Open Phone Line Friday: Weird Weather | Finding Tax Relief

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There was just nothing. There's there'slike nothing else out here. I mean,
there's no severe thunderstorm watch even andthen all of a sudden, banned
tornado warning for a small chunk justto the northwest of Columbus. Uh,
it's one of the darnest things I'veseen. I I just like it was
out of it, Matt. Therewas nothing. You look at the map,

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there's there's nothing else on the map. There's a little it was a
little red dot. They now theycanceled it a couple of minutes ago,
literally at two oh six they officiallycanceled it. But it's a little sliver,
little tiny spot of red for atornado warning, a little tiny splotch
just to the northwest of Columbus.And it's it's gone now there's no severe

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thunderstorm watch even for this area.Popped up at one fifty three, then
was canceled at two o six.It was a storm that was moving ten
miles per hour. But the andthe uh, this storm moves on,
but the tornado warning has been canceled. So uh, that is for Platte
County no longer in a tornado warning. Yeah, So I don't know that

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was that'd some strain. What elsecould happen? What else could happen?
How many is that? How oftenhave we had to talk about this stuff?
Have you ever talked about this muchtornado warnings in your career? Well,
I haven't been here with all thatlong. I've only been through a
couple of springs. But no,this is definitely a busy spring for for
me. What is going on?Mother nature can give us a break.

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It's been a nice week though tothis point. I went out on a
jog. By the way, we'llget angry in a second, don't you
worry. I went on a jog. You saw me this morning. You
know I do the show over therefor the Des Moines people. I got
done with that show, cut someads, talked to you for a little
bit, and then I went out, grabbed my dog, went on a

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jog. I did not remember toeat this morning, because you know,
there's stuff going on, and soI like got a couple of handfuls of
like peanuts, because those are goodfor your body, to like get some
restorative juices going in some of carand like good fats and things. It's
usually good for you running. Idon't think I ate enough though, because
halfway through the jog, first ofall, my dog stubbed his toe into

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like a like a curb or something, and he started like his toe was
bleeding, and I was like,well, he's not. It doesn't look
like he's hurt. But now there'sblood all over his foot. He looked
fine. We were able to getback home, and then I started getting
light headed, like I'm going topass out, fall over. Now my
entire body hurts. It was abad decision, is what I'm trying to
say. The temperature is really goodfor that. I was like, Ash,

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it's going to be great outside.What's the temperature now? For temperature
is seventy degrees in Omaha and CouncilBluffs seventy five in Lincoln. So yeah,
so the cloud cover makes it feeleven a little bit cooler than that.
At least when I started running,I was just like, yeah,
this is nice. And then Ijust everything hurt after that, and I
was about to pass out. Andthen I had some ham in, like

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grilled ham and cheese and big thingsto my wife for you know, making
me a little salad to go alongwith it. I was like about to
pass out. What's going on withme, you were thinking about your epiitaph.
My epitaph Is that the right word? You know, like what people
say after you die? Oh yeah, my epitaph. I feel like,
hey fell over on a run.Yeah, that's a rough look. That
would be a bad look, isthere? I mean self, a self

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indulging run with his dog. Couldyou imagine like I just keel over and
my dog's just hanging out. She'slike, Okay, Now what am I
supposed to do? I don't havethumbs. I don't know how to help
you. He just stands there.He's just like anybody. Am I just
supposed to stand here for the restof time? Now? Because he's a
was it's wastely. So it's likeif I would have fell over, there's
he can't go anywhere. He couldn'trun home like Lassie and being like help

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help Jimmy fell down a well,you know what you need is a recumbent
bicycle. No, why would Ido that? It's safety? No,
it's not safe. No, let'skeep it safe, Emory recumbent bicycle.
I don't want to ruin any chancesof me getting in an endorsement with a
recumbent bicycle company in the future.So I want to be very careful about
the words that I use here,you know, But that endorsement is floating

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out there at any moment they mayand it's a big one too. They're
looking at a big endorsement. I'mtalking live ads every hour for recumbent bicycles.
Emery quatch your tongue. But recumbentbicycles. Who buys them? People
that's got the uh, that's gotthe bucks, the bucks and the back.
That's not so good. It's noteven that, it's just about I
don't want to work hard. Okay. These are the people that want to

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say that they went on a bikeride, but don't want to feel like
they went on a bike ride.I want to go on a bike ride
and be able to eat a saladat the same time. Recumbent bicycle for
the wind. Uh. This isthe thing about your recumbent bicycles. You
buy a recumbent bicycle, you can'tsay you're going on a bike ride.
I hate to be that guy,but that's not a bike ride. That
is I slowly maneuvered in my reclinerthat has pedals through paved trails to tell

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you that I was outside and dida bike ride while dipping fried ravioli in
marin arasauce. You're getting you're gettinga little too. Uh, you're getting
a little too. It's get you'regetting a little two out there. I'm
not trying to attack you if yougot a recumbent bike, I'm just saying
it's a little bit of a cheatanyway. So yeah, no more tornado

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warnings. So if you were inPlatte County and you were just like,
what the heck just happened? That, uh, that has everything to do
with that. We spent a couplehours doing the Trump thing yesterday. It's
a Friday. Do we really wantto do this? You've had all day
to think about this. I shouldI just open the phones? Should I
just like open phone Line Friday andjust say, like, Okay, if
you want to talk Trump, youcan. If you want to talk recumbent

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bikes, you can. If youwant to talk about pop up tornado warnings
you can. Like, well,Kate wants to talk about recumbent bicycles.
Okay, Well let's get it rolling, all right, Kate. Open phone
Line Friday is officially on board andappreciate you for calling in. Kate,
Please tell me I didn't offend you, you did. I love my recumbent
bike. I even have. Ieven have a tandem recumbent bike that I

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draw. I ride with my husbandtandem recumbent bike, so he sits in
front of me and does all thepeddling and I read books in the act
and don't peddle. Is it thatkind of, like, Kate, please
please forgive me. I'm just askingfor more information here. Is that not
kind of? Is that not kindof what like your two year old does
when they're hanging out in the backof dad's bike when he's going on his

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bike rides. Yeah, but what'swrong with that? But two year old
has a good time, and sodo I. I mean, that's fair.
I don't have a good response tothat. That is fair. So
so Kate, now that you're goingto have to call your mom and tell
her that because she's probably never heardyou that quiet. Oh Kate, Well,
I mean I did get this jobfor a certain specific reason. Okay,

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so Kate, Kate, but no, I have I have old knees.
I have bad knees, and Ishould not ride if I didn't have
a recumbent So I think they havea place and they're really fun because you
are down low. It's a greatconversation starter. It's a lot of fun
with people on the trails and thetandem. I get to take my grandkids.

