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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You know some people. I mean, like Tim was telling
me he does the flags at Memorial Stadium.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
So like the big flags at Memorial Stadium that you see, Yeah,
like that's that's the work of durable flags.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I want I want a big one. I want one
so big that when it gets windy, it slaps my
neighbor's house. Mmmm. You giving a good old slapping.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Can you imagine it's driving down the like in the
neighborhood and you just see somebody with one of those
giant Perkins sized flags. You see those flags. I'm fascinated
by things that large, like really free flowing, like big
buildings are cool and stuff. But there's something about like
hot air balloons and this. You know me, I'm a
I'm a hot air balloon guy. He's a hot air
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balloon guy. He's a hot air balloon connoisseur. I'm a
hot air balloon enthust. I just I'm an amateur, hobbyist enthusiast.
I also am a big time what is my how
do I uh probably put this? If I could do
anything in the world and don't have to worry about price,
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I didn't have to worry about availability. A hot everlooning
would be like one of the things that I would
be like, it'd be a finalist for sure, And I'm excited.
In late July, I'm going to go back to the
National Balloon Classic and I'm going to be there and
then you know, Iowa for a while and do a
lot of stuff with them, right, Like, what do you
love most about it? It's it's the same reason why
those flags are so fascinating to me. You have this
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gigantic I mean, if you especially the hot everallon TI.
I was a kid when they were big and round ones.
Now they're a little bit skinnier because those are easier
to go up and down and it makes more sense
with the science. But these big giant balloons, they're just
cloth and you fill it with air and then you
put heat into it. You put that flame into it,
and then it like it sits up and it's like
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it's in the air and it's like moving around and
you can see it. And then if you let go
and you let it fly away, it just flies away.
It's just flying. It's up there. It's just so big.
There's just something that it just puts the hair on
the back of my neck. Stands up when I just
see something so large but seemingly free. A flag kind
of reminds me of that the flag's hooked to a pole,
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but as it billows in the breeze, especially those giant ones,
You're just like, wow, that's so it's so cool, just
like to see it moving like that and how big,
Like your brain tries to like imagine just how big
it is. And I don't know, there's just something about it, man,
there's something peaceful, is something I don't I don't know.
It's it's great though. However, as time goes on, you know,
(02:26):
you learn about different things, and you know one thing
that I, uh, you know what I think?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
What do you think?
Speaker 1 (02:31):
I think I'm gonna buy a lot of flags now, yeah,
I'm a flag guy. Now you go to deck your
whole house out in him. Well, I was thinking about
this my wife and I was trying to think of
ways that we can commemorate our like trips, because we've
gone on a lot of trips here in the last
five years or so.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Some people get spoons for that.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Spoons, Yeah, like a.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Spoon collection that commemorates where you went last.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Or like shotglasses or something yeah. Yeah, I was thinking
like something that had the flags on it, right, Like
we could have the flags of the places like Virginia, Maryland, Arkansas, California.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
That's fun, yeah, because they all have different looking flags.
I love Maryland's flag. Yeah, what a unique one that is.
That's maybe would you rank it? Maybe if hey early
contender for Friday four Top four state flags.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Top four flags in general. You know what a great
flag is nepol Oh yeah, look it up, nepaul. Yeah,
you know how to spell nepol I sure do, any
pl Yeah, it's monee pal interesting. Yeah, it's a unique one.
So is it a square? No, it's the shape your see,
So it is that shape? Tell people what it looks like.
I'm seeing some people have it square though. Now, so
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it's two It's basically two triangles red with a blue
outline and there's a white on one end of the
triangles which the triangles are. The point is facing to
the right right, so if it's if it's laid out
in front of you, the point is facing to the right.
It's two triangles. Yeah, these are not right trying there's
a flat side to it.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
M m yeah. So they almost look like what would
you call those flags that you get that are like
triangle flag. There's a name for those, but it.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Looks like two of those stacked, like the like the
you put on the back of your wheelchair or your moped.
Is that what you're referencing.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
I was thinking more that you would get as a
sort of like way to root on the home team
at homecoming or something.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Oh, Pennance, that's it, Penance. Yeah, yeah, okay, Yeah, Now anyway,
there you go. We are I don't know, we're spoiled
in this country that you can fly any flag you want,
but I could put Spain and Dora, the Netherlands. Now, yeah,
just all the places that we've gotten a chance. I'm
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missing some spots, but yeah, Florida a lot of fun,
a lot of fun. Mexico. We've been in Mexico. We've
been to Jamaica. So you know, we're starting to tally
up some international trips, some foreign places that we've been.
