April 21, 2025 • 30 mins
An email that may have been a bit snarky actually has a great point about the future Pope. We talk about that, the latest Ice Bucket Challenge, how Lucy's crush was at the White House this weekend, a very different Presidential message this Easter, and more.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott Vorgie. This past hours had a lot of conversation
about the passing of Pope Francis. We learned in the
middle of the night after giving that final Easter message
to the crowd amassed in the courtyard there at the Vatican,
eighty eight years old Pope Francis. And we also talked
for a few minutes with Valerie Burtinelli about, among other things,
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Pope Francis. She's Catholic, so that's what we did in
the last hour. I always love checking the Zonker's custom
woods inbox during the couple of hours that we're on
the radio here this morning, because it's often a reflection
of the host of the show that would be me,
and it's just snark and sarcasm, with the occasional great point,
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but mostly it's sarcastic comments and movie quotes. And it's
when I read the emails or I'm like, is this
really a reflection of what I'm doing here? Like a vampire.
I don't like having mirrors around, But there's one snarky
comment in here that I think is a valid question
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when selecting the next Pope. Now I'm talking about all
this because the passing of a pope is a major event.
Whether or not you're Catholic or even Christian, A pope
has a lot of influence in this world. So that's
that's where all of this conversation is coming from. But
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I got this email from Rick and Fremont Scott at
kfab dot com and says, has there been any thought
to choosing a pope who's not already one hundred years old?
Now that's a snarky comment.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
But.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
It's not the least valid question. If the idea is
the pope provides this, this human guiding light towards the
message of the Lord, to try and reach people who
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are at all steps in their walk with faith, even
if they have yet to get out of the starting gate,
even if they feel like I've already run that mile
and I'm sitting over here on the sidelines. I mean,
I think that we're all kind of on that path
at different points. Sometimes that changes throughout the day, Right,
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That's how I look at it. I don't I don't
mock anyone for believing this or that, and I'm certainly
not exactly I'm not at all the best example of
anything ever in the history of ever. But the pope
is supposed to be there with this message that reaches
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people now ultimately, whether that's from a wed like you
to take further steps forward with the Lord in this
Christian faith, or we want you to go to Catholic
Mass and don't forget to tithe and that really kind
of depends on your level of snarkiness. But I think
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in both instances it's what we want. We want you
to have faith. And since we get all the news
all the time that younger generations are less and less
Christian than any generations that ever came before them, I'm
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not suggesting Pope justin Bieber. I'm not. But let's take
a look at this list of people or all the experts,
and I wonder, I don't know if it's Vegas, but
are there odds on who becomes the next Pope?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
I'm not be surprised one bit in Vegas, no place else.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Here's a list of one two. I was looking to
the second person in the list and I my eyes
almost popped out of my head. I thought that the
second name on this list was one of the great
singer songwriters of the pop rock era, Richard Marx. I thought,
is Richard Marx gonna hold on to the knights. I
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don't he won't give up until he's satisfied.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I don't think he's a real religious person.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
He doesn't like Trump. I know that. No, it's actually
seventy one year old Cardinal rein Hard Marx of Germany.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
I could see where you'd get them confused.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Well, I just saw it, saw our Marx, and I
immediately my brain protested it as a great singer songwriter,
Richard Marx. Yeah, he and I don't exactly see eye
on politics, I'm sure on a lot of things. But
I've talked to them about his music a couple of times,
and I love his music. Interesting guy. You know whose
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voice is heard and who decided to do the pard
in Lionel Richie's All Night, All Night Long, where he
says Lionel says all night long, all night, all night,
all night. You know who does the repeat of all night.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Let me guess. Is it Richard Marx?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
That's right, How did you get it? It's Richard Mark.
So he's been around a long time. Love Richard Marx,
but he's not on this list to be the next Pope.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Well that yeah, probably best.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
One, two, three, four, five, six people on this list.
These are the betting nods as the next Pope's going
to come from this list. The youngest person on this
list is sixty nine, and he's the one most unlikely
to be the next pope. That's the American Cardinal Prevost
of Chicago. The oldest person on this list is eighty.
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Everyone else seventy one, seventy two, seventy seventy nine. So
to Rick's point here, is there any possibility of getting
someone who might hang out and be pope for a
while if you're choosing someone who's already eighty in their
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you know, mid to late seventies, that's when some people
are kind of moving towards retirement, if not already there.
I don't know that you know, they're maybe this is you,
Maybe it's a father or grandfather. You've got that man
in your life who's about eighty years old, and you
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know he's picking up a hobby and like he's all in,
but and he's you know, like at home he's building
model planes, going out and flying these radio controlled airplanes,
or he's like suddenly like he previously had been really
into World War two history, but now he's really really
into World War two and like this is a big
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hobby and he's reading everything and watching all these movie
rewatching all these movies, documentaries, going to see all these
You know, maybe he is like civil War. I want
to I want to go visit every major battle site,
every every major battle side of the Civil War. You like,
I don't know if you can do that. You can't
even say that phrase without slurring. You mean you want
to sit down.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
This is me.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
I'm not slurr. I'm not the one stuttering and slurring here.
I'm quoting someone else. This is the mistake free radio here.
