July 31, 2024 • 57 mins
We've been so focused on the nationa stuff lately (for good reason), let's not let these local stories fall through the cracks: Council fights, senate debate snubs, 72nd and Dodge details, etc.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott Vordez phrasing is important here after spending the night
with Barry Manilow at his concert last night, we'll get
Lucy back in here tomorrow. Can't wait to hear about
for a time she met him, and she's a fanolo.
She is a huge Berry Manilow fan. She is a fanolo,
and so I presume that she's still weeping tears of joy,
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and Barry probably is too so for those who were
at that concert last night and just shaking off the
cobwebs here this morning, great to have you with us.
I'll I'll try not to yell too loud if you were.
I don't know. Do you drink a lot at the
Berry Manilo show? I guarantee you there was someone who
was smoking pot every concert you go to. You're hanging out,
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you're at the concert, and you go, I smell marijuana
in the air. Like it's Barry Manilow and there's some
you know, hippie up. Ye seen him eighteen times since
nineteen seventy seven. You know that's always won right, And
it's usually me. People do that and they're like, sir,
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do you have to smoke your marijuana here at this concert?
I said, come on, it's the elementary school Christmas concert. Anyway,
good morning. Remember when South Omaha was represented by a
guy named Vinnie Palermo, and then they weren't because Vinnie
Palermo stopped going to meetings. Now, in his defense, he
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wasn't able to attend the city council meetings because he
was in a federal custody dealing with allegations related to oh,
a little scandal with taxpayer funds and using his position
of power in an improper way. That's all. Still, you know,
they're dealing with all of that in the meantime while
someone might be dealing with something along those lines. They
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learned that they really can't remin move a city council
person until you miss three consecutive not meetings, three consecutive
months of meetings, Meaning if you live in Southeast Omaha
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for three months, you weren't being represented. Everything that was discussed,
your community didn't have a voice, everything that was voted on,
your community didn't have a vote. Your representative, I'm sure
would have loved to have been there, would have preferred
to be there at the council dealing with the likes
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of Brinker Harding Pete Festerson and Amy Melton and the like,
rather than dealing with federal prosecutors. But the fact was
that he wasn't able to be there. So after twelve
weeks he was gone. Well, yesterday the city council showed
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up and said, all right, we need to do a
couple of things here. First of all, if just in
case any of our sitting council members were looking at you,
Danny Bagley, just in case anyone might end up in
federal custody. By the way, there's no indication that Danny
or anyone would end up in federal custody, but you know,
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you never know, So just in case any of you
should be suddenly in federal custody for a long long time,
let's try and get rid of you a little more quickly.
So they look to shorten that waytime to rather than
three months of meetings missed consecutively one month, four meetings,
four consecutive meetings, not four meetings in a calendar year,
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four meetings in a row. Yes, Scott, we know what
consecutive means. Well, I don't know. So they talked about that,
and then there was also a conversation and saying you know,
while we're at it, while we're talking about behavior of
our elected officials ourselves here, maybe we should adopt a
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code of conduct, and maybe if it's determined that a
member of this council violates said code of conduct, there
needs to be a mechanism by which we the council
can remove one of our own council members. And Juanita Johnson,
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Northeast Omaha Council representative Juanita who has lived in a
little bit of infamy over the last few years. She's
been on the council for throwing a candle at a
on again, off again romantic partner at his store and
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not a lit candle. You're like, what's the problem with
throwing a candle? Well, it wasn't a can. It was
one of those big glass jars, got some heft to it.
So there was the There was the protective order to like,
can we stop her from coming into my shop saying
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that we're supposed to be together and if I don't
end up with her, then she's gonna hurt me with
this candle. So there was some of that, and then
there was well, I want all this money in the
city council budget to go towards my projects, and they're like, well,
you do have this much money to work with, well
I think should be like two and a half times
that amount. You're like, it doesn't work that way. Oh
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I can't get my So there was that, and then
just a couple of months ago there was a give
and take with the city employee where it didn't I mean,
it got a little ugly, and her response to the
city employee at this meeting was and I'll change and
we got kids home for summer, so I'll change one
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of the words here slightly. She looked at the city
employee and said, thank you, smart Alec will go smart Alec.
His name was not Alec. And so the other council
members are like, all right, let's try and have them
to call him in this body and all that. So
they start talking about a code of conduct and if
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they feel that another council member violates a code of conduct,
there needs to be a mechanism to remove that council member.
And they decided that it would be a vote a
five of them, and immediately council member Jannita Johnson Northeast
Omaha objects, you're all talking about me, like no one's
talking about you. Oh yeah, you are, like, okay, I
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would have loved to have heard that conversation. Why council
Member Johnson, why do you think we might be talking
about you? Because in your few years in this body,
you've been nothing but argumentative. You've failed to learn any
of the rules. You don't seem interested in being a
part of this process. You're you're a pain in the
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but you know, you know still, I don't think you're
even with this. I don't think you get five votes
to get rid of her. I mean, let's say that
the few conservative leaning members of this council Melton, harding
Row all say yeah, she needs to go, or you know,
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any of them. Maybe they decided that the council president,
Pete Festerson needs to go. So the three rather conservative
council members say, all right, time to remove this person.
We got three votes, we need two more. Who are
going to be those two more votes unless there's absolute
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gross misconduct, And I don't know that anything that any
of them have done at this point would qualify that
two members of their own political party turn against the
other two. Or let's say they want to get rid
of Amy Melton for any reason. I can think of several.
But if they want I'm kidding if if they're trying
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to get rid of Amy Melton, Northwest Omaha Representative, well,
now you're looking at the more liberal members of the council,
so you got you have four potential votes there. I
don't know how liberal leaning the new Southeast Omaha Rep.
Ron Hug is, but let's say Bagley, Festusen Hug and Johnson.
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I'll say, well, time for Amy Melton to go. She
looked at me, funny or whatever. They need one more
person to get It's actually easier now to get rid
of a more conservative member of the council because they
already got four rather liberal votes. They would just need
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one of the conservatives to turn against their own. And
I think you can find ample evidence of rather conservative
people turning against their own, sometimes much more often than
on the other side of the political spectrum. This proposal
actually makes it easier to get rid of Amy Melton
or Brinker Harding or don Roe. Yet it was when
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Nita Johnson who was complaining about this, you're gonna use this,
and she brought people into the meeting. People from her
district came in here and said we don't like this
code of conduct idea. We think you're going to adopt
this rule so you can get rid of her. It's
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practically impossible unless she's so bad that members of her
own political ilk are willing to get rid of her.
And maybe they are. Maybe that's exactly what all of
this is for, in which case, I guess we'll have
to see how all this plays out. And I don't
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know about you, but I'm popping popcorn. I can't wait.
You think you know people don't go to the council meetings.
Why would you? You know? They're only voting on things
that affect our taxes in our lives. But hey, sometimes
they fight, it's fun, and sometimes they all agree on
an idea that the neighborhood doesn't like. We'll turn our
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attention to seventy second and dodge here in just a
moment before looking at the most recent spats with the
two Nebraska Senate races here this November. You're excused for
not paying any attention to the two Nebraska Senate races
this November. But we'll get to all of these stories next.
Scott goes, where are you're going? We just talked about
the the mechanism they're talking about at the city council,
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where five of them could eliminate one council member and
one of them sitting there arms folded, going you're talking
about me, like, hey, maybe maybe not. We'll see. We'll
see if Juanita Johnson is not long for this council world,
or if she'll use this to say, look, there are
members of your own political spectrum who might very well
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be willing to get you out of this council meeting,
off this council. We'll see, maybe she'll take this opportunity
to say, guys, you know what, I'm sorry, we got
off on the wrong foot. I brought you all a
candle and give a gift, you know, a little salvo.
Occasionally the council all agrees on something, something good, not
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something stupid like a streetcar. I'm hopefully kidding on that.
Just wanted to see who was listening. City council recently
approved the rezoning of the property at seventy second in Dodge,
not that corner of seventy second in Dodge. We're all
still waiting to find out do we have an anchor
tenant here at the old crossroads? What might that be?
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What's gonna happen here? Why is this? But no, on
the Caddy corner. That's really the corner I'm interested in.
Because Caddy Corner there, we'll call it the because it
is the southeast corner of seventy second at Dodge, that's
where Fudruckers kind of is. I mean, it's it's been
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closed for how ten years? I don't know. It feels
like it's been closed for at least ten years, right,
And if you worked at or or own that Fudruckers
and you're like, no, you moron, It's only been closed
for about a year or so. The reason we ended
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up closing this because people like you thought we were
already closed. Well then I'm sorry, but I love that Fudruckers.
I tell you what, when I was a kid growing
up here in Omaha, something I'm still working on growing
up here in Omaha. If you want to have a
great Saturday, you go to seventy second a Dodge. You
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start over at Family Fund Center and you throw a
bunch of quarters in the arcade games and you play
some spaceball, and then you go across the street to Fuddruckers.
You have a build your own cheeseburger the size of
a catcher's mitt, and have a big chocolate milkshake. You
know what the best thing about Fuddruckers was you still
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have a chocolate milkshake. And up until that point in
my life, a chocolate milkshake has only been served in cup.
You know, you get a paper cup or a foam
cup with the chocolate ice cream milkshake in there, not
a Fuddruckers. Oh no, fudd Ruckers. They mix the shakeup
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in that metal cup, pour that into your standard glass
or whatever, and then because there's some left over, they
also give you the metal cup. I was blown away.
