September 26, 2024 • 51 mins
From Crossroads to "wet cake" to the latest moves towards WWIII, there's a lot to clean up! Once we fixed all of that, we announced the next NewsRadio 1110 KFAB Gourmet Club.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott vories, like when you're driving around and you round
a corner and you stared directly into the sun and
you still got all that glare and stuff on your
windshield and it's just illuminated and you're completely blinded by
the light, wrapped up like a can I.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Say that word on the radio?
Speaker 1 (00:17):
If you say it right, another runner in the night,
and then you crash into everybody, you make life very
difficult for Lucy Chapman. She's been doing a great job
doing traffic reports all morning. What's the matter?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Now? What do we got?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
We've got crashes on I eighty westbound. The first one
is at sixtieth and it looks like you've got a
couple of left lanes open, but traffic is backed up.
I'm waiting for this camera to open. Yeah, it is
definitely backed up, probably the thirteenth. I'm looking at twenty
fourth and it's stopped, almost stopped through there. And then
the next crash is near seventy second. Don't have a
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lane that's open for you there, it's open, I just
don't know which one is. In eighty fourth. An earlier
crash that is off to the right show but still
causing some slow downs, and of course eastbound is slow
because everybody's slowing down to take a look. That crash
at sixtieth involves seven vehicles, so that's gonna be a
while where they can get that cleaned up.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Just tell you what, as you're driving, you see that
car in front of you, you don't have to be
in their backseat. You don't know those people. They're probably
not listening to this radio station. You don't need to
be in the car with them. Just back up a
little bit. You're going to get where you're going approximately
a point zero zero zero one second slower. And it's
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all right. Just back up a little.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Bit, you know.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
And I've added to that, and I know you're, you know,
mostly kidding, but serious.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
I know you needn't.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
In my own way, I'm telling you leave some space.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
The sun glare issues obviously for the eastbounders and the
westbonders in the afternoon, whichever direction you're not going or
you're not dealing with sunglare, leave those lights on because
your headlights because with the sun glare so direct in
the let's say eastbound side, if you are behind them,
then it's easier to see you with your lights on.
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And if you are heading westbound, it's easier for them
to see you that way too.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
The elitist in me wants to say that most people
anymore don't turn their lights on or off. It's automatic.
We have no idea if they're on or off or not.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
That is true.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
But you still have enough cars out there that every
almost every morning I drive in, I see the cars
without their lights on them.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
I'm not saying that. The elitist in me, who I
keep generally suppressed most of the time, No, you don't
generally most of the time. The elitist in me wants
to point out headlight I don't even know how to
turn them on off. I don't know. They're just they
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can't preset this way. They seem to be on when
I drive at night. I don't know my butler handles
all of that. I see when I'm going to the
yacht club, I seem to be able to find my
way there. At least I look up occasionally over the
glass of champagne I'm sipping in the back seat of
my limousine.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
I had a friend of mine tell me she was
trying to convince me that a third friend of ours
had a self driving vehicle, and I said, they don't
though she said, yes they do. She says sometimes she
just puts it on, and she says, waving her arms
around and talking. And I said, no, she's got lane assist.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Maybe maybe you still need to.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
And I said, you probably do, doo. If you're in nineteen,
you just need to turn it on.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Yes, I've driven those vehicles. I like the I don't
mind the lane assist, except one problem with the lane assist.
It's always like nudging you around, thinking this guy is
this guy is your wife right now, I know this
guy is. The car is constantly nudging you around, like
trying to get you back where you're supposed to be
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in the lane, thinking this guy is drunk. I'm calling
the cops. Meanwhile, I'm telling in my car I'm dodging
potholes and junk in the road. I have to move
a little bit over here. I have to cross this
line a little bit otherwise I'm gonna fall into that sinkhole.
The car and I would argue and it didn't work out.
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Seventy second in Dodge yesterday, the Omaha City Council formally
approved a pair of agreements. According to the Omaha World
Herald that will allow Woodbury Corporation. This is a group
based in Utah. Ooh, we're gonna get a temple. We're
gonna get a tabernacle.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Well those all glass, that'd be kind of cool.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Oh my gosh, it'd be beautiful.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Except for with Sunglaire.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
The Crossroads Church of Latter day Saints seventy second in
Dodge Scott. There's more things in Utah besides more name
one s flats what salt flat flats? Yeah, car malone
and a bunch Mormons. Then there's not that there's anything
wrong with that. I love Mormons. Some of my best
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friends are Mormons. So we got what what you call me?
Speaker 4 (05:13):
You're an idiot?
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Woodbury Corporation. Isn't there a wine or a whiskey or
a scotch. I'm thinking that's Woodford Reserve. Sorry, when my butler,
when my butler's pouring these things, I don't tend to look.
I just I can I put my nose up to
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the cocktail glass and like you don't have to do that.
It's jin like I'm still looking for the Utah based
Woodbury Corporation is going to start work on us planned
eight hundred and sixty two million dollars redevelopment of what
seemed like a million years ago was a place called
the Crossroads. Mall right now it is a fancy pushed
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around bit of dirt with a target not like a
target on it, I mean there's a Target store there.
And so you're thinking, all right, this group says yes,
and it's been approved by the council. Council is going
to as we've talked about before with that seventy second
in Dodge site. They're going to pay thirty eight million
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dollars for the land on which the city will own
and operate, build three parking garages, two of them underground.
That's fancy, and we'll get the money back from the garages.
Woodbury is going to pay the city thirty nine million
dollars back and tiff tax increment financing over the years
to come based on all of the new shops, housing,
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office space and entertainment businesses that are going to come
here to this wonderful plaza. A couple of things. Number One,
if you're thinking all right, Scott, we're waiting. I must
have missed this story. What is the big anchor, tenant
or entertainment business or sandwich shop. Is there anything that's
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set to go there?
Speaker 5 (07:16):
No?
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Thanks, No.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
West Lanes is the little bowling alley across the way,
and they're very excited. So we have we have no
announced tenants. I don't think this group pays eight hundred
and sixty two million dollars on Well, let's just hope
this works out, I imagine. But here's here's the thing.
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What do we need here in Omaha. I'm not like,
let's open the phones and take your questions. You know,
we want a Macy's, we want to ESPN restaurant. I'm
just looking around here like I don't know. I think
we're all right. What do we need?
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Need?
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Affordable housing? Just put a big homeless encampment there at
seventy second in Dodge. That's like part homeless encounpment encampment
and part juvenile justice and mental health detention facility and
everyone can just be there under you know, we'll just
wall off the area. Wow, Scott, that whole elitist thing
that you try and suppress, how's that coming now? It
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is unsuppressed right now. I just look around Omahon, I
think what do we need?
Speaker 2 (08:23):
We need this here's what I think.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
We're gonna have a really fancy mixed use place that's
got some apartments and loft living and some office space
and a couple of restaurants and stuff, and it's gonna
look just And I hope I'm wrong, and not that
there's anything wrong with any of these places. They're all great.
But we already have Shadow lake Town Center, we already
have Exarbon, we already have Midtown Crossing, we already have
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Village Point.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
And now look at Gretnam. All that's getting built up
at a water park.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Telling you, everything they're doing at Nebraska Crossing is amazing,
and we've got some really cool stuff happening there, like
one hundred and forty fourth between Dodge and Pacific, the
old Boystown property, Heartwood Preserve, that's the name of the
place they're doing over there. So what are you going
to do to stand out? You're going to have to
figure out something, do something, And if you can't come
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up with it, if we can't get the entertainment venue
or whatever it is that you're looking to put there,
My idea of a big homeless encampment that's part juvenile
justice facility and mental health detention center, which sounds a
lot better than Looney Ben. You know, you could put
that in at seventy second and Dodge and you know,
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have some of the local graffiti artists tag the walls
they're going to anyway, and it could be this really
nice area and then the thing all right, I don't
know when they're going to start what, but when do
we we get to see something happening there? And they say, well,
we hope that the entire development will be substantially completed
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by twenty thirty two. That's like one hundred years from now.
I don't know if twenty thirty two is seventy years
from now or next year or tomorrow. I don't know.
I don't have any concept of time anymore. According to
my calculations, that's about eight years from now when Trump
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will be running for yet another term. Let's look ahead
to the election of twenty thirty two. Kamala Harris will
be declaring martial law and saying I get to have
a third term in office.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Is he's not gonna wait that long?
Speaker 1 (10:43):
And well, she'll she'll win this year, She'll win in
twenty twenty eight, and then in twenty thirty two, she'll say,
since we'll be at war. She'll say, well, FDR stayed
around during World War two, and since we're in year
seven and a half of World War II three, I
need to stay in office too. And Republican challenger Baron
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Trump will he be old enough? He won't be old enough.
Republican challenger David Lee Roth will say, now, gotta might
as well jump. I don't know what happens in twenty
thirty two, but I know that in eight years from
now they say, well, we hope to have this entire
development substantially completed. They're not even talking about being done.
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He say, you're gonna see You're gonna see some stuff, man,
and some things. Just give us eight years. I know
it's not the same thing. But when McDonald's says that
store is a little old, tear it down and build
a new one. They do it in fifteen minutes. I'm
gonna have a Chick fil A out near me and
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one hundred and fifty six in Maple They started construction
on it at seven thirty this morning. It's gonna be
open for lunch today. They I mean these things. Now,
I think part of it is. Here's the other thing,
they always say, well, yeah, you want us to get
that done, that road, that bridge, that store, that whatever.
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It's going to take us about eight years. But I'll
tell you what, in the contract build in some really
nice incentives that if we get it done earlier, we
get paid a lot more money. That's total horsepucky. They
always build it up that way so they make more money,
so it'll probably be done well before then.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
And the fact the guy.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Mister Woodbury, a Corporation senior vice president of development acquisitions,
said well, we hope the project will be done sooner
than that. And many of us in Omaha, like the
people who started buying up businesses or own long, longtime
owned businesses around there, have said, we're not holding our breath.
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So mess number one seventy second in Dodge, we got
a half inch closer to maybe having something there in
five to eight years, Doug says, Scott. What we need
is what is gone Peenie Park, Funplex, Ranch Bowl, and Skateland.
