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March 24, 2025 • 70 mins
From the protesters at the Kid Rock concert to the co-author of a new book about Johnny Carson -- and that's just the first half of today's show!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott Vordiez.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
This weekend did provide one of those wonderful things that
we see in the spring every single years. The snow melts,
and the robins come out and they bring their friend
Sheila and Denise and and the grass starts greening up.

(00:22):
You start to see a few little buds on those
trees that have that kind of thing. And then you
go to downtown Omaha and see you see a lot
of kids with buds, about three hundred teenagers I'm guessing
many of them under the influence of something, just hanging
out in that brand new, beautiful jeene leay Hee mall

(00:44):
and there was a disturbance. Police show up. There's I
don't know, four cops looking at three hundred teenagers like
fields of amber out there, the flowing teenagers as far
as the eye can see. And it looks like here

(01:09):
that they they I don't know how many they arrested,
it says the police said there were reports of a
large disturbance involving around three hundred young people. It says
that there were a couple of arrests. That is according
to a spokesperson for Omaha Police Department talking to WOWT

(01:33):
six News. A couple of arrests for disorderly conduct. Those
arrested were released, and OPD has increased their presence at
the mall during spring break and we'll do the same
one school is out for the year. And the story
here from WOWT says that there were people down there like, well,
it was a nice day. We're celebrating a birthday dinner

(01:56):
from my sister, and I was down here my mom
is in town for a visit. We wanted to get
some fresh air. And there's just giant crowds of teenagers
out there with no place to go. They're not going
to any of the restaurants where they'd be allowed in there,
and they're not old enough to get into the bars.
And this is a familiar refrain in Omaha every single year,

(02:17):
and I guess because this happens every single year, there's
just nothing that anyone can or will do about it.
I don't know what time this happened. It said late
Saturday night, and Omaha Police also said, look, if you've
dropped your child off downtown, please remember to pick them

(02:37):
up if they're down at the Jean Leahy Mall. As
the mall closes every day at eleven PM. According to
one of the spectators of the disturbance, he says, quote
people that come from out of town, they can't even
come here and enjoy it because all the kids are
out here ruining stuff, fighting, and no one wants to

(02:58):
put their kid in that situation. So we talked to
a business owner downtown last week. His complaint was about
the homeless population creating disturbances for downtown businesses. But let's
not forget all of those kids who have homes and

(03:20):
terrible parents, so we can't possibly forget that. So that
was part of what happened over the weekend. And then
Friday night, Kid Rock was in town. Bob went to
bad to Bang to Bang, Diggy Diggy Iggy Diggy Wiggy
Diggy Up Jumped the Boogie or something like that. A
little kid rock.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
That seems like it's a whole lot cleaner than what
actually was said.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
That's those are most of the actual lyrics to that song,
which is just gibberish and it's a lot of fun.
I saw him shortly after that song was released, so
we're circa nineteen ninety nine ish, maybe two thousand and
many put on a great show. Oh Kid Rock, Oh

(04:02):
Kid Rock is a little older now and he is
a little more maga now. Lucy Chapman's check into the program.
And there were a group called Indivisible Nebraska is who
took credit for this protest. And according to the story
here from KMTV three News Now, members of a group

(04:26):
called Indivisible Nebraska gather at the corner of tenth and
Mike Fahee outside CCHI Health Center Center to protest people
going to the Kid Rock concert. The name of the
organization is Indivisible Nebraska. They showed up to create division
for people going to a rock concert.

Speaker 3 (04:48):
I thought that seemed a little bit divisible.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
Yes, Oh, well, you know how these people operate. These
people who preach tolerance mean you have to agree with
us on one hundred percent these things, otherwise you're intolerant. Like,
but what do you I thought tolerance was finding a
way to move forward even if we have different note,
tolerance means you have to agree with everything I say

(05:13):
whenever I say it, and if you don't, you're intolerant.
So what were these people doing that was so bad?
They were going to hear Kid Rocks and Cowboy or whatever.
The story here from KMTV says because of Kid Rock's

(05:37):
direct connection to President Trump? What direct is he his
spiritual advisor? What direct connect? I didn't realize that Trump
or that Kid Rock and Trump had a direct connection.

(05:58):
So let's see here. KMTV talked to one of the protesters.
Let's let's get some knowledge here from this guy, his
name's Kurt. It says that this is just out of context.
And here's the quote from the story or quote. It's
going to hurt everyone. It's already shown that he's just

(06:18):
firing people whoever he wants and getting rid of everything
or a lot of racial or minority stuff in the
government web pages. Unquote. That's a direct quote from one
of these MENSA members down there protesting people going to
see Kid Rock. I don't think they're talking about Kid

(06:38):
Rock firing people.

Speaker 3 (06:41):
I think probably not, unless somebody messed up in the band,
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
I think they're talking about Trump and Elon Musk. And
so let's see here. Was there a big fight that
took out, No, that was going on the next night
at the Lahee Mall. That was among the teenagers, but
these adults apparently showed up there. I mean, are you
really going to a rock concert if there's not a

(07:07):
protest of some sort. It used to be the Cult
members from Topeka that would show up here protest a
rock concert just because, and they would want to get punched.
That's how they make their money, this group. I don't
know if they wanted to get punched, but apparently they didn't.
I think a few people may be cursed at them.

(07:28):
Oh yeah, I think they said some stuff out loud
and maybe flip them fingers and so forth. Not an
actionable thing. So yeah, they these guys were yelling mega, maga, maga,

(07:49):
go home. I don't know the cadence, but that's how
it's printed here in the Maybe they were yelling at
a kid Rock to go home. I wonder if that
got to him. He's backstage in his dressing room drinking
anything other than bud light and uh, because he didn't

(08:10):
liked the bud light thing with the We know. So
they're like, mister kidd Rock, mister Rock Kid, mister kid Rock.
There's a bunch of protesters out there, how many, like
I don't know, seven or eight, and they would like
for you to go home, Like, oh well, okay, he
just packed up all of his guns and the show

(08:33):
head bands and guitars and everything and just packed up
all his sunglasses and went home. Yeah, that's too bad.
I'm not gonna go where I'm not wanted. Now, Kid
Rock put on a great show. And if those people
would have gone in to enjoy the concert and put
politics aside, like so many trumpy people have to do

(08:56):
if they want to go see an entertainer, whether that's
a sing or a movie or something like that, there
are a lot of people are like, look, I don't
agree with that guy's politics, but man, he sings a
jaunty tune and they're going they'll go and see a show.
Because for a lot of people, it's like, well, if
I only went and saw the shows of the people

(09:17):
who would align with me politically, I'd hardly see anything.
So these guys couldn't just swallow their politics. Just go
in there and sing along with Kid Rock. That song
he did with Cheryl Crow, that's a good number, the
song where he took bits of Sweet Home Alabama.