I'm like, did I just get two milkshakes? That's great times.
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And then you go over to crossroads and you join
a gang. This is what we did in nineteen eighty eight.
We'd listened to NWA and just make the rounds there
at seventy second and Dodge, And honestly, at that point
I couldn't even tell you what was on the southwest
corner of seventy second. Do what the heck was? It
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was before borders, I don't know, but that was a
great day. So I refuse to believe that fud Rutgers
is actually gone because the building's still there, sign's still there,
and it is my hope that maybe someone will put
another fud Ruckers in there, because I think it already
went away and came back there once. They're like, well,
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if we're just gonna have the building, might as well
open it up and serve some burgers. How hard can
that be? So a couple of weeks ago the city
council said, all right, we approve the rezoning of this property.
And now the argument is, well, what's going to go
in there. There's a Megasaver gas station that wants to
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go in there, and since it is a gas station
and convenience store, they would sell things that you would
expect in a gas station convenience store, including alcohol. Well,
the people in the Elmwood Park Neighborhood Association say, oh no,
we don't want a liquor establishment. Well, does it get
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in the way of all of the smoke shops and
various CBD stores in the area. What's the problem with
having a gas station with I mean, it's not like
a liquor license. You're not going to go in there,
sit down, and I don't know, maybe you do. Maybe
they'll have some of those little gaming devices in there,
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and you get a drink and say, and if that's
the case, then to do it or don't. I don't
really care. But yeah, they want to have a gas station,
a convenience store. Which if you're there in the Elmwood
Park neighborhood and you, let's say you want to walk over,
you know, kids want to ride their bike to go
over and get you know, pop or candy bar or
something like that, keynot tickets and whatever, I should say,
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lottery tickets. Then where's the closest place they can go?
And they could go up to Walgreens and you go
over to here, but uh yeah, I mean if you've
got especially if there's going to be people living in
some sort of mixed use development with housing and commercial
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there where the crossroads is, it's sometime between now and
the end of time, well, the people will have cars,
they need a place to gas up their cars. Another
gas station there wouldn't hurt. But the people in the
neighborhood said, no, we don't want that here. I don't
know what your problem is. If you're there on that
particular like you're in the Elmwood Park neighborhood and your homes,
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your street, their backs up on the line of stores
that had been like Keyboard Castle used to be there,
and then Fudruckers and you come around and you got
Noodles and Company and all that fun stuff. I mean
that all you've ever known in that neighborhood for decades
has been commerce, lights, people, people trying to get out
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of that parking lot and end up coming through your
neighborhood because it's just easier. I don't know what their
problem is, but they the megasaver wants to add a
gas station in the spot, and so now the community
is fighting the city on it, and that's still going on.
I have an idea I think would make everyone happy.
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You guessed it. Just leave fud Ruckers there. Not only
is the food and the milkshake's good. It's a fun
restaurant to say, and it's very scary to say it
so many times on the radio without screwing it up.
Scott Vories News Radio eleven ten kfab it's great to
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have you hanging out here with us. I'll try and
make your ears dance with appreciation at the info tainment
we provide. And if I can't do that, Well, you
didn't pay anything for this, so take it for what
it's worth. In the Zuker's Custom Woods inbox. Scott at
kfab dot com talking about the area seventy second in Dodge,
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including what's going to happen with the fud Ruckers property
there at the southeast corner of seventy second in Dodge.
I was talking about how much I loved me some
fud Ruckers, Kevin says. I also used to love fud
Ruckers milkshakes. They would always bring all the boys to
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my yard. Thanks Kevin, appreciate that. That says wasn't the
southwest corner of seventy second in Dodge a piano store? Well, no,
Schmid's Music Boy, I'm really naming the businesses that you
have to be very careful to enunciate on the radio. Yeah,
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that's not right on the corner, and it's still there.
It's a little further west. And then on the other
side you had Keyboard Castle there for a while. Now
I'm trying to think what was the heck was right
there at seventy second in Dodge before borders. Eric says
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Kenny's Restaurant. I don't remember Kenny's restaurant that might be
going back before me, and and Justin says, well, there
was a strip club back there for many years. Yeah,
that yes, I remember. One of the greatest segments in
the history of this radio program was when we talked
to one of the as she referred to herself, hooker
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dancers at the twenties showgirls there on their last day,
and she talked about all the great regulars she was
going to miss and started naming them first and last
name by name, and I could not hold it together
in that conversation. Yeah, but that wasn't right there anyway.
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Justin says, well, there was a strip club back there
for many years, So who cares about a gas station? Yeah,
but that's clear on the other side of the street,
it's the Elmwood Park Neighborhood Association that doesn't want a
megasaver gas station convenience store that's also selling alcohol there.
They don't want that there. It's going to ruin their neighborhood.
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Is that the neighborhood that, oh, don't take a cheap shot, Scott.
That's so below you, right, is it? Wait? No, it's Wednesday.
Nothing's below me on a Wednesday. So is that the
neighborhood that has the people in and out of the
park bathrooms all night and day on one side of it,
if you catch my drisk, is that the neighborhood we're
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looking to. Hey, I love me some Elmwood. Where else
can you go play a golf course and yang a
ball off of the short downhill then uphill par four
into a whole crowd of people there to see Shakespeare
on the Park. I mean, there's no place else in America.
I think that you could very easily hit people on
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the back, not just the people watching, but the people
on stage at Shakespeare at the Park there by un
o with a slightly arrant t shot off of that hole.
And you know that's special. So you know I like
all that, all right. Senate races, Yeah, we have some
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of them. You know. We got these two senators, and
due to the circumstances that were set in motion by
Ben Sas leaving his office, we have both of them
running for reelection in the same year. Now, in one race,
you've got the incumbent Senate Pete Ricketts. He does have
a challenger, and this challenger is actually supported by the
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Democrat Party of Nebraska. That would be Preston Love Junior,
son of Preston Love Senior. Yeah, well, Preston said that
we need to debate, and so he reached out through
the media. He said, I want to debate Pete Ricketts,
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and Ricketts said I'm good pretty much. Senator Ricketts said, Nah,
I don't think we need to do that. I'm very busy. Well,
then Preston Love fires back and put out a press release.
Why would a city and senator, a public servant responds
so flippantly to an invitation from some of Nebraska's largest
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news outlets for an opportunity to speak to voters. Does
he really believe that voters should not be given an
opportunity to make an informed choice at the ballot box.
Does Pete Ricketts think he is above the democratic process.
I believe it is important for all candidates, elected officials,
and even party appointed officials like Ricketts oh to engage
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in public debate. Is Pete Ricketts afraid to have an
open discussion on the issues because he knows that the
discerning voters of Nebraska are tired of his extremist positions
and one party rule. Does Pete Ricketts have a problem
sharing airtime with our state's first African American Senate candidate
representing one of two major parties in the general election.
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There we go. It took one, two, three, four lines
before we went to the race card. The race card
has now been flipped onto the table here and this
statement ends up with these are the questions I posed
to Pete Ricketts after his comments today and tarty negative
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response to the invitation put forth by some of our
states finest news outlets. Well we weren't one of them.
How oh yeah, Nebraska Public Media, the Nebraska Examiner, the
Lincoln Journal Star, the Omaha World Herald, and KARVN Radio Network.
Those are some of our state's finest news outlets. We're
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not too shabby. We've had both of these individuals here
on this radio show, and I'm sure we will again.
As far as the response to debate, before I read
the statement from Pete Rickett's campaign, realize, this isn't an
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independent candidate. This isn't a member of the Legalized Marijuana
Now Party. This is the candidate for the Democratic Party
in Nebraska. Even though the Democratic Party has put up
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some of the with all due respect, some of them
are nice people, but some of the weakest candidates in
the history of mankind to take on the incumbents in
these Senate races. I mean, some of these people didn't
even campaign. It's like, oh, will put my name on
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signs around the area, Well, that'll do wonders from my
law office or my cupcakes business or whatever. Some of
these guys didn't even didn't even work at it. So
about this, Rickett's campaign said that Preston Love has quote
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failed to meet even the most minimum threshold for electoral
viability unquote. Ow that's I hate it when someone emails
me and says, Scott, you know, and whatever the talk
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radio equivalent of that burn is, Scott, you failed to
meet even the most minimum threshold for talk radio viability.
I hate when people say that, and it's true, that's
the one. Those are the digs that really get me
every day. People email me or spit on me in
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the streets, or say we rather not have you sitting
at the same table as us, you know, at family dinners.
You know, there's I mean, I get it from all
sides all the time. People don't like me. They don't
like things I say, and most often they don't like
things that I think. I say to a radio show
they don't listen to and just assume that they know
exactly what I'm saying every day, and I can generally
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let those comments roll off my back. It's when someone
sends an email says, man, your show is awful today,
and I look at it and I just go, I know,
I know it is today that those are the ones
that get me. So for the Rickets campaign to say
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about the Love campaign that they that he has failed
to meet even the most minimum threshold for electoral viability,
I imagine that hurts because as really good a guy
as Preston Love Junior is, and he is, you're not
going to find a more interesting person with whom to converse,
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a stronger advocate for his community. But he has approximately
maybe a slightly better chance of winning the Senate race
against Pete Ricketts then your mom. And I don't know
if she's running. He's going out across the state. I
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don't know that Preston Love Junior has really been west
of seventy second Street. You know, I've talked to him.
