March 2, 2026 • 17 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Yeah, we're sitting here and this is Emery Songer, and
you are listening indeed to the Emory Songer podcast on
the free iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
This is where I had.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
My Omaha radio show on elevnton KFAB for two and
a half years. And as we did segments that we
liked or thought were funny or informative, we would clip
these and post these to this podcast feed.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
And I as you heard.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
A couple of weeks ago, in the middle of February,
I think it was Valentine's Day, actually, I made the
announcement that I am no longer going to be doing
the afternoon show. It was a bittersweet announcement, but it
was an announcement that was a not a long time coming,
but sometime coming. I knew for a few months that
my time was limited doing the afternoons in Omaha while
(00:56):
simultaneously doing a morning show for the entire state of Iya.
I won multiple radio stations, and the plans that were
laid out kind of in front of me of what
the kfab team was hopefully going to do moving forward.
I felt that was a good situation for KFAB and
(01:16):
me spending more of my effort to a stable situation
in Iowa was a better idea of what to do
with the majority of my time. So I'm happy about
Chris Baker coming back to KFAB. It was fun to
be on Reverse Trivia, and I'm sure I'll be a
part of different things throughout KFAB throughout the day in
(01:42):
the future. But I'm also really excited about what the
future holds for the station beyond just me. That being said,
i still have things to say that I wanted to
say that our Omaha related and joining me to start
the endeavor of the podcast is my friend and my
former producer but current producer of the afternoon show on
(02:04):
eleven ten KFAB, Peyton high Lock. Hey, I long time
they see how you doing?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
What a pleasure to get back on the microphone together. Man?
Is it fun time? I would say, it's a pleasure.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
I appreciate that. Thank you. It means a lot to me.
You're how's it has it been going?
Speaker 1 (02:22):
I mean, I'm certainly a little bit different than what
Chris is bringing you on a day to day basis,
although what it's been two days.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Yeah, we've gotten two days to work together, and you know,
first and foremost there's a learning curve. There's things that
you like, there's things that Chris likes, and it's just
trying to adapt and be coachable between your guys' preferences
and all this stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
The life of a producer, you.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Know, right, because ultimately I'm just a Robin to the batman.
So I'm just doing whatever I can to make it
the easiest. But it's going really good so far. I
think there's a big taste, a big take, a big
difference in taste of music. Maybe I might like your
music a little bit better.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Thank you, thank you. Well.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
This's the other thing too, is you know, people ask
me about the music choices, and that's such an important
part of the show. I mean it really is, because yeah,
it sounds cool, and I want people to get like
the references of the songs. But the songs that we play,
and this is I would imagine for almost everybody who
does this type of work. The music that we play
(03:34):
is music that fires us up, gets us excited to talk.
You know, when I hear Hawthorne Heights, or I hear
Jimmy Hendrix, or I hear Van Halen as we're coming
out of commercial, I'm going, yeah, all right, Like I'm
back in this right, and it was a bonus, an
added plus that people would compliment me and be like, oh,
cohed and Cambria or or bullet for my Valentine. Amazing. Yeah,
(03:57):
I love that. But you, as the producer, you kind
of just have to go with the flow. I was
in your shoes. I was a producer for five years
on a morning show before I got the opportunity to
host my own show, and it was an invaluable experience
for sure, to say the least. I'm also just unfortunately
(04:17):
not able to jump on the air and just like
opine about things in Omaha. So this is one of
the things that we're going to be doing on this podcast,
is just opining.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Is that that I do? I think? Did I use
that word right?
Speaker 3 (04:32):
You said it with enough confidence. I just was going
along with it.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Well it is now. It is now. This sinkhole situation
that happened last week. Do you see that?
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Yes, because I seen it because we were on air.
We had a fill in host that day. It was
I think maybe Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Yeah, yeah, my friend Matt Kittle.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Yeah, and we're getting news from the news room about
a sinkhole. I've gotten a couple of phone calls.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
What do you think about this?
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Have you ever thought about a sinkhole in like in
that way before where you're like, I don't even know, Like,
how do we even like report on this?
