Senior Assassin

Would you let your senior (high school or retirement community) play this game?  Lucy "Big But" Chapman wouldn't.  We bicker about that before turning our attention to major foreign affairs issues (not Ukraine or the Middle East; "misgendering" someone), the Omaha mayoral race, and more.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott Vordiez, I have a daughter who is a senior
in high school, and she asked me last week about
whether she could be or be subject to being a
senior Assassin. You've heard this on KFAB News throughout the morning.
This came after the Douglas County Sheriff Aarren Hanson yesterday

(00:21):
put out a press release saying, look, we don't want
to be the fun police, but students running around with
potential realistic looking firearms on school property or going through
people's yards, especially of parents who don't know that their
kid is playing this game or that other kids might

(00:42):
be doing it, and they look out their window and
there's some kid in the bushes with what looks to
be a gun. This could be something that could bother
some people. It could get your attention. And so they said, look,
there's a game right now to where if you're a
senior in high school, there are basically local chapters at

(01:02):
every school of people who are playing the Senior Assassin game.
What is Senior Assassin. Well, let's say we here at
this radio station. We're all seniors in high school. Some
of us are seniors, but seniors in high school. So
we all Let's say Lucy is running the game and

(01:24):
she says, all right, we're doing Kfab Assassin, which, by
the way, we're not doing. I'm just I know that.
Like Jim Rose is like, this is a great idea,
because he would be the one who wouldn't realize if
he came in here with a squirt gun started shooting me,
it would get all over the equipment in here and
ruin everything. And this new audio board is the only

(01:49):
new thing we've had in this studio in twenty five years.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
Uh oh, Emory.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
Other than Emory. This thing's in better shape than Emory.
And we don't need either of those things ruined. Jim
comes in here starts shooting a squirt gun, it would
ruin this technical audio equipment and it would probably ruin
Emory's hair. And these are two of the nicest things
we have.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
You don't want that to happen.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
We don't want that to happen. So Lucy's running the
Senior Assassin game says all right, everyone, if you're in,
give me five bucks. So we all give Lucy five bucks,
and then the game begins. You would announce a start
time and an end time for the game, and what
we would have to do is we'd carry around a
squirt gun and try and we would have a target,

(02:37):
like I would have to assassinate Emory's producer, Matt Case,
and would I would then, you know, carry secretly my
squirt gun through the halls here and I would jump
out and get him while he was at the microwave. Bang, gotcha,
you know, like, and then the proof is like, see,
I got you right there, and your shirt, your shirt's wet. Meanwhile,

(02:59):
someone else to be sneaking up on me around the
water cooler, trying to take me out. It's I think
it sounds like great fun.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
It certainly does sound like great like great fun.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
So and then whoever's left standing at the end, which
would be Gary Sandelmeyer because guy's KG. He is a
KG veteran, and also he uh well we know where
he is most of the time. But still he would
he would still evade us. I'm sure he'd be stealthy. Yeah.

(03:33):
So anyway, so Gary wins and he collects the pot
of the fifty bucks or whatever that he would get.
He's the last one standing. And that's how we play
KFA B Assassin In the Boundaries of a Senior class
in a high school. It's the same thing. Anyone who
wants to be in kicks five bucks over to this

(03:53):
person and then they take the pot, probably less than
whatever the person who's organized and the game is taking
for him or herself, which I think is perfectly reasonable.
Little entrepreneurship, little fun with squirt guns. Hey, what's the problem. Well,
the problem, according to Douglas County Sheriff Aaron Hanson, is
one of the rules is you can't do this on

(04:15):
school property, and you can't go into a person's workplace
and do it. You can't go busting in to the
McDonald's where they work and start shooting, because that could
be a problem. So you have to find them out
like off school property, maybe at their home, and you

(04:36):
have to stalk these people. And now there are people going,
why are we teaching young people how to stalk their classmates?
And if you're going on someone's private property, now you're
trapesing through the bushes, all stealthy, probably wearing all black,
having fun, doing all this stuff, and you're carrying what

(04:57):
looks to be, in some way case is a real firearm,
and it's got to be a squirt gun. You can't
like hit him with a bb gun or an airsoftwife
or anything like that. It's got to be a squirt gun.
But some of these squat guns look like real firearms,
and you might say, like, well it had the little
orange tip at the end. Well, yeah, if you're in
the bushes and I look out there at seven thirty

(05:20):
at night and there's barely enough daylight to see what's
going on there, and I see you holding something that
looks like a gun, this could be a problem. In fact,
that's what happened to a kid playing this game in Florida.
A homeowner and mistook them for an armed burglar and
shot the kid. Kid is he didn't die, but he

(05:44):
learned a valuable lesson. Stay out of a neighborhood, stay
out of Carl's bushes. So the Douglas County Sheriff's Department said,
as I mentioned, we don't want to be the fun police.
That's from Aaron Hanson's press release. But this has already
been a nearly fatal game in one part of the country.

(06:06):
We don't need a Douglas County teenager being seriously injured
or losing their life because they were trying to have fun.
So here are our tips for those who wish to
engage in the game. One, Be aware of your surroundings
and how your actions could be perceived by those who
may not know what you're doing. Do not play at
schools or someone else's private property, or other locations where

(06:29):
your actions could be misinterpreted or cause alarm. Don't trespass.
Talk to your parents about the game, and ensure that
your water gun is clearly recognizable and in no way
mimics a real firearm. So I go pick up my
kid yesterday from his school, and there are a couple
of girls sitting there on a bench outside the school
holding a water gun, like a big orange and yellow

(06:52):
water gun. So the game is already underway. They weren't
being real secretly secretive about it. I have a feeling
they're not gonna last very long in this game, but
why else would they be sitting out there with a
water gun. So my daughter is a senior in high school,
and last week we were all in the car and

(07:15):
my daughter said, I'm interested in playing this game Senior Assassin.
She tells us about it. My wife is horrified, No, no, Scott,
tell her she can't do this. Meanwhile, I'm laughing, going,
I think it sounds like fun. Can I play? And
it turns out now I can't play. Being a senior

(07:36):
citizen in the eyes of a senior in high school
does not qualify me for playing senior Assassin. So I said, yes,
fine with me, and my wife is like Scott, how
she But someone could like, well, what are you gonna do?
This is this. I spent most of my childhood playing

(07:58):
games like this, now, whether it was called Cops and Robbers,
or if it was some variation of G I. Joe
or even the incredibly Horrible, Because this is how it
sounds to young people when I say we used to
play a game called Cowboys and Indians, and they immediately
conjure up this scene where it's all of the white

(08:22):
kids say, all right, we're going to exact some white
privilege on whoever it is that looks somewhat even Hispanic, like,
all right, close enough for us, you're an Indian. There
was a Korean comedian years ago that said, yeah, it
was really fun playing Cowboys and Indians in my neighborhood.
It was all white kids like, all right, cowboys and Indians,

(08:44):
all of us against you, you know, and so that's
where I got that idea. But but your image here
of any kind of white privilege or any kind of
social construct or anything, that's totally wrong. Because everyone wanted
to be an Indian. We had bows and arrows. We

(09:07):
had actual plastic tip suction cup arrows and bows. What'd
you have if you were a cowboy? You had a
cap gun? Bang sounds cool. You hit the cap gun
and then you got to tell the person I got
you and they say, no, you didn't, you missed, because

(09:28):
you can't tell with a cap gun, but with an
Indian you can put the head dress on. Let me
know when this starts to sound vaguely or completely racist,
you put the head dress on and you probably do
a few war whoops. All we did a lot of
research to make sure that they were historically accurate, and

(09:52):
then we would go out with a bow and arrow
and we would actually try and take eyes out and
it was awesome. You wanted to be an Indian. So
that's I don't know what Chief Sitting Bowl thinks about
all of this, but when we were kids, this was
great fun. And uh, then we would go make homeless

(10:17):
guys fight each other. It was just it was the
way it was when we were growing up. It was
just the way it was. So this sounds like what
we did when we were growing up.

