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Good morning. Welcome to the Wednesday edition of Nebraska's Morning News. It's right here on News Radio 1110 KFAB. My name is Scott Voorhees. I get a chance to hang out here with Lucy Chapman for the next several hours. Craig Evans and Jim Rose as well. And I have a feeling that... All of us would come together and do this, even if this weren't being broadcast and you weren't listening, but the fact that you're here makes it all the more special. Also, it contributes to us getting paid. So, you know, it just works out on every single level. And now, at eight minutes after 6 o'clock on this Wednesday morning, who wants to talk about neo-Nazis? I spent... Probably more time than I should on a Tuesday evening thinking about neo-Nazis, and here's what I came up with. I believe the neo-Nazis, and I don't have any idea how big a group the neo-Nazis are, I failed to take count on our most recent media. I mean, I don't know. I don't know how many there are. It seems like on social media, there is an inordinate amount of neo-Nazi. These are people who have strong... feelings, positive feelings about Hitler and the Third Reich and against the Jews. And I don't know how many there are, but I do believe years ago they thought that they found an ally. They thought that potentially they found an ally in President Trump. After all, the people who hated his guts had no problem calling him Hitler, had no problem calling anything he wanted to do with... whether it's ICE or the United States military or just as MAGA supporters. They called them the Gestapo and he's Hitler and this is a new Third Reich. And the neo-Nazis thought, hey, great. This is what we've been hoping for. And then President Trump did something that they didn't expect. He supports Israel. He gets along with Benjamin Netanyahu. They team up on Iran, for example, or Hezbollah or Hamas, or any of these terrorist organizations. And suddenly that gave rise to a bunch of people who didn't give a rip about Palestine. They don't care about Iran. They just hate Trump. They hate everyone who voted for him and they certainly hate him. And the neo-Nazi said, oh, boys, what say we move over, we shift a little bit politically. Our core principles stay the same. But it seems like we got a whole bunch of people over here. who really, really hate Trump. If we can make standing up for the Palestinians, a.k.a. standing against the Jews. If we can make that kind of a core principle of hating Trump, I think we can get a lot of support among these very, very progressive socialist liberal people over here. And the neo-Nazi said, hey, you know what? It's worth a shot.

They ended up finding 78, I believe was the number of people who were working at this particular place illegally. Some of them still have a process going on. And they talked to advocates here in the community who had a little event yesterday talking about how rude and aggressive ice was. This is as people were fleeing and running all over the place and hiding and in some cases trying to fight ICE operations. You might excuse the officers for being a little aggressive. And then Douglas County Commissioner Roger Garcia, who screwed everything up that day by hearing that there was an ice operation and ran down to help to the wrong food processing plant. Someplace he just thought. employed dozens of illegal immigrants. He ran to the wrong place doing a Facebook live, all breathless. I'm here to help and went to the wrong place. I'm sure the people at that place were like, Roger, what are you doing, dude? Get out of here. He's been an advocate, and he says that local law enforcement needs to stop working with ICE. It's unfortunate and harmful to local policing. They don't necessarily work with ICE. Roger Garcia, the Douglas County Commissioner, knows this. Sometimes they might direct some traffic or something in the area and assist, but they're also pointing to several businesses in South Omaha, which is miles away from where this operation was. that a year after the operation have seen their revenue decline between 50 and 90 percent. Many of these businesses were told by some of these advocates to remain closed in a show of solidarity with people in the Hispanic community in Omaha. More on this throughout the morning here on news radio, 1110 KFAB, where... Now we go to the certified transmission. Sports brief. Here's Jim Rose. Okay, Scott, good morning, everybody. So when Husker Athletic Director Troy Dan and pounded his shoe on the table and declared, we will never play Texas Tech again. Tech is currently using a serial gambler quarterback, Brendan Soresby. The NCAA was shot down by a Texas judge granting a temporary injunction of his suspension. Gambling is against the rules. Well, then Nebraska and Danan climbed up on the altar of morality and integrity and declared this is never, ever going to see our schedule again. Well, they haven't been playing them at all. Since we left the Big 12, we've played them nine times in 15 years. Just eight in the major team sports and six of those in multi-team invitations. So it ain't like we've been making a lot of trips to Lubbock anyway. The Big 12 had a conference call, lots of yelling and screaming.

