Talk Radio Potpourri

Today's batch smells like the reality of "mass deportations" from Omaha, OPS kids missing a lot of school ("I wouldn't say I've been missing it, Bob"), the long overdue "Do They Know It's Christmas" rant you never knew we needed, and much, much more!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 2 (00:00):
Scott Vordiez.

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Last night, Mayri Stothard held a town hall. There were
activists who showed up intending not just to ask her
what she thought about President Trump's mass deportations, but there
was I believe it was KMTV three News Now had
a story yesterday afternoon before the mayor's town hall last night,

(00:24):
and they talked with someone with some you know, activist group,
and they said, well, we're very concerned about Donald Trump's
mass deportations, going to use the nation's military against people
in this country. He's going to be going door to
door going all right, come on out, we know you're
in there, you know, and that they're very concerned. People
of the Latino persuasion in this community and in this

(00:46):
country are terrified right now. All right, first, first things, First,
people in the Latino community here in Omaha are not
automatically terrified right now. I don't know if anyone told
this Latino activist group this much information, but several Hispanic voters,

(01:07):
legal Hispanic voters in America voted for Donald Trump two
weeks ago today, and of course in the early balloting
that preceded it. It's something I've been telling you for
years and I'm not the only one. But let's pretend
here that I am.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
So.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
I've been telling you for years. People come into this
country by any means necessary. The overwhelming majority of them
want a better life for themselves and for their families.
You would do the same thing, any one of us
would do the exact same thing. We're sitting there in squalor.
Our kids don't have two chicken bones to rub together.

(01:50):
There's a promise of work, and even if you're making
minimum wage, that's paradise compared to what you'r demas with
in the shinolah Hoola country you're in. So you make
it to America, maybe you follow the steps and you're
able to get here legally. Maybe you don't follow the steps.

(02:11):
You get here illegally, but you're granted some sort of
status here for a time and you're allowed to come
in here and live and work. Either way, this is
paradise for you. I would crawl on my hands and
knees through miles and miles of broken glass to be
able to do that from my family. This is not

(02:33):
what we're talking about anyway. The people, a lot of
them who get here the law, I mean, the otherwise,
law abiding people, hard working people. They're not drug lords,
they're not drug dealers, they're not human traffickers, they're not murderers.
They're not going to commit crimes in this country. They

(02:54):
get here and they say, thank goodness, I'm here. You
know what you guys need to do in America? Close
the border behind me. You don't know the element that
I'm fleeing to get to this country. You don't want
them here. I don't want them here. So I'm here.
Now close the door behind me. They all say that.

(03:15):
So they get here, and who's the candidate saying we
need to close that door? Donald Trump. Many people of
legal voting persuasion who are Hispanic Latino whatever it is
the term we're using these days, voted for Trump. So
some activist group here in Omaha says, well, the people

(03:37):
I hear from are very, very concerned. And then this
activist cited arraid on a packing plant under the Trump
administration in twenty eighteen and said, this is what we're
concerned about. All right, First, what are we on? Second?
Third of all, do you think they rated that packing

(03:59):
place because there were Hispanic people working there or because
they knew it was a hotbed of illegal immigrants being
employed illegally by the illegal employer in this country. This
is not new. This is not something that only Trump
ever did. Every president has issued raids against those who

(04:20):
are employing illegal workers. And you know who pushes a
lot for that. Labor groups. Democratic leaning labor groups have
pushed for this. That's why it happened so often during
the Obama and Clinton administrations as well. Haven't seen it
as much. In fact, I don't know if we saw
it at all under the Biden Harris administration. But these

(04:41):
labor groups say, how are we supposed to compete? These
guys over here are hiring illegal laborers. They're not paying
all the taxes and all the wages that they're supposed to.
They're able to undercut us for bids. You know who's
hiring a bunch of illegals, that group and then Ice
goes in there and raids them out. But by all means,
let's blame Trump for this. So KMTV three had a

(05:06):
story yesterday before the mayor's town hall last night, and
this activist said, Latinos in our community are very concerned
that Trump is going to tell Mayor Stothard that the
gestapo's coming around and we want names. Let us know
where the brown people live and we'll go root them

(05:27):
out and get it like that. This is what they
think is going to happen. Now, mayor stother was asked
about it last night. It's funny how the other media
seemed to say, Oh, a concerned citizen happened to show
up and happened to ask this question. A coordinated thing.
This is all part of a coordination to make people

(05:49):
think that Trump is going to go door to door
looking for Mexicans. So someone asked, does the city of
Omaha have any plans to get involved in mass deportations
of immigrants? That's the phrasing that the person used in
talking about this with Maristo Thert last night. Immigrants. No

(06:14):
other word attached to that phrase. You think that you
know you immigrated here from India, Pakistan, Thailand.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
Do you confine the immigrants anyone who doesn't look American?
You know?

Speaker 2 (06:31):
Mot?

Speaker 1 (06:33):
Yeah? Is the city of Omaha going to get involved
in deportation of immigrants? No, No one's talking about deporting immigrants.
It has always been about criminal element who's also in
this country illegally. Now, let me tell you what meristother said.

(06:55):
She said quote The Omaha Police Department and Omaha Police
officers do not and will not seek out individuals to
check for legal status. It is not the mission or
the duty of the Omaha Police Department to determine whether
an individual is here legally or not. Their mission is
not to check legal status. However, if there's a crime

(07:20):
that's been committed, then they will check legal status.

Speaker 2 (07:28):
This is.