Speaker 3 (09:38):
Yeah, Picture, Oh you're talking about sweet Oh? That's the end.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
No, now I've moved on to a different song. He
did the song with Cheryl Crow, I think that's called Picture,
And then he did the song where he mixed in
the Werewolves of London and Sweet Home, Alabama called it
all Summer Long. You go in there and sing some
of that stuff. When I saw him, he did a
great rendition of secondhand News Fleetwood Mac, and I thought, huh,

(10:02):
kid Rock can actually sing.

Speaker 3 (10:04):
You didn't know this before.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
No, I thought he just yelled and rapped a little bit.
But no, dude puts on a good show. I didn't
go see him. I was watching basketball all weekend. And
you know that your brain got completely adult watching basketball, Yeah,
I did, when I know yours didn't. But I watched
the I watched the Creighton game Saturday night, sadly in

(10:27):
its entirety and sadly because they lost. And then my wife,
who was out of town for a few days, she
got home last night and I'm just still just shoving
food in my face and watching basketball. And during time
out she'd asked me questions, and one of the questions
she asked me was, so, who beat Creighton? And even
though I'd watched that game in its entirety just twenty

(10:49):
four hours beforehand, I had to look at her and go,
I can't remember I've watched so many basketball games since then.
It took me a minute.

Speaker 3 (10:58):
I was like, uhhh, you need to get out in golf.

Speaker 2 (11:04):
Okay, in fact, right now, when go all right, hey
playing Bucker next, I'm gonna go play golf.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
Scott Byes News Radio eleven ten k.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
Fad John says, I can't believe you watched a basketball
game when Nebraska wrestlers were vying for championships. I'm very
disappointed in any Nebraska that couldn't care enough to tune in. Well, John,
feel free to be disappointed. It seems that the Nebraska

(11:38):
wrestlers did just fine without me tuning in to watch.
Having spent one year wrestling as a first grader, never
exactly fell in love with the sport. It's I think
Nebraska has had a sterling history of wrestling, but I'm

(12:00):
pleased that they've been able to do so without my
constant attention. I'm sure that's very disappointing to you. I
also watched golf. I watched a lot of golf and
basketball of the weekend. John didn't. And I'm not going
to tell John that I'm disappointed that he didn't do
what I'm interested in, but he's disappointed in me and

(12:20):
not watching wrestling. That's fine. Lucy spent the entire weekend
watching the college wrestling championships and gives us her appraisal.

Speaker 3 (12:29):
Now, Lucy, well, I kind of thought that it was
a little bit a little slow. I think they should
have had those matches running a little faster because I
didn't have that much time to sit and wait in
between each school that changed, So whenever a new school
came in, I had to sit down and listen to

(12:52):
all the stats. And I already knew all the stats.
I didn't need them again.

Speaker 2 (12:56):
You need constant action. You don't like things just slowing down.
Almost come into a screeching hal Yet you're okay with
this segment of this radio show. There was also an
issue that some people see with the basketball over the weekend,
and that is after the.

Speaker 3 (13:13):
After the no not not you said the basketball, Yes.

Speaker 2 (13:17):
The playing of the games in the march basketball basketballing,
not the basketball itself. The issue that some people have
is that there are no Cinderellas left here. As we
get in we get into the Sweet sixteen, no Cinderella
story scene. No team seeded eleventh or worse has made

(13:43):
the cut, and there was a close one yesterday, Man,
that Colorado State Maryland game, Lucy, am, I right? How
about that?

Speaker 3 (13:50):
That was close? I was holding my breath Colorado State
and wrestling.

Speaker 2 (13:55):
That dude just hit the way downtown bang and there
was only a few seconds left in the clock. And
Maryland's guy took eighteen or nineteen steps, which apparently isn't traveling,
and then bank to one off the glass buzzer beater, boom.
Terrapins beat the rams of Colorado State number four, Maryland

(14:17):
advances number twelve. Colorado State goes home, and it's some
really good games. I don't think any of them went
to overtime. Some got really close, but I don't think
any games went to overtime. But there were no Cinderella teams.
And that's fine because I like to watch good basketball games.

(14:38):
I love a good Cinderella story when it's a good
Cinderella team, like when Butler or VCU starts getting towards
the final four. But I don't need, you know, a
group like Colorado State to go on to play and
get smoked by Duke just because you know, let's watch
some good basketball games. So people are like, but there's

(15:00):
no Cinderella team, all right, so only the best teams
played their best and advanced to play the other best
teams who are also playing their best. Oh my gosh,
how terrible is this basketball week? Gonna be? Am?

Speaker 4 (15:14):
I right.

Speaker 2 (15:16):
Heading into yesterday, for all of those who fill out
various brackets, there were only three perfect brackets remaining going
into yesterday, and they all busted out yesterday. There are
no more perfect brackets on the men's side.

Speaker 3 (15:34):
Yeah, but I haven't filled mine out yet.

Speaker 2 (15:37):
I've got news for you too late. I'm sure someone
will let you bet on something on the women's side,
which is amazing because you remember last year Kamala Harris,
a former vice president of these United States, said that
women didn't have brackets.

Speaker 3 (15:54):
Have brackets.

Speaker 2 (15:55):
Now, yeah, women didn't have brackets. Still, Kamala Harris came along,
and now they have brackets. You remember that conversation she's saying,
She's like, women don't have brackets. They didn't have brackets,
And people are looking at this, going they've had brackets
since like nineteen eighty. What are you talking about, Well,
they didn't have brackets. Now they do have brackets. Like,

(16:17):
do you have any idea what you're talking about? Ever?

Speaker 3 (16:20):
Maybe she meant that they didn't have brackets that anybody
knew about.

Speaker 2 (16:25):
Well, there are some people know now because whereas on
the men's side there are zero perfect brackets, but on
the women's side, one hundred and forty one perfect brackets,
which that and a dollar get you. No, hey, hey,

(16:47):
I don't want to take off the guy. It's all
mad at me.

Speaker 3 (16:51):
There's some money to be made on gambling for women's
basketball too.

Speaker 2 (16:56):
Right, there's nothing that we know, right, I guess I
don't know. I don't know. I don't watch. I just
I don't watch women's basketball. And my opinion on this,
But Scott, didn't you watch Kaitlin Clark?

Speaker 4 (17:17):
No?

Speaker 3 (17:19):
Same? I wait, wasn't she volleyball?

Speaker 2 (17:23):
See? And you're a sexist pig, you're anti woman? Why
you don't even know that she's a basketball player?

Speaker 5 (17:30):
Well, I don't.

Speaker 3 (17:32):
I am not a sportsperson.

Speaker 2 (17:34):
Did I watch more women's basketball when Kaitlin Clark was involved? Yes,
I watched a few minutes, which was a few minute
increase over the previous year.

Speaker 3 (17:45):
I don't know, I just am I'm a sexist pig.

Speaker 2 (17:48):
Am. I it's just I don't I only have so
much time. I got a lot of old reruns at
night court to watch, but not why seeing any women's basketball.
I think I could probably still nail a perfect bracket
at this point. What isn't it always the same women's
teams that like it's LSU and it's Yukon, it's Tennessee.

