May 1, 2024 • 60 mins
This podcast gets that title because it's the first of May ... and that's also what I was thinking after starting down the wrong road with Nancy Grace later in the show! Before that, we spent some more time on storm fallout, talked about the college occupiers later, and closed the show with the announcement of the next NewsRadio 1110 KFAB Gourmet Club!
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Scott VORDIEZ. It's an interesting timefor our Midwestern plains. This is one
of the few parts in the countrywhere we don't have swat teams going in
and dragging protesters. Protesters is thewrong word. It's even wronger than the
word wronger. But if you reallywant to go, all kinds are wrong
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on it. The term pro Palestinianprotesters. I don't know that it gets
more wrong. Where's Palestine? Theseguys don't know what they think is Palestine
from East Palestine. They don't knowPalestine from Plattsmith. These guys, they're
just like, Oh, this isa place we can go and do something
we're not supposed to do. Let'sgo. So we got the swat teams
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yanking them out of all these campusesfrom UCLA to Columbia in New York and
so here in Omaha right now wedon't have that very nice. But what
do we have in Omaha? Wegot people looking at a timeline that might
be up to two years before theirhomes are rebuilt. This is of course,
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across the area where we've had thesestorms, from Waverley to Minden.
We have people showering in a Walmartparking lot, and it's totally legit this
time. And we have this storythat brought a teer to my cold black
heart's eyeball. No, I don'twant to rephrase that. Lucy, by
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the way, good morning, greatto have you with us. Good morning.
You know what story got me thismorning? Oh it's hard to tell.
It's what they've had set up atthe Relevant Center, the church community
center there in Elcorn, right acrossthe street from the neighborhood that was partially
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destroyed there in Elcorn, west oftwo hundred and fourth in Maple. This
is where people have been coming fora couple of different reasons related to the
storm. One, you got peoplewho are finding things throughout the area,
pictures, keepsakes, notes, letters, cards, They find these things and
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they bring them to the Relevant Center. And then you've got people who have
lost things related to the storm.They go to the Relevant Center and they
go, that's mine, or theysee a picture and go, I know
that guy, that's my neighbor.And they get these things and they take
them to the people who own them. People have been finding all these especially
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photographs, and you know, dependingon how old you are, a photograph
is either something that is irreplaceable,or it's just something you printed out that
exists on the clouds. I don'tknow what that line is, and I
think there are a lot of usin the gen X timeframe for whom photographs
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are both of those things. ButI think if you're on the older side
of gen X, it's pretty muchexclusively. Photographs are the keepsakes that you
can't get back. They exist inone form on this special paper, and
this is the only example of itwe have. And then you got young
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people to say, why would youeven print out a picture. I just
take a billion pictures a day.No one will even see these things,
and I can't delete any of them. They exist in the cloud. So
people are finding these keepsakes, thesepictures, cleaning mud off of them,
cleaning them up a little bit,rescuing artwork, little kids, drawings that
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were on the refrigerator, dog tags, And I tell you the thing that
really brought a tear to my eye. They found golf clubs. I'm kidding
now, the whole thing is veryby the way, they did find a
set of golf clubs. Everyone calmeddown. They don't belong to you.
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You probably aren't good enough to hitthese clubs. Anyway, I am curious
as to what kind of clubs theyare. They found a bottle of perfume.
They found a wedding dress. Wasthere a wedding going on Friday night?
Is there someone? Is there abride missing? Did she run away
into the storm? She get liftedup into that tornado with those brothers.
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What crazy story that is. Itold you the other day that the last
thing I would see if a tornadohit our house back when we had a
cat, would be my wife runningout to go and get the cat.
As I said, we're not runningafter the cat. The cat is on
its own right now. These guyswent running after the dog and they got
lifted up, thrown through the airby a tornado, almost died. The
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dog no idea, do you know? Do you know if the dog is
okay? I have not even heardthis story. Oh really, Oh my
gosh, National News. These guysname it Royce and Roger, a couple
of guys. I don't know howold they are. They appear to be
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I'll say twenty ish, and theywere at home when the tornado hit.
This was in Elcorn and one ofthe little dogs of the family decided to
make a break for it, andso they went after it. Which,
look, I get it. I'mnot Christy nom you. I understand that
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you want to go try and savea dog. But you know, as
they're flying through the air, asthe tornado lifted their home off of the
foundation and sent these guys flying throughthe air, one of them landed over
here. The other one landed overhere, had part of his own house
on him. He had a freearm so he could reach his phone in
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his pocket and call nine to oneone so they could call police out to
their house that was on top ofhim. I don't know what color socks
he was wearing. There's your nineteenthirties forty. When did Wizard of Oz
come up? I want to saythirty eight, but I think that might
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be gone. And there's your Wizardof Oz movie reference. So yeah,
these guys, they got a bunchof stitches all over them. They were
all cut up pretty good. Theyhad debris hitting them as they were cartwheeling
through the air. Unbelievable, butno broken bones. Crazy at least one
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of these guys, if not bothof them, are military on some level.
But good good stuff. I mean, I now, I mean they're
okay. So yeah, but ifone of those guys went flying across the
county and someone found him and cleanedhim up, they would deposit him at
the relevance center and someone else wouldcome along, go, that's my son,
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and then they could collect him.They clean the mud off of him
and collect him. But this iswhere people have been finding all this stuff,
and they just take it over here, and so you've got people coming
in there. The story here fromWOWT six News is both volunteers finding letters,
you know, a handwritten letter froma mom of two kids. I
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don't know who she wrote the letterto, but she talks about, you
know, the struggle she's been through, but right now she hasn't felt this
good in years. And this personfound the letter, read it, Hey,
that letter doesn't belong to you,and I'm kidding, and brought it
in there, saying this letter isimportant to somebody. Someone kept this for
a reason, so they take itover to the relevance Center. There's a
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newspaper clipping from nineteen sixty four aboutan eighteen year old guy returning to high
school after taking a year off sowe could go to work. And he
thought, I'll go back to school. There was a newspaper story in nineteen
sixty four that's found in there,as I said, photographs, drawings,
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kids, stuff that was probably putwith a magnet on the refrigerator door a
wedding dress, and people are goingin there and going, oh, my
gosh, I can't believe it.That's mine. I just think that's really
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sweet, really really good stuff.These people are getting some of these pictures,
photographs, artwork back. They don'thave a wall to hang it on,
but they thought, well, that'sprobably I don't know if they even
thought about it. At some point. Your brain just has flashes of cognition
about things in between going numb.I would guess you're walking around in a
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stupor after something like this for whoknows how long, and then you're told,
well, I would like to obviouslyrebuild my house. What's the timeframe
on this. The timeframe is upto two years. We'll explain next.
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Scott Godes News Radio ELEVENFAB and thehistory of our radio station. There was
a night when on her television program, Nancy Grace welcomed on to her television
show our former news director, theGreat Tom Stanton, and she welcomed him
on by introducing what radio station thathe was a part of, Radio one
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one one o KFAB one. Sheformer radio Nancy Grace one one one oh.
Okay, this has bothered us forfifteen years. We're about now eighteen
minutes away from trying to write thiswrong. Nancy Grace is coming on this
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radio show here on news radio oneone one oh KFAB. I'm gonna get
her to say it right. Haveher make us eleven pancakes. I made
you one one one oh pancakes,Nancy. We're talking to Nancy Grace about
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her podcast, which is amazingly andyou might never have guessed this. It's
about crime story what. Yeah,I'm worried about her. She's like every
day. I just got this emailhere to Scott atkfab dot com from Sandra
says, good morning, Scott andLucy. I would love to have you
do an hour of just uplifting storieslike the two brothers you just shared.
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And while I do believe that shedid not intend the pun on that one,
uplifting stories about the two brothers thatwere sucked up, they were uplifted
by the tornado because the subject lineis positive stories. So I do take
her at her hilarious pun unintended wordthere. But you know, we love
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spicing in positive stories on this program. But I know people stereotype of talk
radio is just you know, astraight white guy coming on the radio,
going and I'll tell you another thingabout these democrats, you know, And
I tell you, honestly, wecan do that better than anybody, and
we sometimes do. But we doa whole lot of everything on this program.
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Sometimes the stories that make us mad, sometimes the story is that fill
up our hearts. Sometimes it's bothat the same time. Well you did
a little bit of that yesterday,But I was trying to think, like
where was I going with that?Oh yeah, yesterday, Okay. Good.
In the eighteen year history of thisradio show, we have yesterday.
That's good. We can lean onthat, we can build that foundation.
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But Nancy Grace, I don't thinkshe has any of that. Every day
Nancy just picks up the newspaper andit's like, well, here's a horrible
story about something terrible that happened tosomebody, and it's just exclusively that I'm
worried about her. We're gonna talkto her here at nine forty this morning.
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And as far as positive stories.Doesn't get better than this. In
about an hour and twenty twenty fiveminutes from now, just after quarter to
eleven, here we are going toannounce the next news radio eleven ten kfab
Gourmet Club. You're not familiar,listen just after ten forty five this morning,
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and you'll be invited to join ustwo weeks from tonight. Location menu
number to call for reservations coming upat about a quarter to eleven. Right
here, now, this is nota positive story. Did you just give
me a wave or were you stretching? Oh? Did we have a traffic
issue? Please? I hate tobreak in, but wh's what we do.
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It looks like somebody has dropped ordumped a load of dirt, a
lot of it on I eighty eastbound. It is just before that Giles exit.
That would be the Cabella's and you'llneed to get all the way over
into the left shoulder to get throughthis. It's idy eastbound just before Giles
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exit. Sorry, let's try toget this all together. Dirt all over
the interstate. Yeah, it cameacross versus as mud. So not quite
sure because I can't see it onthe cameras, So not quite sure.
Exactly what we've got going on overthere. I eighty eastbound eastbound just before
the Kabela's or Giles exit. Yeah, you can't really see that coming and
get off right before stay to theleft, okay, or just dukes of
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hazard. That thing there's that Peoplehave been asking if they if their home
is just about a total loss,like we obviously we want to rebuild and
we have some temporary housings or okayhere for a short time. What's the
timetable we're looking at for rebuilding thishouse? Story here from k E TV
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News Watch seven says, well,first you got to get someone to come
out and assess the damage. I'llsave them that step. We've all seen
the pictures there's damage. Is therereally an insurance guy coming out going well,
I don't know. I mean rooflooks okay to me the way it's
sitting right there in pieces on theground. Hey, I don't know.
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I mean you're the one that choseto build a house here. You know
there's some insurance people who that's theirjob, right. I'm not saying any
company or anything. I'm just sayinganyone who's ever had to deal with insurance
when suddenly he gets testy, islike, well, I don't know,
it doesn't look destroyed. I mean, so someone's gonna have to deal with
that, thankfully not many people.But so the first thing is we got
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to come out and assess the damage, and we got to work with the
insurance company, We got to workwith the city. And the mayor has
already expedited the process by saying,look, we're going to get the inspections
done, We're going to waive permitfees in terms of getting the permits to
be able to do this stuff.Yeah, we're just what do you need?