Speaker 1 (07:31):
You already know this. The people asking these questions trying
to make it sound like Trump is getting his gestapo
ready to go door to door, they already know this too.
I'll once again tell you about the letter that went
to Immigration and Customs Enforcement from Michael Myers, not from

(07:53):
the Halloween movies or if you will, Wayne's World Different.
Michael Myers, the direct Vector of Corrections for Douglas County,
on September twenty second, twenty twenty one, sent this letter
to Immigration and Customs Enforcement that says, this letter serves
as written notice of Douglas County's intent to terminate our

(08:13):
agreement with Immigration Customs Enforcement. We have determined that continuing
this agreement is no longer in the best interest of
the Department of Corrections or Douglas County. We will honor
all terms of the agreement for the period of one
hundred and twenty days from today's date. Per Article nine
of our agreement. Feel free to contact me with any
questions or concerns you have regarding this matter. Signed Michael Myers,

(08:35):
September twenty second, twenty twenty one. This was Douglas County
Corrections telling ICE we're not going to work with you anymore.
Now what does that mean. That means if you are
in this country illegally and you commit a crime and
they arrest you for the crime and know that you're

(08:56):
of illegal immigration status, they have a responsibility to give
ICE a heads up. I don't know if you have
any idea how many ICE agents there are. Not enough
to deal with all of this stuff. So what happens
is Immigration says, great, thank you for arresting this guy.

(09:19):
El Chapo. Hold on to him for a few days
and we'll get over there and we'll deal with him.
Oh no, we're not holding him. We're not going to
hold him for you, and we're not going to keep
him here. You know, he's going to be cited and
asked to show up for a court date here somewhere
within the next year or so, and we fully expect
he'll show up for that court date. Everyone knows that's

(09:41):
a joke. They're not going to hold these individuals now.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement used to pay Douglas County a
lot of money to hold individuals like this. We decided,
in fact, a lot of cities and counties in the
first year of the Biden Harris administration decided, we don't
want that ma that money anymore. We're not going to

(10:02):
comply with holding illegal immigrants for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
We're not going to have the money, and we're not
going to hold these individuals. That's how we get on
sanctuary city and sanctuary county lists around here, because they
don't detain criminal illegal immigrants for ICE. You know who does.

(10:24):
Potawatamee County. They do. I talked with the sheriff of
Pottawatamee County a couple of weeks ago on this program,
and he told me all about it, told me all
about the money they make. Immigration says, yeah, thanks. I mean,
sometimes we'll arrest someone in Douglas County and if it's
a really, really bad person, we'll send him over to
Pottawatamee County, they detain him, they get the money for

(10:45):
detaining him, and they're not on a sanctuary county list.
So that is how we get on these these lists
of you know, sanctuary cities, sanctuary counties. What Mayor Stothers
said is accurate. If you get pulled over for speeding,
they're not going to say show me your papers. If

(11:08):
you get pulled over for murdering a guy and we
find out through your processing that you're in the country illegally,
you know, then we'll tell ICE. But until the Douglas
County Corrections Board. This is for your Douglas County commissioners
to deal with as well. Until they change that Director

(11:32):
directed from twenty twenty one, it doesn't mean anything. President
Trump can say we want to deport the criminal illegal
immigrants in this country. If we don't detain them until
ICE can come over here and deport them, then nothing
is going to change. Now. Mayor stother says, we're going
to comply with federal law. Right now Trump has not

(11:52):
been sworn in. There is no well, there is. We're
just ignoring the federal law about how to deal with
all of this stuff. So until we change that sanctuary
county status from the Douglas County Board and the County
Board of Corrections. Police can ask if you're in the

(12:14):
country legally, they can find out that you're not. But
if Corrections isn't going to hold them, it has nothing
to do with anything that Omaha Police Department does, the
Douglas County Sheriffs do, Omaha Marria Jeans douth does. They're
not going to hold these individuals. That's still the stated
directive of the County Corrections Department. But here's the other thing.

(12:42):
And this is where as I started at the top
of this rant by saying they still don't quite get Trump,
do they. I'll tell you what the other thing is next.

Speaker 2 (12:54):
Scott Byes News Radio elevens KFAB.

Speaker 1 (12:59):
Talked to hear about how some immigrant groups, including here
in Omaha, are saying they're trying to scare people, saying
Trump's going to go around rounding up anyone who looks
halfway tan and he's gonna deport him, which has never
been anything that Trump is going to do. Now he
does bluster about things in fact. On truth Social yesterday

(13:23):
there was a story from Judicial Watch that said that
you know is Trump going to use the military for
mass deportations? And Trump goes on there, links to the
story and just says true. Now here's what that means.

(13:49):
This is something that like over a year ago, one
of Trump's longtime advisors, Stephen Miller, said, he said military
funds would be used to build holding facilities or fund
holding facilities like what we're already doing in Pottawatamee County, Iowa.
What we were doing until just a few years ago

(14:09):
in Douglas County, Nebraska, while a lot of communities still do,
is pay these facilities to function as holding centers for
criminal illegal immigrants. So this is some military funds. But
in terms of like are we going to use the military?
Are they going to go door to door guns blazing. No,

(14:34):
but they might use some military vehicles, planes, buses, some
of these big cargo vehicles that the military has. Can
the DoD assist with that. That's something that Tom Homan,
Donald Trump's borders are has said. We want to take

(14:56):
the handcuffs off ice. We want to arrest the bad guy,
and we want to figure out where we're going to
send him, who's going to take them, what it's going
to take to get him there. I mean, Tom Holman
can go around and throw them on the back of
his Toyota Camry. There's got to be some level of
military assistance here. So that's what they're talking about. But

(15:21):
for all of this bluster, there's one thing that I'll
say now for a third time, and I'll actually finish
the thought this time. They still don't get Trump. When
he starts negotiating, now, whether it's tariffs or deportations, Trump
starts saying one thing. The people he's now negotiating with

(15:44):
wants something else. So Trump's saying A. The people he's
talking to really want C. Trump's willing to settle somewhere
around B and hopefully make it a B plus or
an as that's negotiation. So what could he possibly want here?
Why would he be saying, Oh, yeah, mass deportations are

(16:06):
just a couple of months away. Get ready, Well, let's
look at what happened here in the last two weeks
in Springfield, Ohio. You remember Springfield, Ohio. This town, which
has sixty thousand residents according to the twenty twenty census,
suddenly under the Biden administration, suddenly had a boom of