Speaker 3 (18:11):
So they have teams that have been to the women's
like championship thing.

Speaker 2 (18:17):
Everyone calmed down, let's see where this goes.

Speaker 3 (18:19):
Yes, Lucy, they have teams that have been to whatever
the women go to for their championship stuff.

Speaker 2 (18:27):
You're asking, you're asking in women's basketball when every year
they have a championship, whether there are teams that play
in that championship?

Speaker 3 (18:34):
No, are there teams that play in that championship?

Speaker 2 (18:37):
Say, like, the same teams all the time, like every year?

Speaker 3 (18:39):
Yes, Now this isn't this is college right, this is
not like I'll.

Speaker 2 (18:44):
Handle this everyone, it's okay, yes, Lucy, we are talking college.

Speaker 3 (18:50):
Okay, yeah there was.

Speaker 2 (18:52):
But if you want to talk professional women's basketball, there
was a great Babylon Bee headline the other day that
said women demand to be paid what they're worth in
the WNBA. So essentially they get there, they're dragged along
and the NBA has to cut them in on a
deal to pay a bunch of money to prop up

(19:13):
the WNBA. So women in the WNBA demand to be
paid with their worth and now they owe the NBA
seventy five billion dollars.

Speaker 3 (19:22):
That is wrong.

Speaker 2 (19:24):
Yeah, one more sport, oh please? A bit that gets
us back into the political news of our age. Tiger
Woods has a new girlfriend. It's Donald Trump Junior's ex wife,
Vanessa Trump.

Speaker 3 (19:45):
His ex wife.

Speaker 2 (19:46):
Yeah, DT DTA d T Junior's ex wife, Vanessa Yeah,
Donald Trump Junior his ex wife. They were married from
two thousand and five twenty eighteen. They've got between the
two of them, there are five children and Tiger.

Speaker 3 (20:08):
Who's between Tiger and this this?

Speaker 2 (20:10):
Oh yeah, yeah, she comes into it. He's got two kids,
she's got three, I presume with Trump Junior. And so
they'll have a lot of time spend together because Tiger
announced the other day he ruptured his achilles tendon when
trying to get himself in shape to play the Masters
here in a few weeks, and he is not going

(20:31):
to play in the Masters. Are probably professional golf at
all this year's.

Speaker 3 (20:37):
So kind of regretting her decision.

Speaker 2 (20:40):
Yeah, now, He's just gonna be sitting around the house.

Speaker 3 (20:44):
This is not Brady Bunch. Yeah, we'll see all iround
the house.

Speaker 2 (20:48):
See how long this lasts. But you know, Tiger tweeted
it out the other day saying love is in the
air and life is better with you by my side.
Yeah he actually said that, or Grok did. I don't know,
but yeah. So Tiger, who has been hanging out over
the years with President Trump, They've played some golf together,

(21:11):
is now kind of part of the He's not part
of the family, but he's certainly part of the periphery,
which means that'd be interesting if they get married. Because
the president and Tiger are buddies, does he get invited

(21:32):
to family gatherings with the president's son's ex wife because
the ex wife is married to the dad's buddy, Tiger.
Let me know when it gets confusing. Hey, from Nebraska.
We have a native son that I hope we're all
really proud of. Johnny Carson and a new book about

(21:53):
the You talk about people respecting their wanting people to
respect their privacy. Tiger Woods and Johnny Carson very private people,
and a book was allowed to be written about Johnny.
We'll talk with one of the authors next.

Speaker 1 (22:07):
Scott Boys news Radio eleven KFAB.

Speaker 2 (22:12):
I had read that Tiger and Don Junior's ex wife
had between the two of them five kids, but that
was talking about her and Donald Trump Junior. So Tiger
has got two kids from a previous marriage. Vanessa Trump,
the president's former daughter in law, and his son Donald

(22:33):
Trump Junior have five kids between them seven total. There,
Sorry about that. I know you're all hanging on for
these details. We correct on the fly. Well, I'll tell
you a KFA b alum who had never gotten anything
wrong in this radio station. That's right. Johnny Carson used

(22:56):
to work here on news Radio eleven ten KFA BE
just a few years before I got here, and then
he went on to do the tonight show.

Speaker 1 (23:06):
Sis boom bas Sis boomba.

Speaker 4 (23:11):
Describe the sound made when a sheep explodes.

Speaker 2 (23:16):
And Nebraska's own Johnny Carson is now the subject to
a brand new book called Carson the Magnificent. Co author
Mike Thomas joins us here. Mike, it's great to have
you in the program.

Speaker 5 (23:28):
Good morning, Scott, great to be with you.

Speaker 2 (23:31):
Thanks for having me absolutely. Now, first of all, there
have been a number of books and late night type
shows and so forth dedicated to Johnny Carson. And I
don't know that any of them were exactly authorized. What's
the level of authorization into his life that you guys
got in writing this book.

Speaker 5 (23:50):
Well, Bill's Amy, who's the main author of this book,
got as much authorization as anyone has ever gotten. You're right.
None of the other ones had any of Johnny's patient
They had some people in his world. But Bill got
unprecedented access with this because the book started out as
a long profile or Esquire magazine in two thousand and two,

(24:11):
and that's what spawned the book in five after Carson died.
So Bill had had a long sit down with Johnny.
He had gotten to know him over the course of
about ten years, just kind of by stopping by his
retirement offices in Santa Monica just to say hello and
shoot the breeze in the hall. And Bill had also
become a, you know, an expert late night chronicler. He

(24:31):
was he had written a lot about Letterman and about
Leno and about Sidekicks and Ed McMahon, so he was
really plugged into that world. And after he interviewed Johnny
in two thousand and two, all kinds of doors open
to you know, intimates, close pals, poker pals, wives, friends
who sailed with him on his yacht to Serengetti. So

(24:51):
there's been nothing like this in history.

Speaker 2 (24:54):
Yeah, I've been blessed to be able to spend some
time on the radio talking with Ed McMahon and Docs
Prinson as a longtime band leader. But of course Johnny,
for anyone who ever wanted to interview him or talk
with him, was nearly impossible to get any access to him.
And it's amazing that your co author Bill Zemi was

(25:16):
able to. Here's what I'm curious because it sounds like, Mike,
you never had a chance to talk with Johnny Carson.

Speaker 5 (25:23):
I did not have to talk with Johnny.

Speaker 2 (25:25):
Okay, So as you're looking at him from the same
perspective that most of us have, you get this idea
that he was just really dour and didn't enjoy talking
to people and was reclusive, don't I don't know. If
I don't think that's the case, or if I don't
want that to be the case, I'll tell you why.

(25:46):
I don't think it's the case because a lot of
people who are entertainers when they're kind of done with that.
People expect them at dinner parties to be the life
of the party, and if you're not, they're like, well,
what's his problem? And I think Johnny falls into that camp.
What's you read?

