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Speaker 1 (00:00):
There's a lot of really entertaining stuff on TikTok aside
from here's the latest TikTok trend and as people setting
their faces on fire or whatever the heck is going on. Well,
there are also a lot of commentators on TikTok, and
at least one of them is conservative, and she actually
has people following her. We welcome onto the program right now.
(00:22):
The real Athena ka Athena Carvallis joins us here on
eleven ten kfab Athena, good.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Morning, Good morning, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
It's great to have you on the program. You didn't
start off your social media platform thinking I'm gonna just
let everyone know what I think about what's going on
in the news, and I tend to have a more
conservative slant. You actually got a lot of fame by
giving the media an incredible clickworthy headline. And that was
she heard her boyfriend talking about her in the next
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room with his friends, and it turns out he was
saying really really nice things about you, and it was
a really sweet video, and you got very popular. And
then suddenly transition into and I'll tell you another thing
about some owned files and Joe Biden and all that,
and I'm sure that you had to deal with a
lot of issues, not just from the social media platform
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bouncing you off the platform, but also your followers. What
was your journey on this social media platform TikTok?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Like, yeah, so, I, like you said, I really was
posting stuff with my now husband, but at the time
was my boyfriend or fiance, and that obviously gained a
lot of traction. And then the election happened in November,
and obviously I had never posted about being conservative, because
you know how it is to be conservative. I'm sure
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you have to be careful, especially because at the time
I was living in New Jersey, which is a very
blue area, so you have to tread lightly. But then
the election happened and I started seeing people, you know,
cutting off their family and friends, and these women shaping
heads and you know, branding themselves with tattoos. It just
got so insane, and I realized, like, how is this
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like the normal? I didn't understand where we went so
wrong and why Donald Trump was bringing so much hatred
to these people, and so I posted just like, listen,
you guys got to chill out. And then that video,
that first video blew up as well, and then I
think people started I think I remember pretty vividly actually,
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people commenting like, well, what do you think about this?
What do you think about that? And a lot of
people were messaging me on TikTok saying, you know, thank
you for sharing what you did, because you know, I
can't post about it. I'm afraid to. I have liberal
family and friends, so hearing you talk about it, I
feel like I could, you know, live through you and
have that support, and I think that just kind of
motivated me to keep posting. And in those seven months alone,
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I think I've gained in just those seven months over
three hundred thousand more followers. So obviously something I'm saying
or doing resumes with people. You know, sometimes I can
be a little aggressive or outspoken, but I think that's
really the only way to get your point across at
this point in society, because you know, the liberals are
just so loud right now, so sometimes you just have
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to be louder.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Well, and not only that, like, I honestly don't care
if someone is incredibly liberal and is on TikTok doing
a bunch of videos espousing their progressive views, that's great.
If I choose to follow it because I'm entertained by
it in some way, I'll choose to do so. If
I if I'm not interested in it, I just won't
follow it. But there are people out there who've been
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trying to like track you down, censor you, bounce you
from the platform, go after your followers.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Right, yeah, Yeah, it's been a very ugly, ugly journey,
and I don't think I really realized how low some
people are willing to go. I mean, like you said,
I actually follow a few liberal creators. I like to
keep an open mind. I was a Democrat at one point,
and I very openly about that, so I always like
to keep an open mind and have conversation. So I
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follow creators with different viewpoints, even moderate creators, independent creators.
I'm actually very friendly with a few of them from
the platforms. So that's not the issue, like you said,
it's the issue of where people start to get very personal.
People were tracking down my family on social media, sending
them threats, sending me threats, you know, just horrible, heinous things. Actually,
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I actually got one woman arrested for domestic terrorism because
with her real phone number, she found my phone number
and left me the craziest voicemail. I'm not even going
to repeat anything said, but she actually ended up getting arrested,
so it's it definitely hasn't been easy, and I think
this is even the more reason that conservatives are afraid
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to speak out, and you know, on top of the
censorship on the app, it's incredibly frustrating. So I'm grateful
that I think, I, you know, will give myself the
props that I'm strong headed enough to deal with that
and speak for so many Americans.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Talking here with Athena carvallis the real Athena k on TikTok?
One more question about TikTok than I want to pick
your brain about a few things in the news here Athena.
When President Trump, before he even got into office, said yeah,
I think we need to ban TikTok, and then it's
kind of gone back and forth here recently. What would
you like to see happen with this social media platform?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
I think it needs to be American owned, and I
think President Trump, like you said, he's been kind of
on the fence back and forth. So that's been a
little bit frustrating because no one really knows what's happening.
It went dark for a day and then didn't. But
I think at least a portion of it needs to
become American owned. Between the security risks and the censorship,
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I think he's on the right track with trying to
find a bid that works. I know Reed Raisner did
put in a really hefty bid for I think forty
five forty seven million something like that, and I fully
support him. We need to get it over to our country.
We have one hundred and seventy million Americans on the
app and read raising HER's pretty adamant that. You know,
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it's got to get over here or also a lot
of people are going to lose their income their platform,
and that would be a mistake for not only us,
but for TikTok as well, because if we go, so
does a lot of the apps. So I think that's
a big problem. Got over here all right?
Speaker 1 (06:21):
I want to ask you about a couple of things here.
I checked in with your your TikTok this morning and
saw it looked like like even as you are having
your morning coffee, like you just roll out of bed
and said, I got some thoughts on some Moan Biles
and Riley Gains, and here they are so share with
the rest of the class, if you would please a thing.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
What are your thoughts on this dust up over the
weekend between some moan Biles and Riley Gains.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Oh my goodness. I stand by Riley one hundred percent.
And it's not even just because she's a conservative, because
I'm someone who loves someone Biles, and I said that
in my video. I've always respected her. A strong woman,
she's very brilliant, she's talented. I have nothing against her.
I think with this very issue though, she's I mean,
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she's got to check herself. You can't. You can't preach
about being an advocate for women and then in the
same breath advocate for biological men to start infiltrating women's spaces.
You can't have two things. Cannot be true at once
in this situation. And I think it's a shame to
see a woman athlete goes so far as to say that,
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you know, it's okay to be inclusive. This isn't about inclusivity.
It's about fairness and what's fair because there is a
biological advantage or disadvantage. And I think her coming for
Riley Gain's personal looks, I think that was a low
blow and as Simone, Biles always advocates for women empowerment.
She has a lot of brand deals based on women empowerment.
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How she was bullied for her physique growing up because
she was a gymnast with a lot of muscles, and
then in the same breath going to call Riley Gaines
a man, I think she's a hypocrite. I think she
should be deplatformed, and I completely lost all my respect
for her.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Yeah, And it's sad to see because a lot of
people look up to someone Biles, and suddenly there are
some girls who say, but I don't want to compete
against guys, or I don't want to be in the
locker room with guys, as Riley Gaines has said, and
suddenly someone Biles is telling them that their feelings don't
have worth. Apparently, Riley Gaines is great. We did an
event with her in Omaha just over a year ago
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and she's fantastic. I love the way she kept a
cool head in that give and take on social media.
One more thing for you, Athena. The Los Angeles issues
that we saw raging over the weekend in that city here.
What are your thoughts on people battling with police in
the streets and deciding that because we don't like the
president's policies on immigration, we're going to try and blow
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up that automated taxi.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
I think they are losing their minds more and more
every day. It's incredibly sad. Like I said, I was
a Democrat at one point, so it's frustrating to see
this new party almost kind of take over. I mean,
you can disagree and peacefully protest, but the same people
screaming still. I mean almost five years later, about January sixth,
and grouping all those people together, you know, are now
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people that are excusing the behavior of burning cop cars,
throwing rocks into cop cars, looting businesses. I mean, it's
the same thing we saw in twenty twenty. It's the
same thing we saw just a few months ago. It's
unreal to watch. And if listen, if you want to
disagree with President Trump' immigration policy, more power to you.