(16:27):
about twenty thousand Haitian migrants. Those who came to the
country illegally were processed released into the country. The community
of Springfield, Ohio was given some money to house these
immigrants and they were living with some sort of status
until someone could hear their request for asylum seven years

(16:49):
from now. Springfield, Ohio hasn't been set up to handle
an influx of migrants that's roughly the size of a
third of their entire community that just suddenly came up
in the last couple of years. So suddenly we had
all these Haitian migrants who've settled in that community in
the last two to three years. But drive down the

(17:10):
streets of Springfield, Ohio today and since the election, and
you'll notice something different. Not as many Haitian immigrants, according
to this report from Fox News, and those who are
within the community like this woman Marjorie, who is of
the Haitian Community Alliance. She said that people are so

(17:36):
nervous that Trump is going to come around there and
deport them, that they've already left. She said, these guys
they don't have credit cards or access to the internet,
but they want to buy a bus ticket or a
plane ticket. So we at the Haitian Community Alliance help

(17:58):
them book a flight and get out of town. Now,
some of them didn't go far, according to a co
founder of the Haitian Community Alliance, a guy named Jacob.
He says, yeah, some of them have gone into nearby
communities such as Dayton, Ohio, where they feel like Dayton
is a sanctuary community and they might not be subject

(18:18):
to deportation if they're in Dayton. Some have gone to
like this guy says, I know one guy just left
yesterday said I'm going to New Jersey. Some have gone
to Boston, Some have tried to get into Canada, Some
who had temporary asylum in Brazil are trying to get
back to Brazil, and some are going home to Haiti.

(18:44):
I don't know how many were talking about one hundred,
one thousand, ten thousand, but residents in Springfield, Ohio say
these circumstances that made the community difficult to handle in
terms of resources, services, medical, public safety, educational, some of

(19:07):
which has made the town less safe, that drove up rents,
cause longer wait times for medical and social services. They said,
you know, since the last couple of weeks since the election,
seems like there's a bit more room to move here. Now,
you've got to wonder how many people in this country
illegally are saying, Look, I'm not going to let him.

(19:29):
I'm in the country illegally, and I am a criminal.
I am numero uno on the list of people who
are marked for deportation. I'm not going to give them
the satisfaction I'm out. And maybe that's what Trump wanted
in the first place. He wanted the criminal element to scatter,
and he wanted the element that truly wants to be

(19:53):
a part of this country and assimilate and be a
part of the nation that set the table to make
it so that immigrants here could have a better life
for themselves. Maybe they start going to some of their
local whether it's an advocacy group or a civic group
of some sort of going down to the city and

(20:14):
county buildings and saying, yeah, I'm in the country illegally.
I want status, What do I need to pay, what
do I need to do? Maybe that's happening now too,
and maybe that's what Trump wanted all along.

Speaker 2 (20:32):
Scott Voice, If.

Speaker 1 (20:34):
This conversation about the City of Omaha telling community members
that we're not going to be assisting the Trump administration
with a gestapo like mass deportation of anyone with a
decent tan. If this sounds familiar, let me direct your
attention to a letter dated February twenty third, two thousand

(20:56):
and seventeen from Omaha Marria Jean Stoutht and Omaha Police
Chief Todd Schmad says, Dearer, community members and partners, we
are aware of concerns in our community about federal immigration
and deportation policies and the role of local law enforcement agencies.

(21:16):
Please be assured that Omaha Police officers do not and
will not seek out individuals to check their legal status.
That is not the mission or duty of the Omaha
Police Department. A department policy specifically says it is not
within the jurisdiction of the OPD to determine whether an
individual is an undocumented individual. You will not be asked

(21:39):
about your legal status when you call nine to one
one for emergency assistance. Whether you are the victim of
a crime or witness to a crime, you can be
confident you can seek help from our police Department without fear. However,
when any person commits a crime, he or she can
be subject to the policies of federal agencies in those instances,

(22:04):
the Omaha Police Department will cooperate with our federal partners
only as outlined in our policies. Public safety is our
top priority. We value our relationships with all community members
as we make Omaha a safe place to live. That
is from twenty seventeen, signed by Mayristoth Chief Schmater. That

(22:25):
is still the policy of Omaha. But as I said
earlier in the program, the Biden administration put a lot
of pressure on communities across the country to be sanctuary communities.
Douglas County has the correctional facilities here, and it was
Douglas County's Department of Corrections that told Immigration and Customs

(22:46):
Enforcement in September of twenty twenty one, we're not going
to hold immigrants who commit crimes illegal immigrants who commit crimes,
and that's not our problem anymore. Now. ICE used to
pay Douglas County, as they still do with Potawatamee County,
to hold criminal illegal aliens until they can be processed

(23:08):
by ICE. Douglas County said, we're not going to take
that money and we're not going to be a part
of that anymore. That was due to pressure put on
by the Biden administration, Douglas County's Board of Commissioners and
the Department of Corrections bit and that is why Douglas County, Nebraska,
and sometimes it's kind of incorrectly listed as Omaha, but

(23:30):
that's why specifically Douglas County is on a sanctuary county list.
All clear. Anyway, we've done this before. The same people
were saying, oh, no, Trump's going to deport all the
brown people. They were fear mongering about that in two
thousand and sixteen when he was elected. Twenty seventeen, when

(23:54):
he was sworn in, they've been carping about it ever since.
And now they're going to hope that you have amnesia.
And you remember Trump didn't send the Gestapo into the
streets to start rounding up messkins to get him out
of here. Didn't happen. Here's something else. RFK Junior, if
indeed he's confirmed to lead the Department of Health and

(24:14):
Human Services, is not going to slap McDonald's French fries
out of your mouth.

Speaker 2 (24:21):
Now.

