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Speaker 1 (00:00):
If you want me to talk about the great beyond,
I guess we can. That'd be cool, hopefully, Hopefully it's,
you know, all jovial and in good fun.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
And we call it Tales from the crypt.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
I don't know if I'm I'm a scaredy cat. I
don't like talking about scary stuff.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I could play like a scary music bed.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Maybe when we get October. Remind me when we get there. Okay,
all right, two eight, Matt Case is over there. Say
hi to the people.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Matt.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Oh, Hey, what's up people.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
How's the weekend?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
You have good stuff? Do you do fun things? It
was good.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
And it's funny that you use the word spectrum and
you're set up because this weekend was on the spectrum
for me. I'm talking about Love on the Spectrum. I
fell down a YouTube rabbit hole of this Netflix show
called Love on the Spectrum.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Oh I've heard of this, Yes, I couldn't get enough
of it. Yeah. Yeah, it's the most.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Genuinely wholesome, enjoyable and yes, also hilarious thing I've ever seen. Yeah,
and I can't stop and I won't stop.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
It's like a dating show, but of people who are
dealing with some sort of autism, right right, Yeah, yeah,
it's a hit.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
It's a hit with me, it's a hit with everyone
else who sees it. And I think some people, Eh,
forget those people. It's wholesome, good fun and you know,
it's enjoyable and I can't get enough of it. And
Connor is my favorite. Anyone who watches the show, I'm
a Connor guy. That guy man, he's just enjoyable, okay.
(01:23):
And he never tips more than five dollars. I never
tipped more than five dollars. He talks cinematically. Okay, I
want to meet him in real life. I'm sorry, it's
your show. Go back to your show.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Yeah, all right, Well, nice shout out for love on
the Spectrum. On Saturday Friday, I got off work and
I met with some friends down in a Xarbon village
and we hung out. We meandered around, which was great.
Tons of people were down there this weekend and it
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was nice. I'm just not sure I've ever seen it
that full before, so I don't know. It was fascinating.
We went back down there on Saturday. We've also Okay,
here's what my Saturday looked like. My wife and I
went to the bike store. It's closing down there and
they're consolidating into one Green Street Cycling. And guess what,
(02:18):
we bought bikes. My wife and I are bikers now
or cyclists. So okay, you should you should.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Hey, you got some got some sick deals over there.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
What am I gonna have to drop though? I mean
we're talking hundreds right, Oh gosh, yes, yeah, see, I
gotta buy a mower first. I'm not happy about that.
I'm a lawnmower.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Yeah, why don't you just like pay fifteen bucks to
the kid next door and see if he'll do it.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
I don't do that kind of stuff. I take care
of my own lawn. You know what I'm saying. All Right,
it's really small. It's a small lawn, but I gotta
buy a mower for it, and I'm not happy. No,
it is to hire a kid to come do it.
It stimulates the economy. It's probably gonna save you money
in the long run. If it's a small lawn. You
don't need a brand new lawnmower for something like that. Well,
it's a small lawn, But how much am I gonna
pay him?
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Like?
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Ten bucks?
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Three bucks is what i'd pay?
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Okay, now you're not speaking the language anybody else will
agree to.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
I'll give you nine bucks this summer. Do it three times, Okay. Anyway,
it's a good investment. It makes you feel healthy, and
you're not gonna find better deals on really nice bikes
than you will right now down there.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
We went to sip, Nebraska, shout out to Blur Events.
Another job well done by them. They had parachute guys
this time. It was awesome parachute guys. Yeah out there
at the Mahoney State Park in Ashland. Oh, it was
crazy wow. And then you know what, you know what
has happened. We we went and took our dogs down
to Egxturbant Village again and there were even more people.
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There was like this women's music festival down there. It
was awesome and we didn't stay for the music too much.
We just kind of wandered around and had some beverages.
But I tell you what, that place is happening right now.
It's gonna be even more happening when the Exerbment Turk
comes this Saturday, which is going to be just a
gigantic party and you don't have to pay anything to watch.
You don't have to pay anything to watch. Just be
on the alert that you're not going to be able
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to drive through there on Saturday because that's where they're
gonna be doing the bike race. And then on Sunday
it was mostly just a we went on a big
bike ride or first big bike ride with the new
bikes and chill.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
It was great.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
So anyway, I said all that because I'm feeling great.
It's a great time to be a life here in Omaha.
And if you see me or Matt hanging around, Matt
is you know, going mower shopping or whatever, or you
see him on the side of the road, just you know,
laying down with I don't know, what do you do?
Speaker 2 (04:38):
What am I doing? Now?
Speaker 3 (04:39):
What's this? What do you do for fun?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
I'm laying on the side of the road now, Well,
you probably what you'll see me is is if I'm
on my phone watching something, it's probably a clip of
love on the spectrum enough of love. If I'm out
at a loads or a home depot or I don't know,
you know, insert your box store here that sells mowers, minards,
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that's I'm probably looking for a mower.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
If any of those places want to endorse this show.
We are ready and willing to do so for Matt.
That is all right, so and shout out to van
Wall Equipment, which if you're in the state of Io,
we will be able to buy mowers there at any
of those van wall stores thirty van Wall stores located in.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
The state of Iowa.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
So if they want to give me a mower, uh
give yeah. I would like Facebook about how awesome it is.
It can put a good.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Word in for you. But no promises coming up from
this guy.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
I want a riding mower. And if I had a
riding mower, I'd literally just do a circle and I'd
be done.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
You really just need to farm this out to a
kit for ten dollars every couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
It would be way better investment than actually buying a
full size lawnmower. I could just go out there with
a pair of scissors. Yeah, well that's what I'm saying.
It's just like it doesn't make any sense anyway. Let
me talk about the mayor's race here. Tomorrow's a big day.
We've been talking about a lot pop quiz. Who won
the primary on April first.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Well, it would be Jean Stothard, John Ewing, that would
be correct. Jeans Douthor won with thirty six point twenty
two percent of the vote. That would equate to about
twenty seven thousand votes. John Ewing just over twenty four thousand,
six hundred votes. He was sitting at about thirty two
point seven percent. That those numbers matter, but they don't
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matter matter anymore. And I say don't matter matter it's
because there was still oh four thirty percent, just over
thirty two ish percent, thirty one thirty two percent of
the people who voted in the election the primary and
didn't vote for either of them. Mike McDonald got fifteen
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thousand votes, it's twenty percent of the vote that's just
sitting there. Jasmine Harris got seven hundred votes. That's ten
percent of the vote just sitting there. And then Terry
Brewer got over five hundred votes. And for some reason,
fifty people wrote in a candidate. I don't know who
you're writing in, but if that's how you wanted to vote,
fire away either way. That's a solidly healthy amount of
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people that voted in the primary that were just kind
of free agents hanging around. Now, how much of the
Mike McDonald crowd would vote for Stouther McDonald.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
What was his big thing? Pop quiz?
