they say. Now
that is sixty votes. You've got to hit that sixty
vote threshold. Republicans barely have a majority. They certainly don't

(02:13):
have sixty votes. They would need several Democrats to vote
for this and give the Republicans at least the win.
And this again comes back to how I started this.
Who's going to look like they win? Who's going to
look like they lose? Regarding this government shutdown? If the
Republicans can come out and say we had such a

(02:35):
great bill that even some Democrats voted in favor of it.
That looks like there were majority Republicans, allowed some Democrats
to say, yeah, this isn't the worst thing I've ever seen,
let's do it now. Of course the Democrats will say,
we made sure that they put this in there and
took that out, so that Democrats really going to win here,

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and then it's up to the American people as to
who they blame or I don't know that there's any
single person who tends to always vote Republican or Democrat
who would concede. Well, I guess the other side really
got to win on this one. We're all pretty staunchly
in our own little silos, aren't we. So this idea

(03:16):
of who wins or loses based on how much anchor
media coverage is demonizing Republicans or demonizing Democrats, it's all
pretty stupid. I don't think anyone's going to especially since
the midterm elections are not for another thirteen months. I
don't think anyone's going to be remembering this in over

(03:36):
a year from now when deciding the midterm election. Instead,
we just have a shutdown, just to have a shutdown, Now,
what I want the Republicans to do is go ahead
and pass this thing, but there needs to be a
filibuster proof of yes. They need to have sixty votes
to stop the filibuster. If they don't get sixty votes,

(03:59):
that means dem can filibuster. And you know what I say,
then do it. Get Corey Booker back up there with
his diaper on and have him sit there and talk
for hours and hours on end. And let's put that.
Let's put that in prime time. Let's take off Dancing
with the Stars for a few minutes. And I've got

(04:20):
a lot to say about last night's episode, Scott, you
watched Dancing with the Stars? No, but I caught enough
of it last night to give me a few minutes
to rant about later in the hour. So let's take
that off for a few more minutes and just put
Corey Booker up there talking on behalf of Democrats. Let's
see what the man has to say. Let's see how

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good he looks he would have to fill abuster. That
means you gotta be there day and night, night and day,
talking endlessly, over and over again, really not saying anything,
but continuing to talk, you know, like I do. Morning's
nine to eleven here on eleven ten kfab make them filibuster.
Don't say, well, we don't have the votes to stop

(05:04):
a filibuster, do the vote. Say we're about to pass it. Mistress, well,
it'd be the Senate leader here. I will hold on
before we do anything. I've got something to say. And
then you grab the microphone and you start talking. That's
what I want to see. Then filibuster it. Make these

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guys work. Hey, they're still getting paid. By the way,
there are a number of things that happen and don't
happen during a government shutdown. One thing that does happen.
Members of Congress still get paid. All these guys are
getting paid, Chuck Schumer's getting paid. Put them to work.
Make them go up there and filibuster. Let's see what
he has to say. Is it looks like his face

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is melting off of his skull. That man's jowls get
closer and closer to his shoulders every minute that goes by,
and I want to see him up there flapping his
jowls around. Let's go filibuster. Tell me your thoughts. Put
Rick Astley in charge. He is never gonna give you up.
He's never gonna let you down. You're never gonna shut

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the government down and desert you together forever. That's uh,
that would be the slogan, take a strong, strong man.
I'm running out of Rick Asley titles. All right, good morning,
I'm Scott vorhi is this is news radio eleven ten KFAB.
She wants to dance with me underrated top forty. Rick

(06:31):
Astley hit here on news radio eleven ten KFAB. We
are in the midst of a government shutdown. Here's what
happens now. Not a lot. It's the media tries to
pin this on whatever party they don't like. Spoiler alert,
it's Republicans that they don't like. So specifically, though without

(06:56):
my usual blend of enthusiasm and snark, the Department of
Homeland Security employees they continue to work. So in case
you were like, what a tremendous opportunity to start my coup. Yeah, now,
law enforcement, they're still working. Much of the Department of

(07:17):
Homeland Securities workforce is connected to law enforcement, and so therefore, sorry,
you got to work. You got to continue to protect
our country. Medicare and Medicaid programs and services continue. Staffing
shortages might mean delays. I don't know when the last
time you tried to contact any kind of government worker.

