Emery Songer Live from 30hop

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
You never know what you might eat when you come
to thirty Hop, a brand new spot located right here
in West Omaha. And we talked about this place several
times over the last couple of weeks and why it's
so cool. This week is a huge week for them,
and joining us is Dan Bloom. He's a partner with
thirty Hop here. First of all, Dan, thanks so much
for hopping on with us today.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Hey, thank you appreciate the introduction and thank you for
letting us hohs.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
We very much appreciate it. Yeah, no doubt. I think
the first thing that I'm curious about when we talk
about the situation here at thirty Hop is, Man, this
is a nice place. But you know what you're doing
this today this time around, because guess what, this is
not the first time you've made a thirty Hop and
brought it here. So explain the mission of thirty Hop

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essentially with these restaurants that you guys have been opening up. Yeah,
you bet so.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
We started in Corville, Iowa ten years ago, a long
time ago, and have slowly grown and this is the
first one outside of the Iowa State Boarders so super
excited to be in Omaha and love Heartword Preserve and
what is planned out for the future of Heart Preserve
and we're just excited to be a big part of
it moving forward.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
Yeah, so today's a big day. We mentioned Heartwood Preserve.
This is just a brand new area all together, and
you guys, you know, brand spanking new, nice and shiny.
A lot of people here already having lunch. But today's
a big day because you're going to be bringing some
people out here to have a cool ceremony. Tell us
about what's going on today.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Yeah, we get to host our ribbon cutting, so we're
making it a bit more official with our integration into
the Omaha community.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
And can't wait to be embraced by the Chamber of Commerce. Yeah,
four o'clock today, Yes, all right, so four o'clock, come
on out and enjoy that.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
Yeah. I was just wondering, what is the inspiration to
the name thirty Hop? Where does the name come from?

Speaker 2 (01:48):
You get one of about ten stories, but I'll give
you that. So back in the day we were naming
thirty Hop that it was originally thirty beers on Tap
that moved sixty. We quickly realized that we had already
fallen in love with a name.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
It was legally thirty Hop and we just rolled with it.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
So we came up with the lame excuse of thirty
Rockefeller in New York having a rooftop observatory. Our first
location also had a rooftop. So there's a couple different
stories that we try and lean into, but it's honestly
just a name that we threw out and stuck and
we rolled with it.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
I love it, and it's easy to remember thirty Hop
and it's literally you just ask your GPS thirty Hop.
It knows exactly what you want because there's nothing else
that sounds like that. Talking to Dan Blum, he's a
partner here at thirty Hop. Okay, before I let you
go this time around, as we start the show, first
of all, thank you for having us out here. But
the other thing about this place is the vibe. You know,
we talk about the restaurants that you had before, but

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one of the reasons they're so successful is because there
is no person that wouldn't be welcome here. Tell us
about the kind of person or why it is so
perfect for people, whether it's a business meeting or they
have children, or they want a girls' night out. Why
this is such a great place for anybody who's looking
for one of those nights that is one hundred percent
our goal.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
I call it the ultimate suits to sweats concept, where
you're gonna feel equally comfortable in that business suit and
tie for a meeting or coming off of a sweaty
cyclist jersey right off the streets.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
You're gonna feel comfortable.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
We have a very polished interior, yet it is incredibly
casual where you feel great just coming in as you are.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
And this is why it's awesome. Matt is wearing what
would you say, It's kind of a sweatshirt thing.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
Oh, it's a sweater with a nice shirt underneath.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
I wasn't gonna go I wasn't gonna talk about the
I wanted people to have the visual of you basically
being in your pajamas. But that's we blew the cover there.

Speaker 3 (03:46):
Far from it. I'm quite a business casual today, so
I describe it.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
Yeah, and I'm sitting here in my nice jeans and everything.
But I've seen people come to this place and they
have a suit. I've seen people come in and they've
had three small children, and everybody's feeling welcome, which is awesome.
And you can see the game. Yes, and our menus
catered towards it.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
So you're gonna find something if you have a reason
to come in and splurge, or you're gonna find plenty
of options if it's just a Tuesday night out for
whatever reason it might be, you're gonna be able to
find something on the either end.

Speaker 3 (04:20):
So I'm looking over this menu right now and I'm
looking at the appetizers. Is there one that you'd recommend
for like a great way to get introduct and introduced
into what thirty hop is all about.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
You know, the truffle fries have been there since day one,
The Dynamite shrimp people rave about what else. I would say,
we've just kind of done a redo of our wings
in their phenomenal.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
He doesn't love some good wings. I mean they're good
at anytime.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
I've done everything on the menu probably three hundred times over,
so it's kind of an impulsive base. Depending on the day.
I would say the Bang Bang brought are probably the
top seller.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
That is just I gotta tell you what an eclectic
group there, that's for sure. But Dan, we really appreciate
the time. Thank you so much for being a part
of our show today and we can't wait to chat
with you a little bit later on as well. Hey, great,
thank you. Let's have a great night. Yes sir, And
if you guys want to come out here, we are
going to be here until six o'clock, come and find us.
It's going to be at four o'clock we're going to

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do that ribbon cutting and when we do that, we
will make sure that you're going to be hearing all
the fun action that's happening. We want you to be
a part of it as well. So come on out
to thirty Hop out here in West Omaha one hundred
and forty fifth Streets and Heartwood Preserve just off of
the one hundred and forty fourth exit on Dodge and
we'll be here all afternoon. Matt and I will come
back give you some news coming up on news radio
eleven ten kfab.

Speaker 4 (05:45):
Emery Songer pull me back in two minutes on news
radio eleven ten kfab.

Speaker 1 (05:50):
We'll talk more thirty Hop. We'd love to come and
see you, and I got it. Make your plans because
in the five o'clock hour, at some point, I am
going to give a fifty dollars thirty Hop gift card
to somebody who visits us in the five o'clock hour,
I will give you specific instructions on how to get
said gift card. So you just have to keep listening.

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But as time goes on a little bit closer to
five o'clock, just be making sure that you're paying close attention,
because I'll give you the give you the good word
on that big news internationally today that South Korean President
Yun Suk Yule, that's a name for you. He declared
martial law this morning our time, basically saying that he

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had no choice but in this case to take these
drastic measures to protect the freedoms of South Korea and
their constitutional order because opposition parties have taken the parliamentary
process hostage and thrown the country into what was called
a crisis. He declares martial law. The statement says to
protect the Free Republic of Korea from the threat of

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North Korean communist forces, to eradicate the despicable pro North
Korean anti state forces that are plundering the freedom and
happiness of our people, and to protect the free constitutional
order plundering remember that, remember that whole shebang plundering? Yeah, yeah,
I mean what a what a word? A poll there?
You said you should plunder people on national be a

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pirate day? Oh no, is leif ericson day leis day? Yeah,
but there's not really a there's not really a gentle
way to plunder. That's what we That's what I told you,
and you were like, oh, come on, just be gently plundering. Well,
apparently there's some plundering going on in the parliament right
now in South Korea.

Speaker 3 (07:39):
What is it? What is it? Okay? So what does
that even mean? Declared martial Waws.

Speaker 1 (07:44):
Well, first of all, before I even explain that, don't
get alarmed too much, because the parliament unanimously one hundred
and ninety to zero basically said you couldn't. And he's
walked back what he said. Okay, which, by the way,
as a leader of a country that is civilized like that,
is that not like the worst possible thing that you
could do. You say something out loud and you're like
intent on doing something, and then everybody, including all of

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the people in your own party, say no, this is
a really stupid idea.

Speaker 3 (08:11):
Yeah that that that that's a bad look. That's a
very bad look.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
Should I ask chat GBT about what martial law means
in South Korea.

Speaker 3 (08:18):
I wonder what they would say. I also wonder. I
hear martial law, and I think, Okay, Steven Sagal is
probably on his way.

Speaker 1 (08:23):
Now that's martial arts, not martial law.

Speaker 3 (08:27):
But he's there. Wouldn't you wouldn't you think he's there
just to help out?

Speaker 1 (08:31):
For what? What is he Korean?

Speaker 5 (08:33):
Like?

Speaker 1 (08:33):
What would he have some cigulion? That doesn't matter, of
course it matters. He's there to help out. No, he's
He's on his way. What is your obsession with this guy?

Speaker 5 (08:43):
He is?

Speaker 1 (08:43):
He's like, he is the he is the lamar Odems
of John Claude van Dams.

Speaker 3 (08:51):
Wow, lamar odom so I mean a solid sixth man
with a decent mid range lamar.

Speaker 1 (08:57):
He's the lamar Odems of John Claude van Dams. That's
That's the best way I can describe him. Martial law,
according to chat GPT, is a legal situation where the
military takes control of the normal civilian government functions, usually
in response to a crisis such as war, natural disaster,
civil unrest, or asterious threat to public safety. Under martial law,
military authorities have the power to enforce laws maintain order,

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and restrict individual freedoms that would normally be protected under
civilian law. Some key characteristics of martial law include suspension
of civil liberties, military control, and position of military law
and Martial law is usually considered a temporary measure, but
can be controversial due to its potential abuse. A potential
to abuse power and suppress opposition, which certainly sounds like

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what this is. Says these people are North Korean sympathizers here,
but I have to say the one hundred and ninety
to zero, and there's usually three hundred people in that
by the way, So I just one hundred and ninety
that were present and they all voted against this guy,
making this Is that not like the most that's got

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to be like a damaging thing to a guy. Yeah, Like,
how do you come back from this?

Speaker 3 (10:06):
Yeah? That that's a rough look that that is, you know,
just one ninety to zero. So I think he's probably
gonna be filed under the can't trust this guy for
anything anymore?

Speaker 1 (10:17):
Yeah, apartment and relatable. I oh, come on, yeah. So
he basically says he'll lift the martial law. This is
within the last few minutes. He says, Hey, we'll lift
his martial law order. Uh, and this is being reported
from a couple of different sources. And said that he

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would withdraw the martial law order as soon as he
has the required level of support from his cabinet as well.
And he said given the time in South Korea, he's
not been able to convene his full cabinet to support
the withdrawal because this statement came roughly, what with it,
five am? Five am over there right now?

Speaker 3 (10:55):
Uh? Yeah, So so there you go, declared martial law
right away. He didn't even get out of bed, didn't
put his slippers on, well, eat his breakfast first.

Speaker 1 (11:04):
No, isn't it like five am there? Now?

Speaker 2 (11:07):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (11:07):
I thought you meant he declared no.

Speaker 1 (11:09):
Like during the day. Yeah, but now he can't reconvene
all of his cabinet because of what time it is
to get this done. So yeah, I mean, we don't
need to spend a ton of time on this because
first of all, I don't want to be insensitive, but like,
what can North Korea do for me? Like I hate

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to be this guy, but of all of the world
powers that we could be talking about, and I use
the word power loosely, if we're not talking about kau
Metoma streaking down the left side of a football pitch
and setting up Brighton and Hove Albion for a great
goal in the Premier League. I just don't know, like
what other relevance in my life at least Korea.

Speaker 3 (11:52):
South Korea has Oh we sent over Dennis Rodman to
try to cool the waters back in the day that
was North Korea. But that's what I mean. But now
that it's South Korea, maybe we could send over Tony
Kuk coach and he could help out a little bit.

Speaker 1 (12:03):
A former Bull, the Croatian Sensation.

Speaker 3 (12:07):
Yeah, exactly. I think that's a good bull. You know,
maybe even Bill Wennington.

Speaker 1 (12:10):
He's busy. He's a color commentator on the radio broadcast
for the Bulls games.

Speaker 3 (12:14):
Okay, so Tony Kuck coach, I would think that he
has some time on his hands.

Speaker 1 (12:17):
Yeah, I don't know. South Korea also, also, if it
truly is South Korea, like dissension here, do you really
think that the people of South Korea want to live
like North Korea? No, Like that's my other thing about this,
like that has something devolved over there where all of
a sudden they're like, actually no, they have it better

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than we do here. Like, I just haven't heard of
a lot of trouble that South Korean government has created
for its people. I just it would have to be
so bad for them to want the North Korea life,
except maybe, and we see this in the United States,
the implication of the term communism, fascism, what other buzzwords

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nazis hitler, yeah, nationalism, yeah, I mean, you know, white nationalism,
stuff like this. These are the kind of things to
me that you say to get a rise out of people. Now,
I think a couple of steps too far, probably to
just declare martial law without knowing you have the support
of it of the other people in your party. But

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it seems like maybe this is a political ploy to
like quiet down the opponents or get the people riled up.
And they got riled up for the wrong reasons. They
were like, you can't do this to us. You can't.
You can't institute martial law on the people of South Korea.
So I think his days are probably numbered as a leader.
But just like what could he possibly be talking about,

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Like if you're that afraid of what you think the
communist party like like a proxy communist party, Like what
we would you know, many people have called the Democrats in
this country, calling calling people that in South Korea, Like, what,
what would make you think that the overwhelming majority of
people would buy into that and actually vote for some

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background of that When the people in North Korea are
actually dealing with this legitimately and generally are viewed as
a worse place than South Korea, that makes no sense
to me.

Speaker 3 (14:24):
Well, it's the ultimate grass is always greener on the
other side thing. I mean, all they have to do
is just look over to the other side and see
how how you know how bad your life could be?

Speaker 1 (14:32):
Right and okay, so let's le let's one one step
further from that. Right. It's just like we talk about
a place like Mexico, and like some of the poverty
areas that Mexico deals with, some of the problems that
Mexico has, right, you know, far away geographically Mexico is
from right here quite a ways. You know, geographically far away,
the southmost point of South Korea is from North Korea.

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M Like, let me, I'm gonna I'm gonna look at
a map.

Speaker 3 (14:58):
I would I would guess, but I have no idea.

Speaker 1 (15:00):
Well just just uh, what do you think about the
idea though, of the reason this is so such an
interesting situation. If you're talking about that from from that perspective,
why is it so? Why would someone be fearful in
South Korea of that happening? Right you mentioned it? The
proximity Seoul is the biggest city there, and Soul is

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a big city right from Seoul. I'm just gonna look
this up while I'm talking here, directions from Seoul to
North Korea. And the answer is, show me a map driving.

Speaker 3 (15:42):
What are we doing by the crow flies? Are we
taking a highway?

Speaker 1 (15:45):
I don't know. It's it's it's it's it doesn't want
to tell me. Isn't this that that can't be good?
That can't be good. That doesn't want to tell me.

Speaker 3 (15:55):
I think you have.

Speaker 1 (15:56):
Toul is literally right there, dude. Look that's the border.
The water is right there. I mean it is. And
look at the roads. Look at the highway system in
North Korea, look at the highway system in South Korea.
Civilization and not civilization is basically what this looks like
from a map. I mean, that is wild to me.
I think it wants me to Uh, let's just go

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from Pyongyang Pyongyang. The directions from Seoul to Pyongyang. They
don't want to tell me. Apparently South North Korea is
so protective of the distances of their country they I mean,
Google doesn't even like want to dare figure out how
far it is to drive. But maybe there's just no

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roads because you know, like when you look at the
Google Map, that's the thing, okay, And this is the thing.
Google Map driving not available in Korea. This is a
thing they don't want us to know the map. Huh unreal, unreal,
All right, whatever, doesn't matter. Somebody said the distance from

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Soeul to Pyongyang is three hundred and forty five miles
total driving. You can get there in one hundred and
twenty one miles of flying. So you have to really
go all the way around to get from Soul to
pyeong Yang, if anyone ever would want to do that.
But that is a very short distance considering like you
know what, like you know what, one hundred and twenty one

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miles from those two capitals together. That's like the distance
from Omaha to the point. Right.

Speaker 3 (17:25):
I was gonna say, that might even cover the distance
between Omaha out to western Nebraska.

Speaker 1 (17:30):
That oh easily. Yeah, yeah, so there you go, I
feel like we know what's going on in Missouri. You
know what I mean? If Missouri was a communist nation
and we were seeing what the heck was happening over there,
I would feel like we would know a little bit
more about communism. Legitimately you go to Branson, you know,
you never know that's the opposite. Trust me, ladies and gentlemen,

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I've been there. But that's what I'm saying. It's just like,
who are you tricking into thinking that this is going
to be legitimately communism? They know what that looks like.
It's right there across the border.