Speaker 2 (10:25):
Yeah, well you can't do that anymore. There was a
lot of things that were just the way they were
at the time that you wouldn't dream of doing today.
You can't run around with a gun that looks with
a water gun that even sort of resembles a real gun.
You just can't do it. Whose idea was this? And
by the way, Sharaf Jnson, some gun be the fun

(10:46):
police all you want.

Speaker 1 (10:49):
When when I wish.

Speaker 2 (10:51):
This could it sounds like great fun.

Speaker 1 (10:54):
Oh it doesn't.

Speaker 2 (10:54):
You're does sound like fun.

Speaker 1 (10:56):
You're being a woman. And that's fine. But my daughter
wants to play the game, and I hope and I
told her. My wife said, tell her she can't play,
And I said, honey, to my daughter, I said, darling,
sweetie princess, not only do I want you to play
this game if you want to, and she wanted to.

(11:17):
Not only do I want you to play this game,
I want you to win. Go get them. So I'm
sleeping on the couch, but my daughter is. I got
her some camo and some face paint. That's why I
was out at de Guns yesterday, just getting some training.

Speaker 2 (11:36):
You put camo and face paint on.

Speaker 1 (11:37):
Her camo face paint. She's wearing camouflage head to toe,
but it's a camouflage for her school, so it's school
colors and all that. That'd be a good thing. I
wonder if some school could do as their school colors camouflage.

Speaker 2 (11:54):
I don't see why you want.

Speaker 1 (11:55):
Why not do it? Why wouldn't we do that? It's
always like black and gold, or red and blue or
something like that, and or in the case of me,
I went to Ralston. They said, all right, let's get
a football team together. We want these guys to look
big and tough. What color are the smurfs? And that's
what we did. Columbia blue. Is that color for Ralston?

(12:20):
Very scary. I'm sure Omaha Central was terrified as the
silver are the silver and purple was running over us
with reckless, abandoned, traumatized.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
Since then, you've got a whole class of kids that
are just traumatized.

Speaker 1 (12:35):
I talked to Aman Green about seven years after we
played each other in high school. Amon Green was a
great running back for Central then Nebraska, then the Green
Bay Packers, and I told him that he was playing
with the Packers at the time. I said, I haven't
talked to you since we put the herd on you
when you played us when I played for Ralston High School.

(12:55):
And Aman Green, who ran for approximately three thousand yards
against our defense that day, said who he didn't even remember.

Speaker 2 (13:05):
Not even the school.

Speaker 1 (13:06):
No, And it wasn't like I talked to him last week.
It was a few years after he did this. He
didn't remember the school. Who. Maybe Columbia Smurf Blue was
not the right company. So my daughter's playing the senior assass.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
Is they still doing this?

Speaker 1 (13:24):
Oh? Yeah? Absolutely? What am I wrong? Scott atkfab dot
com or when listening to us over our free iHeartRadio app,
you can send a message with your own voice via
the talkback mike. That's a little microphone button there on
your screen. Just tap that app and send us a message.

Speaker 3 (13:46):
I got a question, this senior assassin that they're doing.
Is it a senior in high schools the or is
it a senior citizens that they're doing it with?

Speaker 1 (13:57):
No, it is. I know it is seniors in high
school but I wouldn't be surprised if perhaps you know,
some active seniors in a retirement community say I got
a great idea.

Speaker 2 (14:13):
Run the risk of not using the water gun, and
they just see a gun. Point.

Speaker 1 (14:18):
I know that all I did. That's the thing. So
and I'm looking here at the Zonker's custom was in
box Scott at kfab dot com. And it is kind
of coming down on gender lines here as to whether
or not you would let your senior in high school
play the senior Assassin game, which to recap if you're

(14:40):
just joining us, if you're a senior in high school.
Some enterprising young seniors says, all right, I'm organizing the
senior Assassin game. Pay me, and then the winner takes
the pot, probably minus whatever I take. And I'll tell
you who your target is and when you have to
have them taken out. And basically it's like the march
madness of ca in your classmates, except instead of killing them,

(15:03):
you are doing it with a water gun. It has
to be a water gun. It can't be like in class,
and you can't go to the person's workplace.

Speaker 2 (15:11):
But you saw come down on two different lines here. Yeah,
Well you can't just say yes or no you're fororider
against it. You have to say, I would let my
kid play this. It sounds like the coolest thing ever
or is or I wish my kid could play this
because it sounds like such a great thing for them
to do.

Speaker 1 (15:29):
But you can't anymore, Yes you can, and they are
all right now. Maybe some kid in Florida got shot
because a homeowner mistook him for a burglar sneaking through
his bushes at night to try and take out his kid.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
So, hey, there's something sometimes my mic is off.

Speaker 1 (15:49):
Omelet eggs there's a line there, So let's see here
Scott atkfab dot com. Here's some of the message we got. First,
there's a lot of references to the movie Gotcha.

Speaker 2 (16:03):
I don't know that movie.

Speaker 1 (16:04):
People are giving themselves an eighties movie ding reference. It
was Goose from Top Gun and it was kind of
the same thing here. In fact, Colleen Emails says, senior
Assassin sounds a lot like Gotcha eighties movie reference ding
And he even gave me the movie poster. I barely

(16:25):
remember this. This was Anthony Edwards and he was, as
I recall, he was tasked with sniping the lovely actress
Linda Fiorentino and instead fell in love with her and
couldn't shoot her. I might be wrong about the plot,
but that's probably what it was. And if it wasn't,
it was, so let's see here. Jason's also referencing Gotcha.

(16:51):
All right, Christina says, my daughter's college play, Well, are
they seniors in college? It's called Senior Assassin. My daughter's
college plays with plastics spoons. Let us know. We can
send Lucy extra boxes of spoons. That's from Christina Spoons.
Will you throw a plastic spoon at someone? Or you
tap them with a spoon? Gotcha?

Speaker 2 (17:14):
I would play this game if you didn't have to
use something that looked like a gun. And that's not
because I'm afraid of firearms.

Speaker 1 (17:20):
As another girl, Yeah, Sherry says that her daughter's playing
the game having a blast, but the other morning there
was a kid waiting for her behind her car and
she was cool. She was scared, Yeah, and it startled
her dad, who I guess was there. And my husband,

(17:40):
Dave is someone you don't want to mess with. These
kids are pushing the boundaries. It's all in fun, but
it could get dangerous.

Speaker 2 (17:47):
This is my point. I'm sure that this mom would
love for her kid to be able to play this game.
It sounds like a lot of fun, but some things
you just can't do anymore.

