Property Taxes & Wildfires on Open Phone Line Friday

Property Taxes & Wildfires on Open Phone Line Friday

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Rick, what's on your mind?

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Hey, I'm just curious. Can you fly your flag at
full staff today?

Speaker 3 (00:06):
Actually, I think it's not until the twenty eighth, that
is a full staff. I think US flags are at
half staff for a month because of the death of
Jimmy Carter.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
So let me just check.

Speaker 4 (00:20):
The day funeral.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
But I wasn't sure.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
Yeah, yes, January twenty eighth, thirty days from the day
of his death, is when they go back up to
full staff.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Rick, Okay, that's what I need to know.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
Thank you, no problem, I have a good day. Thanks
for calling in. Yeah, good question. Good question. If you
have an American flag in honor of former President Jimmy Carter, Now,
until sunset on the twenty eighth of this month, you
fly your flag at half staff, and that is in
protocols with every single president as they pass away and

(00:56):
are honored. That's how we do that. So pretty interesting,
Pretty interesting. I would love to chat with you about
anything that's going on in the news. So while we
wait for people to tell us what you'd rather me
talk about, I will give us just a bit of
an update. And these fires in California, I'll be honest

(01:18):
with you, it's I mean, it's been an exhausting thing
to talk about at this point, mostly because we have,
you know, this political layer to it that people are
immediately trying to you know, kind of figure out not
just who is responsible, but how we can do better
in the future. And it's important to do that. It's

(01:41):
important to hold people accountable. But there are many people
who are you know, trying to be anti political when
they themselves are incredibly political when it's convenient for them.
You know, it's not a perfect comparison, but say when
you see mass shootings or school shootings, the political left

(02:03):
immediately runs and jumps and says, we need to do
something about guns. The Second Amendment needs to be looked at.
We need to figure out how we can be better off,
you know, protecting people by just not allowing guns to
be this accessible to people. And now they are the
exact same people who are telling us that we should

(02:23):
not be overtly politicizing these natural disasters or these wildfires.
I think that we shouldn't be politicizing any of it.
I'll be completely honest with you. It doesn't make a
whole lot of sense to me that, well, you know,
we try to do everything we can to make the
Democrats who are in charge of Los Angeles or California
and just make them look bad on top of them

(02:46):
already having to deal with this. When they get this
stuff figured out, they get the fire contained the best
that they can and they're working on that, then we
can talk about who is most responsible for this. We
talked about fire Chief Kristin Crowley and how she said
pretty plainly just a month ago and a memo to

(03:08):
the Mayor's office and city Council in Los Angeles that
the seventeen point six million dollars that you cut from
our budget has really affected us and our ability to
be able to pay for overtime hours, to pay for training,
to get ourselves prepared for different types of infrastructure that's
going to be highlighted. You can put a lot of
blame on the lack of interest in trying to figure

(03:32):
out what local resources are properly utilized or not utilized enough.
You know, we're hearing about these different what reservoirs that
may not have been properly utilized to prevent or to
fight these fires because they wanted to protect wildlife and
parts of the environment, which I think is you know,

(03:53):
I'm it's admirable that you want to protect the environment
in some way, maybe we need to talk about what
those priorities are, you know, because there are people who
are losing their lives, losing their homes, losing their businesses.
Was this in some way avoidable if we just decided
to prioritize certain things ahead of maybe certain environmental concerns.

(04:13):
That's a question that we'll need to get a full
answer on. If you go on any variety of news outlet,
they're going to tell you a different a different spin,
or a different angle on that. And then of course
you want to talk about who specifically is in charge
and who are the leaders and that is going to
be something that is I think important to important to

(04:36):
try to understand because in a state, in the county,
in a region that is so heavily led by liberal politics,
it has given a pretty unique opportunity for anybody who's
not a fan of liberal politics to go on the
offensive and say this is the kind of leadership you
get when you have people who are thinking about all

(04:59):
of the wrong things and trying to understand you know,
where they would be going in terms of trying to
prevent these types of things in the future. Would they
emit fault even if they were caught with their pants
down in some regards, I don't know. But with ten
at least ten people dead at this point, I think
we absolutely need to resolve this in a way that

(05:22):
we have a better understanding of why this happened and
what we can do to prevent it from happening in
the future. Got Jared on the phone line at four
h two five five, eight eleven ten, Jared, what's on
your mind today?

Speaker 5 (05:34):
I'm going to take serious exception to what you just
said about comparing gun violence and democrats speaking about gun
control over gun violence and environmental catastrophe and the ability
to prevent it. You can't possibly guns don't kill people.

(05:54):
People kill people, and the wildfires are preventable if they
would of Okay, clearing of.

Speaker 3 (06:01):
The for and all that, I think I think you're
misunderstanding what I said, Jared, and I understand what you're
coming from. I was talking literally only about the politicization
of this, literally only about there are people that are
bringing like a mass shooting happens, and the immediate reaction
by some people, specifically those on the political left in

(06:23):
that scenario is well, the Second Amendment is something that
we need to look at. We need to look at
better gun control. They immediately bring a political issue to
the table in response to a terrible situation that just happened.
And now they are the same people that are saying, well,
don't politicize this. This is a terrible tragedy, and you

(06:44):
politicizing it doesn't help anything. What I'm saying is it
shouldn't be politicized in the first place. Nothing neither one
of those things. I would argue, neither one of those things.
It's not constructive to be overtly political in response to
these things. As we're trying to underst and what exactly happened.
Partisan politics doesn't solve our problems. That's mostly what I'm

(07:05):
talking about here. I'm not trying to say that they're
one and the same in the way that the response.
I'm just saying that if if you don't want to
be political in the wake of a school shooting or
a mass shooting, or if you don't want to be
political in the wake of these natural disasters, then we
shouldn't be politicizing any disastrous event for any reason, is
my point, right, But the.

Speaker 5 (07:26):
Fact of The matter is is that our nation is politicized.
Everything we do revolves around politics these days, and comparing
gun control or gun violence, which is something that is
not necessarily it's a human condition, but at the same time,

(07:46):
a wildfire is a wildfire. Galvin Newsom could have taken
care of this whole situation five years ago if he'd
have done what he was told to do, but he
chose not to. You can't You can't convince every person
in the world to not to make gun violence, but
you can convince politician to do what's best for your area,

(08:09):
to protect your people that you were hired or elected
to protect. And he didn't do it. He didn't do
his job. And to say that to even remotely compare
gun violence to wildfires is ridiculous because you can't control
one person or.

Speaker 3 (08:28):
One Yeah, Okay, all right, all right, Jared, it's pretty
clear that you didn't call in to talk about the issue.
You called in to tell me that my comparison it
was wrong. Okay, I'm sorry. I'm sorry I even brought
it up, Jared, I really apologize.

Speaker 1 (08:42):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (08:42):
I hopefully you have a good rest to your Friday.
If it wasn't my intent to have that be the
debate we're talking about here. My intent was to try
to understand why people politicize one thing or another thing,
and why it's either you can't get mad at one
side politicizing things and then get you know, political yourself.
And Jared's right, everything is political here. I'm saying it

(09:03):
shouldn't be. I'm saying it shouldn't be, and Gavin Newsom
can just be a bad leader. It doesn't have to
be a Democrat versus Republican thing. And I don't want
to hear the Democrats tell the Republicans not to bring
politics into this when they bring politics into all this stuff.
But I'm also not advocating us getting political about this
and trying to make this a democratic leadership situation. It
very well may be Democrats in charge, but I don't

(09:24):
think these fires cared about whether it was a Republican
or a Democrat who was in charge of what was
going on there. That's all I was saying. But thanks
for the call. Anyway you want to call in, you
want to be a part of the show, It's an
open phone line. Friday four two five five eight to
eleven ten four h two five five eight to eleven
ten News Radio eleven ten kfab.

Speaker 6 (09:42):
Em Rys Songer on news Radio eleven ten.

Speaker 3 (09:44):
Kfab Alex on the line, Alex, it's on your mind today,
Good afternoon.