(07:38):
When it comes to healthcare, you will be on hold
until April. Do you want to have us call you
back when you come up in the queue, there'll be
at two o'clock in the morning on April fourteenth. Answer
the call because if you miss it, it'll be another
several months. Yeah, good luck getting anyone on the phone

(07:59):
from Medicare, Medicaid IRS, the White House. The government has
enough money to fund Medicaid for the first quarter of
the next fiscal year through early next year. They're not
going to let that lapse. States will continue receiving their

(08:22):
low reimbursement rate payments from things like Medicaid and Children's
Health Insurance Program CHIP. In other words, but I need
to go to the doctor, and go to the doctor.
You're fine. Now. Remember when the government did shut down

(08:43):
under President Obama, there was that thing where it was
said that he wanted to make it hurt. He wanted
people to show up, for example, in our nation's parks
and basically have a sign out front. Sorry parks, close
moose outfront. Should have told you your eighties movie reference
for this segment of the radio program. That's vacation, so

(09:07):
he shut down the national parks as of today. As
of this morning, the National Park Service is not said
whether they plan on closing. There are more than four
hundred national parks they're talking about it. FEMA would not
be affected if a hurricane hits today. FEMA will still

(09:27):
think about whether or not to respond. New sheriff in
town since the last time we had a big hurricane,
so I would hope that they would respond. Air traffic controllers.
President Reagan told them to get back to work, and
they stayed there. They're certified, they're on the job. They
are essential workers who will continue working. But there are
some people who they say, well, their pay might be impacted,

(09:51):
meaning they'll have to work and we'll do the back
pay later. Okay, hopefully you can get by until then.
How long is this government going to be shut down?
I don't know who else is open. The CDC more
than half of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

(10:15):
workers will be furloughed. RFK Jr. Secretary of War.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
No.

Speaker 2 (10:21):
I didn't mistate that. He seems like he's going to
war against what we've seen in medicine, pharmaceutical dial it all, whatever,
RFK Junior is the real Secretary of War. More than
half of the CDC workers will be furloughed. RFK says,
can't we do the other half? Just let it just me,

(10:42):
Let's just I'll handle it. Those people who continue to
work are those who deal with infectious disease outbreaks and
really important stuff, which makes you wonder, what does the
other half do? The centers for Disease Control and prevention.

(11:03):
You walk into any office or laboratory there and go,
what do you guys do? And half the people say,
we're trying to control and prevent diseases? All right, what
about the rest of you? We're cheering them on. I mean,
they can't do it without our moral support. I'm a
people person. I take the paper from them down to
the people. They can't do it. They're lab workers, you know.
I gotta work with the people. There's your nineties movie

(11:25):
reference for this segment of the radio program Office Space. No,
Lucy Chapman's not here today to take wild guesses at
my movie references. Half of the workers at the CDC
will be furloughed, the ones who work with controlling and
preventing diseases. By the way, how's that track record? Yes, Scott,
sure we missed a few, But if you only knew

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how many horrible diseases would be sweeping the nation right
now if we weren't controlling and preventing them. Yeah, maybe
half the workers, the ones who actually do the controlling
and preventing, are working. What do the other half do?
Let's see here, FDA core responsibilities will continue. Basically, this

(12:12):
is a group that says, don't put that in your mouth,
which they could probably do more work, so they're still going.
State Department will furlough. That means you're on vacation and
we'll give you back pay. More than half of their
remaining personnel in the United States embassies consulates abroad remain

(12:34):
open and will provide services to American citizens or you know,
try and get shot at or use as a target
in some rogue nations. And the EPA says they have
a contingency plan for a shutdown and more than ten
percent of its staff will be there as essential personnel
to handle significant agency activities at the Environmental Protection Agency,

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which then makes you wonder, all right, what do the
other ninety percent of you people do? This is how
it works in private business. These guys, these guys a
corporate tycoons, get a couple of pops in them and say,
I wonder if this section of our business can get

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by with half of the remaining workforce. Let's see, we
can always hire people back if it doesn't work. And
then they say, all right, uh got half the people.
Then they monitor it for a few months, and if
it's still limping along, hey, good move, shareholders get an
extra bonus. This happens in real world stuff all the time.