Speaker 1 (17:57):
Yeah, you can. In fact, I like what Dan says here. Okay,
he says actual in person social activity in twenty twenty five.
I am one hundred percent in favor.

Speaker 2 (18:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (18:10):
These high school seniors, these are the students who lost
middle school and probably lost their older siblings going to
high school graduations, watch their older siblings not be able
to go to homecoming and prom or any of the
rest of this stuff. These are kids who lost two
to three years of their scholastic lives and their formative

(18:31):
years during the time when you're supposed to go to
a middle school dance and be forced to dance with
someone and interact with somebody like, come on, you get
go do something. No, I want to stay home with you, guys.
Get out there. There's your eighties movie reference for this
segment of the radio program, Get at a school dance
wanting to go home with his parents. I want to

(18:53):
stay home with you guys. Come on, yes, and pink
candle seeing candles. You were right the first time. Come on,
So these kids are they're having fun? Yes, it involves
scorting someone with a squirt gun, and you're like, but
there are real situations. Yes, we know that. You know

(19:15):
who else knows that? These kids that's all they've known
growing up.

Speaker 2 (19:20):
That's a valid point.

Speaker 1 (19:21):
They're they're blowing off some steam while blowing away their
classmates with a squirt gun.

Speaker 2 (19:30):
I don't have a problem with the game. It's I
don't have a problem with the premise. I have a
problem with other people not understanding that this is a game.
And I wouldn't even judge them, because if you've got kids,
as you already talked about, running around in backyards or
sideyards where there is a fence and they're holding what

(19:51):
appears to be a gun, that's a problem.

Speaker 1 (19:55):
You gotta be smart about it.

Speaker 2 (19:57):
I agree, and I would probably take a second look
or third look maybe, But nah, we're living in a
different world.

Speaker 1 (20:08):
Ron says, back, oh, so long ago, when I was
a senior in the mid eighties, we played the game Assassin.
We were much more creative than just using squirt guns.
I killed my target with a venomous snake in his locker,
and I was blown up by a bomb when I
opened my trumpet case.

Speaker 2 (20:25):
That's a game I'd like to play.

Speaker 1 (20:26):
See we were just tougher back then.

Speaker 4 (20:28):
Scott Byes News Radio eleven ten k FA.

Speaker 1 (20:34):
That's Lucy Chapman right there. Not her real name, she's
got a fake radio name. I'm not smart enough to
remember my fake radio name. So my name is Scott Vorhire.

Speaker 2 (20:44):
Did you have one?

Speaker 1 (20:46):
Uh? Yeah. My only fake radio name I've ever had
was when I first started on the college radio station
at Carney as a freshman, helping out a couple of seniors.
They said, well, we want like a wacky sidekick, and
what's your wacky sidekick name? And I just came up
with the first knee jerk reaction, stupid name that a
wacky radio sidekick on a morning show would have.

Speaker 2 (21:09):
Slappy slappy warhies.

Speaker 1 (21:11):
Yep, no, just slappy.

Speaker 2 (21:15):
It doesn't have quite the ring man cow does.

Speaker 1 (21:18):
No, no, it didn't, but I would be no big parties.
That still the best radio Well it's up there. We
also had free beer and hot wings here in town.
Remember those guys, Oh, oh, you know.

Speaker 2 (21:30):
No.

Speaker 1 (21:31):
They did the afternoon show on eighty nine seven the River,
the Iowa Western College station back in the mid to
late nineties, and it was basically a morning show in
the afternoon and it was great, and so then they
ruined it by saying, well, let's put them on in
the morning. It wasn't as much fun.

Speaker 2 (21:49):
Free beer and.

Speaker 1 (21:50):
Free beer and hot Wings were the two guys on
that show. Good Times. Dude, Yeah, we had big party.
I have to look up when I was on the air.
We had big party. They had free beer and hot
wings and.

Speaker 2 (22:06):
Yeah the day slap Slappy.

Speaker 1 (22:08):
Yeah, slappy or slap. To this day, my friends Candace
and Chris still call me slappy. All right, Scott at
kfab dot com because Slappy at kfab dot com will
just get sent back to you. We are talking about
the Senior Assassin game everyone, And when I say everyone,

(22:31):
I mean mom's calm down. No one's actually supposed to
get hurt doing this game. Here's how the game works.
You got a kid who's a senior in high school.
I have a kid who's a senior in high school,
and she asked me last week if she could play
this game whereby someone organizes the game at the school,
you pay five bucks, winner gets the pot, and you
get a kill list of people you need to take

(22:53):
out with a scot gun. As long as you're not
shooting them, and there's there's rules. You can't do it
on school property, and you can't like break into their house,
nor can you go to their place of business. There's
probably also a rule about like moving vehicles and things
like that. But there was one other rule about this
game I forgot, and I got a message here from

(23:18):
Johnny Johnny Man. Johnny said, most these kids are driving cars.
That makes it a little more dangerous. I know Gretna
East has a rule you can't be in a moving vehicle,
but I see kids driving crazy to get to their victim.
So you can't shoot someone in the car, but you
can apparently tail them like in the nineteen seventy one

(23:40):
classic The French Connection. I'm not going back on the one. No,
we're not going back on the Gretton. And now here's
the other one I forgot about. Gretta East also has
a rule you can't be shot if you're wearing goggles.
I forgot about that. My daughter's school has the same thing.

Speaker 2 (24:00):
That's like steam pump steampunk.

Speaker 1 (24:02):
Just like no, you can wear swim goggles.

Speaker 2 (24:06):
Welder goggles.

Speaker 1 (24:07):
Well that's more of a face mask.

Speaker 2 (24:09):
You can't see.

Speaker 1 (24:10):
Yeah, as if you have goggles on, whether it's like
swim goggles or the old nineteen eighties Kurt Rambus respects.
I think that that would count as well. You can
go James Worthy if you want any really, anyone from
the Lakers. Kareem had him, Rambus had him, Worthy had him.
Were you even playing basketball in the eighties if your
shorts didn't go barely past your your bits and pieces

(24:34):
and you were wearing goggles? I mean, were you even
trying socks up past your knee with head three different
stripes on there with two different colors? I mean, were you?
Were you even playing basketball? Why am I yelling at you? Lucy?

Speaker 2 (24:47):
I don't even know the goggles goggles.

Speaker 1 (24:50):
If you wear goggles, you can't be taken out of
the game. I haven't seen any kids wearing goggles, Scott.
How often do you hang around high school kids last night?
Scott tell us No, I went to a high school
choir concert last night, but it was on school grounds.

(25:12):
But I didn't see anyone wearing goggles going into or
out of the school. Nor did I see tailtale lines
around one's eyes suggesting that they've been wearing goggles all day,
so they couldn't be taken out of the game. So
now you're playing a game. Let's say you got one
hundred seniors playing the game, which would probably be more

(25:32):
than that. That's a pot of five hundred dollars. So
you're like, well, suddenly, wait a second, I could win
five hundred dollars. All you gotta do is wear goggles
all the time.

Speaker 2 (25:43):
I'd do it better than casino odds. Right.

