Rep Don Bacon Will Not Seek Re-Election

Rep Don Bacon Will Not Seek Re-Election

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
What are you looking at there, Maddie boy is looking
like there's a thunderstorm out there.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Well, it's down south of Lincoln, right about around Hickman,
and it just might be headed to Syracuse. It's past
Crete and it is why I let me zoom in.
It's certainly north of Beatrice or Beatrice as we know colloquially.

(00:25):
And it's it's just a little old guy, just a
little feller. But but it's south. Did pass through Lincoln
and now it's south, all right, But it's not going
to come here, right, Okay, that's right. Well, if you're
getting wet out there, bring an umbrella. If you're in Omaha,
i'd be surprised if we're going to get wet.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
But that's just me.

Speaker 4 (00:44):
It's got tecumsa and it's crosshairs.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
Like one hundred and forty years ago. It could have
meant a lot of different things. But alas, that's fine.
We move on. We we will let you know if
the weather does affect itself, affect itself. Of course, it's
affecting itself. It's weather. It feeds into itself. It is
whether a whether it's not a person. No, but it

(01:08):
can affect itself whether it doesn't have feelings, but it
can as it's a going through it can affect itself,
you know, make itself stronger or weaker, based on the
conditions around it. You know, effect with an E, not
an A. No, it would be any it would be
an A. Hold on, it's an a. When you're affecting something,
it's with an A. An E is like an effect

(01:30):
of something. So like the effect of my radio show,
the effect of having like a really famous personal my
radio show, you would think the effect would be more
people would be interested in listening.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
Google says in most cases, affect is used as a
verb meaning to influence, while effect is used as a noun,
meaning a result. Exactly, so affect we are affected by weather,
but as whether.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
Whether can affect it self, can have an effect on
itself with strengthening, and it's the act in which you're
speaking of it affects itself.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
Anyway.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
That's a flying start to this week, all right, So
two on nine, we'll keep you up posted on the weather.
The big Beautiful Bill is getting voted on incessantly. They're
calling it a voter rama. We'll let you know if
something else happens with that, and keeping an eye on
the senators and the tug of war, the INDs and
the outs, the attempts to try to get this thing

(02:28):
pass each and every day until we get to the
July fourth holiday, which they have made it very clear,
and by they, I mean the people who are in
the administration. July fourth is the deadline. We're trying to
get this thing done by July fourth, stop. Okay, So
we'll see if that takes place. We will get there

(02:51):
as well. Interesting kind of change based on the you know,
I would say that there's a really good chance that
there's Tom Tillis, who's the Republican that has kind of
been kind of pushed out of the way because he's
been in the way of passing the big beautiful bill.

(03:14):
But he's a United States Senator and he has announced
that he's not seeking reelection. Now he's a sixty four
year old man. Maybe he was already thinking about this,
but he's super opposed to this. He doesn't sound like
he's coming around on any part of this, and it
sounds like, based on everything that we know, he doesn't

(03:35):
care what the repercussions are because guess what he's already saying.
He's not running for reelection. So if enough of the
people that are in Congress right now, because again you
need Congress now to pass this, it doesn't matter he's
in Congress two years from now, you have enough people
like Tom Tillis just saying, you know what, I don't care.
I'm not running for reelection in two years anyway, or

(03:57):
next year anyway.

Speaker 3 (03:58):
Right, It's like Matt Case.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
Let's say Matt decides that today's going to be his
last day on the radio show. He could be playing
fart noise as the whole show, and what are we
gonna do? What are you gonna do? That guy telling
me you can't play fart noises? He's let me be
like I'm leaving this my last day. It's like he
ever worked in the service industry with Like I was
a car hoppit sonic driving. I didn't have to wear
the roller skates though that was optional because I think

(04:22):
somebody got hit with the car while wearing the roller
skates in my hometown. They were okay, but it's like, well,
they wouldn't have gotten hit by the car if they
weren't on skates. So I didn't have to wear the skates,
but you know, every once in a while, it wasn't
all that uncommon for and this isn't to say the
sonic driving in Omaha's like this, but at least when
I was were going to sign driving fifteen years ago,

(04:43):
it's like this. Every once in a while, there'd be
a person that would just show up to work, just
decide that they were going to quit. At the end
of the day, they're going to get like a full
days worth of wages. Then they're going to put in there,
you know, and say, hey, I'm not coming back, and
what are they gonna do?