Speaker 3 (18:04):
It's weird.

Speaker 1 (18:04):
Anyway, that's South Korea story. If there's any further developments,
we will let you know throughout the afternoon. But it's
pretty interesting developments this morning when we were hearing about
this officially, by the way, three minutes ago, the cabinet
has convened and has officially voted to lift the martial
law just hours after it was originally announced.

Speaker 3 (18:23):
And so this is five in the morning for them. Yeah,
they all got together and they.

Speaker 1 (18:26):
Were like, yeah, we probably should get rid of this
before we make people too angry.

Speaker 3 (18:29):
That's a grumpy meeting. Though you're getting up at five
in the morning.

Speaker 1 (18:32):
But unsuk unsuk yul is he's not going to see
here the end of this. This is gonna be a
this is a bad look, bad look on multiple levels.
We'll keep you posted and we got plenty more for
you here live from thirty hop in West Omaha News
Radio eleven ten Kfab.

Speaker 4 (18:48):
Emery Sunger on news Radio eleven ten kfab.

Speaker 1 (18:53):
I'd love to have you come and see us, to
be honest, because we're already sitting in here. But this
cool place. A lot of the good vibes in here. Yeah,
a lot of different things, you know, like I count
the TVs, jeez, a lot of TVs, a lot of
different sports going on, got ourselves all these kind of
you know, vibes of come as you are, man, come

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as you are, and you come see us in At
four in an hour and a half or so, they
are supposed to be doing the ribbon cutting ceremony, which
is always cool to see and be a part of
celebrating the birth of a new business here in Omaha,
so you can come on out and enjoy yourself. They
actually three to six is the happy hour here. I

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mean you and I usually can't take advantage of happy hour, right.

Speaker 3 (19:41):
That's true. You had three to six that would be
during show hours, so I suppose we could Today today
we have half price apps or something.

Speaker 1 (19:49):
It's thirty thirty percent off thirty percent off apps, draft beer,
wine by the glass House, cocktails, well drinks called drinks nice.

Speaker 3 (19:56):
I got my eye on a couple of those apps
I liked. I'm thinking, honestly, the loaded guawk and chips
is kind of I'm circling the wagons around that right now.

Speaker 1 (20:05):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Then they have daily specials Monday, Tuesday,
and Wednesday and Tuesdays, which is today, three houp old fashions.
Come and enjoy yourself. Man, this is a good time,
break up the week. It's awesome.

Speaker 3 (20:17):
You like a good old fashion.

Speaker 1 (20:18):
Uh, yeah, I do. It's got to have a lot
of orange in it, though, Like, give me really good
orange flavor with that orange peel in there, and I'm
definitely in. We were keeping an eye on the news
today the big trial. We were expecting a verdict maybe
today of the Daniel Penny trial in a man in

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the Manhattan. Of course, if you're unfamiliar with the Daniel
Penny situation. We've mentioned a couple of times on the show,
but I don't know how much there is to discuss
or debate about this as much as we're just kind
of curious just to see what the verdict is. But
twenty six year old, it was a marine, and he's
charged with recklessly choking out a homeless guy who was

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being a nuisance in harassing people. And based on the
easiest way for me to explain what I know about
the details that they have shared and why he's being
charged is many people seem to think that him putting
this harassing homeless guy in a choke hold wasn't really

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the problem. It was that he held it for too long.
The doors of the subway had opened, he could have
released the guy at some point and maybe death wouldn't
have been the result. But we're going to learn exactly
what a jury thinks about this. That verdict is going
to be coming as early as today, maximum of fifteen

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years in prison if the conviction holds first manslaughter and
he's also accused of criminally negligent homicide. A lot of
protesters both sides here, and if we come close to
learning about a verdict here we will step in and
let you know about this. While we're out here, we're

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having fun on top of talking about the news, but
we talked about the South Korea situation. And I got
to be honest, I'm not super up on the South
Korean news, but I had Matthew send in an email
said many youth in South Korea want unification with North Korea.
Also there are infiltrators from the North and the South

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Korean government, which there are some people that have said
this as part of this martial law announcement and then
retracting why would they want that? And I asked this
to Matthew, is like, that's why would they want to
do that? And he says, ask them? How am I
supposed to ask them? But I'm sure he's right. I mean,

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think about the youth of America and how differently they're
viewing something like the Israel thing.

Speaker 3 (22:56):
What does that mean unification?

Speaker 1 (22:59):
They want them to become one Korea.

Speaker 3 (23:01):
Okay, but does that mean that North Korea then has
to become just like South Korea.

Speaker 1 (23:06):
Or the other way around? I don't know what what what?

Speaker 3 (23:09):
What? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (23:09):
What medium are you gonna be able to find? There?
Like there are some people that want it to become
one thing, like who would be in support of it
becoming like the Kim Jong unway and especially South Korea.
The president we're talking about is the party he belongs
to is a brand new party that began in twenty twenty. Huh,
and it's called the People Power Party. Now. The People

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Power Party is a conservative, right wing political party in
South Korea. And ah, you know, I'm not. This is
a merger of all of these movements and parties. Are
you ready for this?

Speaker 3 (23:50):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (23:51):
And this tells you, like how different the political landscape
is in some other countries because they're democratic, I mean,
like they have democratic processes over the Liberty Korea Party,
the New Conservative Party, Onward for the Future four point zero,
the Future Korea Party, the People Party, the brand new
we Up Transition Korea, all groups, coalitions and parties that

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were merged into the People Power Party. And this president
what's his Yun yunsuk yul.

Speaker 3 (24:23):
There was the People Party, but did they have the
party People.

Speaker 1 (24:26):
People Party, People, People Power Party, Yeah, party People Yeah,
I don't know. But the guy who's the president right
now has been in this party since twenty twenty one.
He was independent before that. He is the president, and
it seems like, based on what I'm reading here, his

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approval ratings as far as the Korean people since he's
been elected not great, not great. He's been president since
March twentieth of twenty twenty two, So I don't know.
And who's to say, right, this is a conservative political
party in Korea, and I just wonder if there's a

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way that we can describe this fairly. I think the
best way that we can do this is think about
the young people in this country, our country, not South Korea,
our young people, and how differently they view things from
a lot of us. And we can't even fathom how
a generation that like that, who's freshly able to vote
and take part in our election process, how radical they

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feel about things like foreign policy and open borders and
economics and taxing and socialism or democratic socialism if you
want to use the Bernie Sanders term, you know what
I mean. So I can't you cannot rule out that
there's a very good chance that this happens in South

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Korea as well with some of their young people, and
the big political left leaning thing may just be well,
we should make one Korea again, you know, or or
they have the same type of communist viewpoints that they
see North Korea having in their government, but they choose
not to pay attention to, say the oppression that the

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people face and the lack of you know, interest in
either welcoming visitors or having any sort of legitimate relationship
with other countries around the world save for the handshake
deal that he made with Putin in Russia, right, you know,
like think about it's just like the way that the
rest of the people in the world look at you

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if you're North Korea, all right, Like they don't know
because they're not able to be exposed to that. But
the South Koreans are they exposed to it? Do they
see it the same way? I don't know. It's just
weird to me anyway. Again, we will keep you posted
if there's any legitimate information on that as well. And
James sending an email by the way that says Google
does not provide impossible routes. It's just the same that

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there is a bridge across the river. There's no way
to navigate into a country that doesn't allow visitors. Fair enough.

Speaker 3 (27:09):
I Well, wouldn't you say though that Google, do they
just have their satellites not pointed towards there, or do
they actively get rid of all of the data because
they have it they have satellite Well.

Speaker 1 (27:20):
But that's the thing, dude, Like it doesn't even look
like there's very many highways over there. But I'm saying,
like Google probably can you would fit figure they could
calculate it if they had the roads. Yeah, but do
they have all the roads would be the question? Or
does North Korea not allow those pictures to be taken
from space?

Speaker 3 (27:38):
How would they do that? What do you mean how
would they not allow that they get.

Speaker 1 (27:43):
Out of our airspace?

Speaker 3 (27:44):
Bro?

Speaker 1 (27:45):
I don't know. Is there a cylinder of airspace all
the way up to the moon that you know, if
you're right over the top of our small little communist nation,
we will try to shoot you down like something like that.
I don't know, you would think that that's not possible,
but who's to say, I don't know? Anyway, it's a
it's this is this is why you and me talking

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about this stuff. It's like funny for us to like
chat about because we literally know just enough to be
dangerous but don't know enough to like feel like, uh,
like we really just need somebody who's lived in Korea
for years to be able to explain the current the
current temperature over there and why all this is happening.

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But either way, Cabinet officially has said that, yeah, we're
gonna reverse that martial law thing that he said a
few hours ago two forty seven at the time, we'll
come back. I got the got some interesting baseball news
just very briefly that I need to touch on invent about.
We'll do that, and we're live at thirty Hop here
in West doll Come say hi to us. We're here
until six o'clock at four o'clock to doing a special

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ribbon cutting ceremony to welcome thirty Hop into the Omaha community.
Can't wait to see you out here on news radio
eleven ten KFAB and raise Songer. In the last five
minutes or so, the People Power Party of South Korea
has made a statement, are you ready to hear this?

Speaker 3 (29:04):
I'm ready?

Speaker 1 (29:05):
Han Donghun, that's the leader of the party. I think
what you know, uh think of the person we do
this like Ronald McDaniel, right, she was in charge. You know,
everybody said her leadership is why the Republicans were losing, right,
and they had to get rid of her if they
were going to win. Right, even though she wasn't running

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for office, she was in charge of how that party
was operating. Well, Han Dong Heun is that leader for
the People Power Party. That Hun suit yull is the
president of that country, but he represents that party. And
here's what he said. As the ruling party, we feel
deeply sorry to the public. The president must directly and

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thoroughly explain this tragic situation. The Minister of Defense who
recommended this martial law should be immediately dismissed and all
those responsible must be held strictly countable.

Speaker 3 (30:01):
Quote.

Speaker 1 (30:02):
So he's also come out and said this is unconstitutional.
So apparently all Yun su Yole has done this on
his own within you know, some of the people that
are his aides, did not talk to his political party,
did not talk to his political allies. He did this
on his own. It's hard to think of a worse

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gaff to have. Yeah, like what was he thinking, Like
he was just gonna like run over the country with
with his authority, Like was that what he was looking for?

Speaker 3 (30:32):
Yeah, there's going rogue and then there's that he wasn't even.

Speaker 1 (30:35):
Going rogue with this. His party is like, what are
you doing?

Speaker 5 (30:38):
Dude?

Speaker 1 (30:40):
Like I need an explanation. I mean he I mean
he's screwed. Yeah, he's screwed.

Speaker 3 (30:46):
Yeah, I'm telling you, I'm seeing a buddy comedy in
the future. Two lame ducks, Joe, Biden and him can
can star in a buddy comedy and you can just
be great. Yeah, union in Joe un and Joe and
they'll be out on the road. It's a road trip
by comedy.

Speaker 1 (31:01):
And where are they road tripping?

Speaker 3 (31:02):
Yang?

Speaker 1 (31:04):
No, no, no, no, come.

Speaker 3 (31:06):
On, Yeah, we want to keep this light and funny.
Remember they're just driving through Canada. I don't know where
would we put him?

Speaker 1 (31:11):
Uh what's a funny place for two guys? I mean
he's not really that old, he's twenty years You're going
to Biden is so?

Speaker 3 (31:18):
I mean there's got to be a scene, could be
a dad well, and there's got to be a scene where,
you know, is there.

Speaker 1 (31:24):
A third we need a third guy? Yeah, he's got
to be Trudeau.

Speaker 3 (31:28):
Okay, Well, if they become number fifty one, maybe maybe so.

Speaker 1 (31:37):
Uh no, there's got to be there's got to be
another you know, fairly senile dumb politician out there somewhere
that we can exploit.

Speaker 3 (31:42):
Trudeau would be funny though, because then you have layers
of ages.

Speaker 1 (31:45):
Yeah, he could be he could be Biden's grandson.

Speaker 3 (31:48):
And you know, Trudeau would feel way too cool to
be there.

Speaker 1 (31:50):
Yeah yeah, oh yeah, yeah, and his eyebrows would keep
falling off. No, okay, So like to throw throw Trudeau
in the back seat. He can ride in the back
seat while those guys are going and there's got to
be like a super comedic place for them to be
trying to road trip to, like Branson, Missouri.

Speaker 3 (32:08):
There it is. Oh, that's good.

Speaker 1 (32:09):
Yeah, it's a good one. Good Christmas and Branson. All right,
Matt Case alongside with me and Marie Sunger, we're live
at thirty Hop here in west Omaha. We want you
to be a part of what we got going on
out here, so please come and visit us. We will
talk more about the awesome things that are happening at
thirty Hop. Wi'le also giving you plenty of other news
and items. And I got to tell you about this
baseball story that's Riley, you're riling me up. That's on

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the way, as well as just about anything that you
could possibly imagine. So stay locked and loaded with us
as we remain live right here at thirty hop off
of the Dodge A one forty fourth exit. Be sure
to come see us until six o'clock right here on
news Radio eleven ten kfab I suggest to a third guy, right,
I think you need a third guy, and Scott says, betterman.

Speaker 3 (32:55):
Okay, think about that.

Speaker 1 (32:57):
Yeah, I mean you want to talk about a guy
that is going to act too cool for school and
making those guys feel real stupid along the way.

Speaker 3 (33:02):
I mean, come on now, yeah, Federman John feder Is.

Speaker 1 (33:05):
To think about that. That's we need to find a
good spot, a good place for them to be road Trippic.

Speaker 3 (33:11):
Can we get? Can we get a moment when Feederman
yells here you go?

Speaker 1 (33:15):
Oh come on?

Speaker 3 (33:16):
I thought he kind of looked like that guy from
the Goodies.

Speaker 1 (33:19):
I thought it was Electric Company. Now maybe I don't
know what are we talking about. I thought he was.
He reminded me more of somebody who would voice the
Electric Company.

Speaker 3 (33:28):
Oh, I don't know what that is.

Speaker 1 (33:30):
It's a Sessame Street style show from the seventies.

Speaker 3 (33:32):
I think, ok. Yeah, I thought you're talking about oppd No, no, no.

Speaker 1 (33:35):
No, no no, no, no, no, no no, not that electric company,
the TV whatever.

Speaker 3 (33:39):
All right.

Speaker 1 (33:39):
Anyway, we as we mentioned, we are live from thirty
Hop and we're blessed to be joined by another one
of the partners of thirty Hop. His name is Eric Shoemaker. Eric,
thanks so much for stopping by our radio booth here
and having us out here today.

Speaker 5 (33:50):
Hey really appreciate you guys coming.

Speaker 3 (33:52):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 1 (33:53):
All right, So we talked to Dan a little bit
earlier about how thirty hop works in the vibe here.
But Omaha a new spot for thirty Hop. You guys
have a couple of restaurants in Iowa, but here making
the trip across the border into Omaha. Why, Omaha, boy,
I can't tell you how excited we are to be here.
Our partner, Dan that was on here earlier, is in

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charge of our growth and finding the new hotspots to
be and Omaha was at the top of his list.
His family is from the Omaha area, so he always
grew up coming and visiting and always loved his time
here and saw it as a vibrant community that we
could really.

Speaker 5 (34:36):
See a lot of success in.

Speaker 1 (34:38):
Well, I gotta say, you walk in here and One
of the things that you notice when you walk in
immediately is the TVs. You notice the big bar area,
which is very welcoming for anybody who might even be
just coming alone and want to hang out, have a
good meal or some drinks while watching the game, or
anything else that they might be interested in. But there's
something about just that atmosphere for somebody who might be alone,

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but also somebody who might have a kid or two
that might want to bring it here. What about this
vibe makes this place thirty Hop so unique?

Speaker 5 (35:11):
You know, we have that upscale Midwestern charm. We we
love bringing energy and vibe to what we do, and
we're we do a lot of twists on the classics,
so a lot of recognizable dishes, but we we do
them a little bit differently and like to really create

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a lot of energy amongst our locations.

Speaker 1 (35:36):
In top that off with great service as well.