Speaker 1 (25:47):
I got a one in one hundred shot a winning
five hundred dollars, and all you gotta do is wear goggle.
I can't be taken out if I got goggles on.
But I think they've got some hunger games like squid game.
I don't know how all this stuff works, but I
think they have some rules that say, even if you
have goggles on, there are certain hours of certain days

(26:10):
where it's just a free for all.

Speaker 2 (26:11):
This is way too common.

Speaker 1 (26:13):
Oh yeah, no, I, like I said, I think it
sounds like great fun. But I got a lot of
moms oh here in the inbox. Most of them say
that they don't think it's fun. Sandy, though, says my
daughter played volleyball for Creighton, and their team bonded her
freshman year with playing paintball and she loved it. And

(26:36):
here's a picture she sent me of her daughter all
like behind a giant rock with a paintball gun and
a mask on taking out fellow blue jays.

Speaker 2 (26:48):
But isn't that on a course, yeah, or whatever you
want to call it.

Speaker 1 (26:52):
This looks like it's in a cemetery. But I don't
I don't know, but yeah.

Speaker 2 (26:57):
We declare this of course. Eight.

Speaker 1 (27:02):
Yeah, have you ever played I've I've never played paintball.

Speaker 2 (27:05):
I haven't I want to.

Speaker 1 (27:09):
I don't need to get shot with a paintball at
this point in my twenties.

Speaker 2 (27:13):
Delicate.

Speaker 1 (27:14):
Yeah, in my twenties, I've been all for it, but I.

Speaker 2 (27:17):
Get more fat on.

Speaker 1 (27:18):
I need a chance to play. But I love like
full like outdoor laser tag.

Speaker 2 (27:26):
Oh yeah, I've never done.

Speaker 1 (27:27):
It's the same thing, except I don't have to wash
paint off my eyeball. So you're supposed to wear goggles. Yeah,
that hurts too. I don't want to get hit in
the face with a paintball, so laser tag. And there
are some places where you play laser tag outside and
you got like forts you're jumping in and out of,
and like old buses and rocks and trees you're hiding

(27:50):
in and it is awesome. It is maybe the most
fun my family has ever had.

Speaker 2 (27:58):
Does Omaha have something like that?

Speaker 1 (28:00):
I think down at in Springfield check on them with this.
There's a place called Mad Cow Paintball, and I think
they might have laser tag too.

Speaker 2 (28:13):
Sounds really fun.

Speaker 1 (28:13):
I may if I just made that up. They should
do it, but they definitely have paintball and it's the
same thing where it's an outdoor obstacle course and it's
super cool. But my my family we went what my
family did a family vacation a few years back at

(28:35):
Branson Silver Dollar City. Kids were a little younger, all
that fun stuff. And after three four days of you know,
hunkering down same hotel room and stand in the line
for roller coasters and all that, Dad here had the
great idea of, I understand, there's this stupid expensive place
nearby where you do outdoor laser tag. Be grudgingly, all right, fine,

(29:00):
we'll go do this. And we were just laughing and
it's like getting all scratched up running in and out
of brush. And it turns out after four days all
together in the same hotel room, you kind of want
to shoot each other, and it was just it was
about the best thing we ever done. It was maybe

(29:21):
the most fun I've ever had with my family. And
I love my family, but getting shot at by my
son and it's fun too because you think that you're
hitting pretty well and all of a sudden, your sensor
goes off and you're like, what the And you look
up and like, up in a tree is your little
monkey kid and he just laughing at and he runs

(29:42):
off and you're like, proud of that little See, you
might die.

Speaker 2 (29:45):
You don't have to leave the game when you get shot.

Speaker 1 (29:47):
You get so many times, and then after you get
hit so many times, then you're out. But yeah, that's great.
Greg emails Scott at kfab dot com and says, oh,
by the way, to everyone when sending me an email, please,
if you're sending an email with the subject line Senior Assassin,
which is the name of the game, do not shorten
the second word with the first three letters. I don't

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need hr saying.

Speaker 2 (30:12):
What are you doing assassination?

Speaker 1 (30:16):
No, the second word first three letters I no, one's
if you start doing a search for that, I cannot
be responsible for what you're going to find. I don't
know that you want to watch that movie. I don't know.
I don't know what you're into has nothing to do
with that Senior Assassin. Craig says, it's only dangerous when

(30:38):
adults overreact and make it dangerous. Everyone calm down. Cory says,
Lucy is a closet fun hater. No she's not. She's
not a closet fun hater. She just is a fun hater. Well,
I don't want kids shooting each other and maybe getting
shot by overprotective parents. Way way, who playing?

Speaker 2 (31:01):
I say one thing? You hear something else? Is that
what we're playing today? What difference does? Isn't it? They
just suck?

Speaker 1 (31:11):
I just hit all my buttons till I find something
that works.

Speaker 2 (31:14):
Ain't nobody got time for it?

Speaker 3 (31:16):
Whatever?

Speaker 1 (31:18):
There there's a round up some of our ball. I
haven't had this one in a while. What's up? Oh yeah,
the Obama? What's up? What's up? A favorite? Miss that?
What'd you say? Let's keep going with the emails. Danny says,
I had no idea this game existed till my son
wanted my wife to buy him a squirt gun. Squirt

(31:41):
gun is pink and white. Then he got it. And
all he wanted to do was practice by shooting the cat.
So we can't have that, so I shot him in
the face with the water gun. PS. The game is awesomeness.
Next Christmas, Nerve machine guns for the whole family.

Speaker 2 (31:56):
I was thinking about that, if you had one of
those giant nerve uh like water blasters, I think whatever
they're called, yah, then that's something that does not have
any resemblance to an actual firearm. Have some fun, go
have some fun, I would play. I think this sounds
like so much fun, But there are people out there,

(32:18):
is what I said.

Speaker 1 (32:18):
All not say it without sticking your big butt in there.
Every time you say it, you stick a big butt
in there. This sounds fun. But you do the same
thing with your traffic reports in the morning. I do, yes,
you do every morning. I'm driving in going let's see

(32:39):
how things are going with traffic, and Lucy says, everything's great,
everyone's moving along, however, and I'm like, ah, and like,
if you're on any of these major roads and you're
not moving, everyone else me to.

Speaker 2 (32:52):
Stop saying that you're in good shape. I will, I'll
do it, I will do it.

Speaker 1 (32:59):
No'm sorry. That's the last thing I want to do
is make your self conscious about your traffic reports. They're great.
I do sometimes laugh at the however sometimes mm hmm sometimes,
but I see that's what you enjoyed it.

Speaker 2 (33:13):
You'll never hear it again.

Speaker 1 (33:14):
You're a fun hater. You are a fun You're a
fun sucker. You suck fun.

Speaker 2 (33:21):
Yeah, all rights, We're done news radio eleven kfab.

Speaker 1 (33:29):
Now we'll get some more emails on here in just
a moment. This is Scott Vorhees for Eagle Mortgage. Lucy
is suddenly thinking this game sounds a lot more fun
and maybe she should use real bullets against her co workers.
I don't know why you do that, Damnory, Why would
you even say something I'm trying to talk about Egle Mortgage.

Speaker 2 (33:48):
I understand what.

Speaker 1 (33:49):
You're the one hiring hit men to take me out.
I'm trying to talk about Holly an Eagle Mortgage. Don't
derail me? How dare you?

Speaker 2 (34:00):
Did I or did I not? Just say? A minute ago,
I say one thing, you hear another. There, Take it
all back, Take it all back.

