Open Phone Line Friday: Surge Price Parking

Episode Transcript

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My friends at the Henry Darley Zoo. I saw opened officially the Hubbard Orangutan
Forest to the public. This issomething I've not been to. Have you
Have you been to the zoo forthe orangutans when that was open before they
started the renovation Over the last coupleof years, I have, and then
I have been very excitedly awaiting thisenclosure. I was actually there last weekend

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and it looked very It looked veryclose to being opened. Asked a zoo
worker and they told me, yeah, this week Thursday or Friday. So
here we are. It looks reallycool and I just I don't know the
zoo man, what a time.You can have a great time there.
It's ridiculously cool. And then youlook at the timing of this. You

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have the College World series in town, all these people who have probably heard,
you know, the bed Zoo inthe United States. It's over there
in Omaha. Oh boy, thatZoo's going to be packed. Oh yeah,
oh yeah, with a lot ofpeople who've never been. And that's
what you like to see. Haveyou seen those TV shows like Secrets of
the Zoo on like net National Geographic? Yeah, I watch those they have

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like the Tampa Zoo and the ColumbusZoo and one of the zoos in North
Carolina. They have the Torongo Zooin Australia, all sorts of zoos.
And I asked jac what would ittake to like, you guys have so
much space and so many awesome things, why couldn't you potentially do something like
that? And obviously it's a lot. You know, you have camera crew

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following you around the entire time.You'd have to, you know, give
them some stuff to look at,some stuff to film things like that,
and you know, I don't know, I find the TV show. I
kind of want to go to someof these zoos that I see. I
would be interested in checking those out. I'm sure there are some people around
the country who might be doing thatfor the Omaha Zoo as well, So

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we'll see if that ever happens.But I think it'd be a lot of
fun to see them on the TVshow. Not that they need the publicity
because they definitely have great publicity aroundthe country already for the fact that they
have been voted best sue in thecountry once again. It is to twenty
one. So the spoke about theIowa primary, which happened last gosh Tuesday.

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Was it on Tuesday this week orwas it last week? Again?
My days mixed up. I thinkit was last week. I honestly don't
remember. Man. I thought itwas like, it's probably last week.
But yeah, the big race forthe Democrats in the primary was in the
third Congressional district, which included DesMoines, and it was a landslide.
It was a massive victory for LenanBecom and he it was interesting because this

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is a guy, I mean,he's like next in line, right,
So that's the issue. Who wasgoing to be next in line for this
particular Democratic district because they could couldbe competitive and potentially take this seat away
from Zach Nunn, the sitting Republicanthat's in that it's in there right now.
Well, he is a combat veteran, he's far an agriculture official,

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and things of that nature have obviouslybeen important in Iowa for a very long
time. And he said, hesays that, you know, he's a
guy that could bring that together.He could bring this entire district, the
entire state. He'd like to seethis together. But now he has gone

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into his ex account or his Twitteraccount and scrubbed a bunch of anti Trump
and a bunch of pro Biden poststhat were made well before he became a
candidate for this particular district and forthis seat. Why is that important,
Well, because he was Iowa's deputystate director for President Biden's campaign in twenty

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twenty. He also worked on theHillary Clinton ke president's campaign. And he
also worked on the Amy Klobashar campaignwhen she was running for office as well
back in twenty sixteen. So theNational Republican Congressional can trying to see right
through this and basically say it's clearLenan Becom is desperately trying to run from
his past as a paid political activist, hide his extreme stances, and lie

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to the voters of Iowa. Votersdeserve to know the real Lenan Becom outside
his phony campaign ads and tampered withsocial media. So that, in so
many ways, is part of theissue in America as it sits right now,
is that you have these politicians thatare trying to run for office.
You have politicians that are trying totell you that they are one type of

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person, but it's really just tofit into what their political party and what
their campaign managers think is going tomake them the most electable in their district,
or in their state or in thecountry. And as far as Lenan
Becom is concerned, he knows thathe's uphill battle outside of Polk County,

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where Des Moines is located. Buthe's going to try to achieve some sort
of support with a lot of thosepeople. And one of the reasons he's
going to be able to do that, he's going to try to play that
middle card in a way that makeshim a more likable and more reasonable candidate
for maybe some of those independent votersin the rural counties than Zach Nunn is.
But don't ever fall for that,ladies and gentlemen, because a Democrat

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is so much more Democrat than theyever will be a Republican no matter what
they try to sell you. AndI think it is important to note,
if you are an independent voter thatLenan Becom, despite not having active posts
that you can find on social mediathat are very pro Biden and very anti
Trump, that is where his brainand where his heart truly lies. And

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if anybody in the third district insouthwestern southern Iowa and central Iowa try to
make that determination. I tell youwhat, it is definitely going to be
a problem for them to overcome withthe Iowa voter who sees right through that
because of the conservative values that they'redesperately going to try to uphold. Now,

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whether or not people are happy withZach done is a completely different conversation.
Things act none as maybe a sixtyfive to seventy percent Republican on the
conservative scale is much better than whatLennan B. Becom would be, which
is, you know, a tento fifteen percent Republican on the voting scale,
maybe even worse than that, andreally only thinking about representing the Des
Moines area and that urban area incenter of the entire district. So we'll

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see what happens. It's interesting theNational Republican Congression Committe's already umped onto that
before they even had a chance totalk about it. Into the future as
well. Right now, it's tootwenty six. We'll continue to roll on.
If you have some thoughts you wantto call us about anything that's on
your mind from this week, anythingthat we've talked about throughout the week,
or anything that's on your mind atall about anything. It is open.
Phoneline Friday you can call in fouroh two five five eight eleven ten.