Speaker 3 (35:41):
I'm just looking at this menu and I'm looking at that.
That's my jam burger. So that that is so that's
bacon jam, Yes, sir, So that so that is is
that flavored bacon like it's if it's in jam form,
So it's probably kind of sweet too.

Speaker 5 (35:55):
Yeah, you incorporate bacon into the jam process, so you
get that nice sweet savory crunch to your burger.

Speaker 1 (36:05):
Yeah. So we're talking to Eric Shoemaker here and we
have somebody who's talking to the sweets are good? Wanted
to give a thumbs up to the sweets here, the chocolate.

Speaker 3 (36:15):
Layer cake, blueberry cheese.

Speaker 1 (36:16):
Oh yeah, there you go. So Eric Shoemaker is a
partner with thirty Hop talking to us here on the
show today on news radio eleventh and KFAB. What's the
inspiration of that menu? Right? Like you talk about you
guys are a team in this restaurant has proven to
be incredibly successful in its previous iterations in Iowa that

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are continuing to grow and bubble there. And the reason
I think a lot I'm excited about this place is
the menu is very eclectic. I mean even just the
appetizers themselves. As we were kind of running through the
appetizers and like, you know, because happy are you thirty
percent off the appetizers during the week, which is just
started at three o'clock here, But those appetizers are so

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different from each other. So who's in charge of the
food decisions and how do you guys decide what lands
on that menu.

Speaker 5 (37:05):
Well, I can't take much credit for any of that,
but I would say our menu is a West Coast
inspired menu. We we take offense to being called a
flyover state in Iowa and Nebraska and and we think
that we can come and bring the flavors that people
experience on the coast to our hometowns and we try

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to exhibit that with our menu.

Speaker 3 (37:31):
So let's say I am going here for the first
time and I'm looking at all these different drinks. What
what would you what's your first pitch?

Speaker 1 (37:41):
Easy?

Speaker 5 (37:41):
The Nebraska old Fashion. So yeah, that's that's unique to
our menu here in Omaha. We want to pay homage
to the local community here, and that's quickly become my
favorite old fashion on any of our menus.

Speaker 1 (37:58):
And wait, sorry, do you make your own old fashions
like at home?

Speaker 5 (38:04):
I usually don't have that much patience, so it goes
right on the rocks.

Speaker 1 (38:06):
I was gonna I was gonna say. I was gonna say,
you know, like, I've tried my old own old fashion.
This is why you have to get a good bartender.
Because I made my old my own old fashions at
home once during the pandemic, because you know, I was like,
I'm gonna learn how to make cocktails, and I watched
it so bad. I told myself, I'm never gonna drink
another Old Fashioned until I learned about the different stylings

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of an old Fashion. And to me, the orange like
speaks to me a little bit. What makes the Nebraska
Old Fashioned unique?

Speaker 5 (38:35):
Well, we're featuring the Nebraska and bourbon in that and
the Brickway bourbon and really makes it a nice sock,
delicate mouthfeel, and really an enjoyable cocktail.

Speaker 3 (38:47):
That's awesome. That is awesome. I'm looking at the mules here,
so I'm assuming those are served in the the Is
it the copper cup that you get with the with
the mules? Yes, yeah, vanilla pear mules. That's so unique.

Speaker 1 (39:01):
If only we could, if we weren't on the radio
right now. Boy, you know large.

Speaker 3 (39:06):
Sample size that I would take a sample, Yeah, I'd
fall out of my chair.

Speaker 1 (39:11):
Yeah. Well, that's the unfortunate thing about this menu. It's
so big. Then there's so many different things to choose
from that you can't all, you know, enjoy them all
in one shot here. But what you can do is
come today, because today is a very big day for
you guys at thirty Hop, because this is a Chamber
of Commerce, is going to be coming out here and
kind of making it official, welcoming thirty Hop to the
Omaha community.

Speaker 5 (39:30):
Yeah, you know, we're so honored to be here and
a big part of what we do is try to
support the community and number one step in doing that
is joining the chamber. And for us, we're open with
kind of a soft blunch here with our green opening
that officially is on the sixth as.

Speaker 3 (39:51):
We have a big all day happy hour party for that.

Speaker 5 (39:55):
But the ribbon cutting today is really helping us take
that off for us this week.

Speaker 1 (40:02):
It's gonna be an awesome time. So come on out
at four o'clock is going to be when that ribbon
cutting is scheduled to take place, and we're gonna be
here until six broadcasting live from here, and then of
course Friday, the big old day long happy hour to
do the big grand opening for this incredible restaurant. And
don't worry if you're wearing a suit, you can come.
If you're bringing the family, you can come with the

(40:23):
girls' night out. You can come if you're all by
yourself and you just want to watch the game and
have a beer. You can come. There's nothing that's off
limits for these people.

Speaker 3 (40:29):
Eh, that's right. We like.

Speaker 5 (40:33):
Come as you are, and we treat everyone as our
own house guests.

Speaker 1 (40:37):
Eric Shoemaker one of the partners here with thirty Hot
brand new spot has opened in Heartwood Preserve and we're
doing the commerce ribbon cutting today. Cannot wait for that, Eric,
Thanks so much for the time today. We'll be chatting
with you, I'm sure again here very soon, and congrats
once again on what you guys have done here in Omaha.

Speaker 5 (40:53):
Thanks for having us, and I'll work on rounding up
some samples for you guys here.

Speaker 3 (40:57):
Oh boy, here we go.

Speaker 1 (40:59):
Matt Case and I will continue to have our show
here at three fifteen. Right now, we are here till
six thirty Hop off of you take the south go
south when you exit either direction off of Dodge on
one hundred and forty fourth Street, you can put it
in your GPS. It will take you right here. This
is the of course, the only thirty Hop in town,
and it has been just awesome to get to know

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this place a little bit better. We'll have more on
this and plenty more news coming up. You stay right
there on news radio eleven ten KFAB.

Speaker 4 (41:26):
And Marie Sung on news radio eleven ten kfab.

Speaker 1 (41:31):
You see this Matt Matt case alongside I'm interrupting your
what did you order?

Speaker 3 (41:36):
Oh man?

Speaker 1 (41:37):
What are they?

Speaker 3 (41:37):
I got the what is it? The loaded guawk, loaded
guaka chips, fresh guacamole, bacon, corn saltsa at to lay
at tola frame up. Sure, yeah at whatever that is. Yeah,
but it's good and it's making me happy.

Speaker 1 (41:54):
All right, Well it looks it smells good too. But anyway,
I got this fifty dollars gift card to thirty hop
that I'm gonna be giving to someone, but I'm going
to tell you how to get it. The first step
is you're going to have to make plans to see us,
and I'm going to have this available in a five
o'clock hour for somebody to come say hi to me.
And if you follow my instructions, which I will give

(42:15):
later in the show, you have to stay with us.
But if you walk in here and you follow my instructions,
first person to do that is going to win the
fifty dollars gifts.

Speaker 3 (42:24):
To the intriguing.

Speaker 1 (42:26):
Yeah, the gift card here, Yeah, you can't win though.

Speaker 3 (42:29):
That's a lot of cash. Fifty bucks, that's.

Speaker 1 (42:33):
Two person meal easy. Yeah. I mean the prices are
very affordable.

Speaker 3 (42:37):
And you come in here on a Monday, you get
that classic Burger for the five ninety nine deal.

Speaker 1 (42:42):
And if you come during happy hour, thirty percent off
appetizers and beer, wine, cocktails. Blah blah blah. Yeah, I mean,
come on, now, what are we doing anyway? Yeah, we're
going to be doing that later. So we're keeping our
eyes on the South, the developments in South Korea. We're
keeping our eyes on the Daniel Penny Verdict. If we
get one, we will let you know as that happens.

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But I wanted to talk about baseball for a second.
What's your relationship with Major League Baseball? These days?

Speaker 3 (43:09):
It's complicated on Facebook? I think it right now says
we're on a break. But that's just because the season's
not going off.

Speaker 1 (43:16):
Oh, come on, that's not what I'm talking about. I'm
talking about in general. Oh, in general, are you excited
for the next season to start? Do you still like
Major League Baseball? Do you like the direction it's been going.

Speaker 3 (43:25):
I've kind of you know what, I don't like saying
this out loud. But it is true. I'm a bit
of a steroid era casualty. I fell in love with
baseball when the steroid era was in its full fling.
I mean, you're talking, Sosa, You're talking.

Speaker 1 (43:39):
They're hitting more home runs now than they ever have
as a whole, are they really? Yeah? The teams are
breaking records for the most home runs that they are
hitting without the roids. It's just maybe not as they
don't look as jacked.

Speaker 3 (43:51):
Huh yeah.

Speaker 1 (43:52):
Yeah. Well, but that's the other thing too, that the
style of baseball is different, right, It's all about you know,
Greg Maddox. Those guys don't exist anymore. These are guys
to throw one hundred and five. If you can throw
one hundred and five and you can't locate, that's fine.
We'll teach you how to try to throw straight. But
that's all it is. It's not as much of an
art form as it is just let's throw it as
hard as we can because science tells us that it's

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harder to hit, and then the guys at the plate, right,
The reaction to that for hitters is, well, I need
launch angle on my swing so I generate doubles and
home runs because singles don't matter as much, which is
so against what the whole science of baseball is. There

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used to be like multiple ways to win, but all
the good teams now you have to hit home runs,
You have to have lockdown bullpens that have a couple
of guys that aree hundred mile an hour throwers. They
had to institute the pitch clock, which I was in
favor of. By the way, that's one rule change that
I can get behind. It has made the games much
more easy to watch. You don't have these guys coming

(44:57):
in and taking thirty to forty seconds in between every pitch,
which is just brutal, especially when you get to the playoffs. Right.
I don't like the runner on second base in extra innings.

Speaker 3 (45:09):
Yeah, that's a weird one.

Speaker 1 (45:10):
I hate that. Basically there's a zero percent chance, not
a zero because it has happened, but you're not gonna
make it to the twelve thirteenth, fourteenth inning usually because
of that. Teams shutting guys down. Guys just like like
load management they call it in the NBA, Guys just
aren't as durable as they used to be. You're never
gonna see it cal Ripken type ever. Again, that's just

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not something that realistically is going to happen. Well, of
all of the rule changes that have happened. Oh and
the pickoff moves limiting the pickoff moves to three. I'm
kind of mad about that. But you know, because you know,
back in the day, you just keep throwing over there.
You know, Now all of a sudden, it's like it
institutes a reason to have more base running. I don't
mind that.

Speaker 3 (45:50):
Oh so you can only throw back to first or wherever.

Speaker 1 (45:53):
Two two times a third time. If you don't get
him on the third time, he automatically gets second. Called
a balk oh man. And then than another thing. The
bigger bases, The bigger basis made him bigger. They made
them a little bigger. Why it institutes a shorter distance
between the first base, second base, third base. The distance
a little bit shorter.

Speaker 3 (46:12):
Well that's not fair.

Speaker 1 (46:13):
Well, that's the point they want more base running. There
was a record number of base stealing in the modern era.
More and more people were stealing bases because this, that
extra little inch on both ends made it just a
little bit closer.

Speaker 3 (46:25):
It's a perfect example, yet again, of all major sports
these days catering to the fans over the product.

Speaker 1 (46:30):
No, No, what fans though, because the whole point is
to try to get fans all right, like like yeah.

Speaker 3 (46:36):
Because the product was good, you didn't really need to change.
Now you're choe. Was it good though?

Speaker 1 (46:40):
It was it good for the modern era? Would be
my question now, because I don't disagree that we're taking
a few steps too far, I think. And then the
pitching change rule you have to face three batters or
get to the end of an inning before you can
remove a guy. I don't mind that either. There's more
strategy into the DH universal designated hitter in both the
National and American leagues. I was in favor of that

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a pitcher. Most pictures in the last fifty years have
been automatic outs. Why would you be taking away an
opportunity for people to actually have to use their brains.
If you're a manager, seventh inning, you're down by a run,
no matter how good your pitcher's been doing, you got
to pinch hit for him. That's not even a decision
to make. Now you have to actually think about using
your pinch hitters.

Speaker 3 (47:20):
You know what this is? What this is when you
go to your friend's house, you have a gathering and
somebody brings over a new board game and you get
all excited for it it's a brand new board game,
but then he spends the next three and a half
hours trying to explain it to everybody because there's five
thousand rules and nobody can figure him out. And by
the end of the time, you're all just sitting around
being like, can this guy leave with his dumb little
board game and we can actually go back to talking
and having fun. Has anyone else had that experience? I've

(47:43):
had it, like multiple times.

Speaker 1 (47:44):
So I think you need better friends would be my.

Speaker 3 (47:47):
I have a couple of tried and true board game
friends and it's okay, but when they show up with
a new board game, I'm kind of like, no, you
can play that in the garage by yourself, because we
don't need your five thousand rule board games.

Speaker 1 (47:56):
Actually want to have fun tonight.

Speaker 3 (47:58):
Well that's what I'm worried about with baseball. It's like,
how rules can you really stuff into this game? Well?

Speaker 1 (48:02):
Yeah, well you just kind of have to relearn them
a little bit if you're a fan. And then obviously,
the expanded playoff was another controversial thing. It went from
the three division winners per league and a wild card
to now there's three wild cards. At what point you
know is too much? Like if you look at the
other American sports, it's still the fewest number of playoff teams.

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Fourteen make it in the NFL. Sixteen make it in
both NHL and NBA, And in the NBA they have
this play in now where you know, an additional two
teams in each conference have a chance at making the
playoff even if they didn't do as well during the
regular season.

Speaker 3 (48:37):
You know what they ought to do is you got
to introduce some rules around UNO into baseball, and maybe
the baseball batter gets up there and plays the reverse
UNO card and then he gets to run the bases
backwards and he gets double the points.

Speaker 1 (48:50):
I don't think so. But here's what I'm going to
tell you. Yeah, they rob Manfred, who has been the
commissioner of baseball for over a decade now, and I
have pretty much had beef with him on most of
the things that he's done, even if there are some
rules that I think were needed for just the ability
to make the game a little more marketable for people. Well,
the answer to our question is he is officially taking

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it too far because he said on a podcast that
this is the quote. There are a variety of rule
change ideas that are being talked about out there, and
we're talking winter meetings, by the way, for the owners.
One of them, he said, was, there was a little
buzz around it at the owners meeting, was an idea
of a golden at bat. Now, the concept of a

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golden at bat would be that regardless of where a
team is in its batting order, right you are. Part
of baseball's rules was that you make the line the
line of pass to stay that way. If you sub
a guy out, he is done. At the major league level,
like in high school and stuff, that there's a re
entry rule where a guy can be pinch hit for
or pinch run for once and then re enter. But

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in the majors that's not a thing. You get pulled
out of the game. You are done, right. You have
to be smart about how you man is your batting order.
That's part of the chess thought process of baseball. One
of the reasons it became such a thinking man's game
is that that was part of the strategy. Right well,
regardless of where you are in your batting order, you
can use a golden at bat and bring your best

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hitter to the play in a pivotal situation one time
per game. So let's say Shoheo Tani isn't due up
for another six batters for the Dodgers, but they have
runners on second and third in a one run game
in the seventh inning, they can use their golden at
bat and have Shohy just jumped the line and basically
bat right there in that situation for their golden that

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bat man. So would there be strategy of how to
use that? Sure? Would it be interesting for the casual fan? Sure?
And that's more than a bats for the really good batters?
Would it be an absolute bastardization furthering getting baseball into
some sort of some dystopian type sport versus the pure

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athletic event that it used to be. You know what
I mean, Like, what are we doing.

Speaker 3 (51:01):
Here dystopian baseball? Can we have alligators? If we're going
all in and we're really gonna make it dystopian, I
don't need to have like a moat and some alligators
and if you got to stay on the base path,
otherwise you fall into the.

Speaker 1 (51:11):
Like a gladiator fight happens, Like.

Speaker 3 (51:12):
Yeah, we have fire shooting from the bases.

Speaker 1 (51:15):
Well, let's let's hire the South Park guys. They came
up with the game and yeah, the basketball like that.
Let's get the South Park guys to figure out a
way to make this even worse. And then maybe at
some point and maybe we can get back to you know,
somebody will start like a real American baseball league and
that I can care about just killing the sport one
at a time. Now, this doesn't mean it's gonna happen.

