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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You know what the score is right now? What would
you guess? It's it's about halfway through the third quarter. Oh,
and they play ten minute quarters. Seventy six seventy two.
Serbia with the lead seventy six to seventy two is
awfully high that it's a very physical game these Olympic Games. However,
you are correct that Serbia has the lead. With about
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seven and a half to go in the third quarter,
the Serbians lead the United States fifty seven to forty seven.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Wow, a ten point lead.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
And yes, they have Nicolea Jokic, who happens to be,
by most accounts, the best player in the world right now,
taking on Lebron James and the rest of Team USA.
I just watched Jokic to do insane move on Joel
Embiid make him look like a clown. And now Serbia
leads by twelve. So wow, If Lebron James and this
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superhero team of the United States gets beat by the
it's beat by Serbia.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Here before the gold medal game, loss of failure. Might
have to start calling him Lebron's James. Oh no, you dn't. Yeah, anyway,
I'll keep you posting on that. I just saw the
score and it was very fascinated about what's going on there.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
We got a lot of tickets to give away, too, don't.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
We we Do you want me to just to do
one right now?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Yeah? I probably should.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
All right, let's just see one right now before I
start talking about other stuff. And you can still listen
while you're doing the phones right like out there in
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Speaker 2 (01:38):
It is at the Pinewood Bowl Theater in Lincoln this
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Speaker 1 (01:43):
All right, So forty fifth call call right now four
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and Matt will get take all your calls. Yeah, So
what else are we doing here? Donald Trump talking to
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the media at mar A Laco. He says as far
as the investigation goes, and this is again the assassination,
we have a lot of questions about how this was
allowed to happen, and the investigation is ongoing. But many
people think that the FBI is doing a horrible job
in general. Many people say the CIA and the FBI
really are just trying to take out certain political leaders
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from all over the place. And you know, I don't
know how. I don't know what that looks like. I
don't know what that means. I know a lot of
people are. They have their opinions about stuff like that,
and they're very strong about them. I don't have the
kind of knowledge or immediate information to debunk those, nor
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do I have the information to say that they're completely
untrue or very true.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
You know, I'm kind of with let the experts kind
of tell me what I should think, and then kind
of put some stuff together on that.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
But it's what Donald Trump to say.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
He says, the FBI it's done a very good job
with that investigation.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Here's a quote.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
The FBI came to see me about the shooter. I
think they've done a very good job, and I think
they did a very good job with respect to this
other lunatic that they have in custody, and that's the
Pakistani guy who was arrested in New York that he
was talking about got ties to the government of Iran.
I think was the details there, and there was a
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bigger plot potentially, But he said they're doing a good job.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Do you believe Donald Trump when he says that, Yeah,
I don't know now.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
FBI also said that they think that other former and
current US government officials were targets of whatever plot this
Pakistani man was involved with, and it'll be interesting to
see if there's more fallout. Rarely is that a one
person thing. The Austria thing with Taylor Switz concerts, that
seemed like it was a crazed nineteen year old Austrian
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who was radicalized by ISIS. That seemed like it could
realistically be like a guy and maybe another person potentially,
and they have another guy in custody there. Usually when
you're talking about a plot to assassinate or get or
capture or whatever, multiple people, especially high ranking government officials
in this country, a country like ours, there's usually going
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to be a network of people, and you just got
to get the intel to be able to figure that out.
Donald Trump also said, you know, why isn't he out
on the campaign trail?
Speaker 2 (04:31):
He's you know, JD.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Vance has shown up in Michigan, showing up in Oa Clear,
Wisconsin yesterday afternoon.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Why isn't he out there?
Speaker 1 (04:38):
And Donald Trump basically said, I'm doing a tremendous amount
of taping here. We have commercials that are at a
level I don't think anybody's ever done before. And again
that patent did Trump hyperbole, But yeah, they do a
good job with the ads. But he's saying, I'm speaking
to you on phones, speaking to radio, speaking to television televisions.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Coming over here. What are we doing now?
Speaker 1 (05:02):
He said he's waiting for the after the convention for
him to go on a campaign more and he's going
to go to certain places to help certain senators get elected,
not even for me. Well, if he's waiting that long
as two more weeks before the end of the Democratic
National Convention, which would wrap up on the twenty second
of August, and then if you're thinking about the timeline,
he could do a few different campaign events, not just
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for himself, but maybe for other people trying to get
elected and help you know, you know, rally some support
and drum up some support for some of these other
representatives and Senate candidates. So you know, not just he
potentially could get elected, but he could inherit a Congress
and that would have control for the Republicans in both chambers.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
That obviously would be the goal.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Now, with that being said, the first debate with Kamala
Harris based on the dates that he talked about, and
we mentioned this in the first hour as well. We
talked about that fourth of September would be the first
one and it would be the first of three that
would take place in a three week span.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
So that's a lot of debating.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Then you got to talk about the campaign trail, got
to figure out how you're going to approach and attack
that and how you're going to help other people potentially
get elected like he said he might.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
And that's it's pretty interesting. It's pretty interesting.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Some of the other things that he has talked about
includes the health of his ear. He was asked about
his ear and he says it's pretty much recovered. I'm
a fast healer, doesn't have any hearing damage or anything
like that, but he said, very small scar.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
You wouldn't even be able to tell.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Now as far as that goes in as far as
all this other stuff in relation to Donald Trump, Kamala
Harris another thing that has popped up that he has
specifically said, Well, where is Kamala Now? She's going out
onto the campaign trail. She's shown up to all these
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swing states along with her new running mate Tim Waltz,
but she's not answering questions. It's been almost three full
weeks since Joe Biden dipped out said I'm not running
for reelection. In those three weeks almost we haven't heard
her answer questions from the press. Now, we have heard
her speak on a variety of topics, we've heard her
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at her own campaign rallies, but we've not heard her
answer any questions from anyone. Joe Biden didn't answer questions
from anybody for roughly eight eight and a half months.
It was from like like it was the NATO thing.
Was that early June July? It was early July. I think, yeah,
I was like maybe mid July. He does the NATO
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summit and does a press conference there and takes questions,
and that was the first time he had done that
since November of last year. Why in Korean John Pierre,
I know is meeting with the press all the time.
I don't want to hear from Karan John Pierre. The
American public doesn't need to hear from Karan John Pierre
try to spin everything in a way that makes the
White House look like they're doing everything right. You can
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only challenge somebody like Karan John Pierre, which is going
to just protect the people that actually matter as much
as possible. I don't have any opinions on Korean jump here.