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Four h two five five eight eleventen. I'd love to chat with you
right here on news radio eleven tenKfab. Emrie Sunger on news radio eleven
ten Kfab. Welcome to Omaha,ladies and gentlemen. Really appreciate uh,
everybody for making the trip just toget either a rained on or b They're
they're getting potentially potentially just smoked outif you will, on Sunday, but

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the games will go on. They'lldo the best that they can to get
those games in at any point andvarious points throughout. Bob's on the line
four two eight eleven ten. Bob, thanks for calling in on open phone
line Friday. What's on your mind? Hi, Amory? Hey, Hey,
I got a question. Okay,I went down to the College world
Sayers last night on a way Iam the course. And how come they

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don't have the celebrations like they usedto, you know, with the teams
marching in and you know, activitiesin the in the playing field and stuff.
Can you like, like, whatdo you mean, Bob, Well,
in the year's past, they wouldhave the teams march out on the

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field of baseball teams on the daybefore. Yeah, came in from the
center field and they would introduce theteams and you know, they would have
presentations and you know, just itwas a fun, fun environment. Yeah,
I guess I wouldn't. I don'tknow, Bob, I didn't know
that was happening before. This isthe first time I've been in Omaha when

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this happened. I based on myunderstanding, it would be I think the
logistics of it. The teams hadopen practice kind of various times throughout the
day yesterday, and my guess isthat they wanted to get back to their
hotel or have their own like peprallies with their own teams at various points
for the fans. That'd be myguess. I don't know how well attended

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those things were. I don't knowwhere they were very good. Yeah,
So I guess I don't know,Bob. I wish I had an answer
for you, But yeah, itsounds like a good time. But obviously
it's going to be a good timejust to be, you know, in
the mix when these games are goingon as well. So sure, no,
definitely I understand that. But Ijust that was a question when I

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walk down there, I go,where's all the fun at? You know?
And another question I have. Iwas just parking and this poor lady
was standing there and she goes thirtydollars to park. Yeah, so that
I did discover the thirty dollars parkinglast year. So any any like thing

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within a very small amount of space, like within a couple of blocks of
the of the stadium. It isindeed even on Sunday because I found that
out because we came on a Sundaylast year, it did thirty dollars.
So I think number one, theywant people who want to park to have
the ability to park in those spots. At the same time, they want
people to park further away in amore affordable spots and then either scooter or

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walk down to the festivities to tryto keep it as light in traffic as
possible. But yeah, you're notgonna catch me paying for one of those
thirty dollars spots. There's absolutely noway. And you know that poor lady
she goes, you know, shecomes in from Utah to for her son's
baseball tournament, and she the firstthing she goes, she goes thirty dollars,

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and I go Hey, I almostsaid it's yeah, well, yeah,
it's it's the College World Series,and yeah, I mean it's going
to be it's going to be amoney making venture for them for sure.
The way that they are able tomake that money. Yeah, yeah,
they're there to make money. ThanksBob. I appreciate the call. Okay,

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thank you. Yep. By what'sthe amount of parking that you'd be
willing to pay for the convenience ofit? Thirty is too much for Emory,
it's too much for me. AndI was going to say, I
wonder how much Uber would cost,and then I'm sure their prices are up
right now too. Anytime you're goinganywhere in that vicinity, you're okay.
So this is this is my strategybecause I got a buddy coming in on
Sunday. I'm gonna go down theretomorrow for sure. I haven't decided if

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I'm going to make it down tonight. My wife's out of town tonight,
but tomorrow and Sunday I'm going downthere. Here's my game plan. I
am going to drive and park streetparking far away, like like five six
blocks. If I feel the urge, I might use one of those motorized
scooters because there are a couple oflittle nooks that they have open that you

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can park there, and then you'relike just right next to all the activity.
You can't actually operate the scooters inthis in like the whole block party
area, it's all very red.You can't park the scooters there. You
can't operate the scooters through there.So you have to be very careful about
the way that you do those things. But as far as the I would

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park in downtown somewhere further away,park like by the hour, which is
like a dollar or whatever. Rightat maximum it would be like what six
or seven hours, Maybe it's likeseven or let's just say, like up
to ten dollars, And it makesway more sense than like paying thirty dollars
to be really close. That makessense. Yeah, you get a little
walk, little exercise, get thesteps in. Don't have to worry.