Speaker 3 (05:09):
I have no idea what's going on. I'm thinking to myself,
I know Omaha has some mean potholes. I mean, I know,
is somebody getting a little dramatic here, and I'm thinking
a sinkhole. I'm thinking about a sinkhole that is like
you see in Thailand or somewhere in Asia, where like
the whole street just in caves on itself and it's gone.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
And I see these pictures. They didn't have too many
great pictures at first. It was just kind of bystander photos.
I was like, oh my gosh, these these cars actually
in the ground. They're actually in the ground. And everybody,
you know, like I said, we're getting some calls and
people are.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
So so what do you so? So Matt peak behind
the curtain here. Matt was in Des Moines doing the
Omaha show, so you're not able to like just sit
across from him. He can't like talk to the new
newsroom as they're finding this stuff out, as you're getting
in the phone calls and as you're probably talking to
the newsroom, is this story? I mean, I don't know
(06:08):
how much like it's breaking news for us and for traffic,
so people know to avoid Pacific and sixty seventh, but
I don't like, it's not like severe weather where you're
gonna flip on local news and like they've gone wall
to wall with coverage on the sink hole. So how
are you getting in contact and explaining not just this
(06:29):
situation but also the geography to a guy that's not
even in Omaha at the time, who's not even used
to doing this show already.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
That's a really good question, because you're exactly right. Something happens.
We can usually flip on the local channel and it's
being interpreted for us, and we are just presenting information.
And in this case, Matt Kittle, the host, and myself
and also Terry in the newsroom, we are having to
interpret what we're seeing. We're seeing still pictures and we're
(07:00):
having to basically decide, Okay, what's going on here. How
can we present this that is factual without assuming things happened.
It was very interesting, but for them, for the most part,
it was pretty much pretty clear. So two cars and
a large hole in the ground.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Yeah, and we had no idea what caused it obviously
at that point, and.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Do we still do we know yet either aren't there.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Some I think they said it was something about like
some leak in a pipe or something that created like
water underneath there that weakened the infrastructure under the street
that they just didn't know. But I wonder how you
don't know something like that's happening, Like wouldn't there like
there had to have been somebody somewhere that wasn't getting
(07:44):
the water they thought they should be getting because of
the pipe leaking right like there was.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Its mud the Metropolitan Utilities District.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Right that that would be there, And they.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Said they reported on not seeing anything come from their
side of it. They didn't recognize any changes in the
computer system, and they basically said, it's back on you
to the city. But nobody's going to want to pay
for this, nobody's going to want to be responsible.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
And they had a sinkhold downtown that still hasn't been fixed,
right like that. That's one of the things I travel
down Pacific all the time. It's like a couple of
minutes from my house where the sinkhole opened up. And
my fear is that this is going to become an
ongoing thing that they are going to have to do
this insane project proposal, and the infrastructure on the street
(08:32):
back up the hill on Pacific needs to also be fixed.
Otherwise at the bottom of the hill where this occurred,
it's going to happen again. You don't want this to
happen again. I mean, they're lucky that it didn't really
damage the vehicles that much and nobody was hurt. So
I don't know. I'm not an engineer. I'm not somebody
(08:53):
who has to fix streets. I don't know what kind
of compounds they're using to make these streets better. But
what I can tell you is my fear is that
this is going to take a long time to fix
and this is going to be a detriment to me
and a lot of other people that you specific to
get around in the exarbon area in Omaha. But what
about you, you see this the video comes out later,
(09:16):
I don't think you guys probably would have had access.
Did you have access to the video before you got
off the air?
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Absolutely not. No, we didn't get until I think the
next morning that they started to release this stuff.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Well, and even if it was later that night, you know,
there's only so much you could do in that situation.
So you were telling Matt that this is going on,
and then this happens, and then you see the video.