Why would I. She doesn't legislate for me. She literally
is just a liaison from or she's supposed to be
for the White House administration to the American press and
the international press. You could ask her any question you want.
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You could probably predict the answer. There's not a whole
lot of stuff that you learn by listening to those
press conferences that she does. Why isn't the administration either
Kamala Harris.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Or Joe Biden? And where's Joe Biden been?
Speaker 1 (08:31):
He hadn't said anything for a while, you know, And
I know he's on the campaign trail, but he's still
got a job to do. President of the United States
still needs to have like some sort of presence right.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Pretty interesting.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
They haven't taken him or put him anywhere on the
campaign trail nowhere. You would think like, if you want
to have like a real united Front and show that
you know, he's really behind Kamala Harris and she can
do the job, and you're happy to step aside for
whatever is going to happen here, what are we what
are we talking about here? I'm not like I again.
This is me trying to be an America citizen who's
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well informed. You have every single one of these people
on the Democratic side of the administration trying to act
like they're all one big, happy family. There's a ton
of infighting going on about Israel. We talked about that.
There was a ton of infighting about whether or not
Joe Biden should be the candidate until he stepped aside.
Isn't it weird now that he's recovered from COVID nineteen
and allegedly going to continue to be healthy enough to
be the president of the United States that we haven't
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heard or seen him. If you want that united Front
that you've been talking about, why wouldn't he be at
one of these rallies in Philadelphia or Eclaire, Wisconsin or
anywhere else. Had somebody email me and say, hey, Emory,
I was talking to somebody who was in the Oaclaire area,
or maybe as was even at that event that they
had in Eclaire. A ton of Minnesota license plates that
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made the drive over, according to this person, that were
in Eclaire for that event. So a healthy chunk of
the big crowd in that outdoor event that the Democrats
did yesterday in Oclaire, Wisconsin for Harris and Waltz of
Sultan's made the drive over. This is that's fine Minnesota
unless those people move and change their addresses and live
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and complete whatever situation they need to win this election.
Just kind of like Jerry Manner themselves over into Wisconsin
or Michigan or anywhere else that's a swing state.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Those people are going to vote in Minnesota, and Minnesota
is not really up for grabs. I know Donald Trump is.
Some of the Republicans said, oh, we think we might
be able to flip it. Not with Walt like Walt's
being on the ticket, You're not gonna I don't think
realistically win and I don't ever think that was a
true thing that you thought about. But man, I don't
know where are these people? Why aren't they getting out
in front of the cameras. Why aren't they answering questions
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from the press. Those are things that I'd be very
interested in. All right, it is three eighteen, Matt, are
you there?
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Are you alive? I'm alive. Did we get a winner
for the John Fogerty thing? We sure did? Who was it?
Let me go back there and find out. Uh?
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Oh, I already forgot his name. Oh sorry, we get
a lot of names. It's difficult. Sometimes it's difficult, you
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Yeah, it's difficult. Pity me. Oh you still haven't found it.
I was trying to buy you some time. Oh yeah,
I need slightly more time clicking one last place? Oh yeah,
Brad and Bennington? Oh yeah that guy, Yeah, that one,
that person. Nice talking with you, Brad, and have a
great time at the Pinewood Bowl Theater in Lincoln to
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Speaker 1 (11:33):
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Speaker 2 (11:36):
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Speaker 2 (12:03):
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Speaker 1 (12:07):
There's a lot going on in the world today, and
we talked about what Donald Trump has said in his presser,
which is always, you know, an interesting conversation and we
always appreciate it when our politicians actually get in front
of the press and do interviews. Did want to give
a little bit of a score update heading to the
fourth quarter. Matt, are you still there or are you
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on the phone still? He's on the pune still, but yeah, no.
The United States men's basketball team in trouble heading to
the fourth quarter in the Olympic semi finals against Serbia.
Nicole jokicch and some of his buddies, the Serbians got
up by as many as fifteen points. They lead by
thirteen heading into the fourth quarter.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
We will let you know how that continues to go
as time moves forward.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Here this interesting week in politics.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Is one of the things that I think we need
to be most cognizant about is.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
How easily movable.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
I think the independent voter's attention span is from one
thing to the other.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
And this is why it's difficult.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
You know, we talk about the polls a lot, and
I think polling is important to monitor, but it's interesting
to watch the trends of the polls based on favorability
or unfavorability. For instance, Kamala Harris had you know, nobody
really cared outside of California for the most part when
she was tabbed as the vice presidential candidate for Joe
Biden in twenty twenty, and really didn't. Not a lot
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of people have changed or grown into having a big
opinion about her in the last three and a half years.
There was really no reason to So what happened right
after she kind of assumed the role of the nominee
for the Democrats, even without receiving a single solitary vote
in a primary and caucus season that shot up a
little bit. It actually like they're her approval rating as
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a person or a politician. Shut up. You know why
nobody cares about the policies. You might say that you
care about policies, and I believe you, but nobody who
is undecided cares about policies.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
They don't.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
If they truly cared about policy, you think they'd be
undecided every election. You think that they'd ebb and they'd
flow with all the stuff that goes on, or flip
political parties, or get angsty about the current people in power. No,
because generally, when people get a strong opinion about a
policy or a platform or a topic, it kind of
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stays there. How often have you changed your mind on
a major event or in a major talking point for
the politicians? And this is why every single person who's
out there who identifies as an independent voter, I think,
relatively speaking, has very little strong opinions on policies. Every
four years, they're probably thinking of a different thing that's
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most important to them, whether it's the economy, whether it's inflation,
Like a lot of people are going to vote this year.
Threat to American democracy, as they like to put it
very well could be something that people go to the
polls with not having ever thought about that before. There's
a lot of other things that are probably on people's brains,
like illegal immigration, foreign wars and our role in them potentially.
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I think that there's a lot to be said for
how many people get confused with what their local governments
control and regulate and what the federal government is supposed
to do. And usually it's the same people that aren't
following the news throughout the entire cycle, a lot of
people that are just going on social media and seeing
what other people are saying and formulating their own opinion
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based on that. And you see how quickly all of
these things change. You know, Kamala Harris hasn't said anything
about what she really believes in or what policies she
would enact, but her approval ratings somehow has spiked ten
or fifteen percent in most polls in the last two
weeks who ask that question around the country simply because well, now,
all of a sudden, the Democrats are like, oh, yeah,
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that's my person, or people who are independent are just like,
oh yeah, no, I think she's going to be great. Actually,
not because of anything policy wise though, she just has energy.
She looks like she's the energizer bunny next to Joe Biden.