Speaker 1 (24:24):
He might have some pressure along something he has said before,
on something that some people say that's what makes McDonald's
French fries. McDonald's french fries. Here's a couple of things
that RFK Junior has said. He's not said he's going
to ban fast food. He says fast food is part

(24:46):
of American culture. He said that as recently as a
few weeks ago on a social media post. I don't
know that he was saying that has a way of
holding it up. Yeah, fast food, it's as part of
American culture is baseball and apple pie. I don't think
he was praising it. But RFK Jr. Has said that

(25:10):
he wishes these fast food places would stop using seed oils.
Seed oils or can include canola oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated
soybean oil, a lot of the blends of oils. This
is what McDonald's cooks its french fries in, and so

(25:33):
people say, well, that's what makes McDonald's french fries so good.
I don't know. Some of the other restaurants have said,
we don't cook our french fry, we don't fry our
french fries in some of these hydrogenated seed oils, and
I've tried them, they're great. I think that Mickey D's
could probably follow suit. RFK Junior says that McDonald should

(25:56):
return to its initial practice. And I don't know when
they stopped doing this of rather than using the seed oils,
they used to fry these fries in beef fat tallow,
which sounds better. I don't know. Beef fat just sounds tasty.
I know I should seek professional help. Also, he wants
to get rid of food dyes. He's spoken out against

(26:19):
artificial food dyes, and people immediately said, well, if you
don't want French fries or some of the dyes that
are in soda pop, then what's Trump supposed to eat
and drink? Because Trump likes McDonald's French fries, and he
likes diet cokes, and diet coke contains that artificial caramel color.

(26:41):
It's an artificial dye that gives, among other soft drinks,
diet coke that brown color. And it's made by treating
carbohydrates with ammonia based chemicals chemical dyes. And RFK Junior
was talking with a pod cast host in September and

(27:02):
he said, quote, if you look at a pack of
fruit loops in this country, it's all chemical dyes yellow blue,
red dye, which are poison unquote. Now that all very
well might be true. I don't know if you can
see me right now, But I'm not a I'm not
Jaba the Hut or anything. If you're wondering why you

(27:26):
can't hear Lucy, it is because she's chained to me
wearing the slave outfit. But I'm not Jaba the Hut. Yes,
in this scenario, Jim Rose would be silacious crumb. That's
the little goblin thing that goes, you know, over there
off to the side of Jaba Hut, Jaba the Hut.
But you know, I work out. You know, I'm not

(27:49):
a giant, you know, gelatinous tub of guts or anything.
I could probably stand to lose a few pounds. As
we learned on the radio, I and many other six
foot American males are rbidly obese because we met way
more than one hundred and seventy pounds. That's according to
the standards. That's ridiculous. But I think I know enough

(28:11):
about what Mom taught me about eating growing up to say,
if you're eating nothing but McDonald's french fries and fruit
loops and washing it down with diet coke every single
meal of every single day, that's not healthy. Now, if
once in a while you have some fast food, some

(28:34):
French fries, a bowl or two of fruit loops. You
occasionally have a little tasty coll a snack out of
a can or a bottle. It's probably not the worst
thing in the world. Everything in moderation. Our FK Junior says,
I'm not gonna take away your fast food. I have

(28:55):
to deliver the same message here to the Trump administration
that I did four years ago to the impending Biden administration,
because the Biden administration had not a I think the Republicans,
when trying to remember when Biden was elected, I think
the Republicans had a very slight majority, or maybe it

(29:17):
was a fifty to fifty split with Kamala as the tiebreaker.
But still Democrats were in possession position after the twenty
twenty elections to make all of their liberal, progressive dreams
come true. And four years ago I said to them,
do it. Do it, don't let Republicans stand in your way.

(29:41):
Give us everything you ever wanted, and don't even ask
for any kind of bipartisanship agreements or anything like that.
Let's see what you got. Unload the barrels, give us everything.
Just do it. You want to have this, you want
to have that. You want to end this, You want
to take this away from this person, give it to

(30:02):
that person, and you want to open up the borders
and do all this stuff by all means, have at it.
It's all yours, because I wanted the American people to
see what that would look like. And maybe it would
have been great. Maybe you would have looked at it
and said, oh fantastic. I'll never vote for another Republican
as long as I live, but at least we'd know.

(30:23):
I have the same message for the Trump administration. And
I hope all of those who were saying I don't
like Matt Gates women are coming out of the woodwork
and accusing him of stuff. Yeah, someone should study Donald Trump.
The impact he has on women's memories. To remember what
someone associated with the Trump campaign or administration did to
them years ago once he nominates them for something is amazing.

(30:47):
Scientists need to get on that. He's got an incredible
impact on women's memories. But I'm saying to the Trump administration,
you want to put this guy into this position. You
want to have someone do that and do this and
all the rest of this stuff, do it, do it,
do everything you ever wanted all of your maga dreams,
make them come true. That way, we can look at

(31:08):
it and either go, yeah, I like it, I'll never
vote for a Democrat ever again, or we go eh,
that was worse than I thought it would be. Let's
see it, though, Let's see it. You've got it, let's go,
let's do it. And the Zonker's custom was inbox. Andrew
has emailed Scott at kfab dot com. That's my email address,
Scott at kfab dot com and says Scott, I bet

(31:29):
a bunch of kfab nation has these old CDs. I know,
I do. I bet Lucy, Gary and Jim also have
a take on this, and he links to a story
I saw on kfab dot com today and Andrew, I'll
take you on your bet because if you, well, if

(31:49):
you look at the picture with this article and then
you read the article, you get two very very different
pictures of what this story is. Now. The headline is
CDs from the eighties, nineties and two thousands are selling
for over ten thousand dollars. Wow, my gin Blossoms album

(32:13):
which one new miserable experience? What do I do here?
Blues Traveler? What how my Backstreet Boys CDs. No one's
spending ten thousand dollars for your Backstreet Boys CDs. Not
that they aren't great, but they're not worth ten thousand dollars.
So the article, it's got a picture with the article