Doug three out of four ain't bad. Funplex is still
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there seventy second and Q Dude, but the slides that
used to be across from fun Plex over there in Ralston,
that'd be cool. We could put the slides there. The
slides in Ralston were awesome. You go, you get a
in a like a burlap sack, like a gunny sack,
you slide down the slides that were approximately the temperature
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of the sun, and then down at the bottom there
you could pay a buck and you could ride a
disinterested donkey around a little trail. I love the slides.
Just put that just a bigger version of that at
seventy second and Dodge. But Peenie Park, Skateland, Ranch Bowl,
why not all of them?
Speaker 4 (13:54):
You could do peene Park magically.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
You could do.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Peenie Park with a roller skating rink and and Peenie
Park had the pavilion, they had the hilt. Yeah, you
had the place there where you could go see. I
saw weird Al Yankovic at Peenie Park my first concert ever.
I was fifteen. You don't want to know what kind
of mac I was. I convinced a cute sixteen year
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old girl because she was cute and she could drive.
So I'll buy the tickets if you can drive, and
we'll go. I'll take you to weird Al if you
can take me to weird Al.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
And she said I thought that you guys were seeing
al Green.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
She said, yeah, let's see how this is gonna work out.
And that's what we did my first concert first Kiss
No No turns out not an aphrodisiac, but it did
continue a lifelong obsession with weird Al Yankovic, who's coming
to Lincoln next summer as part of his Bigger and
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Weirder tour. Can't wait, But yeah, all that stuff would
be great. Dean emails Scott at kfab dot com and
just says, I KIA, which I presume he means we
should have an Ikea at seventy second in Dodge. Is
it big enough? It's seventy second in Dodge, big enough
to incorporate a giant Ikea. Welcome to Ikea. You live
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here now? Place is huge?
Speaker 2 (15:16):
All right.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Let's go outside the Omaha Metro look at another potential,
another mess that needs cleaned up. This one I don't
have an intersection for. But if you live around Mead,
you know it. You've been smelling it for years. It
is this massive pile of contaminated waste grain from the
alt and Ethanol plant. All e in alt and Ethanol
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plan ethanol plan out there and mead. And for years
they've been doing business and they have this waste grain,
and they've just said where should we put all this?
I pile it up over there, It'll probably be fine.
And as the pile got bigger and bigger, at once
estimated to cover fourteen acres, stinky, and then it got
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stinkier and then became the stinkiest thing known to man.
And people are like, I can't breathe living here. I understand,
you live out here in rural Nebraska. You can smell agland,
the smell of money, but that's different this waste grain
byproduct from the ethanol plant that's been piling up. You
guys can't just leave it out there. And the ethanol
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plant is like, I think we can. It's our property.
Just plug your nose. Then the state came in and said,
you've got to do something. It's leaking into water, you know,
like wastewater lagoons, and were worried it's going to get
in the groundwater, and plus it stinks people's health.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
And so.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Yesterday representatives said that after a year long pilot project
to test how to remove the material which has the
if you think contaminated waste grain, sounds bad. They call
the stuff wet cake. Wet cake. It's really not that
wet except when it rains, and it ain't cake. I
don't know why they call it wet cake, just a
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gross name. Someone left the wet cake out in the rain.
They said, well, we've been working on how to remove
the material, and about a third of it has been transported.
We're like, great, where did you take it? Oh, we
moved it closer to Omaha. It's at the landfill. Like,
wait a second, it took you a year to figure
out you could put this stuff in a truck and
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transport it to the landfill in Omaha. Well, there's a
bit more to it than that. They take the stuff
and then they encase it in plastic so it doesn't stink,
and then they put that in the landfill. So as
we're trying to get less plastic on the landfill, we're
using more plastic to put the wet cake in so
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it doesn't stink. What happens in years from now, you know,
when our grandkids, great grandkids, when they're trying to breathe
and all this plastic breaks open and the stinky, dead
wet cake stuff starts. You know, what We'll let that
be their problem one hundred years from now. I got
stuff I need to deal with. Now, let that be
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their problem. But that's what they've done. It took them
a year to say, well, basically, if we do what
other people do with stinky garbage at their home, we'll
just encase it in something and then throw it in
the trash. It took them a year to figure that out.
Way to get on that, guys. But that's what they're doing.
And they say, and we're gonna keep doing it. Can't
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do it much during the winter because you can't mix
and encase this junk during the freezing weather. Well then
why didn't you come up with this idea in March?
Speaker 2 (18:45):
But it's a.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Big mess out in your mead that's moving a little
bit closer to getting cleaned up and allowing people in
that wonderful community to breathe again. I've got a lot
of emails coming in here here Scott at kfab dot
com and the Zonker's Custom Woods inbox. A beautiful piece
of dark zebra wood furniture that is just covered in
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coffee mug rings because Gary Sadelemeyer won't use the coaster should.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Take it out of there and so we can enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Yeah, and Jim Rose keeps putting this cigar out on
top of the inbox as well, so it's got like
big burn marks on it, these cigar burn marks.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
And yet it still looks beautiful, it does.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
I keep trying to send it down and stay at there.
It's so thin right now that it's about it got
about as much thickness to it as this radio show content.
But anyway, in the inbox, I'm getting your messages regarding
what to do with seventy second and Dodge, which I
know I kind of brought up but I didn't say.
And we're not gonna like take a bunch of the
but I am enjoying them. The issue here is that
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yesterday the Omaha City Council approved us to get about
a half inch closer to a mile away from actually
doing something at seventy second in Dodge. We still don't
have anything in terms of an anchor tenant. There's nothing
that illuminates how this mixed use development place at seventy
second in Dodge is going to be any different or
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stand out in any way from Xarbon Village, Midtown crossing
Shadow Lake Town Center, Village Point. Who am I leaving
out all the rest of these great places around town?
Capital District put that in there too. Each of them
kind of has their own identity. There's a little bit
of shared this and that between each of them. But
I don't know that we need another one that's just
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going to have the same stuff, especially since we got
the Boystown Heartwood Preserve going in there one hundred and
forty fourth, just southwest of one hundred forty fourth in Dodge.
But I got people emailing saying we need to have
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the Peenie Park, skateland and Ranch Bowl and the arcade
from West Roads all need to be in there. Jim
wants a nuke plant put there. Well, that's thinking that
would certainly stand out. That'd be different and give Homer
a place to work. I want the old dreamy high
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slides from Ralston, which Rob found a picture of online
and says we need to have these with the seers
at one end and Brandies at the other. That's from Rob.
Johnny wants toys r us all right. So now we've
got fellow members of gen X emailing about the things
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that we loved around here when we were growing up
and we say, oh, if we could bring that back,
it'd be great. You understand where all these places left, right,
Ranch Bowl, all the rest these places they either left
because they got steamrolled by we were made an offer
we couldn't refuse and it was time to move on,
or we stopped going to them and they were not
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making money.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
So spare me with it.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
We need the moby Dick water slides back down there.
That'd be great. But see, here's the other problem with it, Like, now,
where are the parents. We're the ones who'd be taking
our kids down there. You know what you want is
you want how cheap these things used to be. When
your parents would drop you off there with five sweaty
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dollars in your hand, and they could drop you off
there all day, completely unsupervised. Five dollars would get you
a full day's worth of entertainment and a sunburn. Well,
we can't do any of that anymore.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Now.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
What used to cost five dollars is going to cost
one hundred dollars. And they're not going to let you
just drop kids off down there because they'll all get
in a fight and start shooting each other. So what
you want is what we had in the eighties, and
that wasn't a place, it was a thing. It was
a vibe. We can have that again. You just got
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to raise free range kids.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
You're really bringing me down.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
No, I'd just be glad we had it. And you
know what, today's kids are gonna look back when they
get old like us, and they look back on their childhood.
All these kids are in school right I mean, skipping
school right now and going on stealing cars and selling
drugs right now when they should be in school. If
that that is, if they're awake, they were up all
night stealing cars and racing them in one hundred miles
an hour. When they look back on their childhood and
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they see what that next generation of teenagers is doing,
they're gonna look at this and go, man, we had
it the best. These kids don't. They don't know how
great it felt to actually have to hold a controller
to play video games all day, where while our parents
ignored us, now they can just stare at the screen
and flit their eyeballs around, you know. They That's how
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That's how it works, right, that's how it works. It's
how you're bringing down even No, don't care. We're just
gonna be here in moket. That's fine, that's our job now.
But the truth is, you can put all this stuff
in there. You put like a ranch bowl in a
skate land all day and they say, hey, here's what
we have. We got Peenie Park and skateland and the
arcade from the Crossroads all right there at seventy second
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a dodge plus a ranch bowl, and hey, it's going
to work where you bring the family here all day
and then you take them home and you come back
here and you see a great nineties ban at night,
and you know what we'd all do. We'd all be like,
I'm too tired to do that. That costs too much money.
I don't want to do that stuff. I'm just going
to sit here and watch TV all day because so
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many of us have just gotten so fat, lazy, and
we don't go out and do anything. By the way,
Gourmet Club announcement coming up in an hour from now,
and we hope.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
That you do that.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
I've got some good news real quick, Okay.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
All lanes are open on I eighty westbound at sixtieth
and traffic is starting to move through there. I'm sorry
there is one lane closed, but it's the eggs and
it's just that right lane that's closed on the exit,
so on ID westbound at sixtieth everything's open.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
That seems made up, But that's good to.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
Know you think I made that up? Just now?
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Maybe all right? We've got now, Lucy, we have an
end of the world update. Are you ready? Here we go?
Speaker 2 (25:19):
That's great.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
It starts with the inert quait birch snakes an airplane.
Lenny Bruce is not a play Birds and snakes and aeroplanes.
It's time for an end of the world update here
on news Radio eleven ten kfab. It comes courtesy Today
of China. China has not test fired an inter intercontinental
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ballistic missile and ICBM in this way since back in
the day we're talking about about nineteen eighty. What's different
now China has hundreds of intercontinental ballistic missiles. The difference
is they usually fire them in the mainland from east
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to west, out to their own deserts where they don't
think anyone lives, until suddenly a guy named Sid calls
up and says, yeah, I don't know if you can
turn this missile around. I live here, and then as
he's still on the phone with them, whish I had
this ready to go have been funnier. Hey, I don't
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know if you guys know this, but I and then
he's gone. So usually they fire him out in their
own deserts. But this time they fired one out into
the ocean. Is it a big deal?