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It's going to be a lot easierto get out of there too. Yeah,
let me think about that. OnSunday, you might you might show
up with a little sweaty I'm gonnabe so sweaty, so sweaty. Well
open full one Friday. Maybe thinkabout this. How much would you pay
for parking, like how much onyour mind? Like is too much?
We'll talk about that and anything elseyou want to talk about. Just call
us a four h two five fiveeight eleven ten four h two five five

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eight eleven ten, news Radio eleventen kfab em Ry's songer share It with
Someone You Love on news Radio eleventen kfab thirty dollars. Parking is indeed
back in the immediate radius of theCollege World Series as well. And let's
go to the phones to uh Wes. Wes is on the line about parking.

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Wes, welcome to the show.It's up. It's been it's been
five or six years since I've attendedthe game. But we used to park
over on the city the city lotat on Jackson's Street much at the Jackson's
Street tavern. And then a buscame by and for twenty five cents took
us to the ballpark. Now that'sthen the return the return transportation was twenty

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five cents. Well, I don'tknow if they still do that, but
it was a cheap way to getthere without parking problem. Yeah, yeah,
I'm sure there is. There's gotto be a shuttle. I mean,
I take shuttles to uh like theCreighton games and stuff from bars around
town. And that's so much betterthan just like halving to park down there.
It's so much better. And wait, check it it was a city

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bus. I mean it was acity transportation. Yeah, I guess.
I don't know. I'm sure itwouldn't be twenty five cents anymore. But
I definitely think that there's a there'sdefinitely a market for that if they wanted,
if they still were doing that.Hey, whats appreciate the info.
Thanks for calling in you. Let'sgo to Mark Mark's on Fune line four
oh two, five five, eighteleven ten. Mark, what's up?
Hellove Mark? I appreciate you guys. Take my phone call. Yeah,

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no problem, Mark, what's onyour mind? Well, I'm not talking
about parking, but I hate theway they tells everything like that, Omaha
jacked up the prices three to four. I won't mention the business, but
I told her I'm a blue collarworker. I like my money. I
don't like giving them away, andwe will never jack the prices up.
Yeah. Well, well yeah that'sthe thing Mark, for sure, at

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least from my Perspectiveuch, your radiodown, I'm here in the radio.
I'm sorry, Yeah, yeah,just to turn that down so I can
hear you better. Okay, Soyeah, that idea Obviously, it's capitalism
at work. They know that theycan jack stuff up because the availability that
the people that are coming in don'tcare about the hotel prices. They'll pay

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for the hotel to stay there nomatter what. But yeah, it's it's
not super conducive for total affordability forpeople in the immediate vicinity of Omaha based
on what the prices generally are.And we know what the prices generally are.
These people coming from you know,the Carolinas or Florida or Louisiana or
Texas or whatever, they don't knowwhat the regular prices are. So yeah,

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yeah, I agree. I justthink it's kind of a rip off
for a blue collar workers at Yeah, we live paycheck to paycheck, Yeah
for sure. And that's another thingabout the tickets to the games. You
know, like there's always this concernabout sports in general, but the College
Bold Series is in that conversation aswell, where it's like the middle class
get kind of getting priced out.You have to be very picky and choosy

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or hope that you get a reallygood deal because these tickets have gotten a
lot more expensive than they were eventen fifteen years ago. You know what
I'm saying. Oh, I agreewith you completely on that, but I
do appreciate you taking my phone call. Thanks for colling in, Mark.
We really appreciate you colling in listeningto the show, all right, Yeah,
blessing one brother, Yeah you too. Steve's on a phone line four
O two five five eight eleven ten, Steve, what's going on? Thank

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good afternoon. Anyway, I justwant to let you know I just got
back from the twsitt and go tothe game. We just went down to
the festivities. But what I dois I parked on the north side of
the mall, pade a buck anhour walk four or five blocks in and
out. Yeah, I see.That's how to do it right there.
And what you paid like three totaldollars there, Steve. Actually I only
put two bucks in and I wasstill out the time. There you go.

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That's how you do it right there, if you can find a spot
on the street. You know,Saturday and Sunday might be a little tricky,
but no, for sure. Heysee, appreciate the info. Thanks
for calling in. You're welcome.I got Kim on the phone line four
two five five eight eleven ten.Kim, what do you want to talk
about today? I was listening toyour subject conversation with yesterday about abortion,

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and I was just so impressed thatthere were so many men that called in
and were standing up for life,and I just simply wanted to say I
was just really impressed with that,and I wish all the fathers in the
listening area very happy follow's day.Hey, Kim, thank you so much
for the positive calling. Thanks somuch for listening to our show. We

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really appreciate it. Yep, you'rewelcome. Thanks thanks for having me talk
absolutely no, thank you for callingin open full one Friday. You can
call in too for two five five, eight eleven ten. Yeah, we
had a great conversation as so youcan find that on the Emorysunger podcast page.
Kfab dot com had Oma Police Departmentofficer Chris Gordon send me an email

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said they stopped the opening ceremonies afew years ago based on direct feedback from
the participating teams. So that's goodinformation. That would be my guest.
Don't you think, Hey, weflew in, we got here we have
an open practice on that the daybefore, and we just want to like
do our media stuff that we aresupposed to do, get to the hotel,

