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Speaker 1 (00:00):
If you're carrying the torch, what are you called the
lighting of the torch? Are you thinking like the lighting
of the torch, just like you're carrying the torch. You're
carrying the torch. The person who carries the carrier torch carrier. Yeah,
flag bearer, I'll use flag bearer.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I know that one.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
The flag bearer of this entire conversation with the women
who are fighting for girls sports and saying we don't
want biological men to have the ability to compete in
women's sports. Riley Gaines is one of the people that
raced in swimming against Leah Thomas, who of course was
the transgender female who ended up winning a national championship.
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And yeah, she basically made this one of her fights,
and she has been highly publicized in her efforts, and
there she is rightly so front and center as Donald Trump.
At some point, you would figure is going to sign
this thing. So we'll let you know when that happens.
I'm seeing torch bearer, by the way, to torch bearer,
I had rights. He did torch bear someone in the
forefront of a campaign, crusade or movement.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
And I botched it by not being sure of myself. Hey,
I've been there.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I probably do that twice a day, so I could
have rolled with it and would have sounded awesome. Sounded awesome. Man,
that shakes me up. Dang, and it will let it
beat you twice.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Yeah, yeah, whatever.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Anyway, we'll get to the highlights of this a little
bit later on. We're letting you know what's happening, what
he's talking about. He's basically introducing every single person in
the crowd. Like I mean, he Lee loves to talk
about everybody that came to show up and make their
support these kinds of events and make it very ceremonious.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
It's not just he sits down and says I'm signing this.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Some of those he does that right, Like he's just like, oh,
here's an important one and then he signs it. This
is like, hey, we're making a big deal about this,
and this is like National Girls and Women in Sports
Day or something, right, So that's why they're doing it today.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
There you go. What do you have to say for yourself? Now?
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Anyway, We're talking about different things. The buyout situation. We
wanted to figure out this like would you take the
button the money and run. And if you're a worker
and do you think to yourself, like how important am I?
Guess something you do?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Right?
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Like you're just like oh yeah, like how important am I?
Because if you're not important and you don't think your
job's that important, at some point you're going to be like, hey,
they're going to just like eject me out of this anyway,
aren't they? But I guess time is going to tell
on this, right Well, our talkbacks open, Matt, Remember how
how do you get to the talkback so people can
leave a talkback for us? Yeah, if you have the
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iHeartRadio app and you're listening along at home, listening to
Kfab on the iHeartRadio app, there's going to be a
little red microphone button there that you click and it
you press I suppose because you'll be on your smartphone,
tap that button that'll take you to a page where
you can leave thirty seconds of audio for us to
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listen to and get yourself on the show, just like
this gentleman did. Well, what does he have to say
about this buyout situation?
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Amory? The meltdowns are just hilarious. We're outing and catching
the bank robbers and people are Matt at the cops.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
It's hilarious.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
You know.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
In nineteen ninety three, Bill Clinton did a similar purge
of federal employees non non career federal employees. So yeah,
what goes around comes around. This concludes my history lesson.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
I didn't get that guy's name, but it's good stuff.
Keep sending those things. Yeah, and you had to give
us your name. You can either say in the talk
back or when you sign up onto the app, make
sure your name is. And last, they're not going to
bother you. The only thing will bother you is if
they're calling you. And if they're calling you, what does
that mean? It means you want a thousand bucks.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
That means you want a thousand dollars in a nationwide
kword o air hard air hoard air horn.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
All I gotta do is sign up for that free
iHeartRadio app. And then when you go to kfab dot com,
put the keyword in for each hour, which this hour
it is bonus bonus. You put the keyword bonus in
a cafaybe come. You have a chance to win that
thousand dollars. Good luck?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Ah yeah, Dale, what are you and what do you
have to do with that? Eh? Yeah? How about that.
How about that for a mix up? How about that
Kirk Cousins. Did you hear about that with Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
AHAs he saying he was hurt. Yeah, more like Kirk Cousins.
More like Kirk Cousins. And he kept trying to play
and usually he'd be like, oh wow, what a what
a warrior. He was terrible for the Falcons. He just
didn't want to get off the field because he was
afraid they were going to have him lose his job
because of Michael Pennix. Think about it, he gets hurt
all of a sudden, they go on a losing streak
and he can't throw anymore. But he refuses to basically
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like step aside and say I can't throw because he
knows if Michael Pennox gets on the field, the teammate
ever get on the field again. Well, that's a rough one.
You know, you're a Falcons fan. I mean that is
the opposite of being a hero. That is doing too much.
That was being selfish Kirk. Well, sometimes we don't know
that line. We need somebody besides us.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
To tell us.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
How does they didn't nobody know if you're a Falcons staffer,
how are you not watching him through the football and
be like, are you okay?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
I'm sure he.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Had some conversations in the mirror, you know, like you're
not giving your best, Kirk. Well, I think he was
given his best. I think the problem is the problem
was mostly I don't know, he was thinking that he
was going to lose his job.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
He took my job, he took her jobs.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Heyway, he's sitting at home saying that right now, probably
with a diet beer.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
All right, the diet beer.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Let's go ahead and listen in Donald Trump's about to
sign this piece of paper here. Let's go ahead and
listen in live.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
What's what I do? And then I'm gonna give you
some bead tuck out. Are you ready? What a nice
picture of this is a governor? You're ready. We'll do
a good job.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Let me keeps surrounded by young ladies girls. She's signing.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
I want to make this a really good signature because
this is you know, this is a big one.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Right Oh, I think we have a ten.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
We have a ten.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Surrounded by uh pretty good.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Hush, okay, it's talking all these little girls.
Speaker 7 (06:24):
Windows events, right, Nice to see you all, great going everybody,
Thank you kids.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Here and now he's handing out pins. So there you go.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
There's the executive vorder for Donald Trump. He signed to
protect women's sports from biological men who are looking to
compete in women's sports once they transition to being a female. Again,
many of the opposite party are going to say, how
big of a deal was this? You're just trying to
be you know, you're going to you're trying to exclude
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people from this, And realistically, again, I think most people
who have common sense realized that this is an issue
worth attacking.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
So we'll get to more on that.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
We'll get to let you know, any of those true
highlights of what's going on there. But yeah, there you go.
All right, let's get to the phones. Four O two five, five, eight,
eleven ten. Jimmy's on the phone line. Welcome Jimmy.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
What's up.
Speaker 8 (07:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (07:20):
I was wondering everybody's concerned about all this federal spin,
and I don't know what about this local stuff. Like
one of those bridges costs to replace down there on that.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Streetcar down down down by Blackstone.
Speaker 6 (07:35):
Yeah, I think Harney Street, and uh, what's the other one,
Uh farnemy barnum. Yeah, what's the bridge costs. Maybe you
can ask some people to call in and ask what
a bridge cost to get replaced over the interstate. Yeah,
you guys can get a little more. I don't know
was that enough. I don't live in Omaha, but oh,
you know what one costs?