(32:34):
of a whole bunch of CDs that I agree with you, Andrew,
I'm sure if I look over this. Yeah, I've got
many of these in my music collection as well. I
see Nirvana's Unplugged on here, Pink Floyd's Dark Side of
the Moon, got that on vinyl. Queen Live Magic. I

(32:57):
didn't know they had an album called Live Magic. I'll
have to check that out. Fleetwood Mac's Greatest Hits. I've
got rumors on vinyl. That's pretty much the same thing,
isn't it. Sorry if you're a big Fleetwood Mac fin
oh man, here's a good one, the meat Loaf album
Dead Ringer. I got that one on vinyl and it's

(33:19):
on my iTunes. I got a digital copy of Dead
Ringer by meat Loaf. But none of these CDs are
part of this story. If you go to kfab dot com,
the ones that are selling for over one thousand dollars
are none of those pictured here with the story. Sorry,

(33:40):
if whoever it was, who did this for iHeart and
twenty four to seven News Dave Bashner. I don't know
who Dave is, but Dave is has potentially misled you here.
It says certain discs that came out in the eighties, nineties,
and two thousand now have a lot of value, specifically

(34:03):
stuff like Bruce Springsteen's The Future of Rock and Roll.
This was a nineteen eighty eight promo only double disc.
Promo only means it went to like radio stations, record companies.
A few people, maybe some fan club people got them.
But it was released in Japan, So unless you were
in Japan working at a radio station in nineteen eighty eight,

(34:25):
you probably don't have the double disc Springsteen's The Future
of Rock and Roll. It's hard to find. Fourteen hundred dollars.
It's what it's going for now. Prince in nineteen ninety
three put out an album, Hey I Got that, It's
what Prince Diamonds and Pearls and no it's not. It's
an album called My Name was Prince and it was

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a promo only release. Fifty copies of it promoted his
album The Hits Slash the B Sides and this Prince
album called My Name Was Prince is worth over six
thousand dollars. Paris Hilton's album Paris is going for over
ten thousand dollars. If you're cocking your head, why it's

(35:14):
because the artist Banksy put out certain editions of this.
There were five hundred fake copies of the Paris Hilton
album that he put in stores, replacing her album cover
with one that he did. And there was some remixes
from a group called Danger Mouse. And if you find

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one of these fake Paris Hilton albums Paris, which is
not a movie that she put out it around the
same time, those could go for over ten thousand dollars
because it's from Banksy. Do you see where we're getting
at here? In other words, Andrew, you don't have these albums.
I don't have these albums. Hardly anyone has these albums,

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even a couple that I might have because I'm fans
of the artists. Nirvana in nineteen ninety three put out
a single for Penny Royalty. It was an alternate version
of the song that was featured in the album in Utero. Also,
it was a live version from the Unplugged Sessions. It

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came out in April, but that's shortly before Kurt Cobain died,
so they recalled the CD. There's only a few copies
out there. They're worth about twenty five hundred dollars. And
one more. Michael Jackson put out a single of his
version of Charlie Chaplin's Smile. It was put out in

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nineteen ninety seven. It was originally on the history album
Really Beautiful Song. But he put out a couple of
these singles in Australia, but it was canceled for whatever
reason and they stopped making it. So just a few
of these remain and they're only worth about two thousand dollars.
So that's what the article is at kfab dot com

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more music news. Remember the song do They Know It's Christmas?
This was the British and some European artists put out
a charity single in nineteen eighty four, forty years ago,
ahead of the holidays, to raise money for famine relief
in Africa. It would be about a year later when

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we had the American version, which was USA for Africa's
We Are the World. But before that it was like Duran,
Duran and U two. Some of these European artists came
out and sang do they know it's Christmas? Nothing better
for the holidays than the line and tonight, thank god

(37:48):
it's them instead of you, which Bono yells on that. Ever,
even I was a kid like seven or eight years
old listening to that, going that doesn't sound like a
real good holiday theme, lef tonight, thank God it's them
instead of you. You know, like, well, wait a second,
I thought we were supposed to. I don't know. I
guess the overall message of the song is they don't

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know it's Christmas in Africa because it's not snowing and
they don't have anything to eat. Meanwhile, then and now
there are people in Africa saying, okay, first of all, no,
we don't get a lot of snow here in the Congo.

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I don't know if you're familiar with how the equator
works or you know, longitudinal and latinitudinal lines work here
in terms of, you know, how what the average temperature
is throughout the year. But no, there's not a lot
of not a lot of snow here in these parts.
We'll never have snow on some of these mountain peaks nearby. Yeah,

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there's them up there, But I wouldn't live up there.
So first of all, the fact that it's not snowing
means that we don't know it's Christmas. I don't know
if you're familiar with this, Bob Geldoff, but we do
have calendars here in Africa, we do have families here
in Africa. We know what Christmas is. And yes, it's

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true that there are several people throughout Ethiopia, especially who
you know, the situation famine. It's not a great place
in many of these parts. Here's the thing that maybe
some of us gen xers who grew up and the

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only thing we knew about Africa, especially Ethiopia, was either
the message from do they know it's Christmas? Or the
next year we are the world that all these people
in Africa are just sitting there ribcage, just sticking out,
flies crawling on their eyes. And the only other thing
we ever heard about Ethiopia was our moms say and

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eat all your food. There are starving kids in Ethiopia
who would love to have that. I'm like, let them
eat it. Then I don't want this. This is all
we ever learned about basically the whole of Africa. Well,
there are people now in Africa who are standing up
as they're getting ready to put out a fortieth anniversary

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of this song. I didn't realize this, but every ten
years there's an update version of do They Know It's
Christmas that features artists from Great Britain who sing the song.
In fact, Ed Sheeran sang on the version ten years ago,
but he says as this year, they're putting together a

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casse role of this song, featuring vocal parts from different
people who've sung these lines over previous iterations of this
charity single, and Sheeran's voice appears on this new one,
but he says, if I had the choice, I have
respectfully declined the use of my vocals. And the reason

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for that is is more and more people are saying,
you know what, this song is insulting, We know it's Christmas,
and we're not all sitting here all famine stricken, you know,
fighting off lions and tigers. By the way, if Lucy
were here, that would be your eighties movie reference for
this segment of the radio program. I bet you got

(41:26):
a lot of practice with that fighting lions and tigers
back where you come from?