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We're getting out and then you gotto have someone come out and assess
like what it's going to take torebuild this, and then you got to
have well, first you got tohave someone come and take everything away,
see what can be salvage, andthen build everything on top of it.
What are we talking about a yearat the absolute fastest is the assessment here
from this home builder that KETV NewsWatch seven talk to, but probably closer
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to you in a year and ahalf to two years. And now you're
looking at the person you're staying with, going uh, hey, Tim just
got the potential timeline back here,we are we good to stay here through
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spring of twenty twenty six. That'swhen you know whether you're in good with
a friend or family member you're stayingwith. And then you got some people.
Now this is I struggle with thisone because people are saying, oh,
suddenly houses for rent, especially outin West Omaha, but really anywhere
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in the area houses for rent,which aren't very plentiful to begin with,
especially if you're looking at communities likeBlair or Mendon. It's not like you
have a whole bunch of options here. So houses for rent suddenly got a
little bit more expense. Well,I mean, we're not running charity cases
here. At the same time,I hope that no one is just suddenly
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spiking things. Some people have soughttemporary shelter in hotels and they're surprised at
how expensive hotels got. Well,it's Berkshire weekend, so prices are already
up because there aren't very many hotelrooms left. I mean to say,
what all those FEMA houses that theycan carry around and haul in. I
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know it's not ideal, yeah it'snot, but if it would save on
your rent for a year, Imean that's a year's rent. The first
thing that happened was the Red Crosswent out there and set up some of
these temporary shelters, and after twodays they shut it down because no one
needed it. Well, they mightneed it now, they might. Well,
yeah, if they're looking at thatlong, it's not really a two
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year kind of a situation. You'rebasically living in a box car and taking
a shower in the Walmart parking lot. They've got trailers set up in the
Walmart parking lot at one hundred andsixty eighth in Maple so you could do
laundry in the mobile laundry unit.And then they've got a trailer that has
showers in it and just go intake a shower right there, and a
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trailer in the Walmart parking lot.You can do anything at Walmart. When
I saw the story, it saysyou can take showers at Walmart, I
was like, I've been in thatWalmart a lot. There's showers in there.
I didn't know that, and there'sa subway in there. But yeah,
they got a trailer in the parkinglot and it's only fifty bucks a
shower. Just seeing if you're payingattention, I think it's free. I
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don't. I actually don't know laundryis free. It doesn't specifically say in
the story whether the shower is free, but I hope it's free. All
right, Fox News Update next,then Nancy Grace coming on here in about
ten minutes. Scott Vories now welcomingon to news Radio eleven ten KFAB a
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member of our iHeartRadio family here onthis radio station, of course several others,
as well as the host of adaily podcast, Crime Stories with Nancy
Grace on iHeartRadio. We welcome NancyGrace on here. Good morning, Nancy,
Hello, Thank you for inviting me. Yeah, it's great to have
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you here. The first thing wehave to take care of is it was
about fifteen or so years ago andyou welcomed our former news director, my
friend Tom Stanton onto your show ontelevision. Now, I know you've got
a background in radio, and youintroduced him from news radio eleven ten KFAB
on your show in this manner.He's Radio one one one, Okfab.
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Now, Nancy, come on Radiobackground one one one. Oh. I'm
gonna need to hear you say thename of our radio station correctly so we
can all move forward. This hasbeen this has been an issue for several
years. Okay, Number one,I don't have a background in radio.
I thought you did, and andI'm not a journalist. I was in
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school study Shakespearean literature to become aprofessor at the university level. I hoped
so. My fiance was murdered random, I dropped out of school. I
lost down to eighty nine pounds.I couldn't think, I couldn't sleep.
I certainly couldn't go to school.I wasn't fit for a classroom anymore.
I decided to go to law schoolto become a felony prosecutor, and I
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did so. Either it's eleven tenor one one, one zero. I'm
doing my thing, buddy, andyou do it better than anybody. A
perfect records as a prosecutor. Certainlywe're aware of that. I think at
that time you had done it someradio, and maybe not as an obviously
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a radio host. But is thereany possible way we can get you to
say news radio eleven ten kfa Bjust so we can right that wrong?
I mean, give up. Okay, what do you want me to say?
Yeah, that's that's you. You'rethe person who never gives up but
in news radio eleven News Radio eleventen KFAB News Radio KFA BY. That
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feels so good. Now we canall move forward. Nancy. You we
hear Nancy's daily Uh just clip ofthe podcast. It's just after two o'clock
here, right before Emery Songer takesover. Weekday is on eleven ten kfa
B. This podcast, Crime Storieswith Nancy Grace. You've got an army
at your disposal for a daily podcastto say, all right, here's the
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issue, go find out, let'sstand up for this victim here. How
how is this working? Are you? I mean to have an army at
your disposals got to be pretty amazingevery day? Okay, what army is
that? Because I'm up at fiveam looking for story cases that we need
to cover, they start rolling in, as I think I mentioned, at
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about five am, and those casesare from India in the UK. Around
six am, stories from overnight USstart rolling in. I scour Facebook and
Twitter where families are trying to contactme. I'm headed to crime Condent and
ending them up in Nashville, andthere very often I come home with a
giant sold or of families that needhelp with the chases. So what army
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is that you're talking about? Allof you, all of you, all
of your listeners and followers who arehelping you solve some of these issues as
you produce bombshell after bombshell, aspeople are like, all right, we've
got to We've got to step upand help Nancy with this. You know
what it's you just mentioned something thatI think is very important. A lot
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of let me just say, professionals, and again, I am not a
radio expert, a TV expert,or even a journalist. I'm a trial
lawyer and a crime victim that somehowwas lucky enough to land at Court TV
and it took off from there.There was no demo reel, there was
no resume. It was a fluke. But I have heard a lot of
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so called journalists decry or minimize citizenloops as I call it, people that
are aware, looking around and acting. We would never have found Gabby the
Tito's body if a citizen had notspotted her Ford transit out in the middle
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of nowhere, just first camping.That means there's not a porta potty,
or a hookup or an electrical outlet. You are out there with the coyotes
and the critters. That's where herbody was found, and if it hadn't
been for that citizen, there wouldnot be a resolution in that case.
Right now, I'm working in acase of Shahdai Robinson. She was a
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beautiful young girl putting herself through collegeto jobs, and she was so excited
about her first date with the sonof a Milwaukee millionaire. Right now,
volunteers are looking for the rest ofher body. Her body has been found
in four different places this member andher mom still doesn't have all of her
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body. I'm working on that.Where do I get the stories? Number
One, they're not stories their cases. These are real people with real pain
and real problems that need real help. In Shadai's case, I'm sad to
report that many, many brown andblack skinned girls and women go missing and
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nobody seems to care. What Icare, And I'm working on it and
I'm trying to change it. SoI hear from all across the country from
people that want help. How doesthe burden of everyone saying, Nancy,
you seem to be the only personnationally working on things like this. Can
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you help us that has got toput a tremendous burden, a big weight
on you. How do you dealwith it well? For the longest time,
I remember several times that when Iwould leave the courthouse after a case,
I would be so beside myself abouthow cool people can be to each
other, especially to children. Iwould have to pull off the side of
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the road and cry, because ofcourse I could never cry at the courthouse
or in front of a jury oranybody else. And I would always think
about my fiancee kids, who hadthe most beautiful blue lines. I would
think about that, and somehow Iwould feel with duty. I'd feel strength
to just keep going to somehow puta band aid on other people the way
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I wish I could have him inhis case and fixed it all. But
I couldn't. And I went onfor many many years like that. And
then my prayer, which I thoughtwould never happen, was answered, and
I got a family. I've gottwo children, boy girl, twins,
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John David and Lucy. Lucy andI almost died in childbirth, but we
didn't. We made it thank toNorth Side Hospital. They nursed us through.
And now I have them, andI want them to have a happy
mom, a supported mom, it'sone in the moment with them, so
I have to come about five o'clockin the afternoon. I worked from about
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five am to five pm. Iturn it off and I'm all about them.
I put them supper about five nightsa week, and we talk and
laugh and it is the perfect tonic. I tell you what, Nancy.
Maybe we've questioned your ability to properlyidentify radio stations, but never your passion,
never your professionalism, and it's havingan every day in crime stories with
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Nancy Grace. You'll find it oniHeartRadio and anywhere you get your podcasts.
Hey, hey, hey, canI just say one thing please, This
is news Radio eleven kf aby.Nancy. I am so happy right now,
and I really appreciate your time,and we'll catch you just after two
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o'class kfad. I know you gotit, No, you know you.
No, you've got it. You'vegot it. Nancy, Thank you very
much, and I look forward toconnecting with you again. Bye, guys,
thank you all right, Thank youNancy Grace here on News Radio eleven
ten KFAB. I was a littlescared for you, fright. I was
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like, am I just gonna fightwith Nancy? Grace. I'm not trying
to pick a fight. Well maybea little bit at the beginning there.
I'm just telling you she's very seriouswithin the radio station. The one one
one o kfab thing is he livedin infamy here in these hollowed halls for
several years. So I just hadto work with her to write that wrong.
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Absolutely, And when she did that, hey, hey, hey,
hey, I was like, Idon't know what is about to happen.
In case you're wondering, you're notgonna have Nancy make pancakes. Not today,
We'll get that. Yeah, maybeanother day, another day, and
before we go to break, asNancy just said there. Got a note
here from Johnny says, Lucy,are you sure that's mud on the interstate?
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Nope, you want to give thatthat update again, I don't know
what it is. It's a brownmound of something now they're calling it mud.
It is on I eighty eastbound atGiles at the Giles exit, So
if you wait to get on toI eight eastbound from Giles you can do
that. And traffic is backed upnow well past Highway fifty. Got an
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email here from Luke says some truckdriver hit the wrong switch in his cab
and dumped his load of dirt.I guarantee you, Oh, is that
what happened? I mean, Iknow he's speculating. Yeah, that's a
speculation from Luke. I didn't knowyou could do that. I thought it
was like your trunk, Like youcan't open your trunk from your inside of
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your car if you're in motion,it won't open. No, And several
people I've got locked in the trunkwould would prefer that that not be the
case. But hey, you knowwhat you did to get in there.
And you're going to be featuring anupcoming edition of Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
Scott byes News Radio. Elen kfabIadi eastbound got a major issue out there.
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Yeah, that center lane is blockednow you can get through that on
the right or the left. Ieight eastbound at the Giles exit. You've
got a large dirt pile on theroad and they've now closed the on ramp
from Highway fifty. So wait toget on at Giles and get past this
crash or this maintenance issue. It'swhat are they they get the snowplows out.
We've got a giant mound of whatwe're going to say is probably kats
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of dirt. It's a oh whatwas the term that they would use and
broadcasters for the Annual Masters Golf Tournament, we're not allowed to say that there
was mud on a golf ball.Augusta did not want there to be mud
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on Augusta National Golf Course, sothey had to say it was land,
no firm earthen material or something likethat. They had there was a specific
phrase. I can't I can't comeup with it right now, but that's
that's what we have out there.We've got some sort of earthen material.
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We made a golf clap after that. No, I just I think,
get some skinedloaders out there, andcats, cats and dogs, oh like
the bobcats kind it. Mountain lions. Mountain lions are all around. Yeah.
