Turn Around, Bright Eyes

Every now and then during today's lead-up to the Total Eclipse of the (Heart) Sun, I talk about the failed attempt to keep guys out of girls' locker rooms in Nebraska, Trump allegedly pressuring a Nebraska state senator, and a big gun control debate happening this week featuring Spike Cohen (who joins us for the discussion).  And, of course, a lot of jibber-jabber about the eclipse ... and Sir Mix-a-Lot songs.

Episode Transcript

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Scott Vordies. My favorite question lately, and by lately I mean since two
thousand and fifteen is people say,so, how do you find things to
talk about on the radio? Scottand I just laugh because I have not
had to dig for something to talkabout. I've had to dig for things

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that we previously had to dig for, just so I wouldn't spend all this
time talking about all of the stuffthat's in our face all the time,
the annual you're not annual, thedaily attempt by them, which we are
increasingly jumping at the chance to bea part of the opportunity for them to

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try and tear us apart. Everything'sgot to be political, everything's got to
be a fight. You got totake everything personally, and everything's just got
to be miserable. And if you'renot miserable, and then you're not paying
attention. I don't want to doany of that, So I try and
find things to talk about that peoplemight be interested in that don't have to
do with the standard fighting each other. Now, I'm happy to talk about

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these things that some people get allkeyed up about. And it's both of
these things that I'm looking at herethat are going on in our world today.
I love the fact that the topstory today involves the Moon moving in

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front of the Sun and partially obscuringour view of the full sun for us
here in Omaha, and totally obscuringthe view of the Sun for those in
the path of totality from Texas upthrough Arkansas and the Ozarks, and you
keep going all the way up ona diagonal slant there to New York.

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And people have been planning their yearlyvacations around this total eclipse so they can
be in that path of totality,so they can see about fore minuts of
glorious lack of sun. And nowother people are tired of the solar eclipse.
Shut up about the sun, Shutup about the sun. Why it's

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an opportunity for people to just gooutside and do with the sun. What
the rest of us here at thisradio station have to do with Lucy Chapman,
and that is to only directly viewher through a piece of smoked glass,
because she's so shiny. Are yougoing to start this Monday already with

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calling me fat? No one's callingyou fat. We had some guys here
in the radio station for a dealhere last week, and the guy said,
is Lucy here so I can askher if I'm calling her fat or
something like that. So I thinkthey wanted to see how fat I was.

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No one's calling Lucy fat. Lucy'snot fat. No one's going that
for some reason. That got tobe a long standing inside joke on this
program. And if you're in onthe joke, then you can continue to
hang out with this and if not, keep listening and you'll find lots of
things here that hopefully you'll enjoy orat least shake your head out and go,
well, I thought I was havinga bad day, but not as

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bad as those people apparently have.They are just complaining about everything, but
not the solar eclipse. There arepeople who say, like, oh,
geez all the news is just aboutthis solar eclipse. Yeah, so no
one's ignoring the fact that the economy'sterrible, that the jobs report includes a
lot of people who are having towork two and three jobs because of the

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bad economy, or they choose towork two or three jobs and they don't
do that full time employment that paysthem benefits, So now they don't have
benefits, they don't have retirement accounts, and they probably think, I'm sure
this all all work itself out later, how by some president somewhere down the
road doing exactly a president Biden's doingtoday, is today for giving student loan

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debt interest because the Supreme Court saidyou can't forgive student loan debt, So
he's going to forgive the interest,which is a significant amount of money for
a lot of people who willingly borrowedmoney to take on student loan debt.
And a lot of other people eitherdidn't they're paying for this giveaway, or

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they did and they paid off theirloans, including the interest. And the
president's going to come along and say, yeah, but it's politically unpopular to
pay back your debt, so youdon't have to, at least not to
this level. And I guess somewheredown the line, some president's going to
say, apparently, a lot ofpeople work two or three jobs in a
gig economy and didn't put away anymoney for retirement, so we're just going

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to cover your retirement. That's calledcommunism or socialism, take your pick,
and then find me the place whereit worked in history. That's what we're
moving towards. But for four minutestoday, no one's going to be thinking
about this that, and they're justgonna be staring at the sun, ideally

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wearing some form of solar eclipse glassesor looking at it through like the smoked
glass thing. You can make yourown solar eclipse glasses, but don't stare
directly at it. Don't tell peoplethat you can. How. I'll look
it up. Got a welder's mask, you can use that. Oh,

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you probably could how to make yourown solar eclipse glasses? Isn't it funny?
How did they get through eclipses before? Before we had electronics, everyone
went blood radio and television. Everyonewent yeah, anyway, there's a lot

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I'm not going to read all thesesites here. There's lots of websites that
has to make your own solar eclipseglasses, and I bet the websites that
have the recipe for solar eclipse glassesaren't nearly as annoy I wasn't going to
talk about this, but I thinkit's time that someone said something. When's

(06:23):
the last time you looked up arecipe online? Yesterday? What was it
here? Let me see it?Let me see if I'm correct here it
was buttermilk biscuits. Now I suddenlywant to start singing the song by Sir
mix a Lot, but I won't. Buttermilk it was actually Saturday. If

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that matters, it doesn't, allright, buttermilk biscuits recipe. Now here's
what I found about looking up arecipe online. The recipe has to be
preceded. I already know what you'regonna say. Buy a story, sometimes

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a book, a long story aboutOh you want see, here's the one
that here's the first one that popsup. I just click on the first
thing, Chef John's buttermilk biscuits.It was gonna probably tell me a story
about who Chef Johnny is and allthis stuff. So like all I want

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is like, what's the what doI do to set the oven? What
ingredients do I need? Ingredients?How much of the ingredients do I need?
What's the setting for the oven?And how much time? This is
all I need. I don't needa story. I don't need a tail,
I don't need a yarn. Idon't need you to sit here and
tell me some fable about the whetherit's chicken cordon boo or buttermilk biscuits or

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whatever, like, just give methe ingredients. How much and how hot
to make the oven, and howmuch time I should spend these biscuits to
spend in there. But we can'tdo that. Nope, gotta have a
story. This deceptively simple. Nowyou want to put a paragraph in there
that's fine, talks about you know, it's a simple recipe. This one's

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my favorite. Flaky but not dry, chewy but not to fine. And
then you scroll down and you think, all right, now it's time for
the recipe. Nope. Then it'sgot another paragraph about Chef John's take on
classic buttermilk biscuits. And then yougot buttermilk biscuits versus cream biscuits. Gotta
have a little story about that,And that's got a few paragraphs. Then
all right, here we go,how to make buttermilk biscuits. It still