Speaker 3 (04:57):
Right?

Speaker 1 (04:57):
This is not the kind of person that's thinking like
this job is going to be like a foundation for
me to like build on a career. It's like I've
had enough. I'm just I'm out. I've had enough serving
up those really delicious strawberry linemaids that they have and
I'm just tired of it and I'm done.

Speaker 3 (05:14):
I'm out.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
You can't reason with the person that already has made
their decision, right, So I don't expect Tom Tillis to
vote in favor of this big, beautiful bill, and I
wouldn't and I would anticipate that he is not alone,
not necessarily in leaving. But I think he's made it
pretty clear that even though he's not seeking reelection, there's
nothing about this bill. It's breaking a bunch of promises

(05:38):
that Trump had made, which makes it I don't know,
a lot of Trump supporters seem to think that this
is right in line with a lot of the agenda,
even if it is, you know, an increase in overall spending.
And we'll get to that in a second. Now, that's
just kind of the latest on the big, beautiful bill.
We'll let you know if there's more developments. Huge development

(05:59):
to this morning is the official announcement was made by
Don Bacon, our representative here in the second Congressional District
of Nebraska. He has announced his retirement. He says, after
thirty years in the Air Force in ten years in Congress,
it's time to spend my future with the love of
my life, our four kids, and our wonderful grandchildren. Thank you, Nebraska.

(06:22):
So and I have reached out to the office of
Representative Bacon and hopefully in the next couple of days
we'll be able to get him some time. They're working
a lot in Washington right now, a lot of overtime
and certainly, the House is on standby for whatever the
big beautiful bill looks like when the House or when
the Senate passes it, because it'll have to come back

(06:44):
through the House to get voted on before that happens.
But a lot of people remember twenty twenty three, there
was a lot of outcry against Don Bacon. It was
a year before his reelection bid in twenty two twenty four,
but an outcry against Don Bacon, and it was surrounded
around the removal of Kevin McCarthy as the Speaker of

(07:08):
the House and the fact that Don Bacon was one
of a couple of dozen representatives that refused to vote
in line for Jim Jordan to be the Speaker of
the House. There wasn't enough support because it was a
slim majority for the Republicans, and not enough Republicans were
in favor of Jim Jordan being the Speaker of the House,

(07:29):
and Don Bacon was one of those people. We had
the phone lines open that day when we learned that
his name was on that list, and Matt, you remember
the calls. I mean there were, I mean a call
after call saying I'm sick of Don Bacon. We got
to get him out of there. That's primary against him,
and then he won reelection not only against the primary challenger,
but also against the Democrat who ran against him. So

(07:51):
he had found kind of an interesting formula. The blue dot.
We know it's real, we know it exists. It's more
purple than it is blue, but the Democrats want Amaha
to maintain this blueness about it. But it was always
going to be purple as long as Don Bacon was
the representative or any Republican as the representative of this district,

(08:12):
because having now a Democratic mayor with John Ewing, there's
in the last couple of elections voting pretty heavily in
favor of the Democrat who was running. In twenty twenty
it was Joe Biden, in twenty twenty four was Kamala Harris.
Don Bacon being able to still somehow win election while

(08:33):
that was going on and staying as the representative of
this district kind of shows that he could bridge some gaps. Sure,
he may not be the most conservative guy for the
most conservative of voters in the second Congressional district, but
you have to understand in order to win and have
a Republican sitting there at all, you have to understand
the theory is a game to play in a purple district.