So you get that person who's about eighty who's suddenly
like all in in a hobby. I don't know that
being pope is that well, you know, I've been retired
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for a while. Maybe I'm gonna go to the local
golf course and mow lawns in the morning. I can
go out there and I can mow fairways in the
morning and just go up and back on this riding lawnmower.
I'm out here first thing in the morning. It's beautiful,
watching the sun come up. I'm on the mower. It's great.
Or maybe I'll be pope. Yeah, I but that's not
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how they go about choosing the pope.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
It is.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
It is the cardinals get together for the conclave, and
we're still weeks away from that, and it's about the
divine intervention that happens in the secretive Vatican Conclave, a
mysterious and sometimes Dan Brown like process where they all
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get together and try and figure out who the next
Pope's going to be. Technically, any Catholic male can be
elected pope. Only cardinals have been chosen for centuries and centuries.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
But doesn't that make you eligible.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Again, I am not Catholic. I am Catholic by proxy.
I have not converted. I go to Mass, but I
have a great respect for the traditional aspect of a
Catholic Mass. But I'm not Catholic, so I don't get
to do all the sacraments, which means a couple of
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key things in my life. I don't do community, I
don't well, I don't do communion. I don't do confession,
even though if there's anyone among us who should go
to confession, it's me. I'm going to continue to suppress
and live in and let everyone around me live in
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ignorant bliss as to just how awful and cold and dark.
This heart is though, and where was I? Oh? Yeah,
and I don't do confession either. My rule Now why
I just said that. Jeez, I woke up this morning
thinking that I didn't have to come to work, you
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need the kids are off school, and I threw off
my whole morning, and I woke up and spent ten
minutes staring at the ceiling, going do I have to
go to work today? What is today? Is it a holiday?
My whole thing was, I don't do communion.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Do you need an app?
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Kind of my rule on communion is if the communion
line based on where I'm sitting there in the pews,
if the line is going up to where the priest is,
I go up and get a blessing, which I always
feel kind of awkward about. You know, he's got the
body of Christ there prepared, and I throw him off
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by saying a blessing please, and then I bound my
head and yeah, he knows what he's doing, you know.
So I get a blessing, and I I did that yesterday.
It just so happened that at our Easter Mass spillover service.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Were you in the cafeteria or the basement.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
We were in the Uh, the Narthex. I always wonder
what the narthex was. We were in the narthex and
so we were Yeah, we were in the basement of
the narthex, which is not right next to the annex.
We were over there. So we were in the Uh.
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They have several fathers who preside over this particular church.
We were in one of his cars out in the
parking lot. We were in his car. There was some
of us jammed into his his minivans. So I got
a blessing yesterday because my pew was going right towards
the priest. I'm like, hey, Easter blessing, Easter Communion blessing.
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I was all pumped up. And you say, Scott, you
can do that anytime, no matter who it is. I'm like, Nope.
If the guy up there doing the I understand. You
got the Eucharistic ministers who I always think all their
names are Bob, Bob Eucharistic, great baseball player. He was
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on mister Belvedere and he can preside over communion. Yes,
I think I'll get into Heaven someday. Why do you
ask so if the guy up there doing the communion
was previously just sitting next to me wearing khakis. I
don't know that it counts.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
I mean people are welcome to pray for me and
provide a blessing. That's great, but it just it doesn't
feel right, so I don't do it. Where was I?
I think I was talking about the pope?
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Well you were talking about emails.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
No, I just said, you know, I said, any Catholic
male can be elected pope. I am not a Catholic,
but I'm a lot of male. I mean, does that
does one overshadow the other? It's like, he's not Catholic,
he goes to Mass, but wow, is that a lot
of man. We're willing to overlook the lack of Catholicism
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because he's teeming with testosterone.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
I think you would have to You would have to
get a couple of people to get a consensus on
that thought before you could actually go with it. That's
a lot of man. You need a few opinions.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Don't ask my friend who all out drive me anyway? Well,
then I guess it goes the other way too. It's like, well,
she's not a male, but she's really Catholic. Maybe they'll
choose a woman. Maybe, Well, I think a lot of
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people are very curious because Pope Francis was. I think
it's not I'm not saying anything crazy here by saying
he is the most progressive pope on what American political
ressive thoughts might be. He was the most on that front.
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So is the conclave? Will the divine intervention mean that
the next pope is continuing down that path? Or do
they do something a little different. We're weeks away. All
I know is yesterday I didn't know whether we were
celebrating Easter or as we did last year on Easter.
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The President was there with the message proclaiming the trans
Day of Visibility, so I was unsure which major holiday
I was celebrated. Now we went with Easter, But when
is the How does I don't know how many of
this works. Is the trans Day of Visibility a fixed
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date on the calendar or does it just change to
be on Easter Sunday depending on who the president is.
Because President Trump didn't say anything yesterday about the trans
Day of Visibility like President Biden did a year ago.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Or about four twenty right.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Now, I didn't hear President Trump say anything about for
twenty either. Yeah, I kind of forgot about yesterday being
four to twenty day. I hope that you had a
chance to get out and do something on Saturday, because
yesterday was not a great day to be out doing
much of anything unless you are some sort of amphibian,
cold and wet, which was the perfect day for my
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kids to be out last night getting cold water dumped
on them. The ice bucket challenge has returned.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Same, No, no, what's it for this time?