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isn't there. No, It saysyou'll find the full step by step recipe
below, but here's a brief overviewof what you can expect when you make
these frum scratch buttermilk biscuits. Youmix the dry ingredients I do, then
you add the wet ingredients. Thenyou fold in the row the dough.
Then you cut the biscuits, Thenyou bake them what to serve with buttermilk
baskets. We haven't gotten to therecipe yet. Here are some things you

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can serve with it. Story yourbuttermilk buttermilk biscuits? Can you freeze them?
Community tips and praise for allrecipes?Dot com got to have that in
there. And then finally you getthe prep time, the cook time,
the total time servings, and theyield. And then we have the ingredients.
Oh my, I don't And ifyou're and this is looking at it

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on the my computer screen here inthe studio. Generally, when I'm doing
this in the kitchen, I've gotmy phone, which takes even longer to
scroll through because the screen is smaller. I don't need a story about this.
Just give me the recipe. I'mgonna start a website saying here's the
damn recipe dot com and it's justthere's no story. I will subscribe.

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Oh my gosh, it's the mostannoyed. Why did we let this happen?
How and why did we as apeople let this happen? See,
these are the kind of things thatset me off. But for four minutes
this afternoon, I's gonna be staringdumbly up at the sky with the rest
of us. Wow, look atthat eclipse. That's a good eclipse right

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there. We get a chance tosee about eighty percent eclipse here in Omaha
Council Bluffs. Council Bluffs probably getssee eighty point one percent because they're a
little bit closer to that path oftotality down there in the ozarks. Man,
let me ask you something about theeclipse. There's a lot of controversy
and a lot of conspiracy around it. As I'm sure you're aware, there

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isn't There is only only you.Okay, you have a conspiracy with this
stuff on my own I read itsomeplace. Okay, I'm not making this
up in my head. All right, hang on, I have a feeling
that is going to take a momentto try and wrap my head around.
We will get Lucy's own personal,ridiculous conspiracy theory about the eclipse, and

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then I'll tell you about why Ineed the eclipse because we have people state
senators Nebraska making comments like that.It's all coming up next. Scott Boyes
News Radio of Levin KFAB. TheSonker's custom was inbox Scott a kfab dot
com. It's got a lot ofpeople fist pumping, give with a lot

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of halelujah and amen on my thoughtson how anytime you're looking up a recipe,
it's like, oh, you wantto make beef burgundy. Good choice.
This will be well received by allwho come over to your house to
eat it. But first, letme tell you a story about a coon,
dog and a cow, you knowor whatever that is, like gotta
be a whole thing. People aresaying on a lot of these websites there's

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a button that says you click hereto jump to the recipe. Well,
yeah, maybe I don't know.The website's got h And by the way,
I don't need to click here tojump to the recipe. I typed
in, how do I what's arecipe for this? And this page came
up. I didn't say, tellme a story about buttermilk biscuits. If

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I wanted that, I'd go toSir Mix a Lot again. I'm going
to reference that. Thank you forputting that song in my head the rest
of the day. Buttermilk Biscuits byKids Sensation technically on the sur Mix a
Lot album Swass, which was astaple of my middle school years. But
Lucy before we started talking about recipesand biscuits and all that fun stuff,

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I said, you know, withthe solar eclipse today, it gives us
a chance not to get all wrappedup into politics and all the rest of
the stuff that divides us, andwe can just sit there and dumbly stare
at the sun, you know,like a cow looking at an oncoming train,
and just enjoy it for a fewminutes without any politics. And then
Lucy said, well, I knowthere's a lot of controversy and conspiracy eclips,

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So Lucy's now going to try andruin the total eclipse of the Sun
by telling us some conspiracy theory behindit. Please please. They range from
the government is controlling this, they'renot they Okay, wait a second,
President Biden. You think he's areal smart, technical wizard kind of a

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guy, the kind of a guywho is like, let me direct the
United States government, whatever wing ofit, to just pull the moon out
in front of the sun. Okay, to be fair, that is the
conspiracy that I absolutely give, absolutelygive no credibility. What if you ask
what you started with, the governmentis ranges from ranges from everything from the

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government has decided this is what's goingto happen and has created this to the
e MPs while we're all distracted,Which was going to be my question if
if it was an EMP, thenat what point would they would they whoever
they are, what is an eMP? The EMP happens during the eclipse?

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Are they going to say the eclipsecaused it? Then? Why didn't
it cause it for every other eclipsebefore this? All right, you're on
the record as suggesting that that couldhappen. No, I'm not if I
said these are the conspiracies out there? All right, we we let you
go full conspiracy. You spread yourlittle peek cock and maimie conspiracy wings on

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Friday's program, which I just postedto the podcast length this morning. Sorry,
I didn't get that done on Fridaybefore I snuck out of here.
But uh we that was that wasFriday. I can't say them. We
were talking about the heck were wetalking about? I get him mixed up
organ harvesting, cam trails and andthe first thing we talked about was I

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don't know anyway, So I wentfull conspiracy. Yeah, you went full
conspiracy theory that I don't remember whatit was. I enjoyed the conversation immensely.
All right, but I'm not goingto get sucked down into this voor
at tax of you going, well, this might happen. You think it's
gonna happen. I didn't say Idon't think those things are going to happen.
I think I'm a little bit morepulling towards some of the other suggestions

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that this is when the uh therewill be mass attacks. If you because
there are such large gatherings to watchthis. If tomorrow there is a uh
an e mp which takes out theelectrical grid during the eclipse, and they
say, oh, the eclipse mighthave done this, you will be on
here so proud of yourself tomorrow.You'll be taking full ownership of it.