Speaker 5 (26:01):
I think so too. I mean, I think there was
a part of Johnny that was introverted, you know, he
was he was the super cool, outgoing guy on the air,
really connected with the audience and with his guests. But
when he when he got off the air, he could
be a very private guy, and sometimes it came off
as as aloofness. I mean, but Johnny was more than

(26:21):
happy to dive into his hobbies, to play tennis, to
stare into his fancy telescopes, and read all kinds of books.
He was a voracious reader and spend just time alone
being quiet, and you know, like a lot of entertainers,
he pointed this out. He was great in front of
three million people, not great in front of three people

(26:42):
at a cocktail party.

Speaker 4 (26:43):
For instance.

Speaker 5 (26:44):
It just wasn't his thing. So make of it what
you will, But I think that's the same thing with
a lot of entertainers.

Speaker 2 (26:50):
Conan O'Brien tells a great story where they'd when Conan
was writing for the Simpsons. They'd ask Johnny to come
in and do a line, and he was happy to
And this was right after he retired, and he came
in and recorded his line or two, and then they're like, well,
thank you very much for leaving, for stopping buy mister Carson.
But he didn't want to leave because he enjoyed being

(27:10):
in that writer's room, hanging out with the guys and
hung out for an hour and just shared stories and
hung out and could not have been a better person.
And I'm wondering what your read is, Mike, on what
he got growing up in Nebraska here to what he
was able to take with him the rest of his life.

Speaker 5 (27:30):
Well, I think growing up in Nebraska was when Johnny
got the show biz bug. But it wasn't through comedy.
It was through magic, which he would do constantly, obsessively
around the house, to the point where, if you read
some early magazine articles, it was kind of annoying his
family with card tricks and stuff like that. But you know,

(27:51):
his mom made him his first cape so he could
be the great CARSONI and that's when he started sort
of getting the bug for performance, and he took that
element of magic with him into comedy. I think Johnny
always had a gift for gab, as you know, as
he went to his radio career and then he went
to TV. From radio, he knew how to talk to

(28:12):
an audience, He knew how to talk to people on
the air, guests and such. But he always had this
element of magic where he would only show us what
he wanted to show us on the air, whether it
was radio or TV. We never really got the full
Carson on the air, but he was always this down
to earth, relatable guys. But that I think came in
some way from magic.

Speaker 2 (28:31):
Yeah. And you know, one amazing thing about Johnny Carson was,
especially if you tune into Late Night now, you know
who everyone's voted for. I don't know that anyone ever
had an idea who Johnny Carson voted for.

Speaker 5 (28:46):
I don't think so either, because he never really let
that out of the bag. He was never this hyperpartisan guy.
I mean, he had to appeal to a really wide
audience because there were only a few channels back then,
for one, but he wanted to get the best ratings
as well. He did want to alienate people, and also
the society was not nearly as hyperpartisan as it is today,

(29:07):
so I don't think it would have played well anyway.
But there wasn't a ton of political content on the show.
And you know, it's funny. I get the sense that
a lot of people will say, ah, he was a
conservative guy politically, but I actually got the sense of
Johnny was probably more liberal than conservative. But Johnny was
a conservative personality, and so I think that was translated

(29:29):
to politics for some people, but he never showed.

Speaker 2 (29:32):
It in a big way. You have also written about
another one of my favorite entertainers of all time, Phil Hartman.
Compare and contrast Phil Hartman and Johnny Carson.

Speaker 5 (29:43):
Well, I mean, in some ways they were very similar.
I think Phil had an easier time in personal situations
depending on what they were in real life off the stage.
He was not always on like Carson. W Phil had
a ton of hobbies like Carson did. He was very

(30:04):
smart and well read like Carson was. They both had
impeccable timing. Phil, though, like Carson, was not great at relationships,
especially when it came to his marriages. Just there was
something there that just didn't connect, whether it was something
about his specific personality or the fact that he had

(30:25):
given so much to his work that when he came
home he just wanted to retire and be quiet. And
Bill's and Phil's case, you know, just smoke pot, plays
guitar and fly his airplane, hopefully not at the same time.
And Johnny's case, kind of retire into his hobbies and
you know, not be bothered. So yeah, a lot of similarities.

(30:47):
And you know, I think they would have gotten along,
really will. I mean Phil, Phil died in ninety eight,
Carson in two thousand and five. I didn't get the
sense that they really knew each other.

Speaker 2 (30:57):
Will. A couple of entertaining reads here. Mike authored both
of them. Mike, thank you very much for the time
this morning.

Speaker 5 (31:04):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (31:05):
I appreciate it absolutely. And those books about Johnny Carson
Carson the Magnificent out now, and then previously a book
called you might remember me, as in the famous line
from Troy McClure a voiced by Phil Hartman, you might
remember me from Son, you know, so you might remember
me The Life and Times of Phil Hartman. That's the

(31:26):
Phil Hartman book. And then Carson the Magnificent about Johnny.
Mike Thomas there on news radio eleven ten kfab like
I said, Carson worked at this radio station. I had
a chance when I first started here, which is about
eighteen and a half years ago, to talk with a
long time a former engineer at the radio station. This

(31:50):
guy had been here for decades and decades, and I said,
did you work with Johnny Goes?

Speaker 1 (31:56):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (31:56):
Yeah, oh yeah. I said, what was that like? He said,
let me tell you what that was like. There was
a story here in Omaha where there were too many
pigeons roosting above the entrance to city Hall in downtown Omaha,
and everyone was wondering, what are we going to do
about these pigeons. We can't just shoot them and kill
them and get them out of there, and we can't
poison them because people are going to get mad, so

(32:18):
they're trying all these different things. What are we going
to do about the pigeons? So Johnny came to me
and said, Hey, I want to interview those pigeons. Now
it's radio. You could sit here in the studio and
either have someone do a pigeon sound effect, or you
could find the sound effects somewhere even in nineteen fifty whatever.

(32:41):
But Johnny didn't want to do that. So he had
this engineer, this poor man, rig a very long extension
cord and microphone cord to where Johnny's on the radio,
and the engineer is hanging out of one of the windows,
like the third floor of the city building, dangling out

(33:02):
of the window holding a microphone out so Johnny could
interview the pigeons about why they're targeting people's heads as
they're walking into city hall. That was the great Johnny Carson.

Speaker 4 (33:16):
I can only tell you that it has been an
honor and a privilege to come into your homes all
these years and entertain you, and I hope and I
find something that I want to do, and I think
you will like and come back that you'll be as
gracious and biting me in your home as you have been.

Speaker 1 (33:31):
I bet you a very heartfelt good night. Scott Boys
News Radio eleven. Tig Kfaby.

Speaker 2 (33:38):
I'm a grown man. I'm in here banging my head
like it like an idiot.

Speaker 3 (33:44):
I know the song.

Speaker 2 (33:45):
I like it, Yeah, yeah, I just love the concept
of kid rock sitting down going all right, I need
some lyrics here. Let's go with bab with dabad a
bang a bang, Diggy diggy Iggy Wiggy Wiggy Diggy Wiggy,
Wiggy Leggy or whatever. Up jump to Boogie's That's just
fantastic stuff. That just harkens back to the days where

(34:07):
all you need was some a fun tune. We'll just
gibberish the lyrics. You're like, they never did. Oh yeah,
go listen to Lui Leui all right?