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Well before the ice bucket Challenge was supposed to be,
And boy did I ruin Easter dinner last night by
opening up my big fat mouth, because once the kids
told me this is what they were doing, I started
popping off like this same thing. I was like, oh,
is this to try and allegedly raise money for ALS
(16:00):
Research lou Garrig's disease for some of us? And that's
what it was supposed to be last time. Now it
didn't actually really do any of that, because the idea
was is, let's say I get nominated by Lucy to
do the ice bucket Challenge. I can either donate money
to ALS Research or get a big bucket of ice
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ice water dumped on my head.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
The idea was is that you donate to the cause,
so you don't get ice water dumped on you. Oh now,
what did everyone do? They just did funny ice funny
funny videos of getting dunked with ice water in a
variety of different ways. I did mind. Mayor Stothert got
me in her backyard, by the way, and then told
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me to get out of her yard. And then she
looked at the camera and said, damn kids, which was
one hundred percent true. It was so fun. It was
great doing that. But before I did the video, I
did the whole soliloquy saying I'm not going to get
ice dumped on me because the idea is you're supposed
to donate to this cause. I'm donating to the cause.
Therefore I don't get ice dumped on me. And then
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I got ice water dumped on me. Anyway. I didn't
see that one coming, did you? No one did, And
I gave it the old George W. Bush now watched
this drive as I set up for a te shot.
Mayor stother lives on a golf course. I wormed my
way into her backyard. It was fun. It was a
good night. So that's what it was supposed to be. Now,
(17:29):
a lot of people did both the donation and the
ice bucket thing, but most people just did the dumping
the water and it was I know, it came out
later like, look, I'm glad everyone's having fun doing this,
but the idea was supposed to be to raise money
and they're not raising this all this money. This one
is for awareness of mental health. It's a mental health
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there's an organization that's tied to it. And I said
to my kids, like your generation, my kids are teenagers.
Your generation is more aware that if you have mental
health questions, anxiety, stress, you think that you're a zebra,
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you know whatever. Your generation has more attention paid to it,
to their resources available, go talk to someone, all the
rest of this stuff. Honestly, is there anyone in your
generation who isn't aware that there are resources available to
help them that they're struggling with mental health, which, of
course came off to my wife and children as I
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don't like people who have any kind of mental health issues.
I don't want them to get help. I don't want
anyone to be aware of it. I would rather they
just you know, jumped off a cliff and just stopped
bothering me with all of their mental health issues. That's
how I can came off. Then I start doubling down.
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I was like, so what do you guys? Do you
just chuck water at each other out in the cold
to try How does that help anyone?
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Is there?
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Is there anyone right now saying I'm really struggling with
mental health. But let me get on social media and
see how everyone's doing, which is probably the worst thing
you can do if you have mental health issues. Go
on social media and see that that Bonker's cavern of depravity.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Who what kind of friends are you following? Or are
you following you?
Speaker 1 (19:41):
I follow you do Facebook and Twitter. It's just this
Bonker's cavity of depravity, and it's it's all over. And
so people with mental health get on there and they're
either emboldened by some mental health issues that need to
be treated and need to be diagnosed and treated, or
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it's they see everyone else's life is perfect and that
sends them further into potential depression or Now one of
the big things is skinny talk. It's TikTok where they're
trying to shame people into being skinnier. It's like tough love,
try and get you to be skinnier. There's all kinds
of stuff out there. And I said, who with a
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mental health struggle is going to see you get water
dumped on your head? And say? That's the push I needed.
I'm gonna go talk to a counselor right now. How
does that work? I'm yelling at the dinner table at Easter,
Ham's flying everywhere, My kids are crying, my wife is
trying to call the priest over. I'm ruining Easter. And
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then my kids went out in the backyard and dump
water in each other and filmed it and.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
They felt better.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
As far as the all skinny talk, yeah, I've never
heard of this before. Are you seeing skinny talk? Like
talking or talk like.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
TikTok like TikTok okay.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Skinny talk? It's too embarrassed people. It's to shame them
into being skinny. You know what, the girls of the eighties,
of teenagers of the eighties, we invented this. I know,
we are the ones that invented eating disorders. You had
to be thine.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
No one is calling you fat foxing. That's in case
you're just joining us long standing and joke on this program.
I say anything and Lucy says, did you call me fat?
That's one of many things that we have fun with
Lucy on. Another one is your love of a certain
Hollywood actor who was hanging out with President Trump this weekend.
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Did you know that I know he has Well, I
guess he did that the other day. Well, we'll talk
about that next. Scott Bories News Radio eleven ten kfab
been talking throughout the morning of the passing of Pope Francis.
We learned in the middle of the night here in
Omaha Council Bluffs that the Pope had passed after being
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out there to do a blessing at the Vatican yesterday
on Easter. It's amazing how often someone wills themselves to
stay alive up until a whether it's a family gathering
oftentimes Christmas, and then once that is over, it's like,
all right, I guess that was the last thing I
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needed to do.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
It was.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
It almost seems to me that he didn't want the
faith to be without a sitting pope on Easter, the
most holy day on the calendar, so he willed himself
to stay alive until the Easter message and then passed.