It's like, how's it going out there, Preston. Now we're
in Ogalala. Big crowds. Really, that's funny. I've toured western
Nebraska here recently, I haven't seen the Love first Senate signs.
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I wish him the best. Preston Love Junior agreed to
take on Pete Rickets in this race because it is
my belief, it is my belief that the state Democratic
Party couldn't find anyone else that wanted to do it.
And out of obligation to his party and his people,
Preston's like, all right, I'll do it. And this man
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who should be thinking about, you know, getting up every day,
being retired, doing the wordle, taking a nap and then
waking up, get getting something to eat and calling a day,
is now going across the state here running for Senate.
And it's not happening. It's it's not And so they
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he said, I want to debate Pete Rickets. Ricketts like,
why why in the world would I do that? You're
you're you're half a blip on this and and that's
and that's true. Now where their love campaign suddenly, uh
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does you know goes to the just the worst is
when they they're accusing Pete Ricketts of being racist. This line,
you know, does Pete Ricketts have a problem sharing airtime
with our state's first African American Senate candidate. Yeah, you
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know another way, and I'm pretty fluent in political speak.
Another way of saying that line, does Pete Rickets have
a problem being on TV next to a black man?
Another way of saying that is, we know we have
lost this argument, We've lost this race, and we're instead
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just gonna throw the race card out because we have
no other leg on which to stand. That's disgusting, and
that's below press. It's not below the state Democratic Party.
It is below Preston Love Junior. I would love to
hear him say, yeah, that's I would prefer my campaign
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not put out ugly rhetoric like that, suggesting, yeah, Pete
Ricketts would debate me if I were white, but because
I'm black, he doesn't want to be anywhere next to
a black guy. That's disgusting. But you know, when you're
losing by one hundred points, you know, then it's you
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got to try something. Now, we also have another Senate race.
Deb Fisher is up for reelection and one of her
can one of her opponents, has just dropped out of
this race. Does she have one? She thinks she has one?
Does she have two yes kinda. I'll explain next Scotty.
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Colleen emails and says, man, your show sucks today. I
want to hear more about that strip club closing down.
Uh no, see, I said that the emails that really
get to me are when people email and say, man,
your show is terrible today, and they're right, Colleen, that
does not apply today yet. Email me again in about
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an hour and we'll see. Thank you very much much
for the message, my man. I'm Scott. This is News
Radio eleven ten kfab. Deb Fisher is also running for reelection,
and she doesn't when I said that the state Democratic
Party doesn't have anyone else to run for office, that's
why I pressed in love, out of obligation and duty,
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decided all right, find no one else will do it,
I'll do it. So he's running as a Democrat against
Pete Ricketts. They don't have anyone to run against deb Fisher.
Her most viable candidate opponent in this race is an
Omaha Union leader. We've talked to a couple of times, independent,
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nonpartisan Senate candidate Dan Osborne. There was a third and
someone who actually was tied to a party. Oh my gosh,
I forgot about Carrie Carrie Eddie, the Senate candidate for
the Legalized Marijuana Now Party, the party that has point
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zero zero six percent of registered voters among Nebraska's broader electorate.
So you know they're pretty fierce. Well, she just quit
the race and endorsed Dan Osborne, and the chair, the
party chair of the Legalized Marijuana Now Party is mad said, Oh,
she was working with Dan Osborne the entire time. I
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guess she works for Osborne. We have another candidate picked out.
We need to contact that candidate and then we'll announce it.
We ask someone else who Well, we got to call
and see if they want to do it. Sometimes they
don't answer the phone. And plus it's before noon, they're
not awake yet. It's the Legalized Marijuana Now Party. See,
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it was a I think Friday I talked about how
the Department of Health and Human Services said, all right,
we're making a change in this very important realm, and
we're going to have a virtual town hall to talk
with those of you impacted by this change so we
can answer your questions. So they had the virtual town
hall last week and then and here's the funny part,
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they didn't open it up for questions. That's how that works.
We want to hear your questions, and that's the end
of our meeting. But what about our questions? We never
said we were going to take questions, so they got
a lot of problems, you know, blowback for that. They said,
all right, all right, all right, we're going to try again.
So yesterday they did this again. They did a two
hour virtual town hall and said we're going to try
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and answer all your questions. Five hundred people were on
the meeting, asked their questions. They obviously couldn't get to
all of them. I imagine a lot of the questions
were redundant. Hopefully they will try and answer these questions.
But you have some people saying, well, I I reached
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out to them on July seventeenth with an issue, and
I still haven't heard anything back. What is the issue?
If you are a parent or caregiver of a special
needs child, basically you've you've only got a few options there,
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you know, option the best option is, oh, that's not
a problem. Money is no object for us. And I'm
independently wealthy and have nothing but time on my hands.
Either I can take care of this child on my
own in many cases through adulthood because of the level
of disability that we're dealing with here, and and if
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I need to hire private caregivers the best money can buy,
I can do that, and I'm good. I'm very blessed here,
incredibly wealthy, and I can take care of this on
my own. So that represents what one percent of people
in this So then you got those who are like,
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I'm not looking for charity here, but the circumstances are
either I spend money until I reach popper status taking
care of this child. And again, in many cases we're
talking about adult children disabled to the point where really
the options are go broke taking care of them, and
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then they be and you essentially become wards of the
state or pretty much turn that individual under your care,
your child over to the state and say I don't
have the means to pay for any of this, so
now it's the state's responsibility, and then the state ends
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up paying for it. When the state ends up paying
for this, you know, you've got to build facilities, you've
got to hire twenty four hour staff members and all that.
It's expensive. So at some point it was determined that
the state is going to work with the parents to say,
all right, you take care of your kid or find
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that hybrid schedule that works best for you where you
got hopefully a couple of parents, maybe an additional caregiver
taking care of this individual, and we will pay you
to do it. And I think the way it has
been working is that you probably have visits once in
a while from someone with DHHS just to make sure
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that everything's on the up and up and it. I'm
sure you had a few horrible people taking advantage of
the situation financially, but most people were just really glad
to be able to have their loved one under their
care in their home and be able to have some
of that money coming from the state. Now, I'm the
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first one who will ask the question, why is any
of this the responsibility of government? Basically asked that question
about just about everything government does. You know, if it's
not building roads, bridges and an army to defend ourselves,
what in any of this is a function of government.
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Why should it be a function of government to either
take care of give you student loans and then forgive
your student loans. Why is it a function of government
to provide health care for you, or even social security.
What does any of this have to do with a
function of government? So I love asking those questions because
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our government has gotten to be more like a game
show than that which is there to defend our borders
and do those things only government can do, you know,
wage war and occasionally build a train track or whatever.
So why should this be a function of government? Well,
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because of that reality I just laid out. You got
a kid, that kid not going to be able to
live independently, and your options then are go broke and
then turn the kid over to be award of the state,
or immediately turn the kid over to be awarded the state.
And the state's got to spend a bunch of money
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to take care of the kid. I mean, it's all
of it is heartbreaking, and it happens. You know, this
kind of thing happens a lot. So it's it saves
money for the taxpayer. Or the other option is the
state says, not our job, find some charity that will
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do it. And if no one else will do it, well,
then I guess you're just so well and the kid,
you know, dies somewhere, you know, so we have a
safety net. And this is how this whole process has
worked until two weeks from now, on August fourteenth. This
whole plan changes on August fourteenth. If you're caring for
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your kid, we still get paid, we still do all this,
but there's a more stringent process for paying you. You
need to clock in, you need to clock out, you
need to be at places you said you were going
to be at certain times. And that's not entirely unreasonable,
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especially for those who are thought to be abusing this process.
But I guess everyone's got to jump through these hoops.
There are some bad apples out there abusing the process,
wasting taxpayer dollars, the kids aren't getting the care they need.
Rather than just dealing with those individuals going all right,
you seem to be a problem. We're putting you on
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double secret probation here, and these are the hoops you
have to jump through. Now everyone's got to do this.
And everyone's saying, all right, I'm fine showing a need
for all of this, but some of what you're asking
me to do in terms of clocking in, And if
I'm even five minutes late clocking in, if I forget
to clock in, I don't get paid that day. I
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can't clock in after the fact, and what would cause
me to forget to clock in, what would cause me
to not be in a certain place I'm supposed to
be at a certain time because of the circumstances of
caring for a special needs child. Yeah, we were supposed
to have this appointment. We got there twenty minutes late.
Why well, use your imagination as to all the different
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things that happen every single day with any kid, especially
a special needs kid, and a parent that might also
be trying to still hold down a job. If a
job's been nice enough to say, all right, you need
to take care of the stuff. That's fine, we're gonna
make this work out. We're gonna find a way. You're
gonna work from home. Could be that that parent working
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from home taking care of a kid suddenly was on
a conference call a little bit long, you know, a
little bit late. Stuff came up, an emergency happened, any
number of things. There needs to be some grace here,
and this process here doesn't seem to me to have
really any grace to it. So these parents are mad.
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The state just said here's what we're doing, and they complained.
They said, all right, we'll have a town hall and
answer your questions, and then they had the town hall
last week, didn't take any questions. Tried again yesterday. Five
hundred people had questions. They answered a few and said,
all right, you can check the website for more of
your concerns. This parent independent care provider said, I've been
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working under this new structure because we could start doing
it before the deadline of August fourteenth, and I've already
had problems with it. I've only been doing this for
a few days and there was a problem on July seventeenth.
I'm not getting paid for three days I was supposed
to be paid. I reached out to the state to
figure out why not and what needs to be done.