I get the snowplows out there andmove that stuff before someone tries the
dukes of hazard that thing. Shouldn'twe let the dirt stay there though?
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I mean, after all, webuilt this interstate on land originally occupied by
this dirt. So you are youhave a very valid point, and I'm
gonna call NDOT and see what wecan work out. We've got pro dirt
protesters lining up on the interstate.We got this message this morning from Douglas
County Emergency Management. They have canceledthe monthly test of the outdoor alert system.
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That is what we grew up with. I think what most of us
grew up with was the ten o'clockwhistle Saturdays ten am. Was it every
Saturday or the first Saturday of themonth. I don't remember. I just
remember playing outside as a kid.I grew up in the best swath of
time ever. Born in the midseventies, raised in the eighties, came
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of age in the nineties, Sothat means I played outside and you would
hear the siren go off, andyour first thought was a tornado, and
then you realize, nope, it'sSaturday morning, ten am, and it's
bright and sunshiny outside, so it'sprobably not a tornado. Well, a
few years back they switched that upfrom Saturday ten to the first Wednesday of
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the month during severe weather season,first Wednesday of the month at eleven am.
Well, they have canceled that testtoday. They say that it's because
there are still a few of thesesirens. Douglas County has one hundred and
twenty five outdoor warning sirens. Idon't know how many, and Sarpie but
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Sarpee decided to cancel theirs as welltoday and they say that there are a
few that are currently inoperable. Well, the word we got yesterday was that
there were three in Douglas County thatwere currently inoperable. They're going to cancel
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the test on one hundred and twentytwo of them during this week of severe
weather because there are three that aren'tworking. I'm not sure I buy that.
What I do believe is they gavethem a really good test on Friday
determine which ones worked as recently asa few days ago, which ones they're
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working on, and maybe the communitymight need a break from hearing the sirens
go off. So we're not goingto blast them off at eleven o'clock this
morning as a test. They justgot tested. People don't need to hear
the sirens go off at eleven amthis morning. But they can't say that,
like, look, people, wedon't want people to be a little
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jumpy. We've got potential thunderstorms inthe forecast here for later this afternoon and
this evening, but we just feellike people need a break and we don't
need to set the sirens off.But that's a long and convoluted statement.
So they said, ah, wewere foregoing the test. We've got three
sirens that are inoperable, so we'reworking on those. Either way, I'm
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good with it, and I thinkthat's probably all that they were looking to
accomplish. What is Scott going tothink about this? Lucy Chapman has returned
wearing a denim jean jacket and anReo Speedwacken button or is that Boston.
I can't really see from the journeyJourney button on her denim jean jacket.
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Is that sure? It's not WhiteSnake Kansas I eighty eastbound near Giles,
Sup. It is still it lookslike they're working on it. But the
center lane is still closed at fourforty two. That's gonna be the Giles
exit and the Highway fifty on rampto I eighty eastbound is closed. This
is due to some dirt that wasdumped in the road there. And you're
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not saying dirt or mud, organicmaterial? Organic material that's the phrase.
I got a text from a friendof mine. Is that a port of
body? No, it's more thanthat, but it is causing some place,
say all the way to the farright or far left lane, or
avoid it altogether, which is muchbetter. I'm telling you it just duke's
a hazard or that the trucks behindit now and skidloaders and they're working on
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it. You're going to hit thatfirst, Okay, Well they got trucks
behind it working to clear it.Here's what I want to know. Down
the interstate, just you know,a quarter mile or whatever, is there
a truck pulled off on the sideof the road and a sheepish looking driver
standing there or sitting in his cabbecause it's more safe. It's hard to
see on this shot, this cammershot, but it looks like he might
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actually still be there. What Iwant to know, I want to see
a guy pacing safely off in thegrass well off the side of the interstate
on the phone, with a verysheepish look on his face. There's a
couple of people. Oh you knowwhat, I did not notice this until
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you just now said it. Thereis a car on the side of the
road up against a left shoulder thatis covered in dirt. Oh no,
so I'm hoping that everybody was okaythrough that. Yeah, it's completely covered
in dirt, so it must havegotten Yeah, obviously it must have gotten
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hit by that dirt. Okay,not funny anymore. Uh, thanks a
lot. It's kind of funny presumingeveryone's okay. I haven't heard otherwise.
So here's what I'm Here's what Iimmediately think. I will allow it the
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possibility that I might be wrong.It has happened once. But I immediately
think when you say that someone wasfollowing too closely, haven't we all been
taught, especially on the Interstate,with a truck in front of you,
don't follow too closely? Do youknow how many times? How many times
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have you seen trucks just get cutoff? You just slide right in in
front of those guys cannot stop.They're not like cars. I see it
every day on the Dodge Expressway,especially, Oh missing, gonna miss my
turn? Yeah, they get rightin front of a being. Oh yeah,
it's the old family guy. Goodluck everybody else as the person cuts
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across five lanes of traffic at thelast second. I won't say what kind
of person I'll let Seth fall onthat sword. But Dave emails and says,
don't worry about that dirt it identifiesas concrete. So all right,
Uh, here's the problem with removingthat mound of organic material on the interstate
again, I eighty eastbound. Whichside of Giles you can't get off on
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Giles? Right? Giles is onthe east side of this. The I
don't have work if it's by Cabella'sis closed, because like, can you
you get off on the exit beforeyou find that dirt pile? Or is
the pile closer to Cabela's, whichmeans you have to go around the dirt
pile to get on that exit.It is right at four four two,
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right at the sign that is fourfour two, And it appears that you
can get on I eighty eastbound fromGiles without Yeah, you're missing this altogether.
You're saying, if you're coming upon exit, yeah, I would
assume that that is open. Idon't know why they would close out.
They would want traffic to get off, but I don't have that in the
camera shot, and I don't havethat information. I just find it officially.
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If there's traffic stacking up behind this, can they it is? Can
they get yeah? Can they getoff on the exit before coming up on
the dirt. If it's by thesign, that's suggest to me that it's
right before you would reach that exit. If you're trying to exit at Giles,
you're already stuck in that so farback it's it's back past Highway fifty.
It is slow. I said earlier. They were running the football barricades
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of rolling roadblocks, the rolling roadblocks for a while and trying to pull
that shut up here one second,tell me to shut up, shot up.
I did to pull up that shotup. Lucy's got drones that she
uses at her disposal to take alook at what's going on with road issues.
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It's not backed up to three seventy. Let me pull up highway foot
yeah, long waist. Well it'swell past Highway fifty. So and the
on ramp from Highway fifty to eightyeastbound is closed. Yeah, So we
don't add to the people stacked upthere on the interstate. I'm just impressed
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that we have an issue on Ieight eastbound at some other location than near
eighty fourth Street. Actually, wehave a lot of problems right in through
here. Every morning, every afternoon, I hear Timesaver traffic reports here on
Nebraska's news Weather and Traffic station,and it's a crash. Usually it's in
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the morning, there's a backup onChandler. Could I be any more backed
up? It's a Chandler bang.So that's the morning, and then in
the afternoon it's a crash affecting Iat eastbound near eighty fourth. Just about
every single day, I would likesomebody to explain to me why traffic can
be moving along just fine. Youhit about eighty fourth Street at any time
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of day, and it gets slowboth directions because we did that stupid reconfiguration
of the whole the bridges and theoverpass and all the rest of that stuff.
We made that tight turn that peopletake way too fast, and then
we people get confused as to whichlanes do I need to get over so
I don't get stuck on any fourth, And then they suddenly are stuck eighty
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fourth. They're like, but Idon't want to get off on eighty fourth,
and now they may get everyone else'sproblem, and they're trying to get
over in the left lanes and it'sjust a flipping mess. They screwed it
all up. Lucy noted that therewas a vehicle that got absolutely covered by
this material as it came out ofthe back of a truck. And we've
heard now from the driver of thatvehicle the ark hat so it might be
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organic material. So I don't know. So many people in the Zonkers Custom
Woods Inbox have been dinging themselves withthat movie reference. We'll go back to
the future two on that one.I thought that was the original one.
It happened in the original one,but that particular quote there is when it
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happens again in the deuce. Andas far as staying in the far left
or far right lane, email heresays, isn't staying in the far right
lane part of Kfab's mission statement,that's actually very creative. Thank you for
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that email, Scott akfab dot com. Zonker's Custom Woods Inbox. So they
can't move that dirt out there becauseall of the groups that would be used
to come in there and move dirtare too busy pulling protesters out of occupying
college campuses across the country. Violenceovernight at UCLA after UCLA said all right,
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that's enough, and a lot ofthese protesters who are referred to over
and over again by the media aspro Palestinian Where's Palestine again? Is it
pro Palestinian or is it anti Israel? Is it anti Israeli? Is it?
This is just the next step inwhat Antifa and like minded people love
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to do. We want to shutdown this road. We want to shut
down this bridge, we want toshut down this city. We want to
shut down this police headquarters. Wewant to shut down Wall Street. We
want to shut down the government.That's more j six. We want to
shut down these college campuses. Theinsurrections at college campuses are now as I
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wonder if these these presidential individuals,chancellors and so forth, administrators and these
college campuses call each other, ifthey're on a tech string, Someone's like,
well, I'm going to get themout of here. You can't do
that. Freedom of speech, freedomto assemble, Like you don't have the
freedom to trespass. This is againstthe law. But then they're going to
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be mad at us. You know, we've we've trained these little Hellians to
do exactly this. We didn't thinkthey'd do it to us. Don't you
hate it when they bite the handthat indoctrinates you. That's the thing.
These little guys, none of themTrump voters, none of them. Now,
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if there were Trump voters doing this. If there was one flipping red
hat anywhere in any of these protestsand any of these college campuses, it
would be oh, neo Nazis,anti Jewish protesters, Trump supporters, all
of them, neo cons all thisstuff. If there was one single maga
hat among any of them, themedia would have no problem labeling the whole
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lot of them. But these area little individuals, sorry censor myself,
who were trained by these liberal indoctrinationcenters to disrupt, and now they're disrupting
and shutting down their own indoctrination centersso that other people can't be indoctrinated.
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On some level, I think that'sgreat. You are correct in that Vilue.
The person that you just described isamongst these protests. However, when
the arrests have been made, they'refinding that they're arresting people who are not
even students. No, I've heardtalk. That's That's why I said,
this is just the latest incarnation ofpeople showing up going is this Occupy Wall
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Street? Is this Black Lives Matter? Is this all cops are bastages,
you know whatever, And they justshow up and they're like, we're shutting
stuff down. They don't even knowwhat it is. They don't know what
they're protesting. Yes, and Ihave heard some rumors that some of these,
if not all of them, arealso being paid, which you did
see in some of theml BLM riotsthrough the last few years, that some
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of those protesters were paid. Yeah. Emery yesterday afternoon had a great clip
from one of these protesters that said, well, we have some students in
here who paid the college prepaid fora college meal plan, so they need
to bring us food. You cango get your meal plan. It's over
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there in the cafeteria. You justhave to leave your little encampment. Have
they called it these entitled little Ican't say shop or chad? What was
it called the chop zone? Yeah? Is that what it was? Have
they have they named this little zoneyet? No? But it is whether
it is or it isn't it is, I know. So UCLA several fights
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broke out overnight as finally these thepolice went in there and said all right,
time to go, and there waspepper spray deployed. The amazing the
protesters who are already there, alreadyhad helmets and pepper spray of their own
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peaceful protest. You know, andso there was a big fight there.