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The fact that he's even talking about this makes me
just want to throw this microphone that I'm holding my
hand through a window. I wouldn't do that here at
thirty Hop though, because we love this place, brand new spot.
We're about thirty minutes away from them doing the ribbon
cutting ceremony here live, and uh, we are gonna be
excited to talk about that with more people from our
friends here at thirty Hop, and we want you to
come see us. We're here till six, So come on

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out to Heartwood Preserve in West oh just off of
Dodge one hundred and forty fourth is the X you
want to take. We're located on one forty fifth. Technically,
we would love to see us sometime, but from now
until six o'clock, so come on by and say hey
to us, live right here on news Radio eleven ten
KFAB thirty Hove. Just a great spot that had just
opened up over the last couple of weeks, a little

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soft opening, but this week is the big week for
a couple of reasons. First and foremost, today they're doing
a ribbon cutting. The Chamber of Commerce is going to
officially welcome them into the family here in the next
half hour or so, and then we'll be continuing to
talk about this, not just today but throughout the rest
of the week, as this Friday is the official grand
opening and you can be a part of that as well.

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Stop on bye. The hours are fantastic. They can come
anytime for lunch or dinner all week long, and that
includes a three to six pm happy hour that they
have every single day Sunday through Friday. And then they
have extra specials on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and they
have a special old fashioned available as part of Tuesday's
daily special. And this is located in Heartwood Preserve in

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West Omaha, so you don't have to go far. It's
in an awesome new spot that's continuing to develop, and
it's going to be a lot of fun for us
to kind of see how that looks. But thirty Hops
becoming a spot for me. It's only been open for
a couple of weeks, but my wife and I have
already come a few times and certainly are excited to
keep coming, and we're really happy to be out here
for a special day for them. So if you want
to come out here today and not only check out

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thirty Hobby, you can also see myself. Matt's going to
be here for another hour and a half or so.
I'll be here until six. Cannot wait to say hi
to you. And I have a thirty Hop fifty dollars
gift card that I'm going to give away in the
five o'clock hour sometime, but it has to be collected.
You have to come and get it from my hand.
And the only way that you can do that is

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I'm going to give you very specific instructions late in
the four o'clock hour, and sometime during the five o'clock hour,
I'm going to have you come and follow my instructions
and then you will be given The first person to
do that will be given the gift card and I
will let you know if somebody come and collects that.
But that's what we got going on today. Please come
say hey, it's one and one fourteen North one forty

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fifth Street. But you can really just ask your GPS
to take you to thirty Hop in West Olmaha and
it will find where you're going to go. Here in
this awesome heart would preserve situation. You can actually, uh see,
we did a video. You can see some of the
insight on the video, right, Yeah, you look like a
goon in it, But yeah I was.

Speaker 3 (54:25):
I was lurking. I was lurking behind you.

Speaker 1 (54:28):
And you told me you were kind of going.

Speaker 3 (54:30):
For that though. Yeah, I was going for it. I
was going forward. You has that weird thing to go
for Was it weird to lurk? Is lurking not allowed
all of a sudden, Yes, yeah, it's a weird thing
to do.

Speaker 1 (54:39):
I think if you look it back, if you can lurk,
if you look around the wrong people, I could really
do some damage.

Speaker 3 (54:44):
Yeah, you know, if we could go back in time,
I would probably take a different approach, try to be
less weird. But there I've said that so many times
in my life, like I probably should have been less weird, but.

Speaker 1 (54:54):
You're just kind of weird. I feel pretty weird too
a lot of the time.

Speaker 3 (54:57):
Yeah. I don't really want to be normal, though, who does?

Speaker 1 (55:00):
If everybody was normal, then is normal really even that
special of a thing?

Speaker 3 (55:06):
Seems kind of boring?

Speaker 1 (55:07):
Yeah, just like how unremarkable we live in a business
where you shouldn't be normal, right, you know, but they'll
be lurking you're weirdo. Okay, all right. The other thing,
other thing too, when it comes to out here. You
ate something I did? How was it?

Speaker 3 (55:22):
Oh? So good? It loaded guawk and chips, and let
me tell you that. Let me tell you, folks, this
squawk was loaded. It had bacon. It's got a queso
in it too.

Speaker 1 (55:30):
Let me see.

Speaker 3 (55:31):
Let me vamp here for a second while I get
the menu in front of me. Here, it's got what
is it, a tot tot tajen. I don't know what
that is, j I n whatever it is, it's delicious
and I ate it, and I thank goodness it was
so good.

Speaker 1 (55:45):
Tat tat tat tagin. Not sure it can't be tagin.
That's that's two American sound thing.

Speaker 3 (55:50):
That's why I see I saw it and initially thought
maybe Tajen.

Speaker 1 (55:54):
You know, well, here here's the you get Bang Bang
Brussels thirty hop, Nachos, Dynamite. They have the wings boneless
and traditional. Are you a boneless wings.

Speaker 3 (56:03):
Guy, I'm a boneless wings guy. Don't let that guy
from Lincoln hear that. He's hosted your show a few
times when you've been away and he's really anti boneless
wings and we get along really well, we do.

Speaker 1 (56:14):
He's anti boneless wings. Yeah, I don't want him to
find out boneless wings aren't wings. I have listened to
eight hours of radio from the mister anti boneless saucy.
He calls them saucy nugs. They are nugs, They're nuggets,
they're not wings.

Speaker 3 (56:29):
There is just less work. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (56:31):
I don't dislike them, but yeah, the idea that boneless
wings or what we call those things just seems kind
of dumb to me.

Speaker 3 (56:39):
When I'm watching TV and I'm eating wings, I don't
want to have to like look down, you know, I
just want to I want there to be a conveyor
belt my hand to the bowl, to the mouth and
I'm still watching the show that you put you sauce
those Yeah, you saw them up a little. Maybe get
some blue cheese.

Speaker 1 (56:53):
You saw them. I don't know if I have boneless wings.
I'm eating those with a fork.

Speaker 3 (56:56):
Fork. You eat those with a fork?

Speaker 1 (57:00):
Boneless wings?

Speaker 3 (57:01):
Yes, boy, do not let that saucy nugs. Guy from Lincoln,
hear you.

Speaker 1 (57:05):
I don't eat regular wings with a fork.

Speaker 3 (57:08):
You eat boneless wings with a fork.

Speaker 1 (57:09):
Yes. Yes. You put it on a fork and then
you just nibble it while it's on your fork.

Speaker 3 (57:14):
Do you have not only post out while you do it? Oh?

Speaker 1 (57:16):
Come on, I nibble, No, I nibble while I have
it on the fork. You know, it's like, uh, it's
like one of those crazy tribal things that happen when
you put somebody's head on a stick to tell everybody
that you won See.

Speaker 3 (57:30):
Now, you're trying to make it tough, trying to make
a tough thing. That's what you do.

Speaker 1 (57:34):
You take your fork and you you put the the
boneless wing on the fork and then you hold the
I saw them up with like buffalo sauce or good barbecue,
and you just like nibble on it and you don't
get you don't get messy.

Speaker 3 (57:45):
You know what I do? I get messy and I
wipe it on the couch cushions. That's what a real
man does. That's not wild. You don't lock guys with
you lock guys with your TV. You don't need a napkin.
You just wipe it on the couch cushions.

Speaker 1 (57:57):
On the couch cushion.

Speaker 3 (57:58):
Yeah, because you don't want to. You don't have to
get up for a napkin. That's what a real man does.

Speaker 1 (58:04):
Emory, it sounds like sounds like you, sounds like you're
a weird person. I don't want to. I don't want
to use the insult I was gonna use because I'm
gonna offend some people.

Speaker 3 (58:13):
Yikes, what was it gonna be? What was he gonna say?

Speaker 1 (58:16):
I'm not going there. You're you're you're a weird guy.
That's That's as far as I'm gonna go. It's disgusting,
You're ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (58:24):
I'm I'm one of one. Well that's that. That is
training snowflake in the snow. There's only one of me
in the world. And my couch cushions are very dirty.

Speaker 1 (58:33):
Yeah, I bet they are. I'm sure. Do you even
have a couch?

Speaker 3 (58:37):
I do I have a sectional? Actually?

Speaker 1 (58:39):
All right, well, it's a wonderful section. It probably smells bad.

Speaker 3 (58:41):
No, it's it's nice and clean.

Speaker 1 (58:43):
Yeah, Liar Joe says to heen, is the name.

Speaker 3 (58:47):
Of that so close? I don't think about the jay
like kind of like hikama.

Speaker 1 (58:51):
The j is is a it's a hikama.

Speaker 3 (58:54):
Have you ever had a hikama? What? Maybe maybe you
should get out.

Speaker 1 (59:02):
It's like baja blast.

Speaker 3 (59:03):
Now you're gonna tell me you've never even had.

Speaker 1 (59:05):
Cole Robbie, Cole Robbie, Yeah, is that a soccer commentator?

Speaker 3 (59:09):
I could just be making vegetables up at this point
and you would be none the wiser.

Speaker 1 (59:14):
Cole Robbie. I think I saw him doing punditry on
European politics once.

Speaker 3 (59:20):
Cole Robbie. Yeah, yeah, Well he also is a form
of a Radish, A Radish, Yeah, Cole Robbie, it's like
a kind of Radish.

Speaker 1 (59:28):
What about parsnip? Is parsnip a Radish?

Speaker 3 (59:31):
I save parsnip for the horses personally or parsnips?

Speaker 1 (59:36):
All right? Anyway, sorry to derail this great conversation, but
we got to talk about something else. Three point forty
four is the time when we come back we have
to flip finally put a punctuation mark on the Nebraska
regular football season. But it's hard to do that when
multiple guys continuously are entering the transfer portal, and of
course Nebraska is going to be wanting to add some

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of these guys from the transfer portal that's going going
out from other schools. We'll talk about the status of that,
some of the names that landed in the portal since
we last were on the air, and maybe expound on
some of the thoughts that we had about this whole
handshake business from last Friday that I have been roasted by.

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People are trying to roast me about this really yeah, yeah,
and I'll defend myself. Next here on news Radio eleven
to ten kfab and Rais Songer, another quick sports football
conversation that I wanted to have just very quickly briefly.
Jameis Winston last night. Did you see the line? The
stat line, Yeah, Old jamis four hundred and ninety seven yards.
It's a record for the Cleveland Browns franchise, which is crazy.

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Four touchdowns, Unfortunately, three intercepts, including two a return for touchdowns.
They end up losing the game, a heartbreaker for the
Cleveland Browns, but certainly they're a lot more fun to watch,
and they were in the Deshaun Watson era before he
tore his achilles. What they said, though, was that Jamis
had one hundred and seventy one interception return yards against him.

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The Broncos in the three interceptions had a total of
one hundred and seventy one return yards on the interception,
including the two touchdowns. The six hundred and sixty eight
combined passing yards between him offensively and his interception return
yards are the most by any quarterback in a single
game in the history of the NFL. Okay, impressive or dubious,

(01:01:26):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:01:27):
That's kind of like when people's you know, in basketball,
when somebody gets a triple double, but one of the
stats is ten turnovers. You know, like, I don't know
if you really give it to him. But I love Jamis.
I just I want him to get his moment. I
want him to get his playoff moment. I like that
he's still in the league and he's still making it happen.

Speaker 1 (01:01:44):
And it's been a decade almost now.

Speaker 3 (01:01:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:01:46):
Yeah, I mean he.

Speaker 3 (01:01:47):
Had the same problems with the turnovers.

Speaker 1 (01:01:49):
You know, it's been the exact same thing it's been.
You know, one of those things of like trying to decipher,
is being a gunslinger a good thing?

Speaker 3 (01:01:59):
Right?

Speaker 1 (01:02:00):
Far have made a career out of it, But that
was in an era where people weren't high volume enough
in passing to even think about what he was doing.

Speaker 3 (01:02:07):
Yeah, you wonder what Brett Farv would be like in
today's game. I imagine he'd probably be a backup.

Speaker 1 (01:02:13):
Hate to say, I was gonna say, like he's too careless. Yeah, Like,
like you see the best quarterbacks in the league. They
don't throw a lot of interceptions, they don't turn the
ball over that much. He was exciting to watch for
his era because most of the quarterbacks that played that
were successful were the Troy Aikman types who maybe threw
twenty times a game.

Speaker 3 (01:02:28):
Pops, and he's going up against Steve de Berg every Sunday.
You know, he's not really worried about.

Speaker 1 (01:02:32):
Steve de Berg slander.

Speaker 3 (01:02:34):
Yeah, Steve de Berg Man, geez about I about all
those old Chief quarterbacks Elvis Gerbach, Elvis gerbachs Sonny Bono?
What about Steve Bono? Not Sonny Sonny's the ski accident guy.

Speaker 1 (01:02:48):
What what about the Joe Montana ran the Chiefs quarterback
number nineteen random Chiefs quarterback Joe Montana.

Speaker 3 (01:02:56):
Post achilles injury.

Speaker 1 (01:02:59):
He actually was pretty for them still, he was, So
they'll be they'll be hating on old Joe Montana quickly.
Nebraska a couple of unfortunate the news things of transfer
portal types. Daniel Kaylen, the four star quarterback, local product
out of Omaha, and you know, Bellevue. Whatever we knew

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when Dylan Royola also committed to Nebraska that it was
probably gonna be tough sledding for Daniel Klen to find
himself on the field as a freshman, didn't find himself
on the field as a freshman and is into the
transfer portal, which, for whatever it's worth, makes it sound
like Dylan Royola probably is the long term quarterback, which
is good news because you know, there's always these whispers
about a five star caliber guy goes six and six

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as a true freshman, does he want to transfer into
a different program. This would be an indicator that he
probably will not be doing that. If Daniel Klein is
trying to go find himself some playing time.

Speaker 3 (01:03:51):
Right, Yeah, it's a bummer, It's it's a bummer.

Speaker 1 (01:03:54):
It's a bummer, but I mean, like not surprising.

Speaker 3 (01:03:57):
I'm happy for him that he took his shot to
make it on the Huskers. And yeah, I mean he
when he was I believe I said this on the
radio back whenever he first committed. I theorized I wouldn't
be surprised if he doesn't really play here, you know,
I thought it was an interesting move. But he got
his chance to be a Husker and that's really cool.

(01:04:18):
And I'll always be a fan of his regardless of
where he goes.

Speaker 1 (01:04:21):
Yeah, and that's fine.

Speaker 4 (01:04:22):
Right.

Speaker 1 (01:04:23):
You talk about a couple of other things. The interesting
defensive player that we saw, the edge rusher Prince will
Uman Emilion planning into the transfer portal. Yeah, thirty five
tackles in two seasons with the Huskers as well. And

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then an old friend, Chubb a party in the transfer portal.

Speaker 3 (01:04:48):
Back in the portal, Old Chubba.

Speaker 1 (01:04:50):
He's gonna be looking for his fourth college in five seasons,
all right, Florida State back up there landed at Nebraska.
We saw what happen last year when he got playing time.
There were some good moments, but quarterbacking was just not
a great situation for Nebraska last season. Yeah, and then
he went to Nevada this year and is back in

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the portal.

Speaker 3 (01:05:11):
Did he play for Nevada?

Speaker 1 (01:05:13):
I don't know. Maybe, I don't know. Do you really care?

Speaker 4 (01:05:18):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:05:20):
I supposed slightly curious. Yeah, there's a long line of
Husker like Logan's smothers, you know a lot.

Speaker 1 (01:05:26):
Of well, well, Chubba. The only reason I think Chubba
is still being talked about it was because Brock decided
to go to the NFL and all of a sudden
be a good player. Right, Yeah, isn't that kind of
the thing? And Chubba, as much as you know, I'd
love to see another party do well his career. His
stats this year eighteen for twenty five, two hundred and

(01:05:48):
thirty nine yards, a touchdown, and a pick. So, no,
he didn't really play yeah, mop up duty. Yeah. The
game he looked like he played the most was against
Hawaii when they lost big time to Hawaii and they
were bad. Dude. So tub has got to go like
fcs here, come on, You're just going to have one
good football season left of your life and then get
out of there.