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Well, according to.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
One analyst, this is not exactly routine or part of
annual training. Quote, they don't do this sort of thing,
either routinely or annually. When they haven't done something for
forty four years and then they do it. China, that's significant.
China also says, well, we told everyone that we were
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going to fire a missile in this manner in advance,
and Japan, who's really close to this, says, no one
told us. So China is not only rattling sabers but
also just letting you know, we got a lot of
great weapons. We can fire them anyway we want. These
are these These could be nuclear tipped if we wanted,
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and we can fire it out that way. Well, hey,
we're that way, are you.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (27:31):
What a show of strength here by the Biden Harris
administration to keep China in line. This as the President
was giving another speech here to the United Nations, talking
about how great things are in the world. China's like, yeah,
things are, things are great. Thanks for inviting us to
your little meeting. We're just gonna be out here blowing
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up the ocean. Hesba Lah attempted its own strike back
at Israel after Israel sent hes Belah the terrorist operation
there mostly in Lebanon, these exploding pagers last week. All right,
there's one more. People love this sound effect. I love
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it too, So Hesblah tried to counterattack. They tried to
send them exploding Atari games.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Yeah you like that.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
You want to play Space Invaders, You want to play Froggert,
You want to play Miss pac Man, you want to
play Missile Command, you want to play Pitfall, you want
to play the et game. Et games kind of stupid.
You know, here, here you go, here's the exploding nataris.
We'll go back even further, exploding eight tracks. You want
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to listen to the beg's all right, that's I've done it.
I've overdone it with the exploding sound effect. I apologize. Well,
actually they did it with a bunch of surface to
surface missiles programmed for Tel Aviv. Why that's right. They're
in Israel, Yes, and Israel looked at it and said, well,
isn't that cute? And they stopped every single missile from
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landing in Israel. That air defense shield they have, it's legit.
So Hesbllah tried. But it turns out the guys that
fell victim to the exploding pagers couldn't get a missile
to land in Israel, so that's good. I've been getting
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more and more emails from kfab Nation over the past
couple of weeks, with some with pictures saying I went
to my local grocery store or autobody repair shop or
oil change depot, whatever, and I see these and it's
pictures of these big casino style games. You know, you
see those in casinos. You've seen them pop up in bars,
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and you've seen them pop up even in some gas stations.
But now they're coming into places where people are like,
I don't understand. I went in to get my windows
tinted or whatever, and then sitting there in the waiting
room and then like, these games are there. I mean,
don't really bother me one way or the other, but
it seems like it's getting more and more prevalent. I
(30:13):
got an email from Rob says I was at a
place in O'Neill where a lady just had her kids
sitting on the floor in a stroller as she played
the casino like game there at the gas station. And
you know, my thought on these things is they're there
if you want them, and I'm either going to be
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inclined to play them or not play them. It's up
to you to have the personal responsibility, whether you have
a re election to addiction, whether it's cigarettes are legal,
alcohol is legal, apparently all drugs seem to be legal.
Gambling too. But it is interesting to see more and
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more of this coming up in places where I don't
generally see them, and I've asked to join me on
the program to address this. From Nebraska Family Alliance, Nate
Grosz is here on eleven ten KFAB Nate, good morning,
it's great to have you back on the program.
Speaker 6 (31:14):
Got it's great to be here. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
This is due to legislative action in Nebraska that recently
opened up more and more legalization of.
Speaker 6 (31:22):
Games like this, right, yeah, I think you're exactly right.
You know, Nebraska's more and more are seeing this happen
where you walk into a gas station in a convenience store,
even grocery stores, and there's rows and rows of what
essentially amounts to slot machines. And this has to do
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actually with you know, exploiting some loopholes and legal technicalities
that allow these devices casino style gaming that get technically
designated as skill machines or skilled device, and what they
mean by that is essentially it's taking a slot machine
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and adding an extra step where you have to push
a button on the screen, and that makes it a
game of skill and not a game of chance, and
therefore you're able to put it in all of these
different locations outside of just casinos. But unfortunately, the consequences
are the same because it's a gimmick, it's a con
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These are games that are designed for people to lose.
And I think when you're walking into these gas stations
and grocery stores and you're seeing who's sitting down to
play these games, it's clear that this is not for entertainment.
It's not improving quality of life. It's people who are
sitting down and gambling and losing the last dollars that
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they have, and then they're not walking out with groceries
for their family.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
I was talking with one of the proprietors of a
business that isn't a place that even it doesn't even
come close to selling alcohol. It's more auto related, and
he had these in his waiting room off on the side,
and I said, that's interesting decoration. He goes, yeah, I
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don't love it, but you know, we're trying to stay
in business here, and we get paid a pretty good
amount of money to have these up here in the business.
Whether people play them or not. I figure they're adults
that come in here and they can make this decision
for themselves, and I'm trying to stay in business here.
I mean, do you feel any kind of empathy for
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the business owners or do you think that they're irresponsible
for allowing these things in their shops?
Speaker 5 (33:40):
Well?
Speaker 6 (33:41):
Absolutely, But I think the problem is when you have
a larger problem. If you are turning to gambling as
a source of revenue to sustain your business, I think
that shows that there's broader problems in our economy because
anytime that you're expanding gam when you're expanding the social
costs that come with it. There's a reason that that
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gambling is the most regressive, regressive, unreliable, and harmful form
of revenue because it takes the most from those who
can least afford it, and there's no economic development. There's
nothing being created or generated. It's like throwing your money
on the street and paying someone else to go to
go pick it up. It creates worse problems over the
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long term. And so I think that's why in areas
that have leaned heavily into gambling, you see these problems
come up and after a few years things are worse
than when they started. You know, I think all you
have to do is look across the river over at
Council Bluffs, right. And actually was coach Tom Osborne who
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said in a committee here, and I think very well
of it. You know, if gambling is so great, if
there's all these wonderful economics, if it's going to be
so good for businesses and for families, you know, Council
Bluff should look like Abu Dhabi. But it doesn't. And
so I think there are always ways that we can
improve our state, our communities, in our neighborhoods, but turning
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to gambling isn't one of them.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Nate gross with us here in Nebraska Family Alliance. What
about our phones, because anyone with any kind of ability
on a phone can play all these online gaming things,
whether there's something that looks like gambling or whether there's
something that allows you to win or lose money with
some of these other type of like even kids type games.
(35:33):
How I mean, those are right there in our pockets.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
All the time.
Speaker 5 (35:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (35:38):
The huge push from the gambling industry is to move
towards online and mobile gambling and particularly trying to target
younger audiences, you know, with these different games. And it's
the speed and the ease of access that allows the
gambling industry to hook more people to make more money,
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because that's, at the end of the day, what it's about.
And that's what we have to remember, is that any
form of gambling, when you're dealing with an actual company,
you know, commercialized gambling, is very different from social gambling.
You know, when you're sitting down with your buddies for
a game of Friday night poker, or you and a
friend make a friendly wager on a sporting game. But
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when you're starting to wager with an actual gambling company,
that completely changes what's happening because now it's intentionally designed
for you to lose. The more that you play, the
more you lose, but at the end of the day,
the costs that come with it, you know, the increases
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in bankruptcies and crime and broken families. Those costs are
not paid for by the gambling operators. They're paid for
by the taxpayers. And that's why ultimately you pay even
if you don't play. And so the best way to
see more success, to keep your dollars, to make your
money go further, is to never start wagering against those
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companies in the first place.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
There's an article in The Atlantic today talking about how
the United States Supreme Court six years ago allowed states
to legalize sports gambling, and since then, thirty eight states
allowed it. Iowa does, Nebraska does not, and they say
that these states have little to show for it other
I mean terms of tax revenue, but they've seen it
in terms of households not putting money into investment accounts,
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credit cards, maxed out, checking accounts, over drawn, bankruptcy, intimate
partner violence, that kind of thing. Sports gambling has had
a six year run. I'm guessing that you don't think
it's doing the best for our nation.
Speaker 6 (37:48):
Absolutely. That's a really important article, and the more evidence
that is coming out, the more it's confirming what we've
always known about gambling. And I think, you know, maybe
for some people, they hear about this issue and it's just,
you know, maybe not a big deal. It's not a
problem for them. Interestingly, one of the most common things
that we see is the people that promote it the
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most and who sell it don't do it themselves, right,
And so we should ask why is that? And again
the reason is because it's designed for people to lose money.
The problem is that when you're tying gambling to sports,
and then you factor in all of the advancements in
technology and being able to gamble straight from your phone,
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from your entire bank account, removing all human interaction, it
makes it constant, and unfortunately it's having a devastating effect,
particularly on young people. There's been studies showing that now
one in ten college students have a pathological gambling problem.
You know, we have college students who are gambling away
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student loans, placing bets while they're showering. But it's all
it's all a big budget gimmick because for every every
dollar that the state could expect to see in tax
revenue is a small fraction of the total wealth that
was taken from citizens, taken out of our economy, taken
away from local businesses, and not spent elsewhere to actually
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help families and to help grow our economy. And so
that's why, you know, we see this as a huge problem.
Gambling is never We're not going to gamble our way
out of our state's property tax problem. We need real solutions,
not budget gimmicks.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
Last question and bigger picture here. I know people and
I'm sure you do too, Nate, that they do partake
in that they can drink some alcohol once in a
while without having a problem. They can place a bet
once in a while, or go to the casinos or
some of these other places and play these games once
in a while without it even being close to being
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a problem for them. They don't get hooked, there are
no danger of being addicted. And they say, well, look,
we go out and have a good time. It's a
form of entertainment. And for us, why do we have
to shut all this down because some people can't handle it?
Speaker 6 (40:05):
Yeah, well, I think we have to look at the
fact that, again, people are free to gamble. But again,
the problem is that when states are partnering with these
large gambling corporations and giving them monopolies to push more
and more extreme forms of gambling into our communities and
onto our children, and in the process they end up
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violating the rights and freedoms of the majority of citizens
who almost never gamble. Yet they're being forced to foot
the bill for the lower standard of living and the
budget deficits and tax increases that state sanction gambling leaves behind.