You know, like you got a guy that basically appears
as if he is a walking zombie, and then you
have like an actual live person that excites people. She
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don't even have to say anything intelligence or smart. That's
the cycle. And in a couple of days there's probably
gonna be something else crazy that happens, or she'll say something,
or Walt will say something, or Vans will say something,
and that'll change what the narrative is and we'll be
talking about it here. But the independent voter is just
kind of like, oh maybe that changes my mind.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Oh oh maybe that changes my mind. And that's not bad.
I don't think that's bad.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Just know that as much as you want to say
a policy should went out, the independent voter isn't paying
that much attention to policy, and if they did, they
wouldn't be independent for long. And that's my soawbox on that.
Currently it is three twenty eight. My name is Emery Sunger.
Thanks for listening to the show. We got plenty more
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Speaker 2 (17:00):
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Speaker 1 (17:08):
Yeah, if they are able to pull off this comeback,
I mean, the Serbians, they're going to be heartbroken because
they had him on the ropes. But again, at the
same time, a team that's made up of Lebron James,
Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant among many others. Pretty I mean, like,
how how could you possibly think they're going to lose
a basketball game?
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Ever, it's impressive Lebron James, the cardiac.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
King, Lebron James. Joel Embiid has been very good in
this game as well. He won the MVP last year,
going up against the guy who's won three of the
last four years, NICOLEA Jokic. Jokic still, you know, playing
playing hard, playing well. But the US on a big
run and like I said, have overcome you know, fifteen
point deficit here in the second half.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
So we'll keep you posted.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
On that as it goes down to the last three
minutes or so here as they are tied at eighty four,
pretty go ahead.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
By the way, em if did you want a quick
update on OPPD Yeah place, you know what, we are
sitting at just one hundred and fifteen total customers without power,
all right, and.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
We were at what over two hundred and twenty thousand
at this very point day. Yeah, yeah, yesterday we were
around eleven hundred.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Well, I got to tell you there's a level of
you know, frustration. I know a lot of people have had,
but I thought the city did pretty well of getting
cooling areas that people could go and try to you know,
stay cool because the heat was so bad over the weekend.
But then also, you know this, there's that also that
level of the infrastrut It wasn't just like the outage, right,
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because maybe the outage could be explained in some way,
but it's more of the fact that some of these
poles were damaged, some of the tops the poles were damaged,
some of the you know, uh transformers imploded, exploded lines
actually just being ripped across roads because of the trees falling.
That's to me, I think, you know, is one of
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the reasons why a lot of this stuff took so
long to restore. But you know, you look back and
this really was under no circumstance. There's never been a storm,
at least in the modern era of Omaha that has
been like this one, and that to me is I
think as incredible as anything else as to how difficult
it is for you know, the people who really we
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when there's only one place for power in an area
like for us, you know it's OPPD, but for for
all of us in that scenario, how crazy it is
in general to overcome those infrastructural issues, and that we
just have to trust the one group of people that
know how to resolve that or know how to fix that.
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And from you know, my perspective and my vantage point,
you know, it's easy for me to say because I
only had, you know, an outage for less than twenty
four hours. I think I wasn't there at the house,
but according to the neighbors, it was about twenty four
hours or less. So you know, you look at these
things from a perspective of you know, they're doing the
best that they can to try to restore power to
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the highest number of people who have been affected by
an outage in the history of OPPD.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
And that, to me is a.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Really a difficult thing to even kind of put into
words and to explain. But I know that the perspective
is probably quite different from people who are probably you know,
just now getting their power turned back on in the
last day or two.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Yeah, yeah, but yeah, no, it's good to hear that
we're what, oh, just over one hundred left.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Yeah, just one hundred and fifteen total. That's pretty interesting.
Good for OPPD to be doing that.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Steph Curry varies, the three gets a steal, the USA
gets another bucket. On the other end, Lebron James flying
in for a layup. Team USA leads Serbia by five.
Now heading into the final minute. Let's say, you, Matt case,
is this impress them just eventually taking care of the
business they needed to take care of.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
I think so they locked in, they locked in, they
came back. It's kind of you know, just watching them play,
just the way James shredded the defense on that when
you're wondering, like, what were they doing the whole time?
Speaker 2 (21:14):
But exactly how did you fall down by fifteen?
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Yeah, apparently they took sixty one percent of their shots
in the first two and a half quarters for three pointers.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
I don't know how much you're gonna win that way. Yeah,
kind of kind of mailing it in for a little
bit there.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Yeah, but now all of a sudden they're getting really
attack and focused and Steph Curry with thirty four points.
Dang nine threes. Who Steph Curry doing? Steph Curry? Thanks
for Team USA. One forty one to go and USA
lead Serbia by five.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
So there's that.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
We'll keep you updated as that continues, and what a
comeback that'd be for Team USA. I was looking at
some of the other things that were going on in
and around Omaha. Did you think people locally are affected
at all by by Tim Walls having a Nebraska heritage?
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Because I am seeing more and more kind of local
media kind of reporting on this stuff, right.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
I think if you are, you know, if you vote
blue in this state, it means something to you. I
think it probably means more to people out in western
Nebraska than here.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
But is it gonna make Is it gonna move people?
Because it's like, oh, yeah, he's from Nebraska, right, like
is he though he's representing Minnesota. He's the Minnesota governor.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
But he grew up, didn't he grow up in Nebraska?
Speaker 1 (22:34):
He did, and he also served in the Nebraska National
Guard in the eighties before he moved to I mean,
he's got he's got a lot of miles on him.
I mean, he was a teacher, he was in China
for a bit. A lot of people have questions about
that and all that.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Jazz.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
I don't know, like, is there something about him just
being from a place even if he's not technically representing
that place right now? Is there something too?
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Well?
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Now, I know that he must be a good person
or he must be a good man because he's originally
from my state, even if he's not actively representing that state.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Yeah, because he's kind of moved on to other places.
I don't think he's going around talking about Nebraska.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
All the time.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
No, he's talking about Minnesota, right, And I mean, if
I lived in a place for a few decades, I
probably would talk about the state that I was living into,
you know. I mean, Heck, I moved from Iowa last year,
and people are sick of me mentioning Iowa to them
while I'm in Nebraska, right. They want me to move
on and just be a Nebraska guy full time all
the time. That's I think that the human nature is like,
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no matter who you are and what you're doing.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
You know, it's kind of that you live in the
present sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
And I don't know, like it's weird to me that
Nebraska people would care at all. But local media said, like,
local media's asking a lot of these questions and people
do have apparently some.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Opinions about it.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
I don't know if they're changing their mind about who
they might vote for based on this, but it is
I guess a fascinating dichotomy in a case study is well,
if you know, and this is the other thing too.