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Do you remember Mike McDonald's big target for his how
he was campaigning.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
He wanted to put the streetcar on a platform, put
a whole bunch of Fourth of July fireworks underneath it,
and launched that bad boy right into the moon.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Yeah, that was it. Stop the streetcar. Now, he didn't
win with that, but that was a big thing. And
you would think that that had everything to do with
tax dollars and tax money and trying to manage that.
And between Gene Stothard and John Ewing, which person do
you trust more to not do like to not be
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too excited about spending tax dollars. Remember this is tiff
and independent funding that is going in with developers to
finish this streetcar project. Now, the street car, I mean,
it's happening regardless from the two people here that are involved.
But you would think that it would be Geene Stuther.
So my brain goes to if any if all fifteen
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thousand and thirty nine people who voted for Mike McDonald
in the primary wanted to stay with kind of that more. Okay, fine,
we didn't like the idea of the street car We
voted mainly on the idea of the street car getting
stopped and our tax dollars kind of getting funneled to
something else. Again, there was an a tax increase involved
in this, even though tiff is, you know, kind of
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a year to year thing and it can be very
complex to understand, but it's not a new tax to
the residence of Omaha. Well, if you would think, well,
Jean Stothard is a Republican, she will be more responsible
with our dollars, then you'd think those fifteen thou thirty
nine people would jump on board. Geene Stuther got thirty
six point twenty two percent of the vote. Mike McDonald
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got twenty percent of the vote. Thirty six point two
two percent plus twenty percent is what.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
What you say it again? Thirty two plus twenty two. Yeah,
it's about fifty four, but you'd say point six six
fifty four point sixty six.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
It was like fifty six. But it's okay, okay, you
got it close enough. That's more than half, is my point.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Right.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
So if the exact same seventy two hundred and eight
people vote in this election, which again that's not gonna happen,
We're going to have probably more, I would guess, but
I don't want to get too excited because we were
excited for the turnout at the primary and that didn't happen.
So if roughly seventy five thousand people are voting and
it's the same people, I would be led to believe
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that just the the Gene Stothard plus Mike McDonald crowd
that you would think would vote more conservatively into a
Republican candidate, that would be enough for Gene Stother to
maintain the position of mayor and things continue to church
charge along chug along in Omaha the same way that
they have over the last twelve years. However, some of
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that Mike McDonald crowd says, you know what, I still
don't like Gene Stothard and I'm not voting for a Democrat,
So I'm sitting this back boy out. The rest of
y'all can figure this out, or they vote in for
a write in candidate if they'd like. Now, I don't
think that's a great idea. I think if you like
to vote and participate in our civic duty to be
participation participants in our government, sitting out because you don't
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like either candidate it's just like a last resort kind
of thing. I'm sure there's one of them that you'd
prefer more. And if you like to vote, I'm not
here to lecture you on it, but I think it's
an important thing to do. Then you know, we'll see
John Ewing. However, he has gotten a lot more money lately.
In the last five or six weeks. We've seen his
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fundraising dollars go up. He's been spending a lot of
it as we go, trying to improve his case in
trying to take over the city of Omaha. Jeans Stuther
says he doesn't have a lot of a platform that
he is running on with a lot of information of
the things that he would do differently, doesn't seem to
have a plan that he articulates.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Well.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
We've reached out to John Ewing. He's been on the
show a couple of times, both right and right after
the primary. He was just unable to make it work.
I guess with his schedule this time. We were talking
to his people, try to get him on last week,
try to get him on today. We just were unable
to nail down a time, but we gave him the
opportunity to speak on this show, and as unless something
happens between now and five o'clock or six o'clock today,
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we're not going to have a chance to chat with
him before the election. But I would imagine he's anticipating
not only will he have his twenty four thousand, six
hundred and five people, I think he's anticipating absorbing the
seven seven hundred and six people of Jasmine Harris if
again the same seventy two hundred eight people vote. But
he's hopeful that he can grow a voter base in
North Omaha and South Omaha, and even maybe in places
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like West Omaha, maybe even people that might not have
even been very active in some of the more central
Omaha precincts. Then all of a sudden, we have ourselves
a RaSE. So it depends on the participation. It depends
on the turnout, Matt and I will guess the turnout
when we come back right after this on News Radio
eleven ten.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Kfab Emery Sunger.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Is it fair to say that we blew it the
last time we guessed what the voter turnout was going
to be for the mayoral primary?
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Didn't I guess the under you did?
Speaker 1 (12:10):
You got it right, But we both were like in
the thirty percent range.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
And it was like twenty five. Yeah, yeah, that's.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
A big number. That's a big gap there. Like we
botched that. It's like twenty thousand people at least, well
at least we were on the side of optimism. Well,
we want people to go, we want people to turn out.
We were like, this is this is for the person
that has the most say as a leader in our community.
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We're a city of almost five hundred thousand people if
you add in all of our suburbs and a heck,
if you even stretch out between here and Lincoln, about
how important the city of Omaha is to this area.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
In what we're doing, I mean.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
We're affecting millions of people, like well over a million
people like in this sphere, people who were regularly coming
to Omah for one reason or another. The mayor, the
city council matters for that matter. Now the city council
is doing stuff for the entire city. By representing certain
wards or districts, that's a little bit of a different
conversation because maybe different districts need different things and want
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their voice to be heard. But the mayor speaks for
the entire city. And again this comes back to the
whole thing of like, yeah, like is the president the
most important person?
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
That doesn't mean the other people don't matter who are
representing us, but the president has the most say. The
leadership of this city matters. And if you want to
be a participant or if you want to complain, better
point is if you want to complain about what this
city is doing, or if you don't like what the
city is doing. Yet you don't take a lot of
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heed to preparing for an election by understanding the candidates.
I mean, heck, if you want to know John Ewing's
stance on stuff, we do have a podcast. You can
go back and listen to both times she was on
the show, can't you?
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Can we share that? Can we go back and find.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
It both both of the times?
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Yeah, I mean it's a little bit dated because you know,
we talked to him a month ago, but yeah, I mean,
do you.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Want me to put it together? Put them all together?
Speaker 1 (14:03):
And yeah, can we put Gene Stouthard from from Tuesday on?
And then the time that we talked to him, I
don't know what was that. It was like the front
the Thursday Tuesday, Thursday Tuesday, It was the week before
either way. Either way, if you look it up, you
can just search John Ewing Emory Songer you'll.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Find the podcast.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
My point is it's important to have opinions on this,
and it's kind of sad that seventy five percent of
the people of this city didn't vote voluntarily or just
didn't know the election was going on somehow, which again
you're just not plugged in.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Is that? Am I being too harsh? Am I being
a harsh guy?
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Well, it's it's priorities, I suppose.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
And it takes it takes five minutes to go in
there and vote for mayor and city council. It takes
probably a solid you know, I'd like I'd like to
think that it takes a little bit longer than ten
minutes to like know the candidates. But you realistically can
find talking points of both candidates and what they stand
for or on their websites within ten to fifteen minutes
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if you really care about omah, is that too much
to ask or listen to a fifteen twenty minute interview
I've done with these people ahead of this election?