Speaker 2 (07:56):
I don't, No, I don't.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
I think they have it to be in the cost
of whatever the streetcar project is if they're having to
do it before the project though, Jimmy, because I know
that the money is for the infrastructure around where the
car is going to be, not just for.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Building what the street car is.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
So I would imagine that's going to be in the
funding for that and what the streetcar cost is going
to be. So for whatever that, I'm not exactly sure
exactly what that dollar amount is, but I'm guessing that
it's just kind of built into the built into the
project cost.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
You know, it's really weird because nobody ever said anything
about those bridges need to be replaced. Maybe I got
some whiskers out there and work at Keyword or you know,
some lead bridge building guys. Yeah, maybe they can tell
us about what a bridge costs go over interstate.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Yeah, And I mean, why I stop there? Why don't
we just talk about bridges in general. I was over
there at Walnut Creek. I don't know if you've been
over a Walnut Creek, but apparently there's an old bridge
that used to drive on but now it's a pedestrian bridge.
And they say it was like on National Register of
Historic Places for the architecture of it. It's kind of crazy.
It's just and right there you walk on it to
cross so well on that creek. It's pretty crazy.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
Yeah, I just what a bridge costs. Break it it
replace Maybe somebody knows the calling.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
In Yeah, I appreciate it, Jimmy, I thank you for
calling in man. Yeah, all right, see you later. Have
a good day. You know what that You know why
he called me?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Right? Why did that be? Because I'm street car man.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
It's street car man story every saw ondo eleven ten?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Yeah, yeah, there it is. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
I can't tell you how much a ridge costs, but
I certainly still am streetcar Man's.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Street car man. Yeah story ever ondoen.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Yes, I may not have all your answers, but feel
free to keep asking them because you just never know.
You never know what's uh, you never know what I
may or may not know about any streetcar related projects.
It's three eighteen. You are free to call in with
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whatever you want to talk about. Four oh two five
five eight eleven ten. Four oh two five five eight
eleven ten. News Radio eleven ten, kfab Emery Songer. The
can of worms has been reopened. And you know why
things have been reopened. It's because I'm streetcar Man.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
It's streetcar Man story every on INDUS Radio eleven ten.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Yeah, street car Man at your service. The phone lines
are open at four oh two, five five eight eleven ten.
Gym's on a phone line, Jim, Welcome to the show today.
Speaker 8 (10:54):
What's up, Hyder streetcar Man. Yeah, I just just want
to let you know to tell everybody those bridges were
due to be replaced anyway because they're so old.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Well that changes that street.
Speaker 8 (11:11):
Yeah, it's kind of the whole thing about the mud
replacing the lines underneath the street and all that kind
of stuff, and there's oh, well, we're going to have
to raise everybody's uh mud bill, And the mayor said, no,
you already know that you were going to replace those anyway.
We're willing to take up the concrete and put the
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concrete back to help you. But you can't raise people's
rates because of the streetcar because you were going to
do that work anyhow.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Now see there's good context, Jim. Thanks for making sure
that we had that for us today. Thank you for listening.
Speaker 8 (11:49):
Well, now you know, streetcar man.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Hey, Jim, I am taking I am taking a applications
for a deputy streetcar boy. That is that? Are you
interested in that?
Speaker 6 (12:01):
Jim?
Speaker 8 (12:02):
Can I be your streetcars are?
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Oh, street cars are oh, gosha. I may need to
make a phone call or two, but I'll see what
I can do, Jim.
Speaker 8 (12:11):
Okay, thank you, all right.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Bobby is on the phone. Letter four two, five, five,
eight eleven, Ted. Welcome Bobby.
Speaker 9 (12:17):
Well, you know, streetcar Man, in the old days around Omaha,
nineteen thirties, forties, fifties, this town was full of street cars.
You could go north, south, east, and west and everybody
rode them. But you know why they died out? Why
because buses are more efficient.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Yeah, that's true, that's true.
Speaker 9 (12:38):
And you can remember street car tracks in the streets
when I was a kid, still in the streets they
were the street cars were out of service, but you
could still see streetcar tracks in the streets.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Yeah, it's weird now that you mentioned that, because obviously
people think streetcar, they think San Francisco. But there are
many many cities that have in the last twenty to
twenty five years reduce streetcars and they're noticing a lot
of success with that. But it's fascinating how we had
to like rebound into it because of its efficiency as
a Yeah, you talk about buses being more efficient, there's
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that's certainly true. But people just generally, especially businesses, like
to develop around kind of a fixed streetcar line. And
it appears as though that is something that many developers
are interested in being a part of in the Omaha
area as well. But it is fascinating because streetcars were
much more popular nationally, you know, eighty ninety years ago
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than they are than they were twenty years ago, and
now they're making a comeback for whatever reason.
Speaker 9 (13:38):
I guess, yes, and this town was full a street car.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
That's it's good. It's good information. Bobby.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
I appreciate you helping me out and keeping me informed.
Thanks for calling it today.
Speaker 9 (13:48):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
People don't always call about the streetcar, but the reason
that they call me is because I'm streetcar man.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
A streetcar man a story on an industry.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Yeah? Have I played that too much? Did? Did we
do too much of that?
Speaker 1 (14:14):
I don't not yet. I love that. That's good. That's
good stuff. I just ran into.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
You don't.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
One doesn't choose to be streetcar man. You are chosen
to be streetcar man, right, And you know that doesn't
mean I'm like in favor of street cars. I just
try to know as much as I can about the
street cars nationally, not just ours. Ah that's coming, you know,
keeping an eye head on a swivel kind of thing,
right right, And it's just like I'm I'm streetcar man, right,
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Like I'm just a you know, you don't choose this life.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
It just it chooses you.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Keeping your keeping on a swivel. Do you think they'll
have swivel chairs in the street cars? Couldn't see that
in a street car.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
I don't know, you know.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Like, so I was in the Barcelona subway system and
they have a street car, so this isn't the same thing.
But because I didn't actually get on their street car,
I saw their street car, but I got on the
subway right. And you have those polls, you just like
hang on to right so you can stand on your trip,
and there's also seats, but usually you want elderly people
and women like to have the ability to sit down.
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And I don't need I don't need the seats unless
I'm going to be there for you know, ever, and
nobody else saw on the subway, right, I'm wondering if
that's going to be some of it? You know, how
do you keep that safe?
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Right?
Speaker 1 (15:28):
I like like the idea of just being able to
go down there and hey, you know who wants to
go out for a night out on the town. Just
being able to hop on that thing and be able
to get down there and a quick amount of time,
don't have to worry about parking or anything, and know
where to pick the thing back up. We can pick
you up and take you back to where you came from. Like,
I don't know, I just like that. I kind of
like the idea of a maskamarader being down there just
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hanging around the street car. We don't know why, but
you know it's because it's a streetcar.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Man a story.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Now, I'm gonna draw a line in the sand here.
I'm not fighting crime, you know, I'm not even gonna
like suggest I'm gonna be around the street car all
the time. I just know about the street car. But
that's what you do. You just hang around and no,
I don't. That's not what I do. That's what you
want me to do. You're lurking in the shadows. No,
I'm understanding by asking a question about a street car
and then all of a sudden, no, I did, that's stalking.