Barack Obama was born in Hawaii. How many Hawaiians you know,
We're like, oh, we're claiming him even though he was
a senator from the state of Illinois.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
That makes sense, Yep.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
There are a lot of people like that, you know,
Joe Biden Pennsylvania to Delaware right right right.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
People are moving all over.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
The place to to you know, run for office in
a place they feel like they can win a seed
or they're being told by a political party, hey, you
need to run in this race. This is the race
that we need you to be running in. You'll have
a chance to win that one.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
I mean, let's face it is Walls winning any races
out in Western Nebraska.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
I mean, based on his policies and politics, I couldn't
imagine anybody in Rule America thinking that anything that he's
got up his sleeve is a good idea. But even
if that's the case, I think it's also important for
us to factor in that not everybody thinks the same.
Just because somebody lives in Western Nebraska doesn't necessarily mean
that under you know, those kinds of circumstances that there's
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you know, if there was ever a time or a
place where where you could be a I don't know,
twenty twenty four, I think is the time that you
could be as free minded as anybody else in no
matter where you live, because the Internet kind of brings
you to whatever spot you want to be in mentally,
(25:17):
if that makes sense, If you want to be on
a message board that's talking about ostriches, I could find
you an ostrich message board pretty quickly.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
I'm googling to verify, but I believe.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
You you know what I'm saying, Like, if there was
ever a time that somebody in Western Nebraska who is yeah,
they live a rural life, but they might have legitimately
like mentally, like they might be like thinking, you know,
I feel like a little bit more of a liberal person.
You could find people that feel that way about you
in that scenario quite frequently.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
I think I'm seeing Ostrich's message boards as we speak.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
You are correct, Okay.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
There you go, right, it could be literally anything in
twenty twenty four. I'm not saying that rule America wouldn't
change their mind, because, like I said, people who don't
pay attention to politics every day, they don't really care
about the policy that much. They care about decency, they
care about human beings. They probably are pretty influenced by
what people in the media that they watch, or the
(26:14):
friends that they have, or the consumption of social media
in and around the time that we have. You know,
right now, no matter what you're on, if you're on
truth social certainly you're gonna have a lot more conservative
viewpoints than you would otherwise.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
So I don't know.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
To me, there's a level of yeah, that's possible. At
the same time, I'm also incredibly surprised and stunned that
anybody in Nebraska would have any sort of care at
all in the world that you know, the governor of Minnesota,
who's now the running mate of a. Kamala Harris for
(26:49):
a chance to win the presidency for the Democratic Party.
It's hard for me to imagine under any circumstance of
people in Nebraska would care just because he was born
here and raised here.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
But that's just me.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Three forty eighth the time. Let's do another giveaway. Let's
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So you see our credence, Clearwater Revival Fame. He and
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Speaker 2 (27:23):
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Call right now.
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Speaker 1 (27:47):
But now they've just been off called Madison, and Michelle
Pfeiffer is going to be the main subject or the
main character, I suppose, and Madison is going to be
the name of the show, and it's going to continue
to be in favor.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
You know.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Helen Mirren was in nineteen twenty three. Tim mcgrawl on
Faith Hill also were in eighteen eighty three. I don't know,
it's it's quite the world. I've watched a few episodes.
I got to be honest, I have a hard time
getting into dramas. I don't really like torturing myself with
the drama part of it. I don't like having to
wait for full episodes to get a resolution. You know.
(28:25):
My form of drama that I prefer is, you know,
watching a basketball game, like Team USA just pulling off
the win against Survey after being down by fifteen points.
They were able to still to come back, complete a
fourth quarter comeback and win by four points.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Wild game there, But I that's dramatic to me. It
was drama, you know.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
And the commercial breaks, I was, you know, checking in,
peeping in, watching a little bit of the game, and
I just found myself. My blood's pumping. I knew the
resolution was coming at the end of that clock at
those zeros. A lot of people love the Cliffhangers are,
you know, the way that the stories develop over several hours,
several episodes, And even if I'm not one of them,
I can still appreciate some of the effort that's been made,
(29:06):
and in Yellowstone and some of these spinoffs.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
I have caught some episodes.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
I haven't fully delved into the story, but eighteen eighty
three I thought was so well done. The costuming, the
way it really kind of transported you into the timeframe,
that to me is always super fascinating.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
I just love period pieces.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
I love it when a movie really takes you back
in time and you feel like you're there. Some of
my favorite movies are movies that kind of take you
back in time. Sports movies especially that take you back
in time, like eight min Out, which talks about the
Black Sox scandal of nineteen nineteen. To go back and
you know, feel like I'm witnessing things that were happening in.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
The late nineteen teens. Pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
A League of There owns another one that comes to mind,
where it's all kind of World War two based costuming
is just immaculate. You can't help but feel like you're
living in that timeframe, and you get so attached not
just to the characters, but to the time period, and
you just wonder what life was like if you lived there.
Yellowstone itself is kind of, I think, fairly present day
(30:05):
or modern day. This I think is also going to
be kind of a present day version of this Family,
the spinoff that includes Michelle Pfeiffer. But the period piece
is the nineteen twenty three and the eighteen eighty three
that they did there really fascinating stuff. I just absolutely
love checking that stuff out and all that jazz so
(30:25):
really cool and I love If you've seen it, you
feel free to call in four h two, five, five,
eight eleven ten and tell me a little bit more
about it. You can also email me Emory at kfab
dot com is the email. As we roll along merrily,
I am broadcasting from Des Moines. I am going to
the Iosa Fair and doing my Iowa show in the
mornings from the fair. I also am you know, greatly
(30:52):
involved in, you know, checking out some of the other
stuff that's happening here in central Iowa. But I got
my pulse on what's happening, or my fingers on the
pulse of what's happening in Omaha. And one of the
things that I saw in between was the behavior of
some truck drivers. And I need some truck drivers to
be listening when I tell my little anecdotes here in
the four o'clock hour, because I need you to tell
(31:14):
me what the heck is going on in your truck
and what you're thinking about when you're out there on
the roads. Because I have some very very interesting questions
I feel maybe to answer some of my own concerns.
We'll do that, and I still have more tickets to
give away in the next hour or two, So listen
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You know what the score is right now? What would
you guess? It's it's about halfway through the third quarter. Oh,
and they play ten minute quarters. Seventy six seventy two.