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And that's that's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
I was just thinking saying that exactly same word. That
is a beautiful thing, very beautiful thing.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
The last official thing that he did in terms of
meeting with someone was the day before when the Pope
met with Vice President JD. Vance. They met, and depending
on your political persuasion, it was either a nice expression
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and exchange of ideas or man, the Pope let jd
Vance have it. You know. That's that's why the Pope
passed away. All of his energy was gone after just
lashing into jd Vance. Like listen, you tell Donald he's
gonna stop doing this, Like, Pope, sit down, You're gonna
get Oh no, don't hold me back, you guys, did
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you know it doesn't sound like it was any of
that that happened. The Vice President was incredibly complimentary of
the meeting and with his message right after the Pope passed,
and we also have a statement from President Trump. He
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also paid tribute to the Pope. This was after yesterday
he President Trump had a message about Easter, and today
they did the Easter egg roll on the lawn there
at the White House, and the Pope made some comments
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about faith and Easter there at the White House. On
his right was first Lady Milania Trump, and on his
left was someone dressed as a giant Easter bunny. And
here's President Trump just a couple of hours ago at
the White House.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
And speaking of special, Easter is special, and it's one
of our favorite days. It's one of our favorite periods
of time. We're honoring Jesus Christ, and we're going to
honor Jesus Christ very powerfully throughout our lives, all throughout
our lives, not just now, all throughout our lives. We're
bringing religion back in America. We're bringing a lot of
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things back, but religion is coming back to America. That's
why you see the kind of numbers that you see,
the spirit and the kind of numbers that you see.
So we're gonna come down and join you right now.
But I just want to wish everybody once again, happy
Easter and enjoy your lives. We're gonna have a great
four years. Thank you very much, everybody.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
President Trump there bringing Jesus back. No one, no one
celebrates the Son of God more than this White House. Frankly,
great man, great son of God. A people. They like him,
We like him. Everyone's likes Easter. So that's a great
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message there from President Trump. As I said a moment ago,
it was a year ago when President Biden declared Easter
to be the trans day of visibility and different messaging.
This year, he had posted yes, well in the middle
of the night early early this morning, rest in peace,
Pope Francis on his social media accounts Now. President Trump
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also welcomed another In addition to the Easter Bunny, he
also had another visitor at the White House this weekend
and posted a picture on a social media of him
sitting there in the Oval office and to his right
standing above him with his hand kind of on the
back of the chairs. The President sitting there is none
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other than actor and one of Lucy's favorite people.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
On the planet that I've never met.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Vince Vaughan was at the White House. We're bringing Hunky
back again to the White House RFK Jr. He said,
we want to make every one healthy. We're gonna make
every man more manly. What can we who can we
use as our model to be a better man? And
I said, let me call Vince. Vince crashed the White House.
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That's how they caption this, by the way, White House crashers.
Vince Vaughan Donald Trump posted there looking like the movie
poster for wedding Crashers, same font and everything.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Love it. Yeah, I haven't seen that. I can see
it from here a little bit, but it doesn't do it.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Just there it is.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
I'll go look at it later. You're going to post that.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Let me know. Let me hold the microphone really close
to the picture. If everyone can see this there see this?
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Oh no, yeah, yeah, oh that's nice. I like it. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Uh. Any idea why Vince Vaughn was at the White
House because no one.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Knows, well, he's a big fan.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
I don't know that he's a big fan. But the
fact that he's not a hateful detractor means that everyone
on the left now despises Bills.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
No, no, no, he already got crep for being a
big Trump supporter.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Back in two thousand, sorry, twenty twenty, twenty, twenty twenty,
they were together at the college football there was the
national championship game. That's it in New Orleans. But you
say big fan, they asked Vanabada, and Vaughn says, well,
I'm more like, let me see the phrasing he used there.
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It wasn't exactly big big fan that he said at
the time. He was just kind of like he said, quote,
I'd rather say let people make their choices and they
can make different choices and have the consequences of their choices'.
That was his political stance. He's more libertarian. But he
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was sitting there with then President Trump in the early
days of twenty twenty, in that election year, and he's
when people were like, I can't believe you're sitting next
to Donald Trump, the most hated, vile person ever. He
says it was exaggerated, you know how what I was
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doing there. And he says, look, our meeting was limited
to the event, not a big.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Deal until now.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Well now he was at the White House, he was
in the Oval office.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
You know, people say that he is the most hated man.