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And you're just going to ignore thefact that I didn't. I will absolutely
not, because we've had eclipses before, along with electricity and computers, had
one here seven years ago, exactly. I said, that's the least those
first two conspiracies are the least thatI have any credibility. You know why
I really like this eclipse today,other than you trying to add some terroristic

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political government control. I'm telling youwhat I've read. Where do you read
this crap twitter on Twitter. Ineed this yeah on Twitter X on Twitter.
I need this non political few minutestoday to release me from ridiculous comments

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like what we heard from State Senatormerv Repee on Friday, as the legislature
decided, all right, we're notgoing to protect girls in locker rooms from
boys who want to come into thelocker rooms and play on those sports teams.
And I'll tell you who said whatafter a Fox News update. Next
News Radio eleven ten kfab is freeand convenient on our iHeartRadio app. Free

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never sounded so good from music,sports, talk and podcasts. All right,
Lucy, let's make some buttermilk biscuitshere, all ready, get busy
buttermilk biskit. Hewie Dolls nipped thepower all your Love, your kid Sensation

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with Sir, mix a lot hereon buttermilk piskeys, buttermilk biscuits. I
told you as soon as you saidyou looked up a recipe over the weekend
for buttermilk biscuits. I said,well, this song is gonna be in
my head the rest of the day. Song I haven't heard in forty years.
That's tell of the words from Lato the care A lot of nipp
em suckers and Jim Mama don't makea difference one food you make. Use

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buttermilk biscuits for clean your boat ata man the Hat, a man Knight,
Kentucky Fried chicken mixes. I couldjust rid I don win jelly in
my favor. Rim Delli cracked himcertain by a freakmin chickin. That's this
coming off a week after I lostmy voice. Trying to I can't quite
hit the high register like I wouldhave been able to before I lost my
voice. But that's the best Ican do for you, Lucy, which

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let the record state you did notask me to do. I will confirm,
though, Lucy Chapmin right there,I'm Scott Vorhees Karen putting that on
the podcast. Anyway, Shut upabout the sun. Shut up about the
sun. I'm just saying, Ilike that we have a solar eclipse today,
And how do we get from buttermilkbasket? Can? I said,

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I like that we have a solareclipse today because for just a few minutes
here this afternoon, right before two, we can all just pause whatever we're
doing and go out and stare dumblyat the sky and let it fill us
with wonder and not be like nudgingthe guy next to us, going hey,
hey, look at that. Youcan't see the sun. You just

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see the They call it the corona. I think he got the corona.
We won't get that here, goy. Yeah, now we get some of
it here. It's gonna look likea look like a crescent sun, you
know, like a crescent moon.It's going to be like a crescent sun.
Yeah. They call that the coronaaround that. I wish I had
a corona right now. Hey,by the way, who you voting for

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in November? Like, no one'sgoing to be having those conversations like,
hey, you see that, that'san eighty percent totality right there. Yeah.
I was there in Beatrice seven yearsago. We got one hundred percent
totality that day. It was nice. By the way, what do you
think about abortion? Like, noone's going to be out, you know,
sticking their heads out of the officesor driving along and just looking up

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while they're driving and uh and wonderingabout how we can just divide each other
up on political lines. And Ineed that. I only need it,
I mean I need I think weshould deserve a lot more of it,
But I admit I am part ofa talk radio movement that you know,

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is accused oftentimes of trying to divideus. I I don't know. I
look at comments like this. DidI officially welcome you into this segment of
the program. I'm Scott, There'sLucy. This is New Radio eleven t
kfab. Lucy said she looked atrecipes for buttermilk biscuits and I start,

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I sang a little bit of aSir Mix a Lot song. They didn't
turn out well. By the way, do you want to hear anything else
from that album? Uh? No? You also got a posse on Broadway
Classic Sir Mix a Lot song Onthere. You had the song you did
with Metal Church rapping to iron Manfrom Black Sabbath. Now that's a good

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that's good stuff. I might wantto hear that. Okay, we'll get
You had the title track Swass.You had Rippin' Square Dance rap, I
celebrate, Oh my gosh. Bremolo. My buddy Tim and I used to
love the song. Bremolo, youknow, is one of my favorite songs.

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But what's it about? It's aboutshrimp and brem No. Bremolo is
about the women, any women fromthe Seattle suburb of Bremerton. And apparently
Bremerton is where there are a lotof women who are not attractive. I
see and they call him Bremolos.So the song is about those women.

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I knew I loved it in Bremerton. Yeah, I'll tell you what,
sir. Mix a Lot made somegood music right there. That was before
Baby Got Back. If you want, maybe tomorrow on the show we can
move on to the mac Daddy albumwhich had the hit song Baby Got Back.
I know that song and my goodness, if you want to start going

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deep track my favorite sort Mix aLot, all right, I was gonna
say you Can Have Her from theuh I was the name of the album,
Return to the Bumpasaurus. The titletrack is you can Have Her.
I love that song lately. Theseare the things I need to distract myself

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from comments like what we heard onFriday during the debate of LB five seventy
five. This would define male andfemale based on a student's chromosomes, and
maybe that language helped in dooming this. But let me tell you, even
those who say chromosomes I was supposedto they still would have voted against it.

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Now LB five seventy five, theSports and Spaces Act, which you'll
hear more about coming up here intwenty five minutes. We talked a couple
of hours ago with the sponsor ofthe bill, and you'll hear that conversation
again coming up just after ten.But that bill would have said, whatever
your gender is, these are thesports teams and locker rooms and bathrooms that

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you will use that correspond with yourgender. But apparently it got keyed up
on the term you know on yourchromosomes, And the question is, well,
how are you supposed to know whatsomeone's chromosomes are? State Senator merv
Repee one of two Nebraska legislators whoinitially told Senator Kathleen kuth I support your

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bill and then pulled their support fromthe bill. You got merv Repee of
Ralston and State Senator Tom Brandt ofPlymouth, just west of Beatrice where we
saw totality seven years ago, andit was repe that asked about the chromosome,
saying, how do you tell whenyou're looking at a child? Are

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they like shirt sizes? Oh,that's an X, that's a double X,
that's a triple X. And whatare they? And then State Senator
Jen Day of Omaha, who wasnever going to be in favor of this
bill, she's much more liberal,said, no one ever came into the
delivery room when my children were bornand did a test to see what chromosomes

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they have. How do we know? What she's implying is we would apparently
only know if someone wants to playon a sports team that doesn't match up
with the gender that we think theyare. We would tell in the same
way that we did when Gen Dayhad kids. We would just do a

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check. We would check the undercarriage. What have we got here? All
right, So you're gonna play onthe boys team and you're gonna play on
the girls team. No, I'mnot. I'm a guy, all right?
Hang on, where's my magnifying glass? Oh? You are all right?
Sorry, you can play on theboys team. So I don't know
how we you know, the ideais that we have to do a chromosomal

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check. Have we lost our damnminds? Have we lost our minds?
We don't know. You're telling methat in every instance where these kids come
up through school together and they knowthat this person sitting next to me in
class used to have a different nameand a different gender identity, and now

