Bicycle Accidents | Dangerous Husker Predictions | Replacing Pam Bondi

Bicycle Accidents | Dangerous Husker Predictions | Replacing Pam Bondi

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
You know how I have this website that tells me
all the things that like the United Nations like things,
and the United Nations Today is World Population Day, reminding
people essentially to have babies. And it's interesting because there
are parts of the world where that is a major
issue and has been a major issue for a long time.
There are parts of the world where I think a

(00:21):
lot of the people who live there are like, eh,
I think we have enough people. It's interesting just how
that can change in just like a decade time. But
I was reading an article about that and just how
different the approaches from nation to nation on that, and
so yeah, it's pretty interesting. It is an open phone
line Friday. We could also call it an open email

(00:44):
open email Friday. Is there alliteration or something that we
can use with that open open email? Now, that's not
gonna work anyway. keV says Pam Bondy needs replaced or
handling of the situation. At situation I'm sure is a
blimish to the role of Attorney General. I vote is
to get rid of her so we can keep Dan

(01:06):
Bongino and get Trey Goudi to be the ag. Well.
For those who have missed the news and why keV
feels this way and he is certainly not alone. The
Epstein release, the Epstein file drop was overnight Sunday into Monday,
and when you go Sunday into Mondays a lot of

(01:27):
stuff on people's minds, right especially at like eleven pm
Central time or at midnight. Are you watching the news
or you got on your cell phone. I think that
was part of the reason that a lot of people
were frustrated. It wasn't just that, though, It was the
fact there was nothing in the Epstein files. And Pam
Bonni as the attorney General leading the Department of Justice,
this is you know, she's prosecutor. I mean, this is

(01:49):
the kind of person that has all of the clot
in the world to make something like this happen. And
Donald Trump, also, for whatever it's worth, is right there too.
We played the audio from a couple of days ago
this week where a reporter asks the cabinet here Donald
Trump and Pam Bondy about you know what happened what
didn't happen, like how things went down, and she wanted

(02:11):
to answer the question. She did answer the question. There
are some things that I think people are frustrated about
but Donald Trump immediately scoffed at the question and said,
are we still talking about Epstein? Like all the things
we can talk about, you want to waste our time
on Epstein. It's a desecration. He said those words. So
my whole thing is, if we think that there is
more to the Epstein thing than we've been told by

(02:31):
this administration after all of the hubbub, after all of
the campaigning, and saying that we're going to release files,
would be the most transparent administration in American history, after saying, hey,
phase one of the files are in this giant binder
that we've given the fifteen conservative influencers, and they'll get
to go through it. They'll get to kind of unleash

(02:52):
it like it's some sort of scavenger hunt, and then
they'll let the people know on the social media what
they found. We didn't hear any of that. And then
these fifteen people who are waiting for the big drop
on the Epstein files, they were as bamboozled as the
rest of us were. If you go back and look
at what Liz Wheeler or DC Draino or libs of
TikToker talking about on x or any of their social

(03:16):
media platforms. They're saying, look, this is not good. This
is not good.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
This.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
I feel like we have been completely misled and the
American people still have a lot of questions that have
not been answered here. And of course there are people
that are saying, oh, certainly there are more files and
they're not getting released for one reason or another to
protect various individuals maybe in the mix or app play.
And again, how are we going to know that for

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sure unless the administration basically just straight up unleashes every
last bit of the files that they have on tap.
We feel like there's maybe still something left to be
looked at. There are many people that are calling for
the Pam Bondi firing as maybe somebody who needs to
fall on the sword here. And I would just argue

(04:03):
this because Dan Bongino is the FBI Deputy and FBI
Director Cash Battel worked with Pam Bondi on this and
they all set it together. It was a joint statement
essentially from the administration, which include Pam Bondi, Cash Battel,
and Dan Bongino, that there was no more here. Now
we're not yet six months into this administration. We already

(04:26):
had the signal chat leak. It had to, you know,
change up kind of how you're handling some of this
situation with communication. We know that the optics of certain
things like Pete Haigesith and his appointment as the Secretary
of Defense and this whole thing, right was I mean,

(04:49):
it kind of landed on Mike Waltz at the end
of the day. He was the National Security Advisor and
a couple months ago basically just bowed out and said yeah, thanks,
But he basically this guy who's fell on the sword
for all of those kinds of you know, the not
everybody in the administration should be eating that, right. So
after a couple of misfires, Mike Waltz had to be

(05:11):
the guy that said, I guess sorry, I'm leaving. And
then you can throw Elon Musk into the miss mix
here too with how he laughed, and you know, people
were saying, well, it was past his time, he'd been
there for the one hundred and thirty days or whatever,
But there was way more to it than just his
time was up and legally he couldn't stay working with dogs.
There was a way that they probably could have worked

(05:32):
around that. But after that, that's when things blew up,
and you know, he got very personal. He said Trump
was making sure the Epstein files didn't come out because
he's on the list. Okay, so things got very personal
there very quickly. Are we sure it's good for this administration?
Are we sure it would be good optics for Donald
Trump and his presidency in the midst of the first

(05:55):
six months of this administration to fire or replace one
of his highest ranking individuals like Pam Bondi. You got
to remember Pam Bondy was, you know, pretty highly touted.
Was admittedly for a lot of people's like, actually, she's
better than the original person who was nominated, which was
Matt Gates, And after all of the swirl about him

(06:16):
being the attorney general, he stepped aside. Pam Bondi comes in.
She's former Attorney general of Florida, very good at what
she does. She knows how to be an attorney general.
There's a lot of people who were excited for her
to be taking over that position, and this is going
to be the thing that everybody's going to be like, oh, nope,
get her out of there. This is a bad look
for the administration. She has to leave. Would it be
a worse. Look, if the administration just says, yeah, you're right,

(06:38):
she's not doing a good enough job, she's out, and
then all of a sudden, now you're telling your FBI
guys Bongino and Patel and then whomever you get as
attorney general, no matter who it is, to hey, that
Epstein stuff. The people need more answers because that's what
that says. Does Donald Trump want that or is there
anything more right? If we believe what they have told us.
Maybe you know, they were the ones that olver promised