And it's also the gambling industry does not rely on
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your casual gambler or the citizen who goes out once
every blue moon and spends money gambling. Over fifty percent
of gambling revenue comes from problem and addicted gamblers. They
are upon people becoming addicted and more people coming back
to lose more of their money in order to make
a profit. That's who they're after. And so there's a
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huge difference between again, your casual wagering and those who
are going to these gambling companies. And the real scandal,
I think is the ease in which state governments are
beginning to treat our own citizens as a suspendable means
of state revenue. And ultimately citizens and families in Nebraska
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deserve better.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
Nate Grosse with the Nebraska Family Alliance always appreciated conversation.
Thank you very much for taking the time this morning.
Speaker 6 (41:40):
Thanks very much, Scott.
Speaker 1 (41:41):
Yeah, I wanted to have Nate on because so many
people have been emailing over the last couple of weeks saying, look,
I'm no prude here, and I don't mind going out
and making a wager on this or that, or playing
this or that at the games once in a while,
or you know, some of the stuff even I do
on my phone. I don't have a problem with that,
and I hope that people who are addicted to this
or anything get the help they need. There are lots
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of resources available. That said, if I'm going into a
grocery store or some of these businesses that I wouldn't
think to see these online slot or video gaming type
machines in there. And I see those things in there,
it makes me think, Wow, we're getting one step closer
to every single strip mall you drive by in this
(42:26):
area being lit up and green with a pot leaf
on it. You know, it just seems like there's more
stuff promoting potential issues, sin and vice, you know, the like,
I don't mind those places being here and there, but
we don't need them everywhere, so I wanted to have
(42:47):
Nate's thoughts on that, and I welcome yours as well.
Scott atkfab dot com. Scott emails and says, what about
online stock trading? He asked sarcastically, and then has a
variety of profile words to tell our guests from the
Nebraska Family Alliance exactly where he can go to mind
his own business. I appreciate all of your thoughts, Scott
(43:09):
at kfab dot com. If you've never been to one
of our gourmet club events, it works like this. It
is an incredible display of food. We've done all kinds
of different food offerings over the years. It's all like,
here's the price, here's what we're eating, here's where we're
doing it. And if you make a reservation, then we'll
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see you there at this event and you'll be seated
with the most likely other members of KFAB nation. The
only thing you have in common is you tolerate this
radio show and people have made great friends over the
years doing this. If you've been there before and want
to come back, we'll see you there two weeks from
the night. If you've never been, please join us for
the next news Radio eleven ten kfab Gourmet Club. It's
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two weeks from tonight. That's Wednesday, October ninth, six thirty pm. Now,
before we tell you where it is and how you
can join us, I have the shadowy anonymous head chef
of this brand new location for this event on the
line to take us through the menu options. There's a
lot of choices here and forty five dollars per person.
(44:17):
Gets you started with what mister head chef?
Speaker 5 (44:22):
Hey, everybody, so this is Zach from me.
Speaker 1 (44:25):
Hold on, hold on, No, we don't say where it
is yet, hang on, hang on. Well, yeah, that's all right.
First we'll go through the menu. So what are we
starting off with?
Speaker 5 (44:34):
Got it? Okay? Perfect pre course prefix menu. Everybody gets
to choose an appetizer. We have potato croquettes. We have
roasted beet salad, we have Nick's Prime rib chili, and
we have a caesar salad. These are all made from scratch.
The potato croquette is a Yukon gold potato. It's a
real labor of love. We bring the potato, we peel it,
(44:54):
we boil it, we mash it. Then when it's cold,
we to do all.
Speaker 1 (45:01):
Well, your phone, your phones cut your phone's cutting up there.
Back up here with let's get right to what I
think everyone's going to choose, the prime rib chili, which
I've had and it is amazing.
Speaker 5 (45:13):
Yeah, the prime rib chili is absolutely to die for.
There's no beans but a moto with prime rib topped
with melted cheddar cheese and it is to die for.
Speaker 1 (45:21):
Yeah, house specialty at this location. So you get your
choice of one of the appetizers again, the potato croquette,
roasted beets caesar or the Nick's Prime rib chili. What
about for our supper? What are our options there of
which we get to choose one?
Speaker 5 (45:42):
Well, there are a lot of really great features here.
We have a pants heered trout skin on crispy, served
skin side up with a green apple in spinach puree,
very nice sweet flavor profile. To finish and round out
the dish. We have a brown sugar brandy glaz salmon.
We're using it local brandy from Brickway, which is really cool,
(46:02):
sort of a creamy polina, and that Brickway brandy glaze
just go perfectly over the top. For the vegetarians out there,
we do have an amazing butternut squash in Princi steak.
So it's roasted and grilled crusted butternut squash, served with
other roasted root vegetables or chieta pasta and oat milk
as well, but is available, you know, as a dairy
(46:25):
free alternative, and then we can do that gluten free
if somebody would prefer as well.
Speaker 1 (46:29):
And now the sin and here hang on here phone,
phone's cutting out again. We don't want people to miss this.
This is the big one here and this is what
I'll be eating two weeks from to night. So put
the phone back together.
Speaker 5 (46:43):
Here.
Speaker 2 (46:43):
What is this signature item?
Speaker 5 (46:47):
Yes, okay, better now, yeah, okay, great. So it is
our signature beamer cut prime rib that's carved table side,
and that's served with a bone marrow Yorkshire pudding.
Speaker 1 (46:59):
Which I've had and I've never liked Yorkshire pudding and
I couldn't eat enough of this here with the signature
roasted prime rib. I love the table side option. It's
it's just so classy, which is one of the big
reasons we're at this fairly new restaurant, brand new location
for the event. There's one more supper club item entree
(47:22):
that people can choose from.
Speaker 5 (47:23):
What's that yeah, and that is a broasted chicken. And
so this is because a broster is a piece of
equipment that was patented in which ties in very closely
stre concept. But it makes all right.
Speaker 1 (47:40):
The phone's cutting out there again, Let's see if we
can hold it together enough to get through. You also
get a side dish to choose from, and we might
I might be going through the rest of this myself.
Speaker 2 (47:52):
That's okay.
Speaker 1 (47:53):
I've got the menu in front of me, so here
we'll put him on hold here first, i'cond to see
if we can close out with this in a moment.
So you get your choice of one of the entrees.
That's the panseared trout, the brown sugar brandy glaize salmon,
the vegetarian butternut squash, which is served kind of like
(48:14):
steak style, the signature roasted prime rib, or the supper
Club roasted chicken. You get to choose a side. Your
options are the grotten potatoes, sauteed kale, and beat tops
broccoli rabe. I believe is how you pronounced that is
the phone sterile connected?
Speaker 2 (48:32):
Are you there, Zach?
Speaker 5 (48:35):
But can you hear me?
Speaker 2 (48:35):
Yes? How m broccoli robb a broccoli rob.
Speaker 1 (48:40):
Rob Okay, we'll make it. We'll name it after Rob
and then the age cheddar mac and cheese. Those are
your options there for a side dish, the grotten potatoes,
saute kale, beat tops broccoli rob or age cheddar mac
and cheese.
Speaker 5 (48:53):
Dessert please, yes, dessert, we have a wonderful house made
chocolate torque or Rammy Smith apple crumble.
Speaker 2 (49:03):
And this is all I mean.
Speaker 1 (49:05):
You've You've got your options of one appetizer, one entree,
one side, and then one dessert. If you want anything
to drink. They have lots of options available. It's kind
of what this new restaurant here in Omaha is known for.
Zachary Dimmitt, one of the great chefs there at this location.
Where are we doing this event? Two weeks from to night.
Speaker 5 (49:27):
So we're doing this at one zero one Cass Street,
which is nix Korum, a bar and modern supper club
located in the main lobby of the Hilton Omaha.
Speaker 1 (49:37):
Yeah, if you have yet to experience Nick's Quorum at
Hilton Omaha Downtown, I hope you're able to join us
for this gourmet club event now. Right now, people are saying,
all right, it's forty five dollars a person. I hear
my options, when do they need to make They don't
need to make the choice this morning on the phone, right.
Speaker 5 (49:56):
No, they can make that decision the night of the event,
once they're seeded at their table. Great, and plenty of
time to decide.
Speaker 2 (50:02):
Good.
Speaker 1 (50:02):
Now, I know people are rushing to their phones to
call you. We're gonna do something different here in terms
of the reservations on this AAC How do people make
a reservation for this event?
Speaker 5 (50:11):
Yeah, that's a great question. So we have a reservation
system through open table and there's a special event that
was created just for this night. So go to OpenTable
dot com search nix Quorum in Omaha and once you
get to our page, there will be a little box
down there that says experiences and it's titled the Kfab Dinner. Yeah,
so it'll make it very easy for you to book
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a reservation.
Speaker 1 (50:33):
Yeah, it's right there on the page. I checked it
out this morning. And if you've never done open table,
it is so incredibly easy and convenient. You go to
open table dot com right now, search nicks Quorum quo
r U M nicks Quorum at the Hilton Omaha Downtown
and the make sure you change the date for Wednesday,
(50:55):
October ninth, and then you'll see right there the Kfab
Gourmet Club. Click on that, make a reservation and while
spaces are available, make that reservation and we'll see you
there in two weeks. Zak Dimmitt with nix Quorum. This
is gonna be awesome. We're gonna have some other special
things going on that night, but right now, I just
wanted people to make a reservation.
Speaker 2 (51:15):
Thank you so much. We'll see you in a couple
of weeks.
Speaker 5 (51:18):
So excited.
Speaker 1 (51:19):
Thanks again absolutely, Zach Dimmitt, Nicks Quorum again OpenTable dot
com and you can make your reservation for the next
News Radio eleven ten Kfab Gourmet Club at Nick's Quorum,
Hilton Omaha, Downtown.