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has completely different name, gender identity, and pronouns. I'm just supposed to
forget that this used to be aboy and now this boy is gonna come
with me into the girl's locker room? Are the girls just supposed to forget
that? Now? I know itdoesn't happen very much that The Nebraska School
Activities Association says since twenty sixteen,fewer than ten students throughout the entire state

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have applied for and been approved toplay on the sporting team of their gender
identity. This is how many havegone through that process. Most don't,
And maybe it's not the world's biggestdeal in terms of sheer numbers of those
who are changing gender and wanting toplay on sports teams. But a bigger

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issue is what happens after gym class. Who's going to where? What's going
on in the bathrooms? You've gotstudents going together on a field trip,
like an overnight state field trip.Who gets what room assignments? All these
adults And it's really fun to watchthem just start just wriggling in their seats

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about this, because you'll see,like, all right, my daughter's going
to go on this school trip,and here's her room assignment, and one
of the people she's rooming with isa guy who now is identifying as a
girl, and that's who my daughter'srooming with. My daughter doesn't feel comfortable.
So I got to go talk tothese I'm not saying me personally.

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I hear this from parents. Sothe parents saying I got to go talk
to fellow adults and go does anyonethink it's right for this? You know?
Can another boy just go room withmy daughter? If you guys say
so, like, well, we'retrying to. It's asinine. And it
happens a whole lot more than tenstudents in the state of Nebraska in the

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last eight years. There's probably aboutten students in every middle and high school
across Omaha. Maybe not some ofthe religious schools, about ten students in
most of these public high schools andmiddle schools around here, for whom this
is their new life and this isdifferent than ten years ago. What's it

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gonna look like ten years from now? And to sit here and have this
argument about how are we gonna knowwhat chromosomes they have? Because we know
Steven Tyler knew and dude looks likea lady. I mean, like,
we know even if we don't know, don't. I mean if I would
have said in school, like I'mnot a very good basketball player, I'm

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not starting on this varsity team,but if I were to identify as a
girl, I could maybe be oneof the top girls basketball players in the
state. I'm gonna switch over andplay for the girls. You know,
my friends would have said, theywould have tore me apart. Don't these
kids have friends when they decide I'mgonna go play for the girls, I'm
gonna take a spot away from agirl, I'm gonna go play against girls.

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What happened to I'm not saying thatthese gender roles that are probably pretty
missogynistic. I'm just saying it's like, you can't do that. It's not
fair. Do these students. Dothese kids do it? Does anybody believe
that there are boy childs and girlchild's at birth, that they are born

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we solely male or solely female.We have a member of the United States
Supreme Court who, during the confirmationhearings for Judge Jackson Brown, was asked,
you know, can you define maleand female? And she said,
I don't know. I'm not abiologist. Like we it's now super political

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to say, yeah, that's aboy, that's a girl, and suddenly
like that's gotta be something we fightabout. That's gotta be something we gonna
act like we don't know about.But anybody can clearly see when we're speaking
about sports specifically, anybody can clearlysee that a person who was a boy

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at birth, raised as a boyand grew up until he was fifteen or
sixteen, and then decided that hewas not a boy. Then he's different.
He looks different, he's built differentthan all the other women. Girls.

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They have the advantage now, andthey're okay with that. You're going
to beat a bunch of people whoare far weaker than you. It's gotten
to be where if you speak inthese terms, you're ostracized. Now let
me tell you, as stay Sandermerv Reebe. Here's what he said.
He says, I went and talkedwith multiple transgender students and their families.

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Now I've got an issue with thatphrasing in the story here from the Nebraska
Examiner. I'll pick it up there. Coming up next, Scott Boy's News
Radio eleven ten KFAB Emory songer,I love it, Emory when you get
wound up two to six A newsradio eleven ten KFA b as requested,

(30:19):
Lucy, here is sir mix alot and his version of iron Man by
Black Sabbath rap version just for amoment. Here you stuck a Max in
my hand to black to ten heavymetal river from a one man band,
buff My knuckleton cockle with an amasarieswith a black belt buckle. Love this

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song, Lucy hates it. Itpays tribute to uh iron Man. Where
it's like here you got where it'siron Man, it's the it's the guitar,
It's of iron Man. Oh No, I can hear a little bit

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in the background, it's there,you know with the all right, fine
met Clint Eastwood slapped his Mama's agreat song. All right, that's Lucy
Chapman. I'm Scott Vorhees. Ican't promise the radio show will remain professional
and focused all week. I willbe heavily leaning on the excuse of doing

(31:25):
more radio than sleep throughout the week, filling in for Gary on kfab's morning
News. I a moment ago wasgonna read the quote here from State Senator
merv Repey of Ralston, who hadinitially supported the bill that would have kept
boys on boys sports teams and lockerrooms and bathrooms and girls over there,

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and then he changed his mind,and he said he changed his mind when
he met with multiple transgender students andtheir families. Now that phrasing the story
here from the Nebraska Examiner, thatphrasing I have a problem with transgender specifically
applies to those who are doing somesurgical or chemical or hormonal reassignment. Now

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we just say transgender. If someonejust changes their name, hairstyle and pronouns
and says, ah, I'm nowthis gender identity, well that's okay,
good for you. That's not transgender. So you say I met with multiple
transgen it's illegal in the stay ofNebraska after last year's legislative session to have

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a minor child undergo transgender surgery.So when you say I met with multiple
transgender students, did you anyway?He says after meeting with them and their
families, he was impressed by thelove and concern he saw. He said
that they're not seeking attention. Theyseek accommodation for the quote life they have

(33:00):
been given in this very complicated world. He goes on to say, and
I quote, thank God for hiscreation and the strength of families and friends
who love these transgender students and walkthe walk with them every day through every
challenge without the heavy hand of government. Unquote now before I honestly oh wait,

(33:22):
wait, wait, wait all,I'm all I'm laughing about is when
you say heavy hand of government.I am not even going to address that
statement with this case. But theheavy hand of government is in every single
aspect of your life, and it'sgetting worse every day. That's a good
point. I will say that I'veseen young people rally around their friends to

(33:44):
make sure that they're not picked onand bullied. And people get picked on
and bullied for any number of reasons. I have no problem with students who
want to, you know, explorethis bit of gender fluidity. I honestly
don't. The question then becomes isto which you know, locker room,
bathroom? Are we going to goin there? And again I have seen,

