February 5, 2026 • 48 mins
Meow meow meow! We also talked about the Fremont fallout, Atlantic anger, Minneapolis mess, and many other subjects not particularly prone to alliteration.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We learned a few more details yesterday about who was
going to be held responsible in the eyes of Johnny
Law on that incident we talked about last week, which
one I know there have been a lot, the one
in Fremont. As you recall last week, it was decided
that kids needed to be politically active. Not after school
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and not on the weekend. Oh lord, no, during school.
We're going to walk out of school and we're going
to go out here and protest. So you got a
bunch of students there, dear old Fremont High School, home
of the Fighting Tigers, out there protesting ice because they
don't like what's happening in Minneapolis, which is five half
hours away from Fremont. So they're out there standing around
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on the school grounds, the effeckless administrators and faculty or
standing there smoking and vaping and watching them or whatever.
And then they decided we're taking it to the streets.
Another student who apparently takes the opportunity to say, well,
I guess school's out for the day and go home,
does sell with a Trump flag flying off the back
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of his suv. Students don't like that. The protesters do
not like that. Time to get out in the street
and surround that vehicle try and damage his car. One
girl standing in front of the car. The angry mob
is surrounding the car. The student driving having some conversation
with the student mob and I presume tells them like.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
If you don't move, I'm gonna move you, and then.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
He drives off the vehicle lovingly nudges the girl in
front of the vehicle to the curb, knocks her down.
She's okay. And the police looked at this because there's video,
because it's kids. They're out, hey, guys, and you're doing
the video thing like my stream subscribe. And the police
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looked at all this and we're trying to figure out, like, well,
are the students who are blocking the road responsible? Is
kid responsible for driving hitting a girl and then driving
leaving the scene of an accident? Who's responsible? And the
Fremont police took a look and they decided they're issuing
citations too. Everybody, the driver, the girl who was hit,
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three other young people were in the streets, including those
who were damaging the vehicle, and one adult. Now adult
could be a senior in high school who's eighteen. I
don't think there was there was a bunch of teenagers
out there, and then you know, some forty eight year
old man's like yeah, and they ran out there like
what's up, fellow kids, and they're like whatever, Boomer, get
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out of the way.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Unk. Thanks so much for being with us.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
This is our show, my friend News Radio eleven ten KFAB.
We call it Nebraska This Morning News. The city council
member that is that has dominion over the Fremont High
School area. His name is Jeff Peterson, and Jeff is
decrying that. He says, there's so many good things that
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happen here in Freemont, but something like this is the
thing that makes the news. Of course, he's talking about
the protests where the students were in the street. One
of the other students was in the car. The angry
mob surrounded the car, kids said move or I'll move you,
and then moved his car, hit the girl, and drove off.
You can't do that, even if, as the driver's sister says,
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he was scared because you had an angry mob of
students surrounding his car. I get that. That's when you
drive a couple blocks away and then called the police.
I don't know that he did that. The citation here
involving the driver suggests that he didn't any who. The
city council member says, well, it's sad. There's so many
good things happening in Fremont, and then this is what
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makes the news, councilman, that's actually a good thing.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
We see.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
News is something that's a little different from what happens
normally every day. If there's so many bad things happening
in Fremont, that's something that randomly good happens that we
have to dig down and find. Like, yes, so once again,
the streets of Fremont are flowing red with the blood
(04:11):
of innocent people. But somehow a daisy bloomed, you know,
a man went over and immediately cut it down with
a weed whacker and then went and attacked a group
of nuns. But for a moment, it was a beautiful
side in Fremont near twelfth and d You know, if
something like that happens and it's news, that's when you
were in trouble. That's when we're in really bad trouble.
(04:36):
So he says, everything's great here, this was an unfortunate incident. Well,
what he's upset about. And I think a lot of
parents should be as well. Is yeah, you had the
people surrounded the car. The driver didn't do what he
was supposed to do. I certainly understand the why is
everyone's around in my car? Some people say he seemed
to want the attention he put the Trump flag in there.
(04:59):
You should be a allowed to put a political flag
in your car if you want to without being surrounded
by them up. But there were two miners cited for
obstructing a police officer and disorderly conduct. I'm not sure
exactly what that was. You can't do that. So on Monday,
they're having their monthly board meeting of the school board,
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and the families are going to show up. People in
the community are going to show up to voice their concerns.
I wonder, Jim, I wonder, Lucy. I wonder whether any
of the parents of those who, for example, thought they'd
better go out and destroy this kid's car because they
don't like that he's a Trump fan, and then obstructed
a police officer and disorderly conduct. I wonder if the
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parents will show up there and apologize for the actions
of their kids.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
I hope.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
So.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
I'm with Lucy on this. I'm not holding out and
then Lucy said, quote.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
Well that's just the kind of perfunctory attitude around here
we're trying to get past.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
No, I want more of it.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
Actually, we want some sunshine, We want smiles.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
Here's what for you.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
We want optimism?
Speaker 6 (06:08):
Or did you say, daisy.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
Yah, you know six people the way, six people sighted?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
You know?
Speaker 1 (06:13):
In the President Trump would like you to smile more,
by the way, he's known you for a long time.
Speaker 7 (06:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
I dropped to Kaitlyn Collins a little note and I said, hey, look,
crack a smile once in a while. I'm sorry you
were saying, not gonna hurt you. Six people getting, you know,
sighted in this incident. At least the cops were working it,
and it sounds to me like they adjudicated justice quite fairly,
including one adult.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Well the adult is a senior who's probably eighteen, so
that's probably that.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Technically an adult. Right.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Well, you want to look at the same situation involving
an adult adult, You got a forty five year old
guy who happened to be walking by a student protest.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Same thing.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
We don't like guys, get them out of our town,
like Buddha, Texas South of Austin. I don't know what
exactly the situation is down there, but the students left
Johnson High School were out there protesting. Forty five year
old guys walking by gets into it verbally with the
group of students. They of course fire back with sir,
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you are our elder and we're showing you great respect, which,
of course Lucy would say, quote ha ha ha ha ha.
So they started going back and forth. Guy gets out
of his truck and exchange bunches with the teenagers before
throwing many of them to the ground. Yeah, you have
to issue more restraint than that. So this was an
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actual adult fighting with student protesters that was down in Texas,
just south of Austin. Have you heard what's been going
on in Atlantic, Iowa. It's hard to get the details.
You've got one media outlet in town saying, here's what
the parents are saying about a guidance counselor Atlanta or
(08:00):
within the Atlantic school district. I saw one image that
featured the middle school, one that featured the high school.
You got another media outlet's saying, we're not reporting what
some of the parents are saying here. Well, here's what
we know. There was allegedly going to be a guidance
counselor who was going to resign at the school board meeting.
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The Atlantic, Iowa School District called an emergency board meeting
to accept the resignation of the councilor, but the meeting
was canceled. Parents had showed up there and many of
them were furious, saying, don't let this councilor resign. This
counselor should be arrested, and you school board members should
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be fired because we think this councilor has done these
things before, and it's been happening for years under your watch. Now,
no one's been charged with a crime, no one has
been arrested. Parents are saying that there is a faculty
member at the school who had been making inappropriate comments
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to their daughters. One mom says, my daughter was a
sixteen year old student there at the high school, and
she said that the counselor had took her cell phone
and was going through her social media, not sure why,
found pictures of the family that had been on the
(09:33):
beach in Florida, and he was commenting saying, you really
look like you belong in Miami in this bikini. Another
message to a daughter shortly after her eighteenth birthday. She's
a student at the school. This is a different deal, said,
I'm sorry, I guess this is the same girl. So
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the same mom is saying. Now it's a couple of
years later, and this teacher counselor faculty remember, is texting
my daughter at two o'clock in the morning, saying, Hey,
a lot's changed since the last time we talked. You
want to catch up. I feel bad about how we
left things.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
I hope you know I truly did care for you.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
So she said, I went to the district and reported
all this to the faculty and administrators, and all this
while my daughter was still a student, and then again
after she graduated, and she says school never did anything,
never investigated, never said anything. And so the superintendent is saying,
now we're not going to talk about this. It's a
personnel issue. We can't talk about all the rest. Well,
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parents are all furious. They want the counselor to be fired,
so it's on his record, and then they're coming after.
There's even a hashtag to try and get the superintendent fire.
There in Atlantic as well, the police department issued a
statement about any of this, and they said, and I
quote the Atlantic Police Department has been investigating looking into
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the information that has been provided. We take the safety
of the children in the community that we serve very
seriously and will continue to handle this investigation thoroughly.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
So I.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Certainly don't know other than I know a lot of parents,
including the outrage on social media against the school district.