He's the most vinceful man. No Trump Trump, they refer
to him that way. Yeah, only since he's become president
back in sixteen and he started looking into all of
the corruption of this government.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
When he was a businessman and he was hanging out
with all of the big celebrities and everybody was doing
the same things. Everybody loved Trump. Scott Boys Mornings nine
to eleven, Our News Radio eleven ten kfab
Scott Vorgie. This past hours had a lot of conversation
about the passing of Pope Francis. We learned in the
middle of the night after giving that final Easter message
to the crowd amassed in the courtyard there at the Vatican,
eighty eight years old Pope Francis. And we also talked
for a few minutes with Valerie Burtinelli about, among other things,
(00:25):
Pope Francis. She's Catholic, so that's what we did in
the last hour. I always love checking the Zonker's custom
woods inbox during the couple of hours that we're on
the radio here this morning, because it's often a reflection
of the host of the show that would be me,
and it's just snark and sarcasm, with the occasional great point,
(00:51):
but mostly it's sarcastic comments and movie quotes. And it's
when I read the emails or I'm like, is this
really a reflection of what I'm doing here? Like a vampire.
I don't like having mirrors around, But there's one snarky
comment in here that I think is a valid question
(01:15):
when selecting the next Pope. Now I'm talking about all
this because the passing of a pope is a major event.
Whether or not you're Catholic or even Christian, A pope
has a lot of influence in this world. So that's
that's where all of this conversation is coming from. But
(01:39):
I got this email from Rick and Fremont Scott at
kfab dot com and says, has there been any thought
to choosing a pope who's not already one hundred years old?
Now that's a snarky comment.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
But.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
It's not the least valid question. If the idea is
the pope provides this, this human guiding light towards the
message of the Lord, to try and reach people who
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are at all steps in their walk with faith, even
if they have yet to get out of the starting gate,
even if they feel like I've already run that mile
and I'm sitting over here on the sidelines. I mean,
I think that we're all kind of on that path
at different points. Sometimes that changes throughout the day, Right,
(02:41):
That's how I look at it. I don't I don't
mock anyone for believing this or that, and I'm certainly
not exactly I'm not at all the best example of
anything ever in the history of ever. But the pope
is supposed to be there with this message that reaches
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people now ultimately, whether that's from a wed like you
to take further steps forward with the Lord in this
Christian faith, or we want you to go to Catholic
Mass and don't forget to tithe and that really kind
of depends on your level of snarkiness. But I think
(03:23):
in both instances it's what we want. We want you
to have faith. And since we get all the news
all the time that younger generations are less and less
Christian than any generations that ever came before them, I'm
(03:43):
not suggesting Pope justin Bieber. I'm not. But let's take
a look at this list of people or all the experts,
and I wonder, I don't know if it's Vegas, but
are there odds on who becomes the next Pope?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
I'm not be surprised one bit in Vegas, no place else.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Here's a list of one two. I was looking to
the second person in the list and I my eyes
almost popped out of my head. I thought that the
second name on this list was one of the great
singer songwriters of the pop rock era, Richard Marx. I thought,
is Richard Marx gonna hold on to the knights. I
(04:29):
don't he won't give up until he's satisfied.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I don't think he's a real religious person.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
He doesn't like Trump. I know that. No, it's actually
seventy one year old Cardinal rein Hard Marx of Germany.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
I could see where you'd get them confused.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Well, I just saw it, saw our Marx, and I
immediately my brain protested it as a great singer songwriter,
Richard Marx. Yeah, he and I don't exactly see eye
on politics, I'm sure on a lot of things. But
I've talked to them about his music a couple of times,
and I love his music. Interesting guy. You know whose
(05:08):
voice is heard and who decided to do the pard
in Lionel Richie's All Night, All Night Long, where he
says Lionel says all night long, all night, all night,
all night. You know who does the repeat of all night.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Let me guess. Is it Richard Marx?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
That's right, How did you get it? It's Richard Mark.
So he's been around a long time. Love Richard Marx,
but he's not on this list to be the next Pope.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Well that yeah, probably best.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
One, two, three, four, five, six people on this list.
These are the betting nods as the next Pope's going
to come from this list. The youngest person on this
list is sixty nine, and he's the one most unlikely
to be the next pope. That's the American Cardinal Prevost
of Chicago. The oldest person on this list is eighty.
(05:59):
Everyone else seventy one, seventy two, seventy seventy nine. So
to Rick's point here, is there any possibility of getting
someone who might hang out and be pope for a
while if you're choosing someone who's already eighty in their
(06:19):
you know, mid to late seventies, that's when some people
are kind of moving towards retirement, if not already there.
I don't know that you know, they're maybe this is you,
Maybe it's a father or grandfather. You've got that man
in your life who's about eighty years old, and you
(06:43):
know he's picking up a hobby and like he's all in,
but and he's you know, like at home he's building
model planes, going out and flying these radio controlled airplanes,
or he's like suddenly like he previously had been really
into World War two history, but now he's really really
into World War two and like this is a big
(07:05):
hobby and he's reading everything and watching all these movie
rewatching all these movies, documentaries, going to see all these
You know, maybe he is like civil War. I want
to I want to go visit every major battle site,
every every major battle side of the Civil War. You like,
I don't know if you can do that. You can't
even say that phrase without slurring. You mean you want
to sit down.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
This is me.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
I'm not slurr. I'm not the one stuttering and slurring here.
I'm quoting someone else. This is the mistake free radio here.
So you get that person who's about eighty who's suddenly
like all in in a hobby. I don't know that
being pope is that well, you know, I've been retired
(07:48):
for a while. Maybe I'm gonna go to the local
golf course and mow lawns in the morning. I can
go out there and I can mow fairways in the
morning and just go up and back on this riding lawnmower.