Serbia with the lead seventy six to seventy two is
awfully high that it's a very physical game these Olympic Games. However,
you are correct that Serbia has the lead. With about
(00:22):
seven and a half to go in the third quarter,
the Serbians lead the United States fifty seven to forty seven.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Wow, a ten point lead.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
And yes, they have Nicolea Jokic, who happens to be,
by most accounts, the best player in the world right now,
taking on Lebron James and the rest of Team USA.
I just watched Jokic to do insane move on Joel
Embiid make him look like a clown. And now Serbia
leads by twelve. So wow, If Lebron James and this
(00:52):
superhero team of the United States gets beat by the
it's beat by Serbia.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Here before the gold medal game, loss of failure. Might
have to start calling him Lebron's James. Oh no, you dn't. Yeah, anyway,
I'll keep you posting on that. I just saw the
score and it was very fascinated about what's going on there.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
We got a lot of tickets to give away, too, don't.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
We we Do you want me to just to do
one right now?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Yeah? I probably should.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
All right, let's just see one right now before I
start talking about other stuff. And you can still listen
while you're doing the phones right like out there in
radio land, Like if you want to win, let's go
ahead and let's do like the forty fifth caller, forty five,
forty fifth caller, you'll win two tickets to see John Fogerty.
That's in Lincoln right on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
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Sunday night at seven pm.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
All right, So forty fifth call call right now four
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what else are we doing here? Donald Trump talking to
(02:04):
the media at mar A Laco. He says as far
as the investigation goes, and this is again the assassination,
we have a lot of questions about how this was
allowed to happen, and the investigation is ongoing. But many
people think that the FBI is doing a horrible job
in general. Many people say the CIA and the FBI
really are just trying to take out certain political leaders
(02:25):
from all over the place. And you know, I don't
know how. I don't know what that looks like. I
don't know what that means. I know a lot of
people are. They have their opinions about stuff like that,
and they're very strong about them. I don't have the
kind of knowledge or immediate information to debunk those, nor
(02:45):
do I have the information to say that they're completely
untrue or very true.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
You know, I'm kind of with let the experts kind
of tell me what I should think, and then kind
of put some stuff together on that.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
But it's what Donald Trump to say.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
He says, the FBI it's done a very good job
with that investigation.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Here's a quote.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
The FBI came to see me about the shooter. I
think they've done a very good job, and I think
they did a very good job with respect to this
other lunatic that they have in custody, and that's the
Pakistani guy who was arrested in New York that he
was talking about got ties to the government of Iran.
I think was the details there, and there was a
(03:27):
bigger plot potentially, But he said they're doing a good job.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Do you believe Donald Trump when he says that, Yeah,
I don't know now.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
FBI also said that they think that other former and
current US government officials were targets of whatever plot this
Pakistani man was involved with, and it'll be interesting to
see if there's more fallout. Rarely is that a one
person thing. The Austria thing with Taylor Switz concerts, that
seemed like it was a crazed nineteen year old Austrian
(04:00):
who was radicalized by ISIS. That seemed like it could
realistically be like a guy and maybe another person potentially,
and they have another guy in custody there. Usually when
you're talking about a plot to assassinate or get or
capture or whatever, multiple people, especially high ranking government officials
in this country, a country like ours, there's usually going
(04:22):
to be a network of people, and you just got
to get the intel to be able to figure that out.
Donald Trump also said, you know, why isn't he out
on the campaign trail?
Speaker 2 (04:31):
He's you know, JD.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Vance has shown up in Michigan, showing up in Oa Clear,
Wisconsin yesterday afternoon.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Why isn't he out there?
Speaker 1 (04:38):
And Donald Trump basically said, I'm doing a tremendous amount
of taping here. We have commercials that are at a
level I don't think anybody's ever done before. And again
that patent did Trump hyperbole, But yeah, they do a
good job with the ads. But he's saying, I'm speaking
to you on phones, speaking to radio, speaking to television televisions.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Coming over here. What are we doing now?
Speaker 1 (05:02):
He said he's waiting for the after the convention for
him to go on a campaign more and he's going
to go to certain places to help certain senators get elected,
not even for me. Well, if he's waiting that long
as two more weeks before the end of the Democratic
National Convention, which would wrap up on the twenty second
of August, and then if you're thinking about the timeline,
he could do a few different campaign events, not just
(05:24):
for himself, but maybe for other people trying to get
elected and help you know, you know, rally some support
and drum up some support for some of these other
representatives and Senate candidates. So you know, not just he
potentially could get elected, but he could inherit a Congress
and that would have control for the Republicans in both chambers.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
That obviously would be the goal.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Now, with that being said, the first debate with Kamala
Harris based on the dates that he talked about, and
we mentioned this in the first hour as well. We
talked about that fourth of September would be the first
one and it would be the first of three that
would take place in a three week span.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
So that's a lot of debating.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Then you got to talk about the campaign trail, got
to figure out how you're going to approach and attack
that and how you're going to help other people potentially
get elected like he said he might.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
And that's it's pretty interesting. It's pretty interesting.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Some of the other things that he has talked about
includes the health of his ear. He was asked about
his ear and he says it's pretty much recovered. I'm
a fast healer, doesn't have any hearing damage or anything
like that, but he said, very small scar.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
You wouldn't even be able to tell.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Now as far as that goes in as far as
all this other stuff in relation to Donald Trump, Kamala
Harris another thing that has popped up that he has
specifically said, Well, where is Kamala Now? She's going out
onto the campaign trail. She's shown up to all these
(06:52):
swing states along with her new running mate Tim Waltz,
but she's not answering questions. It's been almost three full
weeks since Joe Biden dipped out said I'm not running
for reelection. In those three weeks almost we haven't heard
her answer questions from the press. Now, we have heard
her speak on a variety of topics, we've heard her
(07:13):
at her own campaign rallies, but we've not heard her
answer any questions from anyone. Joe Biden didn't answer questions
from anybody for roughly eight eight and a half months.
It was from like like it was the NATO thing.
Was that early June July? It was early July. I think, yeah,
I was like maybe mid July. He does the NATO
(07:35):
summit and does a press conference there and takes questions,
and that was the first time he had done that
since November of last year. Why in Korean John Pierre,
I know is meeting with the press all the time.
I don't want to hear from Karan John Pierre. The
American public doesn't need to hear from Karan John Pierre
try to spin everything in a way that makes the
White House look like they're doing everything right. You can
(07:58):
only challenge somebody like Karan John Pierre, which is going
to just protect the people that actually matter as much
as possible. I don't have any opinions on Korean jump here.
Why would I. She doesn't legislate for me. She literally
is just a liaison from or she's supposed to be
for the White House administration to the American press and
the international press. You could ask her any question you want.