It's a lot of excitement. Now four fifteen is the
time when we come back. Let's talk about the election
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and all of a sudden, the si situation that I
had here. I'm going to open the phone lines if
you'd like to help us out with this and help
us understand the annexing. And I have some information and
emails that I want to read because I think that's
kind of the story that I want to talk about
is I didn't even know that was a thing that
people are just kind of in the wilderness, if you will.
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That they don't have really any representation at the city level,
except they can vote on boards or in county elections,
I suppose, but they don't have a chance to vote
for city election like the city council. They don't have
They're in a district, so they can't vote for a
person in a district, and they don't have the ability
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to vote for the mayor, which I know a lot
of people aren't super happy about. We'll talk about that
coming up right after this on News Radio eleven to
ten Kfabrie's song.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
I am genuinely sad for Jason Tatum because I like
him as a player.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
He seems like a nice knife guy.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
He dropped forty two points last night. What a game.
It's amazing that achilles injury. It always seems to be
an exhaustion thing. Remember that year when Kobe was just
giving it his all and he was basically all the
Lakers had at that time. They were cap space strapped
and just not really building a great team around him,
and he was just good.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
But yeah, he did. He went to superhero mode there
towards the end of his.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
GA did and then of course his achilles blows because
he's becuse he.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Was like thirty or something. He was like thirty six
thirty seven when that happened, and he I remember, he
stayed in the game, made the free throws and then
walked off the floor. Mm hmm, like Tatum. I mean
he called the time out while he was laying on
the floor. He couldn't even stand up. So I mean
everybody kind of like last year Deshaun Watson tore his
achilles and he went down in a massive heap and
just laid there. Aaron Rodgers went down when he tore
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his achilles and just sat there. And then uh Kirk
Cousins tore his achilles and stood up and like jumped
off the field on one leg. Everybody kind of handles
that crazy pain differently. Anyway, I am wearing a sticker
my shirt that says I voted today, Ask who I
voted for?
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Who'd you vote?
Speaker 1 (07:04):
For I'm not telling you that that's personal information. Mind
your own dang business.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Wow, I feel set up.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Sorry, I thought that would be funny. You wrote in
Mayor mccheese. Didn't you did not did not do that.
Although you could theoretically do that, you want people to
do that.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
I don't want people to do that. I just suggested
it to email or yesterday a guy named Joe who
said he was mad that his candidate wasn't on the
list anymore and he wasn't going to vote, And I said, hey, Joe,
for my entertainment, you could still show up and then
you could vote for Mayor mccheese. And then that you
enough people could do that to where it got talked
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about on the local news, and then you would give
me a sense of entertainment. So there's at least that
I was just trying to give people reasons to get
out to the polls. I was just doing my civic duty.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Okay, you sure about that?
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Now that I say it out loud, you kind of
feel like that was just a bad idea overall. Yeah,
I think it's a little selfish to make it about me.
A pretty good idea not to not to take that advice, I'll, uh,
you know what, I'm gonna think it over, maybe find
some personal growth.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
All right. So anyway, the one thing I think has
been uh, it may maybe this is a little bit
of me being just an ignoramus, but this SID thing
was foreign language to me until I got here today
and a lot of people are giving me information. Ken
(08:30):
sent in a bunch of bullet points essentially of what
you need to know about Sid's Because we had a
guy named Chris who said I couldn't vote. I showed
up to what I believed it was a polling place
that I could vote in. They told me I wasn't
eligible to vote for mayor. I'm in the Elkhorn area.
And then a bunch of people when I read that email,
I was like, I don't think that's intentional voter suppression.
I just think that maybe they don't have everything lined
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up to allow people to vote. When they annexed that area,
it just kind of becomes Amaha proper, and then the
town basically dissolved its own person governments. There are places
within I suppose what have been Elcorn that is kind
of attached or appended to Omaha, but it's not actually
in the city limits of Omaha. Well, Ken said. An
SID in Nebraska is used to develop land into neighborhoods.
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It has its own taxing ability with limits set by
the state through property taxes. We can get more funds
if needed through bonds. Our SID is responsible for the roads,
street signs, and water. We are in the county for zoning.
Sids can vary depending on services in that area. Sids
can be annexed by a nearby city if the city
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wants them, or they can go around it. Most of
that depends on the debt the sid oh's if annexed
and new end of day would have to be paid
off any balances. Hope that helps, Thanks Ken, and I
appreciate that. Is this the same Ken that just called
in Ken on the phone line of four h two
five to five eight?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Ken?
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Are you the same Ken that just send me that email?