(06:59):
would actually was in there and found out that there
wasn't anything that was there to share. I don't know,
but I think it's something to be said for maybe
a bit more patience, a bit more leniency, I think
from Trump, even though maybe we as the constituents of
the United States, feel like we've been misled or lied
to about this Epstein situation, not just from the Biden

(07:22):
administration but now from the Trump administration. But is that
the kind of thing that we want to say, All right, Well,
Donald Trump is lying to us, and Pam Bondi is
the one lying to us, and we can't replace the president,
So let's get rid of the attorney general. I think
they're probably all on the same page, at least on
this front for this particular subject, two seventeen. If you'd
like to call us four two five five eight eleven ten,

(07:43):
you can also email me Emory at kfab dot com,
NewsRadio eleven ten Kfab Emery Sunger on news Radio eleven
ten Kfab. Matt Case is my producer. Matt's a seven
eleven day seven eleven. What does seven eleven mean to you?

Speaker 3 (08:00):
Well, you want to know something kind of cool?

Speaker 1 (08:03):
Yeah, pretty nostalgic too, Okay.

Speaker 3 (08:07):
York, Nebraska used to have a seven eleven.

Speaker 1 (08:09):
Oh like a gas station?

Speaker 3 (08:10):
Yeah, okay, true story.

Speaker 1 (08:13):
Did it have all like the big branding or was
it like a super old one? Because my neighborhood had
a seven eleven, But I don't think it was a
real one. I think it was a knockoff seven eleven
because it had like awkward signage and stuff.

Speaker 3 (08:24):
That's a good question. It definitely had. Man, was it techan?
I want to say it was techan? Either that or
street Fighter, a game you could go on there and
put some quarters into him play.

Speaker 4 (08:35):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (08:35):
I would be there. Oh it was so fun.

Speaker 3 (08:37):
Me and my best buddy would we would go to
seven eleven, we'd grab a slurpee on our bikes of
course always and play some gosh. I wish I could remember,
he'd know. I guarantee he'd know. Now I'm thinking maybe
it's Mortal Kombat. It was one of those three. I'm
I'm gonna say, Techan, I'm gonna stay there.

Speaker 1 (08:52):
But you can be multiplayer it, you know, like you
could both play at the same time. Yeah, oh yeah,
that'd take a lot of my time, so fun.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
I even had one of my most memorable like physical
accidents due to a giant Slurpye. I was trying to
lug home from seven to eleven and ride my bicycle
at the same time.

Speaker 1 (09:11):
You don't only have like a cup holder or on
your bike right right, not on this bad boy.

Speaker 3 (09:15):
Yeah, this was this was the old fixed gear bike
that you stop, you know when you by just stopping
your pedals kind of thing. Yeah, and yeah, I took
that was a mistake. Lesson was learned that day. So
how did it happen?

Speaker 1 (09:26):
Then? You just like you're trying to make a turn
with one hand while you're holding a slurpy, and you
know just like overcut the turn.

Speaker 3 (09:32):
Like a lot of these things do. It all started
so well, and I was pretty pumped that I was
nailing it. We had left the neighborhood seven eleven, gone
down a block block and a half. I was just
using one hand and have the Slurpy in the other. Well,
had to take a slight turn, took it a little
bit too fast, and what happened was the curb was
really what did me in because my front wheel hit

(09:53):
the curb and you only have one hand on the handlebar,
so of course that just crumbled me. I was going
fast enough to where like I literally flew over the handlebars.
Oh no, landed my stomach first landed on the curb,
just basically hold it over the curb that way. And
that was my first experience with with losing your What

(10:14):
is it where the breath gets taken out of you? Yeah,
the uh yeah, just the wind knocked out. Yeah, wind
knocked out of you. And when that happens to you
for the first time and you don't know what that is, like,
you think you're dying.

Speaker 1 (10:24):
Oh yeah, it's tough.

Speaker 3 (10:24):
Yeah I was.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
I couldn't breathe. I was down there.

Speaker 3 (10:27):
I thought, like, my body's broken, I'm dead. This is horrible.

Speaker 1 (10:29):
Do you have blood? Did you?

Speaker 3 (10:31):
Like, I feel like a knee scrape would have probably
made probably yeah, nothing that really like needed a doctor for.
And then you got your slushy just like, yeah, the
slushy was everywhere. Yea, right, and it's probably on you
at some point also, which probably you know. When I
was that age, I'll be honest with you, like that
was the end of the world.

Speaker 1 (10:48):
I hate spilling stuff. I once was eating, like I
would eat my cereal. We had this little matt. I
don't know if this was something uh you ever did,
but we had a mat and my mom would lay
out for us in the mornings and would go and
we would eat on the mat and watch TV on
the floor. Like this mat would be on the floor
and we could eat on the mat. And then my
dog got kind of the zuomies at like seven o'clock

(11:09):
in the morning, while I'm eating my bowl of wheaties
and I'm like nine years old, and the dog stepped
in my bowl of cereal as he was walking, and
it just it was like something out of a cartoon.
The bowl of cereal just like flies up and comes
all over me, and I just I remember crying like
a real wimp, like a nine year old wimp who
just got doused with milk and wheedies. And I just

(11:32):
remember sitting there just crying because I was so embarrassed
by that. Now I have a similar story on the
bike wreck. That changed the way I viewed riding bikes,
because I mean you probably rode bikes after that.

Speaker 3 (11:44):
Oh for sure, but I definitely that changed the way
I was like, Man, yeah.

Speaker 1 (11:48):
Gotta have both hands on the sing on.

Speaker 3 (11:51):
I was flying a little too close to the sun there,
you know, trying to make it home with a big
slurpy in one hand.

Speaker 1 (11:56):
So I was probably about eight or nine when this happened,
and I was with a buddy and we would ride
bikes around the neighborhood all the time. As we would
ride the bikes, there were bits of the road that
I lived on. It was cul de Sac, but it
was kind of uneven, right, like you want to talk about,
you know, just different areas that like dipped and then
for some reason there'd be dirt or sand in certain spots.