What can that league do? Well, they have a couple of options. They have a conference bylaw 3.6, which does give them some latitude on disciplinary action. But if they knock them out, they'll get sued again. They could pull conference revenue shares. That's possible. Two more conversations on the phone before the Big 12 takes action. You hockey people had to love that game last night. Five to three, Carolina wins game four to tie the Stanley Cup final at 2-2. Jim Jordan Stahl had two goals, including this one, to break the three-three tie. Jarvis Sahl now back at his front for Stoll. A backhand. He scores again. Oh, my goodness. The captain is unreal. His second of the game in the hurricane. a 4-3 lead with 1328. Oh, Captain my Captain! Okay, well, here's what happened. The guy dived to the ice while using his stick to knock the puck past the outstretched glove of Vegas goalie Carter Hart. It was literally making a goal on his head. Each team has scored at least three goals in each of the first four games for the first time in playoff history. Husker baseball loses another kid to the portal. Well-traveled Cooper Katzky. We barely knew you. He wants out. Next one will be his fourth school in four years. The guy started 10 games so the Huskers was a regular on the weekend. Did fight against average hitters but struggled against the good ones. Five plus ERA, 63 innings, 58 hits. That is five defections, but two additions. Oscar baseball through the portal so far. Baseball games yesterday afternoon and last night, Can't City Royals got not one, but two home runs from Jack Gleon, and they win the ball game. K.C. did over the Rangers 5 to 3. Seattle, 65 over the Orioles. Tampa Bay beat Boston, Detroit over the Twins, the Yankees over the Guardians, and the Angels defeated Houston. National League, Miami 10, Arizona, 6, Dodgers 12, Pirates 3, Cards 7, Mets Zip, Rocky 7, Cubs 3, Reds 5, Padres 3 in 11 innings. And it was Washington over San Francisco, 6 to 3, Interleague play winners, Toronto 3, Philadelphia 2, White Sox 6, Braves 5, A7, Brewers 5, Las Vegas beat Omaha 8 to 5. Sports is news on Nebraska's News Weather and Traffic Station. We get this update from Courtney Dunahoe. The World Cup is often called the biggest event on the planet, but that's not the case in the U.S. More than half of adults in the U.S. say they are unlikely to watch any of the games on TV at home. According to a recent survey from Morning Consult, only 13% are absolutely certain to watch. Baby boomers displaying the least excitement. Three-quarters say they aren't soccer fans, and about half have never heard of Megastar Leon. Messy. Courtney Donahope, Bloomberg Radio. Leonel, Messy, Lionel, Messi, Lionel Richie, Leonel Richie, Hansel? Leonel. Good morning. I'm Scott Voorhees. There's Leonel Chapman. Leonel. Hansel? Remember that, that Bugs Bunny cartoon? Hansel. The old Hansel and Gretel. Yeah, yeah.

I do remember the cartoon. They're pronouncing that Hansel. And Bugs Bunny goes, Hansel. Jim Rose, Craig Evans here. This is Nebraska's morning news. Jim, you're the sports department. How do you pronounce Messy's name? Lionel Messi. And you're basing that on. Somebody in Kansas City who knows sports or knows soccer is probably one of my biggest, of all of my friends, probably the biggest soccer fan that I know. It says Lionel Messi. What he called it anyway? Well, he, if you're talking about Parksy, he is often dead wrong about it. Okay. Here's the online pronunciation produced by Google. Leonel Messi. Okay, well, Leonel. That is an AI-generated voice who probably has never seen a soccer match. Yeah, I've got, well, now I've got another AI overview saying it's... Leonel Messi. If you're speaking English, the pronunciation is Lionel. Yeah. It's so dumb. All I know is this. Yeah. Like the South or like the Upper Northeast, maybe it's a dialect thing. Wherever you may be in the world, it can be what you'd like it to be. Leonel, Lionel, Lionel, Lionel, whatever, you can call it and call him anything you choose. He's one of the best players in the history of the sport. It might be the best player in the history of the sport. He and Mr. Ronaldo, Cristiano Ronaldo. And they may play each other in Kansas City during the World Cup. That's a possibility. What country does he play for? Argentina? I believe so, yes. He's the best thing ever. Where does he play? I don't know. Well, I don't watch soccer. I mean, I've got plenty of sports in this country that the international soccer is not for me. There's never been anyone better. I got a lot of other stuff. I don't know. I got a lot of other stuff going on that occupies my attention. He plays for Argentina. Well, as Courtney Donahoe just reported. Well, Courtney's probably wrong. She doesn't know soccer either. But you just said the same thing Courtney did. Well, she called him Leonel. I said Lionel Messi. I just played for you Google suggestions. Again, that's not a real person who's probably never seen Lionel Messi play or a soccer match played. What that is is a gathering of all of the pronunciations in one pike a second. What this is. So that you ask and it spits something out, its accuracy is indeterminate. Our buddy Sergio from El Patron Radio down the hall. Yes. Says he seems to be.