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Done well, okay, okay,so I couldn't I couldn't be biking
if sure? Okay, so okay, let me let me clarify my comment
here. So can I ask you, like, obviously this is a good
weather and nice weather thing. Howmany miles a week or a month are
you putting on this thing? Notenough? Yeah, but it's like more
than a couple are you out forall? Yeah? Oh yeah, oh

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yeah, for sure? So you'resure you're not. It's because recumbent bicycle
guy to me is the guy thatisn't really into bicycling. But if he's
like, you know what, it'sa beautiful day, I want people to
know I was outside. I'm gonnaget on my recumbent bike. That does
like half of the work for mepotentially, because some of those have like
the little uh the uphill assists andstuff that does yours have that no huh,

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but you know you have upright thatare too. Yeah again that's at
yeah, and for me okay,and I mean call me, call me
crazy here, but it's like youcan't for people who are going out for
just like three miles a month,just the one nice day and say,
hey, I'm a bicycle its's lookat me. I rode my bike from
my house to the bar along thetrail. Congratulations, Pal, that's not

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being you're not a bicyclist. Butif you're putting like, you know,
fifteen miles you know, a monthon this thing, and you're going out
multiple times whenever you get an opportunity, Kate, you you get a pass,
you are an exception to my rule. You know, fifteen miles a
month doesn't even begin to touch it. It's fifteen miles at a pop.
There we go. Listen to this. Listen, that's what a bicyclist does.
Okay, so you're you're a realcyclist, Kate, and you're doing

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what you need to do to makeit easier on your body. I can
respect that, all right. We'llbe nice to the recumbent people because they're
usually more fun. Yeah, wellnot as serious. They tend to have
a little more fun. Okay,we're good fun, fair enough, fair
enough, okay, Kate, thankyou for correcting me and changing my opinion
on the recumbent bicycle today. Iappreciate it. Have a great weekend,

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Yeah you too. Okay. Iwas so hoping that when she said be
nice to the recumbent people, becauseshe was going to say, we're good
at using crowbars if you know whatI mean? Oh, is that is
that right? Yeah? That soundslike a threat to me. Don't mess
what the recumbent folks. Let metell you she didn't say, though,
as she didn't. No, no, very nice. They're a nice bunch

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and a fun bunch, that's whatshe says. Right. Yeah, but
but you know what, I don'twant my comments on the recumbents to come
off as repugnant. If you knowwhat I'm saying, I know what you're
saying, and I'm trying just tosay you aren't a bicyclist if you're putting
in three miles on your recumbent bikeon a nice day so you can throw
it on social media that you're thiscool bicycle guy. You know what I

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want to see is a recumbent bicyclepolice force. Where's that? When's that?
Well? I think there's a reasonthat hasn't happened Matt because that would
be insane if you If you thoughtthe Segway police guys were a mess,
wait till we get to the recumbentpolice guys. That is a different.
That's a movie waiting to happen,the recumbent police force of New York City,
where literally they get that they're goingtoo fast, they're losing their mind,

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and they accidentally get underneath one ofthose horses that they have in New
York City and the horse doesn't knowthat they're there, and you know what
happens next, PLoP, PLoP,PLoP. And the next thing you know
is like, I think I needto go take a shower. Two nineteen,
Open phone line, Friday. Youwant to talk Trump and you know,
talk about that on a Friday.Let's let's let I'll let you tell
me. I want to read theroom here. I don't want to be

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the guy that's shoving that down yourthroat on a Friday. I talked about
it a lot yesterday. I've talkedabout it a lot for six weeks now.
He's back on the campaign trail.He did plenty of talk in earlier
today. I know that you've hearda lot of that. I know Klay
and Bucks spent a ton of timeon that. I want to talk about
what you want to talk about,because it's a Friday. If you want
to talk about that, you can. If you want to talk about recumbent

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bikes, you can't. If youwant to talk about your hatred a bicyclist,
because I know there's a group ofpeople that hate bicyclists, you can
do that too. Four h twofive five eight eleven ten four roho two
five five eight to eleven ten.We'll talk next on news radio eleven ten.
Kfab it happened again? Am Iseeing this? Are you seeing this
on your screen? Tee? Yes, we do have another tornado warning to
notify you about Colefax and Platte counties. A confirmed tornado. This is not

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just a warning, but there hasbeen a confirmed tornado was located five miles
south of Creston or thirteen miles northof Columbus, moving north at fifteen miles
per hour, a little bit fasterthan that tornado warning. That severe thunderstorm
that was notified. It's like almostit's not even moving like fifteen miles an

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hour. We were talking about theone that ended up creating that Greenfield tornado
in western Iowa. That system wasmoving fifty five to sixty miles an hour
right consistently. This is this iscrawling to the north part of crest Wait,
no Columbus. It's north of Columbusby thirteen ish miles and going north
at about fifteen miles per hour.Also seeing point seventy five inch in diameter

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hail. So Creston was within fivemiles of this when they sent a warning
out and that's about five minutes agonow, and that's until two thirty,
and they like, so Creston,I guess, be on the lookout for
whatever this tornado is. It doesn'tseem the conditions seemed to not be warranting,
and all of a sudden it happened. Well, this is an interesting
one and it's so quick too.This is updated at two eighteen the tornado

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warning and it's only lasting until twothirty. But a tornado has been confirmed
and it was located five miles southof Creston or thirteen miles north of Columbus,
moving north at fifteen miles per hour. Okay, so I got some
more information. It's northwestern Colfax County, northeastern Platte County. Again, it's
just a small, little bit bittything, this tornado splotch, and there's

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no severe thunderstorm warning or watches oranything around this thing. Anyway. This
is until two thirty. The tornadoby weather spotters has been seen on the
ground, and they say, ifyou are in that area, which is
that a little outside our primary listenershiparea on that map up there, it's

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close. Yeah, but theoretically it'sgoing north, so it's not going to
enter exactly the metro, but PlatteCounty into Colfax County just to the west
of the more heavy listening area wehave here. There is a tornado warning
right now until two thirty, andthey have confirmed that they have seen a
tornado about thirteen miles north of Columbia. I mean, I'm sure that's getting

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close to Creston by now. Ifyou're in Creston, be on the lookout,
be in your safe place if you'relistening to us. But does Reeve
know something? Reeve says he livesout there and saw the tornado. All
right, Reeve, what do yougot for me right now? Yeah?
I live in plat Center and mywife, she worked for a copany that

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runs somebody that you called me andsaid, hey, there's a tornado northwest
of Platt Center, and the sirensor nothing was going off, and I
said, oh, there's nothing goingon. I stepped out of my garage
and sure, sure, son ofa gun, there is a tornado hitting
the ground northwest of town here.Yeah. So on our radar it looks
like there's some rain. There's nolike, oh yeah rain right now.