Speaker 3 (15:10):
It matters.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
So with that being said, in me, you know, making
the people that didn't vote, sound like they don't care
about Omaha, which I'm not trying to do. But again,
it just seems to me like this is more important
than twenty five percent of the people out there caring
about it. What do you think we're gonna land that
this time? Do you think there's been enough advertising between
the television and the radio, the online stuff that I've
been seeing, between all of the different I guess movements.
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I'm sure people are seeing the street signs the last
six weeks since the primary of the people that are
still in the race, what do you think, like, is
there an optimism that we're going to greatly improve upon
twenty five percent? And what does greatly improve? I guess
even mean, I want to think that it's gonna be
like thirty five forty, But even then, that's half of
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what people were doing November. I mean, we're getting sixty
five to seventy percent turnout without a sweat in November.
But again, that's when you have all these national races
that people are getting bombarded with millions of dollars of advertising.
That's not what's happening here.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
It's timing. You know, I don't know the timing's weird.
It's weird for some reason. To me, it's weird time.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Yeah, But would you rather it happen now? Would we
just have to worry about this? Or it runs against
all the Senate races, the House races, the local amendments
that people are are having to vote on. The more
stuff on the ballot, the more reason people have to
go out. Yeah, but how much are you going to
know about these people?
Speaker 2 (16:37):
That's the problem, right, The more you put on the ballot,
the less likely people are going to know to really
know a whole lot about it.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Now, you got to cram like it's an exam.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
You have stuff at the city, the district, the state,
the national level that you have to like be crammed for,
and all you're seeing online is mostly national stuff. And
then you have commercials of like fifteen different races or
different causes that people want you to vote for on
the bat. I actually think it makes more sense to
have it right now, even if it's not what people
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would call election season. But at least this is all
we have to think about. And the city council races, yeah,
but I mean that's two races depending on where you live.
Some of these districts don't even have a race, right,
There are a couple people out there. There are a
couple of candidates in the city council that have no
opponent in all of the cumbents but one one the primary,
and are likely, I would guess, to win their city
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council seats. It's not like it's that. It's like we're
not talking like rocket science. It's not like you have
to learn a bunch of new people like you would
think in my district, you would think people know who
Danny Begley is. You would think they know if you
care about oh mah, you would think you would just
be at least kind of familiar with what he stands
for and.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Who he is.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Well, Danny bag of Bagels, I didn't say that. You
said I give people nicknames. Now that's my thing, and
that's fine. You don't live in his district, so you
can give them all the nicknames.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
That you want.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Hey, it's not it's a good nickname.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
I live in his district and he's Danny Begley for me.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
He's Danny bag of Bagels to me in all of my.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Friends, all right, what about Gene Stothart? Oh no, no,
all right, Well, what's the number?
Speaker 3 (18:06):
What do you think?
Speaker 1 (18:07):
We'll probably talk a little bit about this tomorrow, but
today's the day to get really hyped about it because
I want you to make plans. Not to lecture you,
but it'd be nice to see people go out and
support the city of Omaha by voting, and it'd be
interesting to see what that turnout would be if we
can motivate people to do so.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Make five ten minutes. I mean, it depends on how.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Far you are, but almost everybody's pretty tight to their
district and their voting spot.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
It's really not.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
That hard anyway. What's the number? Am I crazy for thinking?
Like thirty two? See?
Speaker 2 (18:39):
You don't want to go under and then it's over
and then you look like a pessimist, right, but we
were way over last time. Yeah, I got this weird
feeling now. Context is important, and it's important for people
to remember that I got none of it. So I'm
not a man with context right now. I'm kind of
swinging in the dark.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
You know, Well, we don't know who's going back in voting,
who's sitting it out, whom I be motivated to vote
and didn't vote in the primary. All this stuff is
a lot of varial, but can we get thirty two?
You think, how do I got.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
This weird feeling that it's not going to be great.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Like twenty seven?
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Yeah, I'll say twenty eight, you'll say twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
I'm gonna say thirty and a half thirty.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
But I'm wrong.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
I hope I'm also wrong and it's above me. But
I think I think between twenty eight and thirty is
probably a realistic outcome. Two thirty got more on the way.
Donald Trump had a pretty big weekend. We'll talk about
that on news radio eleven ten KFAB.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Emrie Songer on news radio eleven ten KFAB.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
At four o'clock he's talking to him and we're hoping
to get him at four thirty. Uh, no, are we
confirmed or we were hopeful?
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Well, teamwork makes the dream work unconfirmed at this point.
All right, but we're working on it.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Now again, and I want this to be hate. I
hate being this guy, but we have to be as
like transparent as possible. This author campaign asked us when
we were talking to him. We didn't have an answer
for them, not at that moment. No, So I mean
we and we told him that I did the best
that I could to be as fair as I possibly could.
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But you know, we we we want people to have
equal time on this station. So I'm gonna be as
pointed and I'm going to talk. I do not want
I'm not going to ask John Ewing about Gene Douth.
I'm gonna ask Joan Youwing about what John Ewing wants
to do. From all that's the plan if I can
get him in here at four point thirty, and that's
what we're gonna do, okay, And I will do the
best that I can to try to dig in a
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little bit if if you know, because the souther campaign,
they're one thing about John Ewing is that they have
not heard legitimate plans from him.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
So I don't know.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
We'll work on that. We'll let people know what the
plan is. Also, get the keyword and when that doesn't
mean that we're not we're stopping doing keywords here, but
when and I don't know. Man, it was a crazy weekend.
Donald Trump had a wild one. And I will talk
to you about this. I'm sending you I'm sending you
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audio here real quick. But before we talk about that,
had some people send me emails as regards to voter
turnout and you know, maybe we should open the phones
for this and we'll get to the Trump stuff in
a second. Brian says that there's bill currently in the
legislature to align municipal elections with state election years instead
of presidential election years, and it needs to pass. The
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whining and scolding of non voters about low vert turnout
otherwise continues.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Okay, so let's do state election years.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
So I guess what Brian is saying, is that incentive
like every four years us having it aligned with the
presidential race. It would be aligned with the state elections
and be a part of that. Does that fix the problem? Like,
are we talking like midterm? Are we talking about just
November on like odd years?
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Well, I think the biggest problem is when it is
you think, I think it's God, I'm so used to
elections happening in November.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Is it better? Though?
Speaker 1 (21:57):
If people are just voting, they know it's vote time,
so they're going to go vote, but still not have
any idea who these people are. If twenty five percent
of the people of Omaha know about these candidates and
know about their city council people, does that change because
we've changed the timing of the actual vote. Yeah, more
people may participate, but do the extra you know, fifteen
to twenty percent of people know more about the candidates
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than they otherwise would have just because it's happening in November.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
That's my question.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
I know for a fact that people that are voting
right now know something about these candidates.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Yeah, nobody's going in there just because oh this is
what we do, you know exactly people are this. This
is an election for people who know what's going on.
I'm just saying, why don't more people know what's going on.
I'm not trying to shame. I'm just saying it's a
bit concerning to me. Or you had a good point
to break about turnout and why people may not be
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super duper like into caring. I did. What did I say?