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No one will get back to me. One that tried
to work with the state Department of Labor in unemployment
claims during COVID knows how long it can take to
try and reach out to state government and get an answer. Now,
if you're unemployed due to COVID and you're trying to
get unemployment pay, it's not like you've got anything else
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to do. You're stuck at home anyway. You can sit
there on hold for five hours, and a lot of
you did. But if you're caring for this kid. You
can't sit there on hold for five hours. So this
person complained story here from k ETV News Watch seven said,
not only have I not gotten an answer, I didn't
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get paid for these three days. And because I didn't
get paid, I can't afford that which I need to
care for my daughter. This other mom said, now these
new guidelines, like I, if I screw something up here
and don't get paid, then I can't pay this caregiver
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who's helping me. And if the caregivers aren't getting paid,
it's not like there's a lot of caregivers waiting around,
especially good ones who are able to go for a
couple of days without money. Then they leave me and
I can't get another one. We need to have more providers.
We need to have some grace. We have a shortage
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of providers. We have a shortage of people with Department
of Health and Human Services in Nebraska answering questions, getting
us the details we need. And plus we've been doing
this as parents of these kids for years. In some instances,
no one's ever said that I was causing a problem
with it. But now I've got to do things differently,
and if I mess something up because there's an emergency,
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I don't get paid, and who ends up suffering here?
My kid? The Department of Health and Human Services say
to k ETV News Watch seven, we're still going to
have our deadline of August fourteenth, but don't worry. We're
going to have two more virtual town halls that will
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help these parents. The first of them is scheduled for
August fourteenth, the time when you absolutely need to be
doing this, and then the next one is about a
week later on August twentieth, when maybe you've now been
doing it wrong and are going without pay for a week. Look, governor,
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thank you for your concern on property taxes. These parents
deserve better from this state agency that I hope is
getting the attention it needs here in Nebraska. All right,
forty year old guy in Lincoln just called the Lincoln
Police Department the other day and said, please, you've got
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to help me. You've got to do something. I've been
ripped off. I'm out two thousand dollars. Like, oh my gosh, sir,
what happened? Someone mug you? No, someone put a gun
in your face and force you to an ATM where
you had to take out money and give it to him. No,
it was nothing like that. Were you ripped off from
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a business? Did you hire someone to do a job
and pay them up front and they didn't know? Well,
not really what happened, sir? Well, you see, I met
this woman online. Ah, love at first sight, and everything's
going swimmingly now, right exactly? You see, I met this
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woman online, and we met on this app and quickly
the conversation turns shall we say, spicy. It's pretty amazing.
You know, since I'm a guy here forty years, never
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been able to get the attention of hardly any women,
and now this woman, who otherwise in real life has
been considered way out of my league, has never even
given me the time of day, is suddenly showing me
dirty pictures and wanting dirty pictures for me. And I
don't have barely two brain cells to rub together here,
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and so I was more interested in rubbing something else,
So I said, yeah, you know, why not? What could
possibly go wrong? By the way, I don't know any
of this to be the actual content of the conversation.
I just know guy met someone he thought to be
a woman online. I don't know that this is a woman.
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Probably half of his age, five times his aesthetic quality
that he should be paired with. And when she's suddenly like,
oh wow, yeah, I don't want to meet you in person,
but can't we just exchange some dirty pictures online? Okay, okay,
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I'll do. And the guy sends the pictures and then
what do you know, suddenly it's I tell you what,
thank you for sending us what apparently is several spicy
photos of yourself. Here's what we're gonna do, sir. We're
gonna post them online and we're gonna tell everyone, Hey,
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look what this guy did this. Here's the pictures of
him online unless you send us money. So the guy
then sent them her I'm guessing him, then sent two
thousand dollars via an online pay platform I don't know,
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Venmo or whatever, and then called the police. It doesn't
say that he sent two thousand dollars and they said,
so that's a good down payment, but we're going to
need a lot more money than that, and they kept
trying to extort from him. Doesn't say that. I anticipate
that's probably what happens, because if he sent the money
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and they said all right, thanks, Hey, no hard feelings,
you know, then I don't know that he calls the
police as I want my money back, because if the
idea was is he really doesn't want these pictures to
get out, then you know, if the two thousand dollars
settled it and they said, yeah, we're good than pleasure
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doing business with you, then he probably wouldn't call the
police and go, I want my two thousand dollars back,
and I want that of those pictures back too. They're
not going to be able to get them. This. This
happens all the time, and thankfully, in this instance, the
victim here, the very willing victim here, is a forty
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year old man. Too often this happens to kids, and
some really really bad things happen. Then when suddenly kids
because they'll still, they'll put they'll try and extract money
or whatever from these kids, they end up still posting
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the pictures online. You know this, Uh, I've told my kids.
I've got two high schoolers told my kids, you are not,
I don't care who it is, you are not to
send any pictures online that you wouldn't want to see,
post it on a billboard outside your grandma's house, because
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I guarantee you everyone's going to see them. No, they wouldn't,
you know my yeah, they will because someone's gonna say,
all right, I'm gonna show you this picture, don't show
anyone else. Next thing, you know, your science teacher is
seen it. And in the case, I mean, come on, guys,
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you're you're a guy. At no point has anyone that
you haven't given dollar bill after dollar bill to been
in anywhere interested any attractive young women. They have never
been interested in doing anything naked with you. And suddenly
they're like, oh, you mean you sound great online. Let's chats.
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It's a scam. And here's the other thing. This guy
sends these pictures and these people threaten him. You better
give us some money or we're gonna tell everyone. You're
the kind of guy that sends pictures like this to
people he doesn't know online. You know what, I'm guessing
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they probably know if they know you, they're probably like, yeah,
I figure that would be him. I mean, they right,
they probably know. No one's gonna be surprised by it.
Even your mom is like, yeah, I know, I I
tried the best I could. Fox News Update Next Scott
Voices News Radio eleven ten Kfaby you can imagine the
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messages I'm receiving. After this last story about a guy
meeting someone online who in real life he could never get.
She immediately is like, Wow, you're cute. I'd like to
see some naked pictures of you. And he's like okay,
and he sends the pictures and then turns out, oh no,
it's a scam. Give us money, and we're gonna post
these stories on these pictures online. Everyone will know what
you've been doing. I got news for you. If you
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know this guy, you probably know what he's been doing.
But he sent two thousand dollars and then called the cops.
The cops are like, what do you want us to
do about it? Right? You know what, Oh, we'll get
right on that. You know the cyber warfare of scams
that you willingly engaged in. In fact, it's kind of
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hard to well there's fraud. Well try dating in real life,
actually sit down with someone. There's plenty of fraud there too. Anyway,
told that story a moment ago. Here come the emails.
Mark emails Scott atkfab dot com. Scott, thank you so
much for your information on internet scams. I will not
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send pictures of myself knowing this. I am only going
to send the money because you see her car broke
down on the way to visit me. Yeah, Charles says,
what an idiot, spicy photos, blackmails, an old scam. Well
it's not that old. Are you doing this in the seventies?
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I have a Russian pinpal. Uh Nadia wants to see
pictures of me. Hang on, let me take pictures of me.
Go down to the photo Matt, get them developed, and
then mail them to her six weeks later. Oh no,
it's a scam, he says. A super hot girl giving
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you the time of day as a huge red flag.
Maybe for you, Charles, but generally online. Yes, you're right,
especially if you don't know her. Sometimes if you do.
And Dave says, hey, Scott, could you repeat the order
that you have to go through to get the pictures
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online for your science teacher to see them. I've been
trying for forty years to get them to her because
my science teacher was a smoke show and she keeps
blocking my attempts to send her pictures. Yeah, Dave, I'll
I'll get back to you later today on that after
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I give your science teacher a heads up. So what
just happened here. Israel's been busy. If you haven't been
paying any attention here the last few days, Israel is like, hey,
where's that leader of hez Bolah? The president George W.
Bush would pronounce it, where's hez Bolah? Where's the leader
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of has Belah? He's over there, all right? That guy? Yeah,
that guy, he's dead. Who's next? Well, Hamas, it was
irresponsible for the problems we had. By problems we have,
we mean the full scale attack to kill over twelve
hundred people on October seventh here in Israel. Oh, yeah,
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that was Hamas. Where's that leader? Well, he's in Tehran.
He is there to attend swearing in ceremony for the
Iranian president. He's there, Huh Is that him? Yeah, that's him.
But I mean, we can't kill the guy when he's
in Iran. It's sovereign territory. Oh yep, you did so.
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Israel just apparently assassinated the leader of Hamas. I don't
know about you, but I lose any sleep over it.
But a lot of people are asking, first of all,
how did this happen? Well, it happened because the leader
of Hamas was being protected by the United States Secret Service,
and there was a you know, Israeli sniper on the
roof one hundred and forty seven yards away, and apparently
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that's a it was. I mean, in their defense, it
was a sloped roof. It's like a three percent grade,
so there's nothing they could do to save him. You know,
you understand how these things go. And then the other
question is, well, now what I've told you since President
Biden dropped out of the race, and now we have
co presidents and everyone's wondering who's in charge China, Russia, Iran, Israel.
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Everyone's like, we're gonna do what we want and we're
gonna see what America does. Who's in charge? What's our
response going to be? Here? I'll let Clay and Buck
take it from here. There next Scott Voies mornings nine
to eleven, Our News Radio eleven ten KFAB
Scott Vordez phrasing is important here after spending the night
with Barry Manilow at his concert last night, we'll get
Lucy back in here tomorrow. Can't wait to hear about
for a time she met him, and she's a fanolo.