(16:27):
That's a stalking, brother. Leave that to what was it
a streetcar deputy boy or whatever it was, deputy street
car boy. Yeah, street car boy. He could do all
the heavy lifting and potentially getting punched in the face
for following people around. Three folks for three twenty seven.
I don't know why that just happened, but you know
I loved it. So anyway, if you want to call
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in about anything that we have on tap today, call
us four h two five five eight eleven ten. Four
h two five five eight eleven ten. We have Lyle
on the phone line real quick before I hit the brake, Lyle,
what's up.
Speaker 7 (16:57):
I live in Council buff and I was wondering where
are the streetcars going to.
Speaker 8 (17:03):
Start and end?
Speaker 7 (17:05):
And is it going to be running like all the
time for people to use for when they have an event.
Are they going to have separate cars for people going
to the events so that people that use it to
go to work will not be you know, hampered.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Yeah, So I'll be honest with you, Lyle. The streetcar
I'll try to say this as quickly as possible. So
the streetcar route is fixed. It is going to be
I would imagine they're going to have a number of
streetcars actually running at the same time, and they will
all be basically stopping for about the same amount of
time at each stop. Kind of more a fixed streetcars
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you know, situation, more like a subway instead of you know,
like a bus that you know it'll stop if they
see somebody there. But I it's going to basically start
at forty second Street by Farnham in the Blackstone area
kind of thing, and then it will go down through
the by Turner Park and by that area, and then
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it goes all the way down into the downtown area.
It will have stops by Old Market, you can stop
by the Orpheum, all the way down those streets, and
then it's going to do just kind of a little
loop by the chi Heal Center, the big Arena, and
then it's going to kind of loop back in and
around the park and then head back down on Farnham
all the way down to forty seconds. So it's going
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to be a loop, and I don't know what the
hours of operation are going to be. I'm sure we'll
learn that when it gets closer. It sounds like this
is going to be free for citizens or anybody to
use for convenience to go downtown. And as long as
it's operating, I mean, you can jump on it whenever
it stops at where.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Your stop is, okay.
Speaker 7 (18:47):
And then also they had talked about it coming over
into Council Bluffs. Have you heard any more about that.
I haven't for about a year.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
I don't think that's going to happen. There may be
a a It kind of depends, because you know, depends
on what you're going to Omah for. If you're going
to be in Omaha to go downtown, obviously that doesn't
really help you much because it would start downtown for you.
But I don't know if there's an idea of a
public transportation to get you to downtown as part of this.
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But I've not seen any addendums that this would cross
the river at any point.
Speaker 7 (19:20):
Okay, That's what I needed to know.
Speaker 8 (19:22):
Thank you very much, No problem, Lyle.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
And he asked those questions because I'm streetcar MANU.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
It's streetcar Man story em on INDUS Radio eleven ten.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
All right, I've already un late. We probably should hit
a break, but I'll come back. If you have street
car related questions for whatever reason, feel free to fire
him away and we will get into more Donald Trump
shenanigans with the Middle East coming up as well on
news radio eleven ten. Kfab So, I'm sorry, but I
have no choice. I'm streetcar Man.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Dud's street car man on an indust radio.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Yeah, all right, to the phones four oh two, five, five, eight,
eleven ten marks on the line and Nillo mark what
you got on the street car today?
Speaker 7 (20:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (20:14):
How are you Matt doing today?
Speaker 2 (20:15):
I'm good man. How are you?
Speaker 7 (20:17):
Hey? I haven't been paying too much attention because I
don't live in a lot about this streetcar.
Speaker 8 (20:22):
Yeah, well, I got two questions.
Speaker 7 (20:25):
Are they gonna be heated?
Speaker 2 (20:28):
My guess?
Speaker 1 (20:29):
I mean I was in the streetcar kind of trained
thingy that they do in Minneapolis. That thing was heated
on the inside. The doors shut. I've seen what the
streetcar looks like and it looks completely it's not like
one of those open street cars that they have in
like San Francisco that you've seen. It's like, you know,
it kind of looks like a streamlined bus almost. So yeah,
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I would imagine that it's pretty It would be air
conditioned like a car would be or a bus would
be in the summer, and it would be heated during
the winter.
Speaker 7 (20:58):
Oh, I think somebody would check in. But next question
is are they going to run twenty four hours a day?
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Yeah, so in their original plan it wouldn't run twenty
four hours, but on weekdays it would be like a
nineteen hour span, so probably something like five am to midnight,
and then like twelve to eighteen hour service span on weekends,
depending on the day and what's going on, which would
make me think like six am to midnight kind of thing,
So pretty much anytime that you would be out and
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about doing different things. They haven't announced what those hours
would look like once it's actually done, but that's pretty
on par with what the subway system was doing in
like Barcelona, in Madrid when I was in Spain, or
that Minneapolis when I told you about that I was
on they would run that thing until they knew all
of the big events were over basically, or it got
to midnight, whatever came last. So yeah, I mean it
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would be running pretty much all day every day.
Speaker 7 (21:51):
I well, thank you, and I'm glad I live in
Omaha because I know the people are going to have.
Speaker 6 (21:56):
To pray for it.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Well, it's already kind of allocated the money, but yeah,
it is coming from the city city money, that is
for sure.
Speaker 7 (22:02):
I guarantee she's going to put that special tax they've
been holding in a bank for the last eight years.
Speaker 8 (22:08):
I guarantee she's going.
Speaker 6 (22:09):
To burn through that.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Well, they are, for to be fair, Mark, they have
allocated the money for this already, and there are developers
whenever the price has gone up a little bit since
the original plan, you know, like ten years ago or whatever,
and that that money, as the get goes higher, people
who have invested in the development around the streetcar plan
are paying that off. That is that is actually not
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going to be just added into the taxpayer pool of
money that's already allocated for.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
It, you know what I mean. So yeah, so you've okay, Mark,
I mean, you say what you want.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
I got this stuff right here in front of me,
and we'll see once it gets completed. They're hoping by
you know, within a year or two, this thing will
be up and running, ready to go. But I appreciate
the call, buddy, thanks for listening to us.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Yeah, it's already allocated, right, I mean we and we
can debate all day long whether it's a good idea,
it's a bad idea, but the contracts are shigned. I
mean we're getting to the nitty gritty at this point.
John is on the phone line. I think I'm gonna
get another streetcar history lesson here, John, Thanks for calling in.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
What's going on?
Speaker 6 (23:13):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 5 (23:14):
And streetcar man, I love the name. Hey, a little
bit on the street cars. You know, street cars originally
were designed to go ahead and get a lot of
people up the street, and there was a lot of
dirt and everything. They were first pulled by horses, then
they went to electricity. Omar was one sixth the size
there was now, so it was very easy to accommodate.
You know, street cars they are much more efficients than
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a bus. And the reason they got rid of them
is Henry Ford, Christber and Dodge Brothers. They went to
bat and got rid of them because they wanted to
sell cars.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
That would make sense, to be honest with you, yeah,
I mean for their business. It's just like, yeah, why
would we want public transportation? We want people to buy
our cars, right, you know that makes sense.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
I love the streetcar man.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Hey, no problem, John, and thanks for the information.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
Today street car rails across our nity large street right now,
you behind a sans Court.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
All right, yeah, there you go. How about that?