There is palpable and there are people hoping that a
lot of people are fired, and at least one individual
is arrested there in Atlantic. I guess the Olympics are underway,
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kind of They tried to get underway without curling or
whatever ridiculous sport. A lot of people say they love curling,
but they were trying to do that. Of course, the
Olympics now underway with the first curling matches. This is
in Courtina, Italy. But moments later from all right, it's
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time for the Winter Games, the billion year Olympiad of
the twenty twenty six Winter Games. And then they started
getting out the brooms and all that fun stuff, and
then the power went out.
Speaker 6 (12:05):
How fast did the ice melt?
Speaker 1 (12:07):
They had the ice melted and they didn't realize this.
All these guys have all the equipment on. They got
their brooms and those brooms are real heavy. The ice
melted lucy, and they didn't realize that was then twenty
feet of shark infested water underneath that ice. I don't know,
it's it's Italy.
Speaker 6 (12:26):
And so they had to replace their brooms with mops.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
They all died.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
But the good news is is that opens up the
opportunity for the those stand by Olympians to go in
there and do that. They got to wait for the
ice to refreeze.
Speaker 6 (12:40):
Is there such a thing in curling? I don't know,
stand bys.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Well, yeah, if you can't do it, it's like it's
like the runner up for Miss America.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
If these guys can't.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Position their responsibilities.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Say they they drowned when the ice melt.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
No, the ice didn't melt the they had lights went
down and all that stuff. Now he d Yeah. But
here's the part. Yeah, happy Valentine's every one. You are,
after all in Italy and you're watching curling. What could
be more romantic? Man, there's guys out there with their
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brooms and that little weird puck with the handle on it.
Just put your arm around the nearest girl. If you
can't be with the one you love at the curly matches,
then love the one you're with.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
They have kiss cam and the Olympics.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
CEOs are diving underneath the chairs. So what's interesting about
this And this is normally where Lucy would formulate the
conspiracy theory. But I do think it's odd that you
had more than twenty one thousand professional athletes who showed
up there at the Olympics. These are both Olympians and
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other athletes who have been lobbying the eye the International
Olympic Committee. They signed a petition and they've demanded that
the Olympics stop fossil fuel companies from sponsoring the Winter Games.
They say, if you keep allowing fossil fuels, we're gonna
have climate change and there won't be any snow and
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cold anywhere.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Well, the Winter.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Games will look like the Summer Games in Los Angeles
in nineteen eighty four. Before too long, there'll be no
snow or eyes anywhere. So you've got to stop using
fossil fuels now. You wonder if some of these agitators
and protesters activists had said, we'll show you we mean
business and cut the power to the place. But I
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don't know if these people know that outside of things
like skiing, if you're gonna do anything inside hockey, curling,
figure skating, you need light. You can't do this by candlelight,
and you need the cameras to be able to beam
and broadcast your attempt at history to the rest of
the world, including your family back home. So I don't
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know what they're talking about, but that's fine. They don't
know what they're talking about. And it's just odd that
at the same time they're protesting the Olympics for using energy,
they get underway with the first matches of the Winter
Games and the power goes out. Lucy, how am I
doing there as a conspiracy theorist?
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Not terrible, but we need a little bit more information. No,
we need to know who are they specifically asking them
not to allow them to run advertising or support or
whatever sponsor you.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Said, Oh, oil and gas companies or whatever they do.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
People realize and I'm not a hundred I'm not saying
I'm for this, but do people realize what oil and
gas companies provide every single day? Not just oil and
gas every single day. Try living without plastic today.
Speaker 6 (15:58):
I would love to.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
People have no idea. They just they've locked up.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
They think that there are commercials during the Olympic Games going, Hey,
Stan Freberg from Fossil Fuel Companies Unlimited, we are hav
an abundance of fossil fuel. We're passing the savings onto you.
I like their fossil fuel so much I bought the company.
So for all your fossil fuel needs, stop buy fossil fuels.
For everyone dumping fossil fuels on kids since nineteen forty seven.
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You know, they don't have any idea what they're talking about,
like why would you put fuel on fossils? They don't
know what they're talking about. But don't deny the ability
for lunatic activists to do lunatic things, especially in Europe,
would be a great slogan for this radio show. Welcoming
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back to Nebraska's morning news News Radio eleven ten kfab
national correspondent Rory O'Neill here and Rory, what's the latest
here on Nancy Guthrie.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Right, we saw a video last night by Savannah Guthrie,
her brother and her sister essentially making a flea to
her abductors saying, look, if you can show us proof
that she is still alive. Right now, we'll talk money,
We'll talk about trying to make some sort of a
deal that gets their eighty four year old mother return
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to them safely. So rather remarkable development that essentially it
sounds like they're willing to give in to these demands.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
They have the police kind of looking into the last
people to see her, and that's her daughter and son
in law. This is obviously something police need to do.
Should we read into it any more than that at
this point.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Yeah, one of the issues is that the sheriff and
the FBI did not have a news conference yesterday, and
you know full well that newsrooms abhorre a vacuum and
we will do anything to fill it, and that may
just be some filler trying to again fill time with
some of these theories. The sheriff and the FBI have
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not indicated that this son in law is a person
of interest. Maybe he is, but they certainly haven't said
so publicly. But look, there's also the bare ugly truth
that in cases like this, something like eighty four percent
of the time it is within the family, So obviously
every family member has to get close scrutiny.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Yeah, there's nothing that's going to make any of the
story any better at any level here unless mom just
comes home and says, oh, I just ran off with
some guy I met online. We had a wonderful time.
Sorry to worry everyone. I everyone certainly hopes that this
has a good enough conclusion where Nancy Guthrie is found
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alive and okay, and if anyone is responsible for any
of this, that they're brought to justice. Why do you think, Rory,
that this story has gripped the nation like it has?
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Well? I think that one, we all know Savannah Guthrie, right.
We may not like her, maybe we love her, maybe
she's part of our daily routine, you know, whatever that
may be. And then of course a lot of her
colleagues in the news business feel sympathetic and actually must
have now the own fear that this could happen to
them as well, saying if it can happen to this
high profile news anchor, maybe it can happen to me
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as well. So I think that is something else that
sort of feeds into this. And of course it's all
a very remarkable true crime story that's out there. My
question is how does this go long term? Let's give
the best case scenario that they get the email that says,
here you go, you can find her. She's sitting in
a storage bin, you know, on Elm Street number four
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oh two. You know she's fine, and then we're gonna
get away with our bitcoin, and you're not gonna get
away with it, Like, how do you think this goes
long term that you won't eventually get tracked down? Because
if she is turned over healthy in the live, we
all hope that she's gonna give them information that's gonna
the FBI, information that certainly is going to lead to
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some sort of an arrest in this case.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Right, And as you talking about here, if indeed it
is some syndicate that suddenly is all about we're going
to take members of the media's moms and hold him
for bitcoin, then that emboldens them to go after someone else.
So there's there's really one or two great conclusions for this.
We hope we get there as soon as possible. Rory,
thank you very much for the conversation. As always, Thank God.
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I'm Scott Borhees, Craig Evans, and Lucy Chapman. Jim Rose
now has a fresh cup of coffee. He's ready to
go for this segment where I will completely ignore him
for the next eight minutes here on the news radio
eleven to ten kfab Well, at least for a moment.
There's there's one person, at least one person who doesn't
want you to ignore why perhaps you're seeing so many
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problems on the streets of Minneapolis, and that person is
Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley. He spoke yesterday saying, remember, ICE
is operating all across the country, but there's only one
place that is coming to blows and gunshot with the
people up there fighting ICE agents. And perhaps it's because
of what was going on in the state of Minnesota
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before all this happened.
Speaker 7 (21:08):
What happened in Minnesota is as bad as it gets.
These fraud schemes have targeted federal programs designed to help
children with autism, the elderly, and small businesses. It's deplorable
that fraudsters would target programs designed to help Americans struggling
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to take care of their children and their families. It's
also deplorable that the Waltz administration allegedly retaliated against whistle
oores who tried to expose this fraud. If true, such
retaliation should not go unpunished.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Yell.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
It has been in the back seat here about how
the leering centers up there, that oh, yeah, we got
to take all this money. We got to help these
refugee children who are teaming with autism, and we need
bazillions of dollars to do that. And then it was
found out that some of these centers had no kids
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in them, some of them didn't even exist. And then
suddenly it was like, oh, yeah, well everything's fine. By
the way, there are some bad guys out there in
the streets wearing face masks.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Go get them.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
And then they went after Ice up there, and Senator
Grassley wants to know why.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
And now what you're seeing is the Minneapolis Leering Center
that's shut down. They have closed a lot of these
places and moved they get back the money. They haven't
given back the money, but they've taken down the signs.