All right, Ken, help me out with this. Explain why
certain people in Elcorn can't vote.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
I believe it's because they were in the SID, but
Elkohore is a little different. They were trying to get
Elkohn was trying to expand, to get big enough so
they couldnt be annexed, which I think is ten thousand people. Yeah, Omaha,
Omaha found out they annexed them. So I don't think
that everybody that was going to get axed got annex
by Elkhorn before that happened, Okay, Yeah, and that would
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be in the zoning.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Yeah, and that would explain Ken, the lawsuit that I
read about, that would have happened ahead of the annexation
back in two thousand and seven. Right. So, so for
sids for that purpose, like you mentioned in the email,
this is mainly for housing development, right, correct, So they're
not even though you're not in what would be Omaha proper,
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you're still kind of in the area and you can
vote on like Omaha boards in Douglas County boards and
things like that if you live in Douglas County, but
you just can't vote in city elections and you're not
necessarily represented by an actual city council member.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Correct, just like if you're just outside the city limits
for any reason, you're not eligible.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Dang all right, well I can see how that could
be absolutely confusing to a lot of people. Hey, Ken,
thanks for thinking of us, thanks for listening, and thanks
for educating us today.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Yeah, Well, there's a lot of spaces in Oma that
they are in SIDS, and they go around them because
they pay up too much debt or they don't want
to ADDX them because they upgrades they need to do
to them, so they keep them in SID and then
continue on. We're around rounded about, But there's a map
that basically shows all that where everybody is.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Oma interesting. Yeah, I think that would be a hoove
a lot of us to go and study that map
for a bit. Ken, thanks so much for the call
them up man, I really appreciate, no problem. Yeah, it's
great information. We'll keep trying to figure that out. This
time tomorrow we'll have the we'll have the answer. Right well,
we'll know who won the election, and I guess we'll
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just see how people are if they're happy about that,
and then if there are any upsets in the city
council races. Six of the seven two of them are
not contesting right now, they're just a single person on
the ballot. I'm sure voter turnouts are going to be
pretty low as far as that's concerned, unless people are
really just excited to vote for mayor, which you would
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think that people would be. And then of the other
five districts four of them. It's the incumbent that won
the primary, and it's probably a heavy favorite to win
in the election today. So if you haven't find your
polling place, you know how fast I was in and
out in my pulling place. Now, I went over lunch hour,
so maybe at five o'clock, six o'clock it'll be a
little different.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Sixteen minutes is my guess.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
From the time I parked to the time I left,
it was four minutes.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Walked in, got my ballot very easy, there was no
line filled it out. I only had three things to
vote for mayor city council in that city amendment, basically
saying if we want the city council to just appoint
someone essentially to a city council seat in the last
two years of a term, then we can do that.
Those are the only three things that you would be
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voting for. And then I put it back in the
little slighter thing, handed it over, got my sticker in
the left. It was real easy.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
But did you get a sucker?
Speaker 1 (13:05):
No? I don't want to sucker. I don't like suckers anyway.
Is it gross? Make your hands sticky and make your
mouth sticky? I don't like them, said, maybe that's something
they could offer. No, that's dumb. That's dumb. All right,
it was a bad idea. You know why. That's sugar
or FK's coming after you bring it on, totsy pop
loving maniac over there, I.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Got some beef paalow right over here.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
RFK Junior, Oh oh gross, four thirty is like that.
It's disgusting. You know what's more coming up on news
Radio eleven tape Kfab.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Em Riy songer on news Radio eleven ten Kfab.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
If you're living in an area like that and you
cannot vote for may or, I wish I could do
the best that I can. So yeah, So just to
finish the conversation on this, we expect maybe a little
bit better turnout. I think Matt is at twenty eight percent.
I said, thirty point five percent or so of what
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the the whole gambit I suppose of voter turnout. You
want to know, I went at like noon today or
twelve fifteen or so, Matt, and you know what number
I was. I believe in my precinct three hundred and
twenty four ninety nine, Okay, I believe I think I
was the ninety ninth person if that number, they say,
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because there's like there were four poll workers, which God
blessed the poll workers, especially on these smaller elections in
these precincts that probably aren't getting a ton of action.
They are not busy there, at least they were not busy.
When I was there. There was a person voting and
then left, and then I voted, and then I left
and there was nobody else there. I don't know, but
ninety nine in like four hours. I don't know how
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to grade that. I don't even know how to guess.