Speaker 1 (34:09):
There are a lot of great houses available right now. However,
that was a silent protest over there, as it was.
I didn't know you did sign language. So I just
spent the last few minutes bending off Lucy Chapman, who
was trying to strangle me with the piano wire. It's amazing.

(34:30):
She got the piano wire from my piano and my
office down the hall. It's a digital. I don't know
where you got that wire. It's amazing. So Scott atkfab
dot com, we're talking about the Senior Assassin game. Here
are some emails. Lisa says, my daughter is playing. I
think it's a ton of fun. One kid shot his
victim through a Starbucks drive through. It was wild. It

(34:52):
has to be filmed to count, and they upload the
videos onto an Instagram account. I thought one of the
rules was you can't shoot someone at their workplace. This
anonymous teacher says. I'm a teacher and I've had multiple
students playing the game. I only found out about it
when they started showing up with goggles on and had

(35:13):
a heightened awareness of their surroundings. As I mentioned you,
if you wear goggles, you can't be shot. During most
hours of playing the game. Fabian says, the first rule
of Senior Assassin is you don't talk about Senior Assassin
and Monica says, I am firmly against this game. Keep

(35:35):
your kids indoors, because this is exactly the sort of
thing that will get them sucked into the upside down.
We're just doing it is Stranger Things, which practically counts
as an eighties movie reference because it's set in the
eighties and it's got Wenona Ryder. Look at you, Lucy,
look at look at you. Sorry, I want to talk

(35:58):
about something else in the next hour. I think I'm
ready pro Hamas protesters, or maybe you could say pro
Palestine protest again. Hamas is the ruling party of what
could be Palestine if not for the designated terrorist organization
of Hamas, anti Israel protesters, whatever you call them. They're

(36:21):
out there clashing with police officers outside of a it
says outside court. But this is in New York City.
That guy that Trump got, I thought they got him
in Louisiana. They bring him back to New Maybe they
brought him back to New York because he was a
grad student at Columbia University, though I don't know if
he went to class. He was instead foe mening unrest

(36:44):
and trespassing and praising a terrorist organization. So we talked
about this yesterday. Trump revoked his green card and had
Immigration and Customs enforcement arrest him. Wrestled a little bit
yesterday with a couple of personal things here. Number one
at pesky first Amendment in our constitution, the Bill of Rights,

(37:06):
and how you enjoy that even if you are in
this country as a guest on a green card. I
don't have anything specific tying this guy to any threats.
I'm also wrestling with. This guy is an absolute jerkface,
and I don't care what happens to him. I can

(37:28):
tell you of all the things that made me toss
and turn last night, what happens to this guy was
not one of them. But here's the bigger issue before Congress.
According to a House Foreign Affairs panel yesterday, they tried
to get going yesterday there was a hearing. What was

(37:50):
the hearing supposed to be? Let's see here, questions about
nuclear proliferation and America support for our allies in Europe.
I presume a lot of this would have touched on
how Democrats are now not in favor of Russia and
Ukraine not killing each other because Trump has so far

(38:14):
seemingly successfully negotiated a ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia, and
Democrats right now hate it because it makes Trump look strong.
And I guess your Russians and Ukrainians aren't dying in
this never ending war. We just ship money to So
Democrats are now not in favor of an end to

(38:35):
war because Trump. So I presume this was going to
be some of this conversation yesterday this House for an
Affairs panel meeting when the chair of the subcommittee that
handles Europe issues with this committee, Congressman Keith Self of Texas.

(38:55):
Wasn't he R and B singer in the nineties? Oh?
That was Keith Sweat?

Speaker 2 (39:03):
Yeah, that's exactly right.

Speaker 1 (39:06):
What was your favorite Keith's sweat song? You think about that?
Congressman Keith Self of Texas, the chair of the subcommittee
introduced a fellow member of the committee. The individual that
he was introducing is a member of Congress who was
just elected out of I want to say Minnesota, but

(39:34):
I'll double check that here, because where this person was
elected from is not as Oh sorry, Delaware. I was
really close Minnesota, Delaware practically neighbors. Anyway, member of Congress
was elected out of Delaware, and this became the first

(39:57):
and I always love how this is phrased, the first
openly transgender person elected to Congress, which calls into question
anyone who has ever elected to Congress throughout history could
have been transgender and we just didn't know it. I
don't know about you, but I've always had my theories
about Lee Terry. So anyway, this is the first openly

(40:22):
transgender person elected to Congress. The individual's name is Sarah McBride.
Sarah was born a male and now identifies as female.
The first voice you're going to hear is the chair
of the committee, Congressman Self of Texas. Then you're going

(40:43):
to hear Sarah McBride's voice, and then you're going to
hear the outrage of Congressman William Keating, Democrat from Massachusetts.

Speaker 5 (40:53):
I now recognize the representative from Delaware, mister McBride.

Speaker 2 (40:59):
Thank you, madam, Ranking Member Keyting.

Speaker 1 (41:01):
All right, so you hear how this started. We're we are,
and this is I think I think this is funny.
I think all of this is funny. Because Congressman's self said,

(41:24):
I now introduce mister McBride. Mister McBride identifies as a female.
Mister McBride shot back, thank you, Madam chair before, seemingly,
now that we've had our little pronoun problem here, now
that we've each called each other an aim, which I

(41:46):
guess is infuriating, began to go into the speech here,
seemingly content to let it go. One of Representative McBride's
colleagues was not ready to let it go. Here comes
William Keating of Massachusetts, A wonderful chairman.

Speaker 5 (42:04):
Could you repeat your instruction again, please?

Speaker 1 (42:07):
Yes, it's a. It's a.

Speaker 5 (42:09):
We have set the standard on the floor of the
House and I'm simply what.

Speaker 1 (42:14):
Is that standard? Mister chairman. Would you repeat what you
just said?

Speaker 5 (42:19):
You introduced a duly elected representative from the United States
of America, please.

Speaker 1 (42:24):
I will the representative from Delaware, mister McBride.

Speaker 5 (42:29):
Mister chairman, you are out of order. Mister chairman. Have
you no decency? I mean I have come to know
you a little bit, but this is not decent.

Speaker 1 (42:39):
We will continue this.

Speaker 5 (42:40):
You will not continue it with me unless you introduce
a duly elected representative the right way.

Speaker 1 (42:48):
This hearing is adjourned, and that's it, and get up
and stomp off. That's what your elected representatives did yesterday.
And to try to talk about making sure Iran doesn't
have nuclear weapons.