I mean, that's that's gotta be a pretty uneasy feeling, right,
Like my car just falls, Like I'm just sitting in
my car at a stoplight and then all of a sudden,
we're just in the ground.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Yeah, And even more so than that, I think about
my frequency on that road and on that intersection, and
I'm thinking to myself, Man, I mean, what are the
odds this happened to me? And I know everyone was
it was okay, no one got hurt or injured, but
I'm thinking to myself, I drive by that almost on
a daily basis. You know, how simply that could have
(10:07):
been me. But really, I think more people were just
in shock than anything, and just telling people to stay
away from that area. You know, in a sinkle, when
a sinkle happens, oftentimes, you know that a lot of
uncertain areas can be around there, in the ground and
in the surface. So I was just keeping people away
(10:29):
from that area. Because we had no idea. Yeah, it
could have been grow or expanded all.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Yeah, it literally could just swallowed up more cars. Like
the guys, the people behind them in line of the
stoplight probably got to be pretty lucky that they also
didn't get sucked into that thing. It's weird. It's weird.
I'll say this. It is kind of funny. I don't
want to make it sound funny because people, you know,
(10:54):
obviously it's creating work and it's a scary situation if
you were one of the cars involved. It is interesting though,
how people because eventually went national. This was a national
story because of the pictures in the video of this
sinkhole opening. It's not every day that a city in
the United States has something like this happened, and like
(11:14):
security cameras are able to see the moment it happens,
and it was kind of funny how most of what
everybody was saying was how did these people get out
of their car and say I'm not injured? Because everybody
is thinking to themselves, man, the city would evowed you
so much money if you just pretend to be hurt.
(11:34):
But I think you're playing a dangerous game by doing that, right,
Like you don't think that the city would try to
like counter sue if they think that you're faking it,
or you know, don't you have to go to a
doctor and have the doctor be like, oh, they're suffering
from chronic pain. It feels like a bit of a
risk to me.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Would you. Let's say you.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Are there and you're a normal, average working man in
Omaha and Brad and your car gets swallowed by a
sinkhole and you feel okay, maybe mentally shaken a little bit,
but you feel okay, and you know that your car
is gonna be like whatever minor damage, maybe the major
damage that happens to your car, the city should theoretically
(12:17):
be on the hook for I'm not exactly sure how
that naturance claim is gonna work on that.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
But let's say they ask you, are you okay? What
do you do? Do you do you.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Try to like think of a way to fabricate like
an ailment so you could be in line potentially to
get like you you could get a potential monetary figure
or or the type of heal yeah something, or do
(12:53):
you have the integrity enough integrity within you to be like,
I'm actually not injured and I don't want to pretend
like I'm in for a payout.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
It's an interesting thing to think about in theory. You
think about the benefit of maybe outsmarting or taking advantage
of the system. I truthfully believe in that moment, my
adrenaline and my lack of understanding of the moment happening
(13:22):
so suddenly, I don't think my mind would even process
doing something like that.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
You would just immediately be like, yeah, I'm good. I
would be just told yourself that I'm good immediately.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Fight or flight. Yeah, you know, even though somebody's helping
me out of the hole and paramedics aren't on the
scene yet, I'm still thinking, wow, that what just happened.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yeah, you're not.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Your brain's not going to like I should lie about
this so I can make money.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
And then also, there's no nothing physical that could be seen.
You know, maybe if some bumps or scratches, you'd have
to maybe say it's something with your back or your neck,
something that wouldn't be externally visible, you know, to the.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Eye, And then you would have to really sell it
for some time until you get your money. Right, Yeah,
are you are you willing to put yourself in that
situation to potentially face litigation and then get all this
into I mean, the people who were involved there got
some attention from local media, and I'm sure they would
have gotten more attention if they would have said they.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Were injured a hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
But truthfully, so this would have been a story that
not only would you have to like tell all the
people in the city that you're injured, but you'd have
to keep you know, the optics good because everybody's going
to be saying you're a faker, because people will be like, oh,
remember this is the guy that got hurt in the
in the sink hole.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
How long do you milk this for?
Speaker 3 (14:47):
It would be a very long process. Like if I
said a year, that could be lowballing it. It's like,
these things take so long and.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
You may not even have your money any you might
not even.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Have your money, and they're going to drag it out.