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EPA says, well, we've got our essential workers. It's ten
percent of the workforce. Well you probably don't need all
of the other ninety percent, right, So this is all
that what happens in a government shutdown? Does it sound
like a whole bunch of nothing? It is. Congress still
gets paid, the Senate still gets paid. President still gets paid.

(14:08):
But as you know, this president donates his salary and
he so as paycheck goes on to I don't I
don't remember where he donated it to, but he's not
taking it. So you do wish though, with the president
kind of tackled. This is budget and all this, I know,

(14:30):
the big beatlefuew big beautiful bill thing that was good,
but I wish he was tackling this budget stuff with
the same energy as how can we take a shot
at Biden by replacing his presidential portrait with an auto
pin which, by the way, if you missed it, he
actually did this past week. That actually happened. I know

(14:53):
he can walk and chew gum at the same time.
Been a little quiet about this. We'll get the latest
from Fox News and just a couple of minutes, Scott,
we're in a government shutdown. You'll notice that doesn't feel
any different today than yesterday. We can move on while
those guys fight each other and see if anything happens

(15:15):
in terms of getting the government back open, so at
least those government workers who are furloughed. Now that I know,
I'm being super glib about all of it, but knowing
that just because you work for the government does not
mean that you're rich beyond your wildest dreams. Knowing that
you're being furloughed without pay, now you'll be You'll get

(15:36):
back pay, You'll get that which is due to you.
But if the rent is due, if you've got a
credit card payment due, you gotta make that car payment.
You gotta whatever it is you're going to do you
need that money, and if you make that payment and
suddenly your count is teetering on the brink of being

(15:58):
overdrawn and you you don't know when that next paycheck
is coming in. That's stress, that's real life stress. And
certainly there would be because that's true of so many
of us, were one paycheck missed away from having Brinker
Harding talking about us in an Omaha City council meeting.

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Certainly it's true that there are government workers who would
be going through a very tough time, needing to lie, cheat, borrow,
and steal to get by. Thankfully, they're government workers. That's
what they do for a living. And then I came
back to being glib. Let's talk about the Brinker Herding deal.
This is the Omaha City councilman, by the way, also

(16:40):
running for Congress, who is the one who's been pushing for,
according to Brinker and his supporters, a meaningful way to
deal with homelessness and the rise of homeless encampments around Omaha.
According to to his detractors, he just wants to take

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people who are downtrodden and down on their luck and
throw them in jail. Damn the consequences. This would be
a proposal by which you could be removed from a
homeless encampment that's not supposed to be there on public
or private property. You can't live on public or private property.

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And there are people out there with tents and so forth,
and even those that kind of move around. And why
are they getting thick in the midtown area, I mean
around Saddle Creek. I'm seeing more and more every single
week that goes by, junk piled up over here, A
guy just leaning against a closed business over there is

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walking around, you know, shaking their fist at cars. This
is all over town and I don't know where they're living.
I don't know where they're spending their evenings. But in
no way way is it good for them or anybody
to have them living on the streets. So this would
be a meaningful way to get them off the streets. Now,

(18:09):
this was supposed to be voted on yesterday. As it
turns out, this particular proposal has been tabled. It has
been pushed down the road by three weeks. It'll come
up for vote on October twenty first. The reason why
we have this delay is because the councilman brinker Harding,
who put it forth in the first place, says, I
want to amend it. We're talking now. He still says,

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you could serve jail time for an excessive non compliance.
You could still face up to a three hundred dollars fine,
make it three million dollars. They can't pay it. They
don't have anything. Up to thirty days in jail. Now,
that's the part that causes people's sphincters to tighten up.
We're gonna put people who are down on their luck,

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people who just a few days ago were working, productive
members of society, and suddenly we're gonna throw them in
jail because they don't have any other options. Come on,
that's not who we're talking about. Those people do exist,
and they're in the shelters. God bless the shelters, whether