Speaker 7 (09:51):
One of the reasons that these things keep happening is
because no one is held coolly leggable for what they've done.
Number One, when you look at what government does, what
businesses do? You know, people pay fines, companies pay fines.
No one goes to jail. So when you look at,
for example, the forty some one billion dollars that were

(10:11):
allocated by the FEDS to build charging stations and they
built eight charging stations. The tens of billions that was
spent to build sixty thousand electric vehicles for the Post
Office and they build one hundred of them. Or when
you look at a company, I think it was PPG
for sure, but you see the movie Blackwater or Dark

(10:31):
Water where they invent teflon. They know it's poisoning people
by their own studies, and nobody goes to jail. You're
killing people and nobody goes to jail. So I want
to know what I hope is when a HAMBONDI gets
the hits the doj that they investigate where does the
money go? If you've allocated billions of dollars in New

(10:53):
Orleans for dykes and the dykes were never built, where
did the money go? If money was spent to California
to build reservoirs, the reservoirs, where did the money go?
Find out where the money went, find out who stole it,
and put their butts in jail.

Speaker 3 (11:07):
Yeah, I think, uh, you know, I just be a
little careful alex On. You know, uh how that it
like if you're if you've made a terrible decision as
a leader and it ends up creating a situation like
let's say southern California right now, I would be careful
about how much we're putting like, hey, you are criminally

(11:30):
negligent because you did this and this ended up happening.
Because there is some circumstances theoretically that if it's arson
by somebody else or anything of that nature. You know,
it might be a bit dangerous to weaponize the Department
of Justice, but there's no doubt that we need to
as as uh the American citizens. We have the ability
to decide who is and is not in power. And

(11:52):
I think this is a great indictment on the leadership
in California and southern California specifically, if the people who
live there don't realize that, hey, maybe there have been
things that are not done the right way, and maybe
they've misallocated some of the money that was supposed to
be in that seventeen point six million dollars they took
away from the fire department. Maybe we need to vote

(12:12):
for different leadership. And I'll be interested to see what
happens in the wake of this, because I can't imagine
that people are going to look at Gavenus in the
same way after this.

Speaker 7 (12:21):
Well, my point is when billions of dollars of federal
tax dollars or state tax dollars are allocated and nothing
is produced from it. Again, eight charging stations, you know,
eight billion dollars of charging station? Where did that money go?

Speaker 5 (12:36):
Where's that?

Speaker 7 (12:37):
Find out where it is and if you can't find it,
you put the people in Joe who took it.

Speaker 3 (12:41):
I'm with you, Alex. That good good stuff. I really
appreciate you calling in. Thanks for listening to us today.
Let's go ahead and go to Jacob Jacob's on our
phone line four two, five, five, eight eleven ten.

Speaker 1 (12:51):
What do you think, Jacob, Hey, what's up?

Speaker 8 (12:54):
Man?

Speaker 4 (12:55):
No, I'm just I'd be a little bit controversial here,
but I'm kind of watching all this a little spark
on my face every time they talk about these you know,
so called celebrities that's houses are turning down and they're gone,
and oh woe is me? Well, you know what, how
many of them were also saying, Oh, I'm going to

(13:16):
move out of the United States and Trump wins, Well,
now here's your chance. I don't have a home anymore.

Speaker 9 (13:22):
Yeah, you know these people.

Speaker 4 (13:27):
Now, you know, Biden came out and said, oh, we're
going to fully cover for ninety days all of this. Well,
how many of those folks were also cheering and calling
us the poor ribles?

Speaker 1 (13:41):
Yeah, yeah, Jacob failing them out?

Speaker 3 (13:43):
Yeah, Jacob, I don't I don't want to disagree with
where you're standing politically on a lot of this, because
I think you and I probably politically agree on more
than we don't agree on. But I'm I'm never going
to just I'm never going to be happy to see,
you know, certain areas get decimated by an natural disaster.
I mean, and there's a lot of non celebrities, even
if they are liberal.

Speaker 1 (14:04):
People goes so far.

Speaker 4 (14:07):
I think also the fact that they're calling it a
natural disaster is not accurate. Yes, it's a fire, Yes natural,
let's just call it that. But this is a presentable disaster.
I don't think that they're they're there. This is a
preventable disaster, So calling it a natural disaster in a

(14:27):
sense where a natural disaster, a hurricane, uh, a tornado,
those are natural disasters. This is a wildfire that's been
caused by negligence over time. That's not a natural disaster.

Speaker 3 (14:45):
Uh yeah, I mean, I guess it kind of depends
on when they figure out and they do the investigation
of what exactly started the fire.

Speaker 10 (14:54):
I mean there's I think that's that's a mood point
the start of it isn't you know, a fire can
be started and easily put out, or more easily put
out than it has been.

Speaker 4 (15:08):
Yeah, measures are place.

Speaker 3 (15:10):
Yeah, we definitely we And I don't disagree with that.
I think we've done a you know, I think people
are doing a good job of trying to recognize what
isn't and being done to help prevent this. But as
soon as one starts in this region, and there's one
hundred mile an hour winds in the Santa Ana wind Tunnel.
Things that go on in southern California that certainly didn't
help either. Jacob. I appreciate your thoughts on this. Thanks

(15:33):
for calling us. Have a good weekend. Let's jump to
John real quick. John's on a phone line four h
two five five, eight to eleven ten. John, what's on
your mind?

Speaker 8 (15:42):
Hey God, I want to agree with you somewhat again because,
like I said, you speak with a lot of logic
and good sense. But that's why I listened to this
station as a Democrat and as an African American and Omaha, Nebraska,
because I need to understand what people are saying, how
they're saying it, and why they're saying it. And I mean,

(16:03):
it is really appalling. And I know everybody have an opinion.
I respect that, but that's why I say I listen
to your stations in the morning and now, because it's
a real sick people's here Nebraska, man, sick people, and
I don't know if we got enough doctors to take
care of them, all, enough medicine to take care of
all that's fire that happened in California. And like I said,

(16:26):
this is just my opinion. Everybody got one. That's pride
that happened in California. That was nothing a Republican, Democrat, independent,
and no one could have done when you have one
hundred miles an hour winds blowing that fire and I
don't care. People need to look at that what it
was burning that on the ground. They talk about the

(16:48):
didn't want there and clear that that stuff is weeds.
That stuff is bushes that ain't no trees that you
go out there and logged down and cut down the
hall the way that is just weeds and tumbleweeds and
stuff that's California that was desert and don't I just
don't understand logical people. And now they want to laugh
and criticize and talk about moving out of the state. Man,

(17:09):
we got some sick people here, yes, and I know
you try to do everything you can to bring them
back down to earth, but you're not doing a good
job at it because they.

Speaker 11 (17:19):
Are really well.

Speaker 1 (17:20):
John.

Speaker 3 (17:21):
I don't know if it has anything to do with
me specifically, is like I just feel like I'm not
willing to take those steps to wish harm on or
be okay with areas like this.

Speaker 1 (17:31):
But but but people.

Speaker 3 (17:32):
But but John, just like you are pretty convicted in
the way that you think about these things and how
you feel. People have their own opinions about this stuff,
and we know that you know that there are some
preventative measures that the leadership in California did actively decline
to take on, and they did take seventeen Give me, John, John, John,

(17:57):
if we're going to do this, John, you gotta let
me talk.

Speaker 8 (18:00):
Like, but I'm saying, you said that was two reasons.
So y'all got all these experts, tell me two reasons
that they could have did that they could have stopped this.

Speaker 3 (18:07):
Fact, I didn't say they could stop the fire when
it got started, John. And I'm not trying to tell John,
do I have to hang up? Do I have to
hang up? Because well, yeah, I wish I just want
to talk to you, like like have a good conversation.

Speaker 12 (18:20):
You're not.