(12:16):
And you know, as a biker, if you're out there
riding your bike, sometimes even just little things like a
little bit of dirt in the wrong spot could kind
of kick your wheel out from underneath you. Yeah, while
you're going. So I kind of get into a little
dip with my buddy in the bike, and as I
did that, I think it was my back tire that
hit some of that dirt and kind of slid out

(12:37):
from underneath me, and so like the bike went down,
I flipped over the handlebars. I went down. I remember
my elbow and both of my knees were just like
bleeding profusely, and all I wanted was my mom to
come and get me. And I think she just thought like, hey,
you got to get up. I'm not helping you here.
And I'm like, you know, like four houses down or whatever,
I'm just laying in the street, just like screaming for
my mom again total went move. Eight nine year old

(13:00):
Emory was, uh, oh, come on. I So eventually I
realized my mom wasn't coming to get me. So I
got my bike and I was able to, after you know,
probably five minutes, muster up some gumption and walk in
to my house. And when I walked into the house,
my mom looked at my elbow on my knees and
was like, oh, you actually did deal with some with

(13:21):
a pretty big wreck there, and my buddy came and
you know, he was making sure I felt okay, and
I appreciated that from him. But yeah, like, uh, we
all probably have one of those if you got a
moment where as a kid growing up or maybe even
as an adult. You know, like, now that I'm back
into riding a bike with some regularity, I'm kind of

(13:41):
interested because a lot of people who have been on
bikes have said, yeah, I went down here, I went
down there, and you know, I had some real issues.
So if that's you, or if there's something that you'd
like to share that information with us today, I'd love
to chat with you. All you got to do is
shoot me an email Emory at kfab dot com, Emory
at kfab dot com. You can also call in with

(14:01):
stories that you have today. We're having fun on a Friday.
Four oh two five five eight eleven ten is the number.
Four oh two five five eight eleven ten. That is
the phone number, And if you'd like to be a
part of the conversation, we'd love to hear from you today. Matt,
looks like you just got off the phone somebody giving
us a tip. I sure did.

Speaker 3 (14:17):
Yeah, Ray, appreciate you keeping us keeping our eyes focused
on traffic there. He said that if you're headed I
eighty and you're past the Omaha Metro into Council Bluffs
and past the Madison Street exit there on the Iowa
side of I eighty, if you're going eastbound, he said,
people are backed up for about a three quarters of
a mile. He didn't allude to what was happening, possibly erect,

(14:40):
but all I know is that if you're going id
eastbound and you're headed through Omaha and you're headed on
your way through Council Bluffs, you're going to be backed
up there pat right past the Madison Street exit, he
estimated for about three quarters of a mile of a backup.

Speaker 1 (14:53):
Well, we'll we'll look into that. That's always a tricky
spot because they have been working over there, like there's
been a lot of construction work in that area as
you're working on your way out of town toward Council Bluff.
So it's a Friday, don't want anybody to feel like
they can't get home or anything like that. So just
being on the alert and we'll keep you posted through
our traffic updates all afternoon long about what's going on

(15:16):
over there? More coming up news ready eleven ten kfab
em are you songer? I have to make a correction
and we need to call this person Matt. But I
thought Mardell was a man's name, and Mardell was one
thousand dollars winner on our show yesterday. Mardell sent an
email and said, I am a female and I feel
terrible now, Mardell, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, but I do
appreciate you correcting us, and we will call you. How

(15:39):
is it spelled mr de e l l E? Oh
the l E? Yeah? Yeah, what am I thinking? Hey,
it's okay, gosh anyway, if.

Speaker 3 (15:50):
It's spelled without the L E, I think it is
could be considered a masculine name. But I just I
didn't think about English origin. I just googled it and
it means the valley with the oh sweet.

Speaker 1 (16:01):
Yeah. Well, hopefully we can get Mardell on the phone
line to talk about how she won a thousand dollars
on our show yesterday. And it's not a mirage, Mardell.
Get it. The value to the pool and the valley.

Speaker 3 (16:12):
Yeah, it's like a four point five at of ten.

Speaker 1 (16:15):
Yeah, he's being a bit generous. All right, phone lines
are open. We were talking about bike recks Matt. Matt
and I both said, you know, when we were younger
had bike exits. It changed the way that we approached
our bicycling lives. And you know, it's all about lessons
learned out there in the real world, isn't it. Well,
my friend Larry apparently has called in and he's already

(16:36):
told Matt the story. So Matt says, be ready for uh,
you're ready for some squirm and so so so Larry,
I'm gonna just preface this, and I'm happy to hear this.
I'm a tad squeamish, and for any of my other
squeamish friends, maybe leave some of the gorious of the
details out, but I'd love to hear what you have here.
Because Matt. Matt's reaction was pretty priceless.

Speaker 5 (16:58):
Okay, what happened. I never rode the bike like that again,
but when I was so, I must spend maybe twelve
somewhere around there. We took a vacation to Ogden, Utah,
and all my relatives are there and my cousin and
I wanted to go bike riding and it's nice and
flat in the city and got we're going to both

(17:21):
ride bikes, but my other cousin took one. So we
hopped on the bike and I drove the bike and
my cousin sat up on the handlebars and I don't
know if you've ever done that, but a lot of
people have. And we're riding down the sidewalk on the bike.
We're about half a block from my uncle's house, and
all of a sudden heard this noise and he screamed,
and I stopped the bike and he had got his

(17:43):
toe in the spoke and it literally took his big
toe off.

Speaker 1 (17:48):
Oh no, no, no.

Speaker 5 (17:54):
So we stopped, obviously, and I didn't know what to do.
I ran back to the house and got my uncle.
He came flying down and covered his foot with something
and picked him up and carried him home, put him
in the car, and drove him to the hospital there
in Ogden. It was actually only about four blocks away,
and I didn't see him. I didn't see him after that,

(18:17):
but they actually put the toe back on, and a
long story short, he ended up. I mean he was
he was healed and everything, and he was fine, and
he played football and then he went to college and
to this day. I haven't talked to him for years,
but he's a pediatrist in Arizona.

Speaker 3 (18:37):
Of course, full circle. Nobody knows more about feet than
that guy. Right, wow, all right.