(08:54):
He had done it, and he had won multiple elections
that it seemed like it put tentctually could have been
in doubt. So Representative Don Bacon, who really has you know,
I think, done a really well, really nice job, and
he's been representing Nebraska well in that position and maintain

(09:15):
the ability for Nebraska to say they have all of
their representatives and senators that are a Republican. Well him
saying that I'm retiring at the end of this term,
You're going to have to find a really strong Republican
candidate that can kind of I think fit this mold,
maybe a little bit better than most. Right it may seem, well,

(09:36):
let's get some very Trumpian, really hardcore right wing conservative
in there. You can try to do that. But if
that is who the best candidate the Republicans can put together,
this seat is going to go into Democratic hands. We
saw what the momentum was with the John Ewing election
in Omaha. We've seen the momentum as it relates to

(09:59):
some of the other local elections, but especially some of
the amendments to what Nebraska law should be and how
this district kind of votes. And then of course we
know the presidential results. Biden and Kamala Harris both in
their presidential races winning this district with a pretty healthy margin.

(10:20):
It wasn't by the skin of their teeth. So it
makes what Don Bacon had done. What he had done
was pretty impressive considering that he was a Republican in
this district that all of this blue stuff was happening.
So my question to you today, and we'll start with
this if you want to call in, by the way,
four h two five to five, eight eleven ten. Thoughts
on Don Bacon, his legacy and what's next for the

(10:41):
second Congressional district now that there will be no incumbent
in next year's election. Four h two five to five,
eight eleven ten. We will chat with you coming back
on news Radio eleven ten Kfab and Raise Songer. I'm
asking you about what you think about this and what's
next for this district. We can talk about the legacy
of Don Bacon. I'm hopeful to have him on the
show sometime this week so we can chat about things,

(11:02):
assuming they don't continue to crush them with all this
stuff that they have to do. But what'd love to
hear from you today on how you see this thing
playing out? Four oh two five five, eight eleven ten.
Four oh two, five five, eight eleven ten. We'll start
with Jerry on the phone line. Jerry, thanks so much
for being a part of the show today.

Speaker 5 (11:20):
Hey, Emory, I just you know, you know, the first
thing being that you know, we're not a democracy, we're republic,
which is executed through representative democracy, and Second District is
a is a tough place to be and if you
want to represent Second District, obviously you have to you know, understand, uh,

(11:41):
you know the more conservative parts. You know, you have
to represent north Omaha. You have to represent everybody. And Joe,
if if people expect that someone's just going to toe
the national line Democrat, Republican, whatever, then they're probably not
doing their job for the district or you know, as
senator for the state, which I think you saw with

(12:04):
Joe Manchin and kirston Cinema. You know, they certainly were
trying to represent Arizona and trying to represent West Virginia
as opposed to towing the line of what the national the
national plan was or you know, so I think obviously
the Infrastructure Bill things that Senator Bacon are correction, Congressman

(12:26):
Bacon did. He did because he was representing all of
the second District and not just trying to toe the
Republican MAGA line.

Speaker 1 (12:35):
Yeah, and again, one hundred percent of the time, you're
not going to make everyone happy, right, And that's one
thing that I think we've learned here more than anything, Jerry,
is that Don Bacon was willing to stand up for
his own personal principles and in doing so kept the
Republican and what has become a pretty blue district in
office representing the you know, state of Nebraska and continue

(13:00):
to allow I mean, that's a key seat that is
generally hotly contested and he's been able to hold on
to it despite all of the activity around him. Do
you think that there's another Republican that could do the
same thing that Don Bacon was able to do, not
only win an election, but also, you know, maintain that
presence of a Republican in this district despite all of

(13:20):
the kind of tendencies of this area to vote more
and more blue.

Speaker 5 (13:26):
I couldn't name someone, but obviously, if somebody wants to
get elected, that's exactly what they're going to have to do.
And you know, I'm a data guy, I'm a process
improver and whatever. And looking at the election results for
twenty twenty, I think Bacon won the district by like
eight thousand votes, and that same eight thousand votes voted
for Joe Biden. So it's a case of, you know,

(13:49):
are you representing the district, the state, whatever, the people
that elect you, And for anyone, a Democrat or Republican,
a Democrat would have to look pretty hard at some
pretty conservative issues and probably be a little bit more
open to, you know, some of those aspects instead of

(14:11):
going with a you know, a straight Democratic party line.
If they wanted to represent second District and continue to
get elected.