And we've seen reports of these guys backing up rental trucks.
I don't know who's paying for the rental trucks, but
they have backed up the trucks. They're emptying out these
buildings and they're moving someplace else. And Nick Shirley will
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be following them.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Yeah, he's the independent journalist who went out there and
found the leering center. What do you make Jim, President
Trump talking to NBC and he says, yeah, maybe you've
heard the SoundBite on Fox News updates throughout the morning,
maybe Ice could use a softer touch. Now, he followed
that up with but sometimes you have to be tough.
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So you got the President out there a sound bite
that maybe Ice could use a softer touch. You got
the Border advisor now in Minneapolis checking out that border
between Minneapolis and Saint Paul. Tom Homan said yesterday about
seven hundred federal agents will be pulled out of Minnesota.
And so these activists are thinking that they've won. They
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think that President Trump knows that they've won. And what
do you make of all? This is the is the
president shifting gears? Is there a softer touch now with Ice?
Speaker 5 (23:46):
He's looking at poles and the polls show that a
whole bunch of Americans don't like this part. They're okay with,
you know, closing the border, and they're okay with keeping
bad guys out, but they don't think that the tactics
being used and being amplified in Minnesota is what we
ought to have here now. I think it's a gigantic
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false narrative. I think it's a minimal number of incidents.
I think it has been blown up. And this is
part of the Rosy Diginozi this morning. There are very
organized and well funded groups that are in Minnesota that
are behind the scenes with these people and these protesters.
They're training them on what to do and how to
do it, how to take little things and make them
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into big things. So it says to the country, well,
look what's happening here, man. This is like the march
over the Edmund Pettis Bridge in Selma. That's what's going
on in Minneapolis right now. This is what people are thinking,
and they're capitalizing on the reality that most of us
have a short attention span and that we are impressed
by what we see and go, well, look at what
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they're doing to those people in Minnesota without any real
knowledge or understanding of what's actually happening.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
If you missed my conversation yesterday morning just after nine,
you can find that on the Vintage Vorhees podcast there
at kfab dot com. Talked with Jeffangelo, morning show host
on our sister station in Des Moines News Radio ten
forty who and he talked about it's not just Minneapolis
where they're paying and training these protesters. They're doing it
at a church in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. They're doing it
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in a lot of places across the country. Good conversation yesterday.
And if you really want to know the reality of
the misinformation that leads to the polls that Jim was
talking about, I'll have that for you. Also this morning
after nine o'clock.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Here's the latest from KFAB Radio News.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Or The ninety cats are found at a home in Lincoln.
Many of them have medical issues.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Craig Evans just had the story there the woman with
ninety six cats one of my favorite songs that goes
back to everyone's childhood. Right, Jim named the band you
were the one that did the Rosie Genosi yesterday about
three Dog Night Who did the song? Ninety six tiers
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one of the great one of the great band names
and music history. Come on, come all right, question Mark
and the Mysterians needs to be Redone is I'm a
big fan of ninety six cats. Can you can you
imagine ninety six cats?
Speaker 5 (26:17):
How do you name them? How do you keep them straight?
Speaker 1 (26:20):
She probably knew the names. Everyone has there ever been
a guy who police have identified that there was a
man who had ninety six cats living in his house.
Why is it always a woman with a billion cats
in her house? How does that happen? Well, I guess
I know how it happens. Well, Jim, tell me a
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circle of life? And what how how two cats meet
each other even though they're siblings. They decide that, hey,
you're for me, And next thing, you know, we have
more cats.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
Now we got five more, and then seven more, and
then nine more, and then the tomcat leaves and never
comes home.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
How, though, does it happen that you get that many
because you don't start no, no, get them from No
one starts with ninety six cats.
Speaker 5 (27:05):
You go get them from shelters, or you go get
them from people who know do ads saying hey I
got a litter of cats.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Yeah, get them.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
But you start maybe with four or five cats, and
then then you have eight or nine cats, and then
you have fifteen or sixteen cats. And I would think
at that point you're thinking this might be too many cats.
But then you know, life gets busy, you get stuff.
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You know, there's a lot to watch on television, listen
to on the radio, and then you turn your head
for one second. You look back and go, oh, son
of a now I've got twenty four cats. That's too
many cats. But then you know, your mother calls, what
do I hear in the background, Oh, I'm watching a
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show about cats. No, no, you're becoming a crazy cat lady,
aren't you. I heard about you people on the news. No,
it's fine. Well, I'm coming over. I wouldn't unless you
take several different allergy pills. I wouldn't if I were
you old and come over here. And then while I'm
on the phone with mom, you turn around and once
here we go thirty five cats.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
All right, all right?
Speaker 1 (28:14):
And you look at these cats and go, that's enough.
Stop that you're running all over the house with the
spray bottle of water. Stop it, get off of her cats.
And then you end up with forty eight cats.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
We had cats?
Speaker 1 (28:29):
How at some point do you just turn your head
and next thing you know, you got ninety six cats.
Speaker 5 (28:34):
In your ten more, turn your head and there's another five.
We had cats, you know, when I was growing up.
But I like cats. I like dogs more. But we
made sure that our cats are fixed. We did have
one cat that did a litter when I was a kid,
and not sure you know who the father was, but
we had a cat.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Why are you saying that in a way that suggests
don't look at me.
Speaker 5 (28:58):
Yeah, we didn't know who the father was, but we
did have kittens, and that was a really good life experience.
But I remember my mom saying, this is the last
time we're ever gonna have a litter of kittens in
this house.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
These poor people and these poor cats too, they don't
want that existence. If you're just getting up and going
this morning and saying, all right, I and the four
non blondes want to know what's going on, Well we've
got that for you. The police in Fremont looked at
that student protest where you had a bunch of students
out there protesting Ice and then surrounded the car of
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a kid who goes to school there with a Trump
flag in the back of the suv.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
He told these guys, hey, you.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Gotta move or I'm gonna move you, and they didn't move,
and they surrounded his car and started damaging the vehicle.
So he drove forward. The girl in front of the car,
who I presume was warned, got lovingly nudged to the ground.
She's gonna be okay, lovingly lovingly nudged to the ground.
And the police took a look at all this and said,
all right, all you guys, you're all sided with something.
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So that's that latest. Not quite resolution, but those are
the at least the citations in Fremont. Parents in Atlantic,
Iowa say, why has it taken more than two years
of parents coming to you people at the school and
the school board with concerns about a counselor here in
your school district having inappropriate conversations with your students, and
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this guy still isn't fired and now is going to resign.
They shut that meeting down yesterday in Atlantic and said
you're not going to let this guy just resign and
go to a different school district. He needs to be fired,
he needs to be charged. That's the latest there. We
have still no idea where Savannah Guthrie's mother is or
what those circumstances are.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Watching that, of course throughout the morning.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Don't miss these top of the hour news updates from
Fox News here on eleven to ten kfab for the
latest there. And President Trump is speaking at the National
prayer breakfast. Now, he said yesterday related to Ice in Minneapolis,
maybe Ice could take a softer touch on some things.
So now he's speaking at the prayer breakfast, I'm sure
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the president is doing a much more reverential and conciliatory tone.
Speaker 8 (31:10):
You know, I've done more for religion than any other president.
When Paula was saying that it was so nice, I
was proud of it, and I said, that's true. I
told the people backstage what she said is true. Who
else would say that, right, But it is true. But
then I said, but that's not saying much, because not
too many presidents have done too much for religion. I
want to tell you that certainly modern day true. Certainly
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modern day presidents they didn't. They bailed out on you.
They bailed out. They want to be neutral. They want
to be neutral or against. You know, the Democrats are against.
I don't know how a person of faith can vote
for a Democrat. I really don't. And I know we
have some here today, and I don't know why they're here,
because they certainly don't give us their vote.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
The president there, he said, yeah, I think I'll get
to heaven out.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
No, No, he said, I'm not perfect. I haven't been perfect,
but I've done a hell of a lot of good
for some perfect people.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
So maybe I'll get into heaven. He's a beauty.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Before that, he started talking about the Republicans in Congress.
He says, except for one guy, Thomas Massey. We call
him Ran Paul Junior. He's terrible. He's a loser. He's terrible.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
He terrible.
Speaker 5 (32:20):
This guy is unlike anything we have ever had, and
we may never have anything like him again. So love
or hate him, you gotta be entertained by him, and
that's certainly us.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
We have a property tax proposal that's coming to the
Nebraska Unicameral next week, and we'll have the person who's
foisting it upon the Unicameral and his fellow legislators, Senator
Bob Anderson of Omaha. He'll be on the radio show
with Us seven thirty five Tuesday morning. Jim, you're the
property tax guy. You got the Rosarian plan. Let's see
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other jibes with what you want. He says, it's a
constitutional amendment that we change how property taxes are calculated.