I'm meaning to halfway Lionel. Lionel. Lionel. Lionel, that's what I've said. It's Lionel Messi. But he says Pele is the king of real football. Yeah, Pele is the gold standard. But as it relates to today's action, Ronaldo and Messi are it. And even Serge couldn't disagree with that. If you listen carefully, you can hear the sound of radios being turned off. No. The World Cup is a big deal. That's what Courtney's reporting. It's not. Among American sports fans, it isn't. But it will be. When it gets to these shores, I think a lot of Americans will discover this sport and they'll like it. The challenge, of course, is that most Americans are more interested in the United States team. than all of these other countries that have produced really good soccer teams. When does Kansas City start playing World Cup soccer games? I believe Thursday. I think the matches begin Thursday. I don't know if they begin in Kansas City on Thursday. I believe they begin in Kansas City on Tuesday. Next Tuesday. Well, it begins this Thursday. The matches begin this Thursday. It wasn't my question. I was getting to your question. No. You know what this sounds like? This sounds like a congressional hearing. where you sit up on the dais and you make statements. I begin to answer it. You interrupt my answer. And then I go, is there a question in there somewhere? Oh, my time is up. You're making TikTok videos. The point is, is that you are an excellent American sports fan. And I believe you are representative of several excellent American sports fans. And you don't know who the best player in soccer, what country he plays for. I do. I said, I believe so. I believe it's Argentina. I mean, yeah, that's not. That's what I believe. I also told you that I will be watching World Cup soccer because it doesn't happen every year and rarely are the matches in this country. There is plenty of sports activity on television in this country that gets my attention, but this week I'll be watching the World Cup like many Americans. I don't believe you. I will be watching. I'm going to sit down and watch every match, but I'm going to watch some of them. I don't know who you're pandering to right now. I'm trying to explain something to a fraternity guy. That's what I'm trying to do here. Who's that me? You. I'm not in a fraternity. You act like you're in a fraternity from time to time. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. We have a number of listeners who are former fraternity guys. And they remember what it was like in the house. They're saying, why did you just badmouth all of us? You were in a fraternity. Yes, I was. And I remember acting immaturely and argumentative in a fraternity as you are today. I. Asked you two questions. You stuttered around trying to find a answer. I did not stutter at all. I answered them directly wrong. It's Lionel Messi from Argentina. Let's move on to Nancy Mace who got fifth place last night in South Carolina's primary as the Donald Trump winning streak continues.

We'll do that by way of Maine because I got a great email here on wondering who this person in Maine voted for. I believe we do have an answer on this because I went to the same Google AI overview and found an answer for this. We'll get to that. Guaranteed human next here on Nebraska's Morning News. By the way, I got a lot of people emailing saying, Jim, what are you talking about? There are lots of American soccer leagues and teams, including right here in Omaha. You should come see some of that sometime. But Jim, the most recent thing he did, Lucy, was complain that this pen over here, this ink pin is... leaking ink all over the place? Well, it's not leaking, no. See, again, you are being Scott Voorhees. I'm not, I didn't suggest it's leaking all over the place. I said it's leaking a little, and I took a tissue and wiped it up. It's very small. It's just the size of a pin prick, but it could be a much bigger issue if we don't address it. I said, throw it away. We got eight more pins right here. Because it's a good one. It's a really good one. Not if it's leaking. It's not leaking that much. Lucy? Lucy. Help. Nope. I ain't leaking that much. Lucy, I'm blinking. When I'm blinking, that means I'm in distress. You need help. Blink twice if you need help. Kevin emails via the Zonkers Custom Woods inbox. And we go back to Maine on this one. He says, I wonder who certified Trump hater Stephen King voted for. The Rhino or the Nazi? Well, based on what I found online, Stephen King has long been a critic of longtime Maine Senator Susan Collins has voted for Graham Platner in the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate. Yeah. Stephen King, who says, you know, Trump is Hitler and a philanderer and a bad guy, voted for Graham Platner. with the Nazi tattoo and the sexting scandals and all the rest of it. Now, I got this email from Peg. She says this should be sung to the tune of Monty Python's I'm a lumberjack. This is the Graham Platner campaign song. I'm a socialist and I'm okay. I sexed all night and they flirt all day. My parents buy my oysters and pay off all my debts. I sport a Nazi tattoo and mock my fellow vets. I'm a socialist and I'm okay. That seems to be about accurate. Well done there, Peg. Thank you. Now, Jim, you're concerned about... Not play Steely Dan. You're concerned... Oh, well, because her name's Peg. Right. Well, we'd do that a little later. You're concerned about the political future of Nancy Mace? Not really. I've kind of grown tired of her. She's a big whiner, big complainer. She's not really a great Republican. Is her pen leaking? Might be.