Speaker 1 (14:18):
That's great. It's a great observation there. Jerry, really appreciate
you for being on the show today. Thanks for calling in.

Speaker 5 (14:24):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (14:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (14:26):
So, what he said, there's kind of interesting, right because
it is so easy to run for office. I think
get the backing of who's in charge. Let's say it's
the uh, you know, the Donald Trump type, right, and
Donald Trump says this is the right person, you should
vote for this person, and enough Republicans, enough independents show

(14:49):
up vote that person into office. Now they're going to
be looked at and say, hey, Maddie, you've got to
play ball. If you're going to be in Washington, d C.
You've got to play ball with the of us US Republicans.
And he mentioned Kirsten Cinema from Arizona Joe Manchin from
West Virginia as a couple of really interesting examples of

(15:10):
this where they decided they would rather try to represent
the people of their state and the best way they
knew how, and they didn't fall in line with the
Democratic agenda that was going on in the Senate when
they were there. Makes you think quite a bit, right,
It's just like wow, and look at how quickly they
were on the outs. I mean, they basically were shunned
out of the party and left and then basically had

(15:33):
people running against them to take their spot. By the
next election, if they weren't going to willingly say I'm out,
then they were not going to have a chance to
run as a Democrat. Once again, not to say that
ever happened to Don Bacon, but certainly there were a
lot of people who were very Trumpian that were frustrated
that Don Bacon wasn't more of a conservative when he

(15:53):
was there. Trust me, if he was more of a
conservative on the campaign trail, especially, he would not have
won these elections. He would not have been in Congress
nearly this long. If he decided he was going against
what he felt was best for himself and his principles
and also the people he was representing, he would not
have won. And because, like Jerry mentioned, him being elected

(16:16):
as a Republican greatly went against what the trends were
the last couple of election cycles, and he was able
to find a way to make it happen here in
this district.

Speaker 3 (16:25):
David sent me a talkback.

Speaker 1 (16:27):
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Speaker 3 (16:38):
Here's what David had to say.

Speaker 6 (16:39):
Good afternoon, Emory. I wanted to make a little comment
on the Don Bacon departure. First of all, Don's done
a great job. But second of all, my biggest fear
is that he's going to leave early. Because if you
look at what happened with Mike Flood election and also
the Pete Ricketts election. There was kind of some funny
business there were people were sort of pushed out moved around,

(17:04):
so those particular individuals could have those seats.

Speaker 3 (17:06):
Now they didn't end.

Speaker 1 (17:08):
You ran out of time there. But again, really interesting point.
Would the administration kind of say to Don Bacon, it
might make sense for us to appoint someone to take
that spot. Now for a Senate spot, which is the
Pete Ricketts conversation, the governor can appoint you'd have to
go to a special election for the House of Representatives

(17:31):
if Don Bacon were to leave. So that's a bit
of a caveat that didn't exist for the Pete Ricketts
kind of appointment. But I can totally understand because if
you did a quick special election to fill out the
rest of this term, it could give the opposition less
time to organize, and maybe you could find a really
good candidate and get them shuffled in there as fast

(17:53):
as possible ahead of a big time election cycle in
twenty twenty six. I'd be surprised if that happened on
Bacon's a man of prints would shock me if he
willingly decided at this point to step beside instead of
fulfilling the term he was elected to fulfill. But I
don't want to make any hardcore, concrete guestimations here because Washington,

(18:13):
DC is an unpredictable place, as we have learned over
the years. You got some thoughts on what you want
to talk about related to Don Bacon and his legacy.
Hit me up four oh two five five eight eleven
ten four h two five five eight eleven ten. You're
listening to news radio eleven ten kfab and raised on there.
I'm just I'm stumbling all over myself here.

Speaker 4 (18:31):
I've certainly had those days. Today's not one of them
for me.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
I feel like I'm feeling pretty normal.

Speaker 1 (18:37):
This is why people take adderall right, It's just like
you're just the same every.

Speaker 3 (18:41):
Day, right.