He basically has been saying what a lot of people have,
and that is the tax system in the state should
be a three leg stool. It should be property income
and sales taxes. But right now, property taxes account for
about half of all taxes paid for by Nebraskans. The
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system has become unsustainable. We need to do something. And
he says this would establish two separate values for property.
You got your fair and market value, that's what the
county assessor says your home is worth, and then you
can fight it if you want, and a taxable market
value based on the purchase price of the property, and
that taxable value would not change until the property is sold.
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If that sounds familiar, that's basically what Prop thirteen in
California was. That said, yeah, if you're a longtime property owner,
that we're going to cap your property taxes. Worked out
well for longtime owners, especially ag but for new buyers
it led to disparities in tax burdens and made a
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problem for Californians, largely of their own creation. There are
those saying, I don't know why we're looking to California
to solve Nebraska's property tax problems, but if someone's at
least doing something, sure he'll be on the radio with
us to talk with you.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
On Tuesday, morning. I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 5 (34:19):
Senator Anderson's a thoughtful guy. Worked very hard beat Senator
Jen half Day in District forty nine. Not her name,
just an illustration of how much time and effort she
put into the job. But anyway, Jen Day was her name.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
The issue.
Speaker 5 (34:35):
The issue is very complex and yet very simple, and
that is what are we going to do to fund
government services, in particular schools. Now the state has taken
over funding for community colleges. You remember that used to
be on your property tax bill. Jim Pillon got rid
of that. I think is for your second year. But
you have to have two things in my view, that
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we don't have right now it Scott, because there's a
political divide. The first one is you have to have
a uniform valuation policy because the valuation policy that exists,
and we'll just use Douglas County as an example, is
a joke. What how did you decide it was worth that?
Speaker 8 (35:10):
Who?
Speaker 2 (35:11):
You know?
Speaker 5 (35:12):
Okay, we have to have a uniform valuation policy if
that's what we're going to use to judge the cost
of taxation on a home. Secondly, you have to have
control over local spending because sixty percent of property taxes
are career are collected at the local level for mostly schools,
tools but counties too, and you know cities, don't you
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care about the children?
Speaker 2 (35:34):
Right?
Speaker 5 (35:34):
So my issue is, and I have offered this many times,
is that if you have a new policy that will
end exemptions on certain sales taxes, which will create new revenue,
you have to have a mechanism to control local spending
or they'll just take it all and they'll continue to
drive up valuations of residences and businesses. They'll continue to
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drive up levies because your property tax is driven by
two things. The valuation of your proper in the levee
that you pay in your local jurisdiction. So and that
varies from you know, a lot two dollars some eighty
cents for every one hundred dollars of assessed value down
to a bucks sixty seven.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
How's that?
Speaker 5 (36:12):
So we either have mechanisms that control local spending which
would control levies and valuation, or the state takes over
all of the funding that property taxes currently provide.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
It's all highly complicated and interesting conversation. I'm with Rod
here in the Zonker's custom What's inbox? Scott ATKFAB dot com.
He says, guys, don't tease us about property tax relief,
it will never happen.
Speaker 5 (36:38):
Well, we've been made a lot of promises. People have
been writing a lot of checks.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
It's the number one concern of homeowners that nothing ever
gets done. Scott atkfab dot com and the Captain says,
Number one, why the hell are those kids in Freemode
allowed out of class during school hours to riot slash protest?
Speaker 8 (36:57):
Two?
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Why are the so called protesters? Why aren't they being
arrested for not peacefully protesting?
Speaker 2 (37:05):
Three?
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Why are we not investigating and arresting all of the
entities involved paying said protesters? We all to see Number one,
why are they out of class because they got up
and walked out and the school didn't do anything about it?
Speaker 2 (37:19):
Nothing.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
Two why are they not being arrested for not peacefully protesting? Well,
some of them who went out into the streets and
damaged that kid's car and then disrupted the police when
they showed up are being cited. And as far as
the peaceful protestment, based on the comments of elected officials
around here, I thought that they were peacefully protesting. I mean,
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you hear everyone from Congressman Mike Flood to Omaha mare
John Ewings saying if people should be able to peacefully
protest without being hit by cars makes it sound like
if you didn't see the video that some guys saw
kids peacefully protesting up on school property and drove the
car up on the lawn at them, which is not
what happened. And then why aren't we arresting the entities
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involved paying said protesters. Well, Pam Bondi has said as
much we are looking at all this. I don't think
that these student protesters in Fremont were paid. These useful
idiots will do anything as long as it gets them
out of social studies. Speaking of Mayor Ewing, I'm going
to try and do this throughout the year. You remember
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last month the mayor said that twenty twenty six is
the year of the neighbor, and there's a different theme
every month. My apologies for waiting until February fifth to
tell you the theme for the month of February. So
you can be a good neighbor here in Omaha. Whereas
last month you were supposed to look inward, how can
you be a good neighbor in twenty twenty six? Now
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you look at your family. How can we be good
neighbors within our families? In other words, how can we
be good family members? To do your neighbors for a
family who live next door to you or across the street,
how can you be good neighbors? How can we be
good neighbors? I think looking at how the family can
be better neighbors.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
Lucy's whole family?
Speaker 6 (39:10):
Or yeah, what is he talking about about?
Speaker 2 (39:13):
Talking to you?
Speaker 6 (39:14):
Talk me within my family? I could be good.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
Yeah, and you talked within your family and say, how
can we as a family be better neighbors?
Speaker 2 (39:21):
Well, no, Lucy's gonna say, how about.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
You get your kids inside from making all this racket
all day and night. Come on, it's ay thirty at night,
it's dark. Stop dribbling the basketball out there. See, that's
how you could be a better neighbor.
Speaker 6 (39:36):
Raise your children to respect the elders and respect their parents.
And that's all you need to do with family.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
Ain't nobody got time for that? All right? Quit yelling?
Speaker 1 (39:45):
Sorry, sorry, sorry, jam thank you. Quite a sports world
in which we find ourselves right now. We've got Nebraska
basketball players wearing sports bras on the court, and this
is going to be and this is surprising because you
see these every time you turn on professional football. This
is going to be the first Super Bowl featuring players
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wearing those giant mushrooms on their heads. This is the
the oversized.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
Pattings.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
The Guardian cap is what it's called. Yeah, there'll be
a few players out there who have them on. And
we've seen these for a few years now in the
National Football League. And if you're you know, it's it
is weird. You know, the players get back in the
huddle and everyone's got their helmets on, and then you
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got like one lineman wearing something that looks like it's
five times bigger than everyone else's helmet. And I remember
the first one we saw wearing something like that. There
was a defensive back for the Bills like twenty thirty
years ago that wore kind of an oversized helmet because
he had an issue with concussions. But now you see
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a lot of lignement wearing them, and part of about
five hundred thousand players and from youth sports up to
the pros wearing the oversized soft shelled cap stretches over
your regular helmet, and that's supposed to help guard against
the possibility of concussions. But Jim, I wonder about it
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because I mostly see linemen wearing them. They're in the trenches.
You're not usually getting concussion level hints.
Speaker 5 (41:25):
Well, you're getting your head's getting bang in there on
every snap. I don't know enough about what causes concussions.
I just know the NFL is mortified by them. There
have been hundreds of millions of dollars given to former
players who suffered from CTE because the NFL ignored this
for year after year after year after year.
Speaker 2 (41:44):
We know that story.
Speaker 5 (41:45):
But I'd like to know which Nebraska basketball players are
wearing sports bras, all of them. That could be a
very very damaging element to their confidence against a big
and physical team.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
Yeah, we can't have them. Well, that's what people are saying.
They're like, why do they need a sports guy for
they got to wear sports bras. Yeah, you see it
when they have their whites on. You can see the
outline of their what looks to what it is a
sports bra. We've talked about.
Speaker 5 (42:09):
I don't think it's a sports bra, people, It's a
compression undershirt that for some reason is helpful. Yes, well,
Bill Walton never wore one.
Speaker 1 (42:20):
Bring this up because as the Nebraska basketball team is,
you know, now in the top ten still and made
it into the top five, super exciting. People are like,
what are these guys all about? Are those sports pras?
So people are just coming to them for the first time.
Speaker 2 (42:36):
Now.
Speaker 1 (42:36):
It's it's something that they wear for training, during practices,
the science of sports kind of thing measures this and that.