Speaker 3 (01:06:07):
He's on, he's on a quest for playing time.

Speaker 1 (01:06:09):
That's for sure, well, yeah, he's running out of that.
And just real quick, that whole handshake business that we
were talking about yesterday. A lot of people didn't like
my take. A lot of people didn't like my take
at all. I gotta tell you, if you're if you're
talking to me about passion in college football, I'm not
standing down on this. I'm actually okay with a little

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bit of a lack of professionalism and sportsmanship. If that
means that we're actually putting pride back into the programs,
I'm sorry, but that's where I'm at.

Speaker 3 (01:06:40):
I think Husker fans don't like it because it was
objectively a bad look after they lost the game.

Speaker 1 (01:06:44):
Win video. If you win the game, does it change
how people view it?

Speaker 3 (01:06:48):
Slightly? But still you probably say, yeah, don't do that.
You look at the video and and I was out
there with their hands extended, and Nebraska is just looking
at it, and I don't I don't understand the philosophy.
Who was it someone in the locker room who decided
that what was your mentality?

Speaker 1 (01:07:03):
And then they said, you know, Matt Ruhle walked through
their practice warm ups, which, again the video is pretty
pretty just somebody looking for something to complain about, I think,
but here's my thought on it. Right, we keep complaining
about a lack of passion. We have lost the passion
in college sports. Nobody has pride for the program anymore.
It's all about me, me, me, me me, And there

(01:07:24):
is one moment where it's not about me. It's about
we don't like you, okay, And I don't get me wrong,
I'm not raising my kid to do that. And you
know what, if I'm out there, I would be shaking hands.
I'd be saying, we need to be sportsmen about this.
But how can we complain about the death of passion
and competitiveness and the program winning out in college football

(01:07:46):
and college sports and then get upset and perturbed because
the team that we liked didn't do it the way
that we wanted them to.

Speaker 3 (01:07:54):
It just makes you look dumfk.

Speaker 1 (01:07:56):
Just win the game, I know. But if you win
the game, we don't look dumb. But here's the thing.

Speaker 3 (01:08:00):
Nebraska tried to act tough, and then Nebra and then
I always showed him who was tougher. I hate to
say it out loud, but it's true.

Speaker 1 (01:08:05):
They weren't tougher in that game. It was just stupid
turnovers as usual that doomed the Huskers. If Riola doesn't
fumble there there's a miskick. I don't know. I just stupid.
I don't know. Anyway, it's a three fifty seven. We're
gonna come back here from thirty Hop. We're live and
local here at thirty Hop in West Omaha. Come and
see us. Put it in your GPS and we'll continue

(01:08:26):
to broadcast here as we're getting closer and closer to
the time of the ribbon cutting ceremony with the Chamber
of Commerce. And we'll talk to more people when we
come back out here. So you stay right where you are.
Matt ca Simmary Songer with you live from thirty Hop
on news Radio eleven ten kfab. You have a fun
out here.

Speaker 3 (01:08:43):
I'm having so much fun. We let you out of
the studio today. Yeah, you let me out and it's
kind of amazing. I must have just been really good
this week. I got to travel out here.

Speaker 1 (01:08:52):
You shaved the mustache. Is that why you didn't really shave?
You trimmed?

Speaker 3 (01:08:56):
I trimmed it. Yeah, you know what it was. It
was actually a trimming accident. I was I took it
down a scale on my trimmer, just to see what
would happen. I thought it would. I didn't think it
would take off this much.

Speaker 1 (01:09:07):
It was better. Yeah, I think it's better.

Speaker 3 (01:09:09):
All right, I'll take it, but you know, we'll see
that means.

Speaker 1 (01:09:12):
That means if you want to get out more often.

Speaker 3 (01:09:17):
I need a better facial hair situation.

Speaker 1 (01:09:19):
Yeah. You advocate for the mustache way too much, and
it just doesn't work. It doesn't work for me. I
have to look at it all the time, like if
there was something physically wrong with me, please tell me.

Speaker 3 (01:09:31):
So you're saying that the mustache was physically wrong.

Speaker 1 (01:09:35):
Yeah, I'm opposed.

Speaker 3 (01:09:36):
It was an abomination.

Speaker 1 (01:09:38):
I didn't say that. I didn't use that word. I didn't.
I didn't use that word.

Speaker 3 (01:09:41):
Was looking through my phone. I showed you multiple pictures
where I looked halfway decent with it, I thought, compared
to what oh oh, oh, okay, I see. So you're
saying we're I mean, I understand right, we're at We're
at a pretty low floor here for my looks.

Speaker 1 (01:09:56):
That's not what I said.

Speaker 3 (01:09:57):
You said that, you know, I feel like Forrest Gump.
I've had like seven Doctor Peppers at this point.

Speaker 1 (01:10:04):
Why does that make you feel like Forrest Gump.

Speaker 3 (01:10:06):
Have you seen the movie? Yeah, he has like twenty
doctor peppers and then he doesn't he ask the president
where the bathroom is or something like that.

Speaker 1 (01:10:13):
Oh, I don't know. There's so many things that happened
in that movie, so many Forrest Gump. Good movie, bad movie.

Speaker 3 (01:10:18):
I think it's good.

Speaker 1 (01:10:19):
I mean it won the Oscar it did, didn't it? Yeah?
It did.

Speaker 3 (01:10:22):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:10:23):
It beat pulp fiction. Pulp fiction, Okay, it beat it
beat show Shank was that year?

Speaker 3 (01:10:28):
Okay, it shouldn't have beat Shawshank. That's silly.

Speaker 1 (01:10:32):
It shouldn't be pulp fiction either.

Speaker 3 (01:10:34):
I've never been a fan of that guy who made
pulp fiction too much.

Speaker 1 (01:10:38):
Quentin Tarantino.

Speaker 3 (01:10:39):
It's too much pointless violence.

Speaker 1 (01:10:40):
Quentin Tarantin.

Speaker 3 (01:10:41):
Yeah, Quinton Tarantino. Can Taranty? We have back to Dominos
and sling pizza?

Speaker 1 (01:10:46):
Couldn't what?

Speaker 3 (01:10:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:10:48):
What?

Speaker 4 (01:10:49):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:10:49):
He's fine, but I just don't like his movies. It's
too too much pointless violence. Where's the violence needs to
have a really good point to.

Speaker 1 (01:10:57):
Where does the where's the testosterone? Where did it go? Like?
What did the testostero of our society go? That's what
I want to know.

Speaker 3 (01:11:03):
I think people, I think I think it's a low
t thing to want violence in your movies.

Speaker 1 (01:11:09):
So you think Quentin Tarattino incredible filmmaker, like one of
the ten best American filmmakers ever.

Speaker 3 (01:11:15):
Probably I wouldn't put him there, but I understand many
people would.

Speaker 1 (01:11:18):
Yeah, and he's only made ten films.

Speaker 3 (01:11:21):
Only made ten?

Speaker 1 (01:11:22):
Yeah, like like like Spielberg had his hand in ten
in a year. What are we talking about here? What's
what's the guy's name that made uh, that made Forrest Gump?
What's his name? Zamechis Robert Zemechiz.

Speaker 3 (01:11:36):
Oh that wasn't Spielberg.

Speaker 1 (01:11:38):
You thought Spielberg made Forrest Gump.

Speaker 3 (01:11:40):
I don't get off to the movies much.

Speaker 1 (01:11:42):
What in the world is wrong with you?

Speaker 3 (01:11:43):
Who meant?

Speaker 1 (01:11:44):
So?

Speaker 3 (01:11:44):
Who's this zamecchas guy? What did he do other than
Forrest Gump Back to the Future? Oh? Okay, yeah, that's notable.

Speaker 1 (01:11:50):
Oh, this conversation is over. This conversation is over. I
cannot believe you anyway. A couple of things that are
in the news that we need to talk about while
we're sitting here. Thirty hop as mentioned twenty minutes away
from the ribbon cunning ceremony is gonna be a lot
of fun. And come and say hey, Come and say hi.
We would love to wave at you. And the you
can enjoy until six o'clock tonight, not just saying hi

(01:12:12):
to us, but also having the ability to take a
quick peek and a look at the happy hour opportunities.
Thirty percent off on appetizers, draft beer, whined by the
glass house, cocktails, well drinks, and call drinks. They got
a great bar here. They got tons of TVs. When
the sports start coming up here like six or so,

(01:12:34):
those are gonna be on all the TVs. Yeah, can't
wait for when it warms up because they kind of
have like a three like a four seasons room out there.

Speaker 3 (01:12:41):
I see that, yep, where.

Speaker 1 (01:12:43):
Where it looks like those have garage stores on them
that can open up, so it like has a patio feel.
That's gonna be awesome when it warms up. Nice anyway,
the uh big news story today shocked a lot of people.
The South Korean pre Yun soup Yol declared martial law

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our time this morning. It was late night yesterday their time.
It's early morning right now their time, and a couple
hours ago they convened. First of all, they they unanimously
of the one hundred and ninety people who were present
in the Parliament or the Congress, or however you want
to I don't know what they call it, but they
said no, no, and they said you can't do that, unanimously,

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including his own party.

Speaker 3 (01:13:32):
So late night, So it was late at night. It
wasn't I.

Speaker 1 (01:13:35):
Don't know how late it was, but it was nighttime
that he said this early morning hour time.

Speaker 3 (01:13:40):
I just think the timing is really interesting to me.

Speaker 1 (01:13:42):
And then by by early morning he's basically like, we
need the captain to meet real quick to reverse this
because people are trying to kill me.

Speaker 3 (01:13:48):
Do you think he went to bed after he declared
martial law.

Speaker 1 (01:13:52):
I don't know how much sleep a president gets regardless
of their situation. Have you seen some pictures of guys
in the way they age while they're the president. Yeah,
it's not just them getting older, it's them dealing with
a ton of stress, a ton of expectations. Why would
anyone want this job? You know, like, I understand the
power part of it, but at the same time, it's
just kind of like, man, you couldn't fill me up

(01:14:15):
with enough caffeine to make me feel like I'm totally
sharp all the time. I do enough radio in a
week between you know, my two shows every single day
where I feel like at certain points I just kind
of black out. Not while I'm on the air, but
like I like I get off of my job and

(01:14:37):
I just like need like a mental break for hours,
Like I just need to sit and watch family. Guy,
I need to sit and catch a game. Sure, I
don't want to think about things. I don't want to
look at my email. I don't want to be bothered.
I just want to sit on my couch, cuddle with
one of my dogs, and watch something stupid and not
have to think. I couldn't imagine being a president. I mean,

(01:14:57):
Donald Trump goes to the golf course. He's a villain.
Oh he's not doing work for the American people. I
don't know what I would do with myself, dude, So
I can't imagine these are fun jobs. I don't know
if he went to sleep, especially considering all the people
threatening him and all the protests that they're trying to
break in to you know, Parliament and all this stuff

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in South Korea to protest this guy deciding he wanted
to do this. Now, the White House, over the last
half hour has made a statement on this. I'm sure
you want to know what the White House, the current
White House, the White House. We cannot trust what they
have to say about the South Korea situation.

Speaker 3 (01:15:35):
I am sitting with baited breath.

Speaker 1 (01:15:37):
What does that sound like?

Speaker 3 (01:15:38):
I don't know. I don't even know what that is.
It's a saying that people say sometimes it I just
feel a little weird when I hear it. So now
I feel weird because I said it.

Speaker 1 (01:15:44):
Well, I'm glad that I called you out on it.
The National Security Council spokesperson said this from the United States,
and I quote, we are relieved President Yun has reversed
course on his concerning declaration of martial law and respected
the ROK National Assemblies vote to end it. Democracy is

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at the foundation of the US r OK It's Republic
of Korea Alliance, and we will continue to monitor the situation.
End quote. Does this guy survive the week? And not
like literally, but like does he have to resign after this?
This is a major loss for conservative politics in the

(01:16:26):
world because this guy represents a very conservative party, a
new party, but a conservative party in South Korea, and
even the people that are at the head of his
political party are saying this was a really stupid thing
to do.

Speaker 3 (01:16:40):
I just want to know why did he see something
on Twitter?

Speaker 1 (01:16:42):
I don't know, and he said like the Minister of
Defense or something was the one that suggested this, and
he said that he felt like the freedom of South
Koreans was at stake here. But the people in his
own party. Could you imagine Donald Trump saying something so
outlandish as so, yeah, the military is going to take
over for now, which is basically what martial law is,

(01:17:05):
and then the Republican Party immediately comes out and says no, no, no, no,
no bad idea. Every single person in Congress that's a
Republican says no, no, no, no, no bad idea. Could
you imagine such a world that's what's happened in South
Korea here, There's no way this guy can say the
president there's no way.

Speaker 3 (01:17:20):
No, there's no way. That's wild wow.

Speaker 1 (01:17:23):
And we'll see what happens after that. But it is
important again, not that I care too much about what
South Korea wants to do, but they are a nation
that we consider an ally. They are a nation that
behaves like us theoretically in government, they have very similar
system of government as we do, and obviously, considering who

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their neighbors to the north is, are kind of always
in this fairly precarious situation of sorts.

Speaker 3 (01:17:49):
They're also very culturally influential. You think about K dramas,
K pop, bubbly t I mean, people love a lot
of a lot of the media that comes from from Korea,
you know, as far as.

Speaker 1 (01:18:00):
You a big fan of what's that band? GTS, DTS,
TBS TV very funny TVs. Yeah, no, I think it's
BTS BTS. That's right. Those are the guys. There's like
sixteen of them. That would happen really, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:18:16):
Well what happens if they go under marshal law. That
wouldn't be good for their career.

Speaker 1 (01:18:19):
I think they they that's a good question. I don't know.
I don't know. It's weird, but uh yeah, whatever, I
don't care. We'll give you more information from the people
that do care about this North Korea, I mean South
Korea situation as we learn more. As for now, it

(01:18:39):
is four seventeen, I memory Songer, Matt cases alongside and
we are broadcasting live from thirty Hop, awesome spot that
just opened up here in West Omaha. They're going to
do the ribbon cutting with the Chamber of Commerce here
in a matter of minutes. After that, we were hoping
to talk to somebody from the Chamber of Commerce and
also from thirty Hop for the rest of the show.
And I also have a fifty dollars gift card I'm
planning to give away some time in the five o'clock hour.

(01:19:01):
You'll find out how. Stay with us here on news
Radio eleven ten KFA b.

Speaker 3 (01:19:05):
Em Marie's song pretty easy to get here. I tell
you it is hip to be at thirty Hop. This
place is hopping.

Speaker 1 (01:19:11):
It is hopping right now. Yeah, something happened at four o'clock.
Maybe people got off work, would be my guess.

Speaker 3 (01:19:16):
Four o'clock on a Tuesday, this is the place to be. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:19:18):
So, and they're gonna they're about to do a ribbon
cutting ceremony for thirty Hop with our friends from the
Greater Omaha Chamber and joining us from the Chamber real
quick is Jenna Kent Catching and Jenna, first of all,
thank you so much for being a part of our
show today. Can you tell me about what the Greater
Omaha Chamber does kind of what you guys are up to.

Speaker 6 (01:19:39):
Absolutely, So I'm actually I'm not an employee of the
Greater Omaha Chamber, but that's really the whole goal. The
Greater Omaha Chamber supports all the local business environments small business,
medium business, large business, and so I work for LEO
a daily. We're a member of the Greater Omaha Chamber

(01:20:02):
and we benefit from all of their services and programs
and incredible events just like this.

Speaker 1 (01:20:09):
So the ribbon cutting here with the Chamber is really
symbolic of that kind of relationship and being a part
of a greater community as Omaha is. What benefits does
the Chamber have for you know, a business like you
were talking about that you're familiar with, and also for
somebody like thirty Hop, how does the Chamber and what

(01:20:30):
is its role in building up these businesses as well? Well?
That's a great question.