That was UCLA. There's the samekind of thing at the University of Arizona.
They went and cleared out one oftheir encampments. There, same thing
at Columbia University. That was latelast night when tester were seen being led
away in zip ties, adding totheir credibility as being a good protester.
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Oh man, hey man, fromthe river to the sea? Man?
Which river? Which sea? Idon't know? Man ilhan Omar is unhappy.
She said that some of the Jewishstudents in US colleges are pro genocide.
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There's a student right now saying,look, I've got like two or
three weeks left in class. I'vethis is my senior year. I've got
a thesis due, I've got finalscoming up here. I'm trying to wrap
this up and move on to thenext part of my life. Some of
the stuff that I need to doto finish out my college career can't be
done through remote learning. We havelabs, we have study groups, we
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have things we need to do.Not to mention the college experience that not
only do I want, but I'mpaying for or my parents are paying for,
and we can't do it because I'mpro genocide. According to a member
of the House of Representatives, ilhanOmar from Minnesota said that some of them
are pro genocide, like this Jewishstudent trying to finish out his or her
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college career is pro genocide because heor she wants to go to class.
Among those pushing back Nebraska second DistrictCongressman Don Bacon, who tells Axios he's
working on a censure measure against her. It must be a day that ends
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in why someone wants to censure ilhanOmar. So that's the latest on all
of these fronts. Other than that, what are the outrages What Barbara Streisand
said online? And that's some liberalsgoing after Barbara streisand streisand Ruh Streets Street
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since forgot how to pronounce her name. So that's liberals going after Babs.
We've got Biden trying to legalize pot, and we've got the next news radio
eleven ten kfab Gourmet Club to announce. If you're not familiar with this event,
I don't blame you. We usedto do these, probably to the
score of about ten or so peryear. Then the pandemic hit and then
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the post pandemic short staff restaurants hitand suddenly this event went by the wayside.
We went from about ten a yearto one or two a year the
last few years. We're looking toramp that up again this year and we've
got some great options ahead, includingthe next one, which is two weeks
from tonight. We'll announced the menu, the location, the price, the
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number to call for reservations coming uphere in just a few minutes. Unless
this is the person calling seven minutesearly, right now, Lucy, can
you do another traffic update so Ican talk to this person. Thanks absolutely,
We've go but a big problem onI eight eastbound at mile marker four
forty two. Police are running therolling roadblocks as they do on game day
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from about three seventy That crash,or rather it's a load of dirt that
has been dumped. Only that farleft lane is open id eastbound at Giles
and the on ramp from Highway fiftyto I eight eastbound is closed. Thank
you very much, Lucy, Andyes there are proprietor for the next gore
mat Club is going to wait patientlywhile I babble about a few different news
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stories. We'll hear a few worse, more sponsors, and then here shortly
we'll make this announcement for the nextgore mat Club, which is a new
location for the Gourmet Club this year, but definitely not a new location for
Omaha. I've said too much.I'm intrigued, right, you don't tell
me. I don't think people understand. I don't know. This is a
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surprise too. That's because that's becauseyou've got loose lips. Your loose lip,
Lucy. I'll tell everybody to myselfa couple of things here. A
lot of people upset with Barbara streisandMelissa McCarthy. We know her, right,
we should, one of the funniesthuman beings of all time. You
want someone that can make me crywith laughter? Melissa McCarthy just about every
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single time actress comedian Bride'smaids, theouttakes and this is forty probably about the
funniest thing I've ever seen. Soshe I love her, spy, very
funny. She posted a picture onInstagram with her with a friend of hers
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photo of herself and apparently she appearsto have lost a little bit of weight.
Okay, well, Barbara streisand whois friends with Melissa McCarthy posts on
there did you take ozempic? Andshe did that as a public comment to
the Instagram. People immediately were like, you can't make comments about someone's weight.
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Are you fat? Shaming Melissa McCarthy. Let her journey be her journey.
Why are you even mentioning any ofthis stuff? And then people said,
well, she probably didn't. BarbaraStreisan is eighty two years old,
and apparently people online are like,look, if you get to be that
old, you probably don't know thatthe comments you make on Instagram are public
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so everyone could see them. Butit's okay if she wants to be the
president. So they're shaming her.Yeah, they're old shaming her and all
the rest of this stuff. Well, streisand came out and said, you're
right, I didn't know that mycomment would be read by everybody. I'm
just saying that she looked fantastic.I wanted to pay her a compliment.
I forgot that the world is readingBarbara. Melissa McCarthy responded, I think
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Barbara is a treasure and I loveher. She reached out to me and
thought, I look good. Iwin the day. People are all mad
at Barbara streisand people are all madat Taylor Swift. Yeah, a lot
of parents, you know, heardShake it Off or The Wildest Dreams or
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something like that, and they think, oh, Taylor Swift, my daughter
likes Taylor Swift. My daughter istwelve years old. I'm gonna get her
Taylor Swift's new album. And thenthey hear their daughter listening to Taylor Swift's
new album, which has f bombsin it, a lot of sexual themes,
not graphic, but it's probably stuffthat maybe you don't want your little
girl listening to, and a lotof anti religious imagery and themes across this
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album. Most people are like,it's not fun. Well, the album
is called like I Know Why RaccoonsPoop on My Face or something like that.
It kind of has a theme aboutit that it's just kind of a
dour album. What's Taylor Swift gotto be all mad about? The tortured
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poet or whatever this is called.Her boyfriend just won another Super Bowl?
She's Taylor F. Swift? Whatis she all bummed out about? And
people bought the album and a lotof people are like, I like her
fun songs. Shake it Off,that's a fun song. Me, that's
a fun song. This stuff isjust real, real dowards down. So
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she just went dark on this one. She went dark. And does she
have a reason for that? Imean bands do this. I guess which
directions is all bombed about something.But people, if you're looking for a
bright light today, I got twofor you. Number one. The Biden
administration, according to the Department ofJustice, last night, said he's going
to remove marijuana from a list ofdangerous and highly regulated drugs. It doesn't
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declassify it. It doesn't mean atthe national level recreational pot use is legal.
But recreational pot use has been legalin most places here for a while.
So that's the latest from the Bidenadministration. Must be an election year.
Here's the other thing, the nextnew that's Radio eleven ten Kfab Gourmet
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Club, which is a wonderful event. We have a fantastic menu, we
all sit together, we have acommonality, good food, good drink,
And this one is going to bea little different from some we've done.
It's a brand new location and we'rereally stressing this to be a family event.
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We want to see those kids.We'd love to see you at this
event. Two weeks from tonight sixthirty pm on Wednesday, May fifteenth,
we'll welcome on here the proprietor ofthis restaurant. We won't say the name
yet, but it's going to becomepretty evident very quickly. So welcome on
here, Shadowy, a restaurant guy. Thank you for being here on eleven
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ten kfab thanks for having me.Let's first talk about the history of the
restaurant here in Omaha. Yeah,so the restaurant was established in nineteen seventy
four. We're approaching our fiftieth anniversaryof being in business. We started out
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in this location before, like justas it was getting popular businesses. We're
trying to come in a bunch ofdevelopment going on around it, and we've
been one of the few that's stuckaround for the test of time in this
location. Yeah, there have beenthere's been another location, but we're going
to do it at the original locationof this fifty years. What a wonderful
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legacy of Omaha families parties, somany different events and a great location for
this. So let's talk about themenu here. What are we going to
be eating at this gourmet club.At the Gourmet Club, you'll have your
options of any responsible with over thirteendifferent saucees to choose from chicken palm,
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lagagna, grilled chicken, alfredo,all the Italian classics. Yeah, Italian
classics here. And you said endlesspasta, endless pasta? I U is
any of it going to be potentiallyhot naked? Is any of it going
to be hot naked pasta? Yes, some of it will probably be hot
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naked pasta. I would I wouldhave to assume there's stuff here that wants
the uh the delight. Yeah,that's that's the one that see I didn't
tell Lucy here what we were doing, but that's the phrase where she's like,
I know what we're doing. Souh so it's all you can eat
pasta here, endless pasta for thisevent. And we've, you know,
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because inflation continues to be an issue, and certainly this community is has been
hit by storms here recently. Wewe've sometimes done this to where it's like
one hundred dollars a person for theseevents. A fraction of that can tell
me about the prices here, especiallyfor kids. So the prices we're going
to do for this dinner is goingto be twenty five per adult and fifteen
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for kids. Twenty five bucks foradults here kids, he said, fifteen
fifteen one pot. Okay, sotwenty five bucks for adults, fifteen dollars
for kids. When you call tomake your reservation for the next news radio
eleven ten kfab Gourmet Club, specifyhow many adults and kids this is going
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to be two weeks from the nightsix thirty pm. It's Wednesday, May
fifteenth, and of course it's goingto be at Spaghetti Works, the original
location in the Old Market. We'retalking here with Tim Stokes, proprietor of
Spaghetti Works. Here's the number tocall four reservations right now. If you
get a busy signal, if youdon't reach a live person, don't expect
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that leaving a message will guarantee youa spot. Keep calling to you talk
to somebody. Four oh two fourto two two zero seven seven zero.
That's four oh two four to twotwo zero seven zero. I'll give you
the number again just a moment,but Tim, thank you very much for
hosting us for the Gourmet Club.I'm a Ralston kid, so the Spaghetti
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Works right down the street from RalstonHigh School was a staple of my diet
growing up, and of course notrip to the Old Market is complete without
going in there and just eating somuch spaghetti that I can't even see for
three days. And congratulations on fiftyfamily friendly years here in Omaha. What
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are you doing this year to celebrate? So what we're doing this year is
obviously this meal, and then thefollowing weekend we're going to have a birthday
celebration for Spaghetti Works, including cupcakesfor everybody that comes in, some free
merchandise, you know, or fiftyyear t shirts and stuff like that as
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well. All right, I hearthe phone ringing back there, Tim.
I'll let you and your staff answerit, and I'll look forward to seeing
you here two weeks from tonight atSpaghetti Works in the Old Market. Thank
you very much much. I can'twait. Absolutely, I appreciate it.
Thank you, thank you. That'sTim, Tim Stokes from Spaghetti Works.
We want to see you. Wewant as it bring the kids. We
want to We've had babies at thesegourmet clubs before, and based on how
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many years we've been doing these,a lot of these babies that we saw
before probably high schoolers. Now,didn't you have one born there? We
had a kid born that was thenight we served potosin at the Gourmet Club,
so this is going to be areally fun event. I will see
you there. You gotta call SpaghettiWorks right now to make that reservation.