And since they practice in them, it feels weird to
play in games without them on, so they wear them
in the games. Looks like a sportspra sometimes. But you
know what, these guys could wear bron pennies out there
if they're gonna be winning. Yeah, if they're gonna keep winning,
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I don't care what they wear. Speaking of injuries, the
latest TikTok phenomenon that's burning children is something called knee
Doe n eedh. It's like a stress ball. It's a
sensory toy. The company's website says it's a gratifying, super soft,
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super stretchy, dough filled groovy glob wry. That's my online
OnlyFans profile. Anyway, When I guess you first get them
out of the packaging, they're kind of hard, not exactly
stress ball like, So what do you do well. People
on TikTok is like, hey, if you want to break
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in that, you can either break in that little groovy
glob there the knee, do over time, or just throw
it in the microwave and it's perfect. And I imagine
that there is probably a setting, a low power setting
with just a few seconds in the microwave that might
achieve that.
Speaker 6 (43:58):
What happens if you go over that.
Speaker 1 (44:00):
I'll tell you what happens. We're talking about kids gone, oh,
I just throw this in the microwave. I'll just put
it in there for a minute. That's not very long,
and this thing now becomes a molten lava center.
Speaker 6 (44:13):
Oh that's not funny.
Speaker 1 (44:14):
No, And I'm looking at pictures of these kids, not
at all funny. So these kids get the thing out
of the microwave. Now the sensitive stretchy coating to this
thing has been weakened by the power of the microwave
and the hot magma within it. And the kids get
it out and they're like, oh, this is easy to squeeze,
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And of course they squeeze the thing as hard as
they can. The thing bursts open and hits them in
the face. Moms have been rushing. They're tots to burn
centers and emergency centers over the last several weeks with
the second degree burns to face his hands.
Speaker 6 (44:54):
Well, not toddlers, because toddlers can operate microwave.
Speaker 5 (44:58):
I'd like to see the test results of that thing
before it hit the market.
Speaker 6 (45:01):
It's the same stuff in stretch Armstrong, probably.
Speaker 1 (45:05):
Not completely dissimilar. But at no point does the manufacturer
of this thing say throwing the microwave for ten minutes
or anything like that. This is TikTok telling these kids, Yeah,
these things are fun, but they're you know, too hard
when you get them out of the package. Oh heat
them up. So heat them up there for a little bit,
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throwing the microwave and they're perfect. And like I said,
these kids, aren't they done any idea? You know, might
has anyone else had a kid who thought like, I'm
just gonna warm this up for just thirty seconds and
next thing you know, your microwave's on firing. Like, first
of all, there's metal in there. You know, you get
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ten year old eight seven year old kids using the microwave,
it doesn't always end well. But you know, if you've
got this knee doe for your kids or grandkids, tell them,
don't in the microwave, or you'll look like this kid
with the burns all over his face. You don't see
that kid on TikTok. And then you have to wear
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one of those big helmets for a while. This is the,
like I said, first super Bowl, which will feature players
wearing those caps. And since there are people who only
watch football one day a year, you expect to answer
that question from those at the party, why are they
got big mushroom heads? That's coming up Sunday evening. Kid
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Rock's gonna wear one for the Turning Point USA halftime show.
All right, Scott at kfab dot com and the Zonker's
custom was inbox. We had the forecast there that mentioned
the possibility of ice jams causing some flooding in areas
that would normally expect that kind of thing this time
of year. But if you're wondering what it's the uh,
what's the spring flood forecast? Here for the metro where
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right now runoff in the Missouri River basin and everything
above Sioux City is is well below average, like one
hundred and thirty two percent below average. Now, certainly if
you get a blast of snow up in Montana or wherever.
That's got to go somewhere, and that's going to cause things.
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But it sounds like the reservoirs are in a place
right now where they can handle it. Below normal, below
normal precipitation, that's rain, that's snow, and above average temperatures
have caused some early snow melts, so it hadn't had
a chance to just pack and sit there and get
more on top of it. So it doesn't look likely
they have any kind of flooding related to the rivers here,
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especially the Missouri River into the spring. Certainly, rainy, rainy
spring could change that, but that's the prediction right now
from the United States Army Corps of Engineers.
Speaker 2 (47:47):
So good news there. We need snow, we need rain. Yeah,
they're not getting the bad news.
Speaker 5 (47:52):
They're not getting it on the front range of the Rockies,
and that's what fills the Platte River and that's what
recharges the aquifer.
Speaker 1 (47:59):
It's really easy forest here in Omaha to say. I
thought they said that this winter was going to be
snowy and colder than normal.
Speaker 2 (48:06):
Well it has been.
Speaker 1 (48:07):
I don't know if you'd noticed what the rest of
the country looks like normally that weather you would get
the rain, the snow, the really cold temperatures that would
be here in parts northeast of here. That all shifted
well southwest. So that's why they're dealing with more of
a possibility of snow melt in Florida right than in
South Dakota.
Speaker 5 (48:28):
Right, we have a snow melt problem in South Carolina.
Speaker 2 (48:31):
Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (48:33):
So yeah, they did predict snowier and colder winter than normal,
but here in Omaha were like, has that han't been
so bad? Well, we're not the only people in the country, damn.
We learned a few more details yesterday about who was
going to be held responsible in the eyes of Johnny
Law on that incident we talked about last week, which
one I know there have been a lot, the one
in Fremont. As you recall last week, it was decided
that kids needed to be politically active. Not after school
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and not on the weekend. Oh lord, no, during school.
We're going to walk out of school and we're going
to go out here and protest. So you got a
bunch of students there, dear old Fremont High School, home
of the Fighting Tigers, out there protesting ice because they
don't like what's happening in Minneapolis, which is five half
hours away from Fremont. So they're out there standing around
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on the school grounds, the effeckless administrators and faculty or
standing there smoking and vaping and watching them or whatever.
And then they decided we're taking it to the streets.
Another student who apparently takes the opportunity to say, well,
I guess school's out for the day and go home,
does sell with a Trump flag flying off the back
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of his suv. Students don't like that. The protesters do
not like that. Time to get out in the street
and surround that vehicle try and damage his car. One
girl standing in front of the car. The angry mob
is surrounding the car. The student driving having some conversation
with the student mob and I presume tells them like.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
If you don't move, I'm gonna move you, and then.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
He drives off the vehicle lovingly nudges the girl in
front of the vehicle to the curb, knocks her down.
She's okay. And the police looked at this because there's video,
because it's kids. They're out, hey, guys, and you're doing
the video thing like my stream subscribe. And the police
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looked at all this and we're trying to figure out, like, well,
are the students who are blocking the road responsible? Is
kid responsible for driving hitting a girl and then driving
leaving the scene of an accident? Who's responsible? And the
Fremont police took a look and they decided they're issuing
citations too. Everybody, the driver, the girl who was hit,
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three other young people were in the streets, including those
who were damaging the vehicle, and one adult. Now adult
could be a senior in high school who's eighteen. I
don't think there was there was a bunch of teenagers
out there, and then you know, some forty eight year
old man's like yeah, and they ran out there like
what's up, fellow kids, and they're like whatever, Boomer, get
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out of the way.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Unk. Thanks so much for being with us.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
This is our show, my friend News Radio eleven ten KFAB.
We call it Nebraska This Morning News. The city council
member that is that has dominion over the Fremont High
School area. His name is Jeff Peterson, and Jeff is
decrying that. He says, there's so many good things that
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happen here in Freemont, but something like this is the
thing that makes the news. Of course, he's talking about
the protests where the students were in the street. One
of the other students was in the car. The angry
mob surrounded the car, kids said move or I'll move you,
and then moved his car, hit the girl, and drove off.
You can't do that, even if, as the driver's sister says,
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he was scared because you had an angry mob of
students surrounding his car. I get that. That's when you
drive a couple blocks away and then called the police.
I don't know that he did that. The citation here
involving the driver suggests that he didn't any who. The
city council member says, well, it's sad. There's so many
good things happening in Fremont, and then this is what
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makes the news, councilman, that's actually a good thing.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
We see.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
News is something that's a little different from what happens
normally every day. If there's so many bad things happening
in Fremont, that's something that randomly good happens that we
have to dig down and find. Like, yes, so once again,
the streets of Fremont are flowing red with the blood
(04:11):
of innocent people. But somehow a daisy bloomed, you know,
a man went over and immediately cut it down with
a weed whacker and then went and attacked a group
of nuns. But for a moment, it was a beautiful
side in Fremont near twelfth and d You know, if
something like that happens and it's news, that's when you
were in trouble. That's when we're in really bad trouble.
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So he says, everything's great here, this was an unfortunate incident. Well,
what he's upset about. And I think a lot of
parents should be as well. Is yeah, you had the
people surrounded the car. The driver didn't do what he
was supposed to do. I certainly understand the why is
everyone's around in my car? Some people say he seemed
to want the attention he put the Trump flag in there.