(34:04):
like merv repe has, those whodon't have this same level of judgment
who rally around their friend. Itis on some level a beautiful thing,
but you know, who's not speakingout against this the young girl who is
afraid to point out I don't wanta boy in the girl's locker room,
because as soon as as soon asshe says that she's ostracized, she is

(34:27):
threatened, she is harassed, andno one's rallying around her. She'll have
people tell her privately like, look, I'd like to support you on this
one, but I don't want toget all torn apart by it. I
mean, there's a social media hierarchyhere and I don't want to be on
the wrong side of it. Soshe doesn't say anything. She's Riley Gaines,
who's spoken out against this and forher trouble, has been demonized and

(34:49):
harassed and threatened at every turn.Who's standing up for that girl? Not
my friend merv Repee of Ralston.I'm sorry to say I kind of panic
to very early this morning. Ithought the eclipse started early, and I
realized the sun just hadn't come upyet. It's very different than when we're
on from nine to eleven, buteverything's still on schedule. I wonder if

(35:14):
the solar eclipse will be late.Like when you know, any president except
President Bush. President Bush was reallygood, George W. Bush. If
a news conference was supposed to startat ten am. President Bush was usually
speaking at ten am. Everyone else, whatever we feel like it. I
wonder if the moon is going tobe like I'm you don't know what it's

(35:37):
like being me. I got toinfluence the tides. I got all these
martians on the dark side of me, and I got all these humans wanting
to take a look at the brightside of me. And I got a
man on my moon. Have youever had a man on your moon?
Maybe you have? Maybe you have. You know, it's not easy being

(35:58):
a moon. I got a orI bet the Earth, which is hard
to do because it's flat, andI gotta go the long way around the
thing. And then I got thesun baking half of me, and I'm
like, ah, the other sideof me is freezing and freezing my tail
off out here. And now youwant me to completely block the sun.
Have you seen the size of thatthing? It's like a million times bigger

(36:20):
than me. But you know what, I'll know it if that's what you
want. But you're gonna have togive me a few minutes. I know
that you were expecting me to totallyblock it. At one fifty five Omaha
time, today, eighty percent blockit for Omaha. You know it might
be closer to a quarter after two. I you know what, I'm doing
my best out here. I don'tget any help. It's just me out
here doing moon stuff. So you'resaying that the moon has a whole bunch

(36:44):
of conspiracy theories. Now I'm sayingthe Moon's got a lot of attitude and
it doesn't want to be rushed.All right, that's what the moon's all
about here. But I bet rightthere at one fifty five and forty one
second when totality ish starts for Omaha, we get ish uh here, we

(37:06):
get a lot of ish. Wetalk a lot about that on the radio,
but we get about eighty percent totality, which still means you need to
wear one hundred percent of your solareclipse glasses. Don't have to wear my
sun screen? Right, No,you can, you can. You can
forego the sunscreen. All right?Where do I go for the solar eclipse

(37:30):
today and see all of the nymphsout there dancing naked in the eclipse light?
Because you know they do that right, well, they're only eighty percent
naked. Hmm, good enough forme. You know they're gonna be out
in the woods doing all their littlelike dancing wicking nymphs. But they're not

(37:53):
going to be in the woods itthey won't be able to see the eclipse.
See you get in a bare spotin the woods and you can see
it enough of it. You knowwhat I ended up watching on I don't
even know. It's hard to Fridaynight. I think it was. I
got into watching for the second timeBaby Mama with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler

(38:14):
and Steve Martin and Greg Keneer,that is, and people didn't like that
movie, I guess. I thinkit's one of the funniest things I've ever
seen. I was laughing so hardI'm thinking about it now. But the
couple who's surrogate is a wicked andshe's sitting there just looking all gothy and

(38:34):
bored, and he's like, mywife and I are Methodists, and you
know, Tina here, she's awicked, you know, and we've had
to learn a lot about our differencesin this meeting. So funny, all
right, These are the things thatI used to turn my brain off for
a short amount of time so Ican digest everything that I occasionally have to
turn my brain on during the radioshow to discuss, and a few hours

(38:59):
ago had the brain mostly turned onthere in a conversation with Omaha State Senator
Kathleen Kauf her bill LB five seventyfive Sports and Spaces Act, which would
have said, look, you canplay all the sports and go into all
the locker rooms that correspond with yourgender, your biological gender aka your gender.

(39:20):
But if you decide you want tochange your gender, that doesn't change
the fact that these are your sportsteams, this is your locker room,
this is your bathroom because there arewomen who don't want to be in there
with you if you're a guy.And this had overwhelming support it did,
I mean, it would have passedthirty one fifteen, but the issue with
Nebraska's legislature is if you don't getat least thirty three votes, then you

(39:45):
fall short of a filibuster proof majoritythat would prevent a full vote on the
measure. So this procedural vote didn'tget that support. Two state senators who
were initially in favor of it decidedto change their mind, and that was
the basis of of our conversation earlierthis morning on kfab's morning News with State
Senator Kathleen Kauth of Omaha. Goodmorning, Scott, so Brand to emails

(40:08):
in the Zonkers custom woulds in boxScott atkfab dot com and says, so,
sixty seven percent support in the Nebraskalegislature doesn't prevent a filibuster. Is
a thirty one fifteen vote. It'spretty overwhelming, but it ends up failing.
Can you explain this? Well,So for any filibuster to stop,

(40:30):
we need thirty three votes, andthat's a big issue with a lot of
our bills. So at the beginningof the year, during our rules debate,
we had asked for a rule tobe brought to the floor called present
and voting, which would say thatyour vote only counts if you actually take
a vote and you're there on thefloor, which would mean that if thirty

(40:52):
one people or if two people saidpresent not voting, then thirty one would
have passed. So we get thirtyone. Two state senators had previously indicated
to you they supported this. Ibelieve one co sponsored it. These state
senators are Tom Brandt Plymouth that's justwest of Beatrice, and merv Repe of

(41:14):
Ralston. Here in the Omaha area. What are your thoughts on these senators
and what conversations did you have alongthe way as they changed these important votes.
So Merv's Senator repea had last yearpulled off after the abortion surprise,
He pulled off a lot of bills. He gave me a letter saying he

(41:36):
was just going to sit and thinkand not be a co sponsor anymore.
I haven't bothered him about it toomuch. He had indicated he just didn't
want to be pressured. Last Ihad heard he said, as long as
he's not pressured too much, he'llsupport it. But he was giving a
lot of encouragement from the other side. I think that probably swayed his vote.