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Yeah, but it doesn't look likethere's like a major front or any thing
that would have created this. Wehad no idea that there was going to
be anything severe popping up with anyof the rain today. And there is
literally no severe thunderstorm watch or warninganywhere in Nebraska right now, except for
there's a flood watch in Grand Islandright now. But that's it. Reeve,

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This is crazy. So how bigdid this thing look to be?
Because I have no idea what toexpect with this thing just popping up out
of nowhere. It was it wasa little tiny one. It was,
I mean, it wasn't probably evenat the bottom of it, probably you
know, a tree with white Okay, So it's like one of these rope
tornadoes that people talk about. Yeah, it was just kind of crazy on
nowhere. And the weird thing isI stood there and watched it, and

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I was looking at it between twotrees, and it didn't seem to move.
It was like I watched it forprobably four or five minutes and it
did not move well, and allof a sudden, it just disappeared back
up to the clouds. Okay,So what I'm seeing here, and this
is the information we have, Reeve, is that this system is moving between
ten and fifteen miles an hour,so like the super slow I mean the

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like I mentioned earlier, the movementof the big storms that eventually created the
tornado that took out that city inIowa at Greenfield, that was like fifty
five miles an hour. Fifty five. This is like ten to fifteen miles
an hour. So I have noidea what's going on over there, Reeve,
but say safe, appreciate you listeningto us and reporting on this pretty
wild stuff, and hopefully we getmore information about what's going on over there.

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You bet, thank you, Bud. All right, Yeah, so
essentially we're getting close. We wouldthank to that being updated or that being
canceled, that they've seen the tornado. I think there's no way they can
just like no more tornado warning attwo thirty, right, even if it's
gone now right, because like,how did that happen? Right? Yeah?
Now that there was a confirmed tornadothat hit the ground. That's that's

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so interesting. So, by theway, if you're just tuning in,
we were talking about tornado warning thathas been observed. A tornado was seen,
little guy, but it was seenin Platte County, like northeastern Platte
County. The tornado warning extends alittle into Colfax County and that's until them
of the hour, and it's movingsuper slow, like north at ten to

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fifteen miles per hour, probably aroundCreston right now, moving north there.
So again, I have nothing goodto tell you here. I just I
can't. This came out of nowhere. This is wild stuff AnyWho. All
right, So that being just outsideour listening area, we don't have to
go wall the wall. We'll keepyou posted on that. Two twenty eight
is the time we'll take your phonecalls, open phone line. Friday,
recumbent bikes, Trump trial, Whatyou're doing this weekend? What your eyes

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are if you saw that tornado,like Reeve did near yor Platt Center,
please let us know four oh twofive five eight eleven ten four h two
five five eight eleven ten News Radioeleven ten KFAB And then we had Reeve
call in, which was a greatcall. Reeve said that he saw a
little rope tornado, very small thatactually was on the ground and it just
didn't look like it was going anywhere. It was a very slow moving,

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you know, cell of rain thatapparently PopEd this thing up. When there
is no severe weather watches or warningsanywhere in that region. But we haven't
heard anything beyond that, so weare given the all clear. Just heavy
rainfall in certain spots, so beon the lookout for that as the rain
moves through. So Greg emailed inreal quick and I'll get to the phones

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in a second. But said,Hi, I'm Riyan Matt. Maybe five
years or so ago, there's awaterspout on Lake Manawa and counts of bluffs.
It was the same type of deal. No weather watches it all.
The tornado pretty much stayed on thelake for about five minutes, hardly moved
it all. You could see itfrom all over. There's some crazy video
from the guys that were dredging thelake at the time, maybe one hundred
yards away. You just never know, you don't, you don't. There

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was no there was nothing on ourlike quite proverbial radar right that anything like
this was going to happen. Sowe're trying to keep you safe out there.
And if you saw anything like that, it's an open, fun like
fight. I'd love to talk toyou for two five, five, eight
eleven ten. Also, are wekeeping an eyeball on the Nebraska Cornhusker baseball
team who we're playing right now.They are playing Florida in the first game

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of the NCAA Regional down in Oklahomaat Stillwater, and they are tight at
one. Brett Sears Big ten Pictureof the Year just got out of a
runners on the corners jam with lessthan two outs and a couple of back
to back strikeouts to get out ofthe jam, So still one one.
Husker's about to come up in thebottom of the second and have a chance
to take the lead in the bottomof the second, but very early there.

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We'll keep you posted on how that'sgoing. Back to the phones.
Four two five, five, eighteleven ten, Larry's on the line.
Larry, Thanks so much for holdingand me on part of our show today.
What do you want to talk about? Yeah, hi am Marie talking
about recombent. I'd like to knowpeople's views on whether two wheels ought to
be in the front or the backof a recombent. Oh now we're talking

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now, this is a real conversation, Larry. I think I've only ever
seen the two wheels in the backthough, right, yeah, you can
get them in the front. Itseems made like they'd handle better. I
p two in the front. Yeah, that's probably true. That's probably true.
Why not four wheels? Is that? Or is that no longer a
bike? You know what I mean? Yeah? You know what I mean.
Like, all of a sudden,you got a pedal cart if it's

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four wheels, like now we callit a cart. I don't know.
Yeah, let's go with that.Larry's like, you're a moron. Pal.
Hey, Larry, appreciate you callingin, buddy. Do you have
her coming by the way, No, No, I'm sure talking about getting
one. I want one a littleelectric now? Oh yeah, that that
assists to help you get up thosehills. You know you're just cruising?

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Oh heck, you you might aswell just have a cart. Then Larry
like like to put a fourth wheelon there and then you need to stroll
around like you got a motor vehicleor something dirt bike with lie. Oh
yeah, well, I mean therethere's something else like that. Hey,
Larry, appreciate you calling in man. Bye. BET's on a phone line
four two, five, five,eight to eleventon Beth, Welcome to the

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show. Hi, I'm calling fromColumbus. And when you were talking about
the tornado, the sun was outhere in Columbus. What Yeah, Plat
Center, where that reid was comingfrom, is ten miles north of US
and question's about thirty miles north ofUS. PLA. He's a really big
county and Columbus is kind of downin that south west part down by the

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river. Sure. Well, yeah, it is Columbus, the biggest city
though, right, Like it's thecounty seat. Okay, So that's why
I'm seeing Columbus on the Yeah.So I see the Columbus on the map,
and that's like the only thing.I'll be honest, I still don't
know my cities very well and wherethey are. So I was just kind
of trying to talk within the relationto where Columbus was versus where all this

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stuff was happening north of you,guys, but it was sunny where you
This is what we're talking about here. It was sunny in the southern part
of Platt County while the northern partof Platte County was dealing with like a
pop up tornado warning. It wasn'teven a pop up shower. It was
a pop up tornado warning. Andthey saw a tornado about five miles south
of Creston there, So pretty wildstuff. Our warnings didn't even go off

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unless it's within the city limits becausewe're so spread out. Okay, one
today, I tell you that wealso have a recumbent bike, but it's
a stationary one and my husband's seventyfive and he rides that thing twenty six
miles every other day. Wow.Okay, so stationary. So it's kind
of like one of those that youcan just sit on and like watch TV.
And he has like a like aplastic chair seat and the pedals are

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about a foot off the floor kindof in front of you instead of straight
down like I'm a regular, right, So you're kind of able to recline
a little bit, and then youcan watch TV while you're doing a little
more comfortable, especially if you havenew year back issues. It's great for
old people like us. Well,that's I'm glad that you guys are enjoying
it. I certainly am not goingto judge. It's just I don't like
forty two year old recumbent bike guywho talks about being a big time bicyclist