Speaker 3 (22:54):
What's happening in Omaha? What's the problem that we're facing
in Omaha? Oh?
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Well, yeah, yeah, there's not. And it's not like they're
usually it's kind of like everything's that's usually a sign
that everything's kind of kind of copathetic, everything's okay.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Like like if the street car was the hot button
issue of the primary.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Right, and if if we're really making such a big
stink about a streetcar, Like, come on, like a three
hundred and eighty million dollar street car.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
It's a lot of money, but they already have the
money accounted for. It's already like going, we couldn't come
up with something better to like argue about. And I
know the uing campaign is trying to, you know, say,
I'm gonna he's gonna fully staff the police department, and Okay, how.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
What are they?
Speaker 2 (23:38):
What's the stats on that? How many officers are we
short right now?
Speaker 3 (23:41):
It's like a hundred. That's a lot. It's a lot.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
But like what's happened to public safety in Omaha, it's
still trending the correct direction in everyone in the country theoretically.
I mean I came from the moint, who had even
a bigger percentage of shortage. Huh, you know what I mean,
Like it's just everywhere thing. So I don't know, right
like it wasn't anything to do with OMAHID think that
created it. I just think people don't want to be
police officers right now. You know how any police officers
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we're supposed to have in Omaha, it's like nine hundred.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
It's a lot. And I think it's good.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
I want people to want to be police officers, but
to think that it's somehow an Omaha problem, that's just
not I mean two years ago I was in Des
Moines they have the exact same problem. So in the
police chief, for whatever it's worth, is endorsed the current mayor.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
So I don't know, random aside here, how far off
do you think we are from RoboCop? What if?
Speaker 4 (24:35):
The uh?
Speaker 2 (24:36):
What is it about ten percent shortfall in police officers?
We could just solve that by getting getting a bunch
of robo cops out there.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Yeah, I just don't think that's a good idea, although
you know it would be nice for the idiot firing
fireworks at ten pm last night, what on May eleventh
in my neighborhood, freaking my dogs out?
Speaker 4 (24:57):
What?
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Yes, I wouldn't mind. And I in the sky on
that one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm already I'm already on
about fireworks. It's May eleventh. Get a grip pal you
live in Exarbent anyway, Greg says the problem. I don't
think anybody in the media, specifically aske John Ewing about
sanctuary cities, well really don't know what. We really don't
know what he would do on that subject. If he
(25:19):
gets elected, maybe I can ask, uh, this came in
from Gene. When casting your vote tomorrow, ask yourself, is
Omaha in better shape since Mayor Stothart took office. I mean,
that's really the election, isn't it. If you think Omaha
is on the right trajectory and you like the leadership,
then Jeene Stott, there's probably your candidate. If you think
that there's something else that needs to be unlocked by
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a new person or new leadership in the city council
or whatever, then maybe you go in a different direction.
Dave says, I'm slightly more optimistic than you. I'm thinking
thirty four percent. Probably wishful thinking, but it would be
nice to see that number. I agree. I'd like to
see that number, thirty four percent. I'd be doing backflips.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Joe says, I can't remember when I did not vote
in a primary or general election. However, in my district
incumbent for city council only, and since Mike McDonald is out,
I'm sitting out, and so is my wife. So Joe's
one of the sitouts, one of the McDonald's sitouts who
don't want to support Stouthard. Wow, Now see, I don't
like you are free to do whatever you want. If
your civic duty you think is best used by not participating, fine,
(26:24):
But if you don't have a preferred candidate, you just
don't like both of them enough to just not go
and vote. And again, this is not me trying to
be preachy. This is me trying to be as nice
as I can about it. I just think you you
lose your right to complain about the city at that point, Like,
there has to be a lesser of the two evils
from a person who doesn't like either candidate.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
At the very least, Joe, you could go in and
you could ride in a candidate like Mayor mccheese, and
enough people did, then the news would have to read
that Mayor mcchee got like zero point four percent of
the vote, and then that would entertain me. Think of me, Joe,
don't stay at home.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Yikes, Joe, I'd rather you stay home than right in
Mayor mccheese. We can't have Omaha zero point four percent
of Omaha voters voting for Mayor mccheese.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Are you serious?
Speaker 1 (27:12):
It's two forty nine just go ahead and turn the
phones on just in case people want to call in
about this. Four h two, five, five, eight to eleven ten.
I got some more emails too. On news radio eleven ten.
KFAB the midterm year basically, so the next gubernatorial election,
which would be twenty twenty six, So it would be
a midterm election and you would just have to worry
about mayor and city council and things of that nature,
(27:35):
and it would I think that would drastically improve turn out.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
I just don't know how much more.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Educated the people would be on those particular races that
all of a sudden you're competing with a lot of
other races that are very important at the time. And
I don't know. I just don't know if that exactly
solves the problem. Merle's on the line real quick. Merle,
thanks for calling in, man, what's going on?
Speaker 4 (27:55):
Hey, Mannie? Thanks for having me. I love this show.
You give a lot, you allow a lot feedback and
that's good.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Thanks appreciate that.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
Thinking about the mayor and utching tomorrow, k E TV
did a debate on TV a month or so ago,
and they had three BacT checkers there and they were
going to give the results at ten o'clock and the
debates at six, and I believe it was very respectful.
It was one of the most respectful, dignified debates I've
ever seen in my life. They did it right, and
(28:24):
the only thing that they didn't find factual I believe.
I'm trying to remember back was when they were talking
about the police force staffing and they both threw out
a lot of numbers, but I believe that John Ewing
his numbers were not correct. But he was talking about
staffing and things like that, we are understaff and they
stopped it. Did state that, however, some of the information
(28:45):
that was given by John Ewing I believe was not factual,
and that's what they found not to be factual when
it came to the back checks. They just wanted to
make that.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Yeah, I appreciate that. Meiral, do you remember if that
was the primary debate or was it just Stothard and.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Ewing that.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
Stop the doing?
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Okay, all right, I appreciate that. Merl thanks so much
for listening to the show and for calling in. Really
do appreciate it. Patrick also said he doesn't he gets turnout,
doesn't get over twenty three percent.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
He thinks it'll be lower. I was kind of leaning
that way too. I just didn't want to be so pessimistic,
he said.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
I truly hope I'm way low. But I don't see
a lot of enthusiasm. He's not like there's not a
lot of enthusiasm. But I think again, that might be
an indictment that like things just aren't there's not a
lot of fixing that needs to be done. I don't
know now if we do get John Ewing, and we're
trying to get him for four to thirty, so mark
your time and so you can get back to the
(29:41):
radio if you have to leave us. Four thirty is
when we're hoping to have him four thirty five or so.
I'll ask him about that. Again, he's a former police officer,
so I know that that's something near and dear to him.