Speaker 6 (01:20:34):
The Greater Omaha Chamber is a connector, so they're looking
to connect individuals to businesses, businesses to individuals and then
everything in between that. So for someone like thirty Hop
who's new to the area, you know, their partnership with
the Omaha Chamber hopefully is going to you know, draw

(01:20:55):
people out for events just like this for their ribbon cutting,
the Greater Omaha Chamber will help with a lot of
the social media, social media output, I guess, you know,
for events like this, and so you know, they'll over
promote even after the fact, and they're just a really,

(01:21:16):
really great connector within the community.

Speaker 1 (01:21:19):
I think this is a great point as well about
what it takes to build a community, because Omaha is
a big place, but it's nothing without the people that
are working to try to help it grow as well.
And that's one thing that certainly the Chamber is working on.
I guess from my perspective here, what's your first impression
of thirty hop you know, dropping by here is the
place is really brand spanking new, having its big ribbon

(01:21:42):
cutting today a grand opening later this week. What's your
impressions of the place.

Speaker 6 (01:21:46):
I think it's I think it's fantastic. The environment in
here is great, there's obviously an energy, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:21:53):
Yeah, it's a Tuesday, It's a Tuesday.

Speaker 1 (01:21:55):
I mean it's early in the week.

Speaker 6 (01:21:56):
Still. The other thing I'll say is, like I was
involved with some of the building projects, nice some of
the very first building projects out here in Heartwood Preserve,
so the Carson Group headquarters and the Valmont headquarters, and
it is so exciting to have like restaurant establishments, retail

(01:22:19):
establishments a place. I'm I'm sure I speak for all
the employees like at some of these larger commercial office buildings,
like I mean, now they have a place to go right,
like they have the afterwork bar atmosphere right across the street.
And so it's really exciting just to see what's happening
in this development out here in west Omaha.

Speaker 1 (01:22:41):
Yeah, and Heartwood Preserve you can see a lot of
it not even close to finish yet too. This is
just a growing and bubbling area correct right next door.
So this is a great kind of segue I think
for people who aren't usually in west Omaha to come
and check out thirty half and just kind of see
what this development is starting to look like. Last thing
for you, Jenna, when it comes to the Chamber in

(01:23:02):
this ribbon cutting, what does that symbolize to you? The
ribbon cutting itself? And I see just a huge number
of people from the Chamber that are here for this
type of event. How important is it to have, you know,
an event like this to kind of symbolize the beginning
of that relationship.

Speaker 6 (01:23:17):
Well, I think it symbolizes growth. And whether I love that,
it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what market sector you're in.
It doesn't matter if you've launched like one person entrepreneurial
business or you know, if you're a fortune five hundred
company moving into Omaha, you know, with thousands of employees.

(01:23:39):
Like when you're a member of the Chamber, then you're
celebrated and you're encouraged and you know, and everybody is
going to hope that you grow and wish you success.

Speaker 1 (01:23:52):
Well, that is one thing that we are very excited
about here today at thirty hop we are just minutes
away from the symbolic and legitimate ribbon cutting here with
the Greater Omaha Chamber. Jennet Ketchen, thank you so much
for stopping by the booth today and giving us this information.
And we can't wait to see what you guys are
going to be up to. And thanks for all that
the Chamber does.

Speaker 4 (01:24:11):
Yes, thanks for having me.

Speaker 1 (01:24:13):
All right, that is Jenna Ketchen with the Omaha Greater
Omaha Chamber, and we appreciate you for listening. Come out
out and see us we're here till six at the
beautiful New thirty hop in west Omaha. You can find
it off of Dodge's just to the south on the
one forty fourth Street exit. We can't wait to see
you then here on news Radio eleven ten KFAB.

Speaker 3 (01:24:34):
Em Maurice Solner on news Radio eleven ten.

Speaker 1 (01:24:36):
KFAB Pop Quiz Matt.

Speaker 3 (01:24:38):
Where you can find it. You know, it's just off
one hundred and forty fourth and Dodge Expressway. Yeah, if
just go south, take a left if you're headed west, and.

Speaker 1 (01:24:48):
It would be right if you're headed east on Dodge.

Speaker 3 (01:24:51):
Right and you just it's just right over here, right
over here in this kind of this new area that
the Heartwood Preserve area, which is definitely building up in
their office holdings around here. It's just a really neat
little little community that's that's sprouting up out here.

Speaker 1 (01:25:05):
Wow, dude, he passed.

Speaker 3 (01:25:07):
Good job I did.

Speaker 1 (01:25:08):
Yeah, that was good. That was good. Yeah, you can
paying attention. Get me on grow Omaha.

Speaker 3 (01:25:12):
Come on, let's go.

Speaker 1 (01:25:13):
Oh boy, here we go. You're using my show as
collateral all of a sudden. Hey, okay, so here's here's
all this different stuff that's been going down right like
we talked about the South Korean thing we've been keeping
in tabs as well on the Daniel Penny situation. Daniel
Penny guy who had choked out a guy on Thank

(01:25:40):
You So Much. Sorry, I had to interrupt my story
here as I was delivered boneless wings.

Speaker 3 (01:25:44):
Well they got they brought you boneless wings and plenty
of cutlery. They must have been.

Speaker 1 (01:25:47):
Listening, Yeah, because I'm gonna eat this with a fork
in the commercial break, right, Yeah, that's all what I
was talking about. It's talking about Danel Penny choking out
a guy. The guy dies, and he's being accused in
with uh manslaughter, and we're waiting the verdict. We'll let
you know when we know. As all that stuff, there's

(01:26:08):
a lot of protesters, all sorts of different things that
are happening within this because of course it became a
very political thing, as it usually does. This guy didn't
need to be killed or whatnot, but he was physically
and verbally harassing people on this subway. And this tells you.
I mean, like, you know, there were some people when
I was in Spain, there are a couple of people
that were baking for money that really wasn't that that

(01:26:29):
much going on, you know. And I talked about this
on this show. I felt safer in the metropolitan areas.
Madrid is is big, like Madrid is bigger than Chicago, Okay, right,
And I I felt safer there than I had I
do a lot of times in downtown areas in smaller

(01:26:51):
cities in America.

Speaker 3 (01:26:53):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:26:54):
It's just it's a different environment, it's a different atmosphere,
and I'm sure there's a reason for that, but I
don't know, like there wasn't. I didn't I personally. And
we rode the Metro a lot when we were in
Barcelona and Madrid, and Barcelona's about the size of Philadelphia,
you know, so I mean, it's not a small place.

(01:27:16):
And I felt safer on their public transportation than I
do pretty much on public transportation around the United States.
And I saw a few people asking for money in Spanish,
mostly with a cup, and they certainly were like down
on hard times or something. But I didn't see very
many homeless people. I didn't see anybody really harassing anyone
on the streets downtown, even late at night. I don't know,

(01:27:38):
it's just a culture difference, I guess. I don't know.
I don't know what the deal is, but we'll we'll
see what goes on here, because it was made pretty
clear and by what people are saying that him putting
on a headlock initially not a big deal. It was
how long he held on to it and that it
resulted in a death. That is the is the real
question here? So, uh, with with all that going on, well,

(01:28:03):
like I said, well, we'll let you know how that
continues to unfold. How would you feel if you were
a lame duck in any way, shape or form, Like,
like you're serving but you know you're not going to
be serving again, whether it's because you don't want to

(01:28:26):
be there anymore, it's because you lost an election and
you're just finishing out the term that you know you're
not going to be coming back. Like where are you
at on that? Like, like what would be your emotions
and how would you handle that?

Speaker 3 (01:28:39):
Well? I think it's something you want to handle well,
I mean.

Speaker 1 (01:28:44):
Define well with I.

Speaker 3 (01:28:47):
Support with grace? Maybe I don't know. You know the thing?
So who who gets into politics for just the greater good? Right?
I think a lot of people get into politics for
their ego.

Speaker 1 (01:28:58):
Mister Smith goes to Washington Okay, that's the one guy, right,
but that's a movie. Yeah, you know, that's my point.
I'm saying, Lorge Washington, I don't understand the principle.

Speaker 3 (01:29:08):
Of, you know, going rogue when you're the lame duck
and kinda he's eating a boneless wing with a fork.
I can't focus when this happens in front of me.

Speaker 1 (01:29:18):
Well, I can't speak well, my mouthful, so you need
to keep talking.

Speaker 3 (01:29:21):
Hundreds of years of culture are just being pourn down
the drain right now. I don't understand. We don't live
in a civilized society anymore.

Speaker 1 (01:29:28):
You're e me, Yeah, because of me.

Speaker 3 (01:29:31):
I guess you could debate that that eating it with
a fork is slightly more civilized. It is, but for
some season it seems kind of barbaric to me.

Speaker 1 (01:29:39):
It's barbaric that I don't use my hands to get dirty. Well,
I'm using all this equipment.

Speaker 3 (01:29:43):
There's lots of napkins, and we've got this tablecloth.

Speaker 1 (01:29:46):
Yeah, I'm not doing that. Do you think they muth
this tablecloth? They wouldn't even know what this is our tablecloth.
You'd be sabotaging yourself anyway, finished white, Well, you're talking
about handling the politic when you know you're not coming
back to office.

Speaker 3 (01:30:01):
Oh right, sure, Well you know, uh, one thing I
wouldn't do is eat boneless wings with a fork while
I was a lame duck. Oh my god. It embarrassed
the entire country that way. But I yeah, I don't know,
that's what I think of. You know, you think when
you're a lame duck, you just want to you want
to go out gracefully. You're not the one in charge
anymore technically, right, well kind of are, but you are

(01:30:23):
setting the stage. And oh sure, the next person, very
commonly is someone who maybe you didn't hand picked to
you know what I mean, because because America is always
going back and forth like that exactly you want to.
They had the fireside chat, you know, Biden and Trump,
they had that that fireside chat. It seemed very cordial
and yeah, people people maybe were a little suspicious. Maybe

(01:30:43):
Biden had like a slight happiness and is, yeah, so
who did he vote for? You think?

Speaker 5 (01:30:48):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:30:49):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (01:30:49):
But then, but but when you talked about the hunter
Biden thing, right, that's a thing that a lame duck
guy would do. Yeah, because yeah, there's consequences to that
for the political for his reputation. But at eighty something
years old, a three years old or whatever, you really
think he cares.

Speaker 3 (01:31:07):
That's the bizarre part to me. But I suppose when
you get that age you don't anymore. But he seems
to me. And what do I know? But I know
that the guy when he got back into politics. And
you want to talk about a guy decades ago who
ran for president the first time, remember what got his
campaign canceled the first time because he was making up
campaign speeches, lifting them straight from another politician in England.

(01:31:29):
Eighty eight? That sounds about right. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:31:32):
I think it's eighty eight. Yeah, the eighty eight election cycle.
We forget, he ran for president and it failed spectacularly.

Speaker 3 (01:31:37):
So he's been trying to reach this spot his whole
political career that goes back so long, and it's just
interesting that he would leave it making a move that
has gotten a lot of bipartisan scorn.

Speaker 1 (01:31:52):
You know, but he's also been a liar forever. That
also is not like it's not unlike him to do
something completely against what he had originally said. But again
we talk about this, he might be an extreme example
because he eventually did become the president. But there are
a lot of politicians like this that the status quo

(01:32:13):
changes and all of a sudden, you know what, I
don't care anymore. I bring this up because John Tester,
who's a senator from Montana, he set himself up. It
had three terms in the Senate. That's a long time.
I mean, that's eighteen years in the Senate. And you
don't want to know what he's saying now that they're
asking him about all this Washington stuff because he lost

(01:32:36):
to a Republican this time around. He said, straight up,
I'm one month from getting the blank out of here,
asks somebody who counts, and he smiled. The guy literally
doesn't even care anymore. They could be doing anything in
the Senate these days, and he's like, Nah, I'm just
here to finish out my term. I'm here so I

(01:32:57):
don't get fined. Ah Marshawn Lynch, Yeah, that's the vibe
that I'm getting out of that. So what does that
even mean?

Speaker 3 (01:33:04):
Right?

Speaker 1 (01:33:05):
Like, what does that mean to me to borrow a
term from our football conversation? Lose with grace, yeah, or
win with Grace. At the same time, I think a
lot of people who do win. It's easier to win
with grace and to lose with grace and politics at
least it's like, oh, I get to go Washington. You

(01:33:27):
gotta be careful about this stuff. You can't just you know,
dance on some graves because you're gonna lose some people.
You can't be a jerk. You gotta be thinking about
the next election too, even if it's two or six
or however many years down the line.

Speaker 3 (01:33:42):
Right, does the timing intrigue you at all? Happen right
after Thanksgiving?

Speaker 1 (01:33:47):
The Biden thing?

Speaker 3 (01:33:48):
Yeah? No, No, eighty three year old man sees his
son at Thanksgiving.

Speaker 1 (01:33:55):
He sees his son all the time. Don't give me
any of that crap. Okay, he he's seeing his son
more than he's saying Colma of these days, and probably
by choice, to be honest with you.

Speaker 3 (01:34:07):
But you think about it, a guy whose legacy was
probably really important to him, and it kind of got
taken away from him whenever they decided, hey, you're not
running for president anymore.

Speaker 1 (01:34:15):
By he thinks it was. But I mean he would
he would have just gotten landslid. They would have landslided
him so hard in November he had no chance to win.
Let's be honest, his debate tanked. He tanked himself. You
know what he should have done. He should have run
for president in twenty sixteen if he wanted it bad enough.
But he didn't want to. Then he wanted a break,

(01:34:37):
and by the time he actually got into the White House,
by whatever means that we talk about him getting into
the White House, I don't want to bring that conversation
back up, but you want to know how he got
into the White House. He was an old man and
lost a lot of his cognitive abilities within the first
year of him being in office. So whose fault is that?

(01:34:57):
Maybe he should have been a better candidate. Thank Barack
for having any chance at all of being the president
of the United States, because his profile is the only
reason that he won, and his profile was where it
was because Barock helped him out. That's it, period, period.
Put a T on the end of that, just for
good measure.

Speaker 3 (01:35:16):
Yeah, sometimes you stay at the party too long.

Speaker 1 (01:35:18):
Oh he stayed at the party really long, way too long.
You either die a hero or live long enough to
become the villain, or in Joe's case, just be a
villain forever. It is four forty seven. We come back.
We have more from thirty Hop. We'd love to see
you in the next segment. I'm going to give you
a situation. I'm going to tell you what you should do,
and if you come and see me in the five
o'clock hour and do what I tell you to do,

(01:35:39):
I'm gonna for the first person, I only have one
of these, a fifty dollars gift card to thirty Hop.
You have to come to thirty Hop. I'll tell you
exactly what you need to do, and that's coming up
next here on news radio eleven ton kfab. The whole
point of me eating boneless wings with a four, which
I adamantly do every time I eat boneless wings, has

(01:35:59):
everything to do with not getting dirty. And then I
dropped one of them because you distracted me from my
eating and I made a mess way to go.

Speaker 3 (01:36:07):
I just think that there are some foods part of
the experience is to get a little messy.

Speaker 1 (01:36:11):
I just regular wings. Sure, regular wings, I don't disagree.
I specifically order boneless wings to avoid that. I have
a bunch of very expensive equipment nearby, and I don't
want to get it dirty because I'm considerate of the
people around me, Tommy to each their own, says the communist.

(01:36:31):
All right, four fifty two, four fifty two. Okay, what
do you think I should have people do to get
this fifty dollars thirty Hop gifts dip card. Well, first
of all, I have to show up that we know
I have it in my hand. So for anybody who
wants to win this, the first step is to come

(01:36:54):
to thirty Hop sometime before six. Thirty Hop is located
south of Dodge on the one Andy fourth Street exit.
It's pretty close to the Highway. I mean it's like
right there, and you can find it in the GPS
just search thirty Hop. We are broadcasting here until six.
I'm gonna be here. I'm gonna hold this. Yeah, who

(01:37:15):
do I give it? Like? Like I was thinking, make
moose ears or moose antlers as you walk in. Oh,
you walk through the door and you come walk at me,
and you make moose Because I don't want people to
come up to me and start talking to me while
I'm doing this, why not.

Speaker 3 (01:37:33):
Make a moose noise? No, because it'd be fun for
the listeners at home. They'd hear it.

Speaker 1 (01:37:37):
Yeah, but I would be talking. What if I'm talking
about something or to somebody, and then I just have
a random people, you know, making moose noise.