Speaker 2 (41:30):
What movie?

Speaker 1 (41:32):
This is where Lucy would say Jaws famous movie where
they fight off lions and tigers, and I'd say no,
that was Coming to America, which, by the way, Coming
to America has had a very nice resurgence these last
few days since the Tyson fight because of the conversation

(41:55):
of the greatest boxer of all time. You know, Jake
Paul just fought like Tyson, Mike Tyson fifty eight years old.
There's a great scene in Coming to America where they're
talking about, you know, Joe Louis fought Sonny listen or
something like that, you know, or Muhammad Ali, Muhammad Ali
Hmad Ali was seventy eight years old and he did
that fight. He was I said Poulter Kraft Don King.

(42:16):
I said, Don King, how old was Ali when he
fit when he fought that fight? And Don King said,
Muhammad Ali one hundred and thirty seven years old or
something like that. I'm kind of screwing all this up,
but that whole scene is had a beautiful resurgence these
last few days. Mike Tyson was one hundred and thirty
seven years old when he fight Jake Paul And where

(42:37):
was I. Oh, yeah, people in Africa are saying we're
not fighting lions and Tigers or Jake Paul. We're not
all famine stricken. And the fact that it's not snowing,
I means, doesn't mean that we're not celebrating Christmas. There
are some cultures here who do, in fact celebrate some
variation of Christmas. But the point is is we're not

(42:57):
all just sitting around waiting for your canned goods to
come here so we can feed our families. Our families
are fed. We're not just wearing shirts heralding the Super
Bowl champion San Francisco forty nine ers. In the year
when they didn't win the Super Bowl, they printed up
all the hats and shirts. But the Chiefs send up

(43:20):
winning the Super Bowl, so America gets the chief Super
Bowl shirts, and starving kids in Africa are all sitting
there and going man. The Buffalo Bills won a lot
of Super Bowls in the early nineties. That's all they have.
They're saying, we have food, we have money, we have
business here, we have technology here. There are many parts

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of Africa that are beautiful places to live and invest
and locate a business here to visit for tourism. But
all you guys ever hear about in America and Great
Britain is We're all sitting here with flies on our eyes,
battling drunk elephants in our villages. We have cities here,
we have food here, and we also take care of

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our own people in Africa who don't have as much
same as you see in America. It'd be like if
we went out and filmed some homeless people living under
a bridge here in Omaha, and we showed people in
Africa like, this is what it's like in America, and
they go, wow, man must be rough. The people in
Africa are saying this song is not the truth about

(44:27):
living in Africa. Now, it might generate some sympathy in donations,
and probably a lot of those donations go to some
drug gang thugs that rule certain regions of the area,
but people in Africa are saying that the songs like
do they know It's Christmas perpetuate damaging stereotypes that stifle

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Africa's economic growth, tourism, investment, and they cost the continent
trillions of dollars and destroy its dignity, pride, and identity.
Boy I didn't know that. We just heard the song
and thought, yeah, we should someone should give some money
to Africa. Those poor starving people in Ethiopia. Well there's
more and more people now. Forty years after saying maybe

(45:13):
this song doesn't work anymore, I would at least just
change the lot the line tonight. Thank god it's them
instead of you.

Speaker 2 (45:23):
Scott Forhees News Radio eleven ten KFAB.

Speaker 1 (45:27):
Lucy Chapman out today. But Jim Rose just came wandering
into the studio and shouted at me to get the
hell out. I said, Jim, I'm still doing a radio show.
He said, doesn't matter. Nobody's listening. This is the kind
of team we have here at the news radio eleven
ten kfab. Got at least a few people listening. I
got a great email here and the Zonker's custom Woods

(45:48):
inbox Scott atkfab dot com from Charles. He has some
things to say about my taker in the last hour
on illegal immigration, some vintage CDs, some Fleetwood Max stuff,
and a very long email here about affordable college. Charles,
how did you know that my eyes popped open at
about two thirty this morning? And suddenly I'm like, oh,

(46:10):
it's only two thirty. I can go back to sleep
for a few hours. And then I thought, how am
I going to pay for my daughter's college. And I'm like, well,
I'm up, thanks, brain, You're the best. You know, the
brain and I are supposed to be on the same page, right,
Why is your stupid brain when one eye opens at
three o'clock in the morning and you've got time to
go back to sleep, why does your brain suddenly give

(46:32):
you some detail about something that's way out of your control,
not only at that moment but in general. And you're like, well,
I guess I'm just awake now for the rest of
the night. But Charles, thank you for that. On the
subject of the CD story at kfab dot com on now,
some of your CDs from years ago might be worth

(46:52):
thousands of dollars. In reality, they're very rare print of
some CD there were promo only copies in Japan or
something like that. The chances are very very slim you
have any of these. Kevin says, I don't have any
of my old CDs because back in nineteen ninety nine,
during the Christmas season, I went shopping at the Mall

(47:15):
of the Bluffs and I came out, he says, Actually,
I went in there to buy a new CD, and
I came out to find that someone broke into my
truck and stole my entire book of CDs. See, kids,
you used to have the CDs in a CD book,
you know, like a journal, and each paid had laminate

(47:36):
envelopes you could put the CDs in, and that way
you go through there and get the disc you want.
And if you had a CD six disc changer, you
were in heaven. You wouldn't have to change it all
the time. Oh, it was a great time. But Kevin says,
someone stole my entire book of CDs. But like I said,
like you said, he went in to buy a CD,
So at least I still have that Chris Gaines CD.