(08:19):
You could probably predict the answer. There's not a whole
lot of stuff that you learn by listening to those
press conferences that she does. Why isn't the administration either
Kamala Harris.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Or Joe Biden? And where's Joe Biden been?
Speaker 1 (08:31):
He hadn't said anything for a while, you know, And
I know he's on the campaign trail, but he's still
got a job to do. President of the United States
still needs to have like some sort of presence right.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Pretty interesting.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
They haven't taken him or put him anywhere on the
campaign trail nowhere. You would think like, if you want
to have like a real united Front and show that
you know, he's really behind Kamala Harris and she can
do the job, and you're happy to step aside for
whatever is going to happen here, what are we what
are we talking about here? I'm not like I again.
This is me trying to be an America citizen who's
(09:03):
well informed. You have every single one of these people
on the Democratic side of the administration trying to act
like they're all one big, happy family. There's a ton
of infighting going on about Israel. We talked about that.
There was a ton of infighting about whether or not
Joe Biden should be the candidate until he stepped aside.
Isn't it weird now that he's recovered from COVID nineteen
and allegedly going to continue to be healthy enough to
be the president of the United States that we haven't
(09:26):
heard or seen him. If you want that united Front
that you've been talking about, why wouldn't he be at
one of these rallies in Philadelphia or Eclaire, Wisconsin or
anywhere else. Had somebody email me and say, hey, Emory,
I was talking to somebody who was in the Oaclaire area,
or maybe as was even at that event that they
had in Eclaire. A ton of Minnesota license plates that
(09:46):
made the drive over, according to this person, that were
in Eclaire for that event. So a healthy chunk of
the big crowd in that outdoor event that the Democrats
did yesterday in Oclaire, Wisconsin for Harris and Waltz of
Sultan's made the drive over. This is that's fine Minnesota
unless those people move and change their addresses and live
(10:08):
and complete whatever situation they need to win this election.
Just kind of like Jerry Manner themselves over into Wisconsin
or Michigan or anywhere else that's a swing state.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Those people are going to vote in Minnesota, and Minnesota
is not really up for grabs. I know Donald Trump is.
Some of the Republicans said, oh, we think we might
be able to flip it. Not with Walt like Walt's
being on the ticket, You're not gonna I don't think
realistically win and I don't ever think that was a
true thing that you thought about. But man, I don't
know where are these people? Why aren't they getting out
in front of the cameras. Why aren't they answering questions
(10:40):
from the press. Those are things that I'd be very
interested in. All right, it is three eighteen, Matt, are
you there?
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Are you alive? I'm alive. Did we get a winner
for the John Fogerty thing? We sure did? Who was it?
Let me go back there and find out. Uh?
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Oh, I already forgot his name. Oh sorry, we get
a lot of names. It's difficult. Sometimes it's difficult, you
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Yeah, it's difficult. Pity me. Oh you still haven't found it.
I was trying to buy you some time. Oh yeah,
I need slightly more time clicking one last place? Oh yeah,
Brad and Bennington? Oh yeah that guy, Yeah, that one,
that person. Nice talking with you, Brad, and have a
great time at the Pinewood Bowl Theater in Lincoln to
(11:26):
see John Fogerty. Hey what about h what about doing
another one right now? Sugar Ray? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:33):
All right, Sugar Ray tickets, two tickets? Where are they
at in Omahas? On Saturday?
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Sugar Ray is at the Elk the Club and Indian
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Speaker 1 (12:07):
There's a lot going on in the world today, and
we talked about what Donald Trump has said in his presser,
which is always, you know, an interesting conversation and we
always appreciate it when our politicians actually get in front
of the press and do interviews. Did want to give
a little bit of a score update heading to the
fourth quarter. Matt, are you still there or are you
(12:27):
on the phone still? He's on the pune still, but yeah, no.
The United States men's basketball team in trouble heading to
the fourth quarter in the Olympic semi finals against Serbia.
Nicole jokicch and some of his buddies, the Serbians got
up by as many as fifteen points. They lead by
thirteen heading into the fourth quarter.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
We will let you know how that continues to go
as time moves forward.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Here this interesting week in politics.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Is one of the things that I think we need
to be most cognizant about is.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
How easily movable.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
I think the independent voter's attention span is from one
thing to the other.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
And this is why it's difficult.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
You know, we talk about the polls a lot, and
I think polling is important to monitor, but it's interesting
to watch the trends of the polls based on favorability
or unfavorability. For instance, Kamala Harris had you know, nobody
really cared outside of California for the most part when
she was tabbed as the vice presidential candidate for Joe
Biden in twenty twenty, and really didn't. Not a lot
(13:40):
of people have changed or grown into having a big
opinion about her in the last three and a half years.
There was really no reason to So what happened right
after she kind of assumed the role of the nominee
for the Democrats, even without receiving a single solitary vote
in a primary and caucus season that shot up a
little bit. It actually like they're her approval rating as
(14:02):
a person or a politician. Shut up. You know why
nobody cares about the policies. You might say that you
care about policies, and I believe you, but nobody who
is undecided cares about policies.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
They don't.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
If they truly cared about policy, you think they'd be
undecided every election. You think that they'd ebb and they'd
flow with all the stuff that goes on, or flip
political parties, or get angsty about the current people in power. No,
because generally, when people get a strong opinion about a
policy or a platform or a topic, it kind of
(14:33):
stays there. How often have you changed your mind on
a major event or in a major talking point for
the politicians? And this is why every single person who's
out there who identifies as an independent voter, I think,
relatively speaking, has very little strong opinions on policies. Every
four years, they're probably thinking of a different thing that's
(14:55):
most important to them, whether it's the economy, whether it's inflation,
Like a lot of people are going to vote this year.
Threat to American democracy, as they like to put it
very well could be something that people go to the
polls with not having ever thought about that before. There's
a lot of other things that are probably on people's brains,
like illegal immigration, foreign wars and our role in them potentially.
(15:16):
I think that there's a lot to be said for
how many people get confused with what their local governments
control and regulate and what the federal government is supposed
to do. And usually it's the same people that aren't
following the news throughout the entire cycle, a lot of
people that are just going on social media and seeing
what other people are saying and formulating their own opinion
(15:37):
based on that. And you see how quickly all of
these things change. You know, Kamala Harris hasn't said anything
about what she really believes in or what policies she
would enact, but her approval ratings somehow has spiked ten
or fifteen percent in most polls in the last two
weeks who ask that question around the country simply because well, now,
all of a sudden, the Democrats are like, oh, yeah,
(15:57):
that's my person, or people who are independent are just like,
oh yeah, no, I think she's going to be great. Actually,
not because of anything policy wise though, she just has energy.