She is a huge Berry Manilow fan. She is a fanolo,
and so I presume that she's still weeping tears of joy,
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and Barry probably is too so for those who were
at that concert last night and just shaking off the
cobwebs here this morning, great to have you with us.
I'll I'll try not to yell too loud if you were.
I don't know. Do you drink a lot at the
Berry Manilo show? I guarantee you there was someone who
was smoking pot every concert you go to. You're hanging out,
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you're at the concert, and you go, I smell marijuana
in the air. Like it's Barry Manilow and there's some
you know, hippie up. Ye seen him eighteen times since
nineteen seventy seven. You know that's always won right, And
it's usually me. People do that and they're like, sir,
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do you have to smoke your marijuana here at this concert?
I said, come on, it's the elementary school Christmas concert. Anyway,
good morning. Remember when South Omaha was represented by a
guy named Vinnie Palermo, and then they weren't because Vinnie
Palermo stopped going to meetings. Now, in his defense, he
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wasn't able to attend the city council meetings because he
was in a federal custody dealing with allegations related to oh,
a little scandal with taxpayer funds and using his position
of power in an improper way. That's all. Still, you know,
they're dealing with all of that in the meantime while
someone might be dealing with something along those lines. They
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learned that they really can't remin move a city council
person until you miss three consecutive not meetings, three consecutive
months of meetings, Meaning if you live in Southeast Omaha
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for three months, you weren't being represented. Everything that was discussed,
your community didn't have a voice, everything that was voted on,
your community didn't have a vote. Your representative, I'm sure
would have loved to have been there, would have preferred
to be there at the council dealing with the likes
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of Brinker Harding Pete Festerson and Amy Melton and the like,
rather than dealing with federal prosecutors. But the fact was
that he wasn't able to be there. So after twelve
weeks he was gone. Well, yesterday the city council showed
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up and said, all right, we need to do a
couple of things here. First of all, if just in
case any of our sitting council members were looking at you,
Danny Bagley, just in case anyone might end up in
federal custody. By the way, there's no indication that Danny
or anyone would end up in federal custody, but you know,
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you never know, So just in case any of you
should be suddenly in federal custody for a long long time,
let's try and get rid of you a little more quickly.
So they look to shorten that waytime to rather than
three months of meetings missed consecutively one month, four meetings,
four consecutive meetings, not four meetings in a calendar year,
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four meetings in a row. Yes, Scott, we know what
consecutive means. Well, I don't know. So they talked about that,
and then there was also a conversation and saying you know,
while we're at it, while we're talking about behavior of
our elected officials ourselves here, maybe we should adopt a
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code of conduct, and maybe if it's determined that a
member of this council violates said code of conduct, there
needs to be a mechanism by which we the council
can remove one of our own council members. And Juanita Johnson,
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Northeast Omaha Council representative Juanita who has lived in a
little bit of infamy over the last few years. She's
been on the council for throwing a candle at a
on again, off again romantic partner at his store and
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not a lit candle. You're like, what's the problem with
throwing a candle? Well, it wasn't a can. It was
one of those big glass jars, got some heft to it.
So there was the There was the protective order to like,
can we stop her from coming into my shop saying
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that we're supposed to be together and if I don't
end up with her, then she's gonna hurt me with
this candle. So there was some of that, and then
there was well, I want all this money in the
city council budget to go towards my projects, and they're like, well,
you do have this much money to work with, well
I think should be like two and a half times
that amount. You're like, it doesn't work that way. Oh
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I can't get my So there was that, and then
just a couple of months ago there was a give
and take with the city employee where it didn't I mean,
it got a little ugly, and her response to the
city employee at this meeting was and I'll change and
we got kids home for summer, so I'll change one
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of the words here slightly. She looked at the city
employee and said, thank you, smart Alec will go smart Alec.
His name was not Alec. And so the other council
members are like, all right, let's try and have them
to call him in this body and all that. So
they start talking about a code of conduct and if
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they feel that another council member violates a code of conduct,
there needs to be a mechanism to remove that council member.
And they decided that it would be a vote a
five of them, and immediately council member Jannita Johnson Northeast
Omaha objects, you're all talking about me, like no one's
talking about you. Oh yeah, you are, like, okay, I
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would have loved to have heard that conversation. Why council
Member Johnson, why do you think we might be talking
about you? Because in your few years in this body,
you've been nothing but argumentative. You've failed to learn any
of the rules. You don't seem interested in being a
part of this process. You're you're a pain in the
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but you know, you know still, I don't think you're
even with this. I don't think you get five votes
to get rid of her. I mean, let's say that
the few conservative leaning members of this council Melton, harding
Row all say yeah, she needs to go, or you know,
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any of them. Maybe they decided that the council president,
Pete Festerson needs to go. So the three rather conservative
council members say, all right, time to remove this person.
We got three votes, we need two more. Who are
going to be those two more votes unless there's absolute
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gross misconduct, And I don't know that anything that any
of them have done at this point would qualify that
two members of their own political party turn against the
other two. Or let's say they want to get rid
of Amy Melton for any reason. I can think of several.
But if they want I'm kidding if if they're trying
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to get rid of Amy Melton, Northwest Omaha Representative, well,
now you're looking at the more liberal members of the council,
so you got you have four potential votes there. I
don't know how liberal leaning the new Southeast Omaha Rep.
Ron Hug is, but let's say Bagley, Festusen Hug and Johnson.
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I'll say, well, time for Amy Melton to go. She
looked at me, funny or whatever. They need one more
person to get It's actually easier now to get rid
of a more conservative member of the council because they
already got four rather liberal votes. They would just need
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one of the conservatives to turn against their own. And
I think you can find ample evidence of rather conservative
people turning against their own, sometimes much more often than
on the other side of the political spectrum. This proposal
actually makes it easier to get rid of Amy Melton
or Brinker Harding or don Roe. Yet it was when
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Nita Johnson who was complaining about this, you're gonna use this,
and she brought people into the meeting. People from her
district came in here and said we don't like this
code of conduct idea. We think you're going to adopt
this rule so you can get rid of her. It's
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practically impossible unless she's so bad that members of her
own political ilk are willing to get rid of her.
And maybe they are. Maybe that's exactly what all of
this is for, in which case, I guess we'll have
to see how all this plays out. And I don't
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know about you, but I'm popping popcorn. I can't wait.
You think you know people don't go to the council meetings.
Why would you? You know? They're only voting on things
that affect our taxes in our lives. But hey, sometimes
they fight, it's fun, and sometimes they all agree on
an idea that the neighborhood doesn't like. We'll turn our
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attention to seventy second and dodge here in just a
moment before looking at the most recent spats with the
two Nebraska Senate races here this November. You're excused for
not paying any attention to the two Nebraska Senate races
this November. But we'll get to all of these stories next.
Scott goes, where are you're going? We just talked about
the the mechanism they're talking about at the city council,
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where five of them could eliminate one council member and
one of them sitting there arms folded, going you're talking
about me, like, hey, maybe maybe not. We'll see. We'll
see if Juanita Johnson is not long for this council world,
or if she'll use this to say, look, there are
members of your own political spectrum who might very well
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be willing to get you out of this council meeting,
off this council. We'll see, maybe she'll take this opportunity
to say, guys, you know what, I'm sorry, we got
off on the wrong foot. I brought you all a
candle and give a gift, you know, a little salvo.
Occasionally the council all agrees on something, something good, not
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something stupid like a streetcar. I'm hopefully kidding on that.
Just wanted to see who was listening. City council recently
approved the rezoning of the property at seventy second in Dodge,
not that corner of seventy second in Dodge. We're all
still waiting to find out do we have an anchor
tenant here at the old crossroads? What might that be?
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What's gonna happen here? Why is this? But no, on
the Caddy corner. That's really the corner I'm interested in.
Because Caddy Corner there, we'll call it the because it
is the southeast corner of seventy second at Dodge, that's
where Fudruckers kind of is. I mean, it's it's been
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closed for how ten years? I don't know. It feels
like it's been closed for at least ten years, right,
And if you worked at or or own that Fudruckers
and you're like, no, you moron, It's only been closed
for about a year or so. The reason we ended
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up closing this because people like you thought we were
already closed. Well then I'm sorry, but I love that Fudruckers.
I tell you what, when I was a kid growing
up here in Omaha, something I'm still working on growing
up here in Omaha. If you want to have a
great Saturday, you go to seventy second a Dodge. You
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start over at Family Fund Center and you throw a
bunch of quarters in the arcade games and you play
some spaceball, and then you go across the street to Fuddruckers.
You have a build your own cheeseburger the size of
a catcher's mitt, and have a big chocolate milkshake. You
know what the best thing about Fuddruckers was you still
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have a chocolate milkshake. And up until that point in
my life, a chocolate milkshake has only been served in cup.
You know, you get a paper cup or a foam
cup with the chocolate ice cream milkshake in there, not
a Fuddruckers. Oh no, fudd Ruckers. They mix the shakeup
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in that metal cup, pour that into your standard glass
or whatever, and then because there's some left over, they
also give you the metal cup. I was blown away.
I'm like, did I just get two milkshakes? That's great times.
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And then you go over to crossroads and you join
a gang. This is what we did in nineteen eighty eight.