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it's this group, that group, this church organization, whomever there
people know in this town. If you're in that position
where you're truly like, wow, I never thought it would
come to this. I don't have food, I don't have
any place to stay. I finally I kept pushing the
rent down, couldn't get it paid. I got evicted, and

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now I don't have any place to go, no friends
or family, and I'm just standing here in a street corner.
That happens to people, probably less than one percent of
the people who are living on the streets, but it
does happen to people, and they know here in Omaha.
You go to, for example, the Open Door Mission and

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you say, yes, are you Candice? I hear you on
the radio, Can you help me? And you get help
the people we're talking about. Are there other ninety nine
point eight percent of the people who are living on
the streets, People who've been in and out of jail,
not because of homelessness, but because of crime and drug behavior,

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people with untreated mental illness and drug and alcohol addiction issues,
people who are violent. They keep going to jail, and
then they come out. They friends and family, they have
some or they had some, but you can't stay with
them because they're like, I can't have you in my house.
You're crazy, dude. And so they're out on the streets.

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And then they get an opportunity to stay out on
the streets because there are groups within the city that
give them some level of that which they need to
get by a tent, for example. And so now you
got these homeless encampments coming up all over town. Brinker
Harding says, we got to stop the homeless encampments now.

(21:07):
Yesterday there are a bunch of people that spoke out
against this, even though it was already like we're gonna
we're not gonna vote on this today, and people are like,
but I still want to tell you it's a terrible idea.
All right, thanks for letting us know. One of the
people that did so is Omaha's homeless coordinator. The Homeless
Services Coordinator, Tamra Dwyer gave a presentation last night, not

(21:28):
at the city council meeting, but at the Omaha Downtown
Improvement District Board meeting, where she said, we've actually seen
a drop of people experiencing, as she phrased it, unsheltered
homelessness because redundancy. She says, we've actually seen a drop

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in homelessness over the last year of thirteen point eight percent.
Bowl there's no look, I've got eyes, there's no way
that's true. And she said, look, we got people who

(22:12):
are in shelters and transitional housing. We don't need to
put these people in jail, she said, getting someone into
some sort of housing and providing them supportive resources is
fifty dollars a day. Jailing someone costs a lot more
than that. So it's better for the taxpayer who fifty
dollars a day. Where who's doing what for fifty dollars

(22:33):
a day. If you're talking about the shelters, whether it's
the Francis House, Steven Center, open Door mission, fifty dollars
a day. Maybe, but some of the most repeat offenders
that we see living on our streets won't stay in
those shelters. In the case of the open door mission,

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you can't be in there using drugs and alcohol, and
so they get booted. You got to follow the rules.
You have to have to do that which contributes to
you having a better life and coming in here and
using drugs and alcohol, are having weapons or threatening people.
This is not the place for you fifty dollars a day.
And then you talk about, well, we need affordable housing.

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I've already done that. Rant there's no such thing as
affordable housing. Any new construction is so cost prohibitive. Who's
paying for any of this? So she says, we got
to stick with Mayor John Ewing's pilot program, which, as
I told you, is let's just wait six months and
see how things go. Because if you wait six months.

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Now you're into the spring, now you've been through the winter,
you won't see as much homelessness here in Omaha in
the month of February because it's but cold. And then
they'll say, well look at this. See he didn't see
as much homelessness. I tell you what, Mayor John Ewing
best mayor of all time. So what happened yesterday with

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the council meeting and all this stuff, not much breaker Harding, though,
said he wanted to amend his proposal. The thing he
wants to put in there is you would go to jail,
you would be subject to a fine if you don't
complete a diversion program. That sounded good to at least
one Democrat. South Omaha's Ron hug says to k E

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TV News Watch seven, he's intrigued by the diversion program,
and he said, I think they're doing something like that
down Americopa County. And then he said, I think we
should go. We want to compare it to Amercopa County. Quote.
I think we need to go down to Americopa County.
I think we need to be on the ground and

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talk and see you know what they've done and what's working. Unquote.
That's not a zoom call, not a phone call. You
could do that on Microsoft teams. You want to go
to Americopa County, that's Phoenix, you like, I think we
should go to Phoenix. Not now, Maybe in January, spend
a little time in January, perhaps early February, we go