Speaker 2 (51:35):
Scott Boys Mornings nine to eleven. Our News Radio eleven
ten Kfab
Scott vories, like when you're driving around and you round
a corner and you stared directly into the sun and
you still got all that glare and stuff on your
windshield and it's just illuminated and you're completely blinded by
the light, wrapped up like a can I.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Say that word on the radio?
Speaker 1 (00:17):
If you say it right, another runner in the night,
and then you crash into everybody, you make life very
difficult for Lucy Chapman. She's been doing a great job
doing traffic reports all morning. What's the matter?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Now? What do we got?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
We've got crashes on I eighty westbound. The first one
is at sixtieth and it looks like you've got a
couple of left lanes open, but traffic is backed up.
I'm waiting for this camera to open. Yeah, it is
definitely backed up, probably the thirteenth. I'm looking at twenty
fourth and it's stopped, almost stopped through there. And then
the next crash is near seventy second. Don't have a
(00:52):
lane that's open for you there, it's open, I just
don't know which one is. In eighty fourth. An earlier
crash that is off to the right show but still
causing some slow downs, and of course eastbound is slow
because everybody's slowing down to take a look. That crash
at sixtieth involves seven vehicles, so that's gonna be a
while where they can get that cleaned up.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Just tell you what, as you're driving, you see that
car in front of you, you don't have to be
in their backseat. You don't know those people. They're probably
not listening to this radio station. You don't need to
be in the car with them. Just back up a
little bit. You're going to get where you're going approximately
a point zero zero zero one second slower. And it's
(01:34):
all right. Just back up a little.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Bit, you know.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
And I've added to that, and I know you're, you know,
mostly kidding, but serious.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
I know you needn't.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
In my own way, I'm telling you leave some space.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
The sun glare issues obviously for the eastbounders and the
westbonders in the afternoon, whichever direction you're not going or
you're not dealing with sunglare, leave those lights on because
your headlights because with the sun glare so direct in
the let's say eastbound side, if you are behind them,
then it's easier to see you with your lights on.
(02:07):
And if you are heading westbound, it's easier for them
to see you that way too.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
The elitist in me wants to say that most people
anymore don't turn their lights on or off. It's automatic.
We have no idea if they're on or off or not.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
That is true.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
But you still have enough cars out there that every
almost every morning I drive in, I see the cars
without their lights on them.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
I'm not saying that. The elitist in me, who I
keep generally suppressed most of the time, No, you don't
generally most of the time. The elitist in me wants
to point out headlight I don't even know how to
turn them on off. I don't know. They're just they
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can't preset this way. They seem to be on when
I drive at night. I don't know my butler handles
all of that. I see when I'm going to the
yacht club, I seem to be able to find my
way there. At least I look up occasionally over the
glass of champagne I'm sipping in the back seat of
my limousine.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
I had a friend of mine tell me she was
trying to convince me that a third friend of ours
had a self driving vehicle, and I said, they don't
though she said, yes they do. She says sometimes she
just puts it on, and she says, waving her arms
around and talking. And I said, no, she's got lane assist.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Maybe maybe you still need to.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
And I said, you probably do, doo. If you're in nineteen,
you just need to turn it on.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Yes, I've driven those vehicles. I like the I don't
mind the lane assist, except one problem with the lane assist.
It's always like nudging you around, thinking this guy is
this guy is your wife right now, I know this
guy is. The car is constantly nudging you around, like
trying to get you back where you're supposed to be
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in the lane, thinking this guy is drunk. I'm calling
the cops. Meanwhile, I'm telling in my car I'm dodging
potholes and junk in the road. I have to move
a little bit over here. I have to cross this
line a little bit otherwise I'm gonna fall into that sinkhole.
The car and I would argue and it didn't work out.
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Seventy second in Dodge yesterday, the Omaha City Council formally
approved a pair of agreements. According to the Omaha World
Herald that will allow Woodbury Corporation. This is a group
based in Utah. Ooh, we're gonna get a temple. We're
gonna get a tabernacle.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Well those all glass, that'd be kind of cool.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Oh my gosh, it'd be beautiful.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Except for with Sunglaire.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
The Crossroads Church of Latter day Saints seventy second in
Dodge Scott. There's more things in Utah besides more name
one s flats what salt flat flats? Yeah, car malone
and a bunch Mormons. Then there's not that there's anything
wrong with that. I love Mormons. Some of my best
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friends are Mormons. So we got what what you call me?
Speaker 4 (05:13):
You're an idiot?
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Woodbury Corporation. Isn't there a wine or a whiskey or
a scotch. I'm thinking that's Woodford Reserve. Sorry, when my butler,
when my butler's pouring these things, I don't tend to look.
I just I can I put my nose up to
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the cocktail glass and like you don't have to do that.
It's jin like I'm still looking for the Utah based
Woodbury Corporation is going to start work on us planned
eight hundred and sixty two million dollars redevelopment of what
seemed like a million years ago was a place called
the Crossroads. Mall right now it is a fancy pushed
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around bit of dirt with a target not like a
target on it, I mean there's a Target store there.
And so you're thinking, all right, this group says yes,
and it's been approved by the council. Council is going
to as we've talked about before with that seventy second
in Dodge site. They're going to pay thirty eight million
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dollars for the land on which the city will own
and operate, build three parking garages, two of them underground.
That's fancy, and we'll get the money back from the garages.
Woodbury is going to pay the city thirty nine million
dollars back and tiff tax increment financing over the years
to come based on all of the new shops, housing,
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office space and entertainment businesses that are going to come
here to this wonderful plaza. A couple of things. Number One,
if you're thinking all right, Scott, we're waiting. I must
have missed this story. What is the big anchor, tenant
or entertainment business or sandwich shop. Is there anything that's
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set to go there?
Speaker 5 (07:16):
No?
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Thanks, No.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
West Lanes is the little bowling alley across the way,
and they're very excited. So we have we have no
announced tenants. I don't think this group pays eight hundred
and sixty two million dollars on Well, let's just hope
this works out, I imagine. But here's here's the thing.
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What do we need here in Omaha. I'm not like,
let's open the phones and take your questions. You know,
we want a Macy's, we want to ESPN restaurant. I'm
just looking around here like I don't know. I think
we're all right. What do we need?
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Need?
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Affordable housing? Just put a big homeless encampment there at
seventy second in Dodge. That's like part homeless encounpment encampment
and part juvenile justice and mental health detention facility and
everyone can just be there under you know, we'll just
wall off the area. Wow, Scott, that whole elitist thing
that you try and suppress, how's that coming now? It
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is unsuppressed right now. I just look around Omahon, I
think what do we need?
Speaker 2 (08:23):
We need this here's what I think.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
We're gonna have a really fancy mixed use place that's
got some apartments and loft living and some office space
and a couple of restaurants and stuff, and it's gonna
look just And I hope I'm wrong, and not that
there's anything wrong with any of these places. They're all great.
But we already have Shadow lake Town Center, we already
have Exarbon, we already have Midtown Crossing, we already have
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Village Point.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
And now look at Gretnam. All that's getting built up
at a water park.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Telling you, everything they're doing at Nebraska Crossing is amazing,
and we've got some really cool stuff happening there, like
one hundred and forty fourth between Dodge and Pacific, the
old Boystown property, Heartwood Preserve, that's the name of the
place they're doing over there. So what are you going
to do to stand out? You're going to have to
figure out something, do something, And if you can't come
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up with it, if we can't get the entertainment venue
or whatever it is that you're looking to put there,
My idea of a big homeless encampment that's part juvenile
justice facility and mental health detention center, which sounds a
lot better than Looney Ben. You know, you could put
that in at seventy second and Dodge and you know,
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have some of the local graffiti artists tag the walls
they're going to anyway, and it could be this really
nice area and then the thing all right, I don't
know when they're going to start what, but when do
we we get to see something happening there? And they say, well,
we hope that the entire development will be substantially completed
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by twenty thirty two. That's like one hundred years from now.
I don't know if twenty thirty two is seventy years
from now or next year or tomorrow. I don't know.
I don't have any concept of time anymore. According to
my calculations, that's about eight years from now when Trump
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will be running for yet another term. Let's look ahead
to the election of twenty thirty two. Kamala Harris will
be declaring martial law and saying I get to have
a third term in office.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Is he's not gonna wait that long?
Speaker 1 (10:43):
And well, she'll she'll win this year, She'll win in
twenty twenty eight, and then in twenty thirty two, she'll say,
since we'll be at war. She'll say, well, FDR stayed
around during World War two, and since we're in year
seven and a half of World War II three, I
need to stay in office too. And Republican challenger Baron
(11:04):
Trump will he be old enough? He won't be old enough.
Republican challenger David Lee Roth will say, now, gotta might
as well jump. I don't know what happens in twenty
thirty two, but I know that in eight years from
now they say, well, we hope to have this entire
development substantially completed. They're not even talking about being done.
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He say, you're gonna see You're gonna see some stuff, man,
and some things. Just give us eight years. I know
it's not the same thing. But when McDonald's says that
store is a little old, tear it down and build
a new one. They do it in fifteen minutes. I'm
gonna have a Chick fil A out near me and
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one hundred and fifty six in Maple They started construction
on it at seven thirty this morning. It's gonna be
open for lunch today. They I mean these things. Now,
I think part of it is. Here's the other thing,
they always say, well, yeah, you want us to get
that done, that road, that bridge, that store, that whatever.
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It's going to take us about eight years. But I'll
tell you what, in the contract build in some really
nice incentives that if we get it done earlier, we
get paid a lot more money. That's total horsepucky. They
always build it up that way so they make more money,
so it'll probably be done well before then.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
And the fact the guy.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Mister Woodbury, a Corporation senior vice president of development acquisitions,
said well, we hope the project will be done sooner
than that. And many of us in Omaha, like the
people who started buying up businesses or own long, longtime
owned businesses around there, have said, we're not holding our breath.
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So mess number one seventy second in Dodge, we got
a half inch closer to maybe having something there in
five to eight years, Doug says, Scott. What we need
is what is gone Peenie Park, Funplex, Ranch Bowl, and Skateland.