Four oh two four two two zeroseven seven zero. We got some special
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things for you going on that nightas well. May fifteenth, four oh
two four two two zero seven sevenzero. Scott Boyes Mornings nine to eleven,
Our News Radio eleven ten KFAB
Scott VORDIEZ. It's an interesting timefor our Midwestern plains. This is one
of the few parts in the countrywhere we don't have swat teams going in
and dragging protesters. Protesters is thewrong word. It's even wronger than the
word wronger. But if you reallywant to go, all kinds are wrong
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on it. The term pro Palestinianprotesters. I don't know that it gets
more wrong. Where's Palestine? Theseguys don't know what they think is Palestine
from East Palestine. They don't knowPalestine from Plattsmith. These guys, they're
just like, Oh, this isa place we can go and do something
we're not supposed to do. Let'sgo. So we got the swat teams
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yanking them out of all these campusesfrom UCLA to Columbia in New York and
so here in Omaha right now wedon't have that very nice. But what
do we have in Omaha? Wegot people looking at a timeline that might
be up to two years before theirhomes are rebuilt. This is of course,
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across the area where we've had thesestorms, from Waverley to Minden.
We have people showering in a Walmartparking lot, and it's totally legit this
time. And we have this storythat brought a teer to my cold black
heart's eyeball. No, I don'twant to rephrase that. Lucy, by
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the way, good morning, greatto have you with us. Good morning.
You know what story got me thismorning? Oh it's hard to tell.
It's what they've had set up atthe Relevant Center, the church community
center there in Elcorn, right acrossthe street from the neighborhood that was partially
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destroyed there in Elcorn, west oftwo hundred and fourth in Maple. This
is where people have been coming fora couple of different reasons related to the
storm. One, you got peoplewho are finding things throughout the area,
pictures, keepsakes, notes, letters, cards, They find these things and
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they bring them to the Relevant Center. And then you've got people who have
lost things related to the storm.They go to the Relevant Center and they
go, that's mine, or theysee a picture and go, I know
that guy, that's my neighbor.And they get these things and they take
them to the people who own them. People have been finding all these especially
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photographs, and you know, dependingon how old you are, a photograph
is either something that is irreplaceable,or it's just something you printed out that
exists on the clouds. I don'tknow what that line is, and I
think there are a lot of usin the gen X timeframe for whom photographs
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are both of those things. ButI think if you're on the older side
of gen X, it's pretty muchexclusively. Photographs are the keepsakes that you
can't get back. They exist inone form on this special paper, and
this is the only example of itwe have. And then you got young
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people to say, why would youeven print out a picture. I just
take a billion pictures a day.No one will even see these things,
and I can't delete any of them. They exist in the cloud. So
people are finding these keepsakes, thesepictures, cleaning mud off of them,
cleaning them up a little bit,rescuing artwork, little kids, drawings that
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were on the refrigerator, dog tags, And I tell you the thing that
really brought a tear to my eye. They found golf clubs. I'm kidding
now, the whole thing is veryby the way, they did find a
set of golf clubs. Everyone calmeddown. They don't belong to you.
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You probably aren't good enough to hitthese clubs. Anyway, I am curious
as to what kind of clubs theyare. They found a bottle of perfume.
They found a wedding dress. Wasthere a wedding going on Friday night?
Is there someone? Is there abride missing? Did she run away
into the storm? She get liftedup into that tornado with those brothers.
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What crazy story that is. Itold you the other day that the last
thing I would see if a tornadohit our house back when we had a
cat, would be my wife runningout to go and get the cat.
As I said, we're not runningafter the cat. The cat is on
its own right now. These guyswent running after the dog and they got
lifted up, thrown through the airby a tornado, almost died. The
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dog no idea, do you know? Do you know if the dog is
okay? I have not even heardthis story. Oh really, Oh my
gosh, National News. These guysname it Royce and Roger, a couple
of guys. I don't know howold they are. They appear to be
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I'll say twenty ish, and theywere at home when the tornado hit.
This was in Elcorn and one ofthe little dogs of the family decided to
make a break for it, andso they went after it. Which,
look, I get it. I'mnot Christy nom you. I understand that
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you want to go try and savea dog. But you know, as
they're flying through the air, asthe tornado lifted their home off of the
foundation and sent these guys flying throughthe air, one of them landed over
here. The other one landed overhere, had part of his own house
on him. He had a freearm so he could reach his phone in
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his pocket and call nine to oneone so they could call police out to
their house that was on top ofhim. I don't know what color socks
he was wearing. There's your nineteenthirties forty. When did Wizard of Oz
come up? I want to saythirty eight, but I think that might
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be gone. And there's your Wizardof Oz movie reference. So yeah,
these guys, they got a bunchof stitches all over them. They were
all cut up pretty good. Theyhad debris hitting them as they were cartwheeling
through the air. Unbelievable, butno broken bones. Crazy at least one
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of these guys, if not bothof them, are military on some level.
But good good stuff. I mean, I now, I mean they're
okay. So yeah, but ifone of those guys went flying across the
county and someone found him and cleanedhim up, they would deposit him at
the relevance center and someone else wouldcome along, go, that's my son,
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and then they could collect him.They clean the mud off of him
and collect him. But this iswhere people have been finding all this stuff,
and they just take it over here, and so you've got people coming
in there. The story here fromWOWT six News is both volunteers finding letters,
you know, a handwritten letter froma mom of two kids. I
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don't know who she wrote the letterto, but she talks about, you
know, the struggle she's been through, but right now she hasn't felt this
good in years. And this personfound the letter, read it, Hey,
that letter doesn't belong to you,and I'm kidding, and brought it
in there, saying this letter isimportant to somebody. Someone kept this for
a reason, so they take itover to the relevance Center. There's a
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newspaper clipping from nineteen sixty four aboutan eighteen year old guy returning to high
school after taking a year off sowe could go to work. And he
thought, I'll go back to school. There was a newspaper story in nineteen
sixty four that's found in there,as I said, photographs, drawings,
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kids, stuff that was probably putwith a magnet on the refrigerator door a
wedding dress, and people are goingin there and going, oh, my
gosh, I can't believe it.That's mine. I just think that's really
(08:54):
sweet, really really good stuff.These people are getting some of these pictures,
photographs, artwork back. They don'thave a wall to hang it on,
but they thought, well, that'sprobably I don't know if they even
thought about it. At some point. Your brain just has flashes of cognition
about things in between going numb.I would guess you're walking around in a
(09:16):
stupor after something like this for whoknows how long, and then you're told,
well, I would like to obviouslyrebuild my house. What's the timeframe
on this. The timeframe is upto two years. We'll explain next.
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Scott Godes News Radio ELEVENFAB and thehistory of our radio station. There was
a night when on her television program, Nancy Grace welcomed on to her television
show our former news director, theGreat Tom Stanton, and she welcomed him
on by introducing what radio station thathe was a part of, Radio one
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one one o KFAB one. Sheformer radio Nancy Grace one one one oh.
Okay, this has bothered us forfifteen years. We're about now eighteen
minutes away from trying to write thiswrong. Nancy Grace is coming on this
(10:24):
radio show here on news radio oneone one oh KFAB. I'm gonna get
her to say it right. Haveher make us eleven pancakes. I made
you one one one oh pancakes,Nancy. We're talking to Nancy Grace about
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her podcast, which is amazingly andyou might never have guessed this. It's
about crime story what. Yeah,I'm worried about her. She's like every
day. I just got this emailhere to Scott atkfab dot com from Sandra
says, good morning, Scott andLucy. I would love to have you
do an hour of just uplifting storieslike the two brothers you just shared.
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And while I do believe that shedid not intend the pun on that one,
uplifting stories about the two brothers thatwere sucked up, they were uplifted
by the tornado because the subject lineis positive stories. So I do take
her at her hilarious pun unintended wordthere. But you know, we love
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spicing in positive stories on this program. But I know people stereotype of talk
radio is just you know, astraight white guy coming on the radio,
going and I'll tell you another thingabout these democrats, you know, And
I tell you, honestly, wecan do that better than anybody, and
we sometimes do. But we doa whole lot of everything on this program.
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Sometimes the stories that make us mad, sometimes the story is that fill
up our hearts. Sometimes it's bothat the same time. Well you did
a little bit of that yesterday,But I was trying to think, like
where was I going with that?Oh yeah, yesterday, Okay. Good.
In the eighteen year history of thisradio show, we have yesterday.
That's good. We can lean onthat, we can build that foundation.
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But Nancy Grace, I don't thinkshe has any of that. Every day
Nancy just picks up the newspaper andit's like, well, here's a horrible
story about something terrible that happened tosomebody, and it's just exclusively that I'm
worried about her. We're gonna talkto her here at nine forty this morning.
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And as far as positive stories.Doesn't get better than this. In
about an hour and twenty twenty fiveminutes from now, just after quarter to
eleven, here we are going toannounce the next news radio eleven ten kfab
Gourmet Club. You're not familiar,listen just after ten forty five this morning,
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and you'll be invited to join ustwo weeks from tonight. Location menu
number to call for reservations coming upat about a quarter to eleven. Right
here, now, this is nota positive story. Did you just give
me a wave or were you stretching? Oh? Did we have a traffic
issue? Please? I hate tobreak in, but wh's what we do.
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It looks like somebody has dropped ordumped a load of dirt, a
lot of it on I eighty eastbound. It is just before that Giles exit.
That would be the Cabella's and you'llneed to get all the way over
into the left shoulder to get throughthis. It's idy eastbound just before Giles
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exit. Sorry, let's try toget this all together. Dirt all over
the interstate. Yeah, it cameacross versus as mud. So not quite
sure because I can't see it onthe cameras, So not quite sure.
Exactly what we've got going on overthere. I eighty eastbound eastbound just before
the Kabela's or Giles exit. Yeah, you can't really see that coming and
get off right before stay to theleft, okay, or just dukes of
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hazard. That thing there's that Peoplehave been asking if they if their home
is just about a total loss,like we obviously we want to rebuild and
we have some temporary housings or okayhere for a short time. What's the
timetable we're looking at for rebuilding thishouse? Story here from k E TV
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News Watch seven says, well,first you got to get someone to come
out and assess the damage. I'llsave them that step. We've all seen
the pictures there's damage. Is therereally an insurance guy coming out going well,
I don't know. I mean rooflooks okay to me the way it's
sitting right there in pieces on theground. Hey, I don't know.
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I mean you're the one that choseto build a house here. You know
there's some insurance people who that's theirjob, right. I'm not saying any
company or anything. I'm just sayinganyone who's ever had to deal with insurance
when suddenly he gets testy, islike, well, I don't know,
it doesn't look destroyed. I mean, so someone's gonna have to deal with
that, thankfully not many people.But so the first thing is we got
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to come out and assess the damage, and we got to work with the
insurance company, We got to workwith the city. And the mayor has
already expedited the process by saying,look, we're going to get the inspections
done, We're going to waive permitfees in terms of getting the permits to
be able to do this stuff.Yeah, we're just what do you need?
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We're getting out and then you gotto have someone come out and assess
like what it's going to take torebuild this, and then you got to
have well, first you got tohave someone come and take everything away,
see what can be salvage, andthen build everything on top of it.
What are we talking about a yearat the absolute fastest is the assessment here
from this home builder that KETV NewsWatch seven talk to, but probably closer
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to you in a year and ahalf to two years. And now you're
looking at the person you're staying with, going uh, hey, Tim just
got the potential timeline back here,we are we good to stay here through
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spring of twenty twenty six. That'swhen you know whether you're in good with
a friend or family member you're stayingwith. And then you got some people.