But also this is what politicians do, people who are
trying to get into office. They say things that can
help their cause. So we'll see what he has to
say today, hopefully right here on news radio elevenon k
(30:02):
f A B
If you want me to talk about the great beyond,
I guess we can. That'd be cool, hopefully, Hopefully it's,
you know, all jovial and in good fun.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
And we call it Tales from the crypt.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
I don't know if I'm I'm a scaredy cat. I
don't like talking about scary stuff.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I could play like a scary music bed.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Maybe when we get October. Remind me when we get there. Okay,
all right, two eight, Matt Case is over there. Say
hi to the people.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Matt.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Oh, Hey, what's up people.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
How's the weekend?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
You have good stuff? Do you do fun things? It
was good.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
And it's funny that you use the word spectrum and
you're set up because this weekend was on the spectrum
for me. I'm talking about Love on the Spectrum. I
fell down a YouTube rabbit hole of this Netflix show
called Love on the Spectrum.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Oh I've heard of this, Yes, I couldn't get enough
of it. Yeah. Yeah, it's the most.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Genuinely wholesome, enjoyable and yes, also hilarious thing I've ever seen. Yeah,
and I can't stop and I won't stop.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
It's like a dating show, but of people who are
dealing with some sort of autism, right right, Yeah, yeah,
it's a hit.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
It's a hit with me, it's a hit with everyone
else who sees it. And I think some people, Eh,
forget those people. It's wholesome, good fun and you know,
it's enjoyable and I can't get enough of it. And
Connor is my favorite. Anyone who watches the show, I'm
a Connor guy. That guy man, he's just enjoyable, okay.
(01:23):
And he never tips more than five dollars. I never
tipped more than five dollars. He talks cinematically. Okay, I
want to meet him in real life. I'm sorry, it's
your show. Go back to your show.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Yeah, all right, Well, nice shout out for love on
the Spectrum. On Saturday Friday, I got off work and
I met with some friends down in a Xarbon village
and we hung out. We meandered around, which was great.
Tons of people were down there this weekend and it
(01:56):
was nice. I'm just not sure I've ever seen it
that full before, so I don't know. It was fascinating.
We went back down there on Saturday. We've also Okay,
here's what my Saturday looked like. My wife and I
went to the bike store. It's closing down there and
they're consolidating into one Green Street Cycling. And guess what,
(02:18):
we bought bikes. My wife and I are bikers now
or cyclists. So okay, you should you should.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Hey, you got some got some sick deals over there.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
What am I gonna have to drop though? I mean
we're talking hundreds right, Oh gosh, yes, yeah, see, I
gotta buy a mower first. I'm not happy about that.
I'm a lawnmower.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Yeah, why don't you just like pay fifteen bucks to
the kid next door and see if he'll do it.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
I don't do that kind of stuff. I take care
of my own lawn. You know what I'm saying. All Right,
it's really small. It's a small lawn, but I gotta
buy a mower for it, and I'm not happy. No,
it is to hire a kid to come do it.
It stimulates the economy. It's probably gonna save you money
in the long run. If it's a small lawn. You
don't need a brand new lawnmower for something like that. Well,
it's a small lawn, But how much am I gonna
pay him?
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Like?
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Ten bucks?
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Three bucks is what i'd pay?
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Okay, now you're not speaking the language anybody else will
agree to.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
I'll give you nine bucks this summer. Do it three times, Okay. Anyway,
it's a good investment. It makes you feel healthy, and
you're not gonna find better deals on really nice bikes
than you will right now down there.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
We went to sip, Nebraska, shout out to Blur Events.
Another job well done by them. They had parachute guys
this time. It was awesome parachute guys. Yeah out there
at the Mahoney State Park in Ashland. Oh, it was
crazy wow. And then you know what, you know what
has happened. We we went and took our dogs down
to Egxturbant Village again and there were even more people.
(03:45):
There was like this women's music festival down there. It
was awesome and we didn't stay for the music too much.
We just kind of wandered around and had some beverages.
But I tell you what, that place is happening right now.
It's gonna be even more happening when the Exerbment Turk
comes this Saturday, which is going to be just a
gigantic party and you don't have to pay anything to watch.
You don't have to pay anything to watch. Just be
on the alert that you're not going to be able
(04:07):
to drive through there on Saturday because that's where they're
gonna be doing the bike race. And then on Sunday
it was mostly just a we went on a big
bike ride or first big bike ride with the new
bikes and chill.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
It was great.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
So anyway, I said all that because I'm feeling great.
It's a great time to be a life here in Omaha.
And if you see me or Matt hanging around, Matt
is you know, going mower shopping or whatever, or you
see him on the side of the road, just you know,
laying down with I don't know, what do you do?
Speaker 2 (04:38):
What am I doing? Now?
Speaker 3 (04:39):
What's this? What do you do for fun?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
I'm laying on the side of the road now, Well,
you probably what you'll see me is is if I'm
on my phone watching something, it's probably a clip of
love on the spectrum enough of love. If I'm out
at a loads or a home depot or I don't know,
you know, insert your box store here that sells mowers, minards,
(05:02):
that's I'm probably looking for a mower.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
If any of those places want to endorse this show.
We are ready and willing to do so for Matt.
That is all right, so and shout out to van
Wall Equipment, which if you're in the state of Io,
we will be able to buy mowers there at any
of those van wall stores thirty van Wall stores located in.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
The state of Iowa.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
So if they want to give me a mower, uh
give yeah. I would like Facebook about how awesome it is.
It can put a good.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Word in for you. But no promises coming up from
this guy.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
I want a riding mower. And if I had a
riding mower, I'd literally just do a circle and I'd
be done.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
You really just need to farm this out to a
kit for ten dollars every couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
It would be way better investment than actually buying a
full size lawnmower. I could just go out there with
a pair of scissors. Yeah, well that's what I'm saying.
It's just like it doesn't make any sense anyway. Let
me talk about the mayor's race here. Tomorrow's a big day.
We've been talking about a lot pop quiz. Who won
the primary on April first.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Well, it would be Jean Stothard, John Ewing, that would
be correct. Jeans Douthor won with thirty six point twenty
two percent of the vote. That would equate to about
twenty seven thousand votes. John Ewing just over twenty four thousand,
six hundred votes. He was sitting at about thirty two
point seven percent. That those numbers matter, but they don't
(06:17):
matter matter anymore. And I say don't matter matter it's
because there was still oh four thirty percent, just over
thirty two ish percent, thirty one thirty two percent of
the people who voted in the election the primary and
didn't vote for either of them. Mike McDonald got fifteen
(06:39):
thousand votes, it's twenty percent of the vote that's just
sitting there. Jasmine Harris got seven hundred votes. That's ten
percent of the vote just sitting there. And then Terry
Brewer got over five hundred votes. And for some reason,
fifty people wrote in a candidate. I don't know who
you're writing in, but if that's how you wanted to vote,
fire away either way. That's a solidly healthy amount of
(07:02):
people that voted in the primary that were just kind
of free agents hanging around. Now, how much of the
Mike McDonald crowd would vote for Stouther McDonald.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
What was his big thing? Pop quiz?
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Do you remember Mike McDonald's big target for his how
he was campaigning.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
He wanted to put the streetcar on a platform, put
a whole bunch of Fourth of July fireworks underneath it,
and launched that bad boy right into the moon.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Yeah, that was it. Stop the streetcar. Now, he didn't
win with that, but that was a big thing. And
you would think that that had everything to do with
tax dollars and tax money and trying to manage that.