I'm out here first thing in the morning. It's beautiful,
watching the sun come up. I'm on the mower. It's great.
Or maybe I'll be pope. Yeah, I but that's not
(08:11):
how they go about choosing the pope.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
It is.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
It is the cardinals get together for the conclave, and
we're still weeks away from that, and it's about the
divine intervention that happens in the secretive Vatican Conclave, a
mysterious and sometimes Dan Brown like process where they all
(08:40):
get together and try and figure out who the next
Pope's going to be. Technically, any Catholic male can be
elected pope. Only cardinals have been chosen for centuries and centuries.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
But doesn't that make you eligible.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Again, I am not Catholic. I am Catholic by proxy.
I have not converted. I go to Mass, but I
have a great respect for the traditional aspect of a
Catholic Mass. But I'm not Catholic, so I don't get
to do all the sacraments, which means a couple of
(09:22):
key things in my life. I don't do community, I
don't well, I don't do communion. I don't do confession,
even though if there's anyone among us who should go
to confession, it's me. I'm going to continue to suppress
and live in and let everyone around me live in
(09:45):
ignorant bliss as to just how awful and cold and dark.
This heart is though, and where was I? Oh? Yeah,
and I don't do confession either. My rule Now why
I just said that. Jeez, I woke up this morning
thinking that I didn't have to come to work, you
(10:05):
need the kids are off school, and I threw off
my whole morning, and I woke up and spent ten
minutes staring at the ceiling, going do I have to
go to work today? What is today? Is it a holiday?
My whole thing was, I don't do communion.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Do you need an app?
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Kind of my rule on communion is if the communion
line based on where I'm sitting there in the pews,
if the line is going up to where the priest is,
I go up and get a blessing, which I always
feel kind of awkward about. You know, he's got the
body of Christ there prepared, and I throw him off
(10:48):
by saying a blessing please, and then I bound my
head and yeah, he knows what he's doing, you know.
So I get a blessing, and I I did that yesterday.
It just so happened that at our Easter Mass spillover service.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Were you in the cafeteria or the basement.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
We were in the Uh, the Narthex. I always wonder
what the narthex was. We were in the narthex and
so we were Yeah, we were in the basement of
the narthex, which is not right next to the annex.
We were over there. So we were in the Uh.
(11:27):
They have several fathers who preside over this particular church.
We were in one of his cars out in the
parking lot. We were in his car. There was some
of us jammed into his his minivans. So I got
a blessing yesterday because my pew was going right towards
the priest. I'm like, hey, Easter blessing, Easter Communion blessing.
(11:51):
I was all pumped up. And you say, Scott, you
can do that anytime, no matter who it is. I'm like, Nope.
If the guy up there doing the I understand. You
got the Eucharistic ministers who I always think all their
names are Bob, Bob Eucharistic, great baseball player. He was
(12:11):
on mister Belvedere and he can preside over communion. Yes,
I think I'll get into Heaven someday. Why do you
ask so if the guy up there doing the communion
was previously just sitting next to me wearing khakis. I
don't know that it counts.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
I mean people are welcome to pray for me and
provide a blessing. That's great, but it just it doesn't
feel right, so I don't do it. Where was I?
I think I was talking about the pope?
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Well you were talking about emails.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
No, I just said, you know, I said, any Catholic
male can be elected pope. I am not a Catholic,
but I'm a lot of male. I mean, does that
does one overshadow the other? It's like, he's not Catholic,
he goes to Mass, but wow, is that a lot
of man. We're willing to overlook the lack of Catholicism
(13:06):
because he's teeming with testosterone.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
I think you would have to You would have to
get a couple of people to get a consensus on
that thought before you could actually go with it. That's
a lot of man. You need a few opinions.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Don't ask my friend who all out drive me anyway? Well,
then I guess it goes the other way too. It's like, well,
she's not a male, but she's really Catholic. Maybe they'll
choose a woman. Maybe, Well, I think a lot of
(13:42):
people are very curious because Pope Francis was. I think
it's not I'm not saying anything crazy here by saying
he is the most progressive pope on what American political
ressive thoughts might be. He was the most on that front.
(14:04):
So is the conclave? Will the divine intervention mean that
the next pope is continuing down that path? Or do
they do something a little different. We're weeks away. All
I know is yesterday I didn't know whether we were
celebrating Easter or as we did last year on Easter.
(14:27):
The President was there with the message proclaiming the trans
Day of Visibility, so I was unsure which major holiday
I was celebrated. Now we went with Easter, But when
is the How does I don't know how many of
this works. Is the trans Day of Visibility a fixed
(14:47):
date on the calendar or does it just change to
be on Easter Sunday depending on who the president is.
Because President Trump didn't say anything yesterday about the trans
Day of Visibility like President Biden did a year ago.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Or about four twenty right.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Now, I didn't hear President Trump say anything about for
twenty either. Yeah, I kind of forgot about yesterday being
four to twenty day. I hope that you had a
chance to get out and do something on Saturday, because
yesterday was not a great day to be out doing
much of anything unless you are some sort of amphibian,
cold and wet, which was the perfect day for my
(15:24):
kids to be out last night getting cold water dumped
on them. The ice bucket challenge has returned.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Same, No, no, what's it for this time?