Speaker 3 (18:21):
You don't want to have a conversation. You just want
to talk when you want to talk. I need to
talk if we're gonna have a conversation. So what I'm
saying is, I'm not saying I've been telling people about
the wind conditions and they're dangerous wind conditions and they've
been dry in southern California for the better part of
eight months. We get red flag warnings in this area
when we've been super dry and there are high winds,

(18:42):
because if somebody decides to try to burn something, or
you know, there's a small flame from an outside candle
or a cigarette or something, it can create a fire
hazard and it becomes very difficult to contain. I'm not
saying that you were going to prevent the start of
this fire, and we don't even know exactly what started it.
All I'm saying is there are things specifically like the

(19:05):
Los Angeles Mayor and the city council taking away seventeen
point six million dollars of the budget from.

Speaker 1 (19:10):
The fire department.

Speaker 3 (19:11):
There are reservoirs that we're being reported and told. I
don't know much about the reservoir thing that the Republicans
keep talking about, but there are apparently reservoirs that they
were not allowed to run that water down to southern
California for fear of contaminating water sources for certain species
of fish. And then we're hearing about the underbrush that

(19:31):
could healthily be cleared in different times of the year
when you don't have these high winds that could prevent
this type of outbreak of a wildfire if it were
to begin. And that's I think what people are saying
with this leadership is none of those things were properly addressed,
and now we're seeing what happens when that isn't taking
care of properly. You're seeing people pass away, You're seeing

(19:54):
tens of thousands of buildings being burned to the ground
in highly populated areas. I think people just want some
one to be held accountable for not paying close enough
attention to what could happen.

Speaker 8 (20:04):
Do you respect the leadership of Republicans our Democrat in
California when they put everything together and they tell you
about the reservoir, they tell you about why the seventeen
million dollars would cut from the fire department budget, just
like the mayor here cut means and means a dollar
from anywhere if she need to do that to make
his meat, to get taxed reserves. So I mean, let's

(20:27):
just wait till we see the final report from anybody.
I don't care if damn stay Republicans, Democrat, immigrants, but
let's just wait, man. People have lost their livelihood, have
lost their lives and we got foods calling in there
talking this foolishness. That's what I'm saying, Emma, this is crazy.

Speaker 3 (20:46):
I'm with you, John, and I appreciate calling him buddy.
You have a good weekend. I got to move on.
But fundamentally I agree with him. We can get to
the political nature of this and start holding people accountable,
specifically if and when we learn more about the facts
after we get this stuff contained. I don't disagree with
that at all. It's two thirty News Radio eleven ten kfab.

Speaker 6 (21:07):
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Speaker 3 (21:14):
Dirk's on the line. Dirk, Welcome to the show today.
What's on your mind?

Speaker 13 (21:17):
Yeah, Well, first of all, I just want to make
one quick comment about your last.

Speaker 2 (21:20):
Caller there, John.

Speaker 1 (21:22):
Okay.

Speaker 13 (21:22):
I thought it was kind of different when he came
on and announced, you know, that he was a Democrat whatnot.

Speaker 2 (21:27):
But he really didn't have to.

Speaker 13 (21:28):
Do that because when he wouldn't let you state your
opinion after stating his, he just proved he was. So Yeah,
moving on my call. I just I'm driving through Kansas
right now and I was listening and I heard the
deal about the lady who's toddler died from the fentanyl
and she got sentenced to five years probation.

Speaker 8 (21:52):
Yeah, okay, yeah.

Speaker 13 (21:55):
But there they've got the Uh. Evidently the I don't
know if he's a dealer, you're a family member, what
he was, but evidently he was a person that got
the fentanyl to the mother and he's facing twenty years
in prison manmatory sentence.

Speaker 14 (22:11):
It seems seems to think something's wrong with this.

Speaker 3 (22:15):
It definitely seems like we need to do something about
fittinel in these very dangerous drugs. But I feel like
our rules are so backwards in some cases, Like we
think so much about, you know, penalizing the people who
are peddling them, and that's fair and everything, but we
also should be penalizing the people that are irresponsibly purchasing

(22:35):
these things, using these things, and then putting their potential miners, children,
young people, toddlers in danger by just having this around.
I'm one hundred percent with you, Derek. We need to
refigure out some of this stuff because our priorities are
in different spots.

Speaker 13 (22:51):
Yeah, I mean, that's that's exactly what I'm saying. I
mean by this, by their logic on this whole deal.
It's like, do you like to compare mass shootings to deals, well,
like putting the shooter on probation and putting the guy
that sold in the bullets in prison.

Speaker 3 (23:04):
Yeah, it doesn't make a lot of sense, does it.
It's a good point, Derek, I'd love Yeah. I appreciate
you bringing that up though. That's a really important thing.
We need to get our legislation figured out on those
dangerous drugs like fentanyl, for sure. Derek, thanks for listening.
Have a good weekend. Let's go to Will on our
phone line of four two, five, five, eight to eleven ten. Will,
what's on your mind?

Speaker 15 (23:24):
Hi, Hemery, thanks for taking my call. I want to
fall up on the call that Alex made on trying
to keep track of the money that goes out for
assisting the billions and billions. Two days ago, the assessment
of the fire out in California was twenty billion, and
then the next day Joe said, we want to cover
one hundred percent of everything. Well, it wasn't even twelve

(23:46):
twelve hours after that, another assessment came in that said
the assessment for the fires was one hundred and fifty billion,
And I said, wait a minute, how can you go
be off by one hundred and twenty billion dollars. And
I know it's early and there's a lot going on
and a lot of unrest out there right now, but
you can just you can you can hear it, you know,

(24:09):
just because the White House is saying, hey, we want
to cover one hundred percent, everybody's instantly assessiny everything differently.

Speaker 3 (24:18):
Yeah, and I think fundamentally I understand our capitalistic nature,
but we also have to figure out what did these
insurance companies know before they pulled out in twenty twenty four,
you know, like they pulled out of this area for
a variety of different reasons. I think it's infrastructure. I
think it might have something to do with leadership or
just a lack of attention of detail when it comes

(24:39):
to fire prevention and so these insurance companies, plus you
know how the government is responding. Plus I think we
need to pay attention as to who's going to buy
up this land that all of a sudden has been
decimated and is you know worth any's on the dollar
compared to what it was. Who's going to be buying
that and what are they going to do with it?
I think all of this stuff is related. Will I
really do Uh.

Speaker 16 (24:59):
Yeah, that's interesting perspective.

Speaker 1 (25:01):
Thanks for calling in. Well, really do appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (25:04):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (25:05):
Don's on our phone line of four or two, five, five,
eight to eleven ten. Don, what are you thinking about?

Speaker 17 (25:10):
I'll good afternoon. I heard news that the Insurance Commissioner
of California has has implemented a moratorium on insurance companies
canceling or non renewing any policies. And if I was
living anywhere in California, I would be freaked out because

(25:32):
what's going to happen is it's going to become impossible
at any price to buy insurance in the state. Insurance companies.
I'm a former insurance agent. Insurance companies are in business
to make a profit, and if they see that, they're
just going to get absolutely hammered. They're going to just
say no. Moss Rout in California, even when I started

(25:53):
in insurance over forty years ago, was having issues with
companies being able to stay and because of the regulation,
and this could be the deathinite. It could be just
impossible insue there. I don't know what the people are
going to do. I mean, it can make the state
uninhabitable the whole state. Well, what are you going to
do without being able to getting the sut right?

Speaker 3 (26:12):
But that's the thing, don Does that trigger kind of
a political shift for how people view California and the
way that it's being led, because I mean, we've if
you go back, you know, even thirty years, there's been
a lot of political shifting that's happened. We see California
as this incredibly liberal place, and there are pockets that are,

(26:34):
but I feel like there's a lot of places that
we don't, you know, pay close enough attention to that
actually do vote read a lot of the time, and
they have Republicans that are representing I would wonder this
obviously suther in California. I don't anticipate the way that
they operate or the way that those people live, But
I think this is the kind of thing that it's
too close to home for too many people, quite literally,

(26:55):
and I think they're going to have a lot of
questions for their liberal leadership and what they can do
to prevent things like this from happening in the future,
and that may trigger a shift in the way that
the Democrats have to think about their environmental rules or
any of the regulations that we talk about, because the
number one thing, like you mentioned is if you can't
get insurance in this area where it literally has wildfires
every single year, then why are you living there? That

(27:17):
sounds like such a dumb idea.