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Peacefully protest, that's fine, But for them to act like
the reason that you know, the higher authorities are getting
involved is simply due to these peaceful protesters. I mean,
they're losing their minds. There's nothing even else. There's nothing
else I could say about it, and it's sad because
they're just latantly ignoring the truth. It's a messy situation
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over there, and they refuse to see it or acknowledge
it because they can't grasp that they're not flawless. It's crazy.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
If you're on TikTok, you can follow Athena at the
Real Athena K. Or if your kids are on TikTok,
then you can ask them say hey, check out Athena
and see what she's up to. This is Athena Carvalis.
I really enjoy talking with you and I hope we
can do it again.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Yeah. Absolutely, thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Absolutely, thank you so much of the time. Athena Carvllas
at the Real Athena K on TikTok. She's got about
three hundred and fifty thousand followers on that platform. She
has been deep platformed from there several times twelve bands
thirty one violations. Every time she gets banned, she has
to set down for thirty months or thirty days waiting
(10:50):
to get back on the platform. She's been taken from
the opportunity to make money on the platform with her posts,
and all I've seen on her posts is stuff like
you just heard. They're about Simone Biles and Riley Gaines
or the Los Angeles riots. Interesting voice on that social
media platform, and she's asking President Trump to keep TikTok,
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but keep it away from the Chinese. These stories out
of Los Angeles were all too familiar. Riots in the
streets of Los Angeles over the weekend like Wow, what
year is this? But this had nothing to do with
Rodney King or anything like that. This was because there
are some people who have seemingly, according to the media,
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decided that they don't like the President of the United
States enforcing border law, rounding up and deporting dangerous criminal
illegal immigrants. And somehow there are some people who are
just okay with these protests going on. These protests have
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nothing to do with the president's immigration policies. These protests
are the same thing we've seen over the years. The
sign changes, the tactics remain the same. The people at
the heart of these protests remain the same. The sign
changes like the ones that they hold up. But we
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don't like or we think it has nothing to do
with the cause. It's those who are causing the disruption
that is the similarity here. So let's go through our causes.
Before it's been stuff like tax the rich and occupy
Wall Street. We were okay with setting stuff on fire
and shutting down streets and warring with law enforcement, and
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then what Then it was Black Lives Matter, and then
it became from the River to the Sea, the Palestinians
must be free and stop the genocide against the Palestinians.
And now it's apparently we don't like that there are
criminal illegal immigrant gang member human drug traffickers being plucked
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from our society and sent back from whence they came
because they're in violation of our law. And they're like, well, no,
we don't like that. They decided to go the same route.
And it's all the same thing. We're gonna block the streets,
we're gonna fight with cops, we're gonna set stuff on fire.
It's all the ANTIFA stuff. And the math equation that
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still makes zero sense to me is exactly the same.
We don't like that this guy did that to this thing,
so we're going to burn this automated taxi is now
the latest math equation. These morons are out there in
the streets of Los Angeles setting fire to these waym vehicles.
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Have you been in other communities to see these things.
These are driverless taxi cars, and people have been out
there because they're plentiful and they're right there, and no
one seemingly owns these things. You're not gonna have a
guy running up going mike car. So they're just setting
fire to these cars and then like dancing around them,
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ignorant of the fact that these things they've got like
these lithium ion batteries in them that when you set
fire to them and the battery gets real hot, the
cars blow up. Unfortunately, we didn't have a bunch of
these hammerheads out there setting fire to cars and blowing
up real good in the streets of Los Angeles. But yeah,
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these guys are like, yeah, we don't like the President
Trump is kicking illegal immigrants out of our community, so
I'm gonna go set fire to this Weimo taxi. What
did Weimo have to do with this. It's not like
President Trump is sticking gang member illegal immigrants in these
vehicles and saying all right, onto El Salvador and patting
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it on the back bumper as it goes. WEIMO has
nothing to do with this. So these guys start blocking
streets and setting fire to stuff and throwing stuff at cops,
and the cops are like, well, I think we all
know how this goes. And so here come the flashbangs,
the rubber bullets, the tear gas, the riot shields, and
then something else happened. President Trump sent out the National Guard.
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This is not something new. I mean, the President usually
will send out the National Guard if there is a need,
whether it's something really ugly like this or something really
tragic like a storm or a flood, like we need
manpower and we need it now. That's one of the
things the National Guard is available for. But what the
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President did here was historic on one front, because this
hasn't happened in about sixty years. And I'll tell you
what this is all about after a Fox News update.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Next Scott Fords News Radio eleven ten k FA.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
What a great idea. Just months after Los Angeles had
entire neighborhoods, like historical neighborhoods, burned to the ground during
this incredible drought in California. The best thing to do
is go out there and start setting stuff on fire
in the streets of Los Angeles. Boy, you guys are great,
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So the Antifa crowd have decided that this is the
latest front. They feel they can gin up some public
support by going out there and fighting with cops, shutting
down streets, and setting stuff on fire. This is absolute
war from domestic terrorists. And the only thing that changes
is what they say. They're doing this for Occupy Wall Street,
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Black Lives Matter. Oh yeah, someone else reminded me, Oh,
we got to you know, the war on women. We
got to shoot CEOs of healthcare companies and a free Palestine.
Whatever it's. They don't care what the cause is. It's
just the excuse to go out there and engage in
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lawless behavior. So President Trump did something that hasn't been
done in sixty years. The last president to do this
was President Lyndon Baines Johnson, the worst president of all time.
What did LBJ do sixty years ago? The President Trump
just duplicated this weekend any idea, any guess any No,
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not can't state any idea, and he guess any other
anyone else, anyone else.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
To send out troops into the United States.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Yes, but the president sends out the National Guard for
any number of reasons. That's not really all that new.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
And I am at a loss.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Well, you're almost there. This is the first time in
sixty years that the president has sent the state's national
guard within the state to a place in the state
against the wishes of the governor.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
But it's newsome generally, yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Generally, And Governor Knew has been behaving himself here recently,
But generally the President works with the governor in the
institution of what we're going to do with the national
guard there. It's just kind of how it's done. But
it hasn't been done this way in sixty years. So
the last time that the president sent a national guard,
I called up the state national guard within the state
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to deal with something was Bloody Sunday March. In the
wake of Bloody Sunday March seventh, nineteen sixty five, when
a group of six hundred demonstrators marched on the capital
city of Montgomery to protest the disenfranchisement and earlier killing
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of Jimmy Lee Jackson by a state trooper, a black man.
And what happened was then there was this civil rights march,
and the idea was that the governor of Alabama boo
boo boo. Everyone sings that in the Skinner's song, Sweet
Home Alabama. But that's the governor they're taught. They're booing.
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There is Governor George Wallace, and this is the guy
who is like standing in the way of you know,
black students will not go to this university. You know
that kind of guy. And they thought that Governor Wallace
was going to disrupt the civil rights march from Selma
to Montgomery. So President Johnson March twentieth, nineteen sixty five
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notified the governor that we're going to call up the
Alabama National Guard to supervise this march. Governor Wallace said,
why a a you tar nation and southern stuff. You know,
it's some genuine frontier gibberish and all the rest of
this stuff. But Johnson did it anyway. The President did
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it anyway. Now, in retrospect, it was the right move.
But if the idea is is that everyone in Alabama's racist,
is getting the Alabama National Guard to go out there
and protect the black marchers in Alabama, is that really
the safest thing for the marchers? I mean, if the
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idea is it's like, oh yeah, all law enforcement, all
the authority in alabama's all racist, why we'll get the
National Guard. I'm sure they're fine, and they're like, nah,
we're all so racist, let's go in there. But it
all worked out and after that date, black people and
white people got along just fine. There's never been another problem.