They as in the state or the city, whoever it is,
They're going to drag it out. Insurance is going to
be rigorous. I mean, if we were to get hurt
on the job and go through workmen's comp yeah, I
mean that thing, that process is absolutely torturous.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
You don't want to do that unless you are legitimately hurt.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
You know. And and I worked in a pharmacy, so
I see all these things all the time, and every month,
every month, when you go to pick up your prescription
or your medicine, whether that's painkillers or an antibiotic, they
has to be reapproved. It's a crazy process that nobody
really wants to be a part of willfully. Now, if
it was for a nice chunk of money, you know,
(15:37):
you'd consider it. But I don't even think your mind
would go there.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Well, one thing is sure.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
That I am going to try my best not to
fall into a sinkhole, so I don't even have this
thing that I have to think about. But also I'm
going to have to figure out alternate roots tell a
lot of the places that I go because Pacific, at
least for the time being not drivable from my house
toward Xarbon or beyond to the west in Omaha. So
(16:06):
I go to tennis courts down on Pacific all the time.
It's just a straight shop for me down by West
Side High School.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
What do I do now?
Speaker 3 (16:15):
It is so unfortunate too, because Pacific is really the
only drivable section you have Exarbon on what to the
to the south, you can't even really get through any
back roads there.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
No, it's an Elmwood Park. To the north, it's literally
it's it's literally. You can go all the way over
to Center, or you can go to Pacific and then Dodge.
Like those are the three like streets that you can
just like take and just go. But you can't turn
left on Dodge, So if you have to go anywhere
left on Dodge, Dodge doesn't really help you. You just
(16:48):
kind of have to use side streets to get around.
So then when you can jump on Pacific, you can
use that, or you take Center so you don't have
to worry about taking the little side streets that don't
go all the way through. It is a conundrum, but
you know what first world problems?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Am I? Right?
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Third world problem in a first world city, That's what
it is. Peyton Highlock, appreciate you sitting with me, my man.
We're gonna do this at least you and me a
couple of times a week, and I'll have different guests
and stuff on this podcast feed, but we'll talk to
you soon.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Man.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Appreciate it, Yeah, no problem, memory. I'm excited to get
this started. Hopefully we can get some fun topics, some
fun guests, and really really make something from this.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Yeah, it'll be a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Just keep following this podcast feed Emery Songer Podcast and
we will continue to have some fun stuff with Peyton
and with all sorts of things happening in and around Omaha.
And I will talk to you again every weekday. Appreciate
you for listening.
Yeah, we're sitting here and this is Emery Songer, and
you are listening indeed to the Emory Songer podcast on
the free iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
This is where I had.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
My Omaha radio show on elevnton KFAB for two and
a half years. And as we did segments that we
liked or thought were funny or informative, we would clip
these and post these to this podcast feed.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
And I as you heard.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
A couple of weeks ago, in the middle of February,
I think it was Valentine's Day, actually, I made the
announcement that I am no longer going to be doing
the afternoon show. It was a bittersweet announcement, but it
was an announcement that was a not a long time coming,
but sometime coming. I knew for a few months that
my time was limited doing the afternoons in Omaha while
(00:56):
simultaneously doing a morning show for the entire state of Iya.
I won multiple radio stations, and the plans that were
laid out kind of in front of me of what
the kfab team was hopefully going to do moving forward.
I felt that was a good situation for KFAB and
(01:16):
me spending more of my effort to a stable situation
in Iowa was a better idea of what to do
with the majority of my time. So I'm happy about
Chris Baker coming back to KFAB. It was fun to
be on Reverse Trivia, and I'm sure I'll be a
part of different things throughout KFAB throughout the day in
(01:42):
the future. But I'm also really excited about what the
future holds for the station beyond just me. That being said,
i still have things to say that I wanted to
say that our Omaha related and joining me to start
the endeavor of the podcast is my friend and my
former producer but current producer of the afternoon show on
(02:04):
eleven ten KFAB, Peyton high Lock. Hey, I long time
they see how you doing?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
What a pleasure to get back on the microphone together. Man?
Is it fun time? I would say, it's a pleasure.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
I appreciate that. Thank you. It means a lot to me.
You're how's it has it been going?
Speaker 1 (02:22):
I mean, I'm certainly a little bit different than what
Chris is bringing you on a day to day basis,
although what it's been two days.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Yeah, we've gotten two days to work together, and you know,
first and foremost there's a learning curve. There's things that
you like, there's things that Chris likes, and it's just
trying to adapt and be coachable between your guys' preferences
and all this stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
The life of a producer, you.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Know, right, because ultimately I'm just a Robin to the batman.