Maybe a few other things. Maybe she's leaking oil. Her car may be leaking oil. Who knows? She wanted to be the governor of South Carolina. She got clocked last night pretty bad. She wasn't even close. She was in fifth place in the GOP primary. They take a top two and do a runoff base. And how close it was. And it was close. So they got like two weeks and then they do a runoff between these candidates. If you don't get to 50%. Right. And this is to determine who the Republican is going to be to take on a Democrat in South Carolina. Yes. So Nancy Mace. political future. Does she remain in the Congress then? Well, until the end of this, you know, this term. Run for re-election? No, she's, she ran for governor instead. She might decide she's still going to run for re-elect? Well, then she'd have to be a right-in candidate because they have already chosen a Republican replacement for her district. But this was a fairly outspoken critic of President Trump. She ordered the Epstein files. She sided with Democrats for the release of the Epstein files. And once again, the president is very, very... active in political races and primaries and his gal won or was one of the two that made the top she was the lieutenant governor and he endorsed her and she her name is ayette and she is now one of the two so his winning streak which came to an end the other day has now resurfaced i believe her last name is pronounced masse nancy yes there you go yeah especially down there. Hey, my sight. I'm looking here at some of the truth social post by the president of the United States this morning. Who do you think he's gone after harder? Iran or Stephen A. Smith. Stephen A. Smith is an arrogant fool. A low IQ individual. In other words, he's dumb as a rock and totally unqualified to ever think of running for high political office or even low political office for that matter. He'd get annihilated in a debate by the most incompetent of politicians. Joe Biden's now fabled performance would look great by comparison to anything that this loudmouth huckster has to offer, which isn't much. Within a few weeks, they'd laugh him out of politics. He also took a bunch of shots at Joe Scarborough and then said praise be to Allah at the end of a couple of posts here about Iran. Here's what he said. Iran's military is a complete and total mess. Much of it like their Navy and Air Force doesn't even exist anymore. They've been completely defeated. Iran is all talk and no action. The bully of the Middle East is dead. They've taken too long to negotiate a deal that would have been great for them. Now they will have to pay the price. The fake news media refuses to report how effective the U.S. naval blockade is, the most successful blockade in the history of naval warfare. Nothing gets through unless we want it to. It is a steel wall. Iran is doing zero business, not paying their military or any of their bills and quickly becoming a failed nation. Lots of oils getting out. Praise be to Allah, President Donald J. Trump.

Let's see what the stock market thinks of the president's most recent comments on Iran. No one's happy. Trump says Iran's taking too long negotiating. He's threatening strikes. Dow's down over 400 points. Nasdaq's down over 400 points. Yikes. That's over a point and a half. Percentage of the NASDAQ, S&Ps down 72, and oil is up 2%. I'm not really sure. what you can believe anymore out of the White House because for the last three weeks, they've been saying we're just days away from a deal. I think it's been more like the last six weeks. Maybe six, seven weeks. So I think a lot of Americans are tired of hearing the president say we're close and then we're not. Maybe he thinks we're close, but you really can't trust what they say or do. And unless you have controls in place that can verify what has been negotiated. you're actually trusting an organization that is not trustworthy. So what does it all mean? What it means is either the president gets serious and bombs the hell out of these guys and brings them literally down, or this is going to continue to operate like this for the next several months, well past the midterm elections, which could be disastrous for the Republican Party. I don't really understand. Honestly, Scott, what the president's approach here is. When we first got started, he says, we're going to go in there and we are going to take care of business. And it ain't going to take long. Well, that was three months ago. Was it been three months now? Two, three months? And so far, they keep telling us that the Iranian war machine is decimated. They can't do anything. Their Navy is at the bottom of the ocean. All of their anti-aircraft stuff is wiped out. The power isn't on there. They're losing hundreds of billions of dollars a day. Well, this country loses hundreds of billions of dollars a day, too. Have you noticed the deficit lately? So I really don't get what we can believe anymore. And I believe in the mission of denuclearizing Iran. As an American, I believe that's a good thing to do. But I don't know that we're getting straight talk out of the White House. Well, to take the president at his word, we needed Iran not to have nukes. They don't have them. And we've completely destroyed. We've destroyed their military. They're not making any money off of oil. Now, the rest of the world is having a hard time getting oil coming through the Strait of Hormuz. And this is creating a problem on the price that's a lot of things. I don't think the president wants to go in there and bomb the hell out of them. I mean, he says he does. He says he will, and I believe he would, but I don't think he wants to. He wants Israel to calm down on what's going on there between them and Iran or them and Hezbollah and Lebanon, and they generally have been. I mean, this could be... a whole heck of a lot worse. The problem I think now is it's just dragging on forever when the president always says stuff like, this will be wrapped up in the next 15 minutes. Don't worry. And he just keeps saying. And people are like, well, then what's going on? If the president says this is almost done and it's not, then they have a feeling that it's going poorly. I think it's just going slowly. Oh, again, it depends on what he has to say. Now.