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Yay?
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Does that not sound like America for you? Hey, all
these towns that have this efficient public transportation, let's get
rid of that so they have to buy our vehicles.
Let's work together. Let's big vehicle, big car. What would
you call that, big motor? None of that really rings
like big pharma or big insurance or big tobacco, you know,
(24:27):
like the lobby for vehicles back in the forties. They're
just like, hey, you know how we're gonna sell more
cars we take away people's ability to have public transportation.
That makes sense, that checks out. I believe that that
would be you know, something that would help you know,
end if you will, the ability for people to utilize
the street car. I don't know, you look at this map.
(24:48):
I get it, you know, like this thing. If they've
been pushing it back, the can has been kicked. They've
been trying to get funding for it. We're getting to
the nitty gritty on this, and I don't want to
spend another ton of time talk about it, because let's
be honest, we could spend hours on this. We spent
almost an hour and a half on it on accident yesterday,
and we're spending an hour or not an hour, but
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like a half hour on it today. You want to
know why all this has taking place, It's because people
are divided on this. It has become a political issue.
But there is evidence that wants something like this is
in there, the development and the property values around it,
plus the foot traffic improvements when people learn how to
use it, which it's really easy. You just go to
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the stop, know where you're trying to get off, get off,
and then you can wander around and not have to
worry about parking or anything, and then you go back
the other direction. There is quite a bit of evidence
that it actually does improve the value of the area
in which it's around, and it does seem to be
a good economic investment that basically pays for itself within
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just a few years if it is utilized marketing and
put in the right spot like this one is certainly
in the right spot. One's going to be going from
basically Blackstone UNMC area on the you know, further away part,
all the way through downtown up to the arena in
the ballpark, and plenty of stops in between all the
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way back, you know. So, I don't know, they've made
some adjustments to what that route looks like, but it's
generally around that same area, And I don't know, I
don't know. It feels like, of all the things that
we could be upset about that are going on, I
don't know, this feels like one that I'm not real.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Too worried about. Anyway.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Big Auto, Ah, Chris sent me a note Big Auto.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
That's what it was.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
The Chrysler GM forward guys being like, hey, don't you
use that street car?
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Buy a Model T.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
That's probably they're probably to the next one by then,
they're probably they're probably to like the PT Cruisers or whatever.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Are you, car guy? Do you know cars very well? Sorta?
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Do you like a nineteen forty eight car Model Away?
A Packard actually driving packards. Back then, I don't know,
that's pretty far back. Don't use street cars, buy a packard.
And nowadays it's just like, Man, I'd love not to
drive downtown. To be honest with you, I have to
worry about parking and finding my car, and then I
can't get you know, super duper close.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Generally.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Yeah, you know, if I'm going somewhere, especially like the
arena or something, you know, you generally park further away
unless you got you know, the will to pay for
the parking whatever.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
You know.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Imagine College World Series just being able to post up
in the Blackstone area and park on a street for nothing,
and then jump on the street car and just like
take that. Twenty minutes later, you're right next to the
ball park. You don't worry about anything until you're ready
to go home. Man, that'd be nice, Sure would yeap?
Speaker 2 (27:41):
I'd use it. Three forty eight We'll come back.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
We got more on the way on news radio eleven
ten KFAB and where are You a songer? We were
talking about these buyouts, and I went home and I
took a nap, and I had a dream that a
bunch of my friends were being fired from their job.
Now that's that could be the industry that we already
work in with the media. But I spent some time
talking about this on my morning show, and man, apparently,
like I'm just I just feel bad when people lose
their jobs or have to like leave their jobs to
(28:05):
do something else. You know, Is that a rorshack test
or something? Am I getting freuded? Is that a word freuded?
You feel bad that when people have to people are.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
I don't know, like maybe there's just something.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
I've never lost a job that I didn't try to
like leave right like I have left, I've been blessed.
That's not necessarily true. I worked at a video store
in my college when I was in college, and the
video store basically told me not to come back, but
I was kind of thinking about quitting that anyway.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Does that make sense? Okay, Yeah, So it's kind of
It's like I messed up.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
A couple of things, and I guess i'd kind of
wore out my welcome. I'd been there for like a
year or whatever, and I didn't really like the job
that much to begin with, but they basically allowed me
to leave on my own terms. That they were like, hey,
if you don't leave, we're going to send you to
a different store, and I was like, oh, that sounds
kind of stupid, not really interested in that. Maybe I'll
just stop doing this. And then I really like attacked
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broadcasting and finish college and all that stuff. But that's
the only time, right, that's the one time that that happened.
Other than that, I've been able to leave my jobs.
But I don't know, there's just something. Maybe it's just
like a deep seated fear in me that I have
no control.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Yeah, that it can just one day.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
You can can happen to me, or could happen anybody
around me, and I just have no control over it
because it comes from well above my head, whether it's
in my industry or the industries of the people that
are in my life. Right, it can really upend your
life completely too. It's quite an interesting case study. I wonder,
I wonder what's wrong with me? Is something wrong with me?
Speaker 2 (29:44):
I don't know. I think that was an empathetic dream, right.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
You talked about it on the radio, and then you
took an app and then you you know, you were
thinking about it. You applied it to your own circumstances.
What would it be like to go through that am
I doing too much radio that I'm taking it into
my dreams, Like when I'm talking about on a day
to day basis, Man.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Is that the first time that's happened.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
No, I dream about stuff that I'm thinking about, and maybe,
like if I'm thinking about specific people or celebrities, or
I just watched like a like a movie that Scarlet Johansson's,
and sometimes she'll just pop up in my dream, you know,
something like that. Right, But I don't think that's that
uncommon or unusual, right, I don't really remember a lot
of the premises of the dream, so I just remember
little pits and pieces of what's going on too, Yeah,
(30:27):
just little chunks, just little little flash what the heck
was going on there?
Speaker 3 (30:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (30:32):
So I don't know. Yeah, maybe I'm just a weird guy.
Is that not? Is that not plausible? Like, I'm a weirdo?
What do you want call me a weirdo? There's unique
things about all of us that makes it so special
call me a weirdo. I'm not gonna do it. Gosh,
I thought I could get you this time. I'm certainly
(30:52):
not offended by anybody calling me a weirdo. I had
a guy in the email I'm trying to talk to,
Adam said, I'm naive for my few points on the
street car. Oh, it's just like, yeah, I probably am.
I mean, that's he's probably not wrong. It doesn't make
me feel differently about my opinion, and my opinion may
not be shared by a lot of other people. But
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you know, I'm kind of one of these people that like,
I kind of like this thing that they're planning to do,
and I'm willing to, you know, let it play out
and give it a chance. I think it'd be a
good asset to our community. That's not me, I'm do
I need to agree with everybody on this. I don't
know how Like, what do you want from me? I'm
not here to tell you how to think about this stuff.