Speaker 2 (43:07):
Wow, when you put it that way, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (43:09):
I know. So both of them seemingly and what it's
both of them is being described here as misgendering each other.
At least that's the argument here. I mean, no one

(43:31):
seems to be upset. That's Sarah McBride misgendering Keith's self.
Keith is a male who identifies as male, and Sarah McBride,
represented representative from Delaware, said thank you, madam Chair. So
Sarah McBride misgendered Keith's self of Texas. No one seems
to be upset about that. They're saying that Keith misgendered Sarah,

(43:57):
who again biological male otherwise known as male, and identify
as as a female. Now put yourself in the shoes
of the chair of the committee who needs to identify

(44:17):
a fellow member of Congress to speak. You could either
start to try and figuratively turn this member of Congress
over to see what gender this particular person is, or
you could just say, I now introduce a representative McBride
of Delaware and then sit there and stfu. I mean,

(44:42):
that's seeming That's one way of doing it, But we've
got to have this argument. But at the same time,
even though I wouldn't, this is not the place when
we're talking about serious issues. I don't think this is
the right place to have a gender confrontation. But William

(45:02):
Keating apparently did didn't have a problem with Sarah McBride
miss gendering the congressman from Texas and shut down the
whole hearing because he didn't like that this guy called
a man a man. Now, again, I wouldn't choose to
do that. I don't think this is the time or place, honestly,

(45:24):
unless someone who is a man dresses as a woman
or just dresses an't a man and follows my daughter
into the locker room or bathroom, I generally don't care
what adults do. But it is interesting that the argument
here is that you misgendered this person. Again, that's a

(45:49):
I don't think that that's the I don't I don't
think that that's a legitimate argument. Again, not saying I
would do it, but anyway, that's how these adults acted
yesterday in Congress. Back here to Omaha, we had a
debate among mayoral candidates. I'll tell you who said what

(46:11):
about each other? Coming up here in just a couple
of minutes, Scott voices, there is just static, at least
as of a few seconds ago, and for the last
few minutes. Sorry about that. Of course, if you can
hear me right now, it's either because the issue has
been resolved or you're listening via iHeartRadio and you didn't

(46:32):
know anything was wrong. I'm Scott Vorhees, there's Lucy Chapman,
and this is News Radio eleven to ten KFAB. That's
the extent of the exercise I'm gonna get today, just
running up and down the hall to check the radio
with the air signal. A little static right now, actually

(46:52):
a lot of static. So we got a team working
on it. And like I said, what did you do?
I didn't. People are accusing you of being on the
roof with a squirt gun based on the last hours conversation.
We're going to continue to do this radio show for
those listening on our free iHeartRadio app and just in

(47:15):
case any of the segment makes it onto the podcast later,
you'll be able to hear it there.

Speaker 2 (47:19):
I can already tell you it, won't you know how
I know.

Speaker 1 (47:21):
Because you're talking. That's what you say, That's what you,
not me. I don't say that. You say that.

Speaker 2 (47:27):
I said, that's right. Well, it seems weird. It always
goes to static on the days that I'm more involved.

Speaker 1 (47:36):
I think it'd be really funny. No, what, I think
it'd be really funny if mayor stother, for example, heard
me say a moment ago, we're going to talk about
the mayor old debate held yesterday next and then it
just goes to static and she just pound on a radio.
How come this thing won't work? You're gonna talk about me.
He's gonna trash me. I know it.

Speaker 2 (47:57):
Yeah, but the nice thing is is if she can't,
nobody else can either.

Speaker 1 (48:02):
Like I said, free, iHeartRadio app always loud and clear
and kfab dot com slash listen and this might make
it on the podcast. Let's see. Okay, we're back, Thank you,
we're back. Hey, how you doing here? Well, let's restart
the segment and pretend like none of this just happened. Really, Hey,

(48:25):
how you doing? I'm Scott, There's Lucy. This is news
Radio eleven ten Kfab all right, I came.

Speaker 2 (48:31):
Up with my favorite Matt Matt sweat Sweaty song, Keith
Sweaty Sweat sweet Matthews.

Speaker 1 (48:41):
No, we're just gonna keep resetting the segment until we
get it right. That's Lucy. I'm Scott Lucy right on
topic talking about the mayor old debate yesterday. That's what
we're talking about here on news radio eleven ten kfab.
Congressman Keith Sweat is not running from Mayor Mike McDonald is,

(49:04):
and he yesterday now keeps calling it the streetcar named disaster.
That's actually pretty good, And he still says I'd put
the streetcar project to a vote, and we would only
proceed with the streetcar if the voters approve it. So
let's see, we've already we've torn out an interstate bridge.

(49:25):
We have businesses who have already announced or already relocated
along the streetcar route to be a part of the route,
knowing that it's going to be their taxes, property taxes
along this route they would paying for the streetcar. They're like,
totally worth it. Let's go. Mayor Stothard has said over
and over again, your tax dollars will not pay for

(49:48):
this streetcar.

Speaker 2 (49:50):
So, like it or not, that streetcar has left the station.

Speaker 1 (49:55):
McDonald keeps saying that I'm gonna put it to a vote,
and we'll only go along at the voters approve it.
I think we've already bought or some street cars. What
are we gonna do with the street cars? If we
bought it, like I got the street car, we don't
even have any rails to put it on. I don't know.
Put some tires on it called a trolley, and do
like we should have done anyway. Yeah, but then if

(50:17):
we have a trolley won't be along this route. It
could change and go anywhere it wants to, based on
where people want to go. Rightly, what a terrible idea, really,
But you know, for the businesses along the route. Whatever,
I I don't know, I've I've Here's all I've said
about the street car. When I go to other cities,
I'm told by people like working at the front desk

(50:39):
at hotels, Oh, you're going out, wouldn't get on the
there's a street car you can get on right outside
the hotel here. Wouldn't do it after dark? Enjoy your
time in.

Speaker 2 (50:48):
Dallas, you know, or Minneapolis, Denver.

Speaker 1 (50:53):
Haven't had that experience in Minneapolis. But it's because it's
got drive to Minneapolis. It's only a few hours away.
So and I've I've heard that about Kansas City too
at certain times, certain area. But so that's one concern
I have. But at the same time, I still go downtown.
So the same element that you would say would be downtown,

(51:17):
either this or any city that would be on or
off the street car is going to be present someplace.
So you either do or you don't go out and
you try and be vigilant and all the rest of
that stuff. So that's that's one concern I think we
should have. I don't know how to keep people from
living on the street car. But the other thing that

(51:40):
I said about the streetcar is I truly believe that
Mayor Stothard is a one believer in the streetcar because
she's running for reelection, she's done three terms it. No
one would have blamed her if she said, you know,
I think that I've I've done all I can here
and I'm ready to hand the baton off to someone else,

(52:03):
or in the case of Mike McDonald's, smack him in
the head with the baton like that girl at the
track meet the other day. I'm ready ready to move.
Let someone else have the reins to this beast we
call Omaha and I will be over here in the sunset.
You know. I no one would have blamed her for that.
But she believes so much in the street car. She

(52:23):
wants to see it through with one more term until
the street car is there so she could say, see,
see how great this is. She is a true believer
in this project. If she if she thought, what have
I done? Then she wouldn't run for reelection.

Speaker 2 (52:39):
No, I always I've never questioned whether she really wanted
to do this or not. She does believe in it. Yeah,
and a lot of people out there do.

Speaker 1 (52:47):
Here's the here's the dumb thing about what McDonald's saying, though, Well,
I think we should vote on it. We're gonna have
two votes on it, the primary here in a few
weeks and the general election a month after that. Those
are two votes. Mike McDonald's saying, I don't like the
street car and I would potentially shut the thing down.