Harold Ford Jr. and many of you watch Fox News who listen to KFAB. They've got a very popular program on at 4 o'clock in the afternoon called The 5. So do we. It's called Chris Baker Show. But if you listen or you watch, you know, this guy is one of the more reasonable Democrats that comes out of D.C. He's a former state, a congressman from Tennessee. He says the president needs to stop talking. Well, that's just. Good luck with that. Send us a message with your own voice. We ended up talking about soccer in the last hour because our friend Courtney Donahoe from Bloomberg reported that Americans generally don't care about soccer in this country. It led to a conversation that went a lot of different ways and resulted in this message in the Zonkers Customwoods inbox via the talkback mic. Fellas, let me tell you, it should have been course number one of the Butchup Academy. They should have taught. in America. That's where we get participation trophies. That's where we get corn slices. Come on, man up. If they could hit a curveball, they'd play baseball. If they were tougher, they'd play football. Soccer is not for America. Go USA. Wow. I don't know if that's true because a lot of kids play soccer in this country. I think he's talking about it as you grow up. Millions and millions of kids play soccer. And I bet he did too. It doesn't have, for some reason, it just doesn't have the staying power of a kid's attention span after high school. there are a lot of really good athletes that play soccer. I know a couple of them that my son grew up with, but somehow after high school just sort of disappears, and it does not have the broad appeal, but the soccer matches, the high school soccer matches that were played in Omaha over 10 days, very well attended. Very, very well attended. Oh, yeah, and the World Cup matches are going to be sold out. People are going to be spending a whole bunch of money to go there. And I... Hope that they have a good time. It's not for me. But go USA because America until they start making a bunch of political statements and then I'll just probably ignore them. I imagine that you're one of those who at your high school, which was Lincoln Southeast. Southeast. Nobody densed the steel of the Southeast Shield, just so you know. I forgot which inter-cardinal direction Lincoln school you went to. Did you have the yearbook photo that included a quote? from each student. No, we sure did. Oh, you didn't do that? Yeah, we didn't either. No. They did at Smithtown High School. Uh-oh. And this was in 2020. We had some mischief? No. This was a school, I think this is in New York, Smithtown High School. Yeah, Kings Park, New York, 2020 graduating class, Smithtown High School. When a young man named Evan. was asked, what do you want to have as your quote with the yearbook? And he said, Nixon 6, 2026 NBA Finals. He's obviously going viral now is looking like.

a possibility. Certainly they're in the NBA finals playing the Spurs here. And when he wrote this, that season, the Knicks were terrible. They were barely above 500. So he was at his buddy's house and said, I'm a Knicks fan. It just rhymes. So I said, Knicks and 6, 2026. Yeah, I'm going to put that in the yearbook. And he's going viral as his yearbook page is in there with the quote. Most of the people on his social media are just commenting as to the level of attractiveness of his female classmates who also have their pictures featured here in the yearbook, but that's pretty good. On a worse note, have you been following it all? The story, this young man's name is Carmelo Anthony, not the basketball player. Thanks for that clarification because everybody thought it was Carmelo Anthony, the basketball player. These are the kids who last year at a track meet in Texas. I don't know exactly what the heck happened. The story we seem to have is there was some kids. Did you ever run track in school? No, no. The track meets. were so much fun. Really? Yeah, especially if, like me, I did a couple of events. Generally, you'd find me in the long jump and or the high jump. Wow. Maybe the hurdles, and for a while there, they thought maybe you should do a distance run. But I realized they just wanted me to run as far away from them as possible. Like, you want me to go around the track? No, just go that way. Just keep going, yeah. This is cross-country. Yeah, so I didn't do a whole heck of a lot, and I wasn't very good at it. So why did I do track? Because at the big track meets that last all day in Fremont, for example. Get the day off? No, well, you get the day off school. And then you're hanging out with kids from other schools who all have tents set up, either because it might rain or because it's too hot. And you just goof off all day and you listen to music and you hang out and you meet girls from other schools. And I'm telling you, it was a blast. Too bad you didn't have a cell phone back in those days. You could have taken all of their numbers, and you could have been to proms all up and down the map. Yes, but I then would have had evidence of some of the things I would have done, and I'm telling you, the things that would have been recorded and potentially sent to other classmates would have done. Not good. Well, I would have gotten elected in Maine, but nowhere else. Anyway. These guys have their tent set up at this track meet in Texas, and now it's raining. And so this kid, Carmelo, tries to come under the tent of Austin and a bunch of other guys. And they're like, hey, dude, we don't know you. Get out of our tent. And then a little argument ensued. And so Carmelo stabbed Austin Metcalfe to death. He lost his life there at that track meet in Texas at the age of 17 years old. And the argument seemed to be is before he stabbed him, he said, like, oh, I told him not to touch me, which somehow justifies stabbing a guy to death? Why do you bring a knife to attract me? That's what prosecutors wanted to know. Yesterday, that teenager and his claims of self-defense went down the tubes, and that Texas teenager was found guilty of murdering this other kid.