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when all he does is, youknow, ride his bike from his house,
yeah, to the bar on thetrail. Those things are hard to
see in the traffic too. Yeah. Yeah, see it's kind of dangerous.
See, that's what I'm saying.You're so low to the ground,
like a regular bicyclist will be comingup on you like, oh geez,
man, didn't even see you there, You know what I mean? Yeah,
yeah, I need flags or thosetriangle things on the back of your

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seat. Right. And then thenrecumbent bike guy, is it so cool
to be out on your recumbent bike? Eh? All right, Beth,
appreciate you coming in. Thanks.All right, let's got a Bradd.
Brad is on a phone line fourh two five five eight eleven ten for
an open phone line Friday. HelloBrad, what are you thinking? About
well, okay, piggybacking on thatguy that's uh said, there's a cool

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video of that water spout and alight Maniwa. There's also a YouTube video
that I've shown several people of aplane landing at Epley that has that video.
They saw it from the plane.Yeah, they got it from the
airplane. Just just search water spoutin the lake, Maniwa, and it'll

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show you that they never moved.Okay, So I'm finding this right now,
water spout Lake Manawa. Man,No, oh there it is,
maybe there it is. Okay,Okay, I got it. I got
it. Look at that? Whatthat was wild? Look at that?

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That is crazy. It's just thisreally skinny thing that goes into the sky
all the way down to the lake. How is that even possible? I
just want to know how how how'sthat even possible? How is science even?
Like? How does that even happen? Like the air is perfectly over
that cylinder and it just like itjust stays there. I don't even know.

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If I would have seen that withmy own eyes, I would have
still not believed it. That isjust wild to me, all right,
the airplane, Oh yeah, sure, it's just like yeah, well,
please don't fly over that. Please, please don't fly over that. No,
that's great. Appreciate the call,Brad. That's good stuff. We
also heard that there was fish rainingdown on places for a mile around,

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you know, And that would makesome sense, wasn't it. If that
thing was just like guzzling up whateverwas underneath it and just like shooting it
into the sky, that'd be prettycrazy, right, Like you're just hanging
out, you have no idea what'sgoing on, and then all of a
sudden, a couple of fish landin your yard. Yeah, it's crazy,
all right, Brad. Appreciate youcalling in man, Yeah you too,
all right, all right, gotdid you see this thing that just

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came in over here? Did yousee it from the weather Service? Yeah,
you see it? Reports of afunnel cloud at two thirty. They
watched a funnel for five minutes beforeI lifted. And this is Pierce County?
Where's Pierce County? Help me out? And Matt's going to our makeshift
map that we made after the firstbig storm that I was like, you
know what, I need a mapwith all this stuff on it? Is

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that not even like on our littleit must just be to the further west,
So Pierce County a little bit furtherwest where a lot of this stuff
is happening. The Randolph fire chiefspotted a funnel cloud at two forty one.
Two forty one. Okay, nowthis is way west of us.
But we're basically just talking about andmarveling at how this just came out of

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nothing. It came out of nothing, and this is such a slow moving
thing that and it's moving north.I mean like Norfolk Ish that. Yeah,
Pierce County is just north and slightlywest of Norfolk. You mean Norfolk?
Hey, Tomato, Tomatow, Isuppose. Hey, people yelled at
me when I first moved here,and I'm gonna yell at you. Yeah,

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but not everybody says it that way. But why not? I see
the L, I say the Land the word. All right, fair
enough, it's north Fork though,because I was yelled at when I said
Norfolk that one time. Well,just because someone yells at you doesn't mean
you should change your opinion or yourfeelings that's true, or the facts or
the facts. Well, I meanit does have an L in it.
Let's just let's stew that out thereanyway. Okay, So just to the

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north of that is where Pierce isand where Randolph is where apparently the Randolph
fire chief himself has reported to theWeather Service at two forty one, six
or seven minutes ago that he sawfunnel cloud there. We have no tornado
warnings in Nebraska. This is ridiculous. This is wild. If you are
in this region, if you're aRoundolph, Pierce, if you were in

(25:56):
the h what was Where was Reeveat? Where was Reeve Plat, Plat
Center, Platt Simmis, Well hewas over there, he was, he
said, Platt Center, though hesaid Creston, Well he was. He's
near Creston or Creston. I mean, you can call in if you're doing
Creston too, call in. Wewant to hear what you saw today.
Four h two five five eight eleventen. If you have anything on your
mind. Four two five five eighteleven ten, it's an open phone line.

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Friday at news radio eleven ten,kfab Yeah, what's JP thinking?
Airy? He said, Emory,are you a weather dunce or what?
Check the National Weather Service website andput two and two together. There are
several things in action, lots ofmoisture and clouds, sunlight that warms the
cloud tops and breaks through to warmthings up jet support. Look at the
derived winds on the satellite picture atfifty miles per hour or more. You

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are following the radar. Why theNational Weather Circus does not have a severe
thunderstore watching north of Columbus is beyondme? Well, JP, since you
were so nice to me, Isuppose I'm going to be as nice to
you as you were to me.Moron, here's the thing, JP,
I'm looking at the NAT there's noWeather Service right now? Was that nice

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enough? JP? I don't knowwhat we're yelling about. We sit here
and what is our source? Matt? What? What? What? What's
our source? What is our source? Our source? Oh, it's it's
the weather dot I am, Iem bought, which is the National Weather

(27:26):
Service National Weather Then we have theNational Weather Service, National Oceanic and Atmosphere
Administration. Their entire website is rightin front of us. You know what
we don't have, though, iswe don't have the National Weather Circus.
So maybe he was talking about somethingcompletely different. That's fair, that's fair.
Hey, JP, Maybe start theconversation something else. If you think
that you are an expert. Ifthere's such if, if you're such an

(27:47):
expert, why don't you tell mewhy the National Weather Service doesn't have a
severe thunderstorm watch, a severe thunderstormwarning or anything like that while these tornadoes
are allegedly popping up to the northwestof where we're sitting right now, JP,
mister expert, Am I a weatherdunce or what? I don't know?
JP, I'm just talking about whatI'm seeing here from the National Weather

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Service. Everything is going to beokay, fair enough? Sorry, Sorry
everybody? Sorry again? He meantthe National Weather Circus. I wonder if
he is more familiar with circuses thanwe are. All I'm saying is you
could start the email being a littlebit nicer. I'm here for you,
you know, well, like,can we get an attitude check at the
door? JP? I'm sorry?Is there a reason you're so hostile?