Speaker 3 (01:37:43):
Maybe maybe walk in and scream like one of those
screaming goats.

Speaker 1 (01:37:47):
No do the opposite, it is, don't make noises at all.
Come up to me. And the first person that does
the moose antlers after five o'clock here at thirty hop
I'm out here. You make the you know, you know
what I'm talking about. Like if I say moose antlers,
you know what I'm what I'm doing, right, yeah, right,
Like just put like your hands on your head kind

(01:38:08):
of make it look like you have moose antlers.

Speaker 3 (01:38:10):
Right.

Speaker 1 (01:38:10):
You might feel like you look stupid, but I'll know
exactly what you're doing. And the first person to do that,
I'm gonna be handing this too, this fifty dollars. Is
that is that too easy? Easy enough?

Speaker 3 (01:38:23):
It's pretty easy. I think there's got to be a
component of social embarrassment. You got to make them make
some weird noise. That's that's where I stand. I don't
think so commy.

Speaker 1 (01:38:33):
I think I think you know what.

Speaker 3 (01:38:36):
You sure make communists sound more fun because they agree
with me on all these cool things.

Speaker 1 (01:38:40):
O no, no, no.

Speaker 3 (01:38:43):
Maybe you know what? How about this.

Speaker 1 (01:38:45):
Man just said communists make sound more funning?

Speaker 3 (01:38:48):
Clip that out of context?

Speaker 1 (01:38:50):
Please please do.

Speaker 3 (01:38:51):
Please do? How about this in true communist form? Why
doesn't somebody just come by and just crop dust the
old booth here, crop us, then you win the gift card?

Speaker 1 (01:39:02):
Crop dust?

Speaker 3 (01:39:02):
How did I mention I'm leaving them about ten minutes,
so at twelve minutes, stop by and.

Speaker 1 (01:39:07):
You're suggesting come and smell my area, like, smell up
my area. Yes, you're a horrible person.

Speaker 3 (01:39:16):
Hey that's a little harsh.

Speaker 1 (01:39:17):
But thanks for coming out and hanging out with me.

Speaker 3 (01:39:20):
Thanks for having me.

Speaker 1 (01:39:20):
Yeah, I'm glad I was able to make this work commy. Yeah,
So come on out to thirty Hop and I have
this gift card I will give to the first person
after five o'clock that walks in here and gives moose
antlers while they're walking towards me when you walk in.
That's the deal, all right, And if I get the
first person, that's if you come and hear the second person. Sorry,

(01:39:41):
I only have one gift card, but I will tell
you that. You know, we ran out. AnyWho will have
the five o'clock hour have more from thirty Hop. It's
gonna be a great time. You stay right there. You're
tuned into news radio eleven to ten kfab Tom Hughes.
He is actually the director of culinary here with thirty Hop. Tom,
thanks so much for being on the show with us.

Speaker 3 (01:40:00):
Oh, I'm glad to be here. Thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:40:01):
All right, So thirty Hop is a restaurant that means
it has food. It does, yes, and director of culinary
sounds like you deal with food.

Speaker 3 (01:40:09):
I deal with food quite a bit.

Speaker 1 (01:40:10):
Yeah, okay, do it together?

Speaker 3 (01:40:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:40:13):
Well, well, let's just go ahead and let's talk about
your background here real fast. First, So how do you
get interested, like what age and kind of what's like
the spark that gets you interested in being a person
that is so interested in the making of food?

Speaker 7 (01:40:28):
You know, I think for me personally, it's you know,
you just find that passion at some point in time.
And you know, I actually I went to school to
be a lawyer. So it wasn't until I got into
the hospitality industry and met two of my very best
friends that became two of my very best mentors that
really struck just myself as just like, man, I really
have a passion for this business, and then that door

(01:40:50):
opened into some other culinary leaders out there in the
world that have also been just great teachers and mentors
for me that did nothing but just fuel that fire.

Speaker 1 (01:40:58):
And you know, I've I mean, I think I love
food just.

Speaker 7 (01:41:01):
Like anybody else in the world, and you start thinking
about just everybody you can kind of be around, from
like your grandparents to you know, other members in the
in the culinary world, and it just just kind of
just does nothing.

Speaker 3 (01:41:10):
But just fuel that passion.

Speaker 1 (01:41:11):
Well, I gotta tell you, food is something that I
wasn't passionate about until I started trying some different foods
in my adulthood and started to understand. You know, so
they did this to achieve this flavor. They did this
to achieve this flavor. What were your favorite foods, because
I feel like that kind of helps kind of get
you into the door a little bit when you kind

(01:41:33):
of have one type of food that you're just like,
oh man, I just love this.

Speaker 3 (01:41:37):
I could eat this every single day. I actually I
get this question asked quite a bit.

Speaker 7 (01:41:41):
I mean, if I had one of those things where
it's like you could never eat any other cuisine for
the rest of your life, it would definitely be Asian.
Oh you know, I actually I had an Asian Korean
restaurant at one point in time. My father was stationed
in Korea when he was in his Air Force day,
so we just kind of had that family passion. My
folks went back and forth, so we're able to do that.
That was really fun. All time. Favorite dish would be

(01:42:04):
like a Giappino, the kind of call it a San
Francisco seafoods too, if you will, And it's just very
just to me. It just it warms the heart, just
a nice tomato brothe thing. And then I can always
eat seafood on everything. So those are two of my
very best things that I always kind of gravitate towards.
But yeah, I mean it's it's definitely weird, just the
evolution of taste buds.

Speaker 1 (01:42:24):
As you go through life, right.

Speaker 7 (01:42:25):
I Mean I remember as a kid hating onions and
hating mushrooms, and now I have two little boys myself,
and they're like, I don't like onions, Like yuess, you
do everything.

Speaker 3 (01:42:33):
It's nature's candy.

Speaker 1 (01:42:34):
So I, oh boy, Yeah, well that's a I mean,
the onion thing that's a hot take for some people.
The adamant about the onions. Well, I'm gonna say here,
you're the director of culinary here at thirty Hop. Thirty
Hop great new restaurant, and we did the ribbon cutting today. Yeah,
grand opening this Friday. How'd you get hooked up with
these guys? Like? What's your story with thirty Hot?

Speaker 7 (01:42:56):
I honestly, it's been a it's been a pretty brief
one so far. I mean I've only been with the
for going on a little over three months now, so
I had the opportunity to just meet Eric and Dan
and talk with the owners of the ownership group and
just it's just intoxicating what they've done, you know, just
from you know kind of I don't want to say
rags and riches, but I mean just came from a
you know, hey, we've never done a restaurant before, and

(01:43:17):
then all of a sudden put one together in Iowa,
and then it happened to another one, another one the
next thing.

Speaker 3 (01:43:21):
You know.

Speaker 7 (01:43:22):
I mean, this is the this is the sleeping giant
that nobody knows about. I mean, the the the backgrounds
from the ownership group and everything they've done and been
able to create. It's just it's really, uh mesmerizing and
for somebody who's been in the industry for twenty plus years,
it's it was really nice and refreshing to have kind
of a real human being to talk to, if you will,
I mean.

Speaker 3 (01:43:42):
The bigger you go.

Speaker 7 (01:43:43):
You know, it's all just dollars and cents in numbers,
and that's all that really kind of you talk about.
And now we have a much more personal touch to things,
and just they just have a great mentality not only
to you know, take care of the community, but take
care of their people, and I just I wanted to
be a part of that. So I was honored to
be able to talk with them and get an offer
and be a part of the family.

Speaker 1 (01:44:02):
Well, you're a part of the family. Now this thing
is off and running. This is a great place I
think for so many people from all different backgrounds, and
the menu in a lot of ways reflects that. So
what does a director of culinary do is you're trying
to get a restaurant. I know that they've had an
identity from their previous iterations in Iowa, but what about

(01:44:23):
this specific restaurant was kind of the talking point for
you of trying to make this a unique experience for
people who are coming in here for the dining.

Speaker 7 (01:44:32):
Yeah, I love the variety of the menu, to be
honest with you, I think it's it's such a great
selection that anybody can kind of come in and like
they want something Asian, they want something American, they want
something to span. I mean, there's just there's just a
wide variety that you know, we have that and it's
not one of those things where we just have a
whole bunch of everything and it's just like, okay, you know,
the items that we have are very very good, and

(01:44:53):
I just they just they kind of explode in your
mouth and flavors. I I often use the term whimsical.
I like to, you know, kind of take a little
bit more of a whimsical nature when it comes to
our food, the wow effect, if you will.

Speaker 1 (01:45:04):
You know, I understand that.

Speaker 7 (01:45:05):
Some of these items are a little bit more of
an indulgent one you're not going to have, you know,
but maybe once a week or something like that. But
you know, I want to make sure that if you
do crave, that you're going to come in that one
time and see us. So that was really some of
the main thought process behind what we do. You obviously
have a wonderful, beautiful atmosphere. But then you know, Curate

(01:45:26):
just kind of a little bit more fun whimsical food
selection with it as well.

Speaker 1 (01:45:29):
Yeah, we're talking here to Tom Hughes. He's the director
of culinary with thirty Hop, which is located to the
south side of Dodge on the one hundred and forty
fourth Street exit. Is very easy to get to as
part of this brand new Heartwood Preserve area that is
continuing to get built up. They dropped off a menu
here and I'm looking at different things appetizers. I'm just
gonna throw out a few. Sure, the traditional and boneless

(01:45:52):
wings are you know, that's kind of a muss for
this kind of atmosphere. But truffle fries, buffalo calliflower, bang
Bang brussels. My friend Matt here had the loaded guawking chips.
That's an eclectic group and I haven't even gotten all
of it yet. Dynamite shrimps in there. Oh yeah. You
had the sticky rice bowls with I mean a lot

(01:46:14):
of Asian flavor there, the handhelds with stuff like the
Mommy Mommi Burger, Mommy Burger. You have the Nashville Hot Chicken.
You got the thirty hot burger. That's my jam burger.
All of these have such different stuff in it. How like,
how do you test this stuff? I mean, are you
just do you like just making this stuff for fun

(01:46:37):
all the time and you're just like, ooh, that's something
I gotta I gotta put that on a menu somewhere.

Speaker 7 (01:46:41):
It's definitely a fun process. Yeah, there there are some
some unique flavor combination in there, you know. That's my
jamburger is a brand new one for us. And I'll
be honest, I hate blue cheese. I have never liked it.
It's too funky for me. And I'll eat a lot
of stuff out there, but I was gonna say, Asian
eating guy, I have just always hated blue cheese. However,
that burger or with the blue cheese and the combination

(01:47:02):
of the nice sweet and smoky to mate h bacon
jam on there, it just kicks. It works and I
love it. And you know, so it's little things like
that they kind of you push yourself to like, all right,
I know what this tastes like, I know what this
taste like, what what would it what would it taste together?
And you know, not everything works, but you know, we
we we go back to the to the test kitchen.
We bring it out to uh you know, beta tests
with with the folks out there, they give us feedback

(01:47:23):
and then uh, you know, we make the magic happen
from there.

Speaker 1 (01:47:25):
I love that process, right because it starts kind of
with you and your brain child or maybe somebody close
to you, and then you kind of build up an
audience to just double check and make sure you got
it right before the greater good all the people that
are gonna come to thirty Hop are gonna be able
to try this out. What's your favorite thing on the menu.

Speaker 7 (01:47:41):
My absolute favorite thing on the menu is our pork
tender loin sandwich.

Speaker 1 (01:47:45):
Yeah, it doesn't get much more Midwest than that right there.

Speaker 3 (01:47:48):
It doesn't.

Speaker 1 (01:47:48):
It doesn't, but you know, we don't.

Speaker 7 (01:47:49):
We don't do it like it's it's not your standard
pork tender loin where it's just the classic yellow mustard
and pickles, right. You know, we have our really cool
uh are our chili crunch slaw and there pickled hello,
and then we do a nice spicy mayo inn agi
sauce on there. So it's almost like a pork katsu
sandwich versus a pork tender line and I'm not gonna
lie it's messy.

Speaker 1 (01:48:10):
You know, we'll give you some extra napkins.

Speaker 7 (01:48:12):
But those flavors, they just absolutely did they all work together.

Speaker 1 (01:48:16):
They just pops in your mouth. It's it's incredible. Well,
I can tell you this. I am very impressed. This
is a large menu both for drinks and for food.
Fifty six menu items, I mean, and it's awesome. It
really Wait till you see brunch. And that's the other
thing too. You guys have a three hour happy hour
Sunday through Friday. You have specials on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
Here we have the Old Fashion, which I got a

(01:48:37):
chance to try, which is just absolutely crazy actful. Oh
my gosh, where else are you gonna get that for
five bucks? No, like, seriously, it's insane how good that tastes.
It just goes down so smooth. And then on top
of that, right you look at the brunch happy hour
Saturday and Sunday ten am to eleven thirty am. This
is the exact thing that I want on the weekend.
I want to wake up, I want to have a

(01:48:58):
spot to go to. You have them with different mimosa
flavors on top of that, and guess what, he also
has some dessert. So tell us about the dessert and
how people can finish off a great thirty hot meal.

Speaker 7 (01:49:10):
Yeah, so we don't have a giant dessert menu, but
we have we have a dessert menu that that really
kind of hits all the taste buds and it's done right.

Speaker 1 (01:49:17):
And trust me, I try to both they slap. They
both slap well.

Speaker 7 (01:49:23):
I am definitely a huge fan of our our I
would say our wild dessert would be that chocolate cake.
You know, it's a six layer chocolate cake with brownie
pieces on top of it, cred up with our housemade
crimin glaze in there, and then assaulted caramel sauce. So
it's it's pretty decadent. It's not gonna it's not overwhelming.
I mean, I'm not saying that one person would want
to eat it by themselves, but it's really a nice

(01:49:44):
cleanser after after a great meal. So I highly would
recommend it.

Speaker 1 (01:49:48):
It's incredible, it really is. My wife couldn't believe it. It's
just the topper on all the great things that you're
gonna find at thirty Hop, a brand new place here
in West oh Tom Hughes is the director of culinary
in honor to talk to you, sir. You've done such
great work here. This menu is incredible. Can't wait to
come here for all my outings. And we really appreciate
you chatting with us today.

Speaker 3 (01:50:06):
Thank you very much for having us. We appreciate.

Speaker 1 (01:50:07):
We love being here in Omaha, love being here in Omaha,
and I love being here at thirty half which by
the way, I'm going to be here until six o'clock.
Be sure to join us until then, We'll be right
back on this news radio eleven ten KFAB and.

Speaker 4 (01:50:19):
Marie Songer on news Radio eleven ten KFAB.

Speaker 1 (01:50:24):
If you haven't been following along the announcement of martial
law going into effect by South Korean President Yun suk yol,
which eventually was immediately voted unanimously against, including from his
own party. One hundred and ninety of their three hundred
seat assembly were actually present. They all voted unanimously in

(01:50:48):
favor of blocking martial law. After that, the President Yun
suk yole, then gathered his cabinet earlier this afternoon our time,
early this morning, early tomorrow morning technically South Korea time,
and they eventually reversed that decision. But this is a

(01:51:08):
major black mark, certainly for a president who was conservative
in the most conservative party in South Korea, a pretty
new conglomeration of parties that got merged together to form
what they are calling the People Power Party, and even

(01:51:29):
the leader of that party condemned the move and said
that the Minister of Defence needs fired for even suggesting this.
And on top of that, there are many people, including
the protesters that have hit to the streets in South Korea,
want this guy to be asked it. Well, my friend
Scott Vorhes is back in the Kfab studios, and Scott,

(01:51:50):
I just have to ask. You know, you've got a
little more experience covering some major political events worldwide. Has
any present or world leader, to your knowledge as they
done something this universally condemned by the people in their
country and even in their party that you can think of, Well.