Speaker 2 (18:43):
I don't think so. I think once you get addicted
to it. My guess is based on generally what addictions
do to a human's body is the positive effects kind
of wear off. Your body starts getting used to them,
and then you really just kind of have to deal
with negative effects whenever it wears out of your system.

Speaker 1 (18:59):
Yeah, I hate the idea of happening to do something
every day.

Speaker 3 (19:01):
I hate. I hate.

Speaker 1 (19:02):
It's a strong word, but that I really do. It's
just like being a slave to something. I can't do it.

Speaker 4 (19:07):
I don't like. Yeah, I'm the same way. I like.

Speaker 2 (19:09):
I just I take Ibuprofen for headaches. I try to
keep it at that. I'm really not a I don't
like taking pills for stuff.

Speaker 1 (19:15):
Yeah, yeah, so you know, I, uh, you just have
to deal with me being a little spacey today. Got
a conspiracy theory for you. By the way, we'll have
more on the Don Bacon situation. If you have some thoughts,
shoot me an email at mariatt kfab dot com if
you want to talk about this. Hey, Matt, remember, uh
this is trust me. This is an interesting story. You know.

Speaker 3 (19:35):
Jake Rhetz laugh Does that ring a bell?

Speaker 4 (19:38):
Uh not really?

Speaker 3 (19:39):
You know, he was a star quarterback last year for BYU.

Speaker 4 (19:41):
Okay, sure, yeah.

Speaker 1 (19:43):
They had a really good season and uh yeah b
Yu kind of came out of nowhere and Jake Rad's
laugh was the was the quarterback. Over the last couple
of months, he has been accused of sexual assault by
you guy. Accused of sexual assault and yeah, he's like

(20:03):
having to make statements on behalf of this, right, like
to try to clear his name so he doesn't get
in like real trouble. This isn't even just NCAA trouble.
This is like, hey, you could go to jail if
you're guilty of sexual assault. Right. Well, Jake Rerhetz laugh
has to say stuff in his Is it a deposition?

Speaker 3 (20:23):
I don't know if that's what it is.

Speaker 1 (20:24):
Whatever it is, he has to make a statement to
try to like explain himself, right, and you know what
he said. He said that he had pre marital sex,
but he did not do anything illegal. Well, you know
what the problem is, Matt at Byu. You can't have
premarital sex. You can't do anything that puts you underneath
the honor code, not even just athletes, to everyone at
the school. So when he admitted as part of him

(20:45):
trying to defend himself of this sexual assault case, he
admitted that he broke the honor code. He was about
to face guess what a significant seven game suspension from
the team for his honor code breaking. You know what
he does after that over the weekend, did you see this?
He enters the transfer portal, So he's leaving Byu. He's
not gonna play football for them this year or ever again.

(21:08):
And then guess what happened? What today the sexual assault
case was dismissed.

Speaker 3 (21:13):
Do do Do Do? Do?

Speaker 4 (21:14):
Do Do Do Do?

Speaker 3 (21:16):
Who was this woman?

Speaker 1 (21:17):
She's anonymous and what did she have against BYU football?
Was this somebody who knew something about Jake Rahtz laugh
that could get him in big trouble? That is a
big twelve school? Is it Utah? And they were like, oh,
I know he's broken the honor coat. We're gonna We're
gonna accuse him of something. He has to defend himself.
He will get suspended or leave BYU hands clean. I
got what I wanted. I'll dismiss the suit. Seems like

(21:41):
somebody had an agenda here, got him under oath to
admit to premarital sex, which is all it took for
him to be off the BYU football team and then
drop the case. We will never know really the truth,
I suppose, but all we know is that if you
go to BYU, you better be a good young man.
By the way, Red's laugh not Mormon. He's Jewish. He's

(22:02):
one of like five Jewish students at BUYU, which a
lot of people made a big deal out of that.

Speaker 3 (22:06):
Over the football season.