(42:00):
Brand had said that, you know, he was still listening and still
so he Senator Brand was at leastwilling to engage in discussion. I disappointed
that he wouldn't give us closure sothat we could work on some of the
issues that we had a couple ofgood suggestions during the debate. We could
have made the bill a little bitbetter, but we had to get select
file, so with them not voting, we were not able to get to

(42:22):
slect file. It seems to me, Senator Kyle, that the entire message
of this bill was hijacked and missed. And I don't know the depth of
the intellectual capacity of Senator reape ErSenator Brandt, but I'm beginning to see
it just in light of some ofthe things they said in the awake of
the bill. But it seems tome that the message was not about transgender

(42:44):
kids, but about protecting the rightsof girls, and in particular young girls.
Girls in competition in high school andbeyond. Why is it that that
happened? And do these two peoplehave the intellectual capacity to ascertain the difference
they do? You know, it'sthe message was hijacked. The message is

(43:06):
very easily manipulated to be, Oh, you're so mean, you hate trans
kids, And that's kind of theless talking points is they weaponize compassion and
try to make people feel bad.My point of this bill is this protects
all kids, and it's not justgirls. Boys do not want to have
girls showing up into their locker roomsand their bathrooms. It's very uncomfortable.

(43:28):
So this message gives dignity and privacyto all kids, and it protects girls'
sports. There's no way girls shouldbe forced to compete against boys. But
it's not just on the field ofcompetition. It's the invasion of privacy into
bathrooms and locker rooms. But beyondthat, it's about safety. Because there
was the story of the Massachusetts girlsteam who had three of their players seriously

(43:52):
injured by a male, a guywho thinks he's a girl in a game,
such that the team had to forfeitthe rest of the game because three
of the girls were injured. Andif anybody thinks, if anybody thinks that
it's going to stop here, andagain I wonder about the intellectual capacity of
Senator Carol Blood too, because shepopped off and said something pretty buffoonery after

(44:12):
the remark, to say, wedon't have a problem here. This is
no big deal. Women are winning. No, they're not winning, actually,
Senator Blood, they're losing big Andif anybody thinks it's going to stop
here, then they're just in afantasy world. It's going to get bigger
and better for them all the time, all right, deliberately ignoring. And
these are what to me is themost surprised is when women say this is

(44:37):
not a problem. Anyone can bea woman and you know, being a
woman in a state of mind,No, it's not, and so when
you have people who should be supportingwomen, women don't need other women sabotaging
them to let men win. Justhave a minute left here with State Senator
Kathleen Cout of Omaha. The argumentis is that the Nebraska School Activities Association

(45:00):
already has a gender participation policy whereyou have to apply and be approved to
play on the sporting team of yourchoice. And we're really not talking about
very many because in the last eightyears, fewer than ten students have applied
and been approved. And they saythis is a this is a solution in
search of a problem. Well,I think prevention is always a little bit

(45:23):
better than reaction. The NSAA policysays every member school can figure out how
they want to define that. Soeach individual school could have a different way
of saying, Okay, yes,you maybe are too strong, too big,
you're about the right size, We'lllet you do it. You don't

(45:43):
really believe you are, you justwant to me every member school, so
we want to have maybe a thousanddifferent ways that this is interpreted. I
would encourage every parent to call yourschool, talk to the principle and ask
what is the policy and is mystudent currently sharing bathrooms and locker rooms with
someone of the opposite sex. Asa parent, you have the right to

(46:06):
know that information, and parents needto get very involved because this is happening.
I've talked to it and I readinto the record a bunch of teachers
who have said, look, wecan't speak up because our jobs are threatened,
because we will be ostracized by ourpeers. There are kids who are
afraid to speak up. And that'sthe scariest part to me is that this
is such a will silence anyone whoopposes. This will shame them and make

(46:30):
them look like they're horrible people ifthey stand up. I mean, look,
what is happening to Riley Gaines SelinaSoule, who is a track shar
from Connecticut who've lost out of scholarshipsbecause two boys decided that they wanted to
compete at the high school level.We have Peyton McNabb in North Carolina who
is smashed in the face with avolleyball because a boy on the other team

(46:52):
decided he wanted to play. Shehas permanent neurological damage. You know this
is going to increase, and nowbecause this bill was defeated, we are
going to see more and more ofit here in Nebraska, and you're bringing
it back next year. Yes,oh, yes, absolutely, we'll talk
more throughout the years. I'm sureto come on this issue. You're right,

(47:15):
this is something that a lot morestudents are dealing with now than they
were just even a few years ago. Stay. Senator Kathleen Count of Omaha,
thank you very much of the timefor us this morning. Thanks very
much. Dat Emails in the Zonkerscustom woulds inbox include a couple of organizations
very happy about the failure of thebill. We just talked with the sponsor,

(47:37):
state Senator Kathleen Count of Omaha aboutand that would restrict playing on sports
teams and going into bathrooms locker roomswith your gender. The Nebraska Democratic Party
says, our Democratic wins just keepgrowing. Yesterday this was sent out over
the weekend. Yesterday, we successfullydefeated Senator Kathleen Coout's hateful bathroom bill LB

(48:02):
five seventy five. This from PreciousMcKesson, Nebraska Democratic Party. So Kathleen
Couth made it her legislative priority tofurther strip young LGBTQ plus Nebraskans of their
dignity, their non discrimination protections andtheir fundamental right to live and thrive as

(48:22):
the people they are. There's nonon discrimination protections. It would be discriminatory
if you said you can't play sportsand you can't go to the bathroom.
You can do those things with yourgender. And then the assessment here from
out Nebraska, a local LGBTQ plusadvocacy organization. When this was defeated on

(48:51):
Friday, they put out a pressrelease that said hang on finding it here.
It is said after today's vote,we're relieved that senators were able to
take a step back and see themany problematic legal, financial and ethical implications
of LB five seventy five. It'sclear that our senators are frustrated with how

(49:12):
much time has been spent debating whetherkids should be allowed to play sports with
their friends. That's the assessment here. If there is a girl in a
locker room who feels uncomfortable with aboy in the locker room, it's because
she doesn't want him to be inthere with his friends, then we got

(49:32):
this situation right now in the NebraskaUnicameral. The story from the Nebraska Examiner.
The allegation is that former President DonaldTrump called State Senator Tom Brewer of
Nebraska. He represents God's Country outin the sand Hills and also chairs the
state Legislature's Government, Military and VeteransAffairs Committee. Where the winner take all