Doug three out of four ain't bad. Funplex is still
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there seventy second and Q Dude, but the slides that
used to be across from fun Plex over there in Ralston,
that'd be cool. We could put the slides there. The
slides in Ralston were awesome. You go, you get a
in a like a burlap sack, like a gunny sack,
you slide down the slides that were approximately the temperature
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of the sun, and then down at the bottom there
you could pay a buck and you could ride a
disinterested donkey around a little trail. I love the slides.
Just put that just a bigger version of that at
seventy second and Dodge. But Peenie Park, Skateland, Ranch Bowl,
why not all of them?
Speaker 4 (13:54):
You could do peene Park magically.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
You could do.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Peenie Park with a roller skating rink and and Peenie
Park had the pavilion, they had the hilt. Yeah, you
had the place there where you could go see. I
saw weird Al Yankovic at Peenie Park my first concert ever.
I was fifteen. You don't want to know what kind
of mac I was. I convinced a cute sixteen year
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old girl because she was cute and she could drive.
So I'll buy the tickets if you can drive, and
we'll go. I'll take you to weird Al if you
can take me to weird Al.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
And she said I thought that you guys were seeing
al Green.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
She said, yeah, let's see how this is gonna work out.
And that's what we did my first concert first Kiss
No No turns out not an aphrodisiac, but it did
continue a lifelong obsession with weird Al Yankovic, who's coming
to Lincoln next summer as part of his Bigger and
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Weirder tour. Can't wait, But yeah, all that stuff would
be great. Dean emails Scott at kfab dot com and
just says, I KIA, which I presume he means we
should have an Ikea at seventy second in Dodge. Is
it big enough? It's seventy second in Dodge, big enough
to incorporate a giant Ikea. Welcome to Ikea. You live
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here now? Place is huge?
Speaker 2 (15:16):
All right.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Let's go outside the Omaha Metro look at another potential,
another mess that needs cleaned up. This one I don't
have an intersection for. But if you live around Mead,
you know it. You've been smelling it for years. It
is this massive pile of contaminated waste grain from the
alt and Ethanol plant. All e in alt and Ethanol
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plan ethanol plan out there and mead. And for years
they've been doing business and they have this waste grain,
and they've just said where should we put all this?
I pile it up over there, It'll probably be fine.
And as the pile got bigger and bigger, at once
estimated to cover fourteen acres, stinky, and then it got
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stinkier and then became the stinkiest thing known to man.
And people are like, I can't breathe living here. I understand,
you live out here in rural Nebraska. You can smell agland,
the smell of money, but that's different this waste grain
byproduct from the ethanol plant that's been piling up. You
guys can't just leave it out there. And the ethanol
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plant is like, I think we can. It's our property.
Just plug your nose. Then the state came in and said,
you've got to do something. It's leaking into water, you know,
like wastewater lagoons, and were worried it's going to get
in the groundwater, and plus it stinks people's health.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
And so.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Yesterday representatives said that after a year long pilot project
to test how to remove the material which has the
if you think contaminated waste grain, sounds bad. They call
the stuff wet cake. Wet cake. It's really not that
wet except when it rains, and it ain't cake. I
don't know why they call it wet cake, just a
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gross name. Someone left the wet cake out in the rain.
They said, well, we've been working on how to remove
the material, and about a third of it has been transported.
We're like, great, where did you take it? Oh, we
moved it closer to Omaha. It's at the landfill. Like,
wait a second, it took you a year to figure
out you could put this stuff in a truck and
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transport it to the landfill in Omaha. Well, there's a
bit more to it than that. They take the stuff
and then they encase it in plastic so it doesn't stink,
and then they put that in the landfill. So as
we're trying to get less plastic on the landfill, we're
using more plastic to put the wet cake in so
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it doesn't stink. What happens in years from now, you know,
when our grandkids, great grandkids, when they're trying to breathe
and all this plastic breaks open and the stinky, dead
wet cake stuff starts. You know, what We'll let that
be their problem one hundred years from now. I got
stuff I need to deal with. Now, let that be
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their problem. But that's what they've done. It took them
a year to say, well, basically, if we do what
other people do with stinky garbage at their home, we'll
just encase it in something and then throw it in
the trash. It took them a year to figure that out.
Way to get on that, guys. But that's what they're doing.
And they say, and we're gonna keep doing it. Can't
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do it much during the winter because you can't mix
and encase this junk during the freezing weather. Well then
why didn't you come up with this idea in March?
Speaker 2 (18:45):
But it's a.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Big mess out in your mead that's moving a little
bit closer to getting cleaned up and allowing people in
that wonderful community to breathe again. I've got a lot
of emails coming in here here Scott at kfab dot
com and the Zonker's Custom Woods inbox. A beautiful piece
of dark zebra wood furniture that is just covered in
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coffee mug rings because Gary Sadelemeyer won't use the coaster should.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Take it out of there and so we can enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Yeah, and Jim Rose keeps putting this cigar out on
top of the inbox as well, so it's got like
big burn marks on it, these cigar burn marks.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
And yet it still looks beautiful, it does.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
I keep trying to send it down and stay at there.
It's so thin right now that it's about it got
about as much thickness to it as this radio show content.
But anyway, in the inbox, I'm getting your messages regarding
what to do with seventy second and Dodge, which I
know I kind of brought up but I didn't say.
And we're not gonna like take a bunch of the
but I am enjoying them. The issue here is that
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yesterday the Omaha City Council approved us to get about
a half inch closer to a mile away from actually
doing something at seventy second in Dodge. We still don't
have anything in terms of an anchor tenant. There's nothing
that illuminates how this mixed use development place at seventy
second in Dodge is going to be any different or
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stand out in any way from Xarbon Village, Midtown crossing
Shadow Lake Town Center, Village Point. Who am I leaving
out all the rest of these great places around town?
Capital District put that in there too. Each of them
kind of has their own identity. There's a little bit
of shared this and that between each of them. But
I don't know that we need another one that's just
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going to have the same stuff, especially since we got
the Boystown Heartwood Preserve going in there one hundred and
forty fourth, just southwest of one hundred forty fourth in Dodge.
But I got people emailing saying we need to have
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the Peenie Park, skateland and Ranch Bowl and the arcade
from West Roads all need to be in there. Jim
wants a nuke plant put there. Well, that's thinking that
would certainly stand out. That'd be different and give Homer
a place to work. I want the old dreamy high
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slides from Ralston, which Rob found a picture of online
and says we need to have these with the seers
at one end and Brandies at the other. That's from Rob.
Johnny wants toys r us all right. So now we've
got fellow members of gen X emailing about the things
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that we loved around here when we were growing up
and we say, oh, if we could bring that back,
it'd be great. You understand where all these places left, right,
Ranch Bowl, all the rest these places they either left
because they got steamrolled by we were made an offer
we couldn't refuse and it was time to move on,
or we stopped going to them and they were not
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making money.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
So spare me with it.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
We need the moby Dick water slides back down there.
That'd be great. But see, here's the other problem with it, Like, now,
where are the parents. We're the ones who'd be taking
our kids down there. You know what you want is
you want how cheap these things used to be. When
your parents would drop you off there with five sweaty
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dollars in your hand, and they could drop you off
there all day, completely unsupervised. Five dollars would get you
a full day's worth of entertainment and a sunburn. Well,
we can't do any of that anymore.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Now.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
What used to cost five dollars is going to cost
one hundred dollars. And they're not going to let you
just drop kids off down there because they'll all get
in a fight and start shooting each other. So what
you want is what we had in the eighties, and
that wasn't a place, it was a thing. It was
a vibe. We can have that again. You just got
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to raise free range kids.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
You're really bringing me down.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
No, I'd just be glad we had it. And you
know what, today's kids are gonna look back when they
get old like us, and they look back on their childhood.
All these kids are in school right I mean, skipping
school right now and going on stealing cars and selling
drugs right now when they should be in school. If
that that is, if they're awake, they were up all
night stealing cars and racing them in one hundred miles
an hour. When they look back on their childhood and
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they see what that next generation of teenagers is doing,
they're gonna look at this and go, man, we had
it the best. These kids don't. They don't know how
great it felt to actually have to hold a controller
to play video games all day, where while our parents
ignored us, now they can just stare at the screen
and flit their eyeballs around, you know. They That's how
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That's how it works, right, that's how it works. It's
how you're bringing down even No, don't care. We're just
gonna be here in moket. That's fine, that's our job now.
But the truth is, you can put all this stuff
in there. You put like a ranch bowl in a
skate land all day and they say, hey, here's what
we have. We got Peenie Park and skateland and the
arcade from the Crossroads all right there at seventy second
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a dodge plus a ranch bowl, and hey, it's going
to work where you bring the family here all day
and then you take them home and you come back
here and you see a great nineties ban at night,
and you know what we'd all do. We'd all be like,
I'm too tired to do that. That costs too much money.
I don't want to do that stuff. I'm just going
to sit here and watch TV all day because so
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many of us have just gotten so fat, lazy, and
we don't go out and do anything. By the way,
Gourmet Club announcement coming up in an hour from now,
and we hope.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
That you do that.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
I've got some good news real quick, Okay.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
All lanes are open on I eighty westbound at sixtieth
and traffic is starting to move through there. I'm sorry
there is one lane closed, but it's the eggs and
it's just that right lane that's closed on the exit,
so on ID westbound at sixtieth everything's open.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
That seems made up, But that's good to.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
Know you think I made that up? Just now?
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Maybe all right? We've got now, Lucy, we have an
end of the world update. Are you ready? Here we go?
Speaker 2 (25:19):
That's great.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
It starts with the inert quait birch snakes an airplane.
Lenny Bruce is not a play Birds and snakes and aeroplanes.
It's time for an end of the world update here
on news Radio eleven ten kfab. It comes courtesy Today
of China. China has not test fired an inter intercontinental
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ballistic missile and ICBM in this way since back in
the day we're talking about about nineteen eighty. What's different
now China has hundreds of intercontinental ballistic missiles. The difference
is they usually fire them in the mainland from east
(26:03):
to west, out to their own deserts where they don't
think anyone lives, until suddenly a guy named Sid calls
up and says, yeah, I don't know if you can
turn this missile around. I live here, and then as
he's still on the phone with them, whish I had
this ready to go have been funnier. Hey, I don't
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know if you guys know this, but I and then
he's gone. So usually they fire him out in their
own deserts. But this time they fired one out into
the ocean. Is it a big deal?