And between Gene Stothard and John Ewing, which person do
you trust more to not do like to not be
(07:49):
too excited about spending tax dollars. Remember this is tiff
and independent funding that is going in with developers to
finish this streetcar project. Now, the street car, I mean,
it's happening regardless from the two people here that are involved.
But you would think that it would be Geene Stuther.
So my brain goes to if any if all fifteen
(08:10):
thousand and thirty nine people who voted for Mike McDonald
in the primary wanted to stay with kind of that more. Okay, fine,
we didn't like the idea of the street car We
voted mainly on the idea of the street car getting
stopped and our tax dollars kind of getting funneled to
something else. Again, there was an a tax increase involved
in this, even though tiff is, you know, kind of
(08:30):
a year to year thing and it can be very
complex to understand, but it's not a new tax to
the residence of Omaha. Well, if you would think, well,
Jean Stothard is a Republican, she will be more responsible
with our dollars, then you'd think those fifteen thou thirty
nine people would jump on board. Geene Stuther got thirty
six point twenty two percent of the vote. Mike McDonald
(08:51):
got twenty percent of the vote. Thirty six point two
two percent plus twenty percent is what.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
What you say it again? Thirty two plus twenty two. Yeah,
it's about fifty four, but you'd say point six six
fifty four point sixty six.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
It was like fifty six. But it's okay, okay, you
got it close enough. That's more than half, is my point.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Right.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
So if the exact same seventy two hundred and eight
people vote in this election, which again that's not gonna happen,
We're going to have probably more, I would guess, but
I don't want to get too excited because we were
excited for the turnout at the primary and that didn't happen.
So if roughly seventy five thousand people are voting and
it's the same people, I would be led to believe
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that just the the Gene Stothard plus Mike McDonald crowd
that you would think would vote more conservatively into a
Republican candidate, that would be enough for Gene Stother to
maintain the position of mayor and things continue to church
charge along chug along in Omaha the same way that
they have over the last twelve years. However, some of
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that Mike McDonald crowd says, you know what, I still
don't like Gene Stothard and I'm not voting for a Democrat,
So I'm sitting this back boy out. The rest of
y'all can figure this out, or they vote in for
a write in candidate if they'd like. Now, I don't
think that's a great idea. I think if you like
to vote and participate in our civic duty to be
participation participants in our government, sitting out because you don't
(10:19):
like either candidate it's just like a last resort kind
of thing. I'm sure there's one of them that you'd
prefer more. And if you like to vote, I'm not
here to lecture you on it, but I think it's
an important thing to do. Then you know, we'll see
John Ewing. However, he has gotten a lot more money lately.
In the last five or six weeks. We've seen his
(10:39):
fundraising dollars go up. He's been spending a lot of
it as we go, trying to improve his case in
trying to take over the city of Omaha. Jeans Stuther
says he doesn't have a lot of a platform that
he is running on with a lot of information of
the things that he would do differently, doesn't seem to
have a plan that he articulates.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Well.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
We've reached out to John Ewing. He's been on the
show a couple of times, both right and right after
the primary. He was just unable to make it work.
I guess with his schedule this time. We were talking
to his people, try to get him on last week,
try to get him on today. We just were unable
to nail down a time, but we gave him the
opportunity to speak on this show, and as unless something
happens between now and five o'clock or six o'clock today,
(11:19):
we're not going to have a chance to chat with
him before the election. But I would imagine he's anticipating
not only will he have his twenty four thousand, six
hundred and five people, I think he's anticipating absorbing the
seven seven hundred and six people of Jasmine Harris if
again the same seventy two hundred eight people vote. But
he's hopeful that he can grow a voter base in
North Omaha and South Omaha, and even maybe in places
(11:41):
like West Omaha, maybe even people that might not have
even been very active in some of the more central
Omaha precincts. Then all of a sudden, we have ourselves
a RaSE. So it depends on the participation. It depends
on the turnout, Matt and I will guess the turnout
when we come back right after this on News Radio
eleven ten.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Kfab Emery Sunger.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Is it fair to say that we blew it the
last time we guessed what the voter turnout was going
to be for the mayoral primary?
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Didn't I guess the under you did?
Speaker 1 (12:10):
You got it right, But we both were like in
the thirty percent range.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
And it was like twenty five. Yeah, yeah, that's.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
A big number. That's a big gap there. Like we
botched that. It's like twenty thousand people at least, well
at least we were on the side of optimism. Well,
we want people to go, we want people to turn out.
We were like, this is this is for the person
that has the most say as a leader in our community.
(12:37):
We're a city of almost five hundred thousand people if
you add in all of our suburbs and a heck,
if you even stretch out between here and Lincoln, about
how important the city of Omaha is to this area.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
In what we're doing, I mean.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
We're affecting millions of people, like well over a million
people like in this sphere, people who were regularly coming
to Omah for one reason or another. The mayor, the
city council matters for that matter. Now the city council
is doing stuff for the entire city. By representing certain
wards or districts, that's a little bit of a different
conversation because maybe different districts need different things and want
(13:13):
their voice to be heard. But the mayor speaks for
the entire city. And again this comes back to the
whole thing of like, yeah, like is the president the
most important person?
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
That doesn't mean the other people don't matter who are
representing us, but the president has the most say. The
leadership of this city matters. And if you want to
be a participant or if you want to complain, better
point is if you want to complain about what this
city is doing, or if you don't like what the
city is doing. Yet you don't take a lot of
(13:42):
heed to preparing for an election by understanding the candidates.
I mean, heck, if you want to know John Ewing's
stance on stuff, we do have a podcast. You can
go back and listen to both times she was on
the show, can't you?
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Can we share that? Can we go back and find.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
It both both of the times?
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Yeah, I mean it's a little bit dated because you know,
we talked to him a month ago, but yeah, I mean,
do you.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Want me to put it together? Put them all together?
Speaker 1 (14:03):
And yeah, can we put Gene Stouthard from from Tuesday on?
And then the time that we talked to him, I
don't know what was that. It was like the front
the Thursday Tuesday, Thursday Tuesday, It was the week before
either way. Either way, if you look it up, you
can just search John Ewing Emory Songer you'll.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Find the podcast.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
My point is it's important to have opinions on this,
and it's kind of sad that seventy five percent of
the people of this city didn't vote voluntarily or just
didn't know the election was going on somehow, which again
you're just not plugged in.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Is that? Am I being too harsh? Am I being
a harsh guy?
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Well, it's it's priorities, I suppose.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
And it takes it takes five minutes to go in
there and vote for mayor and city council. It takes
probably a solid you know, I'd like I'd like to
think that it takes a little bit longer than ten
minutes to like know the candidates. But you realistically can
find talking points of both candidates and what they stand
for or on their websites within ten to fifteen minutes
(15:02):
if you really care about omah, is that too much
to ask or listen to a fifteen twenty minute interview
I've done with these people ahead of this election?