She looks like she's the energizer bunny next to Joe Biden.
You know, like you got a guy that basically appears
as if he is a walking zombie, and then you
have like an actual live person that excites people. She
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don't even have to say anything intelligence or smart. That's
the cycle. And in a couple of days there's probably
gonna be something else crazy that happens, or she'll say something,
or Walt will say something, or Vans will say something,
and that'll change what the narrative is and we'll be
talking about it here. But the independent voter is just
kind of like, oh maybe that changes my mind.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Oh oh maybe that changes my mind. And that's not bad.
I don't think that's bad.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Just know that as much as you want to say
a policy should went out, the independent voter isn't paying
that much attention to policy, and if they did, they
wouldn't be independent for long. And that's my soawbox on that.
Currently it is three twenty eight. My name is Emery Sunger.
Thanks for listening to the show. We got plenty more
tickets to give away, a lot more to keep you
in touch with and we'll do that as the show
rolls along. Thanks for listening on news Radio eleven to
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Speaker 2 (17:00):
Emery's songer on News Radio eleven ten Kfab.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Yeah, if they are able to pull off this comeback,
I mean, the Serbians, they're going to be heartbroken because
they had him on the ropes. But again, at the
same time, a team that's made up of Lebron James,
Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant among many others. Pretty I mean, like,
how how could you possibly think they're going to lose
a basketball game?
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Ever, it's impressive Lebron James, the cardiac.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
King, Lebron James. Joel Embiid has been very good in
this game as well. He won the MVP last year,
going up against the guy who's won three of the
last four years, NICOLEA Jokic. Jokic still, you know, playing
playing hard, playing well. But the US on a big
run and like I said, have overcome you know, fifteen
point deficit here in the second half.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
So we'll keep you posted.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
On that as it goes down to the last three
minutes or so here as they are tied at eighty four,
pretty go ahead.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
By the way, em if did you want a quick
update on OPPD Yeah place, you know what, we are
sitting at just one hundred and fifteen total customers without power,
all right, and.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
We were at what over two hundred and twenty thousand
at this very point day. Yeah, yeah, yesterday we were
around eleven hundred.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Well, I got to tell you there's a level of
you know, frustration. I know a lot of people have had,
but I thought the city did pretty well of getting
cooling areas that people could go and try to you know,
stay cool because the heat was so bad over the weekend.
But then also, you know this, there's that also that
level of the infrastrut It wasn't just like the outage, right,
(18:40):
because maybe the outage could be explained in some way,
but it's more of the fact that some of these
poles were damaged, some of the tops the poles were damaged,
some of the you know, uh transformers imploded, exploded lines
actually just being ripped across roads because of the trees falling.
That's to me, I think, you know, is one of
(19:01):
the reasons why a lot of this stuff took so
long to restore. But you know, you look back and
this really was under no circumstance. There's never been a storm,
at least in the modern era of Omaha that has
been like this one, and that to me is I
think as incredible as anything else as to how difficult
it is for you know, the people who really we
(19:24):
when there's only one place for power in an area
like for us, you know it's OPPD, but for for
all of us in that scenario, how crazy it is
in general to overcome those infrastructural issues, and that we
just have to trust the one group of people that
know how to resolve that or know how to fix that.
(19:46):
And from you know, my perspective and my vantage point,
you know, it's easy for me to say because I
only had, you know, an outage for less than twenty
four hours. I think I wasn't there at the house,
but according to the neighbors, it was about twenty four
hours or less. So you know, you look at these
things from a perspective of you know, they're doing the
best that they can to try to restore power to
(20:09):
the highest number of people who have been affected by
an outage in the history of OPPD.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
And that, to me is a.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Really a difficult thing to even kind of put into
words and to explain. But I know that the perspective
is probably quite different from people who are probably you know,
just now getting their power turned back on in the
last day or two.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Yeah, yeah, but yeah, no, it's good to hear that
we're what, oh, just over one hundred left.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Yeah, just one hundred and fifteen total. That's pretty interesting.
Good for OPPD to be doing that.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Steph Curry varies, the three gets a steal, the USA
gets another bucket. On the other end, Lebron James flying
in for a layup. Team USA leads Serbia by five.
Now heading into the final minute. Let's say, you, Matt case,
is this impress them just eventually taking care of the
business they needed to take care of.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
I think so they locked in, they locked in, they
came back. It's kind of you know, just watching them play,
just the way James shredded the defense on that when
you're wondering, like, what were they doing the whole time?
Speaker 2 (21:14):
But exactly how did you fall down by fifteen?
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Yeah, apparently they took sixty one percent of their shots
in the first two and a half quarters for three pointers.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
I don't know how much you're gonna win that way. Yeah,
kind of kind of mailing it in for a little
bit there.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Yeah, but now all of a sudden they're getting really
attack and focused and Steph Curry with thirty four points.
Dang nine threes. Who Steph Curry doing? Steph Curry? Thanks
for Team USA. One forty one to go and USA
lead Serbia by five.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
So there's that.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
We'll keep you updated as that continues, and what a
comeback that'd be for Team USA. I was looking at
some of the other things that were going on in
and around Omaha. Did you think people locally are affected
at all by by Tim Walls having a Nebraska heritage?
(22:05):
Because I am seeing more and more kind of local
media kind of reporting on this stuff, right.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
I think if you are, you know, if you vote
blue in this state, it means something to you. I
think it probably means more to people out in western
Nebraska than here.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
But is it gonna make Is it gonna move people?
Because it's like, oh, yeah, he's from Nebraska, right, like
is he though he's representing Minnesota. He's the Minnesota governor.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
But he grew up, didn't he grow up in Nebraska?
Speaker 1 (22:34):
He did, and he also served in the Nebraska National
Guard in the eighties before he moved to I mean,
he's got he's got a lot of miles on him.
I mean, he was a teacher, he was in China
for a bit. A lot of people have questions about
that and all that.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Jazz.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
I don't know, like, is there something about him just
being from a place even if he's not technically representing
that place right now? Is there something too?
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Well?
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Now, I know that he must be a good person
or he must be a good man because he's originally
from my state, even if he's not actively representing that state.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Yeah, because he's kind of moved on to other places.