(49:55):
bill had come up, this isthe bill that would have not done like
Nebraska and Maine, and these arethe only two states to do it this
way. Would not have divvied upthe electoral College votes based on the popular
vote in congressional districts. The thoughtbeing is Nebraska's district too might go for
Biden, while the rest of thestate and the state popular vote overwhelmingly goes

(50:16):
to Trump. And Trump allegedly calledState Senator Tom Brewer on Friday and said,
you've got to bring this bill upagain. Now. The story here
from the Nebraska Examiner is that Brewerresponded that it doesn't work that way.
The deadline is passed to vote abill out of a committee and get it
passed this year, and it's toolate to amend the bill and to another

(50:39):
bill. Donald Trump then reportedly threatenedTom Brewer and said, if you don't
do this, your political career isover. State Senator Brewer is a term
limited out of the Nebraska unicameral.He's got some pretty serious health issues.
I don't know that he seeks higheroffice, and also don't know whether this

(51:00):
call even happened. Now, theNebraska examiners reached out to the two people
on the call, reached out tothe Trump campaign, and co manager of
the campaign said Trump absolutely, onehundred ten percent did not speak with anyone

(51:21):
in the state of Nebraska in thelast six weeks. The examiner called Brewer,
and Brewer said it was a privateconversation. I'm not going to comment
on well, that implies that hadhappened. When the examiner said, well,
we're going to do a story aboutit, they said that Brewer told
them, well, then I'll justdeny that there was ever a conversation.

(51:45):
They cite three state senators who saidthey wanted to be anonymous for fear of
reprisals from Trump, who said,we heard that Trump called Brewer directly from
Brewer, does it sound like somethingTrump might do, Oh, that Trump
would call up officials in a stateand make some demands that I guess it's

(52:06):
alleged to have happened a time ortwo. But look, if Brewer says
it didn't happen, and Trump saysit didn't happen is at the end of
the story. I don't know.The issue is that Trump wanted this bill
brought back up. Brewer said,it's not going to get brought up.
We don't have time, it's nothow the legislature works, and it doesn't

(52:30):
have the support. It failed dramaticallywhen it was tacked on as an amendment
to another bill, and that failedbigly. So right now, that's that.
We'll see if this goes anyplace else. We got a Fox News update
here in just a moment. Comingup next in the program, we welcome
back to the show Spike Cohen,who is going to be in a debate

(52:52):
on gun control versus David Hogg,one of those who was at Parkland in
two thousand and eight during the schoolshooting there. This is a debate Wednesday
night that'll be live streamed, andin fact, there's a local organization having
a viewing party here in Omaha.Here all about it. Next, Scott

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at a viewing event here in Omaha. Details Next dot Coyes this Wednesday,
five o'clock Olmaha Council Bluff's Time.Dartmouth University is hosting a gun debate called
does gun control make Us Safer?And speaking on behalf of yes, it

(58:53):
does and we need more of itis David Hogg, who was involved in
the twothenty eighteen shooting at his school, Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School at Parkland,
Florida, and on the I don'twant to put words in his mouth,
but we'll find out what he thinksabout it. On the other side
is Spike Cohen and Spike joins usnow here on news radio eleven ten kfab

(59:17):
Spike, welcome back, Thanks forhaving me Scott, and yeah, spoiler
alert, I will be on theno side of that question. I figured
I hadn't talked to you here ina few months here. I didn't know
if it changed your mind. Now. The Nebraska Firearms Owners Association is doing
a livestream viewing party of this eventfive o'clock this Wednesday at DJ's dugout on
one hundred and fourteenth Street off onehundred and fourteenth and Dodge. So,

(59:40):
Spike, first of all, howdid this event come to be with you?
And David invited to come and debatethis topic. Yeah, So Dartmouth
Political Union, the students there reachedout to me and asked us if if
I was interested in doing a debatewith David Hogg about gun control. They

(01:00:01):
said that they were working on aseries of debates about contentious subjects and that
they wanted to kick it off withthis one. And I said, yeah,
you can get him to do it. Sure, I'd be happy to
And shortly after they got back intouch with us and said yeah, he
said I'll do it. So that'sit's kind of a it's somewhat of an
anti climactic answer to your question,but also we were honestly shocked that he

(01:00:23):
would do it. He's never doneanything like this before, and I debate
people all the time, so I'mvery much looking forward to it. Well,
he's very visible, he's in themedia quite a bit, but you're
right, I haven't seen him ina format speaking with someone like you.
Give me your pro Second Amendment credentialshere if you will too, so in
case people are like, well,who's this guy and why does he get

(01:00:45):
to take up this side? Somy pro Second Amendment credentials are pretty clear.
Every single human being has a natural, creator given right to keep and
bear arms. This we happen tolive in a country that affirms this pretty
existing right in the Second Amendment,and our Supreme Court has made it clear

(01:01:08):
multiple times over the course of twohundred years, accounting that that is exactly
what it is. It is.It affirms an individual right to keep the
bare arms. So, right offthe bat, any gun control argument is
day because it infringes on our rights. In addition to that, we have
the benefit of I guess you couldsay benefit in quotes of decades of attempts

(01:01:30):
to centrally plan who should or shouldnot have guns or what kind of guns
we should be allowed to have,and we have the data to show it
doesn't work. So not only isit a violation of our rights, not
only is it then legally doa italso doesn't work. Now, I don't
want to have to be the personpreparing you for this debate, but the

(01:01:52):
thought is, like, if I'mgoing in there and talking with David Hogg,
He's described himself as a survivor ofthe shooting at Parkland, Florida's Marjorie
Stone and Douglas High School twenty eighteen, So if you're saying, you know
that, hey, you know,firearms can be a wonderful thing to protect
people. He could just come backwith, well, you know, Spike,

(01:02:14):
that's great. But when I wasfearing for my life as my classmates
were being murdered in my school,I mean, he's he's going to bring
this up time and time again.Now. I don't know if there's like
a judging panel who decides who winsand who loses this debate. But from
a debate standpoint, how do yougo and tell someone from his perspective that,

(01:02:38):
you know, guns should be banned, guns, guns shouldn't be banned.
Right, Well, first of all, he actually doesn't argue that guns
should be banned. He's not onehundred percent on board with that. He
just supports a lot of different restrictionson the types of guns we should be
allowed to own, and and thequestion of you know, who should be