Speaker 3 (34:18):
Money money yeah?

Speaker 2 (34:19):
Or money money that's right? What does it even mean?
Who knows? Solidly proud member of gen X, I am
Scott Vorhees. Lucy Chapman is part of the Greatest Generation.
And she's here too on news radio eleven ten KFAB
and by the look on her face, got the indication
that she is listening to what I'm saying, which is

(34:40):
a nice change.

Speaker 3 (34:42):
Really.

Speaker 2 (34:43):
She's also a member of jen X.

Speaker 3 (34:46):
I was just I'm posting something on our kfb's page.
Are you yeah, I'm And it's just about this kind
of thing that kids. When we were kids, we would
get into all kinds of trouble. We thought we could fly,
We thought we could there wasn't anything we couldn't do right.
And there's a story out there now, there's a toy

(35:08):
out there that kids are playing with, but they're throwing
him in the microwave. Nido squishy toy. Have you heard
of that? No, well, they're throwing them in the microwave
and they're getting severely burned. Oh so anyway, I'll have
them putting it up on kfab's page right now. That's
why I stopped you, because, yeah, we used to do
all kinds of stuff, all right crazy in the gen X.

Speaker 2 (35:28):
On the Lucy Chapman page at kfab dot com. Cool.
I did think I could fly. I watched and this
is I still blame to this day, Christopher Reeve. Had
he not been so awesome as Superman, I wouldn't have
watched that movie as a a three year old and
then proceeded to jump off my top bunk. I hit

(35:50):
the hit my head on my dresser, the corner of
the dresser. Stitches.

Speaker 3 (35:57):
Wait, the dresser got stitches.

Speaker 2 (35:59):
I got stitches. Thankfully there wasn't any long term brain
damage though, And thankfully there wasn't any long term brain damage, though.

Speaker 3 (36:13):
I'm detecting that might be a lie who said that.

Speaker 2 (36:16):
So, yeah, we could think, we used to think we
could fly. Oh today's kids. I almost forgot conversation I
overheard yesterday at High V between two High V male
teenage employees. I didn't hear the very beginning of it,
but I heard enough. One said to the other one, Yeah,
well you better watch your back. No, I'm taking you out.

(36:37):
You better have your goggles on, bro, And I was like, Ah,
today is the day I wonder if my daughter has
been Is it infuriating for me to talk in terms
like this to say I wonder if my daughter's been assassinated? Yet?
This is nothing to joke about. But today's teenage who

(37:00):
have grown up with a very different idea of school
safety than we did. Let's be honest. I mean, we
grew up with this idea of school safety, and that was,
you know, don't cross the bully or all the group
of Hessians who are listening to Metallica and smoking across
the parking lot while looking at the school disciplinarian going
what are you going to do about it? We're not
on school property, We're across the street and they just

(37:22):
be over there smoking and listen to Anthrax. You know, like,
I'm not going to get on their bad side. That
was our idea of school safety. Today's kids over the
last twenty years or so have had a different idea.
They have. I'm proud of them for taking it back.
They Today is the first day of Senior Assassin. If

(37:44):
you missed the program a week or two ago. Here's
how Senior Assassin works. And I'll come right back to
my broadcast teas a moment ago, which is a Democrat
in the Nebraska legislature as proposed to build that I
completely agree with. So Senior Assassin. First, if you're a
senior in high school, this is a nationwide deal which

(38:08):
has local chapters. So if you get a senior at
high school, as I do, at a local school, someone
is the ringleader of the group. You pay that person
five bucks. I don't know how much that enterprising chapter
president is collecting for him or herself, but I hope
it's a few. How about entrepreneurship, right is that a word?

(38:29):
How about entrepreneurship? Yes, So you pay that person and
the person then organizes the Senior Assassin bracket, if you will.
And that is basically like I would have to take
out Lucy before she takes out me. How do you
take someone out squirt gun? And there are certain rules. One,
you can't do it on school property. The teachers don't

(38:50):
need anyone busting into the classroom with what might be
a gun. That's a negative connotation to this whole thing.
So instead you've got to basically stalk your fellow classmate
and find them outside of school hours. But you can't
go to their workplace and do it. So I guess

(39:10):
you got to hide in the bushes at their house
and risk getting shot by their old man. But hopefully
that won't happen. So this is how the game is played.
But you can't get shot. You can't get assassinated in
this game. If you're wearing goggles. We don't know if
that's swim goggles or the old Kurt rambus kream abdul

(39:33):
Jabbar rexpex or whatever. So if you see teenagers either
wearing goggles or having marks around their eyes where it
looked like they've been wearing swim goggles all day, that's
what's going on. And you've got so many hours in
the day to try and take out your target and

(39:54):
then you move on in the game. It's like a
bracket senior assassin.

Speaker 3 (39:58):
It seems to me if they smart, they would say,
if you have goggles on, you will be You'll be
targeted because this would make kids smarter. They would be
wearing goggles as to protect their eyes. But if they
have goggles, they can't get shot. Well, good is that?

Speaker 2 (40:21):
Well, it's just it's just funny. Yeah, it's just funny.
Texting my daughter right now. You're not supposed to have
school class. What I'm texting talking? You're not supposed to
have phones in class. Yeah, apparently no one cares. So
I just texted her and say you get shot yet,
I'll let you know, all right. A Democrat member of

(40:43):
the Nebraska legislature in the officially nonpartisan legislature, how are
you supposed to know it? Well, because she's run for
office as a Democrat. State Senator Jane Raybold of Lincoln
is proposing LB two fifty eight. This legislative bill would
take money away from kids, and I completely agree. You

(41:08):
remember the timeline Nebraska voters said, we think the minimum
wage should be increased. If we pay people more money,
more of these people will work. Meanwhile, McDonald's is like,
we're paying fifteen to eighteen dollars an hour, we still
can't get people to work. How much do we? And
plus they also said, well some of us don't have

(41:30):
a problem getting employees. They agreed to work for this
amount of money. What do you think happens when suddenly
we have to pay them more because we have to
pay them more. And then the people a level or
two or three or four above them on the pay scale,
they all have to get paid more because right now,
with what the voters are doing, you get hired on
day one a minimum wage, you're making more than your manager,

(41:53):
so we have to adjust her salary up. And how
do you think we're going to keep costs down now
that the cost of service is going up and the
cost of goods is going up. I don't know, if
you notice the inflation of the last couple of years,
how in the world do you think that we're going
to keep costs down? And Nebraska voters are like, I
don't care, figure it out, and then they voted to

(42:15):
increase the minimum wage and then got mad when everything
costs more money. The costs and costs of goods and
services went up, just so we could pay basically teenagers
to try and get closer to having a living wage
so they can support a family of four. And these
kids are like, I'm fifteen, I'm flipping burgers. You know,

(42:37):
it's ridiculous. Small business owners said, how about this, how
about you let us decide the wage of these workers.
There is a federal minimum wage. Obviously we're not going
to go below that. Some of us will pay the
workers more, some will pay less. If we find that
we're not getting the workers we want or need at
this cost, we make an adjustment. But this flat things. Anyway,

(43:00):
Nebraska voters completely screwed this up, and now State Senator
Jane ray Bold of Lincoln Democrat says, we're going to
reduce if we pass this, we should reduce the cost
of living increases to Nebraska's a minimum wage and lower
the minimum wage for workers who are fifteen years of

(43:22):
age and younger. Yeah, there are workers.