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unwind a little bit, meet withour fans, and get ready for
the ballgames. Don't you think thatthat's that was always probably the most likely
scenario for that, that the teamsare just like this, we we we
we're gonna be playing on this field. We don't we don't need to be
there the day before, Like yeah, but also I can see it from
the fans perspective if they miss it, you know, imagine, I mean,
do you think that there are anyOlympians who are kind of like,

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you know what, this whole openingceremony thing kind of really cramps my style.
I'd really like to fit in afew more you know, training sessions
or maybe just be able to relaxuntil my event starts. Well, they
do it for the people at homeand the fans too. I don't know
that's the conversation there really. Yeah, Well, obviously big thanks to Officer
Chris Gordon with the Omaha Police Departmentfor the information. But that sounds that

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it makes sense that the teams wouldbe like, hey, you know it
just right, doesn't make sense forus, and you know we're here to
win a baseball championship. Got moreemails about parking that we'll get to,
and anybody who wants to be apart of the conversation, you can open
phone line Friday four ROH two fivefive eight eleven ten four ROH two five
five eight eleven ten and we'll continuethis conversation, will update you on what

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the College World Series game is doingbetween North Carolina and Virginia. And we'll
also get to a Friday four laterin the show. All sorts of fun
stuff on tap. Don't go anywhere. It's going to be a fun Friday
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has begun. Boy, So wewere talking about parking. Have you come
to price point? I feel likeI feel like ten bucks is kind of
like if I have to pay morethan ten dollars to park now, it
depends on where we're at, right, Like if you're talking like have you
been to like the Kansas City Chiefsor Royals games where it's just those two

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in a parking lot, or ifyou go to like the White Sox games,
they're kind of all by themselves.You really don't have a choice,
all right, Like if it's twentybucks to park, you're just kind of
half You kind of just have tobudget that. In had a guy call
in who said when he goes toa Chiefs games, he pays sixty bucks
to park. What sixty bucks?What it's the price? I mean,

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what sixty dollars? Yeah, sixhundred pennies. It's six thousand pennies,
six thousand pennies. I was justmaking sure you're paying attention. That didn't
sound right, Yeah, six thousandpennies. Uh what they pave Paradise to
put up a parking parking lot?Is that, Sheryl Crow Michael Scott h

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No, seriously, sixty dollars,Yeah, that's what he said, sixty
bucks. My cutoff, I wouldsay is like ten if it's if I
would if it's ten or above,and if it's a single digit number,
can you find that anymore? Idon't know. But if it's like eight
bucks to park, I'm not goingto cry about it. Yeah, but
That's my thing though, is likethat's obviously cheaper. I want that option.

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It just depends on how far awayI have to go to park in
a spot like that. Yeah,at the College World Series. If you
are lucky enough to find a streetparking spot, generally you'll be able to
do that. Gosh, like I'mtrying to think, like it's like six
five or six blocks probably hourly parking. I think the very best option is
just having a friend who can dropyou off and pick you up. Yeah,

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Luber do that. How much isyour uber cut off? I've never
actually taken an uber Well, Itake that back. I have once,
but I didn't pay for it.It was it was an old friend of
our group and they covered the uberthat that night. I'm an uber guy.
I like Uber and lyft. Ithink they're incredibly useful. It just

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kind of depends. Like when we'reon vacation. My wife and I were
in Orlando. We did six themeparks in six days. Like, I'm
not driving into all these parking lots, so every day, like we didn't
rent the car. We just tookubers every single day, and it was
like fifteen fifteen bucks or so pertrip so theoretically that's like thirty dollars a
day for transportation, But I don'thave to worry about anything worth it to

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me. Twenty twenty five bucks touber from my house ten minutes down to
where the College World Series is,that's a lot. That's the thing,
though, Uber and lyft like,depending on where you're going or where you're
at, and what the concentration levelis of potential customers and the busyness rate
and how slow it's going through thatarea because traffic is slow around the ballpark

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because of the traffic, the trafficmakes itself slower, and the fact that
there are a lot of streets thatyou just can't drive down in that area
while the party's going on. SoI guess twenty twenty five bucks I probably
would pay if I knew I wasgoing to be down there and try to
get you know, shlammered, schnockered, whatever, plastered, whatever, whatever

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adjective you want to throw in there. But is that worth it, because
then you have to pay twenty bucksprobably to get out of there, unless
you want to walk, which ismy strategy when I'm trying to leave.
I'll just walk blocks in a directionand then pull up uber and the price
will be radically different because I'm farenough away from the activity that makes sense.
There are strategies to this. I'mnot sure. I'm not sure.