So I'm just doing whatever I can to make it
the easiest. But it's going really good so far. I
think there's a big taste, a big take, a big
difference in taste of music. Maybe I might like your
music a little bit better.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Thank you, thank you. Well.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
This's the other thing too, is you know, people ask
me about the music choices, and that's such an important
part of the show. I mean it really is, because yeah,
it sounds cool, and I want people to get like
the references of the songs. But the songs that we play,
and this is I would imagine for almost everybody who
does this type of work. The music that we play
(03:34):
is music that fires us up, gets us excited to talk.
You know, when I hear Hawthorne Heights, or I hear
Jimmy Hendrix, or I hear Van Halen as we're coming
out of commercial, I'm going, yeah, all right, Like I'm
back in this right, and it was a bonus, an
added plus that people would compliment me and be like, oh,
cohed and Cambria or or bullet for my Valentine. Amazing. Yeah,
(03:57):
I love that. But you, as the producer, you kind
of just have to go with the flow. I was
in your shoes. I was a producer for five years
on a morning show before I got the opportunity to
host my own show, and it was an invaluable experience
for sure, to say the least. I'm also just unfortunately
(04:17):
not able to jump on the air and just like
opine about things in Omaha. So this is one of
the things that we're going to be doing on this podcast,
is just opining.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Is that that I do? I think? Did I use
that word right?
Speaker 3 (04:32):
You said it with enough confidence. I just was going
along with it.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Well it is now. It is now. This sinkhole situation
that happened last week. Do you see that?
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Yes, because I seen it because we were on air.
We had a fill in host that day. It was
I think maybe Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Yeah, yeah, my friend Matt Kittle.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Yeah, and we're getting news from the news room about
a sinkhole. I've gotten a couple of phone calls.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
What do you think about this?
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Have you ever thought about a sinkhole in like in
that way before where you're like, I don't even know, Like,
how do we even like report on this?
Speaker 3 (05:09):
I have no idea what's going on. I'm thinking to myself,
I know Omaha has some mean potholes. I mean, I know,
is somebody getting a little dramatic here, and I'm thinking
a sinkhole. I'm thinking about a sinkhole that is like
you see in Thailand or somewhere in Asia, where like
the whole street just in caves on itself and it's gone.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
And I see these pictures. They didn't have too many
great pictures at first. It was just kind of bystander photos.
I was like, oh my gosh, these these cars actually
in the ground. They're actually in the ground. And everybody,
you know, like I said, we're getting some calls and
people are.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
So so what do you so? So Matt peak behind
the curtain here. Matt was in Des Moines doing the
Omaha show, so you're not able to like just sit
across from him. He can't like talk to the new
newsroom as they're finding this stuff out, as you're getting
in the phone calls and as you're probably talking to
the newsroom, is this story? I mean, I don't know
(06:08):
how much like it's breaking news for us and for traffic,
so people know to avoid Pacific and sixty seventh, but
I don't like, it's not like severe weather where you're
gonna flip on local news and like they've gone wall
to wall with coverage on the sink hole. So how
are you getting in contact and explaining not just this
(06:29):
situation but also the geography to a guy that's not
even in Omaha at the time, who's not even used
to doing this show already.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
That's a really good question, because you're exactly right. Something happens.
We can usually flip on the local channel and it's
being interpreted for us, and we are just presenting information.
And in this case, Matt Kittle, the host, and myself
and also Terry in the newsroom, we are having to
interpret what we're seeing. We're seeing still pictures and we're
(07:00):
having to basically decide, Okay, what's going on here. How
can we present this that is factual without assuming things happened.