(48:00):
Excellent reference, Kevin, and I might be the only person
on the planet who still regularly listens to that album
Garth Brooks in the Life of Chris Gaines. It's a
whole thing anyway. And then I got the Daily Dispatch
from the Babylon b satirical news website has a headline says,

(48:22):
to pay back twenty million dollars in campaign debt, Kamala
Harris agrees to fight Jake Paul. I can't wait to
not watch that on Netflix thanks to the buffering. Now
apparently here in Omaha, many of you are not getting
your kids to school every day. Story from k ETV

(48:45):
News Watch seven ops says that forty percent of Omaha
public school students are chronically absent so far this year.
All right, what does it mean to be chronically absent?
Chronically absent means that a student misses more than ten

(49:08):
percent of school time. And for those who do miss
a lot of school, I'll run that math for you.
That means you miss at least one day of school
every two weeks. Now, when you look at it like that,
it doesn't seem too crazy. It happens. There's a lot

(49:30):
of junk been going around here this fall. I know
my kids have both been fighting stuff on and off
quite a bit. In fact, I gotta look, I don't
think my son's missed ten percent. I don't think he's
chronically absent. So the story goes and starts talking about
how it's a shame and are kids who are in

(49:50):
school more often or more successful? And then they break
it down by race. Now here's where it gets real interesting.
If I go on the radio and say, you know,
apparently black families aren't sending their kids to school. What's
going on there? Suddenly there are some tar there are
some feathers, there are torches and pitchforks. I'm led to

(50:13):
the county line and told never to come back. But
if Omaha Public Schools board members say, yeah, we look
at the numbers here and it looks like black families
have the biggest problem getting kids in school every single day.
It is highest the chronicle of the chronicle. The chronic

(50:35):
absenteeism is highest within black students. Well, that's interesting. I
don't know why that is. I can't look at the
macro and try and figure out why this is. I
can look at the micro I can tell you that
there's a kid I know whose mom is. We'll just say,

(50:59):
doing the best she can. And I know that sometimes
this kid doesn't make it to school even though throughout
most of his life he lived within walking distance of
the school. Why because the mom wasn't around very much
and he just decided I don't feel like going to
school today, and the mom would excuse it. And that

(51:27):
is not necessarily a black or white issue, including the
specificity with this individual situation that I'm describing. It's a
parenting thing. Sometimes you got kids that are sick, Sometimes
you got bad parents. Sometimes the parents are like, I
don't care if you go to school or not. They

(51:48):
don't really care. But there's something else that's happened here COVID. Now,
if your kid so much as has, you know, a
slight case of the sniff and maybe a scratchy throat
that may or may not be allergies, the parents are like, well,
I'm not sending you to school sick. I don't want
you to everyone sick. They don't want you to go

(52:08):
to school. If you're sick, you better stay home for
like five days because they still have the COVID mentality
that could very well be was keeping so many more
kids out of school from a chronic standpoint. And here's
the other dirty little secret about all of this. So
let's say your kid misses a couple days of school.
I don't know if you've got kids in ops, I
do you know what they're missing after a couple days

(52:29):
of school? In many instances, not a whole hell of
a lot. The teachers are teaching these block schedules. They
can't hold students' attention for ten minutes, let alone ninety,
and a lot of it is just screw around time
for everybody They're not missing a whole lot in some
of these classes. There's still some great teachers out there,

(52:51):
and for them an hour and a half isn't enough.
But you got some bad teachers. The teachers who stayed
in this school district? Is eight hundred of their peers
left in a two year span, just a couple of
years ago. You think that these kids are getting the
best and the brightest teachers all the time. Hmmm, No
they're not. So you miss a couple of days of school,

(53:13):
you're not missing much, he emailed the teacher. I'm sick
for a few days. What I miss nothing? Read this chapter?
Do this assignment. You can use your notes on it.
They're not missing much. What's happening to the grades? Not much?
How about this? Ops? Yeah, I agree with you. It's
bad to have so many students miss so much school,

(53:35):
and parents need to really take a strong look at
what's going on in their homes. But if it's something
like it's a bad parent, what's OPS going to do
about that? You got them when they come through your doors?
What are you doing when they come through your doors?
These kids have to know, like I, if I miss
this class, I'm going to be way behind. I can

(53:56):
It's not worth it all right. Up next, back into
the world of both national and local politics, Dan Osborne
has come up for air after his lost two weeks ago,
and a little perspective on this Morning Joe Trump Reunion
that you haven't heard anywhere else because you first heard

(54:18):
about this on this show almost ten years ago. I'll
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Meet Sarah Brightman. She's in town for a Christmas symphony.
That's some of her favorite songs like from Phantom of
the Opera or Time to Say Goodbye, made famous by
the movie Step Brothers for those of us. For those

(54:42):
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Dan Osborne has come up for air. The story from
Aaron Sanderford of The Nebraska Examiner. He was kind of

(55:48):
wondering what Osborne was gonna do after two weeks ago
he gave deb Fisher all she wanted in that Senate
race as an independent candidate and fell short. It was
noted several times that dan Osborne's campaign was funded largely
from outside of Nebraska political action committee packs. So what's

(56:11):
dan Osborne going to do? He's heading up a pack
a political action committee.

Speaker 2 (56:19):
Hmm.