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Well, according to.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
One analyst, this is not exactly routine or part of
annual training. Quote, they don't do this sort of thing,
either routinely or annually. When they haven't done something for
forty four years and then they do it. China, that's significant.
China also says, well, we told everyone that we were
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going to fire a missile in this manner in advance,
and Japan, who's really close to this, says, no one
told us. So China is not only rattling sabers but
also just letting you know, we got a lot of
great weapons. We can fire them anyway we want. These
are these These could be nuclear tipped if we wanted,
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and we can fire it out that way. Well, hey,
we're that way, are you.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (27:31):
What a show of strength here by the Biden Harris
administration to keep China in line. This as the President
was giving another speech here to the United Nations, talking
about how great things are in the world. China's like, yeah,
things are, things are great. Thanks for inviting us to
your little meeting. We're just gonna be out here blowing
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up the ocean. Hesba Lah attempted its own strike back
at Israel after Israel sent hes Belah the terrorist operation
there mostly in Lebanon, these exploding pagers last week. All right,
there's one more. People love this sound effect. I love
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it too, So Hesblah tried to counterattack. They tried to
send them exploding Atari games.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Yeah you like that.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
You want to play Space Invaders, You want to play Froggert,
You want to play Miss pac Man, you want to
play Missile Command, you want to play Pitfall, you want
to play the et game. Et games kind of stupid.
You know, here, here you go, here's the exploding nataris.
We'll go back even further, exploding eight tracks. You want
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to listen to the beg's all right, that's I've done it.
I've overdone it with the exploding sound effect. I apologize. Well,
actually they did it with a bunch of surface to
surface missiles programmed for Tel Aviv. Why that's right. They're
in Israel, Yes, and Israel looked at it and said, well,
isn't that cute? And they stopped every single missile from
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landing in Israel. That air defense shield they have, it's legit.
So Hesbllah tried. But it turns out the guys that
fell victim to the exploding pagers couldn't get a missile
to land in Israel, so that's good. I've been getting
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more and more emails from kfab Nation over the past
couple of weeks, with some with pictures saying I went
to my local grocery store or autobody repair shop or
oil change depot, whatever, and I see these and it's
pictures of these big casino style games. You know, you
see those in casinos. You've seen them pop up in bars,
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and you've seen them pop up even in some gas stations.
But now they're coming into places where people are like,
I don't understand. I went in to get my windows
tinted or whatever, and then sitting there in the waiting
room and then like, these games are there. I mean,
don't really bother me one way or the other, but
it seems like it's getting more and more prevalent. I
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got an email from Rob says I was at a
place in O'Neill where a lady just had her kids
sitting on the floor in a stroller as she played
the casino like game there at the gas station. And
you know, my thought on these things is they're there
if you want them, and I'm either going to be
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inclined to play them or not play them. It's up
to you to have the personal responsibility, whether you have
a re election to addiction, whether it's cigarettes are legal,
alcohol is legal, apparently all drugs seem to be legal.
Gambling too. But it is interesting to see more and
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more of this coming up in places where I don't
generally see them, and I've asked to join me on
the program to address this. From Nebraska Family Alliance, Nate
Grosz is here on eleven ten KFAB Nate, good morning,
it's great to have you back on the program.
Speaker 6 (31:14):
Got it's great to be here. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
This is due to legislative action in Nebraska that recently
opened up more and more legalization of.
Speaker 6 (31:22):
Games like this, right, yeah, I think you're exactly right.
You know, Nebraska's more and more are seeing this happen
where you walk into a gas station in a convenience store,
even grocery stores, and there's rows and rows of what
essentially amounts to slot machines. And this has to do
(31:44):
actually with you know, exploiting some loopholes and legal technicalities
that allow these devices casino style gaming that get technically
designated as skill machines or skilled device, and what they
mean by that is essentially it's taking a slot machine
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and adding an extra step where you have to push
a button on the screen, and that makes it a
game of skill and not a game of chance, and
therefore you're able to put it in all of these
different locations outside of just casinos. But unfortunately, the consequences
are the same because it's a gimmick, it's a con
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These are games that are designed for people to lose.
And I think when you're walking into these gas stations
and grocery stores and you're seeing who's sitting down to
play these games, it's clear that this is not for entertainment.
It's not improving quality of life. It's people who are
sitting down and gambling and losing the last dollars that
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they have, and then they're not walking out with groceries
for their family.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
I was talking with one of the proprietors of a
business that isn't a place that even it doesn't even
come close to selling alcohol. It's more auto related, and
he had these in his waiting room off on the side,
and I said, that's interesting decoration. He goes, yeah, I
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don't love it, but you know, we're trying to stay
in business here, and we get paid a pretty good
amount of money to have these up here in the business.
Whether people play them or not. I figure they're adults
that come in here and they can make this decision
for themselves, and I'm trying to stay in business here.
I mean, do you feel any kind of empathy for
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the business owners or do you think that they're irresponsible
for allowing these things in their shops?
Speaker 5 (33:40):
Well?
Speaker 6 (33:41):
Absolutely, But I think the problem is when you have
a larger problem. If you are turning to gambling as
a source of revenue to sustain your business, I think
that shows that there's broader problems in our economy because
anytime that you're expanding gam when you're expanding the social
costs that come with it. There's a reason that that
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gambling is the most regressive, regressive, unreliable, and harmful form
of revenue because it takes the most from those who
can least afford it, and there's no economic development. There's
nothing being created or generated. It's like throwing your money
on the street and paying someone else to go to
go pick it up. It creates worse problems over the
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long term. And so I think that's why in areas
that have leaned heavily into gambling, you see these problems
come up and after a few years things are worse
than when they started. You know, I think all you
have to do is look across the river over at
Council Bluffs, right. And actually was coach Tom Osborne who
(34:47):
said in a committee here, and I think very well
of it. You know, if gambling is so great, if
there's all these wonderful economics, if it's going to be
so good for businesses and for families, you know, Council
Bluff should look like Abu Dhabi. But it doesn't. And
so I think there are always ways that we can
improve our state, our communities, in our neighborhoods, but turning
(35:09):
to gambling isn't one of them.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Nate gross with us here in Nebraska Family Alliance. What
about our phones, because anyone with any kind of ability
on a phone can play all these online gaming things,
whether there's something that looks like gambling or whether there's
something that allows you to win or lose money with
some of these other type of like even kids type games.
(35:33):
How I mean, those are right there in our pockets.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
All the time.
Speaker 5 (35:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (35:38):
The huge push from the gambling industry is to move
towards online and mobile gambling and particularly trying to target
younger audiences, you know, with these different games. And it's
the speed and the ease of access that allows the
gambling industry to hook more people to make more money,
(36:01):
because that's, at the end of the day, what it's about.
And that's what we have to remember, is that any
form of gambling, when you're dealing with an actual company,
you know, commercialized gambling, is very different from social gambling.
You know, when you're sitting down with your buddies for
a game of Friday night poker, or you and a
friend make a friendly wager on a sporting game. But
(36:23):
when you're starting to wager with an actual gambling company,
that completely changes what's happening because now it's intentionally designed
for you to lose. The more that you play, the
more you lose, but at the end of the day,
the costs that come with it, you know, the increases
(36:44):
in bankruptcies and crime and broken families. Those costs are
not paid for by the gambling operators. They're paid for
by the taxpayers. And that's why ultimately you pay even
if you don't play. And so the best way to
see more success, to keep your dollars, to make your
money go further, is to never start wagering against those
(37:06):
companies in the first place.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
There's an article in The Atlantic today talking about how
the United States Supreme Court six years ago allowed states
to legalize sports gambling, and since then, thirty eight states
allowed it. Iowa does, Nebraska does not, and they say
that these states have little to show for it other
I mean terms of tax revenue, but they've seen it
in terms of households not putting money into investment accounts,
(37:31):
credit cards, maxed out, checking accounts, over drawn, bankruptcy, intimate
partner violence, that kind of thing. Sports gambling has had
a six year run. I'm guessing that you don't think
it's doing the best for our nation.
Speaker 6 (37:48):
Absolutely. That's a really important article, and the more evidence
that is coming out, the more it's confirming what we've
always known about gambling. And I think, you know, maybe
for some people, they hear about this issue and it's just,
you know, maybe not a big deal. It's not a
problem for them. Interestingly, one of the most common things
that we see is the people that promote it the
(38:10):
most and who sell it don't do it themselves, right,
And so we should ask why is that? And again
the reason is because it's designed for people to lose money.
The problem is that when you're tying gambling to sports,
and then you factor in all of the advancements in
technology and being able to gamble straight from your phone,
(38:32):
from your entire bank account, removing all human interaction, it
makes it constant, and unfortunately it's having a devastating effect,
particularly on young people. There's been studies showing that now
one in ten college students have a pathological gambling problem.
You know, we have college students who are gambling away
(38:53):
student loans, placing bets while they're showering. But it's all
it's all a big budget gimmick because for every every
dollar that the state could expect to see in tax
revenue is a small fraction of the total wealth that
was taken from citizens, taken out of our economy, taken
away from local businesses, and not spent elsewhere to actually
(39:14):
help families and to help grow our economy. And so
that's why, you know, we see this as a huge problem.
Gambling is never We're not going to gamble our way
out of our state's property tax problem. We need real solutions,
not budget gimmicks.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
Last question and bigger picture here. I know people and
I'm sure you do too, Nate, that they do partake
in that they can drink some alcohol once in a
while without having a problem. They can place a bet
once in a while, or go to the casinos or
some of these other places and play these games once
in a while without it even being close to being
(39:52):
a problem for them. They don't get hooked, there are
no danger of being addicted. And they say, well, look,
we go out and have a good time. It's a
form of entertainment. And for us, why do we have
to shut all this down because some people can't handle it?
Speaker 6 (40:05):
Yeah, well, I think we have to look at the
fact that, again, people are free to gamble. But again,
the problem is that when states are partnering with these
large gambling corporations and giving them monopolies to push more
and more extreme forms of gambling into our communities and
onto our children, and in the process they end up
(40:25):
violating the rights and freedoms of the majority of citizens
who almost never gamble. Yet they're being forced to foot
the bill for the lower standard of living and the
budget deficits and tax increases that state sanction gambling leaves behind.