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You should be a allowed to put a political flag
in your car if you want to without being surrounded
by them up. But there were two miners cited for
obstructing a police officer and disorderly conduct. I'm not sure
exactly what that was. You can't do that. So on Monday,
they're having their monthly board meeting of the school board,
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and the families are going to show up. People in
the community are going to show up to voice their concerns.
I wonder, Jim, I wonder, Lucy. I wonder whether any
of the parents of those who, for example, thought they'd
better go out and destroy this kid's car because they
don't like that he's a Trump fan, and then obstructed
a police officer and disorderly conduct. I wonder if the
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parents will show up there and apologize for the actions
of their kids.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
I hope.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
So.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
I'm with Lucy on this. I'm not holding out and
then Lucy said, quote.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
Well that's just the kind of perfunctory attitude around here
we're trying to get past.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
No, I want more of it.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
Actually, we want some sunshine, We want smiles.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
Here's what for you.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
We want optimism?
Speaker 6 (06:08):
Or did you say, daisy.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
Yah, you know six people the way, six people sighted?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
You know?
Speaker 1 (06:13):
In the President Trump would like you to smile more,
by the way, he's known you for a long time.
Speaker 7 (06:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
I dropped to Kaitlyn Collins a little note and I said, hey, look,
crack a smile once in a while. I'm sorry you
were saying, not gonna hurt you. Six people getting, you know,
sighted in this incident. At least the cops were working it,
and it sounds to me like they adjudicated justice quite fairly,
including one adult.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Well the adult is a senior who's probably eighteen, so
that's probably that.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Technically an adult. Right.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Well, you want to look at the same situation involving
an adult adult, You got a forty five year old
guy who happened to be walking by a student protest.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Same thing.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
We don't like guys, get them out of our town,
like Buddha, Texas South of Austin. I don't know what
exactly the situation is down there, but the students left
Johnson High School were out there protesting. Forty five year
old guys walking by gets into it verbally with the
group of students. They of course fire back with sir,
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you are our elder and we're showing you great respect, which,
of course Lucy would say, quote ha ha ha ha ha.
So they started going back and forth. Guy gets out
of his truck and exchange bunches with the teenagers before
throwing many of them to the ground. Yeah, you have
to issue more restraint than that. So this was an
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actual adult fighting with student protesters that was down in Texas,
just south of Austin. Have you heard what's been going
on in Atlantic, Iowa. It's hard to get the details.
You've got one media outlet in town saying, here's what
the parents are saying about a guidance counselor Atlanta or
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within the Atlantic school district. I saw one image that
featured the middle school, one that featured the high school.
You got another media outlet's saying, we're not reporting what
some of the parents are saying here. Well, here's what
we know. There was allegedly going to be a guidance
counselor who was going to resign at the school board meeting.
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The Atlantic, Iowa School District called an emergency board meeting
to accept the resignation of the councilor, but the meeting
was canceled. Parents had showed up there and many of
them were furious, saying, don't let this councilor resign. This
counselor should be arrested, and you school board members should
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be fired because we think this councilor has done these
things before, and it's been happening for years under your watch. Now,
no one's been charged with a crime, no one has
been arrested. Parents are saying that there is a faculty
member at the school who had been making inappropriate comments
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to their daughters. One mom says, my daughter was a
sixteen year old student there at the high school, and
she said that the counselor had took her cell phone
and was going through her social media, not sure why,
found pictures of the family that had been on the
(09:33):
beach in Florida, and he was commenting saying, you really
look like you belong in Miami in this bikini. Another
message to a daughter shortly after her eighteenth birthday. She's
a student at the school. This is a different deal, said,
I'm sorry, I guess this is the same girl. So
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the same mom is saying. Now it's a couple of
years later, and this teacher counselor faculty remember, is texting
my daughter at two o'clock in the morning, saying, Hey,
a lot's changed since the last time we talked. You
want to catch up. I feel bad about how we
left things.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
I hope you know I truly did care for you.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
So she said, I went to the district and reported
all this to the faculty and administrators, and all this
while my daughter was still a student, and then again
after she graduated, and she says school never did anything,
never investigated, never said anything. And so the superintendent is saying,
now we're not going to talk about this. It's a
personnel issue. We can't talk about all the rest. Well,
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parents are all furious. They want the counselor to be fired,
so it's on his record, and then they're coming after.
There's even a hashtag to try and get the superintendent fire.
There in Atlantic as well, the police department issued a
statement about any of this, and they said, and I
quote the Atlantic Police Department has been investigating looking into
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the information that has been provided. We take the safety
of the children in the community that we serve very
seriously and will continue to handle this investigation thoroughly.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
So I.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Certainly don't know other than I know a lot of parents,
including the outrage on social media against the school district.
There is palpable and there are people hoping that a
lot of people are fired, and at least one individual
is arrested there in Atlantic. I guess the Olympics are underway,
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kind of They tried to get underway without curling or
whatever ridiculous sport. A lot of people say they love curling,
but they were trying to do that. Of course, the
Olympics now underway with the first curling matches. This is
in Courtina, Italy. But moments later from all right, it's
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time for the Winter Games, the billion year Olympiad of
the twenty twenty six Winter Games. And then they started
getting out the brooms and all that fun stuff, and
then the power went out.
Speaker 6 (12:05):
How fast did the ice melt?
Speaker 1 (12:07):
They had the ice melted and they didn't realize this.
All these guys have all the equipment on. They got
their brooms and those brooms are real heavy. The ice
melted lucy, and they didn't realize that was then twenty
feet of shark infested water underneath that ice. I don't know,
it's it's Italy.
Speaker 6 (12:26):
And so they had to replace their brooms with mops.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
They all died.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
But the good news is is that opens up the
opportunity for the those stand by Olympians to go in
there and do that. They got to wait for the
ice to refreeze.
Speaker 6 (12:40):
Is there such a thing in curling? I don't know,
stand bys.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Well, yeah, if you can't do it, it's like it's
like the runner up for Miss America.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
If these guys can't.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Position their responsibilities.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Say they they drowned when the ice melt.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
No, the ice didn't melt the they had lights went
down and all that stuff. Now he d Yeah. But
here's the part. Yeah, happy Valentine's every one. You are,
after all in Italy and you're watching curling. What could
be more romantic? Man, there's guys out there with their
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brooms and that little weird puck with the handle on it.
Just put your arm around the nearest girl. If you
can't be with the one you love at the curly matches,
then love the one you're with.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
They have kiss cam and the Olympics.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
CEOs are diving underneath the chairs. So what's interesting about
this And this is normally where Lucy would formulate the
conspiracy theory. But I do think it's odd that you
had more than twenty one thousand professional athletes who showed
up there at the Olympics. These are both Olympians and
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other athletes who have been lobbying the eye the International
Olympic Committee. They signed a petition and they've demanded that
the Olympics stop fossil fuel companies from sponsoring the Winter Games.
They say, if you keep allowing fossil fuels, we're gonna
have climate change and there won't be any snow and
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cold anywhere.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Well, the Winter.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Games will look like the Summer Games in Los Angeles
in nineteen eighty four. Before too long, there'll be no
snow or eyes anywhere. So you've got to stop using
fossil fuels now. You wonder if some of these agitators
and protesters activists had said, we'll show you we mean
business and cut the power to the place. But I
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don't know if these people know that outside of things
like skiing, if you're gonna do anything inside hockey, curling,
figure skating, you need light. You can't do this by candlelight,
and you need the cameras to be able to beam
and broadcast your attempt at history to the rest of
the world, including your family back home. So I don't
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know what they're talking about, but that's fine. They don't
know what they're talking about. And it's just odd that
at the same time they're protesting the Olympics for using energy,
they get underway with the first matches of the Winter
Games and the power goes out. Lucy, how am I
doing there as a conspiracy theorist?
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Not terrible, but we need a little bit more information. No,
we need to know who are they specifically asking them
not to allow them to run advertising or support or
whatever sponsor you.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Said, Oh, oil and gas companies or whatever they do.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
People realize and I'm not a hundred I'm not saying
I'm for this, but do people realize what oil and
gas companies provide every single day? Not just oil and
gas every single day. Try living without plastic today.
Speaker 6 (15:58):
I would love to.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
People have no idea. They just they've locked up.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
They think that there are commercials during the Olympic Games going, Hey,
Stan Freberg from Fossil Fuel Companies Unlimited, we are hav
an abundance of fossil fuel. We're passing the savings onto you.
I like their fossil fuel so much I bought the company.
So for all your fossil fuel needs, stop buy fossil fuels.
For everyone dumping fossil fuels on kids since nineteen forty seven.