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down and spend a week or two down Americopa County.
You know, stay there the night, sleep here. Sorry, there's
your eighties movie reference for this segment of the radio
program that's Ghostbusters. You gotta try this poll. I think
we need to go down to Phoenix to see how
it's working. Or you know, we could call them, We
could have them email us their plans. Now, I think

(25:30):
we should go sometime this winter, paid for by the
taxpayers of Omaha. We should go. All the city council members,
you go down to Phoenix, and you know we can stay.
Are you gonna stay in the homeless shelters? No, there's
some really nice hotels and resorts we could stay in.
We don't need to stay at the homeless shelters. I
thought you wanted to get on the ground talk. I

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think we need to go to a Maricopa County. Well,
what a great idea is here we get into fall
and winter, I think we need to go to Phoenix
and see what they're doing. I think they got a
pretty good homeless situation going on. I think they're really
doing a good job of controlling it in Anchorage, Alaska.
You want to go up there this winter see how

(26:14):
that's going. No, that the Phoenix Maykopa County. Yeah, nice try.

Speaker 1 (26:21):
Ron Scott Gorhez NewsRadio eleven to ten kfab.

Speaker 2 (26:26):
Ultimately, this homeless vote is not going to matter. You
got four Democrats on the seven person city council. Mayor Ewing,
Democrat says, I don't want brinker Harding's proposal. On what planet?
Do you think any of this is going to get passed.
You can wait three weeks, you can amend it, you
can put it back in front of it. They're not

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going to vote for it. Did anyone else notice this
last night on Dancing with the Stars? All right, this
has nothing to do with some of the usual stuff
about Dancing with the Stars, which I don't regular watch.
My wife is a fan, my my daughter is a fan.
My daughters at college, so my wife watches it here

(27:08):
in Omaha. My daughter watches it away at college. They
text each other during the show, and because they're so
into it, I've paid a slight bit more attention than
I normally have. I can tell you many of the
people who are on the show. I can tell you
that my daughter and her friends in the dorm went

(27:31):
nuts when uh the crocodile hunter's son took his shirt
off during the dance last night. All right, so I
watched some of Dancing with the Stars last night. Here's
here's the part I missed. Here's the thing that got
me interested. My wife said, I can't believe what the
This is a Disney show, right, Yeah, Dancing with the

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Stars is on ABC. ABC is owned by Disney. Disney
is not Snow White and the Seven Dwarves anymore. Disney
is whatever Disney is. And this was primetime television Dancing
with the Stars. You know, a lot of families watched
this together. A lot of moms watch this with their kids.

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A lot of husbands they're like, I gotta spend a
few minutes with my wife, and she watches a little
bit of football with me. I can watch a little
Dancing with the Stars with her. So they watch it
for a few minutes too. And last night on this
family program on Disney owned ABC, a woman from the

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Secret Lives of Mormon Wives or whatever that's all about,
was out there dancing to a song that whose title
of the song I can't say on the radio. I
can't sing it, I can't play it back for you
on the radio. But there it was last night. The
song is We'll say shake your rump. Not the Beastie Boys,

(29:03):
who actually have a song called shake your Rump, But
uh no, there's the song shake you. We'll just say
shake your rump. Maybe you've heard it, shake your rump,
Watch yourself, shake your rump. Show me what you're working with. Which,
first of all, if you're requesting that someone shake their rump,

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say please, I mean, have we lost all manners and
we're just demanding that women are to shake their rump
for us? They might if you say, please, show me
what you're working with, why don't you do a little work,
a walk around to the side and you can check
it out for yourself. Why does she have to perform

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for you? Anyway, they didn't say rump. They said the
naughty word for someone's buttock region the gluteus being most
maximus area. Shake your arts, which that line and that

(30:09):
word is only repeated eighty seven million times in the song.
So here we have someone up there dancing to shake
your rumpus. Family program Disney Kids watching this shake your Thing.