Speaker 1 (22:08):
It's just like the star quarterback for this Mormon football
team is a Jewish guy. It's like never happens to them.
It's like it's very strange, very interesting. And of course
it helped that they were winning a bunch of games
last year. But then in this offseason everything seemed to
be fine and dandy. He was coming back for another year.
People are saying, maybe he's a Heisman candidate going into

(22:28):
next year. Then all of a sudden, this accusation came out.
He had to go on the record and saying I
have had consensual premarital sex, which is an immediate no
no at BYU. They are prepared to suspend him for
at least seven games for next year, and he says,
I'm just entering the transfer portal and I'm out, And
then the lawsuit gets dropped. Yeah, do you have any comment?

(22:50):
Do you have a speculation.

Speaker 4 (22:52):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (22:54):
I think this is a conspiracy.

Speaker 1 (22:55):
I think there were multiple people working on it, and
I wouldn't put it past those Utah Utes or some
other big twelve team. This is college football now, ladies
and gentlemen, we just made BYU we took them from
contender status this year in the Big twelve and we
have made them just a nobody. And it also ran
in one swoop because this guy had to admit that
he has broken the BYU honor code.

Speaker 4 (23:18):
It's important to be honorable.

Speaker 1 (23:19):
If you were a BYU fan or student, you'd be
having a cow right now, I would imagine. But then again,
you'd also probably be like, no, you can't do that.
You can't break the honor code. That's the whole point
of being here.

Speaker 5 (23:30):
You know.

Speaker 1 (23:30):
It just kind of depends on how how much of
a fan you might be. You know, are you the
kind of fan that also practices the honor code or
did practice the honor code until you were married? That
kind of thing. It's a very very very strange situation.
But you know what, I you know, I think this
is good for I with states, so I don't care.
That's selfish in me. Yeah, in the NIL era, you know.

(23:51):
And where does a guy like Red Slaugh end up?
I mean there's probably somebody out there that's just like, hey,
come here, we'll get you some an il and we'll play.

Speaker 3 (23:58):
Well, have you playing week one? Can you learn our playbook?
In six?

Speaker 1 (24:01):
Weeks, Like, let's go right, I mean, well, how does
the transfer portal work? Like he entered the transfer portal
right now? Does that mean because they only have windows
to recruit out of the portal? So can't he even
join a team? Like right now? Are there rules against that?
Would he be eligible? Why is this so difficult? Why
is this all so difficult? And this also goes to

(24:21):
the other thing, right when people are accusing others and again,
he broke the rules, so he was going to get
got if he actually broke the rules and he admitted
to them. But accusing a man of sexual assault with
the sole intent and just to get him kicked off
of the football team even if it didn't happen, even
if sexual assault didn't actually happen, man, that's tough. Like
they totally they went after him with something that probably

(24:43):
didn't happen to get him to admit to something that
did happen, which was enough for him to lose his
job as the quarterback of the football team. And then
they were like, okay, we're done with the lawsuit. So fishy,
super duper fishy. I'm going to keep an eye on
where he lands though, and see what happens because it's
some weird stuff. Anyway, speaking of weird, we got other

(25:04):
things that are happening in the news. We'll keep you
posted on the vote orama, which is taking place on
the Big Beautiful Bill. I have polls that the American
people have voted on on this Big Beautiful Bill. We'll
get to that in the next hour. I have another
keyword to give away, and we have all sorts of
other stuff that's going to be fun and exciting. We'll
talk about your pets and fireworks, which is something that

(25:24):
I've had to worry about, which is kind of strange
for me. I'm learning about it every single day. We
are going to talk about that too, So a lot
coming up on news radio eleven to ten kfab. I
did call our winner Wesley, who won on our show
last week, and he was busy. He was looking in
the middle of something. So we're going to have to
try to call him again today.

Speaker 3 (25:42):
Can we do that?

Speaker 1 (25:43):
Can we get Can we try to get Wesley on
the line and interview him about how he's going to
spend his thousand dollars? Yeah, Wesley, how you doing? Have
you spent it yet? I mean not right now? I
mean we'll ask him when we call inm oh I'll
call hey, Wesley, tell you what. I'll call you in
a bit. Yeah, yeah, we'll try.