I don't even know how many people technically live in
my precincts.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
So, you know, for overreacting's sake, do you remember last
time in the primary what your number was, and was
it around the same time of day when you were there.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
It would have been close to the same time of day,
maybe just a hair earlier, and it was a lot smaller,
So that's a good sign, I think. Yeah. I think
I was like in the forties or something, and I
showed up at like eleven fifteen or something.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Hey, so if we're overreacting here, I guess, unless unless
I'm double at this time, or maybe there's just a
little bit of a rush right before I got there
that helped get us to the nineties or so, if
that number is what that is, I'm reading into something
that I know nothing about.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Again, this is this is the thing I'm going to
tell you straight up when I am well informed, or
if I am not, And I'm just assuming this is
all assumption here, but i'd like to think that you know,
we're doing better and we can get a bigger turnout here.
With that being said, I wonder, and this is a
personal thing that I hope, and this is not me
(15:48):
preaching to anyone who's listening out there, but I wonder
what the initial reaction is going to be, and if
there's going to be a lot of loud people on
social media saying that they are upset, how many write
ins do you think there will be? Do you think
a bunch of people will write in people like Mike McDonald.
They'll go and vote, but they'll write in McDonald because
they're frustrated that he's not on the ballot and they
don't like the other two candidates.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
It'll be a small My guess is it'll be aboutzero
point four percent.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
The same amount that you said would vote for Mayor mccheese.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
I don't think Mayor mccheese is gonna get a vote,
but if he does, i'm gonna take credit.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
You should. Nobody was thinking about that until you said it.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
So McDonald's lost the right to even have him in
there advertising in nineteen eighty five. How do you know that?
Because I googled it? Well, where did he come from?
Where did he go? Where did he come from? Gott nigh, Joe,
not no, not necessary? Uh, Mayor mccheese. He was the
main character in the series, first appearing in nineteen seventy
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one and disappeared in nineteen eighty five because they thought
he was too similar to another cartoon character, which was
I had it and you don't know. Wait a second,
this is why we don't want him. This, this is
why we don't win the Marconi. Well, I'm seeing some
weird stuff about Mary mc cheese and I don't want
to report on it until I can verify what kind
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of weird stuff it's saying that he was assassinated.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
That's inappropriate. He was assassinated in a family guy a bit. Oh,
that must be it. Yeah, I watched that episode. It
was making a joke about Mary mccheese writing in a
convertible and it they made it look like he was Kennedy.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
They inappropriate. Why does family guy do that?
Speaker 1 (17:27):
And then and then Jackie was sitting next to him,
and you know he gets his brain Oh no, no,
and then jack terrible no, Jackie jumps on the back
of the con and then she just she's like stuffing
her fan big farlan, Like, go to therapy. That's what
that's my suggestion for that guy. What is wrong with
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that guy?
Speaker 2 (17:48):
It's a joke, right, but it's a joke. I know
it's a joke. My goodness, gracious, what's going on in
that brain? He's got some things to heal from.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
No, it's just a joke. If you're not chuckling at
Jackie on Nassis jumping on the back of the of
the convertop burger like it's a joke, stop taking yourself
so seriously.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Mayor mccheese was my hero as a kid. And you
tell me this.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
I thought you said, nineteen eighty five is when he
got canned. Yeah, I guess the dates don't add up. Yeah,
I feel like that's before you were born. Hello, Hello
McFly anybody home. Not usually also something that came out
before you were born.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Shout out Crispin Glover.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Hey, that's right, Crispin Glover, good old Crispin Glover.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Who was in the first one, but contrary to popular belief,
was not in the second or third one.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
He was not, and that's pretty controversial. He sued.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
He shut him because, yeah, they put a face makeup
on a replacement actor and Back to the Future too
for the continuity, because he didn't agree to be in
the film. And which, by the way, Crispin Glove, who
do you think you are? I mean, honestly, you're always
going to be George McFly and you should have just
gone along with it and been a part of our
childhood and said you had to be a weirdo.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
The guy's name is Crispin.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Yeah, it's probably not like what are we doing? You
know what? His middle name is probably like air Fryer.
Who knows Crispin Hellian Glover. Yeah, see Hellian Okay, Hellian Right,
we don't need this either way, though. I think he's
great in that movie, and it's just really sad that
he's you know, he didn't want to be in the
second one, but he did win that lawsuit and it
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changed the way that people viewed Hollywood. You couldn't just
make somebody look look a certain way. If you couldn't
get the right actor, you couldn't just like fake the
actor being there. So anyway, four forty seven, I don't
know how we got to that, but we did. Might
as well give some SS not just to us, but
to other people as well when we come back on
news radio eleven ten kfab
You know some people. I mean, like Tim was telling
me he does the flags at Memorial Stadium.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
So like the big flags at Memorial Stadium that you see, Yeah,
like that's that's the work of durable flags.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I want I want a big one. I want one
so big that when it gets windy, it slaps my
neighbor's house. Mmmm. You giving a good old slapping.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Can you imagine it's driving down the like in the
neighborhood and you just see somebody with one of those
giant Perkins sized flags. You see those flags. I'm fascinated
by things that large, like really free flowing, like big
buildings are cool and stuff. But there's something about like
hot air balloons and this. You know me, I'm a
I'm a hot air balloon guy. He's a hot air
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balloon guy. He's a hot air balloon connoisseur. I'm a
hot air balloon enthust. I just I'm an amateur, hobbyist enthusiast.