Speaker 5 (18:44):
No, I was saying, my uncle wouldn't talk to me
for a few days. And you know it's only half
my Paul.

Speaker 1 (18:49):
Well, I was gonna say, like, okay, so you were
an accomplish in participating in riding bikes like that, but
come on, what are we talking about here? It was
he was doing it like like it was like you
you didn't do that intentionally, right, I mean, it's just
you know.

Speaker 5 (19:04):
So oh heck no, and I mean it was just
an accident.

Speaker 1 (19:07):
But he went on, he was fine, you know eventually
in the moment, I'm sure that wasn't the case. But hey,
you know what grew up? It seems like you he
ended up. All right, Well, Larry, that is a crazy
bike story. I appreciate you sharing with us today.

Speaker 5 (19:20):
Oh you're very welcome, you guys.

Speaker 1 (19:21):
Take care, yeap, you two have a great weekend. Oh man,
you weren't kidding. That's a tough one. Yeah, yeah, maybe
don't ride bikes like that. I mean also, okay, so
did your mom ever tell you that it was illegal
to ride on the pegs of your friend's bike? I
think I did hear that.

Speaker 3 (19:36):
Yeah, that was one of those you know, akin to
the whole Uh it's illegal to keep.

Speaker 1 (19:41):
The light on in your car at night, right, like
your lights on? Right. Yeah, it was just like an
intimidation play. I don't know if it was true or not,
but I had a buddy who had a BMX bike
which had the pegs on the front and the back,
and I wouldn't have my bike with me, but he'd
want to go, like ride bikes down to somewhere far away.
And the easiest way for you to do that wasn't

(20:02):
to sit on the handlebars. It was to you know,
jump on the back, put your feet on the pigs
and like put your hands on his shoulders and we
rode our bikes, or he rode his bike down to
a busy section of town so we could. He said
he wanted to put air in his tire, but I
don't think. I just think he wanted an excuse to
ride in that area. And I just remember all the
cars in that area of town. I'm like, I'm getting off,

(20:22):
I'll just follow you. Because I don't want any of
the police officers to see me on your pigs and
we get in trouble. Because I really thought that, you know,
if a police officer were to see me riding on
the pegs of my friend's bike, that they were gonna
point at me and you know, or get me in
trouble and tell me that I couldn't do that anymore.
It's the things an eleven year old thinks about, you
know what I mean? Yeah? Do they even make bikes
like that anymore for the kids? Oh, I'd be shocked

(20:44):
if they don't.

Speaker 3 (20:44):
You need the with the pegs, yeah, for BMX and stuff.

Speaker 1 (20:48):
Yeah, but nobody ever does BMX like they don't. Well
I'm sure people do, but it's just like you're not
buying a BMX bike for your ten year old and
like expecting him to go to the skate park and
doing tricks and stuff. A you know what I uh
you think so?

Speaker 3 (21:04):
Quite literally, I was out for a walk last night
on the Keystone Trail, right next to where the uh
they got the little skate park there, and there were
some people on bikes out there bmxing.

Speaker 1 (21:14):
Yeah, okay, well me, color me surprised and I guess
I'm entirely incorrect on this. I just remember everybody who
was anybody when we were that age had a BMX
bike with the pigs. And if you didn't have a
bike with the pegs on it, yeah, you just weren't cool.

Speaker 6 (21:30):
It was.

Speaker 3 (21:31):
It was a lesser It was a lesser bike for sure,
Like it just wasn't as cool.

Speaker 1 (21:35):
Yeah. Yeah, So like as much as and I didn't
have one, you know, I had a bike that didn't
have a you know, I didn't have pigs. So trying
to like understand what the BMX like, I didn't know
anybody with the bikes with the pigs that used the
pigs for anything other than just your buddy like standing
on the back of the bike and you like getting
towed around on what we're gonna say about pigs, And.

Speaker 3 (21:58):
Well, I was gonna ask you something that in my
neighborhood people did with their bikes that was like the
cool thing to do. Now, this was the cool thing
to do. I never did this. I'll tell you why.
Because I collected sports cards. Oh yeah, I would have
never damaged them that way, that's right.

Speaker 1 (22:13):
I'm in marit. But I was never gonna do that
to my sports cards.

Speaker 3 (22:16):
Clothespin on the spoke, right, Yeah, And so it made
that kind of cool noise whenever you you go on
your bicycle. And don't get me wrong, I got the
appeal and only the cool kids did that. But I
was like, I'm not putting my valuable sports cards. You
think I'm gonna put a Reggie White rookie card?

Speaker 1 (22:31):
Do you have one of those? I sure did. That's
gotta be worse something.

Speaker 2 (22:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (22:34):
You know what, though, you don't know where it is.
You'll have to ask my brother. Oh he's got it.

Speaker 5 (22:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (22:38):
I traded it. I traded it.

Speaker 3 (22:39):
For what I think it was from for some New
York Knicks guys. That's kind of collecting those.

Speaker 1 (22:44):
But yeah, yeah, I mean you don't have it. I didn't.
I didn't know. You don't have a grasp of the market. Yeah,
it was.

Speaker 3 (22:50):
It was the early nineties, you know, it was pre
peak Reggie White, for sure.

Speaker 1 (22:55):
But the rookie card for a Hall of Fame player
would have been worth something even if it's like twenty bucks, yeah,
for sure. And if you put it in the spoke
of your tires on your bike, it would have been
worth zero dollars. Right, I don't know if this story
is true. What a guy I worked with in radio
is named Van Harden. He's I would broadcasting Hall of Famer,
and he told me this story about he had a
Mickey Mantle card. M and he's a big Yankees fans.

(23:17):
He loved Mickey Mantle growing up, big Yankee fan. And
what he did was back in the day, he wanted
to like decorate his room with like string and put
baseball cards all around.

Speaker 4 (23:27):
Oh boy.

Speaker 1 (23:28):
And so he used like a whole puncher and punched
holes in all of his cards that he liked, including
the Mickey Mantle, so he could string him up in
his room in the in the in the sixties. Now
you want to talk about, like if that story is
true and he had a Mickey Mantle baseball card of
any kind and that was the way that he wanted
to use it. I mean, first of all, it's his choice.