We'd listened to NWA and just make the rounds there
at seventy second and Dodge, And honestly, at that point
I couldn't even tell you what was on the southwest
corner of seventy second. Do what the heck was? It
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was before borders, I don't know, but that was a
great day. So I refuse to believe that fud Rutgers
is actually gone because the building's still there, sign's still there,
and it is my hope that maybe someone will put
another fud Ruckers in there, because I think it already
went away and came back there once. They're like, well,
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if we're just gonna have the building, might as well
open it up and serve some burgers. How hard can
that be? So a couple of weeks ago the city
council said, all right, we approve the rezoning of this property.
And now the argument is, well, what's going to go
in there. There's a Megasaver gas station that wants to
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go in there, and since it is a gas station
and convenience store, they would sell things that you would
expect in a gas station convenience store, including alcohol. Well,
the people in the Elmwood Park Neighborhood Association say, oh no,
we don't want a liquor establishment. Well, does it get
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in the way of all of the smoke shops and
various CBD stores in the area. What's the problem with
having a gas station with I mean, it's not like
a liquor license. You're not going to go in there,
sit down, and I don't know, maybe you do. Maybe
they'll have some of those little gaming devices in there,
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and you get a drink and say, and if that's
the case, then to do it or don't. I don't
really care. But yeah, they want to have a gas station,
a convenience store. Which if you're there in the Elmwood
Park neighborhood and you, let's say you want to walk over,
you know, kids want to ride their bike to go
over and get you know, pop or candy bar or
something like that, keynot tickets and whatever, I should say,
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lottery tickets. Then where's the closest place they can go?
And they could go up to Walgreens and you go
over to here, but uh yeah, I mean if you've
got especially if there's going to be people living in
some sort of mixed use development with housing and commercial
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there where the crossroads is, it's sometime between now and
the end of time, well, the people will have cars,
they need a place to gas up their cars. Another
gas station there wouldn't hurt. But the people in the
neighborhood said, no, we don't want that here. I don't
know what your problem is. If you're there on that
particular like you're in the Elmwood Park neighborhood and your homes,
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your street, their backs up on the line of stores
that had been like Keyboard Castle used to be there,
and then Fudruckers and you come around and you got
Noodles and Company and all that fun stuff. I mean
that all you've ever known in that neighborhood for decades
has been commerce, lights, people, people trying to get out
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of that parking lot and end up coming through your
neighborhood because it's just easier. I don't know what their
problem is, but they the megasaver wants to add a
gas station in the spot, and so now the community
is fighting the city on it, and that's still going on.
I have an idea I think would make everyone happy.
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You guessed it. Just leave fud Ruckers there. Not only
is the food and the milkshake's good. It's a fun
restaurant to say, and it's very scary to say it
so many times on the radio without screwing it up.
Scott Vories News Radio eleven ten kfab it's great to
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have you hanging out here with us. I'll try and
make your ears dance with appreciation at the info tainment
we provide. And if I can't do that, Well, you
didn't pay anything for this, so take it for what
it's worth. In the Zuker's Custom Woods inbox. Scott at
kfab dot com talking about the area seventy second in Dodge,
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including what's going to happen with the fud Ruckers property
there at the southeast corner of seventy second in Dodge.
I was talking about how much I loved me some
fud Ruckers, Kevin says. I also used to love fud
Ruckers milkshakes. They would always bring all the boys to
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my yard. Thanks Kevin, appreciate that. That says wasn't the
southwest corner of seventy second in Dodge a piano store? Well, no,
Schmid's Music Boy, I'm really naming the businesses that you
have to be very careful to enunciate on the radio. Yeah,
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that's not right on the corner, and it's still there.
It's a little further west. And then on the other
side you had Keyboard Castle there for a while. Now
I'm trying to think what was the heck was right
there at seventy second in Dodge before borders. Eric says
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Kenny's Restaurant. I don't remember Kenny's restaurant that might be
going back before me, and and Justin says, well, there
was a strip club back there for many years. Yeah,
that yes, I remember. One of the greatest segments in
the history of this radio program was when we talked
to one of the as she referred to herself, hooker
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dancers at the twenties showgirls there on their last day,
and she talked about all the great regulars she was
going to miss and started naming them first and last
name by name, and I could not hold it together
in that conversation. Yeah, but that wasn't right there anyway.
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Justin says, well, there was a strip club back there
for many years, So who cares about a gas station? Yeah,
but that's clear on the other side of the street,
it's the Elmwood Park Neighborhood Association that doesn't want a
megasaver gas station convenience store that's also selling alcohol there.
They don't want that there. It's going to ruin their neighborhood.
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Is that the neighborhood that, oh, don't take a cheap shot, Scott.
That's so below you, right, is it? Wait? No, it's Wednesday.
Nothing's below me on a Wednesday. So is that the
neighborhood that has the people in and out of the
park bathrooms all night and day on one side of it,
if you catch my drisk, is that the neighborhood we're
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looking to. Hey, I love me some Elmwood. Where else
can you go play a golf course and yang a
ball off of the short downhill then uphill par four
into a whole crowd of people there to see Shakespeare
on the Park. I mean, there's no place else in America.
I think that you could very easily hit people on
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the back, not just the people watching, but the people
on stage at Shakespeare at the Park there by un
o with a slightly arrant t shot off of that hole.
And you know that's special. So you know I like
all that, all right. Senate races, Yeah, we have some
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of them. You know. We got these two senators, and
due to the circumstances that were set in motion by
Ben Sas leaving his office, we have both of them
running for reelection in the same year. Now, in one race,
you've got the incumbent Senate Pete Ricketts. He does have
a challenger, and this challenger is actually supported by the
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Democrat Party of Nebraska. That would be Preston Love Junior,
son of Preston Love Senior. Yeah, well, Preston said that
we need to debate, and so he reached out through
the media. He said, I want to debate Pete Ricketts,
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and Ricketts said I'm good pretty much. Senator Ricketts said, Nah,
I don't think we need to do that. I'm very busy. Well,
then Preston Love fires back and put out a press release.
Why would a city and senator, a public servant responds
so flippantly to an invitation from some of Nebraska's largest
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news outlets for an opportunity to speak to voters. Does
he really believe that voters should not be given an
opportunity to make an informed choice at the ballot box.
Does Pete Ricketts think he is above the democratic process.
I believe it is important for all candidates, elected officials,
and even party appointed officials like Ricketts oh to engage
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in public debate. Is Pete Ricketts afraid to have an
open discussion on the issues because he knows that the
discerning voters of Nebraska are tired of his extremist positions
and one party rule. Does Pete Ricketts have a problem
sharing airtime with our state's first African American Senate candidate
representing one of two major parties in the general election.
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There we go. It took one, two, three, four lines
before we went to the race card. The race card
has now been flipped onto the table here and this
statement ends up with these are the questions I posed
to Pete Ricketts after his comments today and tarty negative
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response to the invitation put forth by some of our
states finest news outlets. Well we weren't one of them.
How oh yeah, Nebraska Public Media, the Nebraska Examiner, the
Lincoln Journal Star, the Omaha World Herald, and KARVN Radio Network.
Those are some of our state's finest news outlets. We're
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not too shabby. We've had both of these individuals here
on this radio show, and I'm sure we will again.
As far as the response to debate, before I read
the statement from Pete Rickett's campaign, realize, this isn't an
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independent candidate. This isn't a member of the Legalized Marijuana
Now Party. This is the candidate for the Democratic Party
in Nebraska. Even though the Democratic Party has put up
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some of the with all due respect, some of them
are nice people, but some of the weakest candidates in
the history of mankind to take on the incumbents in
these Senate races. I mean, some of these people didn't
even campaign. It's like, oh, will put my name on
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signs around the area, Well, that'll do wonders from my
law office or my cupcakes business or whatever. Some of
these guys didn't even didn't even work at it. So
about this, Rickett's campaign said that Preston Love has quote
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failed to meet even the most minimum threshold for electoral
viability unquote. Ow that's I hate it when someone emails
me and says, Scott, you know, and whatever the talk
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radio equivalent of that burn is, Scott, you failed to
meet even the most minimum threshold for talk radio viability.
I hate when people say that, and it's true, that's
the one. Those are the digs that really get me
every day. People email me or spit on me in
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the streets, or say we rather not have you sitting
at the same table as us, you know, at family dinners.
You know, there's I mean, I get it from all
sides all the time. People don't like me. They don't
like things I say, and most often they don't like
things that I think. I say to a radio show
they don't listen to and just assume that they know
exactly what I'm saying every day, and I can generally
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let those comments roll off my back. It's when someone
sends an email says, man, your show is awful today,
and I look at it and I just go, I know,
I know it is today that those are the ones
that get me. So for the Rickets campaign to say
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about the Love campaign that they that he has failed
to meet even the most minimum threshold for electoral viability,
I imagine that hurts because as really good a guy
as Preston Love Junior is, and he is, you're not
going to find a more interesting person with whom to converse,
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a stronger advocate for his community. But he has approximately
maybe a slightly better chance of winning the Senate race
against Pete Ricketts then your mom. And I don't know
if she's running. He's going out across the state. I
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don't know that Preston Love Junior has really been west
of seventy second Street. You know, I've talked to him.
It's like, how's it going out there, Preston. Now we're
in Ogalala. Big crowds. Really, that's funny. I've toured western
Nebraska here recently, I haven't seen the Love first Senate signs.
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I wish him the best. Preston Love Junior agreed to
take on Pete Rickets in this race because it is
my belief, it is my belief that the state Democratic
Party couldn't find anyone else that wanted to do it.