I also am a big time what is my how
do I uh probably put this? If I could do
anything in the world and don't have to worry about price,
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I didn't have to worry about availability. A hot everlooning
would be like one of the things that I would
be like, it'd be a finalist for sure, And I'm excited.
In late July, I'm going to go back to the
National Balloon Classic and I'm going to be there and
then you know, Iowa for a while and do a
lot of stuff with them, right, Like, what do you
love most about it? It's it's the same reason why
those flags are so fascinating to me. You have this
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gigantic I mean, if you especially the hot everallon TI.
I was a kid when they were big and round ones.
Now they're a little bit skinnier because those are easier
to go up and down and it makes more sense
with the science. But these big giant balloons, they're just
cloth and you fill it with air and then you
put heat into it. You put that flame into it,
and then it like it sits up and it's like
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it's in the air and it's like moving around and
you can see it. And then if you let go
and you let it fly away, it just flies away.
It's just flying. It's up there. It's just so big.
There's just something that it just puts the hair on
the back of my neck. Stands up when I just
see something so large but seemingly free. A flag kind
of reminds me of that the flag's hooked to a pole,
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but as it billows in the breeze, especially those giant ones,
You're just like, wow, that's so it's so cool, just
like to see it moving like that and how big,
Like your brain tries to like imagine just how big
it is. And I don't know, there's just something about it, man,
there's something peaceful, is something I don't I don't know.
It's it's great though. However, as time goes on, you know,
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you learn about different things, and you know one thing
that I, uh, you know what I think?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
What do you think?
Speaker 1 (02:31):
I think I'm gonna buy a lot of flags now, yeah,
I'm a flag guy. Now you go to deck your
whole house out in him. Well, I was thinking about
this my wife and I was trying to think of
ways that we can commemorate our like trips, because we've
gone on a lot of trips here in the last
five years or so.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Some people get spoons for that.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Spoons, Yeah, like a.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Spoon collection that commemorates where you went last.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Or like shotglasses or something yeah. Yeah, I was thinking
like something that had the flags on it, right, Like
we could have the flags of the places like Virginia, Maryland, Arkansas, California.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
That's fun, yeah, because they all have different looking flags.
I love Maryland's flag. Yeah, what a unique one that is.
That's maybe would you rank it? Maybe if hey early
contender for Friday four Top four state flags.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Top four flags in general. You know what a great
flag is nepol Oh yeah, look it up, nepaul. Yeah,
you know how to spell nepol I sure do, any
pl Yeah, it's monee pal interesting. Yeah, it's a unique one.
So is it a square? No, it's the shape your see,
So it is that shape? Tell people what it looks like.
I'm seeing some people have it square though. Now, so
(03:37):
it's two It's basically two triangles red with a blue
outline and there's a white on one end of the
triangles which the triangles are. The point is facing to
the right right, so if it's if it's laid out
in front of you, the point is facing to the right.
It's two triangles. Yeah, these are not right trying there's
a flat side to it.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
M m yeah. So they almost look like what would
you call those flags that you get that are like
triangle flag. There's a name for those, but it.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Looks like two of those stacked, like the like the
you put on the back of your wheelchair or your moped.
Is that what you're referencing.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
I was thinking more that you would get as a
sort of like way to root on the home team
at homecoming or something.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Oh, Pennance, that's it, Penance. Yeah, yeah, okay, Yeah, Now anyway,
there you go. We are I don't know, we're spoiled
in this country that you can fly any flag you want,
but I could put Spain and Dora, the Netherlands. Now, yeah,
just all the places that we've gotten a chance. I'm
(04:38):
missing some spots, but yeah, Florida a lot of fun,
a lot of fun. Mexico. We've been in Mexico. We've
been to Jamaica. So you know, we're starting to tally
up some international trips, some foreign places that we've been.