Now this is I struggle with thisone because people are saying, oh,
suddenly houses for rent, especially outin West Omaha, but really anywhere
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in the area houses for rent,which aren't very plentiful to begin with,
especially if you're looking at communities likeBlair or Mendon. It's not like you
have a whole bunch of options here. So houses for rent suddenly got a
little bit more expense. Well,I mean, we're not running charity cases
here. At the same time,I hope that no one is just suddenly
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spiking things. Some people have soughttemporary shelter in hotels and they're surprised at
how expensive hotels got. Well,it's Berkshire weekend, so prices are already
up because there aren't very many hotelrooms left. I mean to say,
what all those FEMA houses that theycan carry around and haul in. I
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know it's not ideal, yeah it'snot, but if it would save on
your rent for a year, Imean that's a year's rent. The first
thing that happened was the Red Crosswent out there and set up some of
these temporary shelters, and after twodays they shut it down because no one
needed it. Well, they mightneed it now, they might. Well,
yeah, if they're looking at thatlong, it's not really a two
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year kind of a situation. You'rebasically living in a box car and taking
a shower in the Walmart parking lot. They've got trailers set up in the
Walmart parking lot at one hundred andsixty eighth in Maple so you could do
laundry in the mobile laundry unit.And then they've got a trailer that has
showers in it and just go intake a shower right there, and a
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trailer in the Walmart parking lot.You can do anything at Walmart. When
I saw the story, it saysyou can take showers at Walmart, I
was like, I've been in thatWalmart a lot. There's showers in there.
I didn't know that, and there'sa subway in there. But yeah,
they got a trailer in the parkinglot and it's only fifty bucks a
shower. Just seeing if you're payingattention, I think it's free. I
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don't. I actually don't know laundryis free. It doesn't specifically say in
the story whether the shower is free, but I hope it's free. All
right, Fox News Update next,then Nancy Grace coming on here in about
ten minutes. Scott Vories now welcomingon to news Radio eleven ten KFAB a
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member of our iHeartRadio family here onthis radio station, of course several others,
as well as the host of adaily podcast, Crime Stories with Nancy
Grace on iHeartRadio. We welcome NancyGrace on here. Good morning, Nancy,
Hello, Thank you for inviting me. Yeah, it's great to have
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you here. The first thing wehave to take care of is it was
about fifteen or so years ago andyou welcomed our former news director, my
friend Tom Stanton onto your show ontelevision. Now, I know you've got
a background in radio, and youintroduced him from news radio eleven ten KFAB
on your show in this manner.He's Radio one one one, Okfab.
(19:48):
Now, Nancy, come on Radiobackground one one one. Oh. I'm
gonna need to hear you say thename of our radio station correctly so we
can all move forward. This hasbeen this has been an issue for several
years. Okay, Number one,I don't have a background in radio.
I thought you did, and andI'm not a journalist. I was in
(20:11):
school study Shakespearean literature to become aprofessor at the university level. I hoped
so. My fiance was murdered random, I dropped out of school. I
lost down to eighty nine pounds.I couldn't think, I couldn't sleep.
I certainly couldn't go to school.I wasn't fit for a classroom anymore.
I decided to go to law schoolto become a felony prosecutor, and I
(20:34):
did so. Either it's eleven tenor one one, one zero. I'm
doing my thing, buddy, andyou do it better than anybody. A
perfect records as a prosecutor. Certainlywe're aware of that. I think at
that time you had done it someradio, and maybe not as an obviously
(20:56):
a radio host. But is thereany possible way we can get you to
say news radio eleven ten kfa Bjust so we can right that wrong?
I mean, give up. Okay, what do you want me to say?
Yeah, that's that's you. You'rethe person who never gives up but
in news radio eleven News Radio eleventen KFAB News Radio KFA BY. That
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feels so good. Now we canall move forward. Nancy. You we
hear Nancy's daily Uh just clip ofthe podcast. It's just after two o'clock
here, right before Emery Songer takesover. Weekday is on eleven ten kfa
B. This podcast, Crime Storieswith Nancy Grace. You've got an army
at your disposal for a daily podcastto say, all right, here's the
(21:49):
issue, go find out, let'sstand up for this victim here. How
how is this working? Are you? I mean to have an army at
your disposals got to be pretty amazingevery day? Okay, what army is
that? Because I'm up at fiveam looking for story cases that we need
to cover, they start rolling in, as I think I mentioned, at
(22:14):
about five am, and those casesare from India in the UK. Around
six am, stories from overnight USstart rolling in. I scour Facebook and
Twitter where families are trying to contactme. I'm headed to crime Condent and
ending them up in Nashville, andthere very often I come home with a
giant sold or of families that needhelp with the chases. So what army
(22:38):
is that you're talking about? Allof you, all of you, all
of your listeners and followers who arehelping you solve some of these issues as
you produce bombshell after bombshell, aspeople are like, all right, we've
got to We've got to step upand help Nancy with this. You know
what it's you just mentioned something thatI think is very important. A lot
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of let me just say, professionals, and again, I am not a
radio expert, a TV expert,or even a journalist. I'm a trial
lawyer and a crime victim that somehowwas lucky enough to land at Court TV
and it took off from there.There was no demo reel, there was
no resume. It was a fluke. But I have heard a lot of
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so called journalists decry or minimize citizenloops as I call it, people that
are aware, looking around and acting. We would never have found Gabby the
Tito's body if a citizen had notspotted her Ford transit out in the middle
(23:45):
of nowhere, just first camping.That means there's not a porta potty,
or a hookup or an electrical outlet. You are out there with the coyotes
and the critters. That's where herbody was found, and if it hadn't
been for that citizen, there wouldnot be a resolution in that case.
Right now, I'm working in acase of Shahdai Robinson. She was a
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beautiful young girl putting herself through collegeto jobs, and she was so excited
about her first date with the sonof a Milwaukee millionaire. Right now,
volunteers are looking for the rest ofher body. Her body has been found
in four different places this member andher mom still doesn't have all of her
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body. I'm working on that.Where do I get the stories? Number
One, they're not stories their cases. These are real people with real pain
and real problems that need real help. In Shadai's case, I'm sad to
report that many, many brown andblack skinned girls and women go missing and
(24:53):
nobody seems to care. What Icare, And I'm working on it and
I'm trying to change it. SoI hear from all across the country from
people that want help. How doesthe burden of everyone saying, Nancy,
you seem to be the only personnationally working on things like this. Can
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you help us that has got toput a tremendous burden, a big weight
on you. How do you dealwith it well? For the longest time,
I remember several times that when Iwould leave the courthouse after a case,
I would be so beside myself abouthow cool people can be to each
other, especially to children. Iwould have to pull off the side of
(25:38):
the road and cry, because ofcourse I could never cry at the courthouse
or in front of a jury oranybody else. And I would always think
about my fiancee kids, who hadthe most beautiful blue lines. I would
think about that, and somehow Iwould feel with duty. I'd feel strength
to just keep going to somehow puta band aid on other people the way
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I wish I could have him inhis case and fixed it all. But
I couldn't. And I went onfor many many years like that. And
then my prayer, which I thoughtwould never happen, was answered, and
I got a family. I've gottwo children, boy girl, twins,
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John David and Lucy. Lucy andI almost died in childbirth, but we
didn't. We made it thank toNorth Side Hospital. They nursed us through.
And now I have them, andI want them to have a happy
mom, a supported mom, it'sone in the moment with them, so
I have to come about five o'clockin the afternoon. I worked from about
(26:48):
five am to five pm. Iturn it off and I'm all about them.
I put them supper about five nightsa week, and we talk and
laugh and it is the perfect tonic. I tell you what, Nancy.
Maybe we've questioned your ability to properlyidentify radio stations, but never your passion,
never your professionalism, and it's havingan every day in crime stories with
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Nancy Grace. You'll find it oniHeartRadio and anywhere you get your podcasts.
Hey, hey, hey, canI just say one thing please, This
is news Radio eleven kf aby.Nancy. I am so happy right now,
and I really appreciate your time,and we'll catch you just after two
(27:33):
o'class kfad. I know you gotit, No, you know you.
No, you've got it. You'vegot it. Nancy, Thank you very
much, and I look forward toconnecting with you again. Bye, guys,
thank you all right, Thank youNancy Grace here on News Radio eleven
ten KFAB. I was a littlescared for you, fright. I was
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like, am I just gonna fightwith Nancy? Grace. I'm not trying
to pick a fight. Well maybea little bit at the beginning there.
I'm just telling you she's very seriouswithin the radio station. The one one
one o kfab thing is he livedin infamy here in these hollowed halls for
several years. So I just hadto work with her to write that wrong.
(28:18):
Absolutely, And when she did that, hey, hey, hey,
hey, I was like, Idon't know what is about to happen.
In case you're wondering, you're notgonna have Nancy make pancakes. Not today,
We'll get that. Yeah, maybeanother day, another day, and
before we go to break, asNancy just said there. Got a note
here from Johnny says, Lucy,are you sure that's mud on the interstate?
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Nope, you want to give thatthat update again, I don't know
what it is. It's a brownmound of something now they're calling it mud.
It is on I eighty eastbound atGiles at the Giles exit, So
if you wait to get on toI eight eastbound from Giles you can do
that. And traffic is backed upnow well past Highway fifty. Got an
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email here from Luke says some truckdriver hit the wrong switch in his cab
and dumped his load of dirt.I guarantee you, Oh, is that
what happened? I mean, Iknow he's speculating. Yeah, that's a
speculation from Luke. I didn't knowyou could do that. I thought it
was like your trunk, Like youcan't open your trunk from your inside of
(29:25):
your car if you're in motion,it won't open. No, And several
people I've got locked in the trunkwould would prefer that that not be the
case. But hey, you knowwhat you did to get in there.
And you're going to be featuring anupcoming edition of Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
Scott byes News Radio. Elen kfabIadi eastbound got a major issue out there.
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Yeah, that center lane is blockednow you can get through that on
the right or the left. Ieight eastbound at the Giles exit. You've
got a large dirt pile on theroad and they've now closed the on ramp
from Highway fifty. So wait toget on at Giles and get past this
crash or this maintenance issue. It'swhat are they they get the snowplows out.
We've got a giant mound of whatwe're going to say is probably kats
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of dirt. It's a oh whatwas the term that they would use and
broadcasters for the Annual Masters Golf Tournament, we're not allowed to say that there
was mud on a golf ball.Augusta did not want there to be mud
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on Augusta National Golf Course, sothey had to say it was land,
no firm earthen material or something likethat. They had there was a specific
phrase. I can't I can't comeup with it right now, but that's
that's what we have out there.We've got some sort of earthen material.
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We made a golf clap after that. No, I just I think,
get some skinedloaders out there, andcats, cats and dogs, oh like
the bobcats kind it. Mountain lions. Mountain lions are all around. Yeah.
I get the snowplows out there andmove that stuff before someone tries the
dukes of hazard that thing. Shouldn'twe let the dirt stay there though?