Speaker 1 (56:20):
He announced yesterday that he'll be working for this group
called Working Class Heroes Fund. This is a political action
committee that can take donations with According to Aaron Sanderford
at the Nebraska Examiner. It's a hybrid pack that blends

(56:43):
a superpack that can take donations with fewer limits and
a separate account for independent expenditures. In other words, anyone
with deep pockets can give to this and they don't
have to tell anyone who's giving it to them, which,
by the way, is how dan Osborne got a lot
of his campaign paid for. I mean, you go and
you look at who's donating to the campaign. It was

(57:06):
a lot of these political action committees where they don't
have to tell you who funds the pack, or he's
given money to the pack. Now you can look and
see where the money's coming from. A lot of it
was coming from New York. Dan Osborne was on that
Zoom call with a lot of deep pocket Democratic donors
in New York City. It caused people like me to

(57:26):
ask him when he was gracious enough to be on
the program. It's interesting to go into the Senate funded
by Democrats and have people question whether or not you're
going to caucus with the Democrats should you be elected.
So now he says he's going to be a part
of this pack, which he says is to empower more

(57:48):
working class, blue collar people. Plumbers, carpenters, electricians, teachers, nurses,
factory workers. He wants to empower them to run for office,
especially members of labor you unions. Now, this also gives
him a couple of other things. Number one, money, He
left his job to run for office and paid himself

(58:17):
using campaign funds, which again came from these packs. Now
he says he's going back to work as a steam fitter,
but will lead the pack in his free time, which
I imagine would also give him the opportunity to use donations
to this fund to fund whether it's his life or

(58:38):
a lot of people think his ambitions for running for
office in some capacity. Again, in other words, we haven't
heard the last of Dan Osborne. And now he's getting
into this world that funded his campaign. By being a
part of this world. We'll see what comes of all

(58:59):
of this. On the national front, a lot of people
were surprised and some people really mad about what Joe
Scarborough and Mika Razinsky of The Morning Joe Show on
MSNBC did and then said this week they announced we

(59:20):
just met with Trump. We went down to mar A
Lago and sat down with him, spent about an hour
or so with him, and talked with him, We told
him to his face we disagreed with him on a
lot of his policies. And they said that Trump was
upbeat and happy. Yeah, of course he was. He just won,
even though people like Joe Scarborough and Mika Razinsky have

(59:44):
been calling him hitler for the better part of the
last decade, and so of course Trump was upbeat. Hey,
how you doing. Welcome to mar A Lago. We're serving
crow today. Do you want some. They went and met
with him, and they said, well, this gives us an
opportunity to present a more balanced view for our viewers

(01:00:09):
and America that is increasingly more purple in our political
views in this country. And blah blah, blah, blah blah.
Some people are all mad, saying, how dare you you
call these guys hitler? You call hitler, you call Trump
hitler for all these years and then you go meet
with Hitler. That's what some people are saying. They said,
like Sonny Houstin of The View said she couldn't believe

(01:00:32):
they went down there to kiss his ring and you know,
suck up to Trump now. But there's one thing that
no one to my knowledge has pointed out about Joe Scarborough,
Mika Prazinski, and Donald Trump. And it was a glimpse

(01:00:53):
that I got years ago, almost ten years ago, after
Trump came down the Golden Escalator. Of course, the first
in the nation political test for an open primary is
the Iowa Caucus, which gives us here if we broadcast
across the western seaboard of Iowa. Gives us a chance
to have a lot of access to all of these

(01:01:15):
political candidates and people on their teams. Over the years,
I've been lucky to talk with like President Obama a
couple of times on this show. Well, I also talked
a few times with Donald Trump Junior, and we talked
about everything growing up with the name Donald Trump. Being
an avid hunter, he comes to the area, he might

(01:01:36):
be here now hunting. He loves to come to this
area and go hunting. But there was something else I
asked him, and I've been trying to find because he
was on here a couple of times, and I'm trying
to find that clip for you. But I really didn't
think about it too much until I saw this from
Morning Joe this week, because I asked Donald Trump Junior,

(01:01:57):
what has been the biggest personal impact to your family
from a negative standpoint. After your dad decided he's going
to run for office, and I thought he would probably say, like,
you know, people are you know, bashing us politically or
maybe a hit to our business or whatever. He said, Actually,
it's hearing some of these members of the media who

(01:02:19):
have been our friends for years suddenly go on TV
and rip us to shreds. And he specifically mentioned Joe
Scarborough and Mika Brazinski of MSNBC's Morning Joe. He said
they were good friends. We spent a lot of time
with them, so when they go and meet with Trump.

(01:02:45):
Maybe this is less from a journalistic standpoint. Maybe it's more,
you know, it's been stupid crazy in this country for
the last ten years, and we all put some of
the blame on this one. But maybe friends, family, co workers,
old college roommates, whatever, who've been battling either text messages

(01:03:08):
or face to face or over the cubicles or on
social media about politics. Maybe it's time we put all
that behind us and move forward. Maybe this was just less,
you know, some TV people on MSNBC and the President
elect getting together, and maybe it was more some genuine
old friends deciding they wanted to patch things up. And

(01:03:29):
not let personal politics get bigger than that friendship.

Speaker 2 (01:03:33):
Maybe Scott Boyes News Radio of Levinson Levin KFAB.

Speaker 1 (01:03:39):
I couldn't believe it seeing all the videos of all
these NFL players scoring touchdowns and then doing the Trump dance.
Have you seen some of this from Sunday's NFL Action.
Players from the Don't Say Los Angeles, Don't Say Oakland,
Las Vegas Raiders, the Detroit Lions, the Tennessee Titans all
sell braiding, either getting interceptions or scoring touchdowns by doing

(01:04:04):
the Trump YMCA little jiggity jig, and a UFC fighter
also after winning, John Jones went out there and did
the Trump dance. And what's funny about it is, if
you can find some of this video from the Say
the CBS telecast of the game, it's funny to note

(01:04:25):
how quickly they cut away when it becomes obvious that
these players, black players, white players, they're coming together and
they're doing the Trump Dance together. Clay Travis talked about
it yesterday and his program. He said this shows that
the era of bowing down to the woke players who
are often taking a knee or something during the national anthem,

(01:04:48):
woke sports might be over in this country. I don't
know if it's over, but that was an interesting dynamic
over the weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:05:00):
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