It's a lot of excitement. Now four fifteen is the
time when we come back. Let's talk about the election
(04:58):
and all of a sudden, the si situation that I
had here. I'm going to open the phone lines if
you'd like to help us out with this and help
us understand the annexing. And I have some information and
emails that I want to read because I think that's
kind of the story that I want to talk about
is I didn't even know that was a thing that
people are just kind of in the wilderness, if you will.
(05:19):
That they don't have really any representation at the city level,
except they can vote on boards or in county elections,
I suppose, but they don't have a chance to vote
for city election like the city council. They don't have
They're in a district, so they can't vote for a
person in a district, and they don't have the ability
(05:40):
to vote for the mayor, which I know a lot
of people aren't super happy about. We'll talk about that
coming up right after this on News Radio eleven to
ten Kfabrie's song.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
I am genuinely sad for Jason Tatum because I like
him as a player.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
He seems like a nice knife guy.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
He dropped forty two points last night. What a game.
It's amazing that achilles injury. It always seems to be
an exhaustion thing. Remember that year when Kobe was just
giving it his all and he was basically all the
Lakers had at that time. They were cap space strapped
and just not really building a great team around him,
and he was just good.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
But yeah, he did. He went to superhero mode there
towards the end of his.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
GA did and then of course his achilles blows because
he's becuse he.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Was like thirty or something. He was like thirty six
thirty seven when that happened, and he I remember, he
stayed in the game, made the free throws and then
walked off the floor. Mm hmm, like Tatum. I mean
he called the time out while he was laying on
the floor. He couldn't even stand up. So I mean
everybody kind of like last year Deshaun Watson tore his
achilles and he went down in a massive heap and
just laid there. Aaron Rodgers went down when he tore
(06:44):
his achilles and just sat there. And then uh Kirk
Cousins tore his achilles and stood up and like jumped
off the field on one leg. Everybody kind of handles
that crazy pain differently. Anyway, I am wearing a sticker
my shirt that says I voted today, Ask who I
voted for?
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Who'd you vote?
Speaker 1 (07:04):
For I'm not telling you that that's personal information. Mind
your own dang business.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Wow, I feel set up.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Sorry, I thought that would be funny. You wrote in
Mayor mccheese. Didn't you did not did not do that.
Although you could theoretically do that, you want people to
do that.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
I don't want people to do that. I just suggested
it to email or yesterday a guy named Joe who
said he was mad that his candidate wasn't on the
list anymore and he wasn't going to vote, And I said, hey, Joe,
for my entertainment, you could still show up and then
you could vote for Mayor mccheese. And then that you
enough people could do that to where it got talked
(07:41):
about on the local news, and then you would give
me a sense of entertainment. So there's at least that
I was just trying to give people reasons to get
out to the polls. I was just doing my civic duty.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Okay, you sure about that?
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Now that I say it out loud, you kind of
feel like that was just a bad idea overall. Yeah,
I think it's a little selfish to make it about me.
A pretty good idea not to not to take that advice, I'll, uh,
you know what, I'm gonna think it over, maybe find
some personal growth.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
All right. So anyway, the one thing I think has
been uh, it may maybe this is a little bit
of me being just an ignoramus, but this SID thing
was foreign language to me until I got here today
and a lot of people are giving me information. Ken
(08:30):
sent in a bunch of bullet points essentially of what
you need to know about Sid's Because we had a
guy named Chris who said I couldn't vote. I showed
up to what I believed it was a polling place
that I could vote in. They told me I wasn't
eligible to vote for mayor. I'm in the Elkhorn area.
And then a bunch of people when I read that email,
I was like, I don't think that's intentional voter suppression.
I just think that maybe they don't have everything lined
(08:51):
up to allow people to vote. When they annexed that area,
it just kind of becomes Amaha proper, and then the
town basically dissolved its own person governments. There are places
within I suppose what have been Elcorn that is kind
of attached or appended to Omaha, but it's not actually
in the city limits of Omaha. Well, Ken said. An
SID in Nebraska is used to develop land into neighborhoods.
(09:14):
It has its own taxing ability with limits set by
the state through property taxes. We can get more funds
if needed through bonds. Our SID is responsible for the roads,
street signs, and water. We are in the county for zoning.
Sids can vary depending on services in that area. Sids
can be annexed by a nearby city if the city
(09:35):
wants them, or they can go around it. Most of
that depends on the debt the sid oh's if annexed
and new end of day would have to be paid
off any balances. Hope that helps, Thanks Ken, and I
appreciate that. Is this the same Ken that just called
in Ken on the phone line of four h two
five to five eight?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Ken?
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Are you the same Ken that just send me that email?