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So that was a big day. Yes, I'm being sarcastic,
I wish I weren't, But that was the last time,
sixty years ago that the president sent the state's National
Guard within the state against the wishes of the governor
to Why wouldn't Governor Newsom? As his law enforcement in
Los Angeles are under attack, They're overwhelmed by hundreds of
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protesters throwing molotov cocktails, chunks of concrete. At one point,
they were chucking the little electric scooters off of overpasses
onto oncoming traffic. So here come the cops to try
and stop all of this. President Trump says, we need
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to get the National Guard in there. We can get
a couple thousand National Guard troops in there now. And
why would Governor Newsom say no? Well, here's what he said.
He said that having troops everywhere and making it look
like a militarized zone in Los Angeles is going to
make it worse. That's what Governor Newsom said, like.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
I said earlier, Well it's Newsom.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Governor Newsom has been behaving himself here recently. He's actually
said some pretty common sense things. But when you've got
an angry mob who are just going to be mad
just by the fact that it's Sunday, Hey, you guys
know what today is a Sunday?
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Why don't you know?
Speaker 1 (22:03):
And they're just mad anyway, and you send out more troops,
national guardsmen, law enforcement authority to deal with them, like, well,
that's going to make them more mad. What's not going
to make them more mad? What are we gonna do?
Neville Chamberlain them back to their homes. Hey, whatever you
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guys want, we're gonna do deterrens through giving in. That's fine.
So you guys don't like that, do We're deporting criminal
gang member, murdering illegal immigrants? Okay, we'll stop, sorry about that. Sorry,
everyone are bad, Then they just find something else to
get mad sat fire. I mean, when an angry mob convenes,
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it's not to get their way. It's to go and
do angry mob stuff until they get the fight that
they want.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
No, it's until they get the money that was promised.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Probably right now, the only money I hear is a
fifty thousand dollars reward for information leading to the arrest
of a suspect who assaulted a federal officer during these
protests in Los Angeles. FBI is asking for the public's
help and identifying a guy accused of throwing rocks at cops.
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And the really sad thing was, well, the worst thing
is that law enforcement was assaulted. The second worst thing
was he was wearing a Lakers hat and jersey. This
guy is a Lakers fan and he's acting like this.
Send Shaquille O'Neal in there, shack backs, the law enforcement
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shack backs, the badge shack will go out there and
find this guy and twist him into a pretzel. That's
what should happen. And how dare you do this while
wearing a Lakers and a jersey and hat. If you
want to go out there and wreak a bunch of havoc,
you got to wear a Celtic's jersey and hat, not
the Lakers. Go Lakers, all right, Lucy. Timing of all
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of this suggests that I should move up the Sierra
deal here to this moment. If you're ready for it, sorry,
this is on air. I hadn't looked at the commercial
logs until right now. Can I move this up?
Speaker 3 (24:19):
I'm just gonna take this opportunity to just talk.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Can we do this here?
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Okay, and here's here's here Scott voice see of the
Zonker's custom woods inbox. Regarding California, Ryan says, they get
what they deserve. I don't know if Trump should help them.
Let their citizens see what they have for quote leaders unquote.
I mean, does anyone in LA want Trump's help? They
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are very ungrateful. That's from Ryan sent to Scott at
kfab dot com, and Rob says this is I was
today years old when I heard that the lyrics in
Sweet Home, Alabama were boo boo boo, he said, I
always thought it was ooh ooh ooh.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
You know, there are a lot of people in California
who are very good and decent people would not have
voted this way, that have lived there their whole lives
and are watching their state just be completely destroyed through
eminent domain, through fires, through through riots, through politicians. And
I appreciate what your emailer said, but there are there
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are some good people in California.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Absolutely none of them are Los Angeles is a fun
place to hang out. I don't know now that i'd want.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
To live there, but I want to visit right now.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Right.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
No, there are several. I mean, California is overwhelmingly conservative.
If you look at just the square footage and the
congressional districts, it's it's it's really overwhelmingly conservative. But the
cities take up so much space and congressional power and
electoral power that Californifornia is a dedicated blue state. Yes,
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but you know there are people who are lifelong Democrats
who can't stand President Trump, who their businesses have either
been set on fire by these agitators. They're like, what
what did I do? I'm running a gas station, a
coffee shop, a diner, and a McDonald whatever, and my
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business is either on fire, the windows are all smashed out,
or this entire area has got police tape around it
so people can't come down here as shop. And what
did I do? All I did was open up a
business in a depressed neighborhood, and I've been trying to
convince people for a lifetime come down and get some scones,
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come down and get some coffee. It's a good place
to be and then here come a bunch of agitators
on the streets of Los Angeles to come fight with cops,
and suddenly I I can't run my business anymore. I'm
out thousands of dollars. That's not just in what we
got to pay to fix up the place and an
insurance costs and deductibles, but also lost wages for the
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time that we're going to have to spend to be
closed for the foreseeable future because this area is a
war zone. And what did I have to do. I
didn't do anything with any illegal immigrants or anything like that.
These agitators look and I don't know. I mean, as
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is often the case, there might have been some initial
protesters that said we're going to engage in a peaceful
protest because that's a very American thing to do. At
this point, how do you know if you decide that
you want to do a peaceful protest, how do you
know you're not just lighting a fuse waiting for these
agitators to come and completely take it over. Because in
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our big cities, this is exactly what happens. The Antifa people,
they don't care what the cause is. That's just the
excuse for them to go in there and destroy things.
Greek mayhemond fight with cops. That's all they want to do.
I mean, can you imagine if someone was like, Hey,
we're going down to the downtown Los Angeles to go
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fight with cops and throw stuff at moving cars, And
you're like, I got to work tomorrow, my kid's got
a baseball game, I got to mow the lawn before
it rains. Who's just sitting there going, yeah, I'm in,
I'm down, let's go, let's go fight with cops.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Well, first of all, it's going to be people who
have no clue about what's actually going on.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
No, they don't. They just want to fight with cops.
This is it, this is the final day. There's still
so much that she could do today. You know, she's
still in office until late this afternoon, early this evening.
I forget exactly what time the swearing in happens, but
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Jean Stouthard is still the mayor of Omaha for another
several hours.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
What could she do?
Speaker 1 (29:09):
What do you want her to do?
Speaker 3 (29:12):
M Well, I think she did a pretty good job.
Not much she can do at this point with only
a few hours.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Oh yeah, there's there's certainly stuff she.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Could do, you'd mean like executive order. Yeah, what do
you want her to do?
Speaker 1 (29:30):
I want to pardon, just like just like Hunter Biden got.
And there are no charges members of the Biden family,
no I know they The President Biden, on his way
out the door, via very grave concern and or auto
pen decided to issue a blanket pardon for anything that
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any of these particular individuals have done, are currently doing,
or may do in the future.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
All right, sign you up for that.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
I want a blank think it pardon. Not because I
want to go on a crime spree per se, but
there are certainly things that I could say or do
today that in years from now could be considered criminal acts,
and I would like to be pardoned. I didn't know
that I couldn't say some of these things on the
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radio now. I mean, I've been on this radio station.
It'll be twenty years next year if there's no chance
I make it. But let's just pretend that I'm still
here next year, and by the end of the next summer,
it'll be twenty years on this radio station. You don't
think there are things I've said and done on this
radio show twenty years ago that I regret. Of course,
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there are there are things I've said and done on
this radio show twenty minutes ago that have not aged. Well,
that's just the nature of how it goes. So I
would prefer that on her way out the door. O
moham maher Jean Stothard. Look, I've usually been nice to her.
I have. Anytime that she wanted to come on the
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radio and talk about something going on in our community,
we hadn't. We always gave her a platform. I don't
think I ever told her no. She told me no
sometimes and I was like, can you come on the
radio and talk about this? No, but I will tomorrow,
you know that kind of thing. Fine, that's maybe the
And I like just to wrap this up, just because
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I've always given her that platform, I would like a pardon,
and I think I'm entitled to one one of those
Biden family pardons.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Well, and think about it, she doesn't even have to
do anything. She didn't just get somebody to use her
own autopen.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Yeah, where's the Stothart? Where's the stothert autopen? You think
as as much as Mayor Stothart really likes controlling things
that happened under her watch. I don't think that anyone.