Now, obviously, some people have made a deal about this because of the racial implications, which the stabber was black, the stab-e was white. A lot of people pointed out if this had gone the other way, it'd be about race relations and Texas and all the rest of it, but because it did not go that way, it didn't get the attention that perhaps if the knife had been in the other hand, it would have. You've been following this at all? Yeah, and I wondered. You know, not being there and not seeing what happened 45 to seconds to a minute before the stabbing. Maybe there was more there. Maybe there was some other kind of threat by the kid that got stabbed. Doesn't seem likely. But, you know, the violence that we see kids participate in today is kind of scary. And now you wonder why teachers, you know, get out of the profession so soon because they're not sure if they're going to be next. It's just not safe. You know, there's always been bullying in schools, but... The capital crimes that sometimes get committed is really disheartening, and it's caused many, many parents to second guess whether they want their kids in public school. But I guess I would know. My first question is, what in heck, what did he say? Or what did he do? If he pushed him out of the tent. You're not allowed in here. You know, that's okay, but that's rude. That's, you know, disappointing. You wonder why was he not allowed in here? Were there other circumstances? Like I said, the minute or so before the stabbing. They went to different schools. Like, we don't know you get out of our tent. Which happens all the time. And maybe some guys like going into another team's tent just to give them a little smack. But you typically don't wind up in the morgue after that. No. See, that's... So this isn't meant to in any way excuse the stabbing. But I was curious as to what exactly happened in the minute or a minute and a half before the stabbing. Just so sad that we can't, you know, when we were growing up generally, you know, guys would punch each other and it'd be over. And sometimes you'd be friends afterwards. This is not the case anymore, which makes it very nervy for me when I've got a teenage son and I worry about him being involved in an altercation. We've got traffic weather. I think he gets along pretty well with everybody in school. Yeah, but he's got a friend who likes to lip off and they're always hanging out. So I'm wondering how that's... She's going to go. Lucy, how would you feel if you're on a flight and you see a guy order a drink and then the flight attendant who's bringing the drinks around bypasses this guy because he seems to be asleep. She walks past him. He suddenly wakes up, sees that his drink is now going down the aisle. He turns around smacks her on the backside. She complains and now that flight is being diverted to Atlanta so they can remove him from the plane. And I might be one to say, look, it's awful that that guy did that to you. Is there any way we could deal with him when we're all getting to where we're going? The rest of us have lives to leave. I don't think that your life is in jeopardy here. Do we have to divert the plane and inconvenience everybody because you got smacked on the backside? Unless there's more to the story, they're not telling us. I can't think that you would find a single person who would disagree with what you just said.

The flight attendant would probably disagree. Flight attendant's the one who complained and said, I want him off the plane. I want him off here right now. Well, she needs to be let go as well. They were flying from Fort Lauderdale to Los Angeles with an unexpected stop in Atlanta. He smacked me on the rear end. He should be cited for that or ticketed or whatever. Yeah, in Los Angeles. Let's go. I'm sorry that that happened, but I got stuff to do in L.A. I've got to go count mail-in ballots. I have a whole bunch of mail-in ballots and drop-off ballots that I need to get to Los Angeles right now. We're still trying to get ramen up there in the top two. We've got to go. Steve Cooley. Any idea on that one? That name ring a bell at all? Not really. Steve Cooley. was the district attorney in L.A. County in 2010 and thought, you know, I might have a pretty good shot of being the Attorney General in the state of California. On Election Day, November 2nd of 2010, at one point, he was up 8% over his challenger in that statewide race. And then by the end of the night, it did narrow a little bit, but then... It was time for California to do what California do, and that is, well, you know, all the mail-in ballots and all those that come to the drop-off boxes, we have to count all those, and it takes a very long time. And then in all 58, in all 58 counties in California, even though after the initial vote, he was up by a pretty good margin, Steve Cooley, the Republican, lost to the Democrat that year, Kamala Harris. He said at the time, quote, this is a blank and mess, and there's no will in California to clean it up. He called it rigged. He said the ballots were harvested, and he said, someone's got to do something, and that was 16 years ago. Spencer Pratt, his seemingly more magnanimous than was Steve Cooley in November of 2010, and in the days that followed. I haven't heard Pratt, the Republican on the ballot there in the mayor's race in Los Angeles, say this is rigged and we've got to do something. This is a blank and mess and all the rest of it. But it does kind of seem like it's the same thing. You have election day. You got a winner. No, just wait. We had some ballots here in the drop-off boxes. We're not even close. Yeah, are you checking IDs on those? We know we don't have to. And they just count until they got the votes that they wanted. And then they say, and we're done. Well, was there fraud, was there funny business in the Los Angeles mayor's race, possibly? But at days end, one out of every four voters in Los Angeles is a Republican. So you still have a massive voter registration advantage if you're a Democrat, including. Democrats get frustrated with the status quo, too. Including, you know, the incumbent mayor and then.

Nithya Raman who came up from behind and is now in second place and will be in the runoff. But what should shock people is, and what to the naked eye and to the common sense among us, they would say, how is it possible that Nithya Raman can have nine out of every 10 mail-in ballots? That's not possible, okay, in a competitive race like that. Even Richard Nixon didn't get nine out of ten against George McGovern. Ronald Reagan didn't get nine out of ten against Walter Mondale. There is no question that this has to be addressed as clearly fraudulent or at least very, very peculiar. And yet, in California... because Democrats dominate the statehouse. They dominate the governor's mansion. They dominate the statehouse. They dominate courts because they've been appointing judges for the last 50 years. There will be no change because you have to legislatively change that. You have to, by statute, says, we're not doing mail-and-drop-off boxes anymore. You either show up on election day or you have a legitimate absentee ballot. or you don't get your vote counted. The problem is we're not going to get, we're not going to get a change in a state like California or New York until you have different people in office. No. Well, and you get different people in office by having people who are frustrated with everything you just said there, stay there and vote accordingly. But a lot of people don't. They just leave. Yeah. And California is now getting what they get because that's the population left there. But this is not something new with this mayor's race. This accusation goes back to 2010 when Kamala Harris emerged victorious in the AG race in that state. I was talking to a Californian, Scott, who did not. live in the major cities, you know, San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco. They lived in some of the smaller towns in Northern California. And they are very frustrated by this. Many of them are Republicans. Many of them are very conservative. But what they say is I weigh my lifestyle because they live in a beautiful community. And California is a beautiful state. You get outside of the crap. It's really beautiful. And they go, bottom line, I have to decide, do I want to live here and I really love living here in these smaller towns? Or do I want to leave the state like a lot of Los Angeles and San Franciscans and San Diegoans do? They leave because it's brutal there. But in the smaller towns, they weigh, I love living here. I love my house, my family, my friends, my community, and all of that stuff. And I live with the taxes. And I live with the liberalism. And I live with the high prices. Oh, yeah. But I don't want to leave. If you can afford to live in Malibu, you can put up with a lot of that garbage. We're talking towns up there north of San Francisco near the Oregon border or close to the Nevada border.