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You know, they don't have any idea what they're talking about,
like why would you put fuel on fossils? They don't
know what they're talking about. But don't deny the ability
for lunatic activists to do lunatic things, especially in Europe,
would be a great slogan for this radio show. Welcoming
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back to Nebraska's morning news News Radio eleven ten kfab
national correspondent Rory O'Neill here and Rory, what's the latest
here on Nancy Guthrie.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Right, we saw a video last night by Savannah Guthrie,
her brother and her sister essentially making a flea to
her abductors saying, look, if you can show us proof
that she is still alive. Right now, we'll talk money,
We'll talk about trying to make some sort of a
deal that gets their eighty four year old mother return
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to them safely. So rather remarkable development that essentially it
sounds like they're willing to give in to these demands.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
They have the police kind of looking into the last
people to see her, and that's her daughter and son
in law. This is obviously something police need to do.
Should we read into it any more than that at
this point.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Yeah, one of the issues is that the sheriff and
the FBI did not have a news conference yesterday, and
you know full well that newsrooms abhorre a vacuum and
we will do anything to fill it, and that may
just be some filler trying to again fill time with
some of these theories. The sheriff and the FBI have
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not indicated that this son in law is a person
of interest. Maybe he is, but they certainly haven't said
so publicly. But look, there's also the bare ugly truth
that in cases like this, something like eighty four percent
of the time it is within the family, So obviously
every family member has to get close scrutiny.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Yeah, there's nothing that's going to make any of the
story any better at any level here unless mom just
comes home and says, oh, I just ran off with
some guy I met online. We had a wonderful time.
Sorry to worry everyone. I everyone certainly hopes that this
has a good enough conclusion where Nancy Guthrie is found
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alive and okay, and if anyone is responsible for any
of this, that they're brought to justice. Why do you think, Rory,
that this story has gripped the nation like it has?
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Well? I think that one, we all know Savannah Guthrie, right.
We may not like her, maybe we love her, maybe
she's part of our daily routine, you know, whatever that
may be. And then of course a lot of her
colleagues in the news business feel sympathetic and actually must
have now the own fear that this could happen to
them as well, saying if it can happen to this
high profile news anchor, maybe it can happen to me
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as well. So I think that is something else that
sort of feeds into this. And of course it's all
a very remarkable true crime story that's out there. My
question is how does this go long term? Let's give
the best case scenario that they get the email that says,
here you go, you can find her. She's sitting in
a storage bin, you know, on Elm Street number four
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oh two. You know she's fine, and then we're gonna
get away with our bitcoin, and you're not gonna get
away with it, Like, how do you think this goes
long term that you won't eventually get tracked down? Because
if she is turned over healthy in the live, we
all hope that she's gonna give them information that's gonna
the FBI, information that certainly is going to lead to
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some sort of an arrest in this case.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Right, And as you talking about here, if indeed it
is some syndicate that suddenly is all about we're going
to take members of the media's moms and hold him
for bitcoin, then that emboldens them to go after someone else.
So there's there's really one or two great conclusions for this.
We hope we get there as soon as possible. Rory,
thank you very much for the conversation. As always, Thank God.
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I'm Scott Borhees, Craig Evans, and Lucy Chapman. Jim Rose
now has a fresh cup of coffee. He's ready to
go for this segment where I will completely ignore him
for the next eight minutes here on the news radio
eleven to ten kfab Well, at least for a moment.
There's there's one person, at least one person who doesn't
want you to ignore why perhaps you're seeing so many
(20:44):
problems on the streets of Minneapolis, and that person is
Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley. He spoke yesterday saying, remember, ICE
is operating all across the country, but there's only one
place that is coming to blows and gunshot with the
people up there fighting ICE agents. And perhaps it's because
of what was going on in the state of Minnesota
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before all this happened.
Speaker 7 (21:08):
What happened in Minnesota is as bad as it gets.
These fraud schemes have targeted federal programs designed to help
children with autism, the elderly, and small businesses. It's deplorable
that fraudsters would target programs designed to help Americans struggling
(21:30):
to take care of their children and their families. It's
also deplorable that the Waltz administration allegedly retaliated against whistle
oores who tried to expose this fraud. If true, such
retaliation should not go unpunished.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Yell.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
It has been in the back seat here about how
the leering centers up there, that oh, yeah, we got
to take all this money. We got to help these
refugee children who are teaming with autism, and we need
bazillions of dollars to do that. And then it was
found out that some of these centers had no kids
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in them, some of them didn't even exist. And then
suddenly it was like, oh, yeah, well everything's fine. By
the way, there are some bad guys out there in
the streets wearing face masks.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Go get them.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
And then they went after Ice up there, and Senator
Grassley wants to know why.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
And now what you're seeing is the Minneapolis Leering Center
that's shut down. They have closed a lot of these
places and moved they get back the money. They haven't
given back the money, but they've taken down the signs.
And we've seen reports of these guys backing up rental trucks.
I don't know who's paying for the rental trucks, but
they have backed up the trucks. They're emptying out these
buildings and they're moving someplace else. And Nick Shirley will
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be following them.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Yeah, he's the independent journalist who went out there and
found the leering center. What do you make Jim, President
Trump talking to NBC and he says, yeah, maybe you've
heard the SoundBite on Fox News updates throughout the morning,
maybe Ice could use a softer touch. Now, he followed
that up with but sometimes you have to be tough.
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So you got the President out there a sound bite
that maybe Ice could use a softer touch. You got
the Border advisor now in Minneapolis checking out that border
between Minneapolis and Saint Paul. Tom Homan said yesterday about
seven hundred federal agents will be pulled out of Minnesota.
And so these activists are thinking that they've won. They
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think that President Trump knows that they've won. And what
do you make of all? This is the is the
president shifting gears? Is there a softer touch now with Ice?
Speaker 5 (23:46):
He's looking at poles and the polls show that a
whole bunch of Americans don't like this part. They're okay with,
you know, closing the border, and they're okay with keeping
bad guys out, but they don't think that the tactics
being used and being amplified in Minnesota is what we
ought to have here now. I think it's a gigantic
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false narrative. I think it's a minimal number of incidents.
I think it has been blown up. And this is
part of the Rosy Diginozi this morning. There are very
organized and well funded groups that are in Minnesota that
are behind the scenes with these people and these protesters.
They're training them on what to do and how to
do it, how to take little things and make them
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into big things. So it says to the country, well,
look what's happening here, man. This is like the march
over the Edmund Pettis Bridge in Selma. That's what's going
on in Minneapolis right now. This is what people are thinking,
and they're capitalizing on the reality that most of us
have a short attention span and that we are impressed
by what we see and go, well, look at what
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they're doing to those people in Minnesota without any real
knowledge or understanding of what's actually happening.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
If you missed my conversation yesterday morning just after nine,
you can find that on the Vintage Vorhees podcast there
at kfab dot com. Talked with Jeffangelo, morning show host
on our sister station in Des Moines News Radio ten
forty who and he talked about it's not just Minneapolis
where they're paying and training these protesters. They're doing it
at a church in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. They're doing it
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in a lot of places across the country. Good conversation yesterday.
And if you really want to know the reality of
the misinformation that leads to the polls that Jim was
talking about, I'll have that for you. Also this morning
after nine o'clock.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Here's the latest from KFAB Radio News.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Or The ninety cats are found at a home in Lincoln.
Many of them have medical issues.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Craig Evans just had the story there the woman with
ninety six cats one of my favorite songs that goes
back to everyone's childhood. Right, Jim named the band you
were the one that did the Rosie Genosi yesterday about
three Dog Night Who did the song? Ninety six tiers
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one of the great one of the great band names
and music history. Come on, come all right, question Mark
and the Mysterians needs to be Redone is I'm a
big fan of ninety six cats. Can you can you
imagine ninety six cats?
Speaker 5 (26:17):
How do you name them? How do you keep them straight?
Speaker 1 (26:20):
She probably knew the names. Everyone has there ever been
a guy who police have identified that there was a
man who had ninety six cats living in his house.
Why is it always a woman with a billion cats
in her house? How does that happen? Well, I guess
I know how it happens. Well, Jim, tell me a
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circle of life? And what how how two cats meet
each other even though they're siblings. They decide that, hey,
you're for me, And next thing, you know, we have
more cats.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
Now we got five more, and then seven more, and
then nine more, and then the tomcat leaves and never
comes home.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
How, though, does it happen that you get that many
because you don't start no, no, get them from No
one starts with ninety six cats.
Speaker 5 (27:05):
You go get them from shelters, or you go get
them from people who know do ads saying hey I
got a litter of cats.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Yeah, get them.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
But you start maybe with four or five cats, and
then then you have eight or nine cats, and then
you have fifteen or sixteen cats. And I would think
at that point you're thinking this might be too many cats.
But then you know, life gets busy, you get stuff.