Speaker 3 (15:10):
It matters.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
So with that being said, in me, you know, making
the people that didn't vote, sound like they don't care
about Omaha, which I'm not trying to do. But again,
it just seems to me like this is more important
than twenty five percent of the people out there caring
about it. What do you think we're gonna land that
this time? Do you think there's been enough advertising between
the television and the radio, the online stuff that I've
been seeing, between all of the different I guess movements.
(15:37):
I'm sure people are seeing the street signs the last
six weeks since the primary of the people that are
still in the race, what do you think, like, is
there an optimism that we're going to greatly improve upon
twenty five percent? And what does greatly improve? I guess
even mean, I want to think that it's gonna be
like thirty five forty, But even then, that's half of
(15:59):
what people were doing November. I mean, we're getting sixty
five to seventy percent turnout without a sweat in November.
But again, that's when you have all these national races
that people are getting bombarded with millions of dollars of advertising.
That's not what's happening here.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
It's timing. You know, I don't know the timing's weird.
It's weird for some reason. To me, it's weird time.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Yeah, But would you rather it happen now? Would we
just have to worry about this? Or it runs against
all the Senate races, the House races, the local amendments
that people are are having to vote on. The more
stuff on the ballot, the more reason people have to
go out. Yeah, but how much are you going to
know about these people?
Speaker 2 (16:37):
That's the problem, right, The more you put on the ballot,
the less likely people are going to know to really
know a whole lot about it.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Now, you got to cram like it's an exam.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
You have stuff at the city, the district, the state,
the national level that you have to like be crammed for,
and all you're seeing online is mostly national stuff. And
then you have commercials of like fifteen different races or
different causes that people want you to vote for on
the bat. I actually think it makes more sense to
have it right now, even if it's not what people
(17:04):
would call election season. But at least this is all
we have to think about. And the city council races, yeah,
but I mean that's two races depending on where you live.
Some of these districts don't even have a race, right,
There are a couple people out there. There are a
couple of candidates in the city council that have no
opponent in all of the cumbents but one one the primary,
and are likely, I would guess, to win their city
(17:27):
council seats. It's not like it's that. It's like we're
not talking like rocket science. It's not like you have
to learn a bunch of new people like you would
think in my district, you would think people know who
Danny Begley is. You would think they know if you
care about oh mah, you would think you would just
be at least kind of familiar with what he stands
for and.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Who he is.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Well, Danny bag of Bagels, I didn't say that. You
said I give people nicknames. Now that's my thing, and
that's fine. You don't live in his district, so you
can give them all the nicknames.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
That you want.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Hey, it's not it's a good nickname.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
I live in his district and he's Danny Begley for me.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
He's Danny bag of Bagels to me in all of my.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Friends, all right, what about Gene Stothart? Oh no, no,
all right, Well, what's the number?
Speaker 3 (18:06):
What do you think?
Speaker 1 (18:07):
We'll probably talk a little bit about this tomorrow, but
today's the day to get really hyped about it because
I want you to make plans. Not to lecture you,
but it'd be nice to see people go out and
support the city of Omaha by voting, and it'd be
interesting to see what that turnout would be if we
can motivate people to do so.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Make five ten minutes. I mean, it depends on how.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Far you are, but almost everybody's pretty tight to their
district and their voting spot.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
It's really not.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
That hard anyway. What's the number? Am I crazy for thinking?
Like thirty two? See?
Speaker 2 (18:39):
You don't want to go under and then it's over
and then you look like a pessimist, right, but we
were way over last time. Yeah, I got this weird
feeling now. Context is important, and it's important for people
to remember that I got none of it. So I'm
not a man with context right now. I'm kind of
swinging in the dark.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
You know, Well, we don't know who's going back in voting,
who's sitting it out, whom I be motivated to vote
and didn't vote in the primary. All this stuff is
a lot of varial, but can we get thirty two?
You think, how do I got.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
This weird feeling that it's not going to be great.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Like twenty seven?
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Yeah, I'll say twenty eight, you'll say twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
I'm gonna say thirty and a half thirty.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
But I'm wrong.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
I hope I'm also wrong and it's above me. But
I think I think between twenty eight and thirty is
probably a realistic outcome. Two thirty got more on the way.
Donald Trump had a pretty big weekend. We'll talk about
that on news radio eleven ten KFAB.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Emrie Songer on news radio eleven ten KFAB.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
At four o'clock he's talking to him and we're hoping
to get him at four thirty. Uh, no, are we
confirmed or we were hopeful?
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Well, teamwork makes the dream work unconfirmed at this point.
All right, but we're working on it.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Now again, and I want this to be hate. I
hate being this guy, but we have to be as
like transparent as possible. This author campaign asked us when
we were talking to him. We didn't have an answer
for them, not at that moment. No, So I mean
we and we told him that I did the best
that I could to be as fair as I possibly could.
(20:08):
But you know, we we we want people to have
equal time on this station. So I'm gonna be as
pointed and I'm going to talk. I do not want
I'm not going to ask John Ewing about Gene Douth.
I'm gonna ask Joan Youwing about what John Ewing wants
to do. From all that's the plan if I can
get him in here at four point thirty, and that's
what we're gonna do, okay, And I will do the
best that I can to try to dig in a
(20:29):
little bit if if you know, because the souther campaign,
they're one thing about John Ewing is that they have
not heard legitimate plans from him.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
So I don't know.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
We'll work on that. We'll let people know what the
plan is. Also, get the keyword and when that doesn't
mean that we're not we're stopping doing keywords here, but
when and I don't know. Man, it was a crazy weekend.
Donald Trump had a wild one. And I will talk
to you about this. I'm sending you I'm sending you
(21:00):
audio here real quick. But before we talk about that,
had some people send me emails as regards to voter
turnout and you know, maybe we should open the phones
for this and we'll get to the Trump stuff in
a second. Brian says that there's bill currently in the
legislature to align municipal elections with state election years instead
of presidential election years, and it needs to pass. The
(21:22):
whining and scolding of non voters about low vert turnout
otherwise continues.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Okay, so let's do state election years.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
So I guess what Brian is saying, is that incentive
like every four years us having it aligned with the
presidential race. It would be aligned with the state elections
and be a part of that. Does that fix the problem? Like,
are we talking like midterm? Are we talking about just
November on like odd years?
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Well, I think the biggest problem is when it is
you think, I think it's God, I'm so used to
elections happening in November.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Is it better? Though?
Speaker 1 (21:57):
If people are just voting, they know it's vote time,
so they're going to go vote, but still not have
any idea who these people are. If twenty five percent
of the people of Omaha know about these candidates and
know about their city council people, does that change because
we've changed the timing of the actual vote. Yeah, more
people may participate, but do the extra you know, fifteen
to twenty percent of people know more about the candidates
(22:19):
than they otherwise would have just because it's happening in November.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
That's my question.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
I know for a fact that people that are voting
right now know something about these candidates.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Yeah, nobody's going in there just because oh this is
what we do, you know exactly people are this. This
is an election for people who know what's going on.
I'm just saying, why don't more people know what's going on.