She's the last person elected office who would allow anyone
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to use an auto pin for anything. There's no I'll
do it. Which is something that I as we talk
about the last twelve years, the reign of terror of
the last twelve years of Oha, Marrior Jeen's author, that
is probably the number one thing that I'll appreciate about
her time in Omaha. Yeah, you can look and go
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look at the economic development over here, look at what happened,
for example with the gene leahy Mal and you know
the fact that homicides with guns have gone down, and
you know, you can certainly look at certain things that
have happened during her twelve years in office and say
credit where credit is due. You can look at other
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things that have happened that aren't so great during her
time in office and go I wish that you know
that's true of anyone at any time. Ultimately, I don't
no offense to mayor stother I don't put too much
praise or blame on the mayor of Omaha for what
happens with some of the societal things that happen in Omaha.
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If you look around and go, hey, there's a lot
of criminals and you know that, and people speeding up
and down the streets and that you know why, because
that's what those people are doing and they need to
not do that. Police are out there trying to deal
with everything as good as they possibly can. But if
you're like, well, I think there's you know too much,
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you know, speed racers and violence and homelessness, all right,
then stop doing that stuff there. Let me know what
else I can help you out with. So I I
don't put too much praiser or discredit on a mayor
of Omaha for societal things like that. I look at
over those things that the mayor can control.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
But don't you think, at least in the past, and
if you'd maybe have to go back fifty or seventy
five years, in the past, mayors did have a big
impact on society issues there they could no, some did. No.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
I think society was just better.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
Than well, yeah, that goes without saying. But there were laws,
there were ordinances. There was a time when when you
look at the old market and what you see today
with people just sleeping in the doorways, there was a
time when that was not tolerated at all.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
I know, I'd prefer to see something more like Sheriff
Joe R. Pile cracking down on stuff like this, But
you don't get that anywhere. I don't know why i'd
expect that kind of thing here.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Well, I think people need to stop looking at homeless
people as all people on the street because that's not
what you're seeing. Homeless people that want to make a
difference in rebuild their lives are doing so through programs
and different services. What you see in the old market
are people who could not care less about having a
roof over their head as long as they have a
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bottle in their hand or a needle in their arm.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Yeah, so what are you going to do about it?
You know, like we talked about this the other day
with them shutting down the City View apartments, and they're
gonna move some people and they're going to take advantage
of this tremendous new lease on life, and then other
people the problem is just going to follow them, because
they are the problem. You can give someone a billion
dollars and a brand new mansion and they can live
in that mansion and within an hour all the problems
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will still be there because that's you're not treating the
problem or you're not dealing with the problem. Because be
that as it may, right, The number one no, no,
The number one thing that I will appreciate she didn't
start the restaurant text she else, it didn't end it.
The number one thing I'll appreciate about Omaha married Jean
Stothard was you got transparency from her. You would ask
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her what time it was. She will tell you exactly
how the city of Omaha is building this watch and
how it works, and who's in charge of it, and
if something didn't go right with you know, a cog
or something like that, this is the person who's going
to answer to her. I mean she she was not
a figurehead. She was running stuff, and there were certainly
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some people who felt like she's mean, mean gene, you
know that kind of thing, and she's you know, she's
micromanaging and all that, like, hey, it's less time I checked.
It's her face on the bus benches. And she's the
one who has to answer for all this. She gets
the calls to the hotline, you know, someone's like, hey,
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there's a big pothole over here and it still hasn't
been fixed. Hey, what is going on with this over here?
How come this happen? What can you do about this?
No one's calling up they had a public works of
the parks Department or sanitation anything like that. They're calling
the mayor. And so when she has that awesome sense
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of responsibility as to this is what's happening in our community,
she he feels as strongly about some of the big
things that we all see happening here as she does
about the little, itty bitty small things happening here. I'll
give you an example of a really small thing. I
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was on the radio years ago with the previous trash company, Deafenbaugh,
when they had taken care of our trash, and there
was some there was a problem going on that we
were calling deaf Arehea. This was the Deafenbaugh trucks during
a particular juicy time for yard waste. We're throwing O
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We're throwing all that junk at back of their trucks,
and there's a lot of it that was just really
really moist, whether like the lawn and leaf bags had
water in them because it had rained or whatever the
deal was, there was just a lot of liquid refuse
in those trucks, and the refuse was attaching itself to
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the smelliest components of inside the back of the trash truck,
which I expect those things are pretty messy and smelly.
But the trucks were lurching forward or coming to a stop,
and that stuff sloshing around the truck and spilling out
of the back of the truck. And it was also
a particular hot day, or we had a stretch of
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hot days after that humidity and the heat and everything,
and so that slosh was going back on the streets
and creating this big greenish brownish smelly stain on the
streets in front of everyone's houses in my neighborhood. So
I'm on the air going, hey, thanks a lot, deaf
and ball for you know, spraying your liquid excrement all
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across the streets here. I can't go outside without a
gas mask on. This is disgusting. And Mayor Stott contacted
me and said, what's your address, like super threateninghere do
you live? What's your address? So I gave her my
address and said you're welcome to anything you want in
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the fridge, it's all your I figure she can get
into anyone's house she's the mayor. Within an hour, she
had crews out there, not just at my house, but
at all my neighbor's houses, scrubbing the streets clean in
front of our houses.
Speaker 3 (39:24):
And it sounds to me like you have a lot
of power.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
This had nothing to do with I mean, I just
happened to be talking about it on the radio. But
when people call the mayor's hotline or when they send
her a message on social media, she responds to these
things because she cares. Because she wants Omaha to be
this wonderful place that people enjoy. She wants us to
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have great streets, she wants us to have low crime.
She wants this homeless issue taken care of. She wants
the businesses and the employees to be really happy and
proud to call Omaha home. And the number one thing
I'll appreciate for the last twelve years of Mayristother's administration
is it was incredibly transparent and she really knew her
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stuff because she cared. And I wish John Ewing well.
He'll be sworn in later today and he'll have four
years to provide us whatever his vision is for the
city of Omaha, and I look forward to seeing what
that is and working with Mayor John Ewing on what
he's going to do in our community. As I say,
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I appreciate having worked with Mayristotht during the last twelve
years she was our mayor and before that her time
in the city council. I've always enjoyed my time with Mayristothart,
and it comes to an end now because you're not
going to be the mayor anymore more. So therefore, you
know what's what's the point? So don't I'm kidding. I
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look forward to receive even text messages, and I know
I'm going to see her at events for years to
come because this is her community and she cares so
on behalf of so many of us, even those who
won't admit it out loud. Jeans Tuth, thank you very
much for your service to my hometown, Omaha, Nebraska.
Speaker 4 (41:20):
Scott Voice News Radio eleven ten kfaby I love this story.
Speaker 1 (41:25):
From k ETV News Watch seven. They talked to John
Ewing's brother Eric before tonight at the council meeting. After
seven thirty, Mayor John Ewing will be sworn in as
Omaha's next mayor, and Eric said, I'm happy for my brother,
but I'm also happy for my parents, my dad's eighty seven,
mom's eighty four, and so for the time period in
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which they grew up in their lifetime. To go from
Jim Crow to President Obama to the first black mayor
in Omaha's history as their son, it's a pretty exciting
time I certainly imagine it is for them, and congratulations
to the Ewing family. I'll look forward to criticizing the
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new mayor starting tomorrow, but today we wish him well.
There's a lot of really entertaining stuff on TikTok aside
from here's the latest TikTok trend and as people setting
their faces on fire or whatever the heck is going on. Well,
there are also a lot of commentators on TikTok, and
at least one of them is conservative, and she actually
has people following her. We welcome onto the program right now.