Speaker 17 (27:18):
So it could be a state wide issue, though it
could be when you're in a state like California, if
you have insurance companies that say, if the commissioner is
going to say you have to insur in this area,
they're going to just say, Okay, we're gone, We're out
of the state, and there's nothing, nothing that the insurance
commissioner can do to keep them and make them stay there.
They're just going to say goodbye. And then when that happens,

(27:42):
then then it's the game all over. I mean that
it's going to make the state almost uninhabitable.

Speaker 3 (27:46):
Yeah, I'm with you, Don, That's it's a good point.
We'll see what kind of happens in the fallout of this.
Appreciate the call. Don You have a good, good weekend.
Anybody else want to call in call us so it's
an open phone line Friday. Anything that's on your mind.
Four two five, five eight, eleven ten four two five
five eight eleven to news Radio eleven ten.

Speaker 6 (28:01):
Kfab Andries on news Radio eleven ten kfab.

Speaker 1 (28:07):
David, Welcome to the show today. What's on your mind?

Speaker 18 (28:10):
Oh, Emory, thank you for taking my call. These people
that are calling in worrying about you know what these
people in California you're going to do with their insurance
and their premiums and what FEMA or federal government whichever
one you want to call, you know, are going to
do well.

Speaker 19 (28:29):
Emory.

Speaker 18 (28:29):
About seven years ago there was a flood and I
had five foot of water outside my house and three
and a half foot inside my house.

Speaker 1 (28:41):
That's not good.

Speaker 18 (28:42):
The insurance company basically said, I have no insurance because
that was an act of God. Nothing I could do
about it, the Nebraska insurance thing and Lincoln couldn't do
nothing about it. And then the next year my homeowners
in insurance doubled.

Speaker 12 (29:03):
So and.

Speaker 3 (29:06):
Did they like explain, like would flood insurance like a
separate thing? I guess they exactly. So you had to
pay more to have the flood insurance coverage is what
they're saying.

Speaker 18 (29:17):
Did not have to I do? Okay, you know, so
it is one of those things that I chose. I
lost now I'm not going to lose again. I go
ahead and pay that double premium, which you know it's
above two grand a year, and that's still cheaper than

(29:39):
what I had to pay to put it back into shape,
you know.

Speaker 2 (29:43):
And you know so.

Speaker 18 (29:46):
I don't think it's the insurance company's fault. These people
have that option, right and if they choose not to.
I don't see where we need to shed a tear
except for this year, are Ensured premiums went up and
the reason for that was the DEBS devastation. Excuse me,

(30:09):
I'm sorry, the devastation in the South and southeast.

Speaker 1 (30:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 18 (30:15):
Right, they raised our premiums to help pay for that loss.
Now we do have a complaint because our premiums are
going to go up to pay for what that One
gentleman just say that that he heard it's one hundred
and forty billion.

Speaker 3 (30:32):
And coverage from the federal government.

Speaker 5 (30:35):
Yeah exactly.

Speaker 18 (30:38):
You know that went from twenty billion to one hundred
and twenty billion more right. Yeah, we're going to have
pay for that.

Speaker 3 (30:46):
Yes, I'm going to have to, you know, And I'm
with you, David. I guess I'm interested to see like
how that lines up in what you know, uh kind
of jurisdiction in the federal government has to say that
they'll help pay for that. I mean, where does that
even come from?

Speaker 20 (31:00):
Right?

Speaker 3 (31:00):
I mean, how does one person or one group of
people decide on what is covertable on a one hundred
percent level versus not being and what the same thing
have been You know, if that same thing happens in
Arizona or Texas, is it handled the same way as
it's being handled in California. I guess we're gonna have
to find out once they get these things, uh, you know,

(31:21):
under control.

Speaker 18 (31:22):
Let me add to that, Now, what's that flood we
had seven years ago? Federal government did step up? Uh,
FEMA come in and I qualified for a low insert level.

Speaker 7 (31:37):
To help rebuild, Okay.

Speaker 18 (31:39):
But I'm paying that back sure, you know, so you
know that maybe that's where where uh I gotta say
this sight Fiden Uh, maybe that's where he's coming from.
He's going to give authority to FEMA to give these
people the hundred percent option.

Speaker 3 (31:56):
Right, but but then right interest they would eventually pay
back if they had control of the land. Yeah, I
don't know, that's interesting, David. Thanks for sharing that story
with us. I definitely think that that's important.

Speaker 18 (32:10):
One more quick one for sure, you yep, hurry up.
I just want to say to you, make your best
day of two thy twenty four, Emory efore your worst
day of two thy twenty five. Keep up the good
work by Briton.

Speaker 3 (32:25):
Thanks buddy, Ditto to you as well. Really appreciate you
calling in, David.

Speaker 1 (32:28):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (32:30):
Yeah, I I've not had, thankfully to this point, a
major disaster happened to my property or my house, so
I wouldn't even begin to know exactly how that works
from a you know, personal experience. If you do, though,
and you'd like to chat with us, we do have
an open phone line today, open phone line Friday. Call
us at four oh two five five eight eleven ten.
Four oh two five five eight eleven ten. Everything's on

(32:52):
the table right here on news radio eleven ten. Kfab
anything that's on your mind. Four oh two five five
eight eleven ten. Is that number four oh two eight
eleven ten. And we'll start with Lewis on the line. Lewis,
welcome to our show today. What are you thinking about?

Speaker 21 (33:06):
Thank you e.

Speaker 22 (33:06):
Marine for taking my call. I just have two observations.
My heart goes off to the people in California, and
I'm really concerned about the fact if they want to
move back to their areas, the supply chain is all
screwed up. I hear contractors telling us all the time
that they can't get things, there's a delay. The supply
chain is going to take them forever to get everything

(33:28):
they need to rebuild. The second thing is Trump is
going to have a problem, I think with the supply
line because of the we don't have any merchant marine.
We have less than one hundred ships that can carry
things across the ocean. So I think that's an area
that needs to be looked at. The merchant marine and

(33:48):
the supply chain issues.

Speaker 8 (33:50):
Yeah, thank you taking my call.

Speaker 1 (33:52):
Yeah, no problem, Lewis. Those are good things too. You know.

Speaker 3 (33:54):
Sometimes there's just some things that kind of get lost
into the cracks when we talk about this on a
macro level. But that's really important, I think on both
of those fronts, to keep an eye on what's going
to be done, especially when the new.

Speaker 1 (34:06):
Regime takes over in ten days.

Speaker 3 (34:07):
BET's on our phone line at four two, five, five,
eight eleven ten and welcome Beth.

Speaker 1 (34:11):
What's on your mind?

Speaker 23 (34:12):
I appreciate you. I'm Mary first of all, and giving
me a voice. I thought about it and it was
open line. I know that the news covers a lot
of things that are in the news, but they don't
cover a lot of things that they don't want to
talk about, or that maybe it's not out there. And
I want to talk about what Nebraska is doing. So

(34:37):
it's kind of like and what goes on in Nebraska,
and I don't think we I don't think we're talking
enough about that. So I just want to say that
I am I was born and raised here in Nebraska,
and I am a victim of electronic weaponry and it's
not in the news much or anything like that. And

(35:00):
I do have a story and I'm just putting it
out there because it's not right what happened to me.
It's not right what somebody did to me.

Speaker 1 (35:12):
Can you explain more about what that was?

Speaker 23 (35:14):
And it's sure, And I think that that guy had
it right that was talking about we don't know where
all the money goes, because what happened to me had
to have been funded by somebody that had a lot
of money.

Speaker 1 (35:27):
Okay, so what happened, well.