(01:03:00):
allowed to own them. Metake's governmentshould be able to plan that. But
to answer your question right off thebat, I will be saying that I
can't imagine what he went through,and I genuinely believe that he wants to
help protect people, especially students andchildren. But we see that mass shooters

(01:03:21):
and school shooters target the no gunzones, the so called no gun zones.
Of all the school shootings that havehappened, they've all happened at schools
that have no gun signs. Theyhaven't happened at the ones that have signs
that say our staff are armed andready to to protect our children. So,
I mean, I absolutely acknowledge whata horrific thing that must have been

(01:03:44):
through, and I can't imagine whatit was, and I don't want anyone
else to have to suffer that.And when it comes specifically to schools,
we see that the best way toprotect children is not to put up a
sign saying, hey, if youstart shooting in here, we're going to
call the police and they'll come inwhen you're done and arrest you were shoot
you. Uh what the what?What actually protects kids is letting the potential

(01:04:05):
shooters know this isn't where you wantto come because people will be shooting back.
What do you think of him ofDavid? I honestly don't know him
enough personally I will I'm uh,you know, choosing in good faith to
believe that, especially after what hepersonally went through. You know, experiencing
losing loved ones and and you know, the trauma of all of that.

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I genuinely believe that he genuinely,uh you know, wants what's right,
and he is fighting to uh protectuh you know, the less uh,
the less able to protect themselves.He wants to protect the vulnerable. And
again, he is not one hundredpercent anti gun. He is not you
know, all guns d to bebanned. Only the police should have guns.
He supports some pretty heavy restrictions whichwe have the data to show don't

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work. I don't really know himmuch other than that I think he's wrong
on this subject broadly speaking. Butthe and that I don't really know him
personally. I imagine, I imagineI'll have an armed bodyguard with him going
into this event. Oh very possibly. Yeah, well will you. I
don't know if you've noticed, butcollege campuses aren't exactly bastions of wanting to

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hear from conservative speakers. Yeah,here's what I will say, Dartmouth Political
Union has been more than fair inall of this. I'm not even you
know, in talking with these studentsthat have been putting this together, I
couldn't tell you which ones might agreewith me. And which ones might disagree
with me. They've been incredibly fairto me and to our team, and

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I am anticipating this being a cheatedbut respectful debate, and in hearing what
their rules are for the audience andeverything else. I anticipate that if anyone
tries to do any kind of outburstor turn this into an opportunity for them
to monologue to a bunch of people, that they'll they'll nip that in the
butt. Favery quickly spike Cohen withus here for a couple more minutes on

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news radio eleven ten kfab he isdebating David Hogg, who was at Parkland's
Marjorie Stone and Duglas High School twentyeighteen during the shooting at that school.
This debate on gun control is titledDoes Gun Control Make Us Safer? Being
held at Dartmouth in New Hampshire onWednesday, five o'clock Omaha time, The

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Nebraska Firearms Owners Association is hosting afree event. Now, if you want
to eat or drink, that's onyou, but come into the event.
It's free at DJ's Dugout off onehundred and fourteenth and Dodge Wednesday for the
five o'clock live stream of this event. Spike, help us out with something
here in Nebraska, we've passed ourlegislature has passed constitutional carry, but you've

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got cities like Omaha saying, well, we got to have some restrictions.
We don't want a guy carrying anAR fifteen or some sort of machine gun
just walking up and down the sidewalkwhen we have a free public concert in
a park or something like that.That's going to make people nervous. I
mean, this is the extreme somepeople go to, or think they're going

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to go to. When you talkabout things like this, What are your
thoughts here on that argument. Soif someone decided they wanted to carry a
rifle or a machine gun, orfor that matter, a pistol, because
the vast majority of shootings and murdershappened with nine filimeter pistols, not with

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any of the big scary guns.But if someone wanted to carry you know,
picture the scariest gun you can thinkof, If they wanted to carry
that with the intention of harming people, they don't care what the rules are
anyway, They're still going to doit, and they don't care if there's
a restriction on them being able toown it. They're still going to get
it, and they'll be able tobe successful in doing so. What these
rules do do nothing more than toprevent peaceful, law abiding people from being

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able to exercise their pre existing naturalright to keep in their arms as they
see fit. To some people thatmay upset their sensibilities. The idea of
someone carrying a rifle and walking downthe street carrying a rifle, the reality
is two full number One, unlessthey are threatening anyone, we're acting in
a threatening manner, then they're notdoing anything wrong. And two, if

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they are wishing to harm people,there's no law that's going to stop them
from doing it. Mass murder alsovery illegal in all fifty states and at
the federal level. But yet ifthey wish to do it, they can
do so. The best way tostop someone who might be who might be
considering doing something like that is toknow that there will be other people there

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with all sorts of other manners ofweapons who would stop them. This is
going to be a very interesting debatewith you and David on Wenesday. I
can't wait to see this spike.Thanks a lot for giving us a preview
here this morning. Always good totalk to you and I look forward to
doing it again. Absolutely, Thankyou, Scott. It is Spike Cohen
online at Spike Cohen dot com anda thought follow on social media as well.

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The event is does Gun Control MakeUs Safer? Wednesday, five o'clock
Omaha Council Bluff's time. And ifyou can't make it to Dartmouth because you
don't have the grades or the money, or because it's in New Hampshire,
then you can go to DJ's dugoutat one hundred and fourteenth and Dodge.
The Nebraska Firearms Owners Association hosting afree live stream of this debate, free

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and open to the public, localviewing party. Again. If you want
to eat or drink, and Irecommend the chicken wings, then that's on
you. But the event is freeWednesday, and that starts at five o'clock
Central time. We are coming upon eleven o'clock Central time. That's when
Clay and Buck take over. Sowe got to wrap this show up next.
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seven years ago to only have itbe played one time. One more run
of eclipse sunglasses. When you wakeup in the morning and the lad is

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hood your hand, the first thingyou do when you get about a ben
it's had that street to run inand you get down to beatris and don't
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Now it actually, you know,you'll start to see the moon say like

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all right, I'm coming, I'mcoming, you know, as it tries
to eclipse the sun. That's gonnastart like at twelve thirty and then you
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as well, so it's a goodlong stretch of time. But during the
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everybody. Don't call nine to oneone, uh hey, the sun Sun's
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to you. These are all thingsnot to do, all right. Do
enjoy it. We don't get oneof these very often, so have fun
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