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But knowing what we know now, I think he'd take
that one back. That's a tough look, just like you
take that Reggie White back. But look, you get blinded
by the teams that you like, right, Just like I'd
rather have White Sox guys than anybody else. How do
I get my hands on some White Sox guys, even
though the actual monetary values nothing compared to what a
Reggie White rookie card would fetch. We'll get to phone

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calls four O two five, five, eight, eleven ten. If
you want to be a part of the show, you
can also email me Emory atkfab dot com on NewsRadio
eleven ten KFAB em Marie's Sunger on news radio eleven
ten KFAB. Joyce is on our phone line to start
this segment. Joyce, thanks for calling us today. What's on

(24:31):
your mind?

Speaker 6 (24:31):
Well, I've got a bike story for you, but I
don't think it quite matches the toe amputation story.

Speaker 2 (24:37):
I don't know what good Yeah, yeah, but I raised
six kids, and so they had some bike ricks and
including a broken leg once and one of them had
his bike stolen off of our front porch during the
night one time.

Speaker 6 (24:51):
But anyway, so two of the girls once I think
they went to play at a friend's house or something
like eight blocks away from where we lived. And so
one I think she was nine or ten years old,
and she had her little sister ride on the handlebars
like they were talking about. He used to do that
a lot so her little sister was on our handlebars. Anyway,

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she ran into the back of the parked car, and
so of course her little sister flew off and her
mouth hit the curb. So you can just imagine all
the blood and the broken tooth, and it was pretty bad.
And I think I think the older sister went knocked
on somebody's door and said, can you call my mom?
As I recall him, took her to the dentist and stuff.

(25:32):
But years later, after they were both grown, the older
sister that was driving the bike, she said, I never
told you, but the reason we wreck She said, I
rode my bike without hands a lot of times. Sometimes
I'd go a block without ever touching the handlebars.

Speaker 1 (25:50):
Oh boy.

Speaker 6 (25:51):
And she said I decided to ride without hands because
I'd done that a lot. But she said, I didn't
know you can't really do that when you have a
person riding on your handle cars.

Speaker 2 (26:01):
Yeah, so that's why she wrecked.

Speaker 6 (26:06):
But of course she felt horrible about her sister's face
and mouth, and she sure wasn't gonna tell anybody that's
how it happened.

Speaker 1 (26:13):
Oh yeah, that's a that's a tough look there, trying
to go no hands with uh, you know, somebody on
the hands. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (26:23):
Oh, and Emory. One other thing. This is from a
week ago last Friday.

Speaker 1 (26:27):
Okay.

Speaker 6 (26:27):
When I was growing up in the fifties and sixties,
we had cooked cereal, hot cereal, probably about three mornings
a week. It was oatmeal or maldenmeal or cream of
wheat or in. It was serious.

Speaker 1 (26:41):
Oh god, all right, okay, Joyce.

Speaker 6 (26:45):
Also, I remember my dad like cornflakes and shredded wheat.
We usually had some of that on hand, but Mom said,
cold cereals expensive. It's better to have cooked cereal.

Speaker 1 (26:55):
Okay, all right. Well, well Joyce's mom apparently has made
and made the choice that it is here. The warmed
up stuff is cereal too, all right, Joyce, good stuff, right, Yeah,
thanks so much for calling us. Appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (27:07):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (27:08):
But an entire section of our listenership who listens on
a day to day based theare like, oh no, not
the cereal conversation again. Don's on the phone line four
oh two, five, five, eight eleventon. Don, You're on eleven
tin kfab what's going on?

Speaker 4 (27:21):
Hey, I've been listening to you guys talking about some
of the wackle things you did in bicycles. Yeah, here's
a wackle thing for you on slaves.

Speaker 1 (27:27):
Oh okay.

Speaker 4 (27:28):
I grew about in Millard back in the fifties. Nice
and L Street was one of our secondary streets. But
it was a very busy street, huh. And when it snowed,
they got packed down, which was perfect for rudder sleds.
We would go up and down those hills between cars. Well,
cars are going down the hill. We literally go on
the sledge until my dad caught us at it. He

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went to the city, got a side street and closed
for us, and then he went up and down that
hill with his fifty five shivy to pack it down
so we could slay. There is never go back on
L Street again. But we kind of listened and kind
of but nobody ran over, so it was cool. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (28:07):
Yeah, well it's kind of cool your dad, you know,
not just to tell you not to do that, but
gave you kind of an alternative so you could have
some fun still in the same way. But yeah, that's
a that's a different kind of danger there. Don Could
you imagine a kid these days showing up on a
street like L Street on a sled in between cars, Yeah,
I don't I think people will be calling the police immediately, Like,

(28:29):
this kid's doing crazy stuff on the sled right right
in front of me on L Street. What am I
supposed to do? It's cool, mae. Yeah, well I appreciate
you sharing that, man, Thanks so much for listening to
the show.

Speaker 4 (28:42):
All right, take care.

Speaker 1 (28:43):
Yeah, now, see that's some risk going sledding on like
a busy street with cars like actually on the street
is back in the fifties.

Speaker 3 (28:52):
When he said his dad found out, I thought that
story was gonna end completely different.

Speaker 1 (28:57):
Yeah, my dad found out and I was sitting to
you know, for a month a militarious goal, and came
back to Omaha a different man. Never touched us. Let again. No,
but it's cool that his dad did that. It would
have been a lot of fun. Gotta love that. Hey,
we're gonna come back have some more fun with you
on a Friday, So stay with us on news radio

(29:19):
eleven ten kfab. Don't we kind of already do that
now I think about that. It's politics, not that isn't
politics just a variation of that. I know there's a
lot more there. I said, we just have that. So
who would you vote, Matt Case, Who would you vote
for as the most popular person in the state of Nebraska.
Like if we was just like the probably, there's no
responsibilities attached to it. It's just like crowning somebody is

(29:39):
like your favorite, probably Dylan Ryola. That's a good one.
That's a good one.

Speaker 3 (29:44):
You're talking July eleventh. He's going into his second year.
He was good in his first year. There's some hype.