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Well before the ice bucket Challenge was supposed to be,
And boy did I ruin Easter dinner last night by
opening up my big fat mouth, because once the kids
told me this is what they were doing, I started
popping off like this same thing. I was like, oh,
is this to try and allegedly raise money for ALS
(16:00):
Research lou Garrig's disease for some of us? And that's
what it was supposed to be last time. Now it
didn't actually really do any of that, because the idea
was is, let's say I get nominated by Lucy to
do the ice bucket Challenge. I can either donate money
to ALS Research or get a big bucket of ice
(16:24):
ice water dumped on my head.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
The idea was is that you donate to the cause,
so you don't get ice water dumped on you. Oh now,
what did everyone do? They just did funny ice funny
funny videos of getting dunked with ice water in a
variety of different ways. I did mind. Mayor Stothert got
me in her backyard, by the way, and then told
(16:47):
me to get out of her yard. And then she
looked at the camera and said, damn kids, which was
one hundred percent true. It was so fun. It was
great doing that. But before I did the video, I
did the whole soliloquy saying I'm not going to get
ice dumped on me because the idea is you're supposed
to donate to this cause. I'm donating to the cause.
Therefore I don't get ice dumped on me. And then
(17:08):
I got ice water dumped on me. Anyway. I didn't
see that one coming, did you? No one did, And
I gave it the old George W. Bush now watched
this drive as I set up for a te shot.
Mayor stother lives on a golf course. I wormed my
way into her backyard. It was fun. It was a
good night. So that's what it was supposed to be. Now,
(17:29):
a lot of people did both the donation and the
ice bucket thing, but most people just did the dumping
the water and it was I know, it came out
later like, look, I'm glad everyone's having fun doing this,
but the idea was supposed to be to raise money
and they're not raising this all this money. This one
is for awareness of mental health. It's a mental health
(17:55):
there's an organization that's tied to it. And I said
to my kids, like your generation, my kids are teenagers.
Your generation is more aware that if you have mental
health questions, anxiety, stress, you think that you're a zebra,
(18:17):
you know whatever. Your generation has more attention paid to it,
to their resources available, go talk to someone, all the
rest of this stuff. Honestly, is there anyone in your
generation who isn't aware that there are resources available to
help them that they're struggling with mental health, which, of
course came off to my wife and children as I
(18:41):
don't like people who have any kind of mental health issues.
I don't want them to get help. I don't want
anyone to be aware of it. I would rather they
just you know, jumped off a cliff and just stopped
bothering me with all of their mental health issues. That's
how I can came off. Then I start doubling down.
(19:03):
I was like, so what do you guys? Do you
just chuck water at each other out in the cold
to try How does that help anyone?
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Is there?
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Is there anyone right now saying I'm really struggling with
mental health. But let me get on social media and
see how everyone's doing, which is probably the worst thing
you can do if you have mental health issues. Go
on social media and see that that Bonker's cavern of depravity.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Who what kind of friends are you following? Or are
you following you?
Speaker 1 (19:41):
I follow you do Facebook and Twitter. It's just this
Bonker's cavity of depravity, and it's it's all over. And
so people with mental health get on there and they're
either emboldened by some mental health issues that need to
be treated and need to be diagnosed and treated, or
(20:02):
it's they see everyone else's life is perfect and that
sends them further into potential depression or Now one of
the big things is skinny talk. It's TikTok where they're
trying to shame people into being skinnier. It's like tough love,
try and get you to be skinnier. There's all kinds
of stuff out there. And I said, who with a
(20:23):
mental health struggle is going to see you get water
dumped on your head? And say? That's the push I needed.
I'm gonna go talk to a counselor right now. How
does that work? I'm yelling at the dinner table at Easter,
Ham's flying everywhere, My kids are crying, my wife is
trying to call the priest over. I'm ruining Easter. And
(20:47):
then my kids went out in the backyard and dump
water in each other and filmed it and.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
They felt better.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
As far as the all skinny talk, yeah, I've never
heard of this before. Are you seeing skinny talk? Like
talking or talk like.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
TikTok like TikTok okay.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Skinny talk? It's too embarrassed people. It's to shame them
into being skinny. You know what, the girls of the eighties,
of teenagers of the eighties, we invented this. I know,
we are the ones that invented eating disorders. You had
to be thine.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
No one is calling you fat foxing. That's in case
you're just joining us long standing and joke on this program.
I say anything and Lucy says, did you call me fat?
That's one of many things that we have fun with
Lucy on. Another one is your love of a certain
Hollywood actor who was hanging out with President Trump this weekend.
(21:45):
Did you know that I know he has Well, I
guess he did that the other day. Well, we'll talk
about that next. Scott Bories News Radio eleven ten kfab
been talking throughout the morning of the passing of Pope Francis.