(53:09):
Mayor Stothard says, I think the street car is great.
Your tax dollars aren't paying for it. It's full steam ahead.
You can't put this genie back in the bottle. The
voters are everyone's trying to figure this out, Like I
don't know all I know is that Johnny Wing and
Jasmine Harris couldn't get recognized in a police lineup right
now in this mayoral race. I know that, and they're

(53:29):
both good people. I don't know Jasmine Harris, but I
know John I love the guy. He's the only Democrat
to get elected around here outside of a city council district.
A good guy. He's a good guy. He's our county treasurer.
So he You know, these guys are just trying to
get some air in this race, and it's all McDonald
and Stothard. Most people, myself included, think that the general

(53:52):
election will have a showdown for the Sorry, the primary
will feature a showdown between McDonald and Stothard. Which the
primary is the first vote on the streetcar. If we're
gonna make it about the streetcar, that's the vote number one.
Vote number two is the general And if it ends
up being McDonald Stothard, I think that vote is a

(54:15):
streetcar vote. Why would you then say, well I got elected.
They'll say McDonald gets elected. So now we're a couple
more months down the line. Got elected, and he's got
to take office. Then he's got to say, all right,
I'm gonna set up a vote on the streetcar for November,
or are we going to do a special another election
which costs money. I'm have another And meanwhile we're tearing

(54:38):
up streets. We've got an interstate bridge gone to accommodate
the street car. We already bought one of the stupid things. Plus,
if the voters vote for McDonald, I think you could
probably reasonably argue that's a streetcar vote. So he could say,
I think the voters have spoken, We'll sell our street

(54:58):
car to Minneapolis and we'll move on. Does anyone have
a maybe we can trade the streetcar for an interstate
bridge and put the Harney Bridge back over four to
eighty the same bridge, Yeah, where we could Maybe we
could turn the streetcar into a bridge and just shove
that in there, or put it over that bridge down

(55:18):
on South l Street where you can see the sky
underneath the bridge. I don't know. So this was all
part of the debate yesterday. It was hosted by WWT
six I believe, I believe, and they mostly argued about
streetcar stuff. Once Mayor Stothard starts going in there and

(55:40):
saying no, no, this is paid for through this three
hundred and eighty nine million dollar project issuing bonds. They'll
be repaid by developers through TIFF. That's tax increment financing.
Most voters suddenly just go, I don't I like squirrels,
you know, the people Suddenly they're brain's gloss over. So

(56:02):
I don't know if most voters you know, common folk morons.
If I don't dang that, someone's gonna get mad. There's
your seventies movie reference for the segment of the radio program,
Yeah battles, you didn't know it, You didn't know it,
and s all of the earth, you know, morons. The

(56:23):
UH says the sheriff is near. Once mayor stother starts
going into what tax increment financing is, and the property
taxes generated by real estate development in the area is
going to be returned to the developer for a peer
to fifteen twenty years to pay for certain costs, and
where you got a streetcar TIFF zone to pay for
the project three or eighty minute million dollars. Most people
are like, I need to lie down. So then you

(56:47):
either know what she's talking about and believe in it,
or don't, or you don't know what she's talking about,
which I think most people don't. And you either look
at it and go, she's boss you know, because she
she's up there talking about stuff women aren't supposed to
do that she sounds very bossy, or you hear her

(57:09):
do all this stuff and you go, why she really
knows her stuff. Maybe she knows what she's talking about here.
I don't know. I don't work for these campaigns. I
do think it's pretty dumb to say beyond two votes
that will essentially come down to a streetcar vote, I
think it's pretty dumb to then go say we'll do

(57:32):
another vote on the streetcar when it's already being built.
Even Harrison and Ewing say it's already being built and
we can't pull back on this project. We just have
to manage it better into elder So that's what they're saying.
But I think it's funny that the Democrats in the
city don't seem to be getting behind either of those

(57:54):
two Democrats in the race. They're getting behind, in some
cases the former Democrat Mike McDonald, maybe because they see
him as a Democrat who's not clinically insane like some
of them end up being. Or maybe they just don't
like Jean Stock and they see an opportunity to get
a little bit more blue in this city, which I

(58:15):
don't think Mike McDonald really is. I mean, he changed
to the Republican Party. I don't know that he wants
to be associated with the Democrats, though there is this
story out there that one of his campaign people was
working with the head of the state Democratic Party about
trying to get some support from Mike McDonald. So I

(58:36):
big tent. I don't know. All I know is this
is going to be a really fun election season. You
think I don't want the next election? We just had
the last one that was months ago. We just got
a few weeks. April first, is the hysterical date for
the election? Is that true? Are we doing on April

(58:57):
Fool's Day? Yep? April Fool's Day? Oh shoot, we're gonna
have an election that day and people want NPR FAB.
That just occurred to me.

Speaker 2 (59:07):
You can't do it.

Speaker 1 (59:08):
I don't think I can do it.

Speaker 2 (59:09):
We could do it from the street car, though.

Speaker 1 (59:13):
I'm sure we'll think of something. Fox News Update next
Scott Boyes News Radio eleven ten KFAB. John email says,
turn the static back on. Come on, John, Why you
Craig is just happy to finally have some monorail conversation
and is requesting the song from The Simpsons. I don't

(59:33):
have that with me right at this time, Doug email says,
correct me if I'm wrong. But I believe Jean startht
ran on the premise that she was going to put
the streetcar up for a vote several years ago. Yes,
in twenty seventeen, she said, if taxpayer dollars would go
to fund the street car, we'll put it to a vote.

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But they've got it done through tax increment financing, private debate,
developers are paying for it. This is when people's brains
start to gloss over. She says, your tax dollars are
not paying for it. That's why she didn't put it
up to a vote. I don't know, Like I said,

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I don't work for these people. I don't work for
these campaigns. I have said, I believe Stoth believes in
the street car. That's why she's running for another term.
And I've said that I think that Mike McDonald's proposal
to put this up to a vote, when essentially we're
going to have a primary vote here in a few

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weeks and then a month after that, a general election
vote on two candidates. One says we're not having a vote,
the other one says we should have a vote. If
the one who says we should have a vote wins,
that's the vote. We don't need to have another vote
while there's already construction being done on the project. Also
kind of funny. I think that another criticism that McDonald

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particularly has had about Mayor Stotht is and we heard
this yesterday morning. PJ Morgan, former Omaha mayor, is supporting
McDonald in this race. And he was on with Gary
and Jim. You can hear that on the morning news
podcast link at kfab dot com. Dave Heineman, former governor,

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was on there today saying I think Stotthard's a great mayor.
That'll be posted later this morning, same link kfab's morning
news podcast kfab dot com. PJ. Morgan said that Mayri
Stothart isn't paying our cops enough and has a shortfall
in police officers with the Omaha Police Department. He said

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that yesterday. Right after that, Stothart and Chief Schmad came
out and said we're giving a pay increase to police officers.
Like I doubt you.

Speaker 2 (01:01:57):
Could just make that up out of in less than
twenty four hours. If there wasn't some work that it
was already being done towards that end.

Speaker 1 (01:02:04):
It wasn't in twenty four hours, it was in two.

Speaker 2 (01:02:07):
Hours, okay, PJ that they just made this up.

Speaker 1 (01:02:11):
P J. Morgan was on the radio. Was on this
radio station at seven fifteen yesterday morning. At nine thirty,
Mayris Dodds said, Chief Smater and I are increasing pay
for new recruits, and we're also doing a few other
things to try and get more police officers into the
Omaha Police Department. I'm like, if kfab had this much power,

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why aren't we Why aren't we doing more with this power?