It was very interesting, but for them, for the most part,
it was pretty much pretty clear. So two cars and
a large hole in the ground.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Yeah, and we had no idea what caused it obviously
at that point, and.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Do we still do we know yet either aren't there.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Some I think they said it was something about like
some leak in a pipe or something that created like
water underneath there that weakened the infrastructure under the street
that they just didn't know. But I wonder how you
don't know something like that's happening, Like wouldn't there like
there had to have been somebody somewhere that wasn't getting
(07:44):
the water they thought they should be getting because of
the pipe leaking right like there was.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Its mud the Metropolitan Utilities District.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Right that that would be there, And they.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Said they reported on not seeing anything come from their
side of it. They didn't recognize any changes in the
computer system, and they basically said, it's back on you
to the city. But nobody's going to want to pay
for this, nobody's going to want to be responsible.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
And they had a sinkhold downtown that still hasn't been fixed,
right like that. That's one of the things I travel
down Pacific all the time. It's like a couple of
minutes from my house where the sinkhole opened up. And
my fear is that this is going to become an
ongoing thing that they are going to have to do
this insane project proposal, and the infrastructure on the street
(08:32):
back up the hill on Pacific needs to also be fixed.
Otherwise at the bottom of the hill where this occurred,
it's going to happen again. You don't want this to
happen again. I mean, they're lucky that it didn't really
damage the vehicles that much and nobody was hurt. So
I don't know. I'm not an engineer. I'm not somebody
(08:53):
who has to fix streets. I don't know what kind
of compounds they're using to make these streets better. But
what I can tell you is my fear is that
this is going to take a long time to fix
and this is going to be a detriment to me
and a lot of other people that you specific to
get around in the exarbon area in Omaha. But what
about you, you see this the video comes out later,
(09:16):
I don't think you guys probably would have had access.
Did you have access to the video before you got
off the air?
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Absolutely not. No, we didn't get until I think the
next morning that they started to release this stuff.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Well, and even if it was later that night, you know,
there's only so much you could do in that situation.
So you were telling Matt that this is going on,
and then this happens, and then you see the video.
I mean, that's that's gotta be a pretty uneasy feeling, right,
Like my car just falls, Like I'm just sitting in
my car at a stoplight and then all of a sudden,
we're just in the ground.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Yeah, And even more so than that, I think about
my frequency on that road and on that intersection, and
I'm thinking to myself, Man, I mean, what are the
odds this happened to me? And I know everyone was
it was okay, no one got hurt or injured, but
I'm thinking to myself, I drive by that almost on
a daily basis. You know, how simply that could have
(10:07):
been me. But really, I think more people were just
in shock than anything, and just telling people to stay
away from that area. You know, in a sinkle, when
a sinkle happens, oftentimes, you know that a lot of
uncertain areas can be around there, in the ground and
in the surface. So I was just keeping people away
(10:29):
from that area. Because we had no idea. Yeah, it
could have been grow or expanded all.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Yeah, it literally could just swallowed up more cars. Like
the guys, the people behind them in line of the
stoplight probably got to be pretty lucky that they also
didn't get sucked into that thing. It's weird. It's weird.
I'll say this. It is kind of funny. I don't
want to make it sound funny because people, you know,
(10:54):
obviously it's creating work and it's a scary situation if
you were one of the cars involved. It is interesting though,
how people because eventually went national. This was a national
story because of the pictures in the video of this
sinkhole opening. It's not every day that a city in
the United States has something like this happened, and like
(11:14):
security cameras are able to see the moment it happens,
and it was kind of funny how most of what
everybody was saying was how did these people get out
of their car and say I'm not injured? Because everybody
is thinking to themselves, man, the city would evowed you
so much money if you just pretend to be hurt.
(11:34):
But I think you're playing a dangerous game by doing that, right,
Like you don't think that the city would try to
like counter sue if they think that you're faking it,
or you know, don't you have to go to a
doctor and have the doctor be like, oh, they're suffering
from chronic pain. It feels like a bit of a
risk to me.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Would you. Let's say you.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Are there and you're a normal, average working man in
Omaha and Brad and your car gets swallowed by a
sinkhole and you feel okay, maybe mentally shaken a little bit,
but you feel okay, and you know that your car
is gonna be like whatever minor damage, maybe the major
damage that happens to your car, the city should theoretically
(12:17):
be on the hook for I'm not exactly sure how
that naturance claim is gonna work on that.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
But let's say they ask you, are you okay? What
do you do? Do you do you.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Try to like think of a way to fabricate like
an ailment so you could be in line potentially to
get like you you could get a potential monetary figure
or or the type of heal yeah something, or do
(12:53):
you have the integrity enough integrity within you to be like,
I'm actually not injured and I don't want to pretend
like I'm in for a payout.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
It's an interesting thing to think about in theory. You
think about the benefit of maybe outsmarting or taking advantage
of the system. I truthfully believe in that moment, my
adrenaline and my lack of understanding of the moment happening
(13:22):
so suddenly, I don't think my mind would even process
doing something like that.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
You would just immediately be like, yeah, I'm good. I
would be just told yourself that I'm good immediately.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Fight or flight. Yeah, you know, even though somebody's helping
me out of the hole and paramedics aren't on the
scene yet, I'm still thinking, wow, that what just happened.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yeah, you're not.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Your brain's not going to like I should lie about
this so I can make money.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
And then also, there's no nothing physical that could be seen.