I'm just presenting my perspectives.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
All right, we'll get to some foreign policy jargon coming
up pretty interesting on news radio eleven ten kfab
If you're carrying the torch, what are you called the
lighting of the torch? Are you thinking like the lighting
of the torch, just like you're carrying the torch. You're
carrying the torch. The person who carries the carrier torch carrier. Yeah,
flag bearer, I'll use flag bearer.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I know that one.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
The flag bearer of this entire conversation with the women
who are fighting for girls sports and saying we don't
want biological men to have the ability to compete in
women's sports. Riley Gaines is one of the people that
raced in swimming against Leah Thomas, who of course was
the transgender female who ended up winning a national championship.
(00:35):
And yeah, she basically made this one of her fights,
and she has been highly publicized in her efforts, and
there she is rightly so front and center as Donald Trump.
At some point, you would figure is going to sign
this thing. So we'll let you know when that happens.
I'm seeing torch bearer, by the way, to torch bearer,
I had rights. He did torch bear someone in the
forefront of a campaign, crusade or movement.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
And I botched it by not being sure of myself. Hey,
I've been there.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I probably do that twice a day, so I could
have rolled with it and would have sounded awesome. Sounded awesome. Man,
that shakes me up. Dang, and it will let it
beat you twice.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Yeah, yeah, whatever.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Anyway, we'll get to the highlights of this a little
bit later on. We're letting you know what's happening, what
he's talking about. He's basically introducing every single person in
the crowd. Like I mean, he Lee loves to talk
about everybody that came to show up and make their
support these kinds of events and make it very ceremonious.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
It's not just he sits down and says I'm signing this.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Some of those he does that right, Like he's just like, oh,
here's an important one and then he signs it. This
is like, hey, we're making a big deal about this,
and this is like National Girls and Women in Sports
Day or something, right, So that's why they're doing it today.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
There you go. What do you have to say for yourself? Now?
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Anyway, We're talking about different things. The buyout situation. We
wanted to figure out this like would you take the
button the money and run. And if you're a worker
and do you think to yourself, like how important am I?
Guess something you do?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Right?
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Like you're just like oh yeah, like how important am I?
Because if you're not important and you don't think your
job's that important, at some point you're going to be like, hey,
they're going to just like eject me out of this anyway,
aren't they? But I guess time is going to tell
on this, right Well, our talkbacks open, Matt, Remember how
how do you get to the talkback so people can
leave a talkback for us? Yeah, if you have the
(02:29):
iHeartRadio app and you're listening along at home, listening to
Kfab on the iHeartRadio app, there's going to be a
little red microphone button there that you click and it
you press I suppose because you'll be on your smartphone,
tap that button that'll take you to a page where
you can leave thirty seconds of audio for us to
(02:50):
listen to and get yourself on the show, just like
this gentleman did. Well, what does he have to say
about this buyout situation?
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Amory? The meltdowns are just hilarious. We're outing and catching
the bank robbers and people are Matt at the cops.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
It's hilarious.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
You know.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
In nineteen ninety three, Bill Clinton did a similar purge
of federal employees non non career federal employees. So yeah,
what goes around comes around. This concludes my history lesson.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
I didn't get that guy's name, but it's good stuff.
Keep sending those things. Yeah, and you had to give
us your name. You can either say in the talk
back or when you sign up onto the app, make
sure your name is. And last, they're not going to
bother you. The only thing will bother you is if
they're calling you. And if they're calling you, what does
that mean? It means you want a thousand bucks.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
That means you want a thousand dollars in a nationwide
kword o air hard air hoard air horn.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
All I gotta do is sign up for that free
iHeartRadio app. And then when you go to kfab dot com,
put the keyword in for each hour, which this hour
it is bonus bonus. You put the keyword bonus in
a cafaybe come. You have a chance to win that
thousand dollars. Good luck?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Ah yeah, Dale, what are you and what do you
have to do with that? Eh? Yeah? How about that.
How about that for a mix up? How about that
Kirk Cousins. Did you hear about that with Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
AHAs he saying he was hurt. Yeah, more like Kirk Cousins.
More like Kirk Cousins. And he kept trying to play
and usually he'd be like, oh wow, what a what
a warrior. He was terrible for the Falcons. He just
didn't want to get off the field because he was
afraid they were going to have him lose his job
because of Michael Pennix. Think about it, he gets hurt
all of a sudden, they go on a losing streak
and he can't throw anymore. But he refuses to basically
(04:37):
like step aside and say I can't throw because he
knows if Michael Pennox gets on the field, the teammate
ever get on the field again. Well, that's a rough one.
You know, you're a Falcons fan. I mean that is
the opposite of being a hero. That is doing too much.
That was being selfish Kirk. Well, sometimes we don't know
that line. We need somebody besides us.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
To tell us.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
How does they didn't nobody know if you're a Falcons staffer,
how are you not watching him through the football and
be like, are you okay?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
I'm sure he.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Had some conversations in the mirror, you know, like you're
not giving your best, Kirk. Well, I think he was
given his best. I think the problem is the problem
was mostly I don't know, he was thinking that he
was going to lose his job.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
He took my job, he took her jobs.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Heyway, he's sitting at home saying that right now, probably
with a diet beer.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
All right, the diet beer.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Let's go ahead and listen in Donald Trump's about to
sign this piece of paper here. Let's go ahead and
listen in live.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
What's what I do? And then I'm gonna give you
some bead tuck out. Are you ready? What a nice
picture of this is a governor? You're ready. We'll do
a good job.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Let me keeps surrounded by young ladies girls. She's signing.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
I want to make this a really good signature because
this is you know, this is a big one.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Right Oh, I think we have a ten.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
We have a ten.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Surrounded by uh pretty good.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Hush, okay, it's talking all these little girls.
Speaker 7 (06:24):
Windows events, right, Nice to see you all, great going everybody,
Thank you kids.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Here and now he's handing out pins. So there you go.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
There's the executive vorder for Donald Trump. He signed to
protect women's sports from biological men who are looking to
compete in women's sports once they transition to being a female. Again,
many of the opposite party are going to say, how
big of a deal was this? You're just trying to
be you know, you're going to you're trying to exclude
(06:56):
people from this, And realistically, again, I think most people
who have common sense realized that this is an issue
worth attacking.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
So we'll get to more on that.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
We'll get to let you know, any of those true
highlights of what's going on there. But yeah, there you go.
All right, let's get to the phones. Four O two five, five, eight,
eleven ten. Jimmy's on the phone line. Welcome Jimmy.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
What's up.
Speaker 8 (07:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (07:20):
I was wondering everybody's concerned about all this federal spin,
and I don't know what about this local stuff. Like
one of those bridges costs to replace down there on that.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Streetcar down down down by Blackstone.
Speaker 6 (07:35):
Yeah, I think Harney Street, and uh, what's the other one,
Uh farnemy barnum. Yeah, what's the bridge costs. Maybe you
can ask some people to call in and ask what
a bridge cost to get replaced over the interstate. Yeah,
you guys can get a little more. I don't know
was that enough. I don't live in Omaha, but oh,
you know what one costs?