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Is there a reason that you walkedinto our conversation here acting like I did
something wrong by just saying I haveno idea why tornadoes came up and there's
no other severe weather statements. Fairquestion, I would say, But apparently,
according to our friend JP, I'ma weather dunce. That's a new
one. Matt that's a new one. Yeah, a weather dunce. You

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know what, I'm gonna give itlike a two out of ten because it
could have been an illiterate a littlebit next time, JP, How do
you alliterate dunks? Though? Like, is there a word that's a synonym
for weather that could start with aD? Or do you need to find
a dob word that you know couldinsult me, like the word dunts could?
Yeah? Probably because you want tostick with weather. So so weather

(29:19):
wimp. Yeah, well that doesn'tmake any sense. Just because you're a
wimp doesn't mean you're stupid. Imean if you said weather wimp, I'd
be like, yeah, so bigwoop want to fight about it? Whether
worrier, I don't think that's theright term. Whether wonderer, Yes,

(29:41):
I'm a weather wonderer. I've beenwondering about what the weather is doing?
My bad JP, geez anyway,open full line Friday Trump trial or coming
bikes tornadoes so that the northwest ofUS apparently uh calling me names? I
guess is on the table now fouroh two, five, five, eleven
ten. I'll take your calls righthere on news radio eleven ten kfab before

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we get back to the phones.Number one, we're looking at the weather.
We haven't seen anything that would tellus anything other than just a few
funnel clouds. But we have tobe careful because funnel clouds and tornadoes are
apparently different things. Matt. Thereis a special weather statement for different parts
of the northern part of our listeningarea in Nebraska, like Boone, Butler,
Cedar, Colfax, Coming, Madison, Pierce, Platte, Seward,

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Stanton, Thurston, Wayne that funnelclouds because of atmospheric conditions, could end
up just popping up get a fewhundred feet out of the cloud itself,
not generally going to get onto theground. Even though we did have a
report of one specific tornado that wasconfirmed about five miles south of Creston,
this was long time ago. Thisis almost an hour ago now, but

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that was the one that we knewwas actually on the ground. The rest
of them are just funnel clouds thatare in the sky. Those are apparently
not the same thing, and that'swhy we're not under tornado watches or generally
tornado warnings. Seeing some of theserandom things pop up. We're trying to
get the most information or the bestinformation that we can, and we'll do
the best that we can on thatfront. Our friend Kelsey, by the
way, emailed in and gave ussome ideas for how we could make fun

(31:14):
of each other with better weather relatedinsults besides JP's weather dunce that he called
me. You ready to hear thesesounds like a whole lot of not nice.
Well that's the point, Matt.We just want to be smart about
this, We want to be educated. This is good, This is good,
all right. First one is climateclown. Now we're talking. I'm

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already in, I'm already in Kelsey. A forecast phony, yes, yes,
a cumulo, nimbus, nincome poop. Now, there's a lot of
syllables in that one. It's gonnatake a little bit to roll that one
off the tongue, but that's apretty good one. And a thunderstorm thickhead.

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Now I haven't heard people called athickhead for a while, So I
mean, I guess what's going on? But ABC or D here, Matt,
climate clown, forecast phony, cumulonimbus, and nincome poop or thunderstorm thickhead?
I choose E. I think there'sa lot of anger right now in
today's society, and I've been noticingit as I drive around. I swear

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I was driving my way to worktoday and I got like cut off a
couple times. Is everyone just madright now? Do we all just need
to take a deep breath and getover ourselves a little bit? So I
choose e. Thanks for playing Matt. Happy to have you on the show
today. JP emails back in andsays, obviously you don't put two and
two together. There are a lotof Air Force weather experts at off At
Air Force Base. There are thousandsof Air Force weather forecaster technicians throughout the

(32:43):
world. Yes, I am aveteran weather forecaster technician. All Air Force
weather folks have tornadoes drilled into them. If any other Air Force weather folks
are listening, they're laughing at youlike I am. You are a weather
dunce. To your credit, yourhumility in admitting it is mendable. So
here is why the tornadoes happened.Water vapor is lighter than air. When

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it is warmed by the sun andcontact with the ground, it rises to
make thunderstorm clouds. The jet streamthat you can see with the derived motion
winds is in the right spot tocreate extra lift that equals a tornado.
This is pretty rare, but happens. Try reaching out to off it to
see if some of the smart weatherpeople will talk with you on air.
Well, this was a much betterworded email there, JP, But I

(33:28):
hate to tell you this. Ihave no background in meteorology. I have
absolutely no idea why you would thinkthat I would be an expert on such
things. And by the way,I'm asking people what they saw, because
not even the National Weather Service,the people you told me to go to
their website to find out what wasgoing on, not even they could tell
me why this happened, at leastnot yet. We're working on it.

(33:50):
Gee, money, calm down,pal, I know it's your job,
and geez, people are telling mehow to do my job all the time.
You would think maybe somebody who isan admitted not smart in the weather,
you'd give me a little bit ofgrace here. But alas whatever to
the phones, whatever it is,what it is, I can take it.
I can take it on the chin. Whether you can take it out

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there, that's for you to decide. Four two, five, five,
eight, eleven ten. Jeremy's onthe line. Jeremy, welcome to the
show today. How you doing,guys, Thanks for taking my call.
Yeah, I just want to opinea little bit on the on that email
that you got with all the nicknames. Yeah, I think climate clown is
a great one, but I thinkit should be reserved for the actual climate

(34:34):
clown, like people that think thatthe global warming is the is like the
powerful, you know, like there'ssome impact over that. So you want
to you want to reserve you wantto reserve that specific insult for a different
kind of climate clown. Correct,Okay, okay, okay. But the
reason I called is and I'm hopingyou guys can help me out. It's

(34:57):
kind of a two part thing here. One, it's rhetorical because I don't
anything will happen, but due it'sa little bit of a request for information.
I've been listening and I haven't heard. This is regarding Nebraska taxes and
just a real quick I don't wantto tie up, you know, the
phone lines too long, but realquick background. I researched and compared state
by state because I retired from themilitary a few years ago and I'm thinking,
Okay, where do I want tolive? And I didn't want to

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live in the state with a witha terrible tax structure. I'm born and
raised in Nebraska. I had tocome home. But I looked at all
I looked at and compared, andNebraska was I'm not getting forty seven out
of fifty states when you talk taxstructure, that was very hard hard to
see, you understand. But myquestion is why won't our government and I

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hope somebody listened it out there,why won't our government look at ways to
generate revenue? What I learned inmy research is that every state has an
operating budget. I get, itmakes perfect sense, but only some states
are dumb enough to get that operatingbudget off the facts of their own citizens.
You know, you've got numerous statesthroughout the country that they get their

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money from tourism. You know,in Texas, a lion's share of their
Texas or tax revenue comes from corporationsyou know that moved to Texas. That's
yeah, okay, they're they're kindof taking it from their citizens, but
not directly because there's no income tax, you know what I mean. So
the question is where, what havewe talked about, what's been on the

(36:27):
table to bring tourists to Nebraska?What can we create that's like like Vegas
and Nevada, right, I meanVegas pays for all of Nevada tacks.
Yeah, okay, well what doyou suggest, Jeremy, What do I
suggest? Yeah, that's a littlesilly because it's nuanced, but it's something
that I like, I have alot of friends that I know about drive