You know, maybe if some bumps or scratches, you'd have
to maybe say it's something with your back or your neck,
something that wouldn't be externally visible, you know, to the.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Eye, And then you would have to really sell it
for some time until you get your money. Right, Yeah,
are you are you willing to put yourself in that
situation to potentially face litigation and then get all this
into I mean, the people who were involved there got
some attention from local media, and I'm sure they would
have gotten more attention if they would have said they.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Were injured a hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
But truthfully, so this would have been a story that
not only would you have to like tell all the
people in the city that you're injured, but you'd have
to keep you know, the optics good because everybody's going
to be saying you're a faker, because people will be like, oh,
remember this is the guy that got hurt in the
in the sink hole.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
How long do you milk this for?
Speaker 3 (14:47):
It would be a very long process. Like if I
said a year, that could be lowballing it. It's like,
these things take so long and.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
You may not even have your money any you might
not even.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Have your money, and they're going to drag it out.
They as in the state or the city, whoever it is,
They're going to drag it out. Insurance is going to
be rigorous. I mean, if we were to get hurt
on the job and go through workmen's comp yeah, I
mean that thing, that process is absolutely torturous.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
You don't want to do that unless you are legitimately hurt.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
You know. And and I worked in a pharmacy, so
I see all these things all the time, and every month,
every month, when you go to pick up your prescription
or your medicine, whether that's painkillers or an antibiotic, they
has to be reapproved. It's a crazy process that nobody
really wants to be a part of willfully. Now, if
it was for a nice chunk of money, you know,
(15:37):
you'd consider it. But I don't even think your mind
would go there.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Well, one thing is sure.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
That I am going to try my best not to
fall into a sinkhole, so I don't even have this
thing that I have to think about. But also I'm
going to have to figure out alternate roots tell a
lot of the places that I go because Pacific, at
least for the time being not drivable from my house
toward Xarbon or beyond to the west in Omaha. So
(16:06):
I go to tennis courts down on Pacific all the time.
It's just a straight shop for me down by West
Side High School.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
What do I do now?
Speaker 3 (16:15):
It is so unfortunate too, because Pacific is really the
only drivable section you have Exarbon on what to the
to the south, you can't even really get through any
back roads there.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
No, it's an Elmwood Park. To the north, it's literally
it's it's literally. You can go all the way over
to Center, or you can go to Pacific and then Dodge.
Like those are the three like streets that you can
just like take and just go. But you can't turn
left on Dodge, So if you have to go anywhere
left on Dodge, Dodge doesn't really help you. You just
(16:48):
kind of have to use side streets to get around.
So then when you can jump on Pacific, you can
use that, or you take Center so you don't have
to worry about taking the little side streets that don't
go all the way through. It is a conundrum, but
you know what first world problems?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Am I? Right?
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Third world problem in a first world city, That's what
it is. Peyton Highlock, appreciate you sitting with me, my man.
We're gonna do this at least you and me a
couple of times a week, and I'll have different guests
and stuff on this podcast feed, but we'll talk to
you soon.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Man.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Appreciate it, Yeah, no problem, memory. I'm excited to get
this started. Hopefully we can get some fun topics, some
fun guests, and really really make something from this.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Yeah, it'll be a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Just keep following this podcast feed Emery Songer Podcast and
we will continue to have some fun stuff with Peyton
and with all sorts of things happening in and around Omaha.
And I will talk to you again every weekday. Appreciate
you for listening.
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