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That segued into a guy who is in an a
cappella singing group called Pentatonics. Fantastic group. These guys are
incredibly talented. This guy who is in an a cappella
group and on Dancing with the Stars, sit down. He's gay,

(30:52):
which of course he had to tell you he's gay,
and he had to get emotional telling you he's gay,
because he said, well, I just I didn't know how
people would feel if I came out of the closet
and told them I was gay. I didn't know if
I'd ever be able to live my life. I didn't
know if I'd ever be able to find love, which

(31:14):
is I think a genuine concern if you grew up
gay in the sixties. This guy grew up gay in
the nineties and two thousands. He's in an a cappella
singing group, a glee club, and he was afraid what

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people might think if he came out as part of
this group in an a cappella glee club and said
I'm gay. He was afraid that people might reject him.
Young man, I'm surprised that you're not all gay in
that group. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but

(32:01):
you're are you are we genuinely still doing this where
you got young guys saying I just didn't know if
I could come out. I think it's it's actually worse
now if you don't come out on some level of
being non binary, multi sexual. You identify as a blender

(32:23):
on Thursdays and on other days you're a cat. You
know you do that? Hey, hey, that guy is interesting.
If you come out as just a cisgender heterosexual, boring,
you're never going to get a spot in the a
cappella group. But that kind of attitude. So this guy
is an a cappella singer in a glee club and

(32:43):
he was afraid what people might think. What who who's
going to see? Oh? I heard there's an a cappella
glee club performing down the street. Well they're not gay,
are they? I won't have anything. I want my acappella
glee club to be straight. Guys. Motorcyle riders, beards, tattoos,
and they're love the ladies. I'm not gonna put up

(33:06):
with gay acapella singers and glee clubs. Are we still
doing this? So as I was laughing about that, finally
here comes Alec Baldwin's wife, Hilaria Baldwin. Because she is Hilaria.

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This is the woman born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts,
not Boston, Puerto Rico, not Boston, Brazil, Boston mass She
is American as the Boston Celtics. She's as American as

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the Red Sox. Not necessarily all the players on the
Red Sox, but you catch my drip. She's a white chick.
Over the years, she's decided by her own admission. She goes, yes,
I'm American, but I also love the Latin culture, and
so I reflect that in my life. She has taken

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on a fake accent. And during one media appearance, she
was on like some cooking show and she was talking about,
like we have the tomatoes over here and the onions,
and then she looked at a cucumber. Have you seen
this clip? This white girl from Boston who thinks, who

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believes in her head that she just got off the
boat into America. She looked at a cucumber and she said,
we got the tomatoes and the onions, and the how
you say cucumber? She said that, she said that how
you say cucumber taking on a fake accent, a fake nationality,

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and a ridiculous stereotype. I have a number of friends
who are and in my life I've had a number
of friends, like in college and people I've worked with
who maybe they're not the strongest, strongest English speakers, maybe
they haven't spent a lot of time in America. I've
never heard a single one of them, other than people

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in movies and TV say and then the how you say?
I've never heard anyone actually say that, if it's not
in some sort of TV show. This is an assignment
we give foreign speaking people, mostly to set up a punchline,
how you say cucumber? She's from Boston, and last night

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this woman was allowed to dance out there to some
Latin salsa music because that's where she thinks she's from.
She got back to her roots. So last night, in
about a ten minute swath of Dancing with the Stars ABC,
this is Jimmy Kimmel's network, I saw the profanity of

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the song shake your another word for donkey, shake your rumpus.
I saw a gay guy crying, wondering what would happen
in his life if he came out of the closet,
someone who was already in an a cappella singing group
wasn't sure a people would think if he came out
as gay. And then cultural appropriation from Hilaria Baldwin, and

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then the crocodile hunter's son ripped his shirt off and
a girl's went nuts. I'll tell you what, it's not
not entertaining television. I can't say I'll be watching Dancing
with the Stars every single week, but yikes, I I

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guess that's what passes for entertainment on a family program.
This is what we saw, That's what I saw. You
watch any of this, I know I'm gonna get people emailing,
going I'll watch Dancing with the Stars. I don't even yeah,
I know I dancing with the Who are these people's
I get it. I've been saying that for years. But

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my wife and daughter been watching it so I learn
about what's going on. That's what I learned last night.
And Andy Richter is still on there. He's about the
only guy I know on the show up next, City
of Omaha wants you to weigh in on logo designed
for the Omaha street Car. I have some ideas. I'll

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tell you in two minutes.