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You kind of hit or miss.And it's also like if okay, so
if you're going with people, right, So, like, how many people
are in your uber this time?Was four of us? I think maybe
five? Four of us? Let'ssay four? And how much do you
think did he say how much theuber was? Let's just say it's like
thirty bucks. Divided that by four. All of a sudden, it's like
eight dollars a guy, or alittle less than eight dollars a guy,

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and you can split the cost,and all of a sudden it becomes way
more affordable. It's a great carpoolingoption when you're going by yourself and it's
a little pricey thirty dollars to parkon anywhere near down there. I'm just
not that is a non starter forme. Sixty dollars. I would never
go to a game. I'm sorry, Like, I don't like if the
Chiefs were my team and they arenot. I've been very critical of the

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Chiefs because I sorry, and callme a hater. That's fine, But
my whole thing is I want togo and enjoy a good time and not
have to worry about any kind ofback breaking situation. Right, Like,
I'm a Bears fan. I've beento a few Bears games. You go

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down there, and like, justdriving on Michigan Avenue, dude, is
like a nightmare fuel for me,Like those guys who've done it for so
long, Like the taxi cab driversare just weaving in and out all this
stuff, and it scares me todeath. I would much rather pay you
fifty dollars to drive me down thereif I had to, so, I
guess I'm a hypocrite in that sensebecause I'd rather just get dropped off.

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But I don't have to worry aboutgetting myself out of there. You know
how long it tastes to get outof a parking lot after a game,
too, Like when the game ends, like Kansas City, it takes you
at least an hour to get outof there, because there's only really one
way in and one way out inthat parking lot. There are a ton
of lanes, but getting in andthen getting out, and you're paying sixty
bucks for the right just to beparked down there. It sounds terrible to

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me. I'm sorry. That's whereI'm at on that. It's three fifteen.
When we come back, I'm goingto talk to you about American Airlines
because there was a passenger who theyhad to duct tape to a seat and
gag her because she was trying toopen the cabin door during the middle of
a flight. Is this not thebiggest If you want to talk about nightmare
fuel and I'm going on a transatlanticflight in a couple months, we're gonna

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we're gonna talk about this and ournightmare situations potentially in the air, and
you can share your stories if youhave some four oh two five five eight
eleven ten four oh two five fiveeight eleven ten News Radio eleven ten Kfab,
Emery Sunger on news Radio eleven tenkfab. Longest flight that you've been
on? Have you been on along flight before? I went all the

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way to Italy and that was along flight. Sure that was an overnight
flight, that'd be long. Yeah. Do you ever have any uh,
like little paranoia moments in your brain, like about the things possibly could go
wrong. I'm typically an optimistic guy, but I'm always kind of what's the
what's that rule, what could gowrong? Will go wrong kind of thing.

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I also have that going on inmy head. So so do you
have any like paranoias about that.I can't say that I've really had that.
I don't know. I've had theflights that I've been on. I
haven't been on a ton of flights, but the several flights that I've been
on have been smooth and inconsequential.Murphy's law, that's that's what I was
talking about. Murphy's law. Ah, anything that can go wrong will go

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wrong. Now, I don't necessarilybelieve that. There's just like a thing
in my brain that's just like,hey, don't forget that there's a chance
that something crazy could happen while we'reup here. And like you said,
I've been on several flights. Now, the craziest thing that ever happened to
me was I had to go tothe bathroom and walk to the bathroom three
different times, and somebody was inthere, so I had to hold it

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for like so long, and thenby the time it was like I they
were about to say, hey,you know, buckle up, we're about
to descend, and I'm like I'dhave to go so bad and somebody's in
there all the time and they letme go. But yeah, I mean
I was, like I was withinabout five minutes, probably a pee of
my pants there. That would havebeen a bad deal. They can they

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get you for that, because theyprobably would have been able to tell,
right, get you? What doyou mean, like like find you?
Yeah? Yeah, because because youknow homeboy Petere's pants. I mean,
it's it's not healthy. You couldprobably hide it, wouldn't you try to
hide it? Well? Of courseI try to hide it. Like if
I'm wearing like a shorts or somethinglike I'm probably wearing shorts on this flight.

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How do you hide that? Doyou just wear a diaper just in
case? Probably go to the bathroomand ring it out. But I couldn't
get into the bathroom. That wasmy problem. Yeah, you'd have to
wait for that part. Oh yeah, justar terrible. Well. I bring
this up because the FAA, who'sthe governing body of flights, are pursuing

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this woman a record eighty one andfifty dollars. That's a lot of money
for people like us. That's alot of money. She's being sued though,
because She's a thirty four year old. She bit kicked, spat at
the staff and fellow passengers an hourinto a flight in twenty twenty one from
Dallas to Charlotte. That's not eventhat long a flight. It's like two

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hours long. Anyway, She's theplane apparently also had been delayed three hours
before, departed at midnight, sothis is over overnight. That doesn't help
obviously. Like there was a timewhere I was I was in Vegas,
I was leaving Vegas. I wentfrom Vegas to Denver and then from Denver
back to Des Moines, and Igot on the plane and I was tired.