And out of obligation to his party and his people,
Preston's like, all right, I'll do it. And this man
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who should be thinking about, you know, getting up every day,
being retired, doing the wordle, taking a nap and then
waking up, get getting something to eat and calling a day,
is now going across the state here running for Senate.
And it's not happening. It's it's not And so they
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he said, I want to debate Pete Rickets. Ricketts like,
why why in the world would I do that? You're
you're you're half a blip on this and and that's
and that's true. Now where their love campaign suddenly, uh
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does you know goes to the just the worst is
when they they're accusing Pete Ricketts of being racist. This line,
you know, does Pete Ricketts have a problem sharing airtime
with our state's first African American Senate candidate. Yeah, you
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know another way, and I'm pretty fluent in political speak.
Another way of saying that line, does Pete Rickets have
a problem being on TV next to a black man?
Another way of saying that is, we know we have
lost this argument, We've lost this race, and we're instead
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just gonna throw the race card out because we have
no other leg on which to stand. That's disgusting, and
that's below press. It's not below the state Democratic Party.
It is below Preston Love Junior. I would love to
hear him say, yeah, that's I would prefer my campaign
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not put out ugly rhetoric like that, suggesting, yeah, Pete
Ricketts would debate me if I were white, but because
I'm black, he doesn't want to be anywhere next to
a black guy. That's disgusting. But you know, when you're
losing by one hundred points, you know, then it's you
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got to try something. Now, we also have another Senate race.
Deb Fisher is up for reelection and one of her
can one of her opponents, has just dropped out of
this race. Does she have one? She thinks she has one?
Does she have two yes kinda. I'll explain next Scotty.
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Colleen emails and says, man, your show sucks today. I
want to hear more about that strip club closing down.
Uh no, see, I said that the emails that really
get to me are when people email and say, man,
your show is terrible today, and they're right, Colleen, that
does not apply today yet. Email me again in about
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an hour and we'll see. Thank you very much much
for the message, my man. I'm Scott. This is News
Radio eleven ten kfab. Deb Fisher is also running for reelection,
and she doesn't when I said that the state Democratic
Party doesn't have anyone else to run for office, that's
why I pressed in love, out of obligation and duty,
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decided all right, find no one else will do it,
I'll do it. So he's running as a Democrat against
Pete Ricketts. They don't have anyone to run against deb Fisher.
Her most viable candidate opponent in this race is an
Omaha Union leader. We've talked to a couple of times, independent,
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nonpartisan Senate candidate Dan Osborne. There was a third and
someone who actually was tied to a party. Oh my gosh,
I forgot about Carrie Carrie Eddie, the Senate candidate for
the Legalized Marijuana Now Party, the party that has point
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zero zero six percent of registered voters among Nebraska's broader electorate.
So you know they're pretty fierce. Well, she just quit
the race and endorsed Dan Osborne, and the chair, the
party chair of the Legalized Marijuana Now Party is mad said, Oh,
she was working with Dan Osborne the entire time. I
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guess she works for Osborne. We have another candidate picked out.
We need to contact that candidate and then we'll announce it.
We ask someone else who Well, we got to call
and see if they want to do it. Sometimes they
don't answer the phone. And plus it's before noon, they're
not awake yet. It's the Legalized Marijuana Now Party. See,
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it was a I think Friday I talked about how
the Department of Health and Human Services said, all right,
we're making a change in this very important realm, and
we're going to have a virtual town hall to talk
with those of you impacted by this change so we
can answer your questions. So they had the virtual town
hall last week and then and here's the funny part,
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they didn't open it up for questions. That's how that works.
We want to hear your questions, and that's the end
of our meeting. But what about our questions? We never
said we were going to take questions, so they got
a lot of problems, you know, blowback for that. They said,
all right, all right, all right, we're going to try again.
So yesterday they did this again. They did a two
hour virtual town hall and said we're going to try
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and answer all your questions. Five hundred people were on
the meeting, asked their questions. They obviously couldn't get to
all of them. I imagine a lot of the questions
were redundant. Hopefully they will try and answer these questions.
But you have some people saying, well, I I reached
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out to them on July seventeenth with an issue, and
I still haven't heard anything back. What is the issue?
If you are a parent or caregiver of a special
needs child, basically you've you've only got a few options there,
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you know, option the best option is, oh, that's not
a problem. Money is no object for us. And I'm
independently wealthy and have nothing but time on my hands.
Either I can take care of this child on my
own in many cases through adulthood because of the level
of disability that we're dealing with here, and and if
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I need to hire private caregivers the best money can buy,
I can do that, and I'm good. I'm very blessed here,
incredibly wealthy, and I can take care of this on
my own. So that represents what one percent of people
in this So then you got those who are like,
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I'm not looking for charity here, but the circumstances are
either I spend money until I reach popper status taking
care of this child. And again, in many cases we're
talking about adult children disabled to the point where really
the options are go broke taking care of them, and
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then they be and you essentially become wards of the
state or pretty much turn that individual under your care,
your child over to the state and say I don't
have the means to pay for any of this, so
now it's the state's responsibility, and then the state ends
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up paying for it. When the state ends up paying
for this, you know, you've got to build facilities, you've
got to hire twenty four hour staff members and all that.
It's expensive. So at some point it was determined that
the state is going to work with the parents to say,
all right, you take care of your kid or find
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that hybrid schedule that works best for you where you
got hopefully a couple of parents, maybe an additional caregiver
taking care of this individual, and we will pay you
to do it. And I think the way it has
been working is that you probably have visits once in
a while from someone with DHHS just to make sure
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that everything's on the up and up and it. I'm
sure you had a few horrible people taking advantage of
the situation financially, but most people were just really glad
to be able to have their loved one under their
care in their home and be able to have some
of that money coming from the state. Now, I'm the
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first one who will ask the question, why is any
of this the responsibility of government? Basically asked that question
about just about everything government does. You know, if it's
not building roads, bridges and an army to defend ourselves,
what in any of this is a function of government.
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Why should it be a function of government to either
take care of give you student loans and then forgive
your student loans. Why is it a function of government
to provide health care for you, or even social security.
What does any of this have to do with a
function of government? So I love asking those questions because
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our government has gotten to be more like a game
show than that which is there to defend our borders
and do those things only government can do, you know,
wage war and occasionally build a train track or whatever.
So why should this be a function of government? Well,
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because of that reality I just laid out. You got
a kid, that kid not going to be able to
live independently, and your options then are go broke and
then turn the kid over to be award of the state,
or immediately turn the kid over to be awarded the state.
And the state's got to spend a bunch of money
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to take care of the kid. I mean, it's all
of it is heartbreaking, and it happens. You know, this
kind of thing happens a lot. So it's it saves
money for the taxpayer. Or the other option is the
state says, not our job, find some charity that will
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do it. And if no one else will do it, well,
then I guess you're just so well and the kid,
you know, dies somewhere, you know, so we have a
safety net. And this is how this whole process has
worked until two weeks from now, on August fourteenth. This
whole plan changes on August fourteenth. If you're caring for
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your kid, we still get paid, we still do all this,
but there's a more stringent process for paying you. You
need to clock in, you need to clock out, you
need to be at places you said you were going
to be at certain times. And that's not entirely unreasonable,
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especially for those who are thought to be abusing this process.
But I guess everyone's got to jump through these hoops.
There are some bad apples out there abusing the process,
wasting taxpayer dollars, the kids aren't getting the care they need.
Rather than just dealing with those individuals going all right,
you seem to be a problem. We're putting you on
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double secret probation here, and these are the hoops you
have to jump through. Now everyone's got to do this.
And everyone's saying, all right, I'm fine showing a need
for all of this, but some of what you're asking
me to do in terms of clocking in, And if
I'm even five minutes late clocking in, if I forget
to clock in, I don't get paid that day. I
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can't clock in after the fact, and what would cause
me to forget to clock in, what would cause me
to not be in a certain place I'm supposed to
be at a certain time because of the circumstances of
caring for a special needs child. Yeah, we were supposed
to have this appointment. We got there twenty minutes late.
Why well, use your imagination as to all the different
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things that happen every single day with any kid, especially
a special needs kid, and a parent that might also
be trying to still hold down a job. If a
job's been nice enough to say, all right, you need
to take care of the stuff. That's fine, we're gonna
make this work out. We're gonna find a way. You're
gonna work from home. Could be that that parent working
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from home taking care of a kid suddenly was on
a conference call a little bit long, you know, a
little bit late. Stuff came up, an emergency happened, any
number of things. There needs to be some grace here,
and this process here doesn't seem to me to have
really any grace to it. So these parents are mad.
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The state just said here's what we're doing, and they complained.
They said, all right, we'll have a town hall and
answer your questions, and then they had the town hall
last week, didn't take any questions. Tried again yesterday. Five
hundred people had questions. They answered a few and said,
all right, you can check the website for more of
your concerns. This parent independent care provider said, I've been
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working under this new structure because we could start doing
it before the deadline of August fourteenth, and I've already
had problems with it. I've only been doing this for
a few days and there was a problem on July seventeenth.
I'm not getting paid for three days I was supposed
to be paid. I reached out to the state to
figure out why not and what needs to be done.