Speaker 1 (37:38):
Scott for News Radio eleven ten k FAD.

Speaker 2 (37:44):
Many many men emailing me saying, Scott, did you really
just talk about Dancing with the Stars. I wasn't talking
about how someone's possibly went that judge on that show
drive actually all of them, but especially the the really
vocal one that drive me crazy. Pas double it's a

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two step. Come on, I'm Scott Vorhees. This is News
Radio eleven ten KFAB. Thanks a lot for being with
us on Nebraska's news, weather and traffic station. Oh, let
me get this email amidst all the people yelling at
me for even mentioning that there's a TV show on
called Dancing with the Stars. I wasn't promoting it. I

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don't know if you caught that, but yeah, here we go.
We'll get to this in a second, because it kind
of dovetails into this. A request from the Omaha Streetcar
people and the City of Omaha. They say, we want
you this week to provide your input on the future
brand and design of the streetcar. And I guess I

(38:49):
heard on KFAB radio news this morning they're looking for
a new logo for Omaha's streetcar. All right, not a
new but an actual They need a logo for the
Omaha streetcar. Apparently street car needs a logo. A picture
of a street car is apparently too pedestrian an idea.

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Maybe a picture of a pedestrian jumping out, a pedestrian
on their phone not noticing that there have a street
car bearing down on them. And it could be that
little stick figure guy who's sliding on a wet bathroom floor.
Or oh, my favorite of all the little stick figure guys,

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the one on the vending machine that says, don't shake
the vending machine. And it's got a vending machine tipping
over about to crush this guy. And the little stick
figure has a couple of lines like exclamation points coming
off the top of his head as though he is
shocked and surprised by what's about to happen as he's
rocking and tipping the vending machine until it crushes him.

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Have that like this surprise of ah as a street
car is bearing down on him. That could be a
good logo. How about a big thumbs down. How about
hundreds of millions of dollar signs and a taxpayer shrugging like,

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how about congested traffic? How about a streetcar stuck in
the snow. How about a streetcar swallowed by a sinkhole.
Here's a fun logo. How about a homeless guy whacking
away at himself in front of an out of town
family and the little kids got the exclamation points coming

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out of the top of her head, shocked and surprised
by what she's seen. How About former Mayor Jean Stouth
giving me an exasperated look. Any of these, I think
would be a fine logo. Where do I go? There's
the streetcar website, City of Omaha. If you actually want
to provide a logo for the streetcar, have at it

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like that homeless guy. Look. I've said this over and
over again. I hope that these people know what they're doing,
the streetcar people, because we're getting it whether we like
it or not. I don't know if you've noticed all
the construction around midtown and downtown that's setting up for

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a streetcar. We are getting the streetcar. It's not not happening.
So I hope as homelessness and crime is on the
rise here in Omaha. I hope that doesn't end up
being the case with Omaha streetcar as when you go
to Denver, Dallas, or even Kansas City and people say,

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I wouldn't get on that streetcar after dark regarding crime.
Just got this dispatch moments ago from the Douglas County
Sheriff's Office about something that happened at five o'clock in
the afternoon two days ago, Monday, five o'clock. Monday, five o'clock,

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beautiful day, and this guy was out walking his dog
near seventy second and Wenninghoff Road. That's well north on
seventy second Street, Somerset Park. Guys out walking his dogs
on a park trail probably thought, well, I'm out here

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in a park. I'm sure there were people around. Probably
never expected this to happen. I will read from the
press release from the Douglas County Sheriff's Office. The victim
reported that while walking his dogs on the park trail,
two Asian males approached him. One of the males pulled

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a black handgun from his waistband and pointed it at
the victim. Both suspects subsequently fled, one on foot and
the other on a red mini bike. Deputies located the
mini bike traveling eastbound on Lake Cunningham Road near North
eighty third Street, and that thing goes fast. Deputies attempted

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a traffic stop, the driver refused to stop. A short,
slow speed pursuit was initiated due to information that the
driver may be in possession of said firearm. It ended
about a half mile later when the mini bag mini
bike's chain broke and the driver fled on foot. Deputies,

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along with the police helicopter and the Omaha Police Department,
established a perimeter and apprehended the suspect. The other guy
was located walking on Lake Cunningham Road. The suspect on
the mini bike identified as a juvenile. We don't know

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how old this kid is, but according to the Douglas
County Sheriff's Department, a known gang member a gang called
k FHAM. I'm not sure what radio station that is,
K dash FA M KFHAM. Don't listen to that radio station.