Speaker 1 (29:49):
Yeah, you just told me Joel Klatt had something to
say about the Huskers. Yeah, but we're not going to
pay attention. Come on, no, you got to say it.
You have to say. This is a this is the guy.
This is Fox lead color analyst. He does the big
noon Saturday game of the week. Well, this is it's
traditional every college football off season for pundits of college football,

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the talking heads across the nation to overestimate overseell and
hype up Nebraska. Why do they do it? Why? Why
wouldn't they do it? Is the better question. You know,
that's weird, isn't it?

Speaker 3 (30:26):
Because I mean, massive fan base, a very hungry fan
base for success. Of course they're going to get the
clicks and maybe Joel Klatt really feels this, but he
said he could he could see Nebraska probably going ten
and two this year, and it's just kind of like,
can we have a year, Can we just have a
year where we're building slow and and things are coming
at us?

Speaker 1 (30:46):
You know?

Speaker 3 (30:47):
Oh no, with without the without the hyperbole, and without
the over overestimated, hey, feelings about things. I don't know, whatever,
it's it's talking seasons. It's the same reason why the
stuff Scott Frost said was such a big deal, because
nobody else is saying anything right now, Like all the
major sports are in the off season except for baseball,
So you know this is this is prime talking season

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right now.

Speaker 1 (31:09):
And Okay, so let's figure out what he's looking at here.
Cincinnati in Kansas City he's saying is a win and
then Acron in Houston Christian obviously at home or wins.
He's taking those three, Yeah home versus Michigan and they
won't have Sean Moore.

Speaker 3 (31:23):
Well, if we're only going to lose two, then.

Speaker 1 (31:26):
They have to win No. One at home. Huh against
Michigan at home, and that's a.

Speaker 3 (31:30):
If you take it as a loss, you only get
one more on the schedule. And I know they're going
to the state, the Penn State, So that's one of
those losses. Who else have they got well? At home
against Michigan State, it's got to be a win. At
Maryland would have to be a win. At Minnesota probably
is a win, and then Northwestern and home has got
to be a win, and then USC at home's got
to be a win, you would think, and then Ucla.
I mean, it's not all It's not like the craziest

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toughest schedule. I've ever seen UCLA on the road, but
u c LA actually was playing good football by the
time we played them, and they beat us. And then
at Penn State, which I think everybody to agree is
probably a loss unless they could come up with a
crazy performance, and then at home against Iowa to finished
the season.

Speaker 1 (32:07):
I mean, it's theoretically you could see that. However, the
audacity to say it out loud is something I will
not do.

Speaker 3 (32:14):
You could see it. I think that's perfect world forecast.
I like to do the thing where you do best case,
middle of the road, worst case scenarios, and I would
say ten and two might be the best case scenario
for Nebraska. Can you really get to less than two
losses with a schedule like that? Because let's face it.
They got to get past Iowa. I mean, you know

(32:35):
we should not be talking about like this. No, I agree,
I'd be Seventy five is a win for this team.

Speaker 6 (32:40):
No.

Speaker 1 (32:41):
Seven and five, you think it needs to be better.
That's a push. Seven and five is like, Okay, we
won one more game than last year. That's good enough
for me. Not good enough.

Speaker 2 (32:48):
No.

Speaker 3 (32:48):
Eight and four I'd be okay with. So you would
be disappointed With seven and five, I would be okay.

Speaker 1 (32:53):
They were six and six last year. I just told
you the schedule. Yeah, I know I'll have a stays
on here, but this is the same Nebraska team that
I've been watching for you years and years. You know,
those first three games, they're liable to drop one of those. Well,
Cincinnati's not a pushover, right, They're not great, but they're
not a pushover. And it's at a neutral site venue.
But you don't think they'll be ready to play that
They're going to Minnesota, right, Yeah, that could be tricky

(33:14):
with dangerous to me with throw the boat guy up there,
and then Michigan's without their head coach. But as we
saw with Michigan without their head coach a couple of
years ago, it didn't matter. They still won all the games. Yeah,
So I mean they could come in here and they
could I don't want to say this, but they could
win my thirty.

Speaker 3 (33:29):
I think to me, eight and four is a good season.
Seven and five is fine and dandy, six and six
is a bit of a disappointment.

Speaker 1 (33:35):
Nine and three.

Speaker 3 (33:37):
If we're talking nine to three, it's like it signed
the extension right rule.

Speaker 1 (33:40):
Yeah, we're doing backflips and control. Klatt, which Marcus reminds
us was also a Colorado quarterback. Yeah it was, you know,
so a guy from Colorado. Given Nebraska ten win possibility
this year, if we somehow started knocking on that ten
and two thing, which again, if you beat Michigan at
home in week five, then the talk can begin. Michigan State, Maryland,

(34:03):
Minnesota on the road is a tricky one. But then
Northwestern at home, USC at home will be talented, but
they've yet to prove that they could actually be. Like
a real problem in the.

Speaker 3 (34:12):
Ela at home last year, wants to have a word
with you if you're if you're a fair at USC
as a win fit fair fair.

Speaker 1 (34:20):
And then we get to play in the Rose Bowl
at UCLA, and who's to say, you know what that'll
look like. But if you beat Michigan in week four
and you're four and oh to start the season with
those teams kind of lined up, afterwards, you can start dreaming,
I think a little bit as to, hey, can we
work our way into like the conversation for maybe like
the top four teams in the Big ten in the
standings and maybe have a chance of making that playoff.

(34:41):
But if you lose that Michigan game, or I mean, heck,
if you drop the Cincinnati game in week one, I
mean we should just stop talking about this stuff altogether.

Speaker 3 (34:47):
If they roll out four and oh I am here
and Keith Jackson say, oh, Nelly, you know, it's just
like just hold on, this is this is something here,
because yeah, then you have a whole series of games
after that that you could that you're probably going to
be favored in and and the hype train is going
to be well beyond the station at.

Speaker 1 (35:04):
Well point well at home against Michigan State right after that.

Speaker 3 (35:07):
Yeah, you have to win that game after that, but
see here we go, you know, and then at Maryland
that's the first half of the season.