(00:22):
The real Athena ka Athena Carvallis joins us here on
eleven ten kfab Athena, good.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Morning, Good morning, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
It's great to have you on the program. You didn't
start off your social media platform thinking I'm gonna just
let everyone know what I think about what's going on
in the news, and I tend to have a more
conservative slant. You actually got a lot of fame by
giving the media an incredible clickworthy headline. And that was
she heard her boyfriend talking about her in the next
(00:52):
room with his friends, and it turns out he was
saying really really nice things about you, and it was
a really sweet video, and you got very popular. And
then suddenly transition into and I'll tell you another thing
about some owned files and Joe Biden and all that,
and I'm sure that you had to deal with a
lot of issues, not just from the social media platform
(01:16):
bouncing you off the platform, but also your followers. What
was your journey on this social media platform TikTok?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Like, yeah, so, I, like you said, I really was
posting stuff with my now husband, but at the time
was my boyfriend or fiance, and that obviously gained a
lot of traction. And then the election happened in November,
and obviously I had never posted about being conservative, because
you know how it is to be conservative. I'm sure
(01:45):
you have to be careful, especially because at the time
I was living in New Jersey, which is a very
blue area, so you have to tread lightly. But then
the election happened and I started seeing people, you know,
cutting off their family and friends, and these women shaping
heads and you know, branding themselves with tattoos. It just
got so insane, and I realized, like, how is this
(02:08):
like the normal? I didn't understand where we went so
wrong and why Donald Trump was bringing so much hatred
to these people, and so I posted just like, listen,
you guys got to chill out. And then that video,
that first video blew up as well, and then I
think people started I think I remember pretty vividly actually,
(02:30):
people commenting like, well, what do you think about this?
What do you think about that? And a lot of
people were messaging me on TikTok saying, you know, thank
you for sharing what you did, because you know, I
can't post about it. I'm afraid to. I have liberal
family and friends, so hearing you talk about it, I
feel like I could, you know, live through you and
have that support, and I think that just kind of
motivated me to keep posting. And in those seven months alone,
(02:54):
I think I've gained in just those seven months over
three hundred thousand more followers. So obviously something I'm saying
or doing resumes with people. You know, sometimes I can
be a little aggressive or outspoken, but I think that's
really the only way to get your point across at
this point in society, because you know, the liberals are
just so loud right now, so sometimes you just have
(03:15):
to be louder.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Well, and not only that, like, I honestly don't care
if someone is incredibly liberal and is on TikTok doing
a bunch of videos espousing their progressive views, that's great.
If I choose to follow it because I'm entertained by
it in some way, I'll choose to do so. If
I if I'm not interested in it, I just won't
follow it. But there are people out there who've been
(03:38):
trying to like track you down, censor you, bounce you
from the platform, go after your followers.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Right, yeah, Yeah, it's been a very ugly, ugly journey,
and I don't think I really realized how low some
people are willing to go. I mean, like you said,
I actually follow a few liberal creators. I like to
keep an open mind. I was a Democrat at one point,
and I very openly about that, so I always like
to keep an open mind and have conversation. So I
(04:05):
follow creators with different viewpoints, even moderate creators, independent creators.
I'm actually very friendly with a few of them from
the platforms. So that's not the issue, like you said,
it's the issue of where people start to get very personal.
People were tracking down my family on social media, sending
them threats, sending me threats, you know, just horrible, heinous things. Actually,
(04:27):
I actually got one woman arrested for domestic terrorism because
with her real phone number, she found my phone number
and left me the craziest voicemail. I'm not even going
to repeat anything said, but she actually ended up getting arrested,
so it's it definitely hasn't been easy, and I think
this is even the more reason that conservatives are afraid
(04:48):
to speak out, and you know, on top of the
censorship on the app, it's incredibly frustrating. So I'm grateful
that I think, I, you know, will give myself the
props that I'm strong headed enough to deal with that
and speak for so many Americans.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Talking here with Athena carvallis the real Athena k on TikTok?
One more question about TikTok than I want to pick
your brain about a few things in the news here Athena.
When President Trump, before he even got into office, said yeah,
I think we need to ban TikTok, and then it's
kind of gone back and forth here recently. What would
you like to see happen with this social media platform?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
I think it needs to be American owned, and I
think President Trump, like you said, he's been kind of
on the fence back and forth. So that's been a
little bit frustrating because no one really knows what's happening.
It went dark for a day and then didn't. But
I think at least a portion of it needs to
become American owned. Between the security risks and the censorship,
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I think he's on the right track with trying to
find a bid that works. I know Reed Raisner did
put in a really hefty bid for I think forty
five forty seven million something like that, and I fully
support him. We need to get it over to our country.
We have one hundred and seventy million Americans on the
app and read raising HER's pretty adamant that. You know,
(06:08):
it's got to get over here or also a lot
of people are going to lose their income their platform,
and that would be a mistake for not only us,
but for TikTok as well, because if we go, so
does a lot of the apps. So I think that's
a big problem. Got over here all right?
Speaker 1 (06:21):
I want to ask you about a couple of things here.
I checked in with your your TikTok this morning and
saw it looked like like even as you are having
your morning coffee, like you just roll out of bed
and said, I got some thoughts on some Moan Biles
and Riley Gains, and here they are so share with
the rest of the class, if you would please a thing.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
What are your thoughts on this dust up over the
weekend between some moan Biles and Riley Gains.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Oh my goodness. I stand by Riley one hundred percent.
And it's not even just because she's a conservative, because
I'm someone who loves someone Biles, and I said that
in my video. I've always respected her. A strong woman,
she's very brilliant, she's talented. I have nothing against her.
I think with this very issue though, she's I mean,
(07:08):
she's got to check herself. You can't. You can't preach
about being an advocate for women and then in the
same breath advocate for biological men to start infiltrating women's spaces.
You can't have two things. Cannot be true at once
in this situation. And I think it's a shame to
see a woman athlete goes so far as to say that,
(07:32):
you know, it's okay to be inclusive. This isn't about inclusivity.
It's about fairness and what's fair because there is a
biological advantage or disadvantage. And I think her coming for
Riley Gain's personal looks, I think that was a low
blow and as Simone, Biles always advocates for women empowerment.
She has a lot of brand deals based on women empowerment.
(07:54):
How she was bullied for her physique growing up because
she was a gymnast with a lot of muscles, and
then in the same breath going to call Riley Gaines
a man, I think she's a hypocrite. I think she
should be deplatformed, and I completely lost all my respect
for her.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Yeah, And it's sad to see because a lot of
people look up to someone Biles, and suddenly there are
some girls who say, but I don't want to compete
against guys, or I don't want to be in the
locker room with guys, as Riley Gaines has said, and
suddenly someone Biles is telling them that their feelings don't
have worth. Apparently, Riley Gaines is great. We did an
event with her in Omaha just over a year ago
(08:29):
and she's fantastic. I love the way she kept a
cool head in that give and take on social media.
One more thing for you, Athena. The Los Angeles issues
that we saw raging over the weekend in that city here.
What are your thoughts on people battling with police in
the streets and deciding that because we don't like the
president's policies on immigration, we're going to try and blow
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up that automated taxi.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
I think they are losing their minds more and more
every day. It's incredibly sad. Like I said, I was
a Democrat at one point, so it's frustrating to see
this new party almost kind of take over. I mean,
you can disagree and peacefully protest, but the same people
screaming still. I mean almost five years later, about January sixth,
and grouping all those people together, you know, are now
(09:18):
people that are excusing the behavior of burning cop cars,
throwing rocks into cop cars, looting businesses. I mean, it's
the same thing we saw in twenty twenty. It's the
same thing we saw just a few months ago. It's
unreal to watch. And if listen, if you want to
disagree with President Trump' immigration policy, more power to you.
(09:39):
Peacefully protest, that's fine, But for them to act like
the reason that you know, the higher authorities are getting
involved is simply due to these peaceful protesters. I mean,
they're losing their minds. There's nothing even else. There's nothing
else I could say about it, and it's sad because
they're just latantly ignoring the truth. It's a messy situation
(10:01):
over there, and they refuse to see it or acknowledge
it because they can't grasp that they're not flawless. It's crazy.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
If you're on TikTok, you can follow Athena at the
Real Athena K. Or if your kids are on TikTok,
then you can ask them say hey, check out Athena
and see what she's up to. This is Athena Carvalis.