All right, Ken, help me out with this. Explain why
certain people in Elcorn can't vote.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
I believe it's because they were in the SID, but
Elkohore is a little different. They were trying to get
Elkohn was trying to expand, to get big enough so
they couldnt be annexed, which I think is ten thousand people. Yeah, Omaha,
Omaha found out they annexed them. So I don't think
that everybody that was going to get axed got annex
by Elkhorn before that happened, Okay, Yeah, and that would
(10:24):
be in the zoning.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Yeah, and that would explain Ken, the lawsuit that I
read about, that would have happened ahead of the annexation
back in two thousand and seven. Right. So, so for
sids for that purpose, like you mentioned in the email,
this is mainly for housing development, right, correct, So they're
not even though you're not in what would be Omaha proper,
(10:45):
you're still kind of in the area and you can
vote on like Omaha boards in Douglas County boards and
things like that if you live in Douglas County, but
you just can't vote in city elections and you're not
necessarily represented by an actual city council member.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Correct, just like if you're just outside the city limits
for any reason, you're not eligible.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Dang all right, well I can see how that could
be absolutely confusing to a lot of people. Hey, Ken,
thanks for thinking of us, thanks for listening, and thanks
for educating us today.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Yeah, Well, there's a lot of spaces in Oma that
they are in SIDS, and they go around them because
they pay up too much debt or they don't want
to ADDX them because they upgrades they need to do
to them, so they keep them in SID and then
continue on. We're around rounded about, But there's a map
that basically shows all that where everybody is.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Oma interesting. Yeah, I think that would be a hoove
a lot of us to go and study that map
for a bit. Ken, thanks so much for the call
them up man, I really appreciate, no problem. Yeah, it's
great information. We'll keep trying to figure that out. This
time tomorrow we'll have the we'll have the answer. Right well,
we'll know who won the election, and I guess we'll
(11:51):
just see how people are if they're happy about that,
and then if there are any upsets in the city
council races. Six of the seven two of them are
not contesting right now, they're just a single person on
the ballot. I'm sure voter turnouts are going to be
pretty low as far as that's concerned, unless people are
really just excited to vote for mayor, which you would
(12:12):
think that people would be. And then of the other
five districts four of them. It's the incumbent that won
the primary, and it's probably a heavy favorite to win
in the election today. So if you haven't find your
polling place, you know how fast I was in and
out in my pulling place. Now, I went over lunch hour,
so maybe at five o'clock, six o'clock it'll be a
little different.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Sixteen minutes is my guess.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
From the time I parked to the time I left,
it was four minutes.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Walked in, got my ballot very easy, there was no
line filled it out. I only had three things to
vote for mayor city council in that city amendment, basically
saying if we want the city council to just appoint
someone essentially to a city council seat in the last
two years of a term, then we can do that.
Those are the only three things that you would be
(12:57):
voting for. And then I put it back in the
little slighter thing, handed it over, got my sticker in
the left. It was real easy.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
But did you get a sucker?
Speaker 1 (13:05):
No? I don't want to sucker. I don't like suckers anyway.
Is it gross? Make your hands sticky and make your
mouth sticky? I don't like them, said, maybe that's something
they could offer. No, that's dumb. That's dumb. All right,
it was a bad idea. You know why. That's sugar
or FK's coming after you bring it on, totsy pop
loving maniac over there, I.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Got some beef paalow right over here.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
RFK Junior, Oh oh gross, four thirty is like that.
It's disgusting. You know what's more coming up on news
Radio eleven tape Kfab.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Em Riy songer on news Radio eleven ten Kfab.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
If you're living in an area like that and you
cannot vote for may or, I wish I could do
the best that I can. So yeah, So just to
finish the conversation on this, we expect maybe a little
bit better turnout. I think Matt is at twenty eight percent.
I said, thirty point five percent or so of what
(14:02):
the the whole gambit I suppose of voter turnout. You
want to know, I went at like noon today or
twelve fifteen or so, Matt, and you know what number
I was. I believe in my precinct three hundred and
twenty four ninety nine, Okay, I believe I think I
was the ninety ninth person if that number, they say,
(14:25):
because there's like there were four poll workers, which God
blessed the poll workers, especially on these smaller elections in
these precincts that probably aren't getting a ton of action.
They are not busy there, at least they were not busy.
When I was there. There was a person voting and
then left, and then I voted, and then I left
and there was nobody else there. I don't know, but
ninety nine in like four hours. I don't know how
(14:47):
to grade that. I don't even know how to guess.