Speaker 23 (35:30):
If you ever hear thrumming, like you better get out
of the way of that that happened to me where
I was living. And what it is, it's very hypnotic
and it's the start and so you're kind of listening,
You're wondering why that noise is coming true and I

(35:51):
don't know it. It's a method of way that they
hook onto you because it's microwave energy and it gets
and it goes through your brain like through your bones,
not through your ear. And then and then what they
do is then first they do the thrumming with this machine,

(36:13):
and then what they do is they start doing low
grade hurts frequencies okay, and they target it just right
at your brain, and then you start it's like a radio.
It would be like having a radio that you wouldn't
be able.

Speaker 1 (36:29):
To shut off, okay.

Speaker 19 (36:30):
So then you have perfect You have these passers, these
harassers who will start, you know, sending information or talking
to you and make it sound like you're crazy.

Speaker 23 (36:44):
So you don't talk to anybody because you're like, what
what is happening?

Speaker 3 (36:48):
Sure, well, I guess do you know anyone else that's
had this happen to them locally?

Speaker 23 (36:53):
I have done, Okay, So after it happened to me.
It was really really, really bad, okay, And I didn't
talk about it until I eventually had to reveal it.
And someone did go and get some information to me
off of the internet about the Fry effect, because this

(37:14):
kind of goes back with the CIA. And I started
reading some of this information, you know about mind controlling stuff,
and so I said, yeah, this kind of sounds like
what happened. And then but then what I did is
I turned the tables on them a little bit. They're
what I did to them, And this is going to

(37:37):
sound kind of crazy, but I played the sound of
music like seven hours and one day.

Speaker 1 (37:45):
Okay.

Speaker 23 (37:45):
And one of the people that were on the other
end of this, that's what nobody talks about. Nobody talks
about the technology that's here. You think that you can
take frequencies and send them to our cell phone, but
if they target you with this technology, they can send
frequencies right to your brain and your b and it

(38:08):
vibrates that it comes true. Okay, So then they can
write so this is.

Speaker 1 (38:12):
What is Yeah, well, Beth, that's is Yeah.

Speaker 23 (38:17):
Brast doesn't want to acknowledge, okay. And and and it's
happening in this country.

Speaker 9 (38:26):
And if you if you.

Speaker 3 (38:27):
Google it, yeah, I'll look into it, Beth. I want
to get to some other calls here. But that's a
that's a pretty crazy thing. Thank you so much for listening, Beth,
and I really appreciate you for being a part of
our show today. That's I mean, I I'll listen to
what she has to say on that.

Speaker 1 (38:45):
That's that's pretty crazy. I mean, that's a I wow.

Speaker 3 (38:49):
I mean, I've heard some things, but to see here
that somebody concerned that is happening to them locally. I'm
just happy that Beth is comfortable sharing that with us today.
I really appreciate you. George's on our phone line on
the phone line of four two, five, eight to eleven ten, George,
what's on your mind today?

Speaker 12 (39:06):
Hey?

Speaker 11 (39:06):
Brother?

Speaker 12 (39:07):
And just my opinion, all insurance companies are absolute out
and out thieves. That's just the way they are. They
don't want to pay for nothing. I have several friends
that had surgeries approved by an insurance company, had the
surgery and then they disapproved it. I'm going, how is
this even possible? You call the Insurance Commission in Lincoln.
There's really nothing we can do about it, and one

(39:28):
of the ladies got a twenty four thousand dollars bill
after they had approved it. But here's my stupid little story.
My car was broken into twenty years ago. They stole
my golf clubs, kids, baseball bats, some gloves. Graham told
of about twenty five hundred bucks. So the insurance man
comes to my house and he goes, well, the golf
club's are eighteen months old, the baseball bat's a year old. Well,

(39:52):
we're going to give you a check for four hundred
and thirty two dollars. I looked at him, like what
he goes, Yeah, he goes. You know, it's you stuff
a lot of data. Data, dude. I played golf once
a week. I spent twenty two hundred dollars. Well, that's
not our problem. So about five years later, my car
was broken into again in a parking lot.

Speaker 1 (40:10):
Uh huh.

Speaker 12 (40:10):
By the time I was done filling out the list
of the stuff in my car, I had thirty seven
thousand dollars worth of stuff in it. Not everything, but
a washer and dryer in my car. So I got
even with him. But I mean, it's just the out
and out thing. You shouldn't have to do that.

Speaker 3 (40:25):
Yeah, and that's this goes back to kind of the
Luigi Mangioni and the United Healthcare CEO thing where a
lot of people are just like, I have no sympathy
for anybody, and that's higher up in insurance because they
screw us all the time. And I don't know how
to solve that problem. George, I'll be honest with you,
but it's interesting to hear to hear this.

Speaker 12 (40:45):
Here's what I come to find out. You know, say
your car insurance is one hundred and thirty two dollars
a month, you know, on a newer car. Yeah, you
haven't had any recks. About sixty four dollars of that
every month is going to pay it the guy that
sold you the insurance. It's not a one time deal.
He's getting paid for as long as you're there. Interesting,
half of your bill is going to give this guy.

(41:06):
I'm going like, that's how an insurance man sells their
book of business, you know, for a couple million bucks.

Speaker 2 (41:11):
Sure, because he's got I go, this.

Speaker 12 (41:14):
Is just wrong in term companies. I got no problem
with the company paying. There are people good and making
a little bit of a profit to keep running.

Speaker 15 (41:20):
But in church.

Speaker 12 (41:21):
Companies are making billions and billions and tens of billions
of dollars off the backs of people just to give
their employees bonuses and great faith. You know, I don't
have a problem with a guy making a million dollars
a year. I don't have a problem with guy making
five million dollars a year. I got a problem a
guy making twenty five million dollars a year when it's
all coming out of the pocket for the people in

(41:41):
the country.

Speaker 1 (41:42):
It's a good point, George.

Speaker 3 (41:43):
Yeah, and then you see stuff like not wanting to
cover the people in California for a variety of different reasons.
It's difficult to understand that industry, that's for sure. I
appreciate the call, buddy, thanks for listening to it. Let's
go to Christy. Christy's on our front line. Four O
two five, five, eight eleven ten. Hey Christy, what's on
your mind today?

Speaker 15 (41:59):
I just want need it. No, I think you're one
of the kindest posts that I've ever heard on the radio.

Speaker 1 (42:03):
Oh, thank you, Thanks so much.

Speaker 6 (42:05):
That a tough phone call.

Speaker 23 (42:06):
You took a couple of go and I just think
you were very kind, and.

Speaker 15 (42:12):
That's all.

Speaker 6 (42:12):
It's very kind.

Speaker 3 (42:13):
Well, thank you, Chrissy, thanks for calling and letting me
know that you have a great weekend, and thanks for
listening to us. Yeah, I appreciate that. I try to
be as nice as I possibly can't say anybody who
calls in you. But sometimes, you know, if you start
coming and challenging me, and you know, maybe misquoting me,
or don't want to talk with me, you want to

(42:33):
talk over me, well sometimes I can get a little
bit riled up. I can't rule that out. Dave's on
our phone line four two, five, five, eight eleven ten.
What's say you, Dave?

Speaker 2 (42:43):
Hey, Emory, how's it going. I got a few things
here written down. I'll read them off to you. Advice
for the people in California. Okay, first of all, First
of all, my fall in law, total years ago, the
most important thing in life is water. I think they
realize that now too, don't they. A yeah, okay, Then
you gotta clear all your dead brush of the forest.
That should be an annual deal. No dead brush, that's

(43:04):
fuel for the fire. Then fill all the reservoirs, build
more reservoirs. Then catch all your runoff water. Everybody, even homeowners.
I have a thousand gallons on hand at all time.
In the summer, I got two hundred and fifty gallon
barrels under my gutters. It takes about a thirty forty
hundreds rain and they're full. So I water all my flowers,

(43:26):
all my garden, everything with rain water. Then when they
start building back in California, toment walls, cement houses and
metal roofs.

Speaker 1 (43:37):
Yeah, nothing that burns for sure.