I really enjoy talking with you and I hope we
can do it again.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Yeah. Absolutely, thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Absolutely, thank you so much of the time. Athena Carvllas
at the Real Athena K on TikTok. She's got about
three hundred and fifty thousand followers on that platform. She
has been deep platformed from there several times twelve bands
thirty one violations. Every time she gets banned, she has
to set down for thirty months or thirty days waiting
(10:50):
to get back on the platform. She's been taken from
the opportunity to make money on the platform with her posts,
and all I've seen on her posts is stuff like
you just heard. They're about Simone Biles and Riley Gaines
or the Los Angeles riots. Interesting voice on that social
media platform, and she's asking President Trump to keep TikTok,
(11:13):
but keep it away from the Chinese. These stories out
of Los Angeles were all too familiar. Riots in the
streets of Los Angeles over the weekend like Wow, what
year is this? But this had nothing to do with
Rodney King or anything like that. This was because there
are some people who have seemingly, according to the media,
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decided that they don't like the President of the United
States enforcing border law, rounding up and deporting dangerous criminal
illegal immigrants. And somehow there are some people who are
just okay with these protests going on. These protests have
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nothing to do with the president's immigration policies. These protests
are the same thing we've seen over the years. The
sign changes, the tactics remain the same. The people at
the heart of these protests remain the same. The sign
changes like the ones that they hold up. But we
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don't like or we think it has nothing to do
with the cause. It's those who are causing the disruption
that is the similarity here. So let's go through our causes.
Before it's been stuff like tax the rich and occupy
Wall Street. We were okay with setting stuff on fire
and shutting down streets and warring with law enforcement, and
(12:41):
then what Then it was Black Lives Matter, and then
it became from the River to the Sea, the Palestinians
must be free and stop the genocide against the Palestinians.
And now it's apparently we don't like that there are
criminal illegal immigrant gang member human drug traffickers being plucked
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from our society and sent back from whence they came
because they're in violation of our law. And they're like, well, no,
we don't like that. They decided to go the same route.
And it's all the same thing. We're gonna block the streets,
we're gonna fight with cops, we're gonna set stuff on fire.
It's all the ANTIFA stuff. And the math equation that
(13:24):
still makes zero sense to me is exactly the same.
We don't like that this guy did that to this thing,
so we're going to burn this automated taxi is now
the latest math equation. These morons are out there in
the streets of Los Angeles setting fire to these waym vehicles.
(13:44):
Have you been in other communities to see these things.
These are driverless taxi cars, and people have been out
there because they're plentiful and they're right there, and no
one seemingly owns these things. You're not gonna have a
guy running up going mike car. So they're just setting
fire to these cars and then like dancing around them,
(14:07):
ignorant of the fact that these things they've got like
these lithium ion batteries in them that when you set
fire to them and the battery gets real hot, the
cars blow up. Unfortunately, we didn't have a bunch of
these hammerheads out there setting fire to cars and blowing
up real good in the streets of Los Angeles. But yeah,
(14:30):
these guys are like, yeah, we don't like the President
Trump is kicking illegal immigrants out of our community, so
I'm gonna go set fire to this Weimo taxi. What
did Weimo have to do with this. It's not like
President Trump is sticking gang member illegal immigrants in these
vehicles and saying all right, onto El Salvador and patting
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it on the back bumper as it goes. WEIMO has
nothing to do with this. So these guys start blocking
streets and setting fire to stuff and throwing stuff at cops,
and the cops are like, well, I think we all
know how this goes. And so here come the flashbangs,
the rubber bullets, the tear gas, the riot shields, and
then something else happened. President Trump sent out the National Guard.
(15:19):
This is not something new. I mean, the President usually
will send out the National Guard if there is a need,
whether it's something really ugly like this or something really
tragic like a storm or a flood, like we need
manpower and we need it now. That's one of the
things the National Guard is available for. But what the
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President did here was historic on one front, because this
hasn't happened in about sixty years. And I'll tell you
what this is all about after a Fox News update.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Next Scott Fords News Radio eleven ten k FA.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
What a great idea. Just months after Los Angeles had
entire neighborhoods, like historical neighborhoods, burned to the ground during
this incredible drought in California. The best thing to do
is go out there and start setting stuff on fire
in the streets of Los Angeles. Boy, you guys are great,
(16:21):
So the Antifa crowd have decided that this is the
latest front. They feel they can gin up some public
support by going out there and fighting with cops, shutting
down streets, and setting stuff on fire. This is absolute
war from domestic terrorists. And the only thing that changes
is what they say. They're doing this for Occupy Wall Street,
(16:42):
Black Lives Matter. Oh yeah, someone else reminded me, Oh,
we got to you know, the war on women. We
got to shoot CEOs of healthcare companies and a free Palestine.
Whatever it's. They don't care what the cause is. It's
just the excuse to go out there and engage in
(17:04):
lawless behavior. So President Trump did something that hasn't been
done in sixty years. The last president to do this
was President Lyndon Baines Johnson, the worst president of all time.
What did LBJ do sixty years ago? The President Trump
just duplicated this weekend any idea, any guess any No,
(17:25):
not can't state any idea, and he guess any other
anyone else, anyone else.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
To send out troops into the United States.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Yes, but the president sends out the National Guard for
any number of reasons. That's not really all that new.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
And I am at a loss.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Well, you're almost there. This is the first time in
sixty years that the president has sent the state's national
guard within the state to a place in the state
against the wishes of the governor.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
But it's newsome generally, yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Generally, And Governor Knew has been behaving himself here recently,
But generally the President works with the governor in the
institution of what we're going to do with the national
guard there. It's just kind of how it's done. But
it hasn't been done this way in sixty years. So
the last time that the president sent a national guard,
I called up the state national guard within the state
(18:21):
to deal with something was Bloody Sunday March. In the
wake of Bloody Sunday March seventh, nineteen sixty five, when
a group of six hundred demonstrators marched on the capital
city of Montgomery to protest the disenfranchisement and earlier killing
(18:41):
of Jimmy Lee Jackson by a state trooper, a black man.
And what happened was then there was this civil rights march,
and the idea was that the governor of Alabama boo
boo boo. Everyone sings that in the Skinner's song, Sweet
Home Alabama. But that's the governor they're taught. They're booing.
(19:04):
There is Governor George Wallace, and this is the guy
who is like standing in the way of you know,
black students will not go to this university. You know
that kind of guy. And they thought that Governor Wallace
was going to disrupt the civil rights march from Selma
to Montgomery. So President Johnson March twentieth, nineteen sixty five
(19:31):
notified the governor that we're going to call up the
Alabama National Guard to supervise this march. Governor Wallace said,
why a a you tar nation and southern stuff. You know,
it's some genuine frontier gibberish and all the rest of
this stuff. But Johnson did it anyway. The President did
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it anyway. Now, in retrospect, it was the right move.
But if the idea is is that everyone in Alabama's racist,
is getting the Alabama National Guard to go out there
and protect the black marchers in Alabama, is that really
the safest thing for the marchers? I mean, if the
(20:13):
idea is it's like, oh yeah, all law enforcement, all
the authority in alabama's all racist, why we'll get the
National Guard. I'm sure they're fine, and they're like, nah,
we're all so racist, let's go in there. But it
all worked out and after that date, black people and
white people got along just fine. There's never been another problem.
(20:34):
So that was a big day. Yes, I'm being sarcastic,
I wish I weren't, But that was the last time,
sixty years ago that the president sent the state's National
Guard within the state against the wishes of the governor
to Why wouldn't Governor Newsom? As his law enforcement in
Los Angeles are under attack, They're overwhelmed by hundreds of
(20:58):
protesters throwing molotov cocktails, chunks of concrete. At one point,
they were chucking the little electric scooters off of overpasses
onto oncoming traffic. So here come the cops to try
and stop all of this. President Trump says, we need
(21:19):
to get the National Guard in there. We can get
a couple thousand National Guard troops in there now. And
why would Governor Newsom say no? Well, here's what he said.