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I mean, after all, webuilt this interstate on land originally occupied by
this dirt. So you are youhave a very valid point, and I'm
gonna call NDOT and see what wecan work out. We've got pro dirt
protesters lining up on the interstate.We got this message this morning from Douglas
County Emergency Management. They have canceledthe monthly test of the outdoor alert system.
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That is what we grew up with. I think what most of us
grew up with was the ten o'clockwhistle Saturdays ten am. Was it every
Saturday or the first Saturday of themonth. I don't remember. I just
remember playing outside as a kid.I grew up in the best swath of
time ever. Born in the midseventies, raised in the eighties, came
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of age in the nineties, Sothat means I played outside and you would
hear the siren go off, andyour first thought was a tornado, and
then you realize, nope, it'sSaturday morning, ten am, and it's
bright and sunshiny outside, so it'sprobably not a tornado. Well, a
few years back they switched that upfrom Saturday ten to the first Wednesday of
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the month during severe weather season,first Wednesday of the month at eleven am.
Well, they have canceled that testtoday. They say that it's because
there are still a few of thesesirens. Douglas County has one hundred and
twenty five outdoor warning sirens. Idon't know how many, and Sarpie but
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Sarpee decided to cancel theirs as welltoday and they say that there are a
few that are currently inoperable. Well, the word we got yesterday was that
there were three in Douglas County thatwere currently inoperable. They're going to cancel
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the test on one hundred and twentytwo of them during this week of severe
weather because there are three that aren'tworking. I'm not sure I buy that.
What I do believe is they gavethem a really good test on Friday
determine which ones worked as recently asa few days ago, which ones they're
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working on, and maybe the communitymight need a break from hearing the sirens
go off. So we're not goingto blast them off at eleven o'clock this
morning as a test. They justgot tested. People don't need to hear
the sirens go off at eleven amthis morning. But they can't say that,
like, look, people, wedon't want people to be a little
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jumpy. We've got potential thunderstorms inthe forecast here for later this afternoon and
this evening, but we just feellike people need a break and we don't
need to set the sirens off.But that's a long and convoluted statement.
So they said, ah, wewere foregoing the test. We've got three
sirens that are inoperable, so we'reworking on those. Either way, I'm
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good with it, and I thinkthat's probably all that they were looking to
accomplish. What is Scott going tothink about this? Lucy Chapman has returned
wearing a denim jean jacket and anReo Speedwacken button or is that Boston.
I can't really see from the journeyJourney button on her denim jean jacket.
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Is that sure? It's not WhiteSnake Kansas I eighty eastbound near Giles,
Sup. It is still it lookslike they're working on it. But the
center lane is still closed at fourforty two. That's gonna be the Giles
exit and the Highway fifty on rampto I eighty eastbound is closed. This
is due to some dirt that wasdumped in the road there. And you're
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not saying dirt or mud, organicmaterial? Organic material that's the phrase.
I got a text from a friendof mine. Is that a port of
body? No, it's more thanthat, but it is causing some place,
say all the way to the farright or far left lane, or
avoid it altogether, which is muchbetter. I'm telling you it just duke's
a hazard or that the trucks behindit now and skidloaders and they're working on
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it. You're going to hit thatfirst, Okay, Well they got trucks
behind it working to clear it.Here's what I want to know. Down
the interstate, just you know,a quarter mile or whatever, is there
a truck pulled off on the sideof the road and a sheepish looking driver
standing there or sitting in his cabbecause it's more safe. It's hard to
see on this shot, this cammershot, but it looks like he might
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actually still be there. What Iwant to know, I want to see
a guy pacing safely off in thegrass well off the side of the interstate
on the phone, with a verysheepish look on his face. There's a
couple of people. Oh you knowwhat, I did not notice this until
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you just now said it. Thereis a car on the side of the
road up against a left shoulder thatis covered in dirt. Oh no,
so I'm hoping that everybody was okaythrough that. Yeah, it's completely covered
in dirt, so it must havegotten Yeah, obviously it must have gotten
(36:40):
hit by that dirt. Okay,not funny anymore. Uh, thanks a
lot. It's kind of funny presumingeveryone's okay. I haven't heard otherwise.
So here's what I'm Here's what Iimmediately think. I will allow it the
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possibility that I might be wrong.It has happened once. But I immediately
think when you say that someone wasfollowing too closely, haven't we all been
taught, especially on the Interstate,with a truck in front of you,
don't follow too closely? Do youknow how many times? How many times
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have you seen trucks just get cutoff? You just slide right in in
front of those guys cannot stop.They're not like cars. I see it
every day on the Dodge Expressway,especially, Oh missing, gonna miss my
turn? Yeah, they get rightin front of a being. Oh yeah,
it's the old family guy. Goodluck everybody else as the person cuts
(37:44):
across five lanes of traffic at thelast second. I won't say what kind
of person I'll let Seth fall onthat sword. But Dave emails and says,
don't worry about that dirt it identifiesas concrete. So all right,
Uh, here's the problem with removingthat mound of organic material on the interstate
again, I eighty eastbound. Whichside of Giles you can't get off on
(38:08):
Giles? Right? Giles is onthe east side of this. The I
don't have work if it's by Cabella'sis closed, because like, can you
you get off on the exit beforeyou find that dirt pile? Or is
the pile closer to Cabela's, whichmeans you have to go around the dirt
pile to get on that exit.It is right at four four two,
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right at the sign that is fourfour two, And it appears that you
can get on I eighty eastbound fromGiles without Yeah, you're missing this altogether.
You're saying, if you're coming upon exit, yeah, I would
assume that that is open. Idon't know why they would close out.
They would want traffic to get off, but I don't have that in the
camera shot, and I don't havethat information. I just find it officially.
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If there's traffic stacking up behind this, can they it is? Can
they get yeah? Can they getoff on the exit before coming up on
the dirt. If it's by thesign, that's suggest to me that it's
right before you would reach that exit. If you're trying to exit at Giles,
you're already stuck in that so farback it's it's back past Highway fifty.
It is slow. I said earlier. They were running the football barricades
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of rolling roadblocks, the rolling roadblocks for a while and trying to pull
that shut up here one second,tell me to shut up, shot up.
I did to pull up that shotup. Lucy's got drones that she
uses at her disposal to take alook at what's going on with road issues.
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It's not backed up to three seventy. Let me pull up highway foot
yeah, long waist. Well it'swell past Highway fifty. So and the
on ramp from Highway fifty to eightyeastbound is closed. Yeah, So we
don't add to the people stacked upthere on the interstate. I'm just impressed
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that we have an issue on Ieight eastbound at some other location than near
eighty fourth Street. Actually, wehave a lot of problems right in through
here. Every morning, every afternoon, I hear Timesaver traffic reports here on
Nebraska's news Weather and Traffic station,and it's a crash. Usually it's in
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the morning, there's a backup onChandler. Could I be any more backed
up? It's a Chandler bang.So that's the morning, and then in
the afternoon it's a crash affecting Iat eastbound near eighty fourth. Just about
every single day, I would likesomebody to explain to me why traffic can
be moving along just fine. Youhit about eighty fourth Street at any time
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of day, and it gets slowboth directions because we did that stupid reconfiguration
of the whole the bridges and theoverpass and all the rest of that stuff.
We made that tight turn that peopletake way too fast, and then
we people get confused as to whichlanes do I need to get over so
I don't get stuck on any fourth, And then they suddenly are stuck eighty
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fourth. They're like, but Idon't want to get off on eighty fourth,
and now they may get everyone else'sproblem, and they're trying to get
over in the left lanes and it'sjust a flipping mess. They screwed it
all up. Lucy noted that therewas a vehicle that got absolutely covered by
this material as it came out ofthe back of a truck. And we've
heard now from the driver of thatvehicle the ark hat so it might be
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organic material. So I don't know. So many people in the Zonkers Custom
Woods Inbox have been dinging themselves withthat movie reference. We'll go back to
the future two on that one.I thought that was the original one.
It happened in the original one,but that particular quote there is when it
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happens again in the deuce. Andas far as staying in the far left
or far right lane, email heresays, isn't staying in the far right
lane part of Kfab's mission statement,that's actually very creative. Thank you for
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that email, Scott akfab dot com. Zonker's Custom Woods Inbox. So they
can't move that dirt out there becauseall of the groups that would be used
to come in there and move dirtare too busy pulling protesters out of occupying
college campuses across the country. Violenceovernight at UCLA after UCLA said all right,
(42:37):
that's enough, and a lot ofthese protesters who are referred to over
and over again by the media aspro Palestinian Where's Palestine again? Is it
pro Palestinian or is it anti Israel? Is it anti Israeli? Is it?
This is just the next step inwhat Antifa and like minded people love
(43:00):
to do. We want to shutdown this road. We want to shut
down this bridge, we want toshut down this city. We want to
shut down this police headquarters. Wewant to shut down Wall Street. We
want to shut down the government.That's more j six. We want to
shut down these college campuses. Theinsurrections at college campuses are now as I
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wonder if these these presidential individuals,chancellors and so forth, administrators and these
college campuses call each other, ifthey're on a tech string, Someone's like,
well, I'm going to get themout of here. You can't do
that. Freedom of speech, freedomto assemble, Like you don't have the
freedom to trespass. This is againstthe law. But then they're going to
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be mad at us. You know, we've we've trained these little Hellians to
do exactly this. We didn't thinkthey'd do it to us. Don't you
hate it when they bite the handthat indoctrinates you. That's the thing.
These little guys, none of themTrump voters, none of them. Now,
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if there were Trump voters doing this. If there was one flipping red
hat anywhere in any of these protestsand any of these college campuses, it
would be oh, neo Nazis,anti Jewish protesters, Trump supporters, all
of them, neo cons all thisstuff. If there was one single maga
hat among any of them, themedia would have no problem labeling the whole
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lot of them. But these area little individuals, sorry censor myself,
who were trained by these liberal indoctrinationcenters to disrupt, and now they're disrupting
and shutting down their own indoctrination centersso that other people can't be indoctrinated.
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On some level, I think that'sgreat. You are correct in that Vilue.
The person that you just described isamongst these protests. However, when
the arrests have been made, they'refinding that they're arresting people who are not
even students. No, I've heardtalk. That's That's why I said,
this is just the latest incarnation ofpeople showing up going is this Occupy Wall
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Street? Is this Black Lives Matter? Is this all cops are bastages,
you know whatever, And they justshow up and they're like, we're shutting
stuff down. They don't even knowwhat it is. They don't know what
they're protesting. Yes, and Ihave heard some rumors that some of these,
if not all of them, arealso being paid, which you did
see in some of theml BLM riotsthrough the last few years, that some
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of those protesters were paid. Yeah. Emery yesterday afternoon had a great clip
from one of these protesters that said, well, we have some students in
here who paid the college prepaid fora college meal plan, so they need
to bring us food. You cango get your meal plan. It's over
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there in the cafeteria. You justhave to leave your little encampment. Have
they called it these entitled little Ican't say shop or chad? What was
it called the chop zone? Yeah? Is that what it was? Have
they have they named this little zoneyet? No? But it is whether
it is or it isn't it is, I know. So UCLA several fights
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broke out overnight as finally these thepolice went in there and said all right,
time to go, and there waspepper spray deployed. The amazing the
protesters who are already there, alreadyhad helmets and pepper spray of their own
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peaceful protest. You know, andso there was a big fight there.