that are not those communities. A lot of messages here via the talkback mic on our free iHeart radio app. And here's one. Hey, good morning. For Jim. Hey, Mr. Rose. If my memory serves, your son's pretty good college baseball player and plays college baseball. Now, father's son have a certain bond and certain talks. Have you taught, I'm sure you have, what is your son's perspective on all this NIL nonsense? I'm not sure if he's to the level of getting NIL money or anything, but I'm sure he talks to athletes and knows everybody. Do you ever talk to him, what is his perspective on all this stuff? Is Jackson getting, did he get any NIL money? Yeah, he actually did get some, you know, after the fact NIL money is part of that $2.8 billion settlement. I think he got like $200. Something like that. No, he doesn't have any envy for the guys today. You know, he played baseball at Minnesota. The baseball players at Minnesota weren't getting a bunch, and the baseball players pretty much anywhere aren't getting much, maybe out of the SEC. So you're still pretty much playing that sport for the love of the game. He got grants and aid scholarship money at Minnesota to play and got a nice education up there. But, you know, he's... He's thrilled for the guys who can get it now. If you can get it, go get it. He played. He's no longer playing minor league baseball. He retired after six years. Are there guys, you know, playing like double A ball somewhere, getting N. I mean, getting. I don't, no, they got NIL money. It's not college anymore. No, it's a settlement deal. They, they, they typically, if you were a former athlete, you got. a one-time payment. In many cases, for a high-profile football player, I think it was significant. I don't know what formula they used to decide. But they don't get ongoing check. The only people that get the ongoing stuff now are the recruits like Trey Taylor, who's getting paid by Nebraska now, even though he's a high school junior, and the existing players. But a former player before the House settlement probably got one check, and that's it. That's all they get. Now, they want to put together some sort of a class action and go after more money. That's up to them. I don't think they'll get any. But there were. provisions for more recent former athletes in the high-profile sports like basketball, football. Are we in... Agreement here on the best fictional president in entertainment history. Do we know who that would be? Josiah Bartlett. President Trump is apparently a fan as well. Lucy, I didn't know if you had a vote. Best fictional president? I don't never know if I have a vote. Oh, you sure you do. And it counts, yours counts twice as much. Bartlett. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, he's number one. Everybody loved President Bartlett. Martin Sheen as President Jed Bartlett.

who was not a kooky left-wing socialist or anything like that. And President Trump doesn't think so either. I don't know. Let's see here. Do we know what season this clip is from? Because the president has just shared a clip on his truth social account. This is after, in real life, Iran shot down a U.S. Army helicopter. Everyone's okay. We got these guys. And then... we carried out a strike in retaliation. And the conversation was, we need to have a proportional response here. And the president suddenly fired off at a bunch of radar and missile sites. And they said, well, whoa, whoa, that's not a proportional response. Proportional response was the conversation here in the situation room in this scene from the West Wing. This is after. Let's see, remembering what happened here. A couple of Americans were killed. There was a downing of a U.S. plane, and now President Jed Bartlett, is talking with his cabinet as to what they should do. Scenario 1, or Pericles 1, to use his code name, sir. What is the virtue of a proportional response? I'm sorry? What is the virtue of a proportional response? Why is it good?