He said that having troops everywhere and making it look
like a militarized zone in Los Angeles is going to
make it worse. That's what Governor Newsom said, like.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
I said earlier, Well it's Newsom.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Governor Newsom has been behaving himself here recently. He's actually
said some pretty common sense things. But when you've got
an angry mob who are just going to be mad
just by the fact that it's Sunday, Hey, you guys
know what today is a Sunday?
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Why don't you know?
Speaker 1 (22:03):
And they're just mad anyway, and you send out more troops,
national guardsmen, law enforcement authority to deal with them, like, well,
that's going to make them more mad. What's not going
to make them more mad? What are we gonna do?
Neville Chamberlain them back to their homes. Hey, whatever you
(22:26):
guys want, we're gonna do deterrens through giving in. That's fine.
So you guys don't like that, do We're deporting criminal
gang member, murdering illegal immigrants? Okay, we'll stop, sorry about that. Sorry,
everyone are bad, Then they just find something else to
get mad sat fire. I mean, when an angry mob convenes,
(22:46):
it's not to get their way. It's to go and
do angry mob stuff until they get the fight that
they want.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
No, it's until they get the money that was promised.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Probably right now, the only money I hear is a
fifty thousand dollars reward for information leading to the arrest
of a suspect who assaulted a federal officer during these
protests in Los Angeles. FBI is asking for the public's
help and identifying a guy accused of throwing rocks at cops.
(23:17):
And the really sad thing was, well, the worst thing
is that law enforcement was assaulted. The second worst thing
was he was wearing a Lakers hat and jersey. This
guy is a Lakers fan and he's acting like this.
Send Shaquille O'Neal in there, shack backs, the law enforcement
(23:39):
shack backs, the badge shack will go out there and
find this guy and twist him into a pretzel. That's
what should happen. And how dare you do this while
wearing a Lakers and a jersey and hat. If you
want to go out there and wreak a bunch of havoc,
you got to wear a Celtic's jersey and hat, not
the Lakers. Go Lakers, all right, Lucy. Timing of all
(24:05):
of this suggests that I should move up the Sierra
deal here to this moment. If you're ready for it, sorry,
this is on air. I hadn't looked at the commercial
logs until right now. Can I move this up?
Speaker 3 (24:19):
I'm just gonna take this opportunity to just talk.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Can we do this here?
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Okay, and here's here's here Scott voice see of the
Zonker's custom woods inbox. Regarding California, Ryan says, they get
what they deserve. I don't know if Trump should help them.
Let their citizens see what they have for quote leaders unquote.
I mean, does anyone in LA want Trump's help? They
(24:44):
are very ungrateful. That's from Ryan sent to Scott at
kfab dot com, and Rob says this is I was
today years old when I heard that the lyrics in
Sweet Home, Alabama were boo boo boo, he said, I
always thought it was ooh ooh ooh.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
You know, there are a lot of people in California
who are very good and decent people would not have
voted this way, that have lived there their whole lives
and are watching their state just be completely destroyed through
eminent domain, through fires, through through riots, through politicians. And
I appreciate what your emailer said, but there are there
(25:29):
are some good people in California.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Absolutely none of them are Los Angeles is a fun
place to hang out. I don't know now that i'd want.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
To live there, but I want to visit right now.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Right.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
No, there are several. I mean, California is overwhelmingly conservative.
If you look at just the square footage and the
congressional districts, it's it's it's really overwhelmingly conservative. But the
cities take up so much space and congressional power and
electoral power that Californifornia is a dedicated blue state. Yes,
(26:03):
but you know there are people who are lifelong Democrats
who can't stand President Trump, who their businesses have either
been set on fire by these agitators. They're like, what
what did I do? I'm running a gas station, a
coffee shop, a diner, and a McDonald whatever, and my
(26:28):
business is either on fire, the windows are all smashed out,
or this entire area has got police tape around it
so people can't come down here as shop. And what
did I do? All I did was open up a
business in a depressed neighborhood, and I've been trying to
convince people for a lifetime come down and get some scones,
(26:50):
come down and get some coffee. It's a good place
to be and then here come a bunch of agitators
on the streets of Los Angeles to come fight with cops,
and suddenly I I can't run my business anymore. I'm
out thousands of dollars. That's not just in what we
got to pay to fix up the place and an
insurance costs and deductibles, but also lost wages for the
(27:11):
time that we're going to have to spend to be
closed for the foreseeable future because this area is a
war zone. And what did I have to do. I
didn't do anything with any illegal immigrants or anything like that.
These agitators look and I don't know. I mean, as
(27:32):
is often the case, there might have been some initial
protesters that said we're going to engage in a peaceful
protest because that's a very American thing to do. At
this point, how do you know if you decide that
you want to do a peaceful protest, how do you
know you're not just lighting a fuse waiting for these
agitators to come and completely take it over. Because in
(27:56):
our big cities, this is exactly what happens. The Antifa people,
they don't care what the cause is. That's just the
excuse for them to go in there and destroy things.
Greek mayhemond fight with cops. That's all they want to do.
I mean, can you imagine if someone was like, Hey,
we're going down to the downtown Los Angeles to go
(28:17):
fight with cops and throw stuff at moving cars, And
you're like, I got to work tomorrow, my kid's got
a baseball game, I got to mow the lawn before
it rains. Who's just sitting there going, yeah, I'm in,
I'm down, let's go, let's go fight with cops.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Well, first of all, it's going to be people who
have no clue about what's actually going on.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
No, they don't. They just want to fight with cops.
This is it, this is the final day. There's still
so much that she could do today. You know, she's
still in office until late this afternoon, early this evening.
I forget exactly what time the swearing in happens, but
(29:01):
Jean Stouthard is still the mayor of Omaha for another
several hours.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
What could she do?
Speaker 1 (29:09):
What do you want her to do?
Speaker 3 (29:12):
M Well, I think she did a pretty good job.
Not much she can do at this point with only
a few hours.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Oh yeah, there's there's certainly stuff she.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Could do, you'd mean like executive order. Yeah, what do
you want her to do?
Speaker 1 (29:30):
I want to pardon, just like just like Hunter Biden got.
And there are no charges members of the Biden family,
no I know they The President Biden, on his way
out the door, via very grave concern and or auto
pen decided to issue a blanket pardon for anything that
(29:51):
any of these particular individuals have done, are currently doing,
or may do in the future.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
All right, sign you up for that.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
I want a blank think it pardon. Not because I
want to go on a crime spree per se, but
there are certainly things that I could say or do
today that in years from now could be considered criminal acts,
and I would like to be pardoned. I didn't know
that I couldn't say some of these things on the
(30:19):
radio now. I mean, I've been on this radio station.
It'll be twenty years next year if there's no chance
I make it. But let's just pretend that I'm still
here next year, and by the end of the next summer,
it'll be twenty years on this radio station. You don't
think there are things I've said and done on this
radio show twenty years ago that I regret. Of course,
(30:42):
there are there are things I've said and done on
this radio show twenty minutes ago that have not aged. Well,
that's just the nature of how it goes. So I
would prefer that on her way out the door. O
moham maher Jean Stothard. Look, I've usually been nice to her.
I have. Anytime that she wanted to come on the
(31:04):
radio and talk about something going on in our community,
we hadn't. We always gave her a platform. I don't
think I ever told her no. She told me no
sometimes and I was like, can you come on the
radio and talk about this? No, but I will tomorrow,
you know that kind of thing. Fine, that's maybe the
And I like just to wrap this up, just because
(31:27):
I've always given her that platform, I would like a pardon,
and I think I'm entitled to one one of those
Biden family pardons.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Well, and think about it, she doesn't even have to
do anything. She didn't just get somebody to use her
own autopen.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Yeah, where's the Stothart? Where's the stothert autopen? You think
as as much as Mayor Stothart really likes controlling things
that happened under her watch. I don't think that anyone.