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It'll point a gun at you. That'd be a heck
of a slogan for a radio station. News radio eleven
to ten, kfab in your face. Anyway, this youth was
transported to where prison. Oh no, no known gang member, juvenile.
This kid doesn't go to prison. He's in there with

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the rest of these scamps. The Douglas County Youth Center.
I'm surprised anyone's at the Douglas County Youth Center. You
hear the county board say, oh, we don't have a
problem with juvenile crime in this town. Oh those kids
in the juvenile Youth center, they don't need to be
locked up. They know it's fine. It's these are just
kids who are like spray painting some graffiti. They made

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a mistake, and some known gang members with guns. It's
did not come on, we don't need to. So they
took him to the Douglas County Youth Center and they
had to request detention for him, like actually keep an
eye on him because he has got These aren't charges

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at this point, I don't know, flight to avoid arrest,
obstructing a police officer, and minor in possession of alcohol. Yeah,
I guess these are these are charges, even with his age.
The second suspects and nineteen year old guy also a
known gang member with prior firearm related charges. Nineteen years old.

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He's been booked at the Douglas County Corrections Center, terroristic threats,
use of a firearm to commit a felony, and fell
in possession of a firearm. I don't know why. They
just found a guy walking on the trail, pointed a
gun at him, and then took off the It doesn't
say that they stole anything, but no one ever accused

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teenage gang members of being the best and brightest, So
that just happened right here in Omaha.

Speaker 1 (46:35):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (46:35):
I've gone back to the rest of the inbox, and
I have a lot of people emailing me potential logos
for the Omaha street Car. Great, We'll get to those
after a Fox News update next. Also, we have some
resolution on our friend the superintendent of Des Moines Public Schools.
We'll get to that as well next.

Speaker 1 (46:56):
Scott Boys News Radio eleven si.

Speaker 2 (47:00):
KFAB Thousands of supporters came together in Utah yesterday to
honor Charlie Kirk. Well, yeah, I mean, is this a
rerun that was a few weeks ago right now? Yeah,
it was three weeks ago today, But yesterday was the
first to Turning Point USA College Tour in Utah. It

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was a couple of hours away from Utah Valley University
where Kirk met his end. Not an end though, as
proved by what happened yesterday at Utah State University in Logan, Utah,
a couple hours away, and a big crowd, and they

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were chanting Charlie Kirk's name. They were excited, they were happy,
and it was everything from college students, which is what
Turning Point USA was originally. Therefore, to get college students
to think a little differently than maybe they were being taught,
forced or indoctrinated. That's why Charlie Kirk started this organization.

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So there are a lot of young people and certainly
plugged in political types and angry liberal types who were
very angry at what Charlie Kirk was doing to get
college students to think of things a little differently, to
challenge them rather than indoctrinate them and tell them they're
right all the time and push them down this path

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towards social justice. Charlie Kirk had a different idea, And
so there were college students there last night that said,
this is A young person named Jada said, it's just
healing my soul that I actually get to come to
a Turning Point event. Even though the main spirit of
it isn't here. Oh yeah he was. And then you

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even had a woman named Susan. She's seventy five years old.
She didn't really know who Charlie Kirk was until three
weeks ago today when it became a natural news story
about his death, and she was breaking down in tears
talking to the media, saying everything he said. I just
love It's a horrible thing, but I hope people keep

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his message going. Thousands of especially young people, they're in
Utah now. That campus was evacuated for a bit due
to a device that they weren't sure about, an abundance
of caution. They evacuated a building but later deemed it
safe and and there was heavy security present there yesterday,

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but it all went all right. That's how it should be.

Speaker 1 (49:40):
Scott Voyes Mornings nine to eleven on News Radio eleven
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