Speaker 2 (43:39):
Yes, fiberglass or asphalt roofs and the wood roofs they
catch fire immediately. The metal ropes, the mail walls, and
you know, the city planning and some of the zoning,
they got to put up fire brakes like they used
to in the fifties they had fire breaks and things
like that. They got rid of all that stuff. So

(44:00):
we've got to get people with comment sense, don't you think.

Speaker 3 (44:02):
Yeah, one hundred percent, Dave, And I think sometimes you
have to just learn some painful lessons as to where
your shortcomings are coming. And you can't take some of
this stuff for granted. I appreciate you for being a
part of the show, Dave, thanks for calling.

Speaker 8 (44:13):
In you bet, thank you.

Speaker 24 (44:14):
Mitt.

Speaker 3 (44:15):
Let's go ahead and take a break. We'll come back
We'll take more phone calls. Open foll line Friday. Anything
on your mind? Four two five five eight eleven ten
four two five five eight eleven ten It's news Radio
eleven ten Kfab.

Speaker 6 (44:26):
Emery sung on news Radio eleven ten Kfab.

Speaker 25 (44:31):
Thank you for the opportunity. I am calling because of
how unsecure the schools are, and our counties and our
states don't seem to be as concerned as they should.
You look at the news and how many tragedies we've had,
but they're not doing anything about it in the schools

(44:54):
that could be done and should be done.

Speaker 3 (44:56):
Yeah, And I talked about this, I think what was
the last the school shooting that we heard about at Madison, Madison, Wisconsin,
you know, and every time it comes up, it just
feels like, you know, And I went to my wife's
been six, so I went to the orphium with one
of my friends. But she's a school counselor, so I,
you know, got a chance to kind of pick her
brain a little bit on some of this stuff.

Speaker 1 (45:17):
And it's crazy. She talks about the security from.

Speaker 3 (45:20):
One school to the other, like the one school that
she worked at, uh based on where it was located
and who was you know, going to it kind of
the demographic, there were uh controlled entrances, and there was
you know, like a kind of a metal detector situation
when you walk into the to the school. And then

(45:41):
she started going to another school in a completely different
area and there's none of that stuff. You know, it's
just a key card. If you don't have a key card,
you can't get in. Theoretically, you have to have the
key card to open the door during school hours, but
if you wanted to like break a window or break
through that door, I mean, like what's going to stop
you from doing that?

Speaker 8 (45:58):
Right?

Speaker 3 (45:59):
So I maybe we just need to, like, I don't know,
standardize some of that stuff because I think it's it
costs money. But if there's anything I think our communities
will be willing to invest in, it's to make sure
that our schools are as secure as they possibly can be.
And if that's hiring people to be watching the doors,
if it's being able to invest in the technology to

(46:20):
be able to detect stuff that shouldn't be in schools
coming into schools, I think we should be willing to
do that.

Speaker 25 (46:26):
I have volunteered to do that for my daughter's school,
and I was just told that they would get.

Speaker 1 (46:32):
Back to me, of course, right.

Speaker 3 (46:34):
I'm sure that they even jottedge A down a note
or something and just to make you away.

Speaker 1 (46:39):
But Gene, I'm with you.

Speaker 3 (46:41):
I think that that's one thing that we as a
society an entire country, could do for our schools and
help protect our kids. So I one hundred percent agree
with you. Thanks for calling in today.

Speaker 25 (46:51):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (46:52):
Yeah, that's a great topic. I'm totally always willing to
talk about that and what it takes to get us
in a where we can be saved, no doubt, no doubt.
Now you can also be a part of our conversations
if you go onto the free iHeartRadio app. If you
click on eleven ten kfab, there's a you can listen

(47:12):
to a slide. But there's the thing called talkback at feature,
which is a little microphone button that you click on
and then you can record up to thirty seconds of
your own audio to talk about whatever's on your mind.
And if we like the audio, we may end up
playing it as part of our show today. So we
got this talk back about what we were talking about
earlier in California.

Speaker 11 (47:33):
Maybe it's time for the movement to separate the state
of California from the state of Jefferson in northern California.

Speaker 3 (47:43):
Uh yeah, I mean based on I mean, it would
be an easier fix if you had different jurisdictions splitting that,
And I think that's big. That's the larger point that
I think that talkback is mentioning is mostly trying to

(48:09):
if there is like most of northern California in you know,
certain spots of California are you know, read they are
conservative voters, and southern California where a lot of this
stuff is happening and where you see a lot of
you know, the conversations about these wildfires, it's mostly blue
and very blue, very liberal. Right, So with that benefit, sure, maybe,

(48:32):
but there are a lot of benefits to what southern
California has in what they're kind of able to produce
as a part of that state that does still in
terms of the resources, do benefit other places throughout the
entire state of California. So I don't know if it's
as much as easy as just saying, hey, we think
that this might be something we need to pay closer

(48:55):
attention to. But you know what, I'm sure that's not
the only person that is interested in talking about that.
As part of that perspective. Let's go to the phone
lines again. We got Dave on the line at four, two, five, five, eight,
eleven ten. Welcome to the show, Dave. What's on your mind?

Speaker 26 (49:11):
Oh, I'm afraid Trump might they might attempt to assassinate
him again, because they did it to Kennedy, Kennedy's and
Martin Luther King the I think the government was behind
all that myself.

Speaker 1 (49:25):
But would why would they do that and what would
be the motivation?

Speaker 26 (49:30):
I guess, Dave, because Trump wants to drain the swamp.
He wants to change all the all the things that
go on in the swamp. I think people want that
to happen. So are the powers that are in control
they don't want Trump to do that.

Speaker 3 (49:51):
Yeah, I mean there's certainly people that are out there
that are going to feel threatened by the presence of
somebody who's willing to flip tables and you know, try
to get people who are sticking with the status quo
out of the game. But Dave, I just not to
say that it's impossible, because anything is possible. I mean,
somebody tried to take a twenty year old try to
take him out at a event just you know, six

(50:14):
months ago. But I just want to alleviate maybe some
of your worries. They didn't the government when he had
less popularity and less control and less of a convicted
victory in twenty sixteen, when he won, there wasn't that
kind of effort to eliminate him like that. And based

(50:35):
on anything that we have seen with the indictments and
him being you know, put on trial and all this stuff,
it seems like his support actually grows with each and
every one of those things that happened. So I think
it would be a massive backfire for anybody who decided
that they wanted to do that, especially if it was
somebody from the inside, and I would highly doubt that

(50:55):
that's going to take place, especially considering it would just
probably give the Republicans more ammunition part of the pun
because they'll still be in full control if they decided
to do that, and they would just be like, Okay,
well now it's time to just.

Speaker 1 (51:09):
Push our agenda even further.

Speaker 3 (51:11):
So Trump is very important person, but it's the movement
he's created that I think is his long lasting legacy
that he's going to have. I appreciate you calling that, Dave.
Thanks for listening to us, Hie, thank you. We'll take
more calls for phone numbers four, two, five, five, eight,
eleven ten. You stick around and we will chat about
what's on your mind. On news Radio eleven ten Kfab.

Speaker 6 (51:31):
Emery Songer on news radio eleven ten Kfab.

Speaker 3 (51:37):
Mike on the line. Mike, welcome to the show today.
What are you thinking about.

Speaker 27 (51:42):
A couple of things. Number one is I like President's
idea for a President Crump's idea for an iron dome
like Israel has to protect us in case war would
break out, and you know from flying missiles and everything,
and kind of one question I would like to see
the governor deb for Senator deb Fisher. You know I
work with the President on that.

Speaker 8 (52:01):
And a question I have.

Speaker 27 (52:02):
About that is if a new cremessil is shot out
of the sky, is to fallout less than if it
actually detonates because these things, at least the plutonium and
uranium ones actually have new cer material in it. And
the other thing is the vulnerability of the electric grid
to war hacking, e MPs, all the different things that

(52:23):
could happen. I would love to see the Governor and
our congressional delegation find out what needs to protect the
grid at all costs.