Speaker 2 (07:56):
I don't, No, I don't.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
I think they have it to be in the cost
of whatever the streetcar project is if they're having to
do it before the project though, Jimmy, because I know
that the money is for the infrastructure around where the
car is going to be, not just for.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Building what the street car is.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
So I would imagine that's going to be in the
funding for that and what the streetcar cost is going
to be. So for whatever that, I'm not exactly sure
exactly what that dollar amount is, but I'm guessing that
it's just kind of built into the built into the
project cost.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
You know, it's really weird because nobody ever said anything
about those bridges need to be replaced. Maybe I got
some whiskers out there and work at Keyword or you know,
some lead bridge building guys. Yeah, maybe they can tell
us about what a bridge costs go over interstate.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Yeah, And I mean, why I stop there? Why don't
we just talk about bridges in general. I was over
there at Walnut Creek. I don't know if you've been
over a Walnut Creek, but apparently there's an old bridge
that used to drive on but now it's a pedestrian bridge.
And they say it was like on National Register of
Historic Places for the architecture of it. It's kind of crazy.
It's just and right there you walk on it to
cross so well on that creek. It's pretty crazy.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
Yeah, I just what a bridge costs. Break it it
replace Maybe somebody knows the calling.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
In Yeah, I appreciate it, Jimmy, I thank you for
calling in man. Yeah, all right, see you later. Have
a good day. You know what that You know why
he called me?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Right? Why did that be? Because I'm street car man.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
It's street car man story every saw ondo eleven ten?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Yeah, yeah, there it is. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
I can't tell you how much a ridge costs, but
I certainly still am streetcar Man's.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Street car man. Yeah story ever ondoen.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Yes, I may not have all your answers, but feel
free to keep asking them because you just never know.
You never know what's uh, you never know what I
may or may not know about any streetcar related projects.
It's three eighteen. You are free to call in with
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whatever you want to talk about. Four oh two five
five eight eleven ten. Four oh two five five eight
eleven ten. News Radio eleven ten, kfab Emery Songer. The
can of worms has been reopened. And you know why
things have been reopened. It's because I'm streetcar Man.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
It's streetcar Man story every on INDUS Radio eleven ten.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Yeah, street car Man at your service. The phone lines
are open at four oh two, five five eight eleven ten.
Gym's on a phone line, Jim, Welcome to the show today.
Speaker 8 (10:54):
What's up, Hyder streetcar Man. Yeah, I just just want
to let you know to tell everybody those bridges were
due to be replaced anyway because they're so old.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Well that changes that street.
Speaker 8 (11:11):
Yeah, it's kind of the whole thing about the mud
replacing the lines underneath the street and all that kind
of stuff, and there's oh, well, we're going to have
to raise everybody's uh mud bill, And the mayor said, no,
you already know that you were going to replace those anyway.
We're willing to take up the concrete and put the
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concrete back to help you. But you can't raise people's
rates because of the streetcar because you were going to
do that work anyhow.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Now see there's good context, Jim. Thanks for making sure
that we had that for us today. Thank you for listening.
Speaker 8 (11:49):
Well, now you know, streetcar man.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Hey, Jim, I am taking I am taking a applications
for a deputy streetcar boy. That is that? Are you
interested in that?
Speaker 6 (12:01):
Jim?
Speaker 8 (12:02):
Can I be your streetcars are?
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Oh, street cars are oh, gosha. I may need to
make a phone call or two, but I'll see what
I can do, Jim.
Speaker 8 (12:11):
Okay, thank you, all right.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Bobby is on the phone. Letter four two, five, five,
eight eleven, Ted. Welcome Bobby.
Speaker 9 (12:17):
Well, you know, streetcar Man, in the old days around Omaha,
nineteen thirties, forties, fifties, this town was full of street cars.
You could go north, south, east, and west and everybody
rode them. But you know why they died out? Why
because buses are more efficient.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Yeah, that's true, that's true.
Speaker 9 (12:38):
And you can remember street car tracks in the streets
when I was a kid, still in the streets they
were the street cars were out of service, but you
could still see streetcar tracks in the streets.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Yeah, it's weird now that you mentioned that, because obviously
people think streetcar, they think San Francisco. But there are
many many cities that have in the last twenty to
twenty five years reduce streetcars and they're noticing a lot
of success with that. But it's fascinating how we had
to like rebound into it because of its efficiency as
a Yeah, you talk about buses being more efficient, there's
(13:11):
that's certainly true. But people just generally, especially businesses, like
to develop around kind of a fixed streetcar line. And
it appears as though that is something that many developers
are interested in being a part of in the Omaha
area as well. But it is fascinating because streetcars were
much more popular nationally, you know, eighty ninety years ago
(13:33):
than they are than they were twenty years ago, and
now they're making a comeback for whatever reason.
Speaker 9 (13:38):
I guess, yes, and this town was full a street car.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
That's it's good. It's good information. Bobby.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
I appreciate you helping me out and keeping me informed.
Thanks for calling it today.
Speaker 9 (13:48):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
People don't always call about the streetcar, but the reason
that they call me is because I'm streetcar man.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
A streetcar man a story on an industry.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Yeah? Have I played that too much? Did? Did we
do too much of that?
Speaker 1 (14:14):
I don't not yet. I love that. That's good. That's
good stuff. I just ran into.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
You don't.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
One doesn't choose to be streetcar man. You are chosen
to be streetcar man, right, And you know that doesn't
mean I'm like in favor of street cars. I just
try to know as much as I can about the
street cars nationally, not just ours. Ah that's coming, you know,
keeping an eye head on a swivel kind of thing,
right right, And it's just like I'm I'm streetcar man, right,
(14:44):
Like I'm just a you know, you don't choose this life.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
It just it chooses you.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Keeping your keeping on a swivel. Do you think they'll
have swivel chairs in the street cars? Couldn't see that
in a street car.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
I don't know, you know.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Like, so I was in the Barcelona subway system and
they have a street car, so this isn't the same thing.
But because I didn't actually get on their street car,
I saw their street car, but I got on the
subway right. And you have those polls, you just like
hang on to right so you can stand on your trip,
and there's also seats, but usually you want elderly people
and women like to have the ability to sit down.
(15:18):
And I don't need I don't need the seats unless
I'm going to be there for you know, ever, and
nobody else saw on the subway, right, I'm wondering if
that's going to be some of it? You know, how
do you keep that safe?
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Right?
Speaker 1 (15:28):
I like like the idea of just being able to
go down there and hey, you know who wants to
go out for a night out on the town. Just
being able to hop on that thing and be able
to get down there and a quick amount of time,
don't have to worry about parking or anything, and know
where to pick the thing back up. We can pick
you up and take you back to where you came from. Like,
I don't know, I just like that. I kind of
like the idea of a maskamarader being down there just
(15:50):
hanging around the street car. We don't know why, but
you know it's because it's a streetcar.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Man a story.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Now, I'm gonna draw a line in the sand here.
I'm not fighting crime, you know, I'm not even gonna
like suggest I'm gonna be around the street car all
the time. I just know about the street car. But
that's what you do. You just hang around and no,
I don't. That's not what I do. That's what you
want me to do. You're lurking in the shadows. No,
I'm understanding by asking a question about a street car
and then all of a sudden, no, I did, that's stalking.
(16:27):
That's a stalking, brother. Leave that to what was it
a streetcar deputy boy or whatever it was, deputy street
car boy. Yeah, street car boy. He could do all
the heavy lifting and potentially getting punched in the face
for following people around. Three folks for three twenty seven.