Speaker 3 (43:25):
It's not gonna do hardly anything.

Speaker 2 (43:28):
It might cause fifteen year olds to get hired more,
which would be good.

Speaker 4 (43:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (43:33):
Not a lot of places hire fifteen year olds, but
some do.

Speaker 3 (43:36):
Yeah. I started at fifteen. Yeah, I would give them
a better base.

Speaker 2 (43:41):
Yeah. So she says that this is the minimum wage
is not a living wage and was never intended to
be a living wage. We have to have a necessary
balance that recognizes the will of the voters. However screwed
up you were, but also honors the concerns of small businesses.

(44:03):
She is a business owner. She says, I've heard concerns
from other business owners that the wage increases are creating
challenges that could force them to cut staff or raise
their prices. This is especially true for local small business
owners because you don't have the ability to diffuse all

(44:25):
of your costs and expenses across several different states and
locations like Walmart does. They can afford to keep costs
a little bit lower because frankly, they can automate a
lot of the employees and they've got more space. If
you have one shop and you've got seven or eight employees,

(44:46):
it's going to be hard for you to keep paced
with the costs of goods and services some of the
bigger national retailers, because you just can can't do it.
So she's trying to do this, and now you got
people arguing. Here's someone who's the policy coordinator for a
group called Voices for Children Nebraska saying this bill unfairly

(45:09):
targets young workers, many of many of them use their
pay to support their families.

Speaker 3 (45:21):
I wouldn't agree with the word many on them no, I'm.

Speaker 2 (45:24):
Sure a few of them probably are. And I bet
you're finding some great workers who aren't going to stay
at the minimum wage. If that's that's the other thing. Basically,
anymore you get hired and you show up for the job,
and you continue to show up for the job on
time and with pants on, you're not going to stay
at the minimum wage for that long.

Speaker 3 (45:46):
Why you gotta have pants?

Speaker 2 (45:48):
Well, some jobs require you to wear You're a terrible boss.
Not radio.

Speaker 3 (45:51):
I don't have to wear paints.

Speaker 2 (45:52):
I'm not talking about you. We're in radio. You don't.
We're not wearing pants. But at some places you got
to wear pants, especially if you're one who sells pants
to people. Like, wait a second, how you gonna tell
me how to wear pants? You clearly don't wear them yourself.

Speaker 1 (46:07):
Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Speaker 2 (46:08):
I don't have to be a pants wearer to tell you.
You know, if you go to the dock, you go
to the surgeon, and you're like, I have a giant
tumor in my colon, you're not looking for a surgeon
who also has a giant tumor in his colon, right,
You're looking for someone who knows how to get it
out of there. Now, I don't have pants on myself,

(46:28):
but I can put you in a great pair of
Sansabel slacks. Right.

Speaker 3 (46:36):
See, yeah, you're right on target.

Speaker 2 (46:38):
I could sell pants. Just don't ask me to put
them on myself. It's gonna look crazy. It's like, is
this where my head goes like this guy didn't know
about pants? No, but that guy doesn't know how to
put pants on himself. He tries to put him on
a false flat on his face every single time. But
I tell you what, no one has fitted me for
a better pair of slacks than that kid.

Speaker 3 (47:00):
It's worth everybody, that's right.

Speaker 2 (47:02):
So you show up to work on time with pants on,
in most cases, you're not gonna stay at minimum wage.
And most of these workers aren't supporting their families. So wait,
we've got lobbyists, special interest people, cry babies, and politicians

(47:23):
who apparently know more about running small businesses than these
small business owners saying help help us, And this cabal
over here is like, nope, this is anti worker legislation,
which is what fellow Democrat member of the Unicameral Daniel
Conrad of also of Lincoln, formerly of the ACLU, that's

(47:48):
what she says, this bill is and what does she do?
Not run a small business? You got someone out there
trying see if it does any good, kind of like
what this secretary of state in Iowa recently did, and
then he came back with his results and people said, see,
you're an idiot. Really, I'll tell you next.

Speaker 1 (48:09):
Scotts News Radio eleven.

Speaker 2 (48:11):
To ten kfab Chris emails and says, Scott, I know
several people who probably put their pants on over their
heads since they have their heads way up there. Well,
I don't think that that's unless you're a really good contortionist.
I don't. I think he meant that figuratively. Yes, thank
you Chris for that email, Scott A kfab donn.

Speaker 3 (48:33):
He was trying to insult you.

Speaker 2 (48:36):
Now. He didn't say I had my head up there.
He said several people do. Lucy's offended. That's Lucy Chapman
all right. In Iowa the secretary of State Paul Pate,
because that rhymes. That's why he decided to run for
that office. A lot of people don't know that. He's like,
I want to be a politician, what office, senator, Senator

(49:01):
Paul Pate? How about secretary of state Secretary of State
Paul Pate Mayor Goldie Wilson. I like the sound of that.
What are you doing? I don't know, an eighties movie
reference that kind of forced in there. Back to the future.
That's right, Lucy, it is back to the future. The
Iowa Second Jaws Secretary of State Paul Pate said, all right,

(49:25):
we looked at all of the ballots cast in Iowa,
more than one point six million voters, and a review
of Iowa's voter roles, because this is one thing he
was really big on leading up to election day, and
that was purging the number of people who were voting illegally,

(49:47):
meaning people who were in the country illegally, had registered
to vote and then actually voted. And people are looking
at this saying, all right, we did some people who
are not US citizens among the more than one point
six million Iowa voters in the twenty twenty four general election.