I'm not trying to shame. I'm just saying it's a
bit concerning to me. Or you had a good point
to break about turnout and why people may not be
(22:50):
super duper like into caring. I did. What did I say?
Speaker 3 (22:54):
What's happening in Omaha? What's the problem that we're facing
in Omaha? Oh?
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Well, yeah, yeah, there's not. And it's not like they're
usually it's kind of like everything's that's usually a sign
that everything's kind of kind of copathetic, everything's okay.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Like like if the street car was the hot button
issue of the primary.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Right, and if if we're really making such a big
stink about a streetcar, Like, come on, like a three
hundred and eighty million dollar street car.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
It's a lot of money, but they already have the
money accounted for. It's already like going, we couldn't come
up with something better to like argue about. And I
know the uing campaign is trying to, you know, say,
I'm gonna he's gonna fully staff the police department, and Okay, how.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
What are they?
Speaker 2 (23:38):
What's the stats on that? How many officers are we
short right now?
Speaker 3 (23:41):
It's like a hundred. That's a lot. It's a lot.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
But like what's happened to public safety in Omaha, it's
still trending the correct direction in everyone in the country theoretically.
I mean I came from the moint, who had even
a bigger percentage of shortage. Huh, you know what I mean,
Like it's just everywhere thing. So I don't know, right
like it wasn't anything to do with OMAHID think that
created it. I just think people don't want to be
police officers right now. You know how any police officers
(24:05):
we're supposed to have in Omaha, it's like nine hundred.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
It's a lot. And I think it's good.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
I want people to want to be police officers, but
to think that it's somehow an Omaha problem, that's just
not I mean two years ago I was in Des
Moines they have the exact same problem. So in the
police chief, for whatever it's worth, is endorsed the current mayor.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
So I don't know, random aside here, how far off
do you think we are from RoboCop? What if?
Speaker 4 (24:35):
The uh?
Speaker 2 (24:36):
What is it about ten percent shortfall in police officers?
We could just solve that by getting getting a bunch
of robo cops out there.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Yeah, I just don't think that's a good idea, although
you know it would be nice for the idiot firing
fireworks at ten pm last night, what on May eleventh
in my neighborhood, freaking my dogs out?
Speaker 4 (24:57):
What?
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Yes, I wouldn't mind. And I in the sky on
that one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm already I'm already on
about fireworks. It's May eleventh. Get a grip pal you
live in Exarbent anyway, Greg says the problem. I don't
think anybody in the media, specifically aske John Ewing about
sanctuary cities, well really don't know what. We really don't
know what he would do on that subject. If he
(25:19):
gets elected, maybe I can ask, uh, this came in
from Gene. When casting your vote tomorrow, ask yourself, is
Omaha in better shape since Mayor Stothart took office. I mean,
that's really the election, isn't it. If you think Omaha
is on the right trajectory and you like the leadership,
then Jeene Stott, there's probably your candidate. If you think
that there's something else that needs to be unlocked by
(25:41):
a new person or new leadership in the city council
or whatever, then maybe you go in a different direction.
Dave says, I'm slightly more optimistic than you. I'm thinking
thirty four percent. Probably wishful thinking, but it would be
nice to see that number. I agree. I'd like to
see that number, thirty four percent. I'd be doing backflips.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Joe says, I can't remember when I did not vote
in a primary or general election. However, in my district
incumbent for city council only, and since Mike McDonald is out,
I'm sitting out, and so is my wife. So Joe's
one of the sitouts, one of the McDonald's sitouts who
don't want to support Stouthard. Wow, Now see, I don't
like you are free to do whatever you want. If
your civic duty you think is best used by not participating, fine,
(26:24):
But if you don't have a preferred candidate, you just
don't like both of them enough to just not go
and vote. And again, this is not me trying to
be preachy. This is me trying to be as nice
as I can about it. I just think you you
lose your right to complain about the city at that point, Like,
there has to be a lesser of the two evils
from a person who doesn't like either candidate.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
At the very least, Joe, you could go in and
you could ride in a candidate like Mayor mccheese, and
enough people did, then the news would have to read
that Mayor mcchee got like zero point four percent of
the vote, and then that would entertain me. Think of me, Joe,
don't stay at home.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Yikes, Joe, I'd rather you stay home than right in
Mayor mccheese. We can't have Omaha zero point four percent
of Omaha voters voting for Mayor mccheese.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Are you serious?
Speaker 1 (27:12):
It's two forty nine just go ahead and turn the
phones on just in case people want to call in
about this. Four h two, five, five, eight to eleven ten.
I got some more emails too. On news radio eleven ten.
KFAB the midterm year basically, so the next gubernatorial election,
which would be twenty twenty six, So it would be
a midterm election and you would just have to worry
about mayor and city council and things of that nature,
(27:35):
and it would I think that would drastically improve turn out.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
I just don't know how much more.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Educated the people would be on those particular races that
all of a sudden you're competing with a lot of
other races that are very important at the time. And
I don't know. I just don't know if that exactly
solves the problem. Merle's on the line real quick. Merle,
thanks for calling in, man, what's going on?
Speaker 4 (27:55):
Hey, Mannie? Thanks for having me. I love this show.
You give a lot, you allow a lot feedback and
that's good.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Thanks appreciate that.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
Thinking about the mayor and utching tomorrow, k E TV
did a debate on TV a month or so ago,
and they had three BacT checkers there and they were
going to give the results at ten o'clock and the
debates at six, and I believe it was very respectful.
It was one of the most respectful, dignified debates I've
ever seen in my life. They did it right, and
(28:24):
the only thing that they didn't find factual I believe.
I'm trying to remember back was when they were talking
about the police force staffing and they both threw out
a lot of numbers, but I believe that John Ewing
his numbers were not correct. But he was talking about
staffing and things like that, we are understaff and they
stopped it. Did state that, however, some of the information
(28:45):
that was given by John Ewing I believe was not factual,
and that's what they found not to be factual when
it came to the back checks. They just wanted to
make that.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Yeah, I appreciate that. Meiral, do you remember if that
was the primary debate or was it just Stothard and.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Ewing that.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
Stop the doing?
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Okay, all right, I appreciate that. Merl thanks so much
for listening to the show and for calling in. Really
do appreciate it. Patrick also said he doesn't he gets turnout,
doesn't get over twenty three percent.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
He thinks it'll be lower. I was kind of leaning
that way too. I just didn't want to be so pessimistic,
he said.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
I truly hope I'm way low. But I don't see
a lot of enthusiasm. He's not like there's not a
lot of enthusiasm. But I think again, that might be
an indictment that like things just aren't there's not a
lot of fixing that needs to be done. I don't
know now if we do get John Ewing, and we're
trying to get him for four to thirty, so mark
your time and so you can get back to the
(29:41):
radio if you have to leave us. Four thirty is
when we're hoping to have him four thirty five or so.
I'll ask him about that. Again, he's a former police officer,
so I know that that's something near and dear to him.
But also this is what politicians do, people who are
trying to get into office. They say things that can
help their cause. So we'll see what he has to
say today, hopefully right here on news radio elevenon k
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