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I stayed up all night. Ipulled one of those where I stayed
up in the casinos all night toget tired so I could sleep on the
flights. But I knew I hada layover pretty quick, so I slept.
Got to Denver. Everything was good. My layover was only like an
hour and a half, got myselfa little bit of food, and got
back on the plane. Fell asleepas soon as I sat down on the

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plane. I was on an Iwas in the middle seat, by the
way, and I don't know anybodyaround me, So you can't just like
lean one way or the other.But I have one of those pillows,
and I sat there and kind of, you know, I fell asleep like
as soon as I sat down,which was great. And then I woke
up and we had moved yet,or at least I was like, are
we? Like I tried to kindof piece together what's going on, Like
are we in des Moines? Andit's like, no, We've been sitting

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here for about an hour and theyare there's like some tiny little thing with
one of the wings that they needmaintenance to like adjust or double check on.
Oh no, that fired me up, dude, because you're trapped there
right, Like there's just that feelingof you're just trapped on this tube with
the strangers. I can get why, like some anxiety could bubble up a

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little bit there, but I wouldnever think to like start throwing a fit
about it, Like what's anybody goingto be able to do? Like,
like, who's going to be ableto fix that? Nobody? You know
what I mean. That's not gonnahelp anything. But anyway, A TikTok
user found the or took video ofthis and put it on social media,
and she's screaming as she's sitting there, and they had to duct tape her

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to her seat and they gagged her. Basically, they put duct tape around
her mouth too, which apparently islike the protocol when you have somebody like
this that's going insane. She triedto open the front cabin door in the
middle of the flight, and inorder for them to restrain her, they
just took they duct taped her.They restrained her in the seat, duct
taped her. And now she isbeing fursued and fined almost eighty two thousand

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dollars, which is the most thatanybody has ever been fined in those penalties
for this kind of thing. Andnow that she's being sued because apparently they
haven't received their money. But Iyou remember, was it last year?
Maybe it was the year before.I can't remember it. Maybe it was
last year. Was the woman whosaid who went crazy on the flight and

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was pointing to the back of theplane saying that blankety blank back there is
not real? Yeah, and shewas like tripping out And she still won't
tell us what she saw. No, but she's very public now, she's
got a ton of followers on socialmedia. It made her famous. Yeah,
It's kind of clever because don't youfeel like part of the people still
checking in on her is like,is she gonna say no, if you

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have a secret that big, don'ttell it. Well, yeah, especially
when you could just write a booklike the rest of these fools do.
Oh yeah, her book will becoming out at some point. Mm hmmm,
wait till the fame has kind ofdimmed a little bit and then released
the book. It's like putting logson a fire, you know. Yeah,
well, I think, but that'sthe Yeah, that's a good,
good analogy. I think a biggerthing for her would be she is kind

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of trying to recover at least alittle bit her reputation, and I think
her just disappearing for like a monthor two months after that happened was important
because I'm sure she lost her job. I mean, like, how do
you remain employed in a public companylike I think she was like in management
or human resources or something unless sheworked for a Haunted house and then they

(32:46):
probably promoted. They're like, youknow what, we had you working in
the wrong part of the building andyou're the VP now. Yeah. So
but but then you know, afterthat, she created a Twitter account and
like Instagram and all that stuff.She's not on OnlyFans like, which is
what Like the first thing, she'shot, dude, she's she's an attractive

(33:08):
woman. You would think, likethe first play is just to go out
and do some only fans. Shesaid she's never gonna do that, which
is interesting, right, Like there'snot women like that. You can make
a ton of money doing that.I read a story about this teacher that
got in trouble for doing only fanson the side. Eh, that's pretty
weird, isn't it. A teacherdoing only fans on the side, but

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she's making more on only fans thanshe is a teacher. Yeah, I
think that's a that's a pretty that'sethically very quite the gray area of ethics
there. How can you be areal legitimate teacher and at the same time
have a very successful OnlyFans account thatis pretty accessible to anyone anywhere. Like

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I don't know if they can putparameters on what, like they can keep
like within fifty miles of this school, do not allow your your geography,
but you could VPN that and peoplelike students would still be able to see
it. Right, That's not good, right, Well, I would imagine
depending on what kind of teacher shewas. I don't know if it was

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higher ed or I think it was. I think it was just I don't
have the details on that in frontof me, but I think it was.
She was just like public, likea public school employee. Ah,
and she did an OnlyFans and makingmaking bank, making bank, dude.
But this girl is her name's TiffanyGomas. If anybody wants to look her
up, the crazy airplane Lady.She's got two hundred and eighty three thousand

(34:34):
followers right now on Twitter. Shewent from a year ago nobody knowing anything
about her to now she is legitimatelylike she is, like she's famous.
She's famous on the internet. Ifthis was all a ploy to, you
know, become notable and famous andget followers and endorsements, kudos because she

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obviously figured out the secret ingredient there. Well, Tiffany go Also, I
think she she is very politically rightas well. Like she's she's from Texas,
and she seems according to her socialmedia. I'm just scrolling through here.
I don't follow her all the time, but she seems to be very

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politically more conservative and Republican. Sothere you go, ladies. You know,
I just gave you your new hero, Tiffany Gomas, the hot airline
crazy chick on social media. Gofind her and knock yourself out. Three
twenty nine. I'll tell you whatmy personal airplane fears are, and we'll

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take your calls on an open phoneline Friday. Just stick around on news
radio eleven ten kfab. Emery's Sungeron news radio eleven ten KFAB. I
have like four different people that haveemailed in and said there are places that
you can go get picked up bya bus and go down there for a
pretty affordable price, kind of likewhat Creighton does. Yeah, imagine,
okay, and you know what that'slike, that's ideal, it's just the

(36:00):
the question is you just don't wantto miss like the last one that goes
back to where it came from,right, because you're not just going down.
You're not all going down for theone game and then back. I
mean you could be going down formultiple I see what you mean. Yeah,
yeah, so there you go.Uh. Airlines were kind of the
other thing that we talked about.And this passenger, her name's Heather Wells.