Speaker 3 (52:33):
Yeah, and Mike, I think more than anything like what
you're talking about right now, if we think that there
is an imminent threat that we're going to have adversaries
that want to be more aggressive in trying to get
to us in some way, shape or form, even if
that's from you know, trying to work through people on
the inside of the United States. We got to be

(52:54):
proactive on that. I think that's one hundred percent something
that a strong conservative leader, especially with the Congress that
he is going to be having work with him for
the next couple of years, really appreciate you bringing that up.

Speaker 1 (53:06):
Mike, thanks for listening to us.

Speaker 8 (53:08):
Thanks.

Speaker 3 (53:09):
Let's go to Alex on our phone line four h
two five five eight eleven ten. Welcome Alex. What are
you thinking about?

Speaker 21 (53:14):
Talk about Nebraska's problem has a major property tax problem.
That's why we had that whole reform group.

Speaker 26 (53:24):
Nothing came up.

Speaker 3 (53:27):
I think you're cutting in and out, Alex. I'm going
to put you back on hold and we'll come back
to him because I don't want us to like not
hear all the words that he's saying. Because we're just
kind of hearing a word here or there. So Alex,
just stay right there and try to get to a
better spot that maybe for service if you have the
opportunity to. We'll come back to Alex in a second.
Let's go to Tom right now. Tom, welcome to the

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show today. What's on your mind?

Speaker 16 (53:52):
Well, today I'm going to talk a bit about how
the insurance industry really functions. And for example, was accused
of insurance fraud when he really didn't even try to
make a claim, and yet in California, I feel so
terrible about a devastation there. But I also predict that

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some of the homeowners and some of those property owners
are going to suddenly make claims on meet coach that
were really Carhart jackets, and make claims on homes that
were overvalued. And so the attack on your earlier caller
had a comment about he got even with the insurance industry.

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The insurance industry is a very stable industry but has
a lot of protective things that the fact is is
that I'm challenging every homeowner, every auto owner that when
you make a claim, do it honestly and efficiently, and
it will help hold rapes down for everyone. Meanwhile, the
government may need to get involved with this debt station

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in California because our delta, the insurance industry can tolerate
the kinds of coaims coming from that area.

Speaker 12 (55:06):
Thank you for Cole.

Speaker 1 (55:07):
Yeah, no, no, no problem, Tom.

Speaker 3 (55:09):
It's interesting a good perspective there on what could you
know help resolve some of those issues.

Speaker 1 (55:17):
I'm nowhere near an.

Speaker 3 (55:18):
Expert on this stuff, so that's why I'm so glad
that people who do have a bit more of a
good background on this want to call in.

Speaker 1 (55:24):
Let's try Alex again, Alex. Are you still there with us? Alex?

Speaker 21 (55:27):
But yeah, I turned off some of my fans, so
maybe you can hear me better.

Speaker 1 (55:30):
All right, there we go, Yeah, go ahead.

Speaker 21 (55:32):
So I wanted to talk about Nebraska's property tax problem.
We all know it's a problem. Property tax groups last year,
about two years ago, they didn't really do anything. Solutions
people are coming up with are shifting it to sales tax,
getting rid of some sales tax exemptions. It's even worse
because renters, people who enough to own houses, they're going

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to be the ones paying, and it's going to be
a real drag in our economy.

Speaker 1 (56:01):
Right, So, what what would be a good solution from
your perspective there.

Speaker 21 (56:04):
I don't think it's talked about often, but it would
be a location tax about where the valuable real estate is.

Speaker 12 (56:14):
It's like he's.

Speaker 21 (56:17):
Maybe farmland that's especially good and has really good yield
by Nebraskans I state interests.

Speaker 3 (56:26):
We keep losing all I believe we keep losing anybody.
I'm going to put you back on hold because this
is I'm really interested in what Alex has to say.
So we're going to take a quick break. We got
more calls that are coming in as well, but Alex,
we'll start with him coming back, and we're talking about
how to potentially reform property taxes in Nebraska.

Speaker 1 (56:47):
It's very interesting.

Speaker 3 (56:48):
Hopefully we're able to get a better connection with him
as we come back, and if you've got any thoughts
on anything. Four oh two five five eight eleven ten
is our phone number. Four oh two, five five eight
to eleven ten. You're listening to news radio eleven ten
KFA B. Pick back up what you were talking about there, Bud, Yeah.

Speaker 21 (57:05):
I was talking about how we all know property tax
as a problem. Solutions have been to shift it to
a sales tax, which I don't like either. My solution
is to use a location tax where valuable real estate
is or the out of state interests, the out of

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country interests sometimes actually own it, like a state in
Lincoln in Omaha valuable because of Nebraskan's hard work. We
work hard to build out the state, to build out
the cities. In return, are these absentee or out of
state or out of country landowners raising our.

Speaker 24 (57:47):
Rents Normal homeowners have to pay like people who live
in the suburbs, or they have to pay the majority
of the property tax and everyone is squeeze from all angles.

Speaker 21 (58:02):
Tax would do is it would concentrate to the people
who are benefiting from the hard work of Nebraskans the most.
What I think would really our problems without having to
resort to regressive sales taxes or income taxes and things
like that.

Speaker 3 (58:20):
Yeah, it's an interesting concept there, Alex. And it's something
that you figure, you know, for I mean, it's pretty
public knowledge from the government perspective who owns the land
and who's paying the property taxes on it. We could
you know, have you know, different scales of that, and
that could help alleviate that for the people who like
us feel like we're being absolutely taxed to death on

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the property tax. I appreciate you hanging with us, buddy.
Sorry about the connection. I'm not sure why it wasn't working,
but thanks for sticking with us and giving us your
ideas today. Yeah, it wasn't in perfect form of His
phone cut out as soon as he was, you know,
saying goodbye. You know, just I don't know. Maybe he
needs a landline. That's the gay that guy a landline.

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Yeah what you said? You looked like you were having
like a seizure there are you?

Speaker 8 (59:07):
Kay?

Speaker 3 (59:08):
I know that you were trying to make the right sounds,
but it looked fit you go. You've got very physical
there for a second. Well like a Caesar salad am
I right, something like that. Greg's on a phone line
of four h two five, five, eight to eleven ten.
What's up, Greg?

Speaker 12 (59:19):
Hey?

Speaker 20 (59:20):
For the property tax deal, I've had a wild idea.

Speaker 14 (59:23):
How about every time.

Speaker 20 (59:25):
One of the you know, government people are represents, take
big donations or a payoff or you know, voting on
something we taxed at fifty percent and apply that to
the property tax. So they want to you know, pass
some deal for like say, you know, wind farms or
pipelines there, you're going to kick back the governor, you know,

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two million dollars to do it. How about we know,
tax a million dollars out of it, throw it towards
the property taxes.

Speaker 1 (59:51):
Mmmmmmm.

Speaker 3 (59:53):
That that's an idea there, Greg. Now the question would
be who would agree to do that?

Speaker 20 (01:00:01):
Yeah, we voted into office, I mean right.

Speaker 3 (01:00:05):
We should be able to could we could we talk
them into doing that for us?

Speaker 17 (01:00:09):
You know?

Speaker 1 (01:00:09):
That would be That'd be.

Speaker 3 (01:00:11):
My only thing is I wouldn't get my hopes up
too much on getting people who are in charge to
kind of vote against their own personal interests would be
my guess.

Speaker 1 (01:00:19):
But it's a good idea.

Speaker 3 (01:00:20):
I think in principle it would work if there was
like an overseer who basically decided that themselves, or maybe
the general public could get a petition going to get
it on a ballot or something. Sure, but it makes
too much sense for the politicians out there, you know
what I mean?

Speaker 17 (01:00:35):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:00:36):
Hey, things with the call man?

Speaker 18 (01:00:38):
Hey, thank you?

Speaker 3 (01:00:39):
Yeah, all right, calls continue to roll in. Let's go
to stand now on our phone line at four oh two, five, five,
eight eleven ten, Stan, what's going on with you.