Speaker 1 (35:15):
You could be six and oh. If you win Cincinnati
if you beat Cincinnati and then you have Acrid and
Houston Christian, which, let's be honest, if those are competitive
at all, it's a huge disappointment. And you could win
that Michigan game and then you can beat Michigan State
and then you can go to Maryland and take care
of business there because you'll be able road favorite in
that game too. Does anybody even know who's playing for
Maryland this year? I mean, that is a program that
is kind of like trying to rEFInd itself here. I'm

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more afraid of like a Rutgers type than a Maryland
And then at Minnesota. Yeah, that's a little bit of
a trickier start to the second half of the season.
But if there's six and oh after that Maryland game, dude,
the hype the hype train is going to be leaving
the station and we should be on it. That's all
I'm going to say. Life is too short not to
jump on a hype train when you have the opportunity.
But be cautiously optimistic. Don't be thinking like, hey, we

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got this, it's all over with. It is not. Things
will get tough, and things will I mean that the
Penn State game looming right, Could you imagine what it
would feel like though it be ten and o going
into that game, just throwing that out there.

Speaker 3 (36:12):
I think seven and five would make me happy. That's
all I'm gonna say.

Speaker 1 (36:15):
Two conservative, Matt get a little crazy. Eight and four.

Speaker 3 (36:18):
Yeah, but I'm trying to be realistic. You lose to Michigan,
you lose to Penn State. I was always got you
by a field goal somehow, Someway almost always, I'll say.

Speaker 1 (36:26):
Not well, pretty much always in recent years.

Speaker 3 (36:28):
You're going to Minnesota that hasn't fared well many times,
many occasions, well fleck yeah, and then and then beyond that,
just the random you throw one in there at Maryland
to me sounds like a Rando loss or those West
Coast games, Yeah, at the Rose Bowl or at home
at USC So yeah, I think seven and five would

(36:49):
make me happy.

Speaker 1 (36:49):
And Cincinnati's just sitting there just like you just wait,
we're gonna have everything for you and ready to go.
Do they still know Luke Fickles on Wisconsin? Now, who's
their coach out there?

Speaker 4 (36:57):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (36:57):
In Cincinnati? Yeah? Oh? The one guy? Is it?

Speaker 3 (37:00):
Like a notable guy who's kind of rehabbing his image.
He's well he's a guy.

Speaker 1 (37:04):
I know, he's he's he's got a guy, Scott Sadderfield.
Scott Sadderfield, he was the former Louisville coach.

Speaker 3 (37:12):
Wait that the is that the brother to the guy
who's tight ends coach for Nebraska.

Speaker 1 (37:16):
Yeah, and the first thing I thought of didn't say
anything about that. Here he's married to Beth Saderfield. That's
all it says. So I don't know. He's from North Carolina.
He went to Appalachian State and he was a Louisville
head coach. After he was the Appalachian State head coach.
He's been just kind of like working his way up
Appalachia State to Louisville to Cincinnati. And he's a good coach,
even though it hadn't been so great the first couple
of years at Cincinnati three and nine and then five

(37:38):
and seven last year. But yeah, he's not the same guy.
I don't think they'll little, they'll know, you know, they're
on their way up. We'll see. Three seventeen. I got
more bike stories people have been sending me about getting
in bike crashes and stuff, and not like to celebrate
bike crashes, but we're talking about, you know, just things
that living life on the edge, especially you know, in

(37:59):
your you if that's something. I got a bunch of
stories here that'll share. And we got a fun conversation
coming up to the bottom of the hour about how
many people are writing those lime scooters during the College
World Series. Have you elver thought about that because they
can track that stuff. We'll talk about that too on
news Radio eleven ten, KFA B and raise. Do not
think we're gonna win ten games this year, like for

(38:19):
your own personal mental health, like, assume we could win
eight and if we get to ten, that's awesome. If
we get to ten, that's definitely playoff territory for whatever
it's worth.

Speaker 3 (38:29):
Yeah, you gotta be in the conversation for the Big
Big ten championship game at that point you would think.

Speaker 1 (38:35):
Yeah, so there you go. We'll keep an eye on
that and what we're a month away from really like
digging in to the pre preseason and then late August
those games star Man.

Speaker 3 (38:45):
Yeah, Nebraska is rolling out that aren't they playing on a.

Speaker 1 (38:47):
Thursday the twenty eighth August? Yeah, it's coming up quick.
I'm still not super happy about the Thursday thing, but
it is what it is. Whatever, let's go ahead, and
I had this guy, Well, we were talking about bikes
because we were you know, Matt and I shared, you know,
bike wreck stories from when we were kids. And then
we had a few people call in and talk to
us about some of the dangerous stuff that they did
and maybe some of the stuff that they had done

(39:10):
on a bike and whether it's dangerous and they got
hurt or not. Either way, it's been kind of an
interesting to read some of these topics in these stories.
Dave said, I was the average seven or eight year
old boy trying to make a name for myself everywhere
and anywhere. At some point, I decided to challenge one
great older than me, the bully that picked on everybody.
He suggests, the aka the guy from the Christmas Story,

(39:33):
but without the glorious results. To make a long story short,
I got pounded. Well, not everybody can be old. Ralfie
taken out Scott Farcas. That is like, that's an all
time little guy over the big guy moment in the
history of media. Like I watched professional wrestling hoping to
see a little guy take out a big guy like that,
You know what I mean, Little Ralfie taken out Scott farcas.
That's one of the best parts of the movie. It's

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like he stood up for himself and Scott got what
he was looking for. Unfortunately for Dave, that didn't sound
like that happen him with as soon to be black
eye and a bloody nose. I hopped on my bike
and rode home as fast as I could. Rounding the
downhill corner on my street, I hit gravel and went
down with considerable force, as well scraping my hand, elbow,
and knee. I smacked my chin on the pavement, which

(40:13):
split open, and I had that scar to this day.
My mom had to take me to the emergency room
to get stitches. Doctor was asking about my multiple injuries,
and I asked if I got the bloody nose of
black eye on the bike wreck. I told him no,
that was from a fight earlier. He gave me a
sideway stair sort of chuckled and moved on to stitching
my chin. I haven't told that story in thirty years.
That's good. That's good. Gravel and bikes do not mix,