We learned in the middle of the night here in
Omaha Council Bluffs that the Pope had passed after being
(22:09):
out there to do a blessing at the Vatican yesterday
on Easter. It's amazing how often someone wills themselves to
stay alive up until a whether it's a family gathering
oftentimes Christmas, and then once that is over, it's like,
all right, I guess that was the last thing I
(22:32):
needed to do.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
It was.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
It almost seems to me that he didn't want the
faith to be without a sitting pope on Easter, the
most holy day on the calendar, so he willed himself
to stay alive until the Easter message and then passed.
(22:56):
And that's that's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
I was just thinking saying that exactly same word. That
is a beautiful thing, very beautiful thing.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
The last official thing that he did in terms of
meeting with someone was the day before when the Pope
met with Vice President JD. Vance. They met, and depending
on your political persuasion, it was either a nice expression
(23:27):
and exchange of ideas or man, the Pope let jd
Vance have it. You know. That's that's why the Pope
passed away. All of his energy was gone after just
lashing into jd Vance. Like listen, you tell Donald he's
gonna stop doing this, Like, Pope, sit down, You're gonna
get Oh no, don't hold me back, you guys, did
(23:48):
you know it doesn't sound like it was any of
that that happened. The Vice President was incredibly complimentary of
the meeting and with his message right after the Pope passed,
and we also have a statement from President Trump. He
(24:09):
also paid tribute to the Pope. This was after yesterday
he President Trump had a message about Easter, and today
they did the Easter egg roll on the lawn there
at the White House, and the Pope made some comments
(24:30):
about faith and Easter there at the White House. On
his right was first Lady Milania Trump, and on his
left was someone dressed as a giant Easter bunny. And
here's President Trump just a couple of hours ago at
the White House.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
And speaking of special, Easter is special, and it's one
of our favorite days. It's one of our favorite periods
of time. We're honoring Jesus Christ, and we're going to
honor Jesus Christ very powerfully throughout our lives, all throughout
our lives, not just now, all throughout our lives. We're
bringing religion back in America. We're bringing a lot of
(25:12):
things back, but religion is coming back to America. That's
why you see the kind of numbers that you see,
the spirit and the kind of numbers that you see.
So we're gonna come down and join you right now.
But I just want to wish everybody once again, happy
Easter and enjoy your lives. We're gonna have a great
four years. Thank you very much, everybody.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
President Trump there bringing Jesus back. No one, no one
celebrates the Son of God more than this White House. Frankly,
great man, great son of God. A people. They like him,
We like him. Everyone's likes Easter. So that's a great
(25:53):
message there from President Trump. As I said a moment ago,
it was a year ago when President Biden declared Easter
to be the trans day of visibility and different messaging.
This year, he had posted yes, well in the middle
of the night early early this morning, rest in peace,
Pope Francis on his social media accounts Now. President Trump
(26:20):
also welcomed another In addition to the Easter Bunny, he
also had another visitor at the White House this weekend
and posted a picture on a social media of him
sitting there in the Oval office and to his right
standing above him with his hand kind of on the
back of the chairs. The President sitting there is none
(26:41):
other than actor and one of Lucy's favorite people.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
On the planet that I've never met.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Vince Vaughan was at the White House. We're bringing Hunky
back again to the White House RFK Jr. He said,
we want to make every one healthy. We're gonna make
every man more manly. What can we who can we
use as our model to be a better man? And
I said, let me call Vince. Vince crashed the White House.
(27:11):
That's how they caption this, by the way, White House crashers.
Vince Vaughan Donald Trump posted there looking like the movie
poster for wedding Crashers, same font and everything.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Love it. Yeah, I haven't seen that. I can see
it from here a little bit, but it doesn't do it.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Just there it is.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
I'll go look at it later. You're going to post that.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Let me know. Let me hold the microphone really close
to the picture. If everyone can see this there see this?
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Oh no, yeah, yeah, oh that's nice. I like it. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Uh. Any idea why Vince Vaughn was at the White
House because no one.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Knows, well, he's a big fan.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
I don't know that he's a big fan. But the
fact that he's not a hateful detractor means that everyone
on the left now despises Bills.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
No, no, no, he already got crep for being a
big Trump supporter.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Back in two thousand, sorry, twenty twenty, twenty, twenty twenty,
they were together at the college football there was the
national championship game. That's it in New Orleans. But you
say big fan, they asked Vanabada, and Vaughn says, well,
I'm more like, let me see the phrasing he used there.
(28:29):
It wasn't exactly big big fan that he said at
the time. He was just kind of like he said, quote,
I'd rather say let people make their choices and they
can make different choices and have the consequences of their choices'.
That was his political stance. He's more libertarian. But he
(28:50):
was sitting there with then President Trump in the early
days of twenty twenty, in that election year, and he's
when people were like, I can't believe you're sitting next
to Donald Trump, the most hated, vile person ever. He
says it was exaggerated, you know how what I was
(29:12):
doing there. And he says, look, our meeting was limited
to the event, not a big.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Deal until now.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Well now he was at the White House, he was
in the Oval office.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
You know, people say that he is the most hated man.
He's the most vinceful man. No Trump Trump, they refer
to him that way. Yeah, only since he's become president
back in sixteen and he started looking into all of
the corruption of this government.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
When he was a businessman and he was hanging out
with all of the big celebrities and everybody was doing
the same things. Everybody loved Trump. Scott Boys Mornings nine
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