She's the last person elected office who would allow anyone
(32:02):
to use an auto pin for anything. There's no I'll
do it. Which is something that I as we talk
about the last twelve years, the reign of terror of
the last twelve years of Oha, Marrior Jeen's author, that
is probably the number one thing that I'll appreciate about
her time in Omaha. Yeah, you can look and go
(32:24):
look at the economic development over here, look at what happened,
for example with the gene leahy Mal and you know
the fact that homicides with guns have gone down, and
you know, you can certainly look at certain things that
have happened during her twelve years in office and say
credit where credit is due. You can look at other
(32:44):
things that have happened that aren't so great during her
time in office and go I wish that you know
that's true of anyone at any time. Ultimately, I don't
no offense to mayor stother I don't put too much
praise or blame on the mayor of Omaha for what
happens with some of the societal things that happen in Omaha.
(33:07):
If you look around and go, hey, there's a lot
of criminals and you know that, and people speeding up
and down the streets and that you know why, because
that's what those people are doing and they need to
not do that. Police are out there trying to deal
with everything as good as they possibly can. But if
you're like, well, I think there's you know too much,
(33:27):
you know, speed racers and violence and homelessness, all right,
then stop doing that stuff there. Let me know what
else I can help you out with. So I I
don't put too much praiser or discredit on a mayor
of Omaha for societal things like that. I look at
over those things that the mayor can control.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
But don't you think, at least in the past, and
if you'd maybe have to go back fifty or seventy
five years, in the past, mayors did have a big
impact on society issues there they could no, some did. No.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
I think society was just better.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
Than well, yeah, that goes without saying. But there were laws,
there were ordinances. There was a time when when you
look at the old market and what you see today
with people just sleeping in the doorways, there was a
time when that was not tolerated at all.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
I know, I'd prefer to see something more like Sheriff
Joe R. Pile cracking down on stuff like this, But
you don't get that anywhere. I don't know why i'd
expect that kind of thing here.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Well, I think people need to stop looking at homeless
people as all people on the street because that's not
what you're seeing. Homeless people that want to make a
difference in rebuild their lives are doing so through programs
and different services. What you see in the old market
are people who could not care less about having a
roof over their head as long as they have a
(35:01):
bottle in their hand or a needle in their arm.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Yeah, so what are you going to do about it?
You know, like we talked about this the other day
with them shutting down the City View apartments, and they're
gonna move some people and they're going to take advantage
of this tremendous new lease on life, and then other
people the problem is just going to follow them, because
they are the problem. You can give someone a billion
dollars and a brand new mansion and they can live
in that mansion and within an hour all the problems
(35:26):
will still be there because that's you're not treating the
problem or you're not dealing with the problem. Because be
that as it may, right, The number one no, no,
The number one thing that I will appreciate she didn't
start the restaurant text she else, it didn't end it.
The number one thing I'll appreciate about Omaha married Jean
Stothard was you got transparency from her. You would ask
(35:51):
her what time it was. She will tell you exactly
how the city of Omaha is building this watch and
how it works, and who's in charge of it, and
if something didn't go right with you know, a cog
or something like that, this is the person who's going
to answer to her. I mean she she was not
a figurehead. She was running stuff, and there were certainly
(36:13):
some people who felt like she's mean, mean gene, you
know that kind of thing, and she's you know, she's
micromanaging and all that, like, hey, it's less time I checked.
It's her face on the bus benches. And she's the
one who has to answer for all this. She gets
the calls to the hotline, you know, someone's like, hey,
(36:34):
there's a big pothole over here and it still hasn't
been fixed. Hey, what is going on with this over here?
How come this happen? What can you do about this?
No one's calling up they had a public works of
the parks Department or sanitation anything like that. They're calling
the mayor. And so when she has that awesome sense
(36:55):
of responsibility as to this is what's happening in our community,
she he feels as strongly about some of the big
things that we all see happening here as she does
about the little, itty bitty small things happening here. I'll
give you an example of a really small thing. I
(37:16):
was on the radio years ago with the previous trash company, Deafenbaugh,
when they had taken care of our trash, and there
was some there was a problem going on that we
were calling deaf Arehea. This was the Deafenbaugh trucks during
a particular juicy time for yard waste. We're throwing O
(37:39):
We're throwing all that junk at back of their trucks,
and there's a lot of it that was just really
really moist, whether like the lawn and leaf bags had
water in them because it had rained or whatever the
deal was, there was just a lot of liquid refuse
in those trucks, and the refuse was attaching itself to
(38:01):
the smelliest components of inside the back of the trash truck,
which I expect those things are pretty messy and smelly.
But the trucks were lurching forward or coming to a stop,
and that stuff sloshing around the truck and spilling out
of the back of the truck. And it was also
a particular hot day, or we had a stretch of
(38:21):
hot days after that humidity and the heat and everything,
and so that slosh was going back on the streets
and creating this big greenish brownish smelly stain on the
streets in front of everyone's houses in my neighborhood. So
I'm on the air going, hey, thanks a lot, deaf
and ball for you know, spraying your liquid excrement all
(38:44):
across the streets here. I can't go outside without a
gas mask on. This is disgusting. And Mayor Stott contacted
me and said, what's your address, like super threateninghere do
you live? What's your address? So I gave her my
address and said you're welcome to anything you want in
(39:06):
the fridge, it's all your I figure she can get
into anyone's house she's the mayor. Within an hour, she
had crews out there, not just at my house, but
at all my neighbor's houses, scrubbing the streets clean in
front of our houses.
Speaker 3 (39:24):
And it sounds to me like you have a lot
of power.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
This had nothing to do with I mean, I just
happened to be talking about it on the radio. But
when people call the mayor's hotline or when they send
her a message on social media, she responds to these
things because she cares. Because she wants Omaha to be
this wonderful place that people enjoy. She wants us to
(39:51):
have great streets, she wants us to have low crime.
She wants this homeless issue taken care of. She wants
the businesses and the employees to be really happy and
proud to call Omaha home. And the number one thing
I'll appreciate for the last twelve years of Mayristother's administration
is it was incredibly transparent and she really knew her
(40:14):
stuff because she cared. And I wish John Ewing well.
He'll be sworn in later today and he'll have four
years to provide us whatever his vision is for the
city of Omaha, and I look forward to seeing what
that is and working with Mayor John Ewing on what
he's going to do in our community. As I say,
(40:36):
I appreciate having worked with Mayristotht during the last twelve
years she was our mayor and before that her time
in the city council. I've always enjoyed my time with Mayristothart,
and it comes to an end now because you're not
going to be the mayor anymore more. So therefore, you
know what's what's the point? So don't I'm kidding. I
(40:58):
look forward to receive even text messages, and I know
I'm going to see her at events for years to
come because this is her community and she cares so
on behalf of so many of us, even those who
won't admit it out loud. Jeans Tuth, thank you very
much for your service to my hometown, Omaha, Nebraska.
Speaker 4 (41:20):
Scott Voice News Radio eleven ten kfaby I love this story.
Speaker 1 (41:25):
From k ETV News Watch seven. They talked to John
Ewing's brother Eric before tonight at the council meeting. After
seven thirty, Mayor John Ewing will be sworn in as
Omaha's next mayor, and Eric said, I'm happy for my brother,
but I'm also happy for my parents, my dad's eighty seven,
mom's eighty four, and so for the time period in
(41:47):
which they grew up in their lifetime. To go from
Jim Crow to President Obama to the first black mayor
in Omaha's history as their son, it's a pretty exciting
time I certainly imagine it is for them, and congratulations
to the Ewing family. I'll look forward to criticizing the
(42:07):
new mayor starting tomorrow, but today we wish him well.
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