I don't know why that just happened, but you know
I loved it. So anyway, if you want to call
(16:47):
in about anything that we have on tap today, call
us four h two five five eight eleven ten. Four
h two five five eight eleven ten. We have Lyle
on the phone line real quick before I hit the brake, Lyle,
what's up.
Speaker 7 (16:57):
I live in Council buff and I was wondering where
are the streetcars going to.
Speaker 8 (17:03):
Start and end?
Speaker 7 (17:05):
And is it going to be running like all the
time for people to use for when they have an event.
Are they going to have separate cars for people going
to the events so that people that use it to
go to work will not be you know, hampered.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Yeah, So I'll be honest with you, Lyle. The streetcar
I'll try to say this as quickly as possible. So
the streetcar route is fixed. It is going to be
I would imagine they're going to have a number of
streetcars actually running at the same time, and they will
all be basically stopping for about the same amount of
time at each stop. Kind of more a fixed streetcars
(17:44):
you know, situation, more like a subway instead of you know,
like a bus that you know it'll stop if they
see somebody there. But I it's going to basically start
at forty second Street by Farnham in the Blackstone area
kind of thing, and then it will go down through
the by Turner Park and by that area, and then
(18:08):
it goes all the way down into the downtown area.
It will have stops by Old Market, you can stop
by the Orpheum, all the way down those streets, and
then it's going to do just kind of a little
loop by the chi Heal Center, the big Arena, and
then it's going to kind of loop back in and
around the park and then head back down on Farnham
all the way down to forty seconds. So it's going
(18:29):
to be a loop, and I don't know what the
hours of operation are going to be. I'm sure we'll
learn that when it gets closer. It sounds like this
is going to be free for citizens or anybody to
use for convenience to go downtown. And as long as
it's operating, I mean, you can jump on it whenever
it stops at where.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Your stop is, okay.
Speaker 7 (18:47):
And then also they had talked about it coming over
into Council Bluffs. Have you heard any more about that.
I haven't for about a year.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
I don't think that's going to happen. There may be
a a It kind of depends, because you know, depends
on what you're going to Omah for. If you're going
to be in Omaha to go downtown, obviously that doesn't
really help you much because it would start downtown for you.
But I don't know if there's an idea of a
public transportation to get you to downtown as part of this.
(19:15):
But I've not seen any addendums that this would cross
the river at any point.
Speaker 7 (19:20):
Okay, That's what I needed to know.
Speaker 8 (19:22):
Thank you very much, No problem, Lyle.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
And he asked those questions because I'm streetcar MANU.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
It's streetcar Man story em on INDUS Radio eleven ten.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
All right, I've already un late. We probably should hit
a break, but I'll come back. If you have street
car related questions for whatever reason, feel free to fire
him away and we will get into more Donald Trump
shenanigans with the Middle East coming up as well on
news radio eleven ten. Kfab So, I'm sorry, but I
have no choice. I'm streetcar Man.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Dud's street car man on an indust radio.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Yeah, all right, to the phones four oh two, five, five, eight,
eleven ten marks on the line and Nillo mark what
you got on the street car today?
Speaker 7 (20:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (20:14):
How are you Matt doing today?
Speaker 2 (20:15):
I'm good man. How are you?
Speaker 7 (20:17):
Hey? I haven't been paying too much attention because I
don't live in a lot about this streetcar.
Speaker 8 (20:22):
Yeah, well, I got two questions.
Speaker 7 (20:25):
Are they gonna be heated?
Speaker 2 (20:28):
My guess?
Speaker 1 (20:29):
I mean I was in the streetcar kind of trained
thingy that they do in Minneapolis. That thing was heated
on the inside. The doors shut. I've seen what the
streetcar looks like and it looks completely it's not like
one of those open street cars that they have in
like San Francisco that you've seen. It's like, you know,
it kind of looks like a streamlined bus almost. So yeah,
(20:50):
I would imagine that it's pretty It would be air
conditioned like a car would be or a bus would
be in the summer, and it would be heated during
the winter.
Speaker 7 (20:58):
Oh, I think somebody would check in. But next question
is are they going to run twenty four hours a day?
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Yeah, so in their original plan it wouldn't run twenty
four hours, but on weekdays it would be like a
nineteen hour span, so probably something like five am to midnight,
and then like twelve to eighteen hour service span on weekends,
depending on the day and what's going on, which would
make me think like six am to midnight kind of thing,
So pretty much anytime that you would be out and
(21:26):
about doing different things. They haven't announced what those hours
would look like once it's actually done, but that's pretty
on par with what the subway system was doing in
like Barcelona, in Madrid when I was in Spain, or
that Minneapolis when I told you about that I was
on they would run that thing until they knew all
of the big events were over basically, or it got
to midnight, whatever came last. So yeah, I mean it
(21:49):
would be running pretty much all day every day.
Speaker 7 (21:51):
I well, thank you, and I'm glad I live in
Omaha because I know the people are going to have.
Speaker 6 (21:56):
To pray for it.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Well, it's already kind of allocated the money, but yeah,
it is coming from the city city money, that is
for sure.
Speaker 7 (22:02):
I guarantee she's going to put that special tax they've
been holding in a bank for the last eight years.
Speaker 8 (22:08):
I guarantee she's going.
Speaker 6 (22:09):
To burn through that.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Well, they are, for to be fair, Mark, they have
allocated the money for this already, and there are developers
whenever the price has gone up a little bit since
the original plan, you know, like ten years ago or whatever,
and that that money, as the get goes higher, people
who have invested in the development around the streetcar plan
are paying that off. That is that is actually not
(22:32):
going to be just added into the taxpayer pool of
money that's already allocated for.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
It, you know what I mean. So yeah, so you've okay, Mark,
I mean, you say what you want.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
I got this stuff right here in front of me,
and we'll see once it gets completed. They're hoping by
you know, within a year or two, this thing will
be up and running, ready to go. But I appreciate
the call, buddy, thanks for listening to us.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Yeah, it's already allocated, right, I mean we and we
can debate all day long whether it's a good idea,
it's a bad idea, but the contracts are shigned. I
mean we're getting to the nitty gritty at this point.
John is on the phone line. I think I'm gonna
get another streetcar history lesson here, John, Thanks for calling in.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
What's going on?
Speaker 6 (23:13):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 5 (23:14):
And streetcar man, I love the name. Hey, a little
bit on the street cars. You know, street cars originally
were designed to go ahead and get a lot of
people up the street, and there was a lot of
dirt and everything. They were first pulled by horses, then
they went to electricity. Omar was one sixth the size
there was now, so it was very easy to accommodate.
You know, street cars they are much more efficients than
(23:35):
a bus. And the reason they got rid of them
is Henry Ford, Christber and Dodge Brothers. They went to
bat and got rid of them because they wanted to
sell cars.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
That would make sense, to be honest with you, yeah,
I mean for their business. It's just like, yeah, why
would we want public transportation? We want people to buy
our cars, right, you know that makes sense.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
I love the streetcar man.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Hey, no problem, John, and thanks for the information.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
Today street car rails across our nity large street right now,
you behind a sans Court.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
All right, yeah, there you go. How about that?