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all the way to Oklahoma so thatthey can cruise around in their off road
vehicles, be it a side byside, you know, u TV,
ATVs, whatever, dirt bikes,because Oklahoma's pretty well known for white swaps
the land where you could just drewsaround and do whatever. Okay, well
if there was something like that inNebraska, I mean we've got I think
hundreds of thousands, millions probably ofuh square miles of uh so you you

(37:15):
want to you're suggesting, Jeremy,that to turn the some of the open
lands that we have and turn thoseinto like atv Haven's it's it's it's not
a real legitimate suggestion, but it'shopefully it's something. Right. But you're
seeing other states have stuff like thatthat that that they are able to generate

(37:35):
at least people coming in and stimulatingtheir economy. But I guess, do
you have a realistic one? LikeI talked about marijuana last week, is
like something that could alleviate taxes,and everybody just told me that was a
stupid idea. So I mean,like, I mean, I'm willing to
talk about how to alleviate the taxesoff the backs of the middle class in
this state, especially my property taxesin Omaha. I mean, I got
my evaluation and I'm not happy withand I'm sure most of my names aren't

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happy with it, and we're allgoing to probably protest and some of us
will maybe lose a few of thosedollars, some of us will just lose
all together. But what, like, how what is a realistic option here?
Because if we can't think of one, how can we expect the legislators
who are representing to come up witha good one. Well, part of
the problem is I don't know whatthe operating budget is. I mean,

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I'm sure you know, a fewhours online, I could probably dig into
it and figure it out. AndI don't care that much. Those who
do know the budget would know wherethere's room because maybe I don't know,
Maybe it's a massive theme park,you know that draws people in you know,
even look at South Dakota. Yeah, okay, so Jeremy, this
is that's a good point. Okay. So like like like getting the land

(38:43):
set up for a TV haven ora theme park, which you know I
obviously loved going to, or youknow, casinos and all this stuff.
It takes a lot of work tobuild this stuff up. But I think
the bigger question that for me Ihave when we talk about this is,
you know, it takes an investmentto do this. You know, we
live in a state also that's incrediblyread and the idea of paying money now

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to invest in the future isn't alwaysa popular one, you know, like
you talk about building arenas or stadiums, you talk about building a streetcar,
which could, over ten to fifteenyears, drastically increase the value of people's
land if they wanted to sell itanywhere near that thing, because that has
been proven in other cities that havesimilar public transportations. But the idea of

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like, well, I don't wantto pay for it right now because I
have to pay for it, andI don't care what's going to happen in
fifteen years from now kind of thing. So I guess my big thing is
we have to be willing to throughthinking outside of the box on this.
I think there's a lot of thingsthat we can talk about, but we
have to be willing to invest potentiallyinto something that could become a greater tax

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benefit for us into the future.If that makes sense, Yeah, I'm
with you one hundred percent. Iwould say the streetcar business. You know,
that's a non starter. He's cominginto Braskt to write our goofy little
street cars and you might be right, Jeremy, but I'm saying that there's
a way to potentially alleviate taxes withouteven needing to bring in tourists, right,

(40:10):
Like the idea of that is like, hey, yeah, it's going
to cost us money now, butthat being there is going to help the
people, not just for the transportationobviously, but also the people that are
living close to that thing. Mostof those properties are going to be valued
upwards if they wanted to sell theirproperty, because people will want to live
where cheap and easy to access publictransportation is. And that's been proven in

(40:34):
other cities that have the same typeof thing. You know, sure,
if you're if you're that that mightnot be a good answer. If you're
not in Omaha. I guess that'san Omaha thing. But that's just an
example, you know what I mean. So I don't know. I appreciate
the call, Jeremy. This isgood to think about here, and I
appreciate you being a part of theshow. All right, Uh, you
can call in. We'll get toyour calls. Mark, Greg, everybody

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else calling in. Four O twofive five, eight eleven ten. It's
an open phone line, Friday NewsRadio eleven ten. Kfab help us with
revenue that could help alleviate taxes thatare on the backs of these middle class
families throughout the state of Nebraska.And that's what we're talking about right now.
Four oh two five five eight eleventen. Four oh two five five
eight eleven ten. And we gotMark on the phone lines with us.

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Mark, welcome to the show today. What are you thinking about on this?
Yeah, thanks for taking my call. You know, the last caller
was right on the button. Ithink you weren't around Omaha at the time.
But when the Convention Center was built, we had the opportunity to legalize
gambling, and the conservative governor atthe time was fighting it like they do

(41:38):
now. Excuse me and the VenetianHotel was going to build where the Hillton
is at no cost to the taxpayers, but they didn't want to because because
they were above gambling in this state. Huh, Pardoner, is that because
they were above gambling if you willat least yeah, yeah, the conservative

(42:01):
leadership of the state's always been opposedto gambling. They've been opposed to legalizing
marijuana. All those are sources ofrevenue. Yeah, well, Governor Mark,
sorry to interrupt. I had themarijuana conversation last week. I don't
know if you heard a lot ofit, but I had quite a bit
of people pushing back and said,we don't want any of that stuff here.
We don't care about how much moneyit makes. At what point do

(42:22):
you draw the line on what shouldor shouldn't be profitable here? And I'm
just saying, you tell you can'ttell me that we have a tax revenue
problem and refuse every single thing thatwe're trying to come up with that would
help us with tax revenue. Youmean you mean that? Who's so you're
saying you're you're for gambling or no, I am, Mark. I don't

(42:43):
know. Maybe there's some disconnect withthe way that you're listening to me talk
Mark, I'm with you one hundredand ten percent. I'm a I'm a
big time like I'm from Iowa.The casinos make millions and millions and millions
of dollars to the communities of Iowa. That is one hundred percent true.
And and marijuana. I was missingthe boat on that too, But I
brought that up as a legit amittopic of conversation last week. If something
that I think could help property taxesin this state, and I had a

(43:05):
ton of people call in and saythey didn't want that because they didn't want
the degenerate lifestyle that that would bringto our cities. And I just don't
know if I can agree with that. If we're complaining about our tax revenue,
I agree with one hundred percent.And I mean, I mean gambling
is so many states that gambling,And you can't tell me that it's bringing
in issues that outweigh the benefits ofgambling. I'm just not buying it.