Speaker 9 (01:00:48):
Hey, you just sort of have an inside track to
Senator Ricketts with your the fellow year replaced works for him,
doesn't he?

Speaker 1 (01:00:58):
Sorry? Well, yeah, what was that? Sorry? Sorry? Stan?

Speaker 9 (01:01:01):
Yeah, I was saying, do you sort of have an
inside track to Senator Ricketts with the fellow that you
replaced working for him?

Speaker 12 (01:01:08):
Right?

Speaker 1 (01:01:09):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:01:09):
Yeah, Ian Ian our guy Ian Funston. Yeah, sorry about that.

Speaker 9 (01:01:13):
Yeah, I got a suggestion for you to pass to
Ian to past Senator Ricketts.

Speaker 1 (01:01:19):
Okay, to pass.

Speaker 9 (01:01:21):
The President Trump. I think it would be a great
idea in the election of twenty twenty eight if jd.
Vance had already been president for one day less than
two years. That way, the voter would know that he
was a successful president, and then he would have a
better chance of getting re elected in twenty eight as

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an incumbent. Of course, Donald Donald Trump would have to agree. Yeah, oh,
I want to step down. I want to step down
to Bean's family.

Speaker 2 (01:01:50):
Great idea.

Speaker 3 (01:01:58):
I get what you're saying. I understand what you're saying, Stan,
and then have the opportunity to you know, get like
jd Vance learning on the job to like get the
handoff right. The only thing that I would say is
I would let's pretend the Democrats did that with Kamala

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and you know, like just decided to give Kamala the
keys because Joe Biden's health or whatever, and you know,
let's give her like a dry run of being the
president right before the election so people could see her
as as the true leader of the country.

Speaker 1 (01:02:32):
We would have slammed that.

Speaker 3 (01:02:34):
We would have been like that is so on American
The voting public should have had the opportunity to make
that determination. So while in principle, I don't disagree with
what you're saying, especially if we think JD. Vance could
be the guy, but we kind of already have a
kind of built in process for us as the voters
in the Republican Party to decide who the next person

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is going to be, and JD's just going to have
to stand out as the vice president. And unless something
happens with Donald Trump, I think the American public made
it pretty clear they want him to be the guy
for the next four years. So while in principle I
don't disagree, I think I would probably have some concerns
about the about the interesting principle of what, you know,

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what that would look like from the outside if you
know what I mean.

Speaker 9 (01:03:21):
I got it, and I see I see it both ways.
I'm just voicing it as a possibility.

Speaker 3 (01:03:25):
Yeah, I mean it's it's not a bad idea, stan
in theory. I appreciate you calling in with that.

Speaker 5 (01:03:31):
Have a good one.

Speaker 1 (01:03:31):
Yeah you too.

Speaker 3 (01:03:32):
It's an interesting thought, interesting thought to say the least.
Doug's on the phone line. Let's go to Doug here.
What are you thinking about today?

Speaker 1 (01:03:39):
Doug?

Speaker 14 (01:03:41):
What I want to know is what are its coming
out of Washington about how they're going to pay to
get all those homes replaced?

Speaker 1 (01:03:48):
Right?

Speaker 14 (01:03:48):
Is the government thinking that they're going to pay for it?

Speaker 3 (01:03:53):
So they said that they would cover like they were
going to cover like one of this stuff. And I
had somebody like know like how this would work. It was,
you know, according to this the government.

Speaker 14 (01:04:06):
Okay, The whole point is I am the government, you, me,
and every other taxpayer. Right, we do not pay to
replace someone's home, right if they live somewhere that's a
bad place to live too. Did they let their did
they not pay their taxes?

Speaker 12 (01:04:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:04:23):
So?

Speaker 14 (01:04:23):
Or did the state do something?

Speaker 11 (01:04:25):
So?

Speaker 3 (01:04:25):
Dennis I had or a person named Dennis sent me
a message and he kind of laid out what he
like interprets in this and he said that the covering
of the one that Biden said would be for the
firefighting and ancillary services and wouldn't cover the property themselves.
I don't know exactly how that works, but that would
go to your point, Doug, that like, how would they

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even have the ability to do that?

Speaker 9 (01:04:48):
And you know, so where do they.

Speaker 8 (01:04:50):
Where do they?

Speaker 14 (01:04:50):
Okay, when they say the fire equipment, to me, those
people are band paid. Well, we could cover that over time. Yeah,
we can cover any any equipment. Yeah, that might be
somewhat damaged. But if it wasn't damaged by the fire
and the damage because they used it improperly or they

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didn't use it right, we shouldn't pay for that. The
people of this country should not be.

Speaker 8 (01:05:17):
Paying for that.

Speaker 1 (01:05:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:05:18):
Yeah, yeah, And Doug, I'm running out of time this hour.
I appreciate the call. Yeah, I just want to clarify
I'm not one hundred percent sure on what all the
ancillary services would be in that for the you know,
the money that Joe Biden said that he'd be willing
to cover on that, But that's something we definitely should
circle back on when that money starts, you know, being
given to southern California for the rebuilding process.

Speaker 1 (01:05:40):
And we'll do that more.

Speaker 3 (01:05:42):
For open phone line Friday and a Friday for coming
up stick with US News Radio eleven ten. Kfab Kurt
is on the phone line for two five five eight
eleven ten and Uh, Kurt, you want to talk a
bit about property taxa today?

Speaker 1 (01:05:53):
What's on your mind?

Speaker 28 (01:05:55):
Yes, thank you for taking my call. I think before
we find different ways to say for property taxes or
real estate taxes, is we first have a forensic financial
audit of all the government agencies that receive funding from
real estate taxes and personal property taxes. I think the
results of that would get more people on board to

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push change needs to occur, because I'm sure we all
know what those results are going to look like. If
we truly do a dose style audit, that would be
my first step, sure, first to prove to the world
the amount of waste these agencies are producing.

Speaker 3 (01:06:34):
Yeah, and I think that's a good start, and I
think we're going to see maybe that trickle down from
the federal government on down of just okay, so where
is this money and the next door Iowa.

Speaker 1 (01:06:43):
I don't know if anybody's seeing this.

Speaker 3 (01:06:44):
They have some property taxes that are a bit elevated,
but the state itself has actually had us that they've
announced surpluses over the last couple of years, so they're
able to at least balance the budget and maybe they
can get a little bit of a reform that can
trickle down to the taxpayers, and they do give some
relief to people in that state. So it is something interesting. Kurt,
I appreciate you for calling in man. Have a great

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weekend you as well.

Speaker 8 (01:07:07):
Take care.

Speaker 3 (01:07:07):
Yeah, we also had a talkback on property taxes as well,
and talk back. If you're unfamiliar, all you got to
do is go to the free iHeartRadio app Sear's eleven
ten kfab. When you're listening to us live, it'll have
a little microphone icon there that you can click on
and you can record up to thirty seconds of your
best audio and we actually have a chance to curate
that when it comes into us after you're done with it,

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and if we like what we hear, we'll put you
on the air.

Speaker 1 (01:07:31):
So here's Jordan from the talk back app.

Speaker 11 (01:07:34):
Hey, Amory, this is Jordan. I'm from South central Nebraska.
My family's a small farm small farmers. We own about
five hundred and twenty acres and we pay over twenty
four thousand dollars a year in property taxes. And it's
not all beautiful, flat black farm ground. This is kind
of a rebutt ALEX suggesting that farmers need to pay

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more when we're already paying through the nose.

Speaker 1 (01:08:01):
It's good stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:08:02):
We had a caller named Alex who had an idea
for reform and kind of call it more location based
property taxes. I think he was being more specific about
the big conglomerate groups, especially from overseas, that have kind
of invested into farmland in different spots in America, and
I think that's maybe where most of that idea came from.

Speaker 1 (01:08:24):
But I'm all ears for any idea.

Speaker 3 (01:08:28):
The more we talk about it, maybe the more we
can get to something that people can agree on. But
who's to say that it's even going to be that easy,
because it's going to take our politicians drawing something up
for us to truly have that as an option for
us smoothing forward