I don't even know how many people technically live in
my precincts.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
So, you know, for overreacting's sake, do you remember last
time in the primary what your number was, and was
it around the same time of day when you were there.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
It would have been close to the same time of day,
maybe just a hair earlier, and it was a lot smaller,
So that's a good sign, I think. Yeah. I think
I was like in the forties or something, and I
showed up at like eleven fifteen or something.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Hey, so if we're overreacting here, I guess, unless unless
I'm double at this time, or maybe there's just a
little bit of a rush right before I got there
that helped get us to the nineties or so, if
that number is what that is, I'm reading into something
that I know nothing about.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Again, this is this is the thing I'm going to
tell you straight up when I am well informed, or
if I am not, And I'm just assuming this is
all assumption here, but i'd like to think that you know,
we're doing better and we can get a bigger turnout here.
With that being said, I wonder, and this is a
personal thing that I hope, and this is not me
(15:48):
preaching to anyone who's listening out there, but I wonder
what the initial reaction is going to be, and if
there's going to be a lot of loud people on
social media saying that they are upset, how many write
ins do you think there will be? Do you think
a bunch of people will write in people like Mike McDonald.
They'll go and vote, but they'll write in McDonald because
they're frustrated that he's not on the ballot and they
don't like the other two candidates.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
It'll be a small My guess is it'll be aboutzero
point four percent.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
The same amount that you said would vote for Mayor mccheese.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
I don't think Mayor mccheese is gonna get a vote,
but if he does, i'm gonna take credit.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
You should. Nobody was thinking about that until you said it.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
So McDonald's lost the right to even have him in
there advertising in nineteen eighty five. How do you know that?
Because I googled it? Well, where did he come from?
Where did he go? Where did he come from? Gott nigh, Joe,
not no, not necessary? Uh, Mayor mccheese. He was the
main character in the series, first appearing in nineteen seventy
(16:45):
one and disappeared in nineteen eighty five because they thought
he was too similar to another cartoon character, which was
I had it and you don't know. Wait a second,
this is why we don't want him. This, this is
why we don't win the Marconi. Well, I'm seeing some
weird stuff about Mary mc cheese and I don't want
to report on it until I can verify what kind
(17:07):
of weird stuff it's saying that he was assassinated.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
That's inappropriate. He was assassinated in a family guy a bit. Oh,
that must be it. Yeah, I watched that episode. It
was making a joke about Mary mccheese writing in a
convertible and it they made it look like he was Kennedy.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
They inappropriate. Why does family guy do that?
Speaker 1 (17:27):
And then and then Jackie was sitting next to him,
and you know he gets his brain Oh no, no,
and then jack terrible no, Jackie jumps on the back
of the con and then she just she's like stuffing
her fan big farlan, Like, go to therapy. That's what
that's my suggestion for that guy. What is wrong with
(17:47):
that guy?
Speaker 2 (17:48):
It's a joke, right, but it's a joke. I know
it's a joke. My goodness, gracious, what's going on in
that brain? He's got some things to heal from.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
No, it's just a joke. If you're not chuckling at
Jackie on Nassis jumping on the back of the of
the convertop burger like it's a joke, stop taking yourself
so seriously.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Mayor mccheese was my hero as a kid. And you
tell me this.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
I thought you said, nineteen eighty five is when he
got canned. Yeah, I guess the dates don't add up. Yeah,
I feel like that's before you were born. Hello, Hello
McFly anybody home. Not usually also something that came out
before you were born.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Shout out Crispin Glover.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Hey, that's right, Crispin Glover, good old Crispin Glover.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Who was in the first one, but contrary to popular belief,
was not in the second or third one.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
He was not, and that's pretty controversial. He sued.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
He shut him because, yeah, they put a face makeup
on a replacement actor and Back to the Future too
for the continuity, because he didn't agree to be in
the film. And which, by the way, Crispin Glove, who
do you think you are? I mean, honestly, you're always
going to be George McFly and you should have just
gone along with it and been a part of our
childhood and said you had to be a weirdo.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
The guy's name is Crispin.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Yeah, it's probably not like what are we doing? You
know what? His middle name is probably like air Fryer.
Who knows Crispin Hellian Glover. Yeah, see Hellian Okay, Hellian Right,
we don't need this either way, though. I think he's
great in that movie, and it's just really sad that
he's you know, he didn't want to be in the
second one, but he did win that lawsuit and it
(19:31):
changed the way that people viewed Hollywood. You couldn't just
make somebody look look a certain way. If you couldn't
get the right actor, you couldn't just like fake the
actor being there. So anyway, four forty seven, I don't
know how we got to that, but we did. Might
as well give some SS not just to us, but
to other people as well when we come back on
news radio eleven ten kfab
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