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The same with legalizing recreational marijuana.Yeah, there's always going to be issues
with things like that, but thebenefits are going to weigh outweigh the cost.
And I think if we want toget serious about lowering taxes. We
have to start thinking of issues likethat or solutions like that to get some
additional revenue in this state. Yeah, and Mark, I and that's the

(43:52):
thing about conservatism, and I talkedabout it like this, and I'll say
this again. I think there's adifference between social conservatism and physcal conserism.
If you if you are a fiscalconservative, I mean, we're talking about
this stuff every day until we legalizeit. If you're a social conservative,
you don't want any of this stuffbecause of the personal values that you have
and you want your community to have, even if you have to pay a

(44:13):
ton of taxes. And I guessyou're just going to have to make in
this situation with as high as ourtaxes are in Nebraska and Almaha specifically,
there's no way that you can tellme you can be both, because there's
just no way. I agree.Mark. Appreciate you thinking of us and
listening to us today. Thanks forrecall. Greg's on a line four two,
five, five, eight eleven ten. Hello, Greg, what's up.
Hello, It's a wonderful Friday.I've got something totally radical that you've

(44:37):
been talking about as far as property. How about less spending. How about
going through the books and finding atleast ten percent ways in every budget that
any city, state, or countryputs forward, there is so much waste.
If you raise ten times as muchincome, the politicians will spend it

(45:00):
and not lower any of your propertytaxes. It just isn't going to happen,
Okay. And that's hey, Greg, that's fair. Yep, appreciate
you calling in. That's totally fair. I think that the answer to that
question, though, is we haveto get to our politicians and explain to
them exactly why we are so angryabout the way that our taxes are set
up. Right, and then wehave to like people that say they're going

(45:22):
to do something, but whether ornot they actually do it is a completely
different thing. When they get tooffice, you know how that goes all
of a sudden, they realize howmuch red tape there is, and they
realize how much you know, bookkeepingthey would have to do to make sure
something like that were to even happen. And that, to me is that's
one of the things one of thereasons why a lot of people don't want
to run for offices because all thisthe crazy procedural stuff. And I talked

(45:44):
about this with the Trump trial too, the crazy procedural stuff that you have
to do to make things work properly, even though no matter what you would
think that we would believe or learn, our lesson is to not believe some
of the stuff that we're being promisedby these be politicians. Tom's on the
line, Tom, what do yougot on your mind today? I just

(46:04):
wanted to mention I've been listening andall these guys they have their points,
but the government, from the local, state, federal, they're never going
to lower our taxes no matter whatwe do. And they're addicted to our
money and they're just going to keepgrowing the size of government. We can
have gambling, we can then legalizemarijuana. They're not going to lower our
taxes because of it. They'll findmore ways to spend more of our money

(46:30):
once they get it. They willnever reduce the amount of money they get.
They can say they're lowering property taxes, but they really don't. They
change the mill levey when the valuationchanges, they're not going to lower the
amount of money they get. Well, Tom, I will tell you this.
When you talk a little bit likethat, it's real gloom and doom.

(46:52):
But you're probably right. I appreciateyou calling it. You bet all
right, Well I continue this conversationto move on as well, stick around
having some fun today on a Friday, open phone line Friday, by the
way, So if you want tocall in, you can four two five
five eight to eleven ten and whatever'son your mind. I'm pleasantly surprised we
haven't had to rebring up the Trumpverdict after spending a lot of time on
yesterday. But if that is whatyou want to talk about, or you

(47:14):
want to talk about anything else,you can four h two to five,
five eight to eleven ten is thenumber if you want to initiate a conversation
on news radio eleven ten. Kfabgracious enough to join us on the phone
line right now is Suzanne Forton.She's the meteorologist in charge at the National
Weather Service in the Omaha area.And first off, Suzanne, thanks so
much for being on my radio showtoday. Oh you're welcome. Okay,

(47:35):
okay, you guys are obviously payingattention to anything in this area. This
is a very northwest portion of whatyou guys are paying attention to geographically,
so can you try to explain tous what conditions led to what we ended
up seeing in the last couple ofhours. Well, yes, there's this
very small scale, upper level kindof squirrel in the atmosphere that actually originated

(48:00):
with thunderstorms that developed across northeast Coloradoand the western Nebraska Panhandle last night.
And the time is was just sothat as that little kind of swirling atmosphere
happened to move in to the areajust to the northwest of Omaha, right

(48:21):
during the peak of heating in theatmosphere, and it interacted with the stalled
funnel boundary, and all those kindof things coming together helped to basically develop
these these funnel clouds and that aweak tornado just to the northwest of here.

(48:44):
It it's one of those situations whereit's a very small scale feature in
the atmosphere. Was time just perfectlyto move across our area and to kind
of tap into that moisture and alittle bit of heating that we received during
the day to produce these very small, small scale tornadoes and these funnel clouds.

(49:12):
We're speaking with Suzanne Forton. He'sa meteorologists in charge at the National
Weather Service in the Omaha area.Okay, so up north of Columbus,
south of Norfolk is kind of likewhere this really heavy rain and this stuff
was kind of popping up for alittle while with these little funnel clouds.
But I, like I mentioned before, there wasn't a severe weather or you
know, severe thunderstorm watch or awarning or anything, which is kind of

(49:34):
surprising. And for these people thatsaw like this tornado. We had to
call our call in and say,hey, we saw this thing in Platt
Center. Just a little tiny ropetornado that was you know, over there,
but you know you could see itand there were no sirens or anything
like that. So this is theseare really just kind of unpredictable. And
was this something that you guys wereable to you know kind of because I
see there's a severe weather statement orhas this out weather outlook on your guys's

(49:57):
website here? Exactly how does thatwork with this kind of unpredictable spottiness of
what these things are? Well fantasticoutwards, Well, it's just one of
those things where you know, weutilize you know, simulations of the atmosphere
to kind of predict and these kindof small scale features like the like I

(50:21):
say, this thing originated from somethunderstorm activity last evening and just took a
time moving across Nebraska. Sometimes thosejust aren't caught in the forecast models that
we use for prediction, and wehave to use real time data to to
kind of get an idea of what'sgoing to happen, because it's that that

(50:42):
signal is is not in the forecastmodels we use, and we use real
time information to kind of then createa model of our own of how we
think that things are going to evolve. So, you know, there wasn't
a severe thunderstorm watch in effect fromthe Storm Prediction Center. Usually for these

(51:05):
very small scale events they tend notto issue issue watches in general. Obviously
there was impact to the individuals thatsaw it u the tornado and the funnel
clouds. Uh and you know weyou know, after getting the information,
we took took action and did issuea tornado warning on this the tornado event.

(51:25):
So again it's something that you know, it we didn't have that information
and some of the forecast models,but sometimes you know, a model is
a model and it and it doesn'talways represent reality. And so we we
took steps to to kind of stayto give people alerts and warnings to prepare

(51:46):
for any contactivity that did evolve fromthis, this little small scale feature of
moving across the area. This iswhy we want to talk to the experts
of people who do know explaining allthe things that we have questions about.
Suzanne Fortune, you're allowed meteorologist incharge at the National Weather Service in the
Omaha area. Thanks so much forgetting on the show with us. We
really appreciate you explaining it. Youdid excellent. Thank you so much for

(52:08):
being on with us this Friday.Okay, you're welcome and stay safe out
there, everybody, all right,Thank you so much. I really appreciate
that. Hey, you know what, they give you us a lot of
information. I love her candidness aboutyou know, the reason that there wasn't
a warning until we actually saw thisthing was because we didn't have the model,
did not have this in the prediction, and that totally. Meteorology is

(52:30):
so tricky. Anybody who thinks thatit should be a more exact science,
you should probably give it a try. I'm not even gonna pretend like I
know how or why some of thisstuff would have happened. And that's why
we called the National Weather Service.Big thanks to Suzanne Forton for joining us
today. Let's go back to ouropen phone line. Friday, four h
two five five, eight eleven ten. Alex is on the line. Alex,
welcome to the show today. Thankyou for holding what's on your mind?