Speaker 8 (01:52:10):
You can, yeah, you can point to a lot of
like third world nations and banana republics where a leader
suddenly just get in there and says, all right, I'm
the captain now and declares martial law. But South Korea
is a democratic nation, and it's also I've had a
hard time deciphering, whether it's from reading all of this
throughout the morning or listening to your show here throughout

(01:52:32):
the afternoon. You need to have a compelling reason why
you would declare martial law, Like people are out rioting
in the streets, either because they didn't like some police
work or their team just won the World Series. You know,
some legitimate reason for going out there and setting your
entire city on fire, and then the leader would come

(01:52:52):
along and declare martial law. Try and restore order. It's
a short term order for a specific purpose. I still
don't know why this guy suddenly said all right, martial
law and it was kind of way out of bounds.

Speaker 1 (01:53:05):
Yeah, and on top of that, right, the immediate retraction
because he realized only then that everyone thought it was
a bad idea. I mean, how off kilter does a
president of a country need to be, especially a civilized nation,
to be like, Okay, literally, no one except my minister

(01:53:25):
of Defense seems to think this is a good idea,
and he still does it without even talking to anybody
about it.

Speaker 8 (01:53:30):
Right, terrible. I mean, you've been talking about this all day.
Can you tell me in one or two sentences why
the leader of South Korea just declared martial law for
the entire country.

Speaker 1 (01:53:40):
No, the only thing I can the best I can do,
is what everybody else is saying is basically, he felt
like the constitution and the freedom of his people were
at risk because of North Korea sympathizing lawmakers in his
country and just kind of erradically decided that this was

(01:54:04):
the best way to handle that sort of thing, even
though it had the opposite effect. Things went crazy in
the few hours that martial law was technically in effect there.

Speaker 8 (01:54:11):
Yeah, he said that there are like forces within the
country that we're seeking to wreak havoc and create like
a militaristic like state in his country, and in order
to stop that, he literally created a militaristic like state
in his country. Is this more him? I mean, he's
on his way out. He's a lame duck president. His

(01:54:34):
opposition party's got control here this year, so he's on
his way out. Is this really on him? Or is
this on the people of South Korea for electing this guy?

Speaker 3 (01:54:43):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:54:44):
I think that what you said right there. Major con
artists somehow achieves a zero point seven percent victory in
the election to get inaugurated in March of twenty twenty two,
and I got to tell you, looking at this, this
guy's a who were ratings these days. I feel like
most people in South Korea, even who were staunch conservative

(01:55:05):
supporters of his, are greatly regretting putting this guy in power.
And it's been a black mark on that entire political
movement and party in South Korea. So I guess we're
going to have to see what further falls out from this,
but you would imagine that he may indeed step down
before his time is even up, considering all the backlash
that he's receiving here in South Korea today.

Speaker 8 (01:55:26):
And you know what the blowback has been in America.
It's like, oh, we told you this is what's going
on in South Korea. You can expect this to happen
on January twentieth, yep, when Trump gets sworn in and
declares martial law and starts mass deportations of US citizens
or whatever other garbage they start throwing out there about this.

Speaker 1 (01:55:44):
Yeah, and that's the other thing too. It's a bad
look for a conservative you know, parties around the world,
because it's going to be known that this is a
conservative leader in a developed nation that did this, and
they're going to have to find a way to say
that guy's just an absolute Lunatics of this political party
thinks he's a lunatic too, Whereas it seems like a

(01:56:04):
majority of the Republican Party, at least in Washington, DC,
seems to be on the same page with the way
things are going. But again, you can't reason with the
crazy people on the left.

Speaker 8 (01:56:13):
Yeah, but Conservative in South Korea and the Conservative Party
of America apples and oranges. I mean, he doesn't have
a project twenty twenty five. He's gonna follow like America's
Conservative Party.

Speaker 1 (01:56:25):
Yeah, something like that. Five twenty nine. We got plenty
more for you. We're at thirty Hop out here in
West Omaha. If you are listening to us and you'd
like to check out a brand new restaurant, I highly
suggest this one out here at Heartwood Preserve. Just take
the one forty fourth Street exit while you're on Dodge
in West oh and go south and you'll run right
into it. It's really an awesome place, great vibes. It's

(01:56:46):
very full and busy right now. Great energy. Whether you're
dressed in a suit or you're dressed in Sweats, Absolutely
fantastic place. We'll talk more about it when we come
back on news radio eleven ten kfab Maurice tell me
about the receptions. So I always am curious as to,
you know, how a restaurant that is basically just berthed
into an area and how people are becoming quickly aware

(01:57:08):
of it and enjoying the indulgences that are available.

Speaker 2 (01:57:11):
Now, we're super excited about everybody that's walked through the
doors and have had a ton of compliments.

Speaker 1 (01:57:16):
So that's the kind of stuff that keeps us going.

Speaker 2 (01:57:18):
And we've been remarkably lucky with the staff that we've
been able to hire, and some of the people from
back home, I would say that have been able to
come and train with us and do those kind of things.
So there's been a lot of hard work behind the
scenes that I get to take zero credit for. And
those are the people kind of making all these guests happy.

Speaker 1 (01:57:37):
Well, I can tell you this. I got positioned here
just inside the door, so I got to see like
firsthand the activity here. I mean, you come in, you're
talking to real people immediately, and one of them is
getting you seated into either a booth or a table.
You got the high top, you have the bar. So
many different kinds of vibes even within the restaurant that

(01:57:57):
people can have regardless of what they you know, who
they came with, if they have kids or anything like that.
How thoughtful of a process is that, because people are
so important in an industry like this one of having
the right kind of person that can be helping your
customers feel like they had the best possible experience. Oh,
it's everything, absolutely everything.

Speaker 2 (01:58:18):
So we've got a lot of committed people, not just
to thirty Hot, but to the industry itself, to hospitality,
to food and beverage, and to share that passion with
people is remarkable and that's that's.

Speaker 1 (01:58:31):
Why we do it. Well. I can tell you this.
I had some of the boneless wings, I had my
buddy Matt here sat here, had the loaded guac. The
chips are fantastic as well. Talk to Tom Hughes, the director
of culinary over here. A lot of thought went into
this menu and it's a very eclectic from your perspective.
How important is it also for people with any sort

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of flavor cravings to come to thirty Hop and know
that they're going to be seeing something on the menu
that's for them. Absolutely.

Speaker 2 (01:59:00):
It definitely is a melting pot in terms of the
type of cuisine that is on the menu. You get
anything from a lot of pan Asian flavors, some text
Mexic going in there, and then your good old Midwest
comfort food as well, so we satiate some of the
lighter appetites and anybody that really is looking to indulge also,
So there's really something for everybody.

Speaker 3 (01:59:21):
All Right.

Speaker 1 (01:59:21):
I got to ask you about Omaha because you have
ties to Omaha, and this is a place that is
it's a sizable place.

Speaker 3 (01:59:30):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:59:31):
You guys were born as a restaurant in Iowa, and
I also was born and raised in Iowa. But after
I got to Omaha, I realized this is a place
is still bubbling, it's still growing. It's still got this
feel of great optimism for people who come here and
especially are living here for the first time, and places

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like this are really important to continuing that type of growth.
What is it about Omaha that made you so excited
to open up one here? Yeah, I've seen Omaha grow firsthand.

Speaker 2 (02:00:01):
I've got aunts, uncles, cousins by the dozens here. It
was no problem filling out our friends and family night
just based on immediate relatives. So visiting here multiple times
a year and watching things progress and seeing different pockets
kind of take off within the community has been remarkable
to see and we're happy to be a part of it.

Speaker 1 (02:00:20):
Well, we're super happy to be a part of it too.
Before I get you out of here, a couple of
things that I wanted to just kind of curiosity speaking
to me. Television placement. You have a lot of TVs
in here. There's not a single seat in here that
you're not going to have perfect view of multiple televisions.
Because my wife may not like this about me, but

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I do make my restaurant decisions a lot of the
time based on how quickly and easily I can take
a look.

Speaker 3 (02:00:46):
At the games that are happening.

Speaker 1 (02:00:48):
How important is that part of this to have that
vibe as well for the people who are coming in
here also to check out what's going on in the game.

Speaker 2 (02:00:54):
One hundred percent, we have a three to sixty viewing atmosphere.

Speaker 1 (02:00:58):
We're not over the top sports bar by any means.

Speaker 2 (02:01:00):
That's not how we classify ourselves necessarily, but there is
that opportunity everywhere you're seated within the restaurant to have
a great view of the game, and if there's a
game of importance on, the sound will be on the
audio you name it, so it's.

Speaker 1 (02:01:16):
What the Huskers are in that Bowl game thirty half
could be a place you could check it out and
get that full atmosphere, loud and proud.

Speaker 3 (02:01:22):
You bet I love that.

Speaker 1 (02:01:23):
Now. On top of that, right, the aesthetic in here
I saw at some point as the afternoon war on,
the lights kind of dimmed down a little bit, and
now it's got a very kind of chill vibe. It
feels like if you were sitting at a table or
a booth, you'd feel like you and your table mates
are like the only people in here. It's kind of
got that good mood to it. Is there testing that's

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not done with that to try to like, let's get
the lighting right too. It's just a perfect amount of
lighting for the right atmosphere. If I can say this
on air on air, I call it lights down, sexy up, oh,
And that's what we do.

Speaker 2 (02:01:55):
As the day progresses on, the energy inside definitely changes.
It becomes a little bit more intimate, but still upbeat,
and it just kind of has a different polish to
it when you kind of transition into that dinner service,
if you will.

Speaker 3 (02:02:08):
I love it.

Speaker 1 (02:02:09):
I love there's thought to every single thing that you
guys do. So thirty seconds, what is the best elevator pitch?
Because you've been working on this, You've been doing this
for a while now with thirty Hop, you've come to Omaha.
Now the ribbon cutting was earlier this afternoon, the big
grand opening, full day happy hour on Friday. Give me
a thirty second elevator pitch to anybody out there that says, yeah,

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but really, why should I come to thirty Hop? Let
them know, Yeah, you bet. I call thirty Hop a
category killer.

Speaker 2 (02:02:39):
It really positions itself to be a special occasion place
for some and a daily driver for many others. So
depending on who you are or what the occasion is,
you can use thirty Hop as a place for an
anniversary or birthday, a corporate going away party, or happy hour,
or it could be as simple as taking the family

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out and grabbing a burger because you don't feel like cooking.

Speaker 1 (02:03:02):
So it hits all those elements.

Speaker 2 (02:03:05):
And that's why I kind of give it the category
killer name by being kind of.

Speaker 1 (02:03:10):
Right in the middle of that fine dining and.

Speaker 3 (02:03:13):
A hole in the wall.

Speaker 2 (02:03:15):
Each place serves its part beautifully anyway, kind of right
in between.

Speaker 1 (02:03:18):
I get guarantee you have people in here right now
that fit all of those categories, and they're all in
the same place right now because of what this environment is.
So I'm not just saying this because I'm out here
sitting here right now. This is the third time I've
actually been here already since you guys have opened, and
I'm going to come a lot more because no matter
what the vibe is with the guys, I'm coming out
here with my wife. My family's in town with the

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three small kids that my sister has, my dad's in town.
The big game is on. This is a place that
you can come and enjoy any type of vibe that
you're looking for, and it's just you don't find places
like this very often. So I think Omaha is going
to be very grateful that a place like this is
able to exist. And it's very easy to find right
off of Dodge here as well, very easy to get
to off of the one hundred and forty fourth Street.

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X So, Dan Bloom, thank you so much for having
us out here. Thank you so much for putting one
of these in Omaha. Very excited to see what you
guys do and can't wait to keep talking about you
on the radio. Hey, thank you, your support is in crowd.
Be appreciated. Absolutely, we'll come back. We'll wrap it up
from thirty Hop next on News Radio eleven ten kfab
feels like a Friday hanging out here at thirty Hop, which,

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by the way, you should come out here and hang out.
It is really a cool place. Located off of Dodge
on one hundred and forty fourth Street exit. Just go
south off the exit and you'll run right into it.
Do definitely appreciate everyone who's been a part of the
program today. Did want to finish with a couple of things.
First of all, excited tonight opening night at the Orpheum

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for Peter Pan Scott Vord. He's back in the Dundee Studios, Scott,
Peter Pan, yay nay into it.

Speaker 8 (02:04:49):
I haven't seen the stage production, but I'm absolutely sure
that they'll do a great job with it. I really
wanted to take my daughter because when she was like
two and three years old, was obsessed with Peter Pan.
My daddy is Peter Pan, real and I had to,
you know, have that different levels of that conversation as
she got older, and I wanted to take her, but

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she's got a school thing going on tonight, so I'll
have to hear about the show through you.

Speaker 1 (02:05:15):
I will tell you all about it, and we'll have
actually a couple of the stars of the show going
to be joining us tomorrow on our show, so you know,
we're excited for that. You know, that's the thing too,
live productions, even if you're not a huge fan of
the story. A lot of times, I just find the
live productions to be just more enjoyable than just like
the movie. If the movie didn't do it for you,
and they've tried different like Peter Pan spinoffs. Did you

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watch Hook?

Speaker 8 (02:05:38):
No, I never saw that. That's Robin Williams and Dustin Hoffman. Somehow,
I've never seen that entire movie. I feel like I've
seen so many bits and pieces of it. I've probably
seen pretty much all of it.

Speaker 1 (02:05:50):
Well, you remember who the director was of that film, right?

Speaker 8 (02:05:52):
Mmmm? Was that Ron Howard? No, it was Spielbert was it?
And Julia Roberts was tinker Bell?

Speaker 3 (02:05:59):
I think, yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:06:00):
And it was despite having a solid cast and having
one of the great directors of our lifetime. It is
considered one of the worst Spielberg movies he ever made.
And it's just that that's what for me. When you
have like such an iconic story that everybody knows, the
story of Peter Pan, he just you know, never Land,
you got Captain Hook, you got Wendy and the Gang,

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and just this feeling of forever living right and being
young and the delicate you know, how do I say
this delicate dance of life? If you will, it's it's
it's a story that a lot of people have related to,
and I just I feel like this is about as
good of a way to actually experience that story by

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actually seeing it on the stage.

Speaker 7 (02:06:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:06:49):
I wasn't a big fan.

Speaker 8 (02:06:51):
Everyone likes the Boy who Never grew up, But then
Michael Jackson's a weirdo.

Speaker 1 (02:07:00):
Hey, hey, all right. No, I from my advantage point,
Peter Pan Like, I'm a big Disney animated movie fan.
Watch it like pretty much all of them. It's like
in the sort of in the stone tier. For me,
it is probably like third or fourth tier down. I'd
rather watch the Aristocats, I'd rather watch the Jungle Book.

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I'd rather watch Lion King, Oliver and Company. All those
were much more favorable to me than say, Peter Pan.
But you know, it's more iconic than all of those
in a lot of ways, you know, for obvious reasons.
Wasn't it a book first?

Speaker 3 (02:07:38):
Probably?

Speaker 1 (02:07:39):
Yeah, so that probably helps to anyway, I'm excited for that. Also,
tonight we're gonna get those college football playoff rankings. Have
you been following along with this? Just got the way
that they're talking about this twelve team playoff.

Speaker 8 (02:07:52):
If Nebraska is not in it, I don't care who's
in it, all right, figure that out when the game
is on and if I'm available to watch it. Once
we start doing the playoffs, well, I appreciate that there'll
be more bowl games that actually mean something this year around,
So I guess I'm paying a bit more attention than
I probably would.

Speaker 1 (02:08:09):
Well, the thing is, will a three loss team from
the SEC like Alabama specifically get put into this playoff?
Is really the nerve wracking part of this, because a
team like Miami is only lost twice, but because they're
not in the SEC, many are thinking that there's a
chance that they get left out of it. And as
to a two loss team in Alabama, even though they

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have one more loss. The experts say, well, we think
they're a better team, which is just a crazy and
acinine way that we do this stupid college football thing.
It's always been stupid, the way we determine football national
champions have always been stupid. I hate it and I'm
gonna keep hating it until I see that a three

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loss Alabama team does not get in over a two
loss Miami team. But we'll see what the rankings look
like tonight. If Alabama is ahead of Miami tonight in
the rankings, gonna be in over Miami. That's just the
reality of the situation. Whether or not they get into
the top twelve, I guess we're gonna have to find out.
It's been a fun show from thirty Hop. Cannot wait
to talk to you tomorrow at two o'clock, so you'd
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