They hit an airplane, so we hit a transmitter, right? That's a proportional response. Sir, in the case of Pericles, women... They hit a barrage. We hit two transmitters. That's roughly it. Yes, sir. This is what we do. I mean, this is what we do. Yes, sir. It's what we do. It's what we've always done. Well, if it's what we've always done, don't they know we're going to do it? Sir, if you turn your attention to Pericles 1. I have turned my attention to Pericles 1. It's two ammo dumps and abandoned railroad bridge and a Syrian intelligence agency. Those are four highly rated targets, sir. But they know we're going to do that. They know we're going to do that. Those areas have been abandoned for three days now. We know that from the satellite, right? We have the intelligence. Sir. They did that, so we did this. It's the cost of doing business. It's been factored in, right? Mr. President. Am I right or am I missing something here? No, sir, you're right, sir. Then I ask again, what is the virtue of a proportional response? It isn't virtuous, Mr. President. It's all there is, sir. It is not all there is. Sir, Admiral Fitzwallis. Excuse me, Leo. Pardon me, Mr. President. Just what else is this? The disproportional response. Let the word ring forth from this time and this place, gentlemen. You kill an American, any American. We don't come back with a proportional response. We come back with total disaster. Mr. President, are you suggesting we carpet bomb Damascus? I am suggesting, General, that you and Admiral Fitzwallis and Secretary Hutchison and the rest of the national security team take the next 60 minutes and put together an American response scenario that doesn't make me think we are just docking somebody's damn allowance. President Jed Bartlett in the Situation Room. I loved that scene, actually. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. What a great television show that was. Oh, it's one of the very best of the last 25 years. And the incredibly liberal writer behind Aaron Sorkin is probably not impressed that President Trump is putting that out there as a message to Iran, just so I know what. He wishes that the president would not complement his work. But what it is not in that. that particular clip Scott is that they came back with a proportional response later because they talked President Bartlett off the ledge. He was unhappy that this happened and they said, look, Mr. President, if we do a disproportional response, meaning we blow up something and a whole bunch of people, this is what will happen. You'll have this happen, this happen, this happen. The Arab world expects a proportional response. But if we go outside of the lines here, then you're looking for extra trouble you don't want. And that's essentially, I think, what Donald Trump is leaning on right now. If he goes whole hog, if he goes epic fury on these guys and just wipes out the whole country, he's looking at other problems for other allies in the region that could cause us real trouble. I think the president.

Our president, Donald Trump, is counting on a couple of different things here. Number one, the fact that whoever's left in leadership in Tehran has not seen that episode of the West Wing. Yeah, they probably don't have it on DVD or Bluray. I don't get Hulu here, Tehran, or whatever West Wing is on here, which you're right. The President Bartlett and West Wing did back away after the concern about civilian casualties. But I also think that there is a difference between President Bartlett and President Trump, and even if Tehran gets the message, well, at the end of the episode, it worked out pretty well for those in Damascus is what they're talking about in Syria. President Trump is different. It's also real life. Yeah, there's no telling what he might do. And he's told Iran on numerous occasions, you know, open the straight, you crazy bastards was an exact quote from one of his true social posts. So what's Trump going to do? I don't know. Aaron Sorkin isn't writing this one for him. And one of the reasons that Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon had such success in foreign policy is because the other guy wasn't sure just how crazy they are. Nixon had spoken quietly about, we're just going to drop a couple of nukes on North Vietnam. Ronald Reagan, no trouble thinking, well, why don't we fire a few ballistic missiles that direction? That kind of unpredictability can be very, very useful. And Trump leans on that, which is why I agree with Harold Ford. Just stop talking, Mr. President. Don't post things on social. Don't make declarations that we're really close. It's going to be a perfect deal. Don't say that. Just let this process lay out. We really are fine getting bits of information. We don't need a daily briefing from you on this. You know why he does it. He wants the stock market to go well. He needs to be optimistic for the market. I want the stock market to go well. We all do. the NASDAQ jumped up another 100 points just in the time we were talking about all this. It's helping. We've got to do more. We can all retire by the end of the day. Well, half the problem with the NASDAQ is that people are moving away from tech stocks right now and going to health care. Talked earlier about that deal in Texas at the track meet last year where a kid goes into some other school's tent. They're like, dude, get out of here. He pulls a knife and stabs a kid and kills him that yesterday. led to the stabber being found guilty. Here's another situation where you just think like why does what should be an altercation that no one would even hear about the next tent over, let alone throughout the country. Why would it have to escalate to this point? Here's another one. 41-year-old passenger on a bus in the Bronx, New York City.

finally told a teenage rider, look, can you keep it down? You're being really loud over there talking on your phone. The teenager pulled a gun and shot the man in the stomach. Be careful in New York of telling people how to behave. You might not survive. Yep. Sounds like the old West needs to become the New East. Yeah, the victim, who died, by the way, said he told the guy to be quiet because the guy was yelling and making a lot of noise. He was there on the bus with his four-year-old daughter who watched all of this, who was anxious around a lot of noise. And the guy on the phone was making everyone on the bus real nervous. So the father says, all right, I'm a 41-year-old guy, I'm an adult. I'll tell this teenager, hey, you mind keeping down a little bit and got shot and killed for it? Now, how many of us have told teenagers, hey, do you think you can stop cussing? Hey, can you guys stop running around? What are you doing? You got to calm down. You get shot for that anymore. And that is a very, very sad reality, especially for those of us who kind of like calling down teenagers. But you got to think twice, man. Do you ever call down your teenager afraid that maybe he'll pull out a gun and shoot you? My wife is loading the gun for him and putting in his hands. No. Yeah, that's how it works in my house. No, it's not how it works in your house. I've seen your kid. I'm thinking maybe you push him far enough. He's a bad shot.