That was UCLA. There's the samekind of thing at the University of Arizona.
They went and cleared out one oftheir encampments. There, same thing
at Columbia University. That was latelast night when tester were seen being led
away in zip ties, adding totheir credibility as being a good protester.
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Oh man, hey man, fromthe river to the sea? Man?
Which river? Which sea? Idon't know? Man ilhan Omar is unhappy.
She said that some of the Jewishstudents in US colleges are pro genocide.
(47:27):
There's a student right now saying,look, I've got like two or
three weeks left in class. I'vethis is my senior year. I've got
a thesis due, I've got finalscoming up here. I'm trying to wrap
this up and move on to thenext part of my life. Some of
the stuff that I need to doto finish out my college career can't be
done through remote learning. We havelabs, we have study groups, we
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have things we need to do.Not to mention the college experience that not
only do I want, but I'mpaying for or my parents are paying for,
and we can't do it because I'mpro genocide. According to a member
of the House of Representatives, ilhanOmar from Minnesota said that some of them
are pro genocide, like this Jewishstudent trying to finish out his or her
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college career is pro genocide because heor she wants to go to class.
Among those pushing back Nebraska second DistrictCongressman Don Bacon, who tells Axios he's
working on a censure measure against her. It must be a day that ends
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in why someone wants to censure ilhanOmar. So that's the latest on all
of these fronts. Other than that, what are the outrages What Barbara Streisand
said online? And that's some liberalsgoing after Barbara streisand streisand Ruh Streets Street
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since forgot how to pronounce her name. So that's liberals going after Babs.
We've got Biden trying to legalize pot, and we've got the next news radio
eleven ten kfab Gourmet Club to announce. If you're not familiar with this event,
I don't blame you. We usedto do these, probably to the
score of about ten or so peryear. Then the pandemic hit and then
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the post pandemic short staff restaurants hitand suddenly this event went by the wayside.
We went from about ten a yearto one or two a year the
last few years. We're looking toramp that up again this year and we've
got some great options ahead, includingthe next one, which is two weeks
from tonight. We'll announced the menu, the location, the price, the
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number to call for reservations coming uphere in just a few minutes. Unless
this is the person calling seven minutesearly, right now, Lucy, can
you do another traffic update so Ican talk to this person. Thanks absolutely,
We've go but a big problem onI eight eastbound at mile marker four
forty two. Police are running therolling roadblocks as they do on game day
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from about three seventy That crash,or rather it's a load of dirt that
has been dumped. Only that farleft lane is open id eastbound at Giles
and the on ramp from Highway fiftyto I eight eastbound is closed. Thank
you very much, Lucy, Andyes there are proprietor for the next gore
mat Club is going to wait patientlywhile I babble about a few different news
(50:31):
stories. We'll hear a few worse, more sponsors, and then here shortly
we'll make this announcement for the nextgore mat Club, which is a new
location for the Gourmet Club this year, but definitely not a new location for
Omaha. I've said too much.I'm intrigued, right, you don't tell
me. I don't think people understand. I don't know. This is a
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surprise too. That's because that's becauseyou've got loose lips. Your loose lip,
Lucy. I'll tell everybody to myselfa couple of things here. A
lot of people upset with Barbara streisandMelissa McCarthy. We know her, right,
we should, one of the funniesthuman beings of all time. You
want someone that can make me crywith laughter? Melissa McCarthy just about every
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single time actress comedian Bride'smaids, theouttakes and this is forty probably about the
funniest thing I've ever seen. Soshe I love her, spy, very
funny. She posted a picture onInstagram with her with a friend of hers
(51:37):
photo of herself and apparently she appearsto have lost a little bit of weight.
Okay, well, Barbara streisand whois friends with Melissa McCarthy posts on
there did you take ozempic? Andshe did that as a public comment to
the Instagram. People immediately were like, you can't make comments about someone's weight.
(52:00):
Are you fat? Shaming Melissa McCarthy. Let her journey be her journey.
Why are you even mentioning any ofthis stuff? And then people said,
well, she probably didn't. BarbaraStreisan is eighty two years old,
and apparently people online are like,look, if you get to be that
old, you probably don't know thatthe comments you make on Instagram are public
(52:22):
so everyone could see them. Butit's okay if she wants to be the
president. So they're shaming her.Yeah, they're old shaming her and all
the rest of this stuff. Well, streisand came out and said, you're
right, I didn't know that mycomment would be read by everybody. I'm
just saying that she looked fantastic.I wanted to pay her a compliment.
I forgot that the world is readingBarbara. Melissa McCarthy responded, I think
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Barbara is a treasure and I loveher. She reached out to me and
thought, I look good. Iwin the day. People are all mad
at Barbara streisand people are all madat Taylor Swift. Yeah, a lot
of parents, you know, heardShake it Off or The Wildest Dreams or
(53:06):
something like that, and they think, oh, Taylor Swift, my daughter
likes Taylor Swift. My daughter istwelve years old. I'm gonna get her
Taylor Swift's new album. And thenthey hear their daughter listening to Taylor Swift's
new album, which has f bombsin it, a lot of sexual themes,
not graphic, but it's probably stuffthat maybe you don't want your little
girl listening to, and a lotof anti religious imagery and themes across this
(53:31):
album. Most people are like,it's not fun. Well, the album
is called like I Know Why RaccoonsPoop on My Face or something like that.
It kind of has a theme aboutit that it's just kind of a
dour album. What's Taylor Swift gotto be all mad about? The tortured
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poet or whatever this is called.Her boyfriend just won another Super Bowl?
She's Taylor F. Swift? Whatis she all bummed out about? And
people bought the album and a lotof people are like, I like her
fun songs. Shake it Off,that's a fun song. Me, that's
a fun song. This stuff isjust real, real dowards down. So
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she just went dark on this one. She went dark. And does she
have a reason for that? Imean bands do this. I guess which
directions is all bombed about something.But people, if you're looking for a
bright light today, I got twofor you. Number one. The Biden
administration, according to the Department ofJustice, last night, said he's going
to remove marijuana from a list ofdangerous and highly regulated drugs. It doesn't
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declassify it. It doesn't mean atthe national level recreational pot use is legal.
But recreational pot use has been legalin most places here for a while.
So that's the latest from the Bidenadministration. Must be an election year.
Here's the other thing, the nextnew that's Radio eleven ten Kfab Gourmet
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Club, which is a wonderful event. We have a fantastic menu, we
all sit together, we have acommonality, good food, good drink,
And this one is going to bea little different from some we've done.
It's a brand new location and we'rereally stressing this to be a family event.
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We want to see those kids.We'd love to see you at this
event. Two weeks from tonight sixthirty pm on Wednesday, May fifteenth,
we'll welcome on here the proprietor ofthis restaurant. We won't say the name
yet, but it's going to becomepretty evident very quickly. So welcome on
here, Shadowy, a restaurant guy. Thank you for being here on eleven
(55:43):
ten kfab thanks for having me.Let's first talk about the history of the
restaurant here in Omaha. Yeah,so the restaurant was established in nineteen seventy
four. We're approaching our fiftieth anniversaryof being in business. We started out
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in this location before, like justas it was getting popular businesses. We're
trying to come in a bunch ofdevelopment going on around it, and we've
been one of the few that's stuckaround for the test of time in this
location. Yeah, there have beenthere's been another location, but we're going
to do it at the original locationof this fifty years. What a wonderful
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legacy of Omaha families parties, somany different events and a great location for
this. So let's talk about themenu here. What are we going to
be eating at this gourmet club.At the Gourmet Club, you'll have your
options of any responsible with over thirteendifferent saucees to choose from chicken palm,
(56:53):
lagagna, grilled chicken, alfredo,all the Italian classics. Yeah, Italian
classics here. And you said endlesspasta, endless pasta? I U is
any of it going to be potentiallyhot naked? Is any of it going
to be hot naked pasta? Yes, some of it will probably be hot
(57:16):
naked pasta. I would I wouldhave to assume there's stuff here that wants
the uh the delight. Yeah,that's that's the one that see I didn't
tell Lucy here what we were doing, but that's the phrase where she's like,
I know what we're doing. Souh so it's all you can eat
pasta here, endless pasta for thisevent. And we've, you know,
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because inflation continues to be an issue, and certainly this community is has been
hit by storms here recently. Wewe've sometimes done this to where it's like
one hundred dollars a person for theseevents. A fraction of that can tell
me about the prices here, especiallyfor kids. So the prices we're going
to do for this dinner is goingto be twenty five per adult and fifteen
(58:04):
for kids. Twenty five bucks foradults here kids, he said, fifteen
fifteen one pot. Okay, sotwenty five bucks for adults, fifteen dollars
for kids. When you call tomake your reservation for the next news radio
eleven ten kfab Gourmet Club, specifyhow many adults and kids this is going
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to be two weeks from the nightsix thirty pm. It's Wednesday, May
fifteenth, and of course it's goingto be at Spaghetti Works, the original
location in the Old Market. We'retalking here with Tim Stokes, proprietor of
Spaghetti Works. Here's the number tocall four reservations right now. If you
get a busy signal, if youdon't reach a live person, don't expect
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that leaving a message will guarantee youa spot. Keep calling to you talk
to somebody. Four oh two fourto two two zero seven seven zero.
That's four oh two four to twotwo zero seven zero. I'll give you
the number again just a moment,but Tim, thank you very much for
hosting us for the Gourmet Club.I'm a Ralston kid, so the Spaghetti
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Works right down the street from RalstonHigh School was a staple of my diet
growing up, and of course notrip to the Old Market is complete without
going in there and just eating somuch spaghetti that I can't even see for
three days. And congratulations on fiftyfamily friendly years here in Omaha. What
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are you doing this year to celebrate? So what we're doing this year is
obviously this meal, and then thefollowing weekend we're going to have a birthday
celebration for Spaghetti Works, including cupcakesfor everybody that comes in, some free
merchandise, you know, or fiftyyear t shirts and stuff like that as
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well. All right, I hearthe phone ringing back there, Tim.
I'll let you and your staff answerit, and I'll look forward to seeing
you here two weeks from tonight atSpaghetti Works in the Old Market. Thank
you very much much. I can'twait. Absolutely, I appreciate it.
Thank you, thank you. That'sTim, Tim Stokes from Spaghetti Works.
We want to see you. Wewant as it bring the kids. We
want to We've had babies at thesegourmet clubs before, and based on how
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many years we've been doing these,a lot of these babies that we saw
before probably high schoolers. Now,didn't you have one born there? We
had a kid born that was thenight we served potosin at the Gourmet Club,
so this is going to be areally fun event. I will see
you there. You gotta call SpaghettiWorks right now to make that reservation.
Four oh two four two two zeroseven seven zero. We got some special
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things for you going on that nightas well. May fifteenth, four oh
two four two two zero seven sevenzero. Scott Boyes Mornings nine to eleven,
Our News Radio eleven ten KFAB
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