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You know, there's a lot to watch on television, listen
to on the radio, and then you turn your head
for one second. You look back and go, oh, son
of a now I've got twenty four cats. That's too
many cats. But then you know, your mother calls, what
do I hear in the background, Oh, I'm watching a
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show about cats. No, no, you're becoming a crazy cat lady,
aren't you. I heard about you people on the news. No,
it's fine. Well, I'm coming over. I wouldn't unless you
take several different allergy pills. I wouldn't if I were
you old and come over here. And then while I'm
on the phone with mom, you turn around and once
here we go thirty five cats.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
All right, all right?
Speaker 1 (28:14):
And you look at these cats and go, that's enough.
Stop that you're running all over the house with the
spray bottle of water. Stop it, get off of her cats.
And then you end up with forty eight cats.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
We had cats?
Speaker 1 (28:29):
How at some point do you just turn your head
and next thing you know, you got ninety six cats.
Speaker 5 (28:34):
In your ten more, turn your head and there's another five.
We had cats, you know, when I was growing up.
But I like cats. I like dogs more. But we
made sure that our cats are fixed. We did have
one cat that did a litter when I was a kid,
and not sure you know who the father was, but
we had a cat.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Why are you saying that in a way that suggests
don't look at me.
Speaker 5 (28:58):
Yeah, we didn't know who the father was, but we
did have kittens, and that was a really good life experience.
But I remember my mom saying, this is the last
time we're ever gonna have a litter of kittens in
this house.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
These poor people and these poor cats too, they don't
want that existence. If you're just getting up and going
this morning and saying, all right, I and the four
non blondes want to know what's going on, Well we've
got that for you. The police in Fremont looked at
that student protest where you had a bunch of students
out there protesting Ice and then surrounded the car of
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a kid who goes to school there with a Trump
flag in the back of the suv.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
He told these guys, hey, you.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Gotta move or I'm gonna move you, and they didn't move,
and they surrounded his car and started damaging the vehicle.
So he drove forward. The girl in front of the car,
who I presume was warned, got lovingly nudged to the ground.
She's gonna be okay, lovingly lovingly nudged to the ground.
And the police took a look at all this and said,
all right, all you guys, you're all sided with something.
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So that's that latest. Not quite resolution, but those are
the at least the citations in Fremont. Parents in Atlantic,
Iowa say, why has it taken more than two years
of parents coming to you people at the school and
the school board with concerns about a counselor here in
your school district having inappropriate conversations with your students, and
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this guy still isn't fired and now is going to resign.
They shut that meeting down yesterday in Atlantic and said
you're not going to let this guy just resign and
go to a different school district. He needs to be fired,
he needs to be charged. That's the latest there. We
have still no idea where Savannah Guthrie's mother is or
what those circumstances are.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Watching that, of course throughout the morning.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Don't miss these top of the hour news updates from
Fox News here on eleven to ten kfab for the
latest there. And President Trump is speaking at the National
prayer breakfast. Now, he said yesterday related to Ice in Minneapolis,
maybe Ice could take a softer touch on some things.
So now he's speaking at the prayer breakfast, I'm sure
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the president is doing a much more reverential and conciliatory tone.
Speaker 8 (31:10):
You know, I've done more for religion than any other president.
When Paula was saying that it was so nice, I
was proud of it, and I said, that's true. I
told the people backstage what she said is true. Who
else would say that, right, But it is true. But
then I said, but that's not saying much, because not
too many presidents have done too much for religion. I
want to tell you that certainly modern day true. Certainly
(31:34):
modern day presidents they didn't. They bailed out on you.
They bailed out. They want to be neutral. They want
to be neutral or against. You know, the Democrats are against.
I don't know how a person of faith can vote
for a Democrat. I really don't. And I know we
have some here today, and I don't know why they're here,
because they certainly don't give us their vote.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
The president there, he said, yeah, I think I'll get
to heaven out.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
No, No, he said, I'm not perfect. I haven't been perfect,
but I've done a hell of a lot of good
for some perfect people.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
So maybe I'll get into heaven. He's a beauty.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Before that, he started talking about the Republicans in Congress.
He says, except for one guy, Thomas Massey. We call
him Ran Paul Junior. He's terrible. He's a loser. He's terrible.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
He terrible.
Speaker 5 (32:20):
This guy is unlike anything we have ever had, and
we may never have anything like him again. So love
or hate him, you gotta be entertained by him, and
that's certainly us.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
We have a property tax proposal that's coming to the
Nebraska Unicameral next week, and we'll have the person who's
foisting it upon the Unicameral and his fellow legislators, Senator
Bob Anderson of Omaha. He'll be on the radio show
with Us seven thirty five Tuesday morning. Jim, you're the
property tax guy. You got the Rosarian plan. Let's see
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other jibes with what you want. He says, it's a
constitutional amendment that we change how property taxes are calculated.
He basically has been saying what a lot of people have,
and that is the tax system in the state should
be a three leg stool. It should be property income
and sales taxes. But right now, property taxes account for
about half of all taxes paid for by Nebraskans. The
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system has become unsustainable. We need to do something. And
he says this would establish two separate values for property.
You got your fair and market value, that's what the
county assessor says your home is worth, and then you
can fight it if you want, and a taxable market
value based on the purchase price of the property, and
that taxable value would not change until the property is sold.
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If that sounds familiar, that's basically what Prop thirteen in
California was. That said, yeah, if you're a longtime property owner,
that we're going to cap your property taxes. Worked out
well for longtime owners, especially ag but for new buyers
it led to disparities in tax burdens and made a
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problem for Californians, largely of their own creation. There are
those saying, I don't know why we're looking to California
to solve Nebraska's property tax problems, but if someone's at
least doing something, sure he'll be on the radio with
us to talk with you.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
On Tuesday, morning. I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 5 (34:19):
Senator Anderson's a thoughtful guy. Worked very hard beat Senator
Jen half Day in District forty nine. Not her name,
just an illustration of how much time and effort she
put into the job. But anyway, Jen Day was her name.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
The issue.
Speaker 5 (34:35):
The issue is very complex and yet very simple, and
that is what are we going to do to fund
government services, in particular schools. Now the state has taken
over funding for community colleges. You remember that used to
be on your property tax bill. Jim Pillon got rid
of that. I think is for your second year. But
you have to have two things in my view, that
(34:56):
we don't have right now it Scott, because there's a
political divide. The first one is you have to have
a uniform valuation policy because the valuation policy that exists,
and we'll just use Douglas County as an example, is
a joke. What how did you decide it was worth that?
Speaker 8 (35:10):
Who?
Speaker 2 (35:11):
You know?
Speaker 5 (35:12):
Okay, we have to have a uniform valuation policy if
that's what we're going to use to judge the cost
of taxation on a home. Secondly, you have to have
control over local spending because sixty percent of property taxes
are career are collected at the local level for mostly schools,
tools but counties too, and you know cities, don't you
(35:33):
care about the children?
Speaker 2 (35:34):
Right?
Speaker 5 (35:34):
So my issue is, and I have offered this many times,
is that if you have a new policy that will
end exemptions on certain sales taxes, which will create new revenue,
you have to have a mechanism to control local spending
or they'll just take it all and they'll continue to
drive up valuations of residences and businesses. They'll continue to
(35:55):
drive up levies because your property tax is driven by
two things. The valuation of your proper in the levee
that you pay in your local jurisdiction. So and that
varies from you know, a lot two dollars some eighty
cents for every one hundred dollars of assessed value down
to a bucks sixty seven.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
How's that?
Speaker 5 (36:12):
So we either have mechanisms that control local spending which
would control levies and valuation, or the state takes over
all of the funding that property taxes currently provide.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
It's all highly complicated and interesting conversation. I'm with Rod
here in the Zonker's custom What's inbox? Scott ATKFAB dot com.
He says, guys, don't tease us about property tax relief,
it will never happen.
Speaker 5 (36:38):
Well, we've been made a lot of promises. People have
been writing a lot of checks.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
It's the number one concern of homeowners that nothing ever
gets done. Scott atkfab dot com and the Captain says,
Number one, why the hell are those kids in Freemode
allowed out of class during school hours to riot slash protest?
Speaker 8 (36:57):
Two?
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Why are the so called protesters? Why aren't they being
arrested for not peacefully protesting?
Speaker 2 (37:05):
Three?
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Why are we not investigating and arresting all of the
entities involved paying said protesters? We all to see Number one,
why are they out of class because they got up
and walked out and the school didn't do anything about it?
Speaker 2 (37:19):
Nothing.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
Two why are they not being arrested for not peacefully protesting? Well,
some of them who went out into the streets and
damaged that kid's car and then disrupted the police when
they showed up are being cited. And as far as
the