I don't think he's going around talking about Nebraska.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
All the time.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
No, he's talking about Minnesota, right, And I mean, if
I lived in a place for a few decades, I
probably would talk about the state that I was living into,
you know. I mean, Heck, I moved from Iowa last year,
and people are sick of me mentioning Iowa to them
while I'm in Nebraska, right. They want me to move
on and just be a Nebraska guy full time all
the time. That's I think that the human nature is like,
(23:33):
no matter who you are and what you're doing.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
You know, it's kind of that you live in the
present sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
And I don't know, like it's weird to me that
Nebraska people would care at all. But local media said, like,
local media's asking a lot of these questions and people
do have apparently some.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Opinions about it.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
I don't know if they're changing their mind about who
they might vote for based on this, but it is
I guess a fascinating dichotomy in a case study is well,
if you know, and this is the other thing too.
Barack Obama was born in Hawaii. How many Hawaiians you know,
We're like, oh, we're claiming him even though he was
a senator from the state of Illinois.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
That makes sense, Yep.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
There are a lot of people like that, you know,
Joe Biden Pennsylvania to Delaware right right right.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
People are moving all over.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
The place to to you know, run for office in
a place they feel like they can win a seed
or they're being told by a political party, hey, you
need to run in this race. This is the race
that we need you to be running in. You'll have
a chance to win that one.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
I mean, let's face it is Walls winning any races
out in Western Nebraska.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
I mean, based on his policies and politics, I couldn't
imagine anybody in Rule America thinking that anything that he's
got up his sleeve is a good idea. But even
if that's the case, I think it's also important for
us to factor in that not everybody thinks the same.
Just because somebody lives in Western Nebraska doesn't necessarily mean
that under you know, those kinds of circumstances that there's
(24:56):
you know, if there was ever a time or a
place where where you could be a I don't know,
twenty twenty four, I think is the time that you
could be as free minded as anybody else in no
matter where you live, because the Internet kind of brings
you to whatever spot you want to be in mentally,
(25:17):
if that makes sense, If you want to be on
a message board that's talking about ostriches, I could find
you an ostrich message board pretty quickly.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
I'm googling to verify, but I believe.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
You you know what I'm saying, Like, if there was
ever a time that somebody in Western Nebraska who is yeah,
they live a rural life, but they might have legitimately
like mentally, like they might be like thinking, you know,
I feel like a little bit more of a liberal person.
You could find people that feel that way about you
in that scenario quite frequently.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
I think I'm seeing Ostrich's message boards as we speak.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
You are correct, Okay.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
There you go, right, it could be literally anything in
twenty twenty four. I'm not saying that rule America wouldn't
change their mind, because, like I said, people who don't
pay attention to politics every day, they don't really care
about the policy that much. They care about decency, they
care about human beings. They probably are pretty influenced by
what people in the media that they watch, or the
(26:14):
friends that they have, or the consumption of social media
in and around the time that we have. You know,
right now, no matter what you're on, if you're on
truth social certainly you're gonna have a lot more conservative
viewpoints than you would otherwise.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
So I don't know.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
To me, there's a level of yeah, that's possible. At
the same time, I'm also incredibly surprised and stunned that
anybody in Nebraska would have any sort of care at
all in the world that you know, the governor of Minnesota,
who's now the running mate of a. Kamala Harris for
(26:49):
a chance to win the presidency for the Democratic Party.
It's hard for me to imagine under any circumstance of
people in Nebraska would care just because he was born
here and raised here.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
But that's just me.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
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Speaker 1 (27:47):
But now they've just been off called Madison, and Michelle
Pfeiffer is going to be the main subject or the
main character, I suppose, and Madison is going to be
the name of the show, and it's going to continue
to be in favor.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
You know.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Helen Mirren was in nineteen twenty three. Tim mcgrawl on
Faith Hill also were in eighteen eighty three. I don't know,
it's it's quite the world. I've watched a few episodes.
I got to be honest, I have a hard time
getting into dramas. I don't really like torturing myself with
the drama part of it. I don't like having to
wait for full episodes to get a resolution. You know.
(28:25):
My form of drama that I prefer is, you know,
watching a basketball game, like Team USA just pulling off
the win against Survey after being down by fifteen points.
They were able to still to come back, complete a
fourth quarter comeback and win by four points.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Wild game there, But I that's dramatic to me. It
was drama, you know.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
And the commercial breaks, I was, you know, checking in,
peeping in, watching a little bit of the game, and
I just found myself. My blood's pumping. I knew the
resolution was coming at the end of that clock at
those zeros. A lot of people love the Cliffhangers are,
you know, the way that the stories develop over several hours,
several episodes, And even if I'm not one of them,
I can still appreciate some of the effort that's been made,
(29:06):
and in Yellowstone and some of these spinoffs.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
I have caught some episodes.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
I haven't fully delved into the story, but eighteen eighty
three I thought was so well done. The costuming, the
way it really kind of transported you into the timeframe,
that to me is always super fascinating.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
I just love period pieces.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
I love it when a movie really takes you back
in time and you feel like you're there. Some of
my favorite movies are movies that kind of take you
back in time. Sports movies especially that take you back
in time, like eight min Out, which talks about the
Black Sox scandal of nineteen nineteen. To go back and
you know, feel like I'm witnessing things that were happening in.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
The late nineteen teens. Pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
A League of There owns another one that comes to mind,
where it's all kind of World War two based costuming
is just immaculate. You can't help but feel like you're
living in that timeframe, and you get so attached not
just to the characters, but to the time period, and
you just wonder what life was like if you lived there.
Yellowstone itself is kind of, I think, fairly present day
(30:05):
or modern day. This I think is also going to
be kind of a present day version of this Family,
the spinoff that includes Michelle Pfeiffer. But the period piece
is the nineteen twenty three and the eighteen eighty three
that they did there really fascinating stuff. I just absolutely
love checking that stuff out and all that jazz so
(30:25):
really cool and I love If you've seen it, you
feel free to call in four h two, five, five,
eight eleven ten and tell me a little bit more
about it. You can also email me Emory at kfab
dot com is the email. As we roll along merrily,
I am broadcasting from Des Moines. I am going to
the Iosa Fair and doing my Iowa show in the
mornings from the fair. I also am you know, greatly
(30:52):
involved in, you know, checking out some of the other
stuff that's happening here in central Iowa. But I got
my pulse on what's happening, or my fingers on the
pulse of what's happening in Omaha. And one of the
things that I saw in between was the behavior of
some truck drivers. And I need some truck drivers to
be listening when I tell my little anecdotes here in
the four o'clock hour, because I need you to tell
(31:14):
me what the heck is going on in your truck
and what you're thinking about when you're out there on
the roads. Because I have some very very interesting questions
I feel maybe to answer some of my own concerns.
We'll do that, and I still have more tickets to
give away in the next hour or two, So listen
up Emory Sunger with you News Radio eleven ten KFAB
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