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No one will get back to me. One that tried
to work with the state Department of Labor in unemployment
claims during COVID knows how long it can take to
try and reach out to state government and get an answer. Now,
if you're unemployed due to COVID and you're trying to
get unemployment pay, it's not like you've got anything else
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to do. You're stuck at home anyway. You can sit
there on hold for five hours, and a lot of
you did. But if you're caring for this kid. You
can't sit there on hold for five hours. So this
person complained story here from k ETV News Watch seven said,
not only have I not gotten an answer, I didn't
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get paid for these three days. And because I didn't
get paid, I can't afford that which I need to
care for my daughter. This other mom said, now these
new guidelines, like I, if I screw something up here
and don't get paid, then I can't pay this caregiver
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who's helping me. And if the caregivers aren't getting paid,
it's not like there's a lot of caregivers waiting around,
especially good ones who are able to go for a
couple of days without money. Then they leave me and
I can't get another one. We need to have more providers.
We need to have some grace. We have a shortage
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of providers. We have a shortage of people with Department
of Health and Human Services in Nebraska answering questions, getting
us the details we need. And plus we've been doing
this as parents of these kids for years. In some instances,
no one's ever said that I was causing a problem
with it. But now I've got to do things differently,
and if I mess something up because there's an emergency,
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I don't get paid, and who ends up suffering here?
My kid? The Department of Health and Human Services say
to k ETV News Watch seven, we're still going to
have our deadline of August fourteenth, but don't worry. We're
going to have two more virtual town halls that will
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help these parents. The first of them is scheduled for
August fourteenth, the time when you absolutely need to be
doing this, and then the next one is about a
week later on August twentieth, when maybe you've now been
doing it wrong and are going without pay for a week. Look, governor,
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thank you for your concern on property taxes. These parents
deserve better from this state agency that I hope is
getting the attention it needs here in Nebraska. All right,
forty year old guy in Lincoln just called the Lincoln
Police Department the other day and said, please, you've got
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to help me. You've got to do something. I've been
ripped off. I'm out two thousand dollars. Like, oh my gosh, sir,
what happened? Someone mug you? No, someone put a gun
in your face and force you to an ATM where
you had to take out money and give it to him. No,
it was nothing like that. Were you ripped off from
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a business? Did you hire someone to do a job
and pay them up front and they didn't know? Well,
not really what happened, sir? Well, you see, I met
this woman online. Ah, love at first sight, and everything's
going swimmingly now, right exactly? You see, I met this
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woman online, and we met on this app and quickly
the conversation turns shall we say, spicy. It's pretty amazing.
You know, since I'm a guy here forty years, never
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been able to get the attention of hardly any women,
and now this woman, who otherwise in real life has
been considered way out of my league, has never even
given me the time of day, is suddenly showing me
dirty pictures and wanting dirty pictures for me. And I
don't have barely two brain cells to rub together here,
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and so I was more interested in rubbing something else,
So I said, yeah, you know, why not? What could
possibly go wrong? By the way, I don't know any
of this to be the actual content of the conversation.
I just know guy met someone he thought to be
a woman online. I don't know that this is a woman.
(47:44):
Probably half of his age, five times his aesthetic quality
that he should be paired with. And when she's suddenly like,
oh wow, yeah, I don't want to meet you in person,
but can't we just exchange some dirty pictures online? Okay, okay,
(48:04):
I'll do. And the guy sends the pictures and then
what do you know, suddenly it's I tell you what,
thank you for sending us what apparently is several spicy
photos of yourself. Here's what we're gonna do, sir. We're
gonna post them online and we're gonna tell everyone, Hey,
(48:28):
look what this guy did this. Here's the pictures of
him online unless you send us money. So the guy
then sent them her I'm guessing him, then sent two
thousand dollars via an online pay platform I don't know,
(48:50):
Venmo or whatever, and then called the police. It doesn't
say that he sent two thousand dollars and they said,
so that's a good down payment, but we're going to
need a lot more money than that, and they kept
trying to extort from him. Doesn't say that. I anticipate
that's probably what happens, because if he sent the money
(49:15):
and they said all right, thanks, Hey, no hard feelings,
you know, then I don't know that he calls the
police as I want my money back, because if the
idea was is he really doesn't want these pictures to
get out, then you know, if the two thousand dollars
settled it and they said, yeah, we're good than pleasure
(49:35):
doing business with you, then he probably wouldn't call the
police and go, I want my two thousand dollars back,
and I want that of those pictures back too. They're
not going to be able to get them. This. This
happens all the time, and thankfully, in this instance, the
victim here, the very willing victim here, is a forty
(49:59):
year old man. Too often this happens to kids, and
some really really bad things happen. Then when suddenly kids
because they'll still, they'll put they'll try and extract money
or whatever from these kids, they end up still posting
(50:20):
the pictures online. You know this, Uh, I've told my kids.
I've got two high schoolers told my kids, you are not,
I don't care who it is, you are not to
send any pictures online that you wouldn't want to see,
post it on a billboard outside your grandma's house, because
(50:43):
I guarantee you everyone's going to see them. No, they wouldn't,
you know my yeah, they will because someone's gonna say,
all right, I'm gonna show you this picture, don't show
anyone else. Next thing, you know, your science teacher is
seen it. And in the case, I mean, come on, guys,
(51:04):
you're you're a guy. At no point has anyone that
you haven't given dollar bill after dollar bill to been
in anywhere interested any attractive young women. They have never
been interested in doing anything naked with you. And suddenly
they're like, oh, you mean you sound great online. Let's chats.
(51:26):
It's a scam. And here's the other thing. This guy
sends these pictures and these people threaten him. You better
give us some money or we're gonna tell everyone. You're
the kind of guy that sends pictures like this to
people he doesn't know online. You know what, I'm guessing
(51:48):
they probably know if they know you, they're probably like, yeah,
I figure that would be him. I mean, they right,
they probably know. No one's gonna be surprised by it.
Even your mom is like, yeah, I know, I I
tried the best I could. Fox News Update Next Scott
Voices News Radio eleven ten Kfaby you can imagine the
(52:09):
messages I'm receiving. After this last story about a guy
meeting someone online who in real life he could never get.
She immediately is like, Wow, you're cute. I'd like to
see some naked pictures of you. And he's like okay,
and he sends the pictures and then turns out, oh no,
it's a scam. Give us money, and we're gonna post
these stories on these pictures online. Everyone will know what
you've been doing. I got news for you. If you
(52:31):
know this guy, you probably know what he's been doing.
But he sent two thousand dollars and then called the cops.
The cops are like, what do you want us to
do about it? Right? You know what, Oh, we'll get
right on that. You know the cyber warfare of scams
that you willingly engaged in. In fact, it's kind of
(52:53):
hard to well there's fraud. Well try dating in real life,
actually sit down with someone. There's plenty of fraud there too. Anyway,
told that story a moment ago. Here come the emails.
Mark emails Scott atkfab dot com. Scott, thank you so
much for your information on internet scams. I will not
(53:16):
send pictures of myself knowing this. I am only going
to send the money because you see her car broke
down on the way to visit me. Yeah, Charles says,
what an idiot, spicy photos, blackmails, an old scam. Well
it's not that old. Are you doing this in the seventies?
(53:41):
I have a Russian pinpal. Uh Nadia wants to see
pictures of me. Hang on, let me take pictures of me.
Go down to the photo Matt, get them developed, and
then mail them to her six weeks later. Oh no,
it's a scam, he says. A super hot girl giving
(54:04):
you the time of day as a huge red flag.
Maybe for you, Charles, but generally online. Yes, you're right,
especially if you don't know her. Sometimes if you do.
And Dave says, hey, Scott, could you repeat the order
that you have to go through to get the pictures
(54:25):
online for your science teacher to see them. I've been
trying for forty years to get them to her because
my science teacher was a smoke show and she keeps
blocking my attempts to send her pictures. Yeah, Dave, I'll
I'll get back to you later today on that after
(54:46):
I give your science teacher a heads up. So what
just happened here. Israel's been busy. If you haven't been
paying any attention here the last few days, Israel is like, hey,
where's that leader of hez Bolah? The president George W.
Bush would pronounce it, where's hez Bolah? Where's the leader
(55:10):
of has Belah? He's over there, all right? That guy? Yeah,
that guy, he's dead. Who's next? Well, Hamas, it was
irresponsible for the problems we had. By problems we have,
we mean the full scale attack to kill over twelve
hundred people on October seventh here in Israel. Oh, yeah,
(55:31):
that was Hamas. Where's that leader? Well, he's in Tehran.
He is there to attend swearing in ceremony for the
Iranian president. He's there, Huh Is that him? Yeah, that's him.
But I mean, we can't kill the guy when he's
in Iran. It's sovereign territory. Oh yep, you did so.
(55:53):
Israel just apparently assassinated the leader of Hamas. I don't
know about you, but I lose any sleep over it.
But a lot of people are asking, first of all,
how did this happen? Well, it happened because the leader
of Hamas was being protected by the United States Secret Service,
and there was a you know, Israeli sniper on the
roof one hundred and forty seven yards away, and apparently
(56:16):
that's a it was. I mean, in their defense, it
was a sloped roof. It's like a three percent grade,
so there's nothing they could do to save him. You know,
you understand how these things go. And then the other
question is, well, now what I've told you since President
Biden dropped out of the race, and now we have
co presidents and everyone's wondering who's in charge China, Russia, Iran, Israel.
(56:41):
Everyone's like, we're gonna do what we want and we're
gonna see what America does. Who's in charge? What's our
response going to be? Here? I'll let Clay and Buck
take it from here. There next Scott Voies mornings nine
to eleven, Our News Radio eleven ten KFAB
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