(36:22):
She's thirty four, which is gonnabe basically my age by the time
I go to Spain. I hopeI'm not crazy. I hope I don't
go crazy do people. You thinkpeople take like like gummies, you know,
those kind of gummies before they geton planes and stuff to try to
like I don't know, like flintstones. No, No, you know,

(36:44):
like the the Spensery gummies, likesomething that they can do to Oh,
like the bubble gum you get youput the penny in and you twist it
and pops out. If you canfind a bubble gum for a penny,
I'd like to know where. Yeah, I remember those days. No,
you know, it's like, uh, yeah, you think you think some
of these people are tripping on somethingmakes you wonder? Now the one we

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were talking about last segment. I'vealways wondered that Tiffany Goman And maybe that's
why she doesn't want to say,because it's kind of like, oh,
the obvious answer is she was trippingshe maybe, I mean, where was
the flight to and from was shecoming back from Colorado? Then there's your
answer. Well, I don't know, dude. Okay, So I went
to uh, I went to dC with my buddies now DC, like
you can. They have dispensaries there, but they didn't. Like I had

(37:29):
a couple buddies and I didn't partakebecause I'm not real into that sort of
thing. But uh, they partakein a few exciting interesting ones and uh
like the shrooms. It psychedelic shroomsthat's legal in DC. They got them
at at the dispensary. I don'tknow, really, yeah, I don't
know. I don't I what doI look like the FDA. I don't

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know what these things are. I'mjust a little surprised things are starting to
make more sense about out there.All those politicians say all these weird things
all the time. Yeah no,but I like they were enjoying them,
right, you can get some crazystuff like I'm sure in some of these
places. I'm just I wonder ifwe did like a toxicity thing on these

(38:12):
people if you are drunk. Iknow, I know people that get a
little like physically aggressive when they getdrunk, you know what I mean.
I don't think shrooms are weed gummiesor anything like that creates somebody doing that.
They might be tripping, but theywouldn't be trying to open the door
mid flight, which is what thisperson was trying to do. Ayahuasca and

(38:35):
magic mushrooms are cool in DC.There you go, how about that?
Now the last couple of years aremaking sense. They had the bag and
I was like, I don't thinkso, no thanks anyway, So I
try. I'm trying to understand whyanybody be freaky, like freak out on

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a plane. But how would youreact as a passenger if this there's a
woman there that's obviously or a manlosing their mind spitting. There's a there's
a video going around of a guywho lights up a cigarette on an airplane.
He's like and then she come likea fighting thing that comes by and
like reminds him, Hey, youcan't do that right now. And then

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he like, oh yeah, sorry, that's how that works. How do
you forget that you're on a planeand you can't do that on a plane.
See every once in a while yousee these stories pop up about people
who like go through a wormhole andend up at a different year. You
know, I wonder because what wouldhow would that even happen? I don't
know what public circumstance indoors? Ishe anywhere to anywhere? Right nowhere.

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These days, the only place youcan do that at is inside your private
residence. Yeah, if you're insidea building, well it's funny. Yeah.
So uh. I was in Branson. We stopped at like a hole
in the wall bar and they wereletting people smoke in there. Ah,
in Missouri. I guess you canstill do that in Missouri inside in Nebraska
for a while. It I honestly, I go to these places so rarely.

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I assume this isn't the case anymore. But there was a time when
if you didn't serve food, peoplecould still smoke inside a bar that didn't
serve food. I don't think it'sthat way anymore. No, I was
surprised. I was shocked. Iwas like, man, this is so
weird. I've never and maybe theywere just breaking the rules, Like he
was going to come out in themiddle of nowhere where this bar was.
We just found like this super secretbar and we thought it'd be cool.

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It was not cool. It wasthe opposite of cool. I was like,
this is the most rednecky thing I'veever been. And it wasn't even
just smoking. It was just likethe vibe, right, and you just
feel like you're in the backwoods.This is the kind of place that people
go and they get into like abar fight and one of them doesn't come
out kind of thing like that wasthe vibe that I got Ronhouse. Yeah
yeah, yeah, so yeah,something like that. But it was mostly

(40:51):
empty because it was like during themiddle of the week, and I was
just like it was a weird thing, right, But there were people in
the comments that were like feeling sorryfor the guy because he got obviously in
trouble and he didn't mean to dothat. I was like, what do
you mean he didn't mean to dothat? Like what, how do you
like he just forgot that he wason a tube full of people, Like
that's insane, Like what are wetalking about the same thing. I don't
have. I have no room forin my heart for people losing their minds

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on these airplanes. I can understandthe anxiety of like being on a plane
for a long time a flight delaylike this one was delayed before it took
off, and obviously she was reallyangsty. It was a short flight,
right, But it's like, thisis an insane safety hazard to have somebody
in this tube with all these otherpeople acting crazy. So what would I