(50:11):
Oh yeah, how many thirty five? Thirty five percent? No,
just thirty five. And people are like, ah, you're an idiot.
You wasted all this time. See we told you there
was no fraud in voting. All right. A couple of
things on this. Number one, the Secretary of State said

(50:31):
quite loudly. For several months leading up to election day,
we are looking at the voter registration roles. We have
found evidence that there were thousands of people, thousands of
people who when brought to Iowa, either with some limited
status that doesn't involve being able to vote, or just

(50:52):
came to the state illegally, we're offered the opportunity to
register to vote. We have purged these roles. We found
several examples where the national voter rolls don't jibe with
what we have here in the Iowa Department of Motor
Vehicles for people who are in the country illegally allowed
to get a driver's license. Oh, you're here to get

(51:13):
your driver's license, would you also like to register to vote? Okay,
you know, and they do, and then suddenly they're registered
to vote, and then they expunge those So he did
a great job in heading this off at the pass,
which no one, of course has given him credit for.
They're instead saying, you wasted all this time saying that

(51:33):
there was illegal there were illegal voters in your state.
Turns out there's only thirty five people. Here's such an idiot.
It's not like people are gonna be voting illegally. Which
is funny because here's another story. More than eight hundred
thousand non citizens and dreamers in New York City. The

(51:58):
story from January of twenty twenty two. More than eight
hundred thousand non citizens and dreamers in New York City
now have access to the ballot box and can vote
in municipal elections. This is after the actions of the
Council and the Mayor of New York City. Now, they

(52:18):
did that in January of twenty twenty two. Last week,
New York's top court, the State Supreme Court, put an
end to New York City's effort to empower non citizens
to vote in municipal elections. This was something that was
implemented in twenty twenty two, and then the High Court said, no,

(52:44):
the New York Constitution draws a firm line restricting voting
to citizens. You can't just because of it works out
for you politically, allow eight hundred thousand non citizens with
some sort of authorization or residency to vote in municipal elections. No,
and they shot it down. Now, that was immediately challenged

(53:07):
in court, so it was never fully implemented. But it's
funny that both of these stories came out on Friday
Thursday or Friday of last week, and immediately the national
media said, look at this moron in Iowa. The Secretary
of state, he was out there looking for voting fraud.
He only found thirty five people who are not US

(53:28):
citizens out of one point six million votes cast in
a state. What an idiot. Meanwhile, New York City telegraphed
that they were going to allow eight hundred thousand non citizens,
and you know it was going to balloon do a
lot more than that to vote. And it took almost
it took over two years. No, No, twenty twenty five,
isn't it. It took over three years, and finally the

(53:50):
state Supreme Court said no. So why did Secretary of
State Paul Pate of Iowa do this? Because he knows
the people who are trying to make it so that
we get more and more non citizens in the country
by any means necessary, And let's make sure they're able
to vote. After all, they're living here, they're working here,

(54:10):
their kids are going to school here. They should be
able to vote. Right. No, And it's not just evil
President Trump saying things like that, it's the State Supreme
Court of New York six to' to one vote wasn't
even close, so that's what they finally decided. They're Scott Gorhees,

(54:33):
where are you're going? I am so impressed by these crews.
I know that not only do they have an incredibly
difficult job to do, when suddenly it's like, oh, hey,
across this entire county there are dozens and dozens of
power polls down, and we're gonna need you guys to

(54:56):
go put them all up as quickly as possible. And
they're like, we've got three crews here. Many power poles
are down. I like seventy power poles and all the
lines that connect them they all need to be reconnected.
And it's not seventy power poles that are all together either.
It's like one over here and three over here, and
then across the other side of the town there's one
over here and a bunch of trees in the way.
You're gonna have to remove the trees. And they're like,

(55:19):
when do we have this done? Oh as quickly as possible.
The lions are lighting up of people with no power,
So if you go ahead and get that done, so
they've they've got to do that well. Also, in some
cases dealing with people like walking out of their houses
or driving by and yelling and cussing at them. How
come I don't have my power yet? Like, well, I'm

(55:40):
I'm trying. Oh, and there's also eight inches of snow
on the ground. And and at their home. You know
a lot of these guys they all live and work
here too. Obviously they work here, but they live here too.
And chances are probably pretty good that for a lot
of them, their power was out at their house. Two

(56:01):
And there was probably a situation like, well, the kids
aren't they can't go to school, the school has been
called off. Well I gotta work, Well I gotta go
clean up power polls and all this, and so what
are we gonna do? I mean that life happens for everybody.
They's not a single person out there trying to do
anything for whom life is just a breeze. Not one,

(56:22):
well except me, but for a lot of other people.
There's a lot of life happening. And these guys are
out there just saying, all right, let's suck it up
and go do this. And we went from I don't
remember how many customers at the height of this, it

(56:42):
was over thirty thousand customers across the area, across the
eleven county area, and now it's about a tenth of that.
We've got three eight hundred and fifty one customers still
without power. And Inuglas County that's the biggest area, that's Omaha.

(57:04):
We had about thirty thousand or so just in Douglas
County alone. It's now fifty eight customers, which is great
unless you're one of those fifty eight customers, because chances
are it's not like, oh, we'll just plug this back
in and you all get power. Chances are probably very

(57:25):
very good that for these fifty eight individual customers, they're
probably kind of all over the place and there was
particular and unique damage at their place and that's not
as easy to fix. Hopefully they've been able to make arrangements.
But fifty eight customers in Douglas County, we still got

(57:46):
over one thousand in Washington, over eleven hundred and Saunders
and over twelve hundred and Dodge. Freemont got rocked by
this storm last Wednesday, and that was just last Wednesday. Saturday,
as we noted earlier, was absolutely beautiful. People were kind
of getting out and doing stuff I went to get

(58:09):
my car washed on Saturday. I'm actually still in line.
I'm doing this radio show while in line to get
my car washed since Saturday. So a lot of people
were out doing stuff and these crews, they were out
there working. I couldn't believe that on Saturday. Heck, on Friday,
Friday is a pretty nice day. I was watching basketball

(58:30):
with my buddy, says, can you believe forty eight hours
ago we were shoveling our driveways and they looked at me, like,
you shovel your driveway. I'm like, yeah, that's what you do.
That's what you do. But through the bad weather Wednesday
and Thursday, pretty decent weather Friday and Saturday and yesterday
where it was just windy as I'll get out, these

(58:52):
crews were out there working. You know, next time you
drive by and you see these crews out there working,
give them a thumbs up rather than the middle finger
that some people have been giving them. Also, let's let's
perhaps give a bit of a thought to this. So
we lost a lot of people lost power last week,

(59:16):
and a lot of people lost power a few weeks
before that, and that blizzard, and then last year we
had a couple of horrible storms come through the area,
causing people who didn't lose their homes to lose power
for a while. At what point do people say, maybe
we should have a contingency plan for when we lose power,

(59:37):
cause you know, I mean, and it's different in different
parts of town. I live in west Omaha. Our power
lines are buried. We lose power, but it's not for
usually more than a day. That's fine, we can handle that.
As I said last week, I actually kind of liked it.
I don't mean to sound like a jerk to those

(59:58):
who are still without power, like, hey, isn't this fun?
You know, but we knew it was just going to
be a matter of hours and we'd have the power back,
and we did. You know, that's well, you know, we've
we've got a lot of very important people that lived
to west in west Omaha, and we've got yacht clubs

(01:00:18):
out there, in country clubs, and Tesla's got a SpaceX
launch pad out there. We need to have electricity. I mean,
we can't be like these poor miserable slubs who live
in other Oh wait did I say that out loud?
So look, it's just how it goes, all right. I
didn't do this. I didn't set up the infrastructure of
this whole town. If I had, I would have done

(01:00:39):
it differently. So I mean, for us, I know when
the power goes out, if it's not a grid attack,
that will leave us powerless, literally powerless for years on end.
I know that I'm going to have the power back
pretty soon.