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at least the way that I see gravel. Adam said,
not a bike. But when I was about twelve, me
and a friend were taking turns riding my skateboard down
my driveway and then down the street. We wrote it
by laying on it because we weren't skilled enough to
ride it properly because the driveway and the road are steep. Well,
it was my friend's turn, but instead I plopped down
and headed down the driveway and he hopped on my
back since it was his turn. Fortunately, when he landed

(41:01):
on me, it knocked one of my hands off the
front of the skateboard. Of my left ring finger got
stuck under the wheel, under the concrete, under the weight
of both of us. And yeah, he says, I'm not
gonna explain some of the details here, but says the
worst pain I've ever had to this point knock on wood.
And when my brother was a kid, he ran his
bike into the back of a parked car at good

(41:22):
speed and flipped and bounced over the entire car, and
at some point the radio antenda punctured sideways through one
of his nostrils. Now that that would be scary too.
You're like such force as a biker when you hit
a car, you just go over the entire car. Dang,
that's a good one at him. So yeah, and I've
had a few different ones here Rick, this wasn't funny

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you as a kid. Rick sent me some photos which
are oh boy, but he said you asked for it,
and you may not like the picks, but here they are.
I was cruising solo at something over twenty five miles
an hour when I hit something with the front wheel.
Apparently my bike went over the bars and face planted
so fast I didn't even have time to move my
hands off the handlebars and scraped through gloves into the

(42:05):
back of my hands, not the palms. Apparently it hit
a tripod between both the back of my hands and
my face. I got a concussion, fractured teeth, a phone,
the upper part of the jaw containing the upper teeth
was broken. And at the same day it was when
Nebraska played Michigan and a guy in a pickup stopped
and I was confused because he was wearing a Michigan shirt.
He helped me out and put my bike onto the

(42:25):
back of his pickup. We stopped at his house to
get a towel so I could put that, you know,
kind of like a seep his blood into the talentstead
of his car, and he kept saying I need to
go to the dent I said that I need to
go to a dentist, but he said I should go
to the emergency room. Had a bunch of imaging done
and I had more natal fractures as well and a concussion.
But I'm as good as new, and I still ride

(42:48):
my bike fast and hard. Have you watched the Tour
de France. It's like some of the areas where those
guys are like packed like sardines on the road, like
going as fast as they can on their bikes. I'm
surprised nobody, like like more guys don't wreck and go
down and there's just no way to go down and
it not be like a terrible experience, you know, like
you hear like there's some things that you could do

(43:08):
and you could wreck and you could actually be okay probably,
you know. I was just like, oh I got a
little bumper, a little bit of a scrape or something.
But like when you're riding a bike, especially the way
that you're sitting on a bike, and when you do
like have some sort of collision with something or I mean,
there's no good way unless you're wearing like a helmet
with a face mask on it and then you got
like the elbow and arm pads and stuff where you're

(43:30):
wearing like motorcycle gear. But even then, I mean that
doesn't stop you from potentially like hurting or breaking like
an arm, or hurting a ligament or a joint or
something if you land the wrong way. Like riding a bike,
it can be pretty dangerous out there. It's fun, it's
great exercise, and I'm getting really into it now, but
like you hear stories like this, just like, dang, you
gotta be careful out there. Yeah, you know, I have

(43:50):
a buddy who when he was a kid, he lost
the two fronts. You're thriding bikes and then getting into
a wreck.

Speaker 3 (43:54):
You can you can hurt yourself seriously on bicycles for sure.

Speaker 1 (43:57):
And you can go fast. I mean when you're going
down a hill. I don't know how fast I go
when I go down hills, but I kind of like
the speed that I get, especially when I'm like on
a street that's not busy or like I'm in a
protective bike lane. Got some hills, the hills I have
to climb coming back up to my house. But when
I'm going down those hills and I'm trying to like
hit up the Keystone trailer or something. I just let
it rip. I just let that thing roll, and I

(44:19):
bet I'm probably getting to about twenty five miles an hour.

Speaker 3 (44:22):
I would guess another story from my youth really quick.
There was this guy we'll call him Glenn because that
was his name. I grew up with him and he's
a couple of years older than me. He was really
quick with the skates. He'd be skating around town like rollerblades. Yeah,
we had this pretty big hill on Sixth Street. Rumor
has it he was going down that Sixth Street hill
so fast that he was actually going over the speed limit.

Speaker 1 (44:43):
He got pulled over. Huh. Yeah, what un roller skates? Huh.

Speaker 3 (44:47):
It's just the rumor, as they we would have it.
You know, can we corroborate this? I wasn't there.

Speaker 1 (44:53):
This doesn't seem like something that would happen, well unless
he like blew through a stop sign and he was
in the middle of the street.

Speaker 3 (44:58):
It's a pretty decent sized hill. I mean, Glenn was
pretty good at roller skating. How do you even slow down?
I don't know if he did, but how would you
if you wanted to? You know, like they usually got
the brakes at the back, you know you kind of blades. Yeah,
you throw your foot up and you kind of break yourself.
I don't know, that's crazy. Would the police do that? Well,
if they had one of those little radar guns?

Speaker 1 (45:16):
Yeah, speed limit, like the speed limit goes for guys
on rollerblades too. That sounds sounds like a bit extreme,
though't what's he going to do? Like, now that's true,
What's what's he going to do? You know, blading down
the road twenty eight and to twenty five or whatever
he was doing? Yeah, what are we talking about here?

Speaker 3 (45:34):
I don't know, but that was just that was the
Rubert rumor, had it?

Speaker 1 (45:37):
I questioned the rumor. I questioned the uh, the the
integrity of the rumor. Well, you know, hey, speaking of which,
you want to talk about like things that you can ride.
You can get up to about fifteen on those Lime
scooters around town in Omaha. If you ever taken those
a little public transportation, I've written those a bunch. They're
kind of fun, uh, easy way to get from one
spot to another, and a lot of you know, in
a pretty quick fashion, especially in the downtown area. Well,

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