(41:37):
do. First of all, I'dbe filming it. I am. I'm
going to be that person, Likeif you're going to act like that,
I am going to document who youare the best that I can and try
to do my due. Delien.This is how this stuff actually, Like
they can use that to get thesepeople in trouble because those people don't deserve
to be on airplanes. I haveno idea if Tiffany Gomes can even get
back on an airplane after her incident, right, and that was before the

(41:59):
plane even took off. I meanshe didn't even get into the air.
This person was in the air tryingto like open doors and stuff, you
know what I mean. Never again, you could never be able to like
go on an airplane after that.Yeah. You can't trust someone who does
that. Yeah, So, likeI want to make sure this person never
gets on a plane again, andI'm going to try to help document what
I'm seeing from my angle to helpout the authorities. Also, if she

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was like anywhere near me, I'llbe honest, I would help. I
think I would physically help to restrainher. Like there's just you can't take
any chances with this stuff. Whatif he or she is like trying to
overpower like the flight attendants in asituation like that and it becomes really violent.
Like you kind of have to beready to play in that point,
don't you. You can't just mindyour own business, right, Like I'm

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if there's a fight happening at thebar or something like, I'm cool,
lighting it happened, I'm cool.Just eh, you know, not my
business. You're doing that on anairplane. It is my business. So
I got like a nine and ahalf hour flight or whatever to Madrid in
September, and I'm not like worriedabout it, But don't think I have
thought about like what would happen ifthat happened. It's like I I hope

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hopefully I can just sleep for awhile. I'm gonna bring a couple of
books. I'm gonna probably try towatch some movies. It's an American Airlines
flight, so I'm not anticipating thatI'm gonna have a TV in the seat
in front of me like I doon the Delta flights I take. Do
you know what's if it's a Boeingor not. Don't even get me started
on the Boeing thing. Please,three forty eight you got thoughts on this,

(43:24):
You got thoughts on flights, yougot thoughts on crazy people, Go
ahead and hit me up. Fourtwo five five eight eleven ten. Four
H two five five eight eleven tenand uh, we'll do some more fun
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(43:45):
become best friends. Yep, theguy from Backstado's coming in h at five
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emissions rules that they're trying to putinto place. Two two is the score

(44:07):
between Virginia and North Carolina right nowas they are in the bottom of the
eighth inning. How about that goodone for the first game. I can't
say the same about the European SoccerChampionships because Germany is up four to one.
Scotland got on the board four toone, though, and Germany's gonna
get off to a great start andbe in good shape to get to the

(44:28):
next to the next round. IH you know, I guess my thoughts
on my thoughts on to wrap upthe airline conversation, right, and we
talked about, you know, someof the substances that some people, based
on their local can be on.I guess my biggest thing is I just
hope that in this age of surveillanceand we take stuff like this so seriously

(44:52):
with airlines, that if there isever anything weird or strange that is going
on at any point, there arecautions in place to take care of people.
And if there are people who areupsetting the balance on whatever's going on,
then hopefully there's people that are doingthat too. But you want to
know the bottom line is, Idon't have any sympathy for anybody who breaks

(45:15):
the rules at an airport. Idon't have any sympathy for anybody who breaks
rules on an airplane. And Ido think my plane is a Boeing.
But let's just fingers cross, Mattthat that thing stays in one piece as
we make our trip over to Spainin September. I did want to also,
I had an email here from Vickysays, is there an update on

(45:36):
the dog that was duct taped inthe dumpster? Remember we had that story
a couple months ago that there wasa dog in Omaha found in a dumpster
with duct tape around its mouth.They were the award for ten thousand dollars.
Last check, I've done some googling. There hasn't been an update in
an obvious update here for a while. There were some details a couple of

(46:00):
weeks ago, but they there wasan affidat, an affidavit and just to
like address this because this was astory that just made me really really angry.
But the idea of him being andhis legs were taped together as well.
But they haven't made any arrests,but they have found out a pattern

(46:24):
of potential animal abuse within the home, right, but they think they're on
the trail. He's just a oneyear old. He was reported missing by
his family on April eleventh. Andyeah, I mean this is the kind
of thing though I don't know what, like what information you would have for

(46:45):
this sort of thing to be ableto get that reward. It's just something
like unless there was some obvious camerawork that was done near where this dumpster
was. But they believe somebody insidethe home potentially that has mental health issues
could have been the one that didthis. So that's as of three fifty

(47:09):
five today, that's that's a coupleweeks ago, so I don't know there's
a whole lot of information beyond that. But if you if you have information,
don't talk to us. We're notthe people to talk to. You
should be contacting the police department asthey continue that kind of investigation and the

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animals, Hopefully the animals are goingto be taken care of the Humane Society
in Nebraska. Humane Society obviously takingthe lead on this one, but we
appreciate everybody for their due diligence andtrying to make sure people are behaving themselves.
Let's just say that there's no roomin this world for that kind of
violence. Three fifty six, allright, Friday four is going to come

(47:52):
on the way. I really appreciateyou for listening and stick with us on
this fun Friday on news radio eleventen KFAB