Speaker 2 (25:59):
Actually, no, I'm gonna call you're right now, Wesley. Can
you get near your phone now, they're not calling Leslie.
If you're listening, we're not calling you right now. All right,
put your phone down, Wesley, Relax. It's fine, Leslie. Look,
we're gonna call you at like, I don't know, what
do you think?

Speaker 1 (26:11):
Three fifty? Can we three or four o'clock hour? One
of those two? We'll give them a phone call. How's that?

Speaker 4 (26:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (26:16):
You have to remind me though, because I forget about
these things sometimes.

Speaker 2 (26:18):
Hope that works for you, Wes. And I hope you're
having a great day. Yeah, Leslie. If you're not having
a good day, then what's wrong with you? Come on,
it's excellent outside. Speaking of which, we're keeping an eye
on the rain. It's still trickling and moving south toward
the Iowa border and into Iowa south of our area.
It doesn't look like we're going to get too way here,
but if we do, we will let you know if

(26:39):
something changes. And then also keeping an eye on this business.
I have this pole of the one great, big, beautiful
bill or whatever we're talking about.

Speaker 3 (26:47):
Can we just start calling it the BBB? Is that
all right?

Speaker 1 (26:50):
Do you think people would know what we're talking about
if I just say the BBB the Better Business Bureau. Oh,
you're talking about the Triple B's Batiste the uh that
was one of one of the other two. You know,
you're a baseball guy, the Triple Bes, the Killer Bees,
the Killer Bees from the Astros in the nineties. Yeah,
bag well Batista? Was it Batista? I thought it was Bigio? Okay,

(27:14):
bagwell Bigio? It was Bigio. That's how he said his name. Yeah, okay,
Bigio was second baseman. And then in two thousand and
five when they were in the World Ties against the
White Sox, they also had Chris Burke who's now doing
broadcasting for college baseball. He was in Omaha doing all
the games as a broadcaster. And Carlos Beltron, who do
you remember him? That's pretty good for his day, Carlos Beltronah,

(27:37):
they had a lot of B named guys BBB. Oh,
you know what else is BBB? The Big Baller brand?
You remember that Big Baller brand with LeVar Ball and
his sons. Remember that I didn't take off Big Baller brand.
You know what happened to that? They were like, they're
gonna wear their own shit. I mean, what happened to
LaVar ball he's around. I just don't think people listened
to him as he had his footy imputated. If you

(27:57):
see that he did. Yeah, I don't know what happened,
but he had some sort of like health scare and
they had to amputate his foot. So he can't even
wear Big Baller brand shoes because there's he's only got
one foot. Is that an insensitive joke to make?

Speaker 2 (28:10):
Well?

Speaker 1 (28:10):
Maybe he seemed to be taking it all in stride.
I haven't heard much from this guy. His son's, you know,
not the stars that I think he expected them to be,
although LaMelo is at least a decent player. Anyway, the
big beautiful bill the BBB is so I will call it. Yeah,
So we will chat about this poll which came out

(28:34):
about changes that have been made or possibilities of changes
that are made, and how many people are into it,
how many people are not into it? And that's that
Ivan's on the line. I got thirty seconds. Ivan, you
have something for our killer Bees conversation.

Speaker 3 (28:51):
I was just going to add the great mister Bell
to the BBB.

Speaker 1 (28:54):
Ah. Yes, of course Bell. It's great. Dave Ivan, thank
you so much for being on the show today. Thanks
for listening. You bet, yeah, you too. There are a
lot of good players named Bell, but Derek Bell, I think,
is who he was talking about. Jason Bell is a coach.
Remember Albert Bell. Albert Bell, for sure, that guy was

(29:16):
built like a dang Well, that's definitely who he's talking about. Yeah,
but yeah, So there you go. You got all sorts
of bells, the Liberty Bell, there's a bell for you,
bells and whistles. You got the Carol of the Bells,
which is a great Christmas song.

Speaker 4 (29:30):
You got bell from Beauty and the Beast.

Speaker 3 (29:33):
Oh nice. I'm getting saved by the bell right now.
Let's go to the three o'clock hour. Who's ready? Eleven
ten kfa B