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Yay?
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Does that not sound like America for you? Hey, all
these towns that have this efficient public transportation, let's get
rid of that so they have to buy our vehicles.
Let's work together. Let's big vehicle, big car. What would
you call that, big motor? None of that really rings
like big pharma or big insurance or big tobacco, you know,
(24:27):
like the lobby for vehicles back in the forties. They're
just like, hey, you know how we're gonna sell more
cars we take away people's ability to have public transportation.
That makes sense, that checks out. I believe that that
would be you know, something that would help you know,
end if you will, the ability for people to utilize
the street car. I don't know, you look at this map.
(24:48):
I get it, you know, like this thing. If they've
been pushing it back, the can has been kicked. They've
been trying to get funding for it. We're getting to
the nitty gritty on this, and I don't want to
spend another ton of time talk about it, because let's
be honest, we could spend hours on this. We spent
almost an hour and a half on it on accident yesterday,
and we're spending an hour or not an hour, but
(25:10):
like a half hour on it today. You want to
know why all this has taking place, It's because people
are divided on this. It has become a political issue.
But there is evidence that wants something like this is
in there, the development and the property values around it,
plus the foot traffic improvements when people learn how to
use it, which it's really easy. You just go to
(25:31):
the stop, know where you're trying to get off, get off,
and then you can wander around and not have to
worry about parking or anything, and then you go back
the other direction. There is quite a bit of evidence
that it actually does improve the value of the area
in which it's around, and it does seem to be
a good economic investment that basically pays for itself within
(25:52):
just a few years if it is utilized marketing and
put in the right spot like this one is certainly
in the right spot. One's going to be going from
basically Blackstone UNMC area on the you know, further away part,
all the way through downtown up to the arena in
the ballpark, and plenty of stops in between all the
(26:14):
way back, you know. So, I don't know, they've made
some adjustments to what that route looks like, but it's
generally around that same area, And I don't know, I
don't know. It feels like, of all the things that
we could be upset about that are going on, I
don't know, this feels like one that I'm not real.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Too worried about. Anyway.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Big Auto, Ah, Chris sent me a note Big Auto.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
That's what it was.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
The Chrysler GM forward guys being like, hey, don't you
use that street car?
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Buy a Model T.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
That's probably they're probably to the next one by then,
they're probably they're probably to like the PT Cruisers or whatever.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Are you, car guy? Do you know cars very well? Sorta?
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Do you like a nineteen forty eight car Model Away?
A Packard actually driving packards. Back then, I don't know,
that's pretty far back. Don't use street cars, buy a packard.
And nowadays it's just like, Man, I'd love not to
drive downtown. To be honest with you, I have to
worry about parking and finding my car, and then I
can't get you know, super duper close.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Generally.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Yeah, you know, if I'm going somewhere, especially like the
arena or something, you know, you generally park further away
unless you got you know, the will to pay for
the parking whatever.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
You know.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Imagine College World Series just being able to post up
in the Blackstone area and park on a street for nothing,
and then jump on the street car and just like
take that. Twenty minutes later, you're right next to the
ball park. You don't worry about anything until you're ready
to go home. Man, that'd be nice, Sure would yeap?
Speaker 2 (27:41):
I'd use it. Three forty eight We'll come back.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
We got more on the way on news radio eleven
ten KFAB and where are You a songer? We were
talking about these buyouts, and I went home and I
took a nap, and I had a dream that a
bunch of my friends were being fired from their job.
Now that's that could be the industry that we already
work in with the media. But I spent some time
talking about this on my morning show, and man, apparently,
like I'm just I just feel bad when people lose
their jobs or have to like leave their jobs to
(28:05):
do something else. You know, Is that a rorshack test
or something? Am I getting freuded? Is that a word freuded?
You feel bad that when people have to people are.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
I don't know, like maybe there's just something.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
I've never lost a job that I didn't try to
like leave right like I have left, I've been blessed.
That's not necessarily true. I worked at a video store
in my college when I was in college, and the
video store basically told me not to come back, but
I was kind of thinking about quitting that anyway.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Does that make sense? Okay, Yeah, So it's kind of
It's like I messed up.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
A couple of things, and I guess i'd kind of
wore out my welcome. I'd been there for like a
year or whatever, and I didn't really like the job
that much to begin with, but they basically allowed me
to leave on my own terms. That they were like, hey,
if you don't leave, we're going to send you to
a different store, and I was like, oh, that sounds
kind of stupid, not really interested in that. Maybe I'll
just stop doing this. And then I really like attacked
(29:04):
broadcasting and finish college and all that stuff. But that's
the only time, right, that's the one time that that happened.
Other than that, I've been able to leave my jobs.
But I don't know, there's just something. Maybe it's just
like a deep seated fear in me that I have
no control.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Yeah, that it can just one day.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
You can can happen to me, or could happen anybody
around me, and I just have no control over it
because it comes from well above my head, whether it's
in my industry or the industries of the people that
are in my life. Right, it can really upend your
life completely too. It's quite an interesting case study. I wonder,
I wonder what's wrong with me? Is something wrong with me?
Speaker 2 (29:44):
I don't know. I think that was an empathetic dream, right.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
You talked about it on the radio, and then you
took an app and then you you know, you were
thinking about it. You applied it to your own circumstances.
What would it be like to go through that am
I doing too much radio that I'm taking it into
my dreams, Like when I'm talking about on a day
to day basis, Man.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Is that the first time that's happened.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
No, I dream about stuff that I'm thinking about, and maybe,
like if I'm thinking about specific people or celebrities, or
I just watched like a like a movie that Scarlet Johansson's,
and sometimes she'll just pop up in my dream, you know,
something like that. Right, But I don't think that's that
uncommon or unusual, right, I don't really remember a lot
of the premises of the dream, so I just remember
little pits and pieces of what's going on too, Yeah,
(30:27):
just little chunks, just little little flash what the heck
was going on there?
Speaker 3 (30:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (30:32):
So I don't know. Yeah, maybe I'm just a weird guy.
Is that not? Is that not plausible? Like, I'm a weirdo?
What do you want call me a weirdo? There's unique
things about all of us that makes it so special
call me a weirdo. I'm not gonna do it. Gosh,
I thought I could get you this time. I'm certainly
(30:52):
not offended by anybody calling me a weirdo. I had
a guy in the email I'm trying to talk to,
Adam said, I'm naive for my few points on the
street car. Oh, it's just like, yeah, I probably am.
I mean, that's he's probably not wrong. It doesn't make
me feel differently about my opinion, and my opinion may
not be shared by a lot of other people. But
(31:14):
you know, I'm kind of one of these people that like,
I kind of like this thing that they're planning to do,
and I'm willing to, you know, let it play out
and give it a chance. I think it'd be a
good asset to our community. That's not me, I'm do
I need to agree with everybody on this. I don't
know how Like, what do you want from me? I'm
not here to tell you how to think about this stuff.
I'm just presenting my perspectives.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
All right, we'll get to some foreign policy jargon coming
up pretty interesting on news radio eleven ten kfab
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