Speaker 3 (01:00:54):
That's interesting. I hadn't thought about that that when at
a time that it is going to be either complete
end of the world or just give it a few hours.

Speaker 2 (01:01:06):
That's true.

Speaker 3 (01:01:08):
That's I'm gonna go think about that for a long.

Speaker 2 (01:01:11):
I would say those are the two most likely scenarios.
Power goes out out there, it's either gonna be back shortly,
or World War three is upon us and it's time
to either take up arms against the zombies or become one.
And if you don't know what you are now, then
you're part of the problem. Huh. All right, So for

(01:01:37):
people who live in areas where boy, it seems like
every time we get a really good storm we lose
power for a week. All right, here are your options.
You can either go super super micro, like, all right,
what can we do in this house so that we're

(01:01:58):
not stuck without power for a week because we don't
have options for like, oh, let's just go move into
a hotel or go stay at grandma's for a week.
We don't have those options for whatever reason. Maybe you
should have better relationships with the grandma. But you know what,
that's on you. That's up for you. It's probably her fault.
I'm not So you can either go micro and Mike Row. No,

(01:02:19):
not Mike Row, go micro, just like internalize it into
your walls and that would be some sort of generator
or generators to be able to keep certain things on
that you absolutely have to have. I'm talking, of course
about the TV. It's March madness.

Speaker 4 (01:02:43):
I mean.

Speaker 2 (01:02:45):
What it's March madness.

Speaker 3 (01:02:46):
No, I don't disagree.

Speaker 2 (01:02:48):
That's the worst thing about all this. Some of these
people they lost they lost TVs during the first four
days of March Madness, which is the most wonderful time
of the year. Andy Williams doesn't know what the heck
he's talking about. So that's one. So you get a
generator to power the margarita machine, the espresso maker, the fridge, and.

Speaker 3 (01:03:10):
The TV gage.

Speaker 2 (01:03:13):
You can pop that thing down and raise it.

Speaker 3 (01:03:15):
But who wants to do that?

Speaker 2 (01:03:17):
Oh, it's so satisfying to have that garage door bang
down there, isn't that great? You're like, don't let it boo,
you know, trying to teach your kids how to do it.
Get your foot out of the Getting smashed by a
garage door was a genuine concern when we were kids.
Today's kids will never know the fear of possibly getting
destroyed just getting smoked by a garage door. Not my kids.

(01:03:41):
We play a game called roll in and roll out,
and I try and hit them with the garage door.
It's but so you can either do a generator. But
generators are expensive. Yes, sorry they are. So that's that's
one possibility. Or here's the I already went on a

(01:04:03):
rant last week. People got all mad when I said,
are you responsible for all of your neighbors being without
power because you've got trees over power lines? You can
look out your window and see that the trees are
over the power lines and you don't do anything about it. Well,
that's a BPD's job. Well did you call and tell them?
Well they should know, but I didn't call and tell

(01:04:24):
them because if they come out, they're just going to
hack away at half the tree, all right, so this
is on you to hire certified arborists who know what
they're doing and will do a fine job shaping your
tree and keeping the branches away from the power lines.
That's on you. But that's expensive, yep. Are you noticing
a theme here? What isn't expensive? And now here's the

(01:04:47):
bigger macro picture, and that is maybe you vote for
people to sit on boards of various utilities who are
going to do things like prioritize the removal of trees
around power lines. And while we do this every time
we have a giant storm like this that knocks down
power lines and power poles and slams transformers and all

(01:05:10):
the rest of it, we take a look at a
tremendous opportunity, say, why would we put these things back
up here where the trees are. Let's bury the lines.
After all, we're already doing the sewer project here. Let's
bury some power lines next to it. And we now
can bury the power lines. We're separating the sewers, we're
putting in a rail for a street car. We're doing
it all in one shot. Maybe you vote for people

(01:05:34):
who prioritize not having massive outages. Maybe you vote for
people who prioritize keeping the power here locally rather than
spanning it out over areas between Canada and Texas and
some of these areas they're like, well, hey, it got
cold here and so we had to use more power.

(01:05:55):
So you got rolling brownouts in your area. Maybe we
tie the localization of what we do with the power
maybe up to you. All I'm asking right now is
that if you drive, if you're driving around, even if
you don't have electricity yet, and you see those crews

(01:06:16):
out working, roll down your window and say thank you.
Don't start with hey, because they're gonna think it's negative.
Don't you just say thanks, thank you, great job guys,
thank you, because they've certainly earned it.

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there in Omaha. Yeah, I think he's talking about when
we we're jamming on Bah with Taba by Kid Rock.
An hour ago, there were protesters on Friday night here
in downtown Omaha at the Kid Rock concert. These protesters
were out there yelling at people going to see a
rock concert. Why because Trump? That's why. If you go

(01:07:21):
see Kid Rock, you are a maga Trump elon Musk supporter.
You're like, hang on, hold my non bud light beer.
I'm gonna go watch this concert and then we're gonna
come out. We're gonna be all high on kid Rock
music and probably whatever beer we've been drinking, and we're
just gonna start slashing jobs. Who are the neediest people

(01:07:42):
being served by the United States federal government? Cut all
of them off the federal teat This is great? You
know that's so these people are out protesting. That funny
because twenty four hours later I didn't see any of
these protesters in downtown Omaha telling the three hundred some
odd teenagers who are out there fighting at the beautiful

(01:08:05):
New Gene Lay. He mall keeping families away from the
beautiful New Gene lay. He mall keeping tourists from ever
coming back to Omaha again. We had a few hundred
teenagers out there just wilding through the area. I didn't
see the protesters down there saying please disperse, this is

(01:08:26):
bad for our community. Didn't see those protesters down there,
but trying to upset some people going to watch kid rock.
I wonder how many kid rock concertgoers voted for Kamala
Harris And we're like, oh, I gotta go hang out
with all those trumpy people. But you know what, I'll
do it because I like Cowboy. That's a kid rock song.

(01:08:50):
So and they got yelled at too by the protest.
It's amazing what people will protest. All these guys out
there waging war against has loved vehicles. Here's what you're doing.
You're these are alleged environmentalists, right, they're they're left people.
They're left leaning political people, so they've got to be

(01:09:13):
in favor of, you know, the environment, and there's global
climate change and all the rest of this stuff. What
do you think happens with the landfills? When you blow
up a tesla with one of those boats the motors
in there that doesn't break down over time, what happens
to the landfill? What happens now someone can't drive that
electric vehicle that's better for the environment. The smoke coming

(01:09:33):
off of the vehicle you just blew up is bad
for the environment. And Elon Musk still got paid because
all these things are insured. So what are you doing
And you're trading in Tesla vehicles. That's allowing people who
are more trumpy to get a great deal on a
fantastic car. Lose, lose, loose, Clay and buckle take it
from here. They're coming up next for the next few

(01:09:54):
hours here until Emery Songer at two on eleven ten KFAB, Guy.

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