(52:51):
Well, first of all, Ican't believe that you didn't know all
that off the top of your head. I mean, everybody's a fourth great
education. Yeah, I know,Alex, I know, I'm just incredibly
unresolved that Iowa education is coming outevery single day. You know what I'm
saying. Well, we've got asingle or double header here for you.
So here's the as far as taxes, yeah, your drive around the country,
even the western Nebraska. The onething we miss is tourism. And

(53:15):
what happens in this state is wedon't build anything that attracts people to come
here. So if you go tothe DA code, as you go to
Missouri, you go anywhere. Now, granted, the topography is different.
I'm sure that word means, youknow, yeah, to school, but
the topography is different. But thereare places in Nebraska we actually build dams,

(53:36):
generate electricity and then build a recreationcenter that generates revenue for the state.
I mean Gavin's point, damn payfor itself. The first year was
built the first year, Okay,So I like, can I just I
don't want you to get too faron the call, and then we have
to circle back to this. Soa lot of people will tell me,
and this is again, this iswhat I've been told, because I'm not
going to patten like I'm a Nebraskaexpert at this point, I barely even

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know we're Stanton County is But Iwant to let you know that a lot
of people have told me. Whenyou get west of Lincoln, there's a
pretty sparse population figure in a lotof those areas. What kind of infrastructure
could even support something like that tobring people to those places outside of Lincoln
in Omaha, that's where oppd NebraskaPublic Power whoever has to go in and

(54:22):
build a dam. You build adam, you flood thousands of acres.
You know, you can find acresland that's not necessarily agricultural land. You
know, you get out west,it's it's worse. Okay, You go,
you know these other places and there'sdoctors, marinas, there's cabins that
the state rents out it generates money. It generates revenue. So so okay,

(54:44):
so these let me go link goback to Iowa. I always got
ninety or one hundred state parks andI've go to some and it's it's a
really cool. A lot of thelakes and stuff are completely man made,
and that does generate revenue, atleast for the D and R. And
I mean I drive to a lotof places I never would have gone otherwise
just to camp or be at thelake. Are you suggesting that's kind of

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like a thing that you think makessense. Absolutely, it generates restaurants,
hotels, camping sites, that boats, sails. All this stuff just grows
around this. And I mean,you know we would we love to go
out and camp and have fun,but you've got to have a place to
do it. And I just brokeby two rivers. What's a great place
if there's not a body of waterto put a boat. They build all

(55:28):
these dam sites around Omaha, butyou can't put anything besides the canoe on
them, and then they put thesebig houses around it instead of selling the
lands, and developers who are goingto build million dollar homes, which granted,
you know, make thirty thousand dollarsyear in revenue, build cabins,
make it a destination for people tocome camp, enjoy the families, and
spend money in Nebraska who don't livein Nebraska. I like the idea,

(55:52):
Alex, I just wonder what thelike the logistics of that, especially considering
the most of Nebraska's private land.I don't know how you would go about
acquiring that and then putting it inspots. Like you said, the topography
isn't necessarily super friendly for tourism becauseof how flat it is, but there's
a lot of places that I'm surewould love that opportunity. Everything I hear
about, like North Nebraska near theNiabrera River sounds like the kind of haven

(56:15):
that you're suggesting that we put inmore spots in the state. I don't
disagree with that. I just wonderlogistically what it would take to build that,
and it obviously would be an investmentat first, but then what happens
after that to try to like createthe you know, you need a little
bit more of the city or thetown that's nearby to be able to have
that kind of infrastructure to welcome somany people, so people have places to

(56:37):
eat, people have places to shopfor supplies, people have places to you
know, stimulate that local economy.And you have to start thinking about all
of that kind of in the samevein before you even get to and that's
before we even acquire the land todo that. So I don't disagree with
the idea. I think it's agood idea. I just wonder how many
steps do we get to before we'deven have a chance to even have that

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available to anybody to go to andif you know, we would even see
any sort of revenue from that fora decade while they try to figure out
ways to do that. Well,if you look at like McConaughey, most
of the people who go to McConaugheyare from Colorado. Sure that makes sense
because they don't have a lake outthere that's not freezing when you get into
it, all right, so thatincome come from Colorado and Wyoming. It's

(57:19):
interesting, Alex, Hey, Iappreciate you calling in, though I love
brainstorming some ideas like this. Thankyou for calling in. Take care all
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Hey? Are you doing? Hey? Good? Hey, listen what
I'm hearing repeatedly about our tax problemand stuff like that. You're ex the

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in the room and the gorilla inthe room is our tax space. We
have a million people. We're losingyou. Chris, is there are is
there a way you can get toa better spot for your reception there?
Because you're breaking up, I canbarely understand. Okay, well I'll probably
have to call back another time.Okay, sorry, Chris, Uh yeah,

(58:51):
yeah, I want to have thatdiscussion, but I also want to
understand what he's saying. And youknow, I don't want him to like
go on and us just be confusedas to what he's saying. So,
but Chris, please feel free tocall back when you get yourself into a
spot that we have better reception.Obviously, I'm sure these clouds aren't helping
out too much. We had Matthewemail in saying, as you know,
and Rerida Moyne has adventure land inNebraska, had bupkiss we should build an

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amusement park. Where would you putan amusement park in Nebraska? Because de
Moine has eventuallyland, he says,but it's really in Altuna. It's like
a suburb, just soutside out ofthe way of the moin in the actual
city. So out there in likeGretina Elkhorn, there's space out there,
isn't they. Yeah, Yeah,like somewhere between Lincoln and Omaha to where
the Lincoln people would feel like theycan come and it's just a real quick

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trip because people come from all overthe state of Iowa to go to adventure
Land, right, people come fromOmaha to go to adventure Land. He
also says casinos would help as well, and they would, they would,
But again, much like we hada caller earlier that said straight up that
casinos have been combated by conservative politicians. That to me just doesn't make a
whole lot of sense. But again, I got into a lot of trouble

(59:59):
with a lot of listeners by sayingthat I tend to support the financial link
in the financial increase that we wouldget by having either medicinal and or recreational
marijuana legalized in this state, becauseI see the money that is put together
in what is brought in by thesevarious states that have legalization. But I'm

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just not so sure that this stateseems ready for that, at least the
politicians don't seem to be. Andbecause that same can be said for the
casinos. Mike, real quick,here is on the line. Hey Mike,
welcome to the show. What's up? I wanted to thank kfab for
Heaven's its good weather forecast when thestorm's out, know what, nobody else
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for letting us now. Yeah,so if you're won, he's probably talking
about what we were talking about withthe little pop up tornado that happened in

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practiced are we over the last monthand a half on this particular show of
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