Speaker 2 (01:02:37):
We have good point, what's next on your agenda for
your power wielding?

Speaker 1 (01:02:43):
I think that Mayorstodor needs to do more to make
college more affordable. From my daughter there and now we wait,
that's awesome. I guess I got to have a former
mayor say it. What's Hal Dobb doing?

Speaker 3 (01:02:58):
Well?

Speaker 1 (01:02:59):
Wake him up? All right? Sorry? I love how Tob.
Making fun of how Dobb has been one of the
great joys of my life. I love that man, all right.
So that happened yesterday. We also had this issue where
people went to the city council. I guess and said,

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there's a provision in the Nebraska Liquor Control Act that says,
if we feel like there is someone selling alcohol in
our neighborhood and the refuse of the the alcohol aka
the broken empty bottles of liquor end up all over

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our neighborhood, that we can take We can ask the
Liquor Control to take the liquor license away from the
holder of the liquor license because they're trashing the neighborhood.
This yeah, and people are now complaining. They're they filed
a complaint about a business in the area of seventy

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second ish and Pacific. There is a convenience store there.
Now here's what else we have. There a lot of
people panhandling in that area. They get a few bucks,
they go into the nearest convenience store. Why here it
is that sells convenience to a variety of people, including
the panhandlers there. And they go in there and they

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get the cheap shooters of alcohol. They take a shot
at whatever, usually it's fireball, and then they leave the
empty bottle there on the ground. So we've got a
bunch of empty bottles of alcohol, shooters and around the
area of seventy second in Pacific. Property owners of a
business plaza in this area have sent city officials nearly

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two hundred and fifty pictures of empty alcohol shooters, crush cans,
and other trash collected over two years. They say it's
a maintenance issue. I have to pick these things up
all the time. So whose fault is it? Certainly not
the people drinking alcohol and just throwing the bottle on
the ground. It's got to be the fault of the
people selling it. So they want the liquor control to

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take the liquor license away from this convenience store in
that area.

Speaker 2 (01:05:18):
Why doesn't the liquor store just stop selling single shots because.

Speaker 1 (01:05:22):
They probably make a lot of money on it. Some
people like that kind of thing.

Speaker 2 (01:05:26):
I'm not saying there's anything wrong with single shots. I
was going to collect a bunch of them so I
would have them on hand in case of the apocalypse.

Speaker 1 (01:05:32):
For trade, do you think zombies want fireball?

Speaker 2 (01:05:37):
No? I think the people who are not zombies yet?

Speaker 1 (01:05:39):
Okay that Why don't you just get like guns and
ammo and dried beans and fresh water?

Speaker 2 (01:05:45):
Who says I didn't I could.

Speaker 1 (01:05:47):
But I'm getting fireball. You know what I drank last night?
What did you need? Not even lying? Eggnog? We got
some eggnog for Christmas.

Speaker 2 (01:05:56):
You froze it.

Speaker 1 (01:05:57):
No, no, it said best by March twenty fourth, and
I said, Saint Patrick's Day eggnog. And I said, I'm
having my first glass of eggnog when I watch March Madness.
Next week, I'm having eggnog and watching March Madness. And
I was so happy I had it last night. You
know why it's so good because I looked in the

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fridge last night and I was like, who opened this?
Knowing it was my son? So who opened this? He's
like I did? I said, when do you open it?
A while ago?

Speaker 2 (01:06:28):
Like what? No?

Speaker 1 (01:06:30):
When what day? He's like, I don't know, yesterday, last week, January.
I don't know. So I had to try some. It's fine.
We think that he opened it last week, but that
means I can't probably wait until next week to finish it.
I'm gonna have to finish it this week.

Speaker 2 (01:06:46):
You're gonna have to do it on a weekend because
you're gonna be sick.

Speaker 3 (01:06:49):
No.

Speaker 1 (01:06:49):
No, I broke up this morning and all I wanted
was eggnog. I am so jonesing for eggnog right now.

Speaker 2 (01:06:55):
There's groups for that you can join. Yeah, we would
all the meetings.

Speaker 1 (01:06:58):
We would all just drink eggnog and love it. Y'all
just love our lives, all right. This is a crazy
story out of Council Bluffs. The family of a woman
who disappeared thirty six years ago they've never found her,
now has an arrest in her disappearance. Sixty one year
old guy in Council Bluffs was arrested two days ago,

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charged with first degree murder. After more than thirty six
years after Barbara Lenz disappeared in Harrison County. That's up
around Woodbine. She was last seen leaving her apartment in Woodbine.
Disappeared in May of nineteen eighty nine. Now here's how

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we have the arrest. And Lucy, let's see if you
ask the same question when I give you all these
details that everyone else did. Before she disappeared, she told
friends that she was scared of this guy who she
had an on and off relationship with, and feared that
he would kill her. She a criminal complaint says that
this guy assaulted her several times. During their two year relationship,

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including multiple incidents where he strangled her. The documents showed
that he admitted in nineteen eighty nine to assaulting her
and having a violent temper. She had a three year
old daughter who was living with the girl's father at
the time because she didn't want her little girl around
because she was afraid that this guy would do something

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to hurt the daughter. Witnesses are now saying that he
told other women that he assaulted throughout the nineties. He
you better hush up, but you're going to end up
like Barbara. And witnesses also say that they saw him
and his brother burying something in a rural area near
his home shortly after she disappeared. Now ask your.

Speaker 2 (01:08:50):
Question, I have too many to narrow it down.

Speaker 1 (01:08:54):
A big question.

Speaker 2 (01:08:55):
The big question is how Why was he not an investigator?

Speaker 1 (01:08:57):
Why did this take thirty six years?

Speaker 2 (01:09:01):
Was he investigated?

Speaker 1 (01:09:02):
Then? I I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:09:06):
And this is Pott County or is this is Iowa
State Patrol. We we have investigated that he.

Speaker 1 (01:09:12):
Was arrested in Council Bluffs. It's a cold case out
of Harrison County. It's the Iowa Attorney General, Brenna Byrd
who's going through some of the cold cases, going why
haven't we made an arrest in this one? This guy
lived in Omaha for most of the last thirty plus years,
not far from where this woman's daughter lived. We're finding

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out now.

Speaker 2 (01:09:34):
The one that she had to move, Yeah, to live
with your father to get away from that.

Speaker 1 (01:09:39):
Okay, Yes, that girl is now forty ish and might
finally have some closure in her mom's disappearance from May
of nineteen eighty nine. And everyone's looking at this going
what how why? I don't know, but they got him. Now.

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We'll see what happens with that case and we'll wrap
up this show next. Pat email Scott atkfab dot com.
I'm Scott Vorhees. This is News Radio eleven ten. KFAB says.
My thought is is that the KFAB staff has a
love affair going on with Mayor Stothard. Ask Mayor Stothard

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if she loves KFAB and every single staff member here.
You want to see my phone, you want to see
you want to see this text string. I think that
the mayor would disagree with your assessment, as would I.
Like I said, I don't work for these campaigns, but
we're going to talk about this quite a bit in
the weeks to come. Here, Clay and Buck probably won't

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spend much time on the Omaha Mayor's race there next
on eleven ten KFAB

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