And it's also the gambling industry does not rely on
(40:46):
your casual gambler or the citizen who goes out once
every blue moon and spends money gambling. Over fifty percent
of gambling revenue comes from problem and addicted gamblers. They
are upon people becoming addicted and more people coming back
to lose more of their money in order to make
a profit. That's who they're after. And so there's a
(41:09):
huge difference between again, your casual wagering and those who
are going to these gambling companies. And the real scandal,
I think is the ease in which state governments are
beginning to treat our own citizens as a suspendable means
of state revenue. And ultimately citizens and families in Nebraska
(41:32):
deserve better.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
Nate Grosse with the Nebraska Family Alliance always appreciated conversation.
Thank you very much for taking the time this morning.
Speaker 6 (41:40):
Thanks very much, Scott.
Speaker 1 (41:41):
Yeah, I wanted to have Nate on because so many
people have been emailing over the last couple of weeks saying, look,
I'm no prude here, and I don't mind going out
and making a wager on this or that, or playing
this or that at the games once in a while,
or you know, some of the stuff even I do
on my phone. I don't have a problem with that,
and I hope that people who are addicted to this
or anything get the help they need. There are lots
(42:02):
of resources available. That said, if I'm going into a
grocery store or some of these businesses that I wouldn't
think to see these online slot or video gaming type
machines in there. And I see those things in there,
it makes me think, Wow, we're getting one step closer
to every single strip mall you drive by in this
(42:26):
area being lit up and green with a pot leaf
on it. You know, it just seems like there's more
stuff promoting potential issues, sin and vice, you know, the like,
I don't mind those places being here and there, but
we don't need them everywhere, so I wanted to have
(42:47):
Nate's thoughts on that, and I welcome yours as well.
Scott atkfab dot com. Scott emails and says, what about
online stock trading? He asked sarcastically, and then has a
variety of profile words to tell our guests from the
Nebraska Family Alliance exactly where he can go to mind
his own business. I appreciate all of your thoughts, Scott
(43:09):
at kfab dot com. If you've never been to one
of our gourmet club events, it works like this. It
is an incredible display of food. We've done all kinds
of different food offerings over the years. It's all like,
here's the price, here's what we're eating, here's where we're
doing it. And if you make a reservation, then we'll
(43:31):
see you there at this event and you'll be seated
with the most likely other members of KFAB nation. The
only thing you have in common is you tolerate this
radio show and people have made great friends over the
years doing this. If you've been there before and want
to come back, we'll see you there two weeks from
the night. If you've never been, please join us for
the next news Radio eleven ten kfab Gourmet Club. It's
(43:54):
two weeks from tonight. That's Wednesday, October ninth, six thirty pm. Now,
before we tell you where it is and how you
can join us, I have the shadowy anonymous head chef
of this brand new location for this event on the
line to take us through the menu options. There's a
lot of choices here and forty five dollars per person.
(44:17):
Gets you started with what mister head chef?
Speaker 5 (44:22):
Hey, everybody, so this is Zach from me.
Speaker 1 (44:25):
Hold on, hold on, No, we don't say where it
is yet, hang on, hang on. Well, yeah, that's all right.
First we'll go through the menu. So what are we
starting off with?
Speaker 5 (44:34):
Got it? Okay? Perfect pre course prefix menu. Everybody gets
to choose an appetizer. We have potato croquettes. We have
roasted beet salad, we have Nick's Prime rib chili, and
we have a caesar salad. These are all made from scratch.
The potato croquette is a Yukon gold potato. It's a
real labor of love. We bring the potato, we peel it,
(44:54):
we boil it, we mash it. Then when it's cold,
we to do all.
Speaker 1 (45:01):
Well, your phone, your phones cut your phone's cutting up there.
Back up here with let's get right to what I
think everyone's going to choose, the prime rib chili, which
I've had and it is amazing.
Speaker 5 (45:13):
Yeah, the prime rib chili is absolutely to die for.
There's no beans but a moto with prime rib topped
with melted cheddar cheese and it is to die for.
Speaker 1 (45:21):
Yeah, house specialty at this location. So you get your
choice of one of the appetizers again, the potato croquette,
roasted beets caesar or the Nick's Prime rib chili. What
about for our supper? What are our options there of
which we get to choose one?
Speaker 5 (45:42):
Well, there are a lot of really great features here.
We have a pants heered trout skin on crispy, served
skin side up with a green apple in spinach puree,
very nice sweet flavor profile. To finish and round out
the dish. We have a brown sugar brandy glaz salmon.
We're using it local brandy from Brickway, which is really cool,
(46:02):
sort of a creamy polina, and that Brickway brandy glaze
just go perfectly over the top. For the vegetarians out there,
we do have an amazing butternut squash in Princi steak.
So it's roasted and grilled crusted butternut squash, served with
other roasted root vegetables or chieta pasta and oat milk
as well, but is available, you know, as a dairy
(46:25):
free alternative, and then we can do that gluten free
if somebody would prefer as well.
Speaker 1 (46:29):
And now the sin and here hang on here phone,
phone's cutting out again. We don't want people to miss this.
This is the big one here and this is what
I'll be eating two weeks from to night. So put
the phone back together.
Speaker 5 (46:43):
Here.
Speaker 2 (46:43):
What is this signature item?
Speaker 5 (46:47):
Yes, okay, better now, yeah, okay, great. So it is
our signature beamer cut prime rib that's carved table side,
and that's served with a bone marrow Yorkshire pudding.
Speaker 1 (46:59):
Which I've had and I've never liked Yorkshire pudding and
I couldn't eat enough of this here with the signature
roasted prime rib. I love the table side option. It's
it's just so classy, which is one of the big
reasons we're at this fairly new restaurant, brand new location
for the event. There's one more supper club item entree
(47:22):
that people can choose from.
Speaker 5 (47:23):
What's that yeah, and that is a broasted chicken. And
so this is because a broster is a piece of
equipment that was patented in which ties in very closely
stre concept. But it makes all right.
Speaker 1 (47:40):
The phone's cutting out there again, Let's see if we
can hold it together enough to get through. You also
get a side dish to choose from, and we might
I might be going through the rest of this myself.
Speaker 2 (47:52):
That's okay.
Speaker 1 (47:53):
I've got the menu in front of me, so here
we'll put him on hold here first, i'cond to see
if we can close out with this in a moment.
So you get your choice of one of the entrees.
That's the panseared trout, the brown sugar brandy glaize salmon,
the vegetarian butternut squash, which is served kind of like
(48:14):
steak style, the signature roasted prime rib, or the supper
Club roasted chicken. You get to choose a side. Your
options are the grotten potatoes, sauteed kale, and beat tops
broccoli rabe. I believe is how you pronounced that is
the phone sterile connected?
Speaker 2 (48:32):
Are you there, Zach?
Speaker 5 (48:35):
But can you hear me?
Speaker 2 (48:35):
Yes? How m broccoli robb a broccoli rob.
Speaker 1 (48:40):
Rob Okay, we'll make it. We'll name it after Rob
and then the age cheddar mac and cheese. Those are
your options there for a side dish, the grotten potatoes,
saute kale, beat tops broccoli rob or age cheddar mac
and cheese.
Speaker 5 (48:53):
Dessert please, yes, dessert, we have a wonderful house made
chocolate torque or Rammy Smith apple crumble.
Speaker 2 (49:03):
And this is all I mean.
Speaker 1 (49:05):
You've You've got your options of one appetizer, one entree,
one side, and then one dessert. If you want anything
to drink. They have lots of options available. It's kind
of what this new restaurant here in Omaha is known for.
Zachary Dimmitt, one of the great chefs there at this location.
Where are we doing this event? Two weeks from to night.
Speaker 5 (49:27):
So we're doing this at one zero one Cass Street,
which is nix Korum, a bar and modern supper club
located in the main lobby of the Hilton Omaha.
Speaker 1 (49:37):
Yeah, if you have yet to experience Nick's Quorum at
Hilton Omaha Downtown, I hope you're able to join us
for this gourmet club event now. Right now, people are saying,
all right, it's forty five dollars a person. I hear
my options, when do they need to make They don't
need to make the choice this morning on the phone, right.
Speaker 5 (49:56):
No, they can make that decision the night of the event,
once they're seeded at their table. Great, and plenty of
time to decide.
Speaker 2 (50:02):
Good.
Speaker 1 (50:02):
Now, I know people are rushing to their phones to
call you. We're gonna do something different here in terms
of the reservations on this AAC How do people make
a reservation for this event?
Speaker 5 (50:11):
Yeah, that's a great question. So we have a reservation
system through open table and there's a special event that
was created just for this night. So go to OpenTable
dot com search nix Quorum in Omaha and once you
get to our page, there will be a little box
down there that says experiences and it's titled the Kfab Dinner. Yeah,
so it'll make it very easy for you to book
(50:32):
a reservation.
Speaker 1 (50:33):
Yeah, it's right there on the page. I checked it
out this morning. And if you've never done open table,
it is so incredibly easy and convenient. You go to
open table dot com right now, search nicks Quorum quo
r U M nicks Quorum at the Hilton Omaha Downtown
and the make sure you change the date for Wednesday,
(50:55):
October ninth, and then you'll see right there the Kfab
Gourmet Club. Click on that, make a reservation and while
spaces are available, make that reservation and we'll see you
there in two weeks. Zak Dimmitt with nix Quorum. This
is gonna be awesome. We're gonna have some other special
things going on that night, but right now, I just
wanted people to make a reservation.
Speaker 2 (51:15):
Thank you so much. We'll see you in a couple
of weeks.
Speaker 5 (51:18):
So excited.
Speaker 1 (51:19):
Thanks again absolutely, Zach Dimmitt, Nicks Quorum again OpenTable dot
com and you can make your reservation for the next
News Radio eleven ten Kfab Gourmet Club at Nick's Quorum,
Hilton Omaha, Downtown.
Speaker 2 (51:35):
Scott Boys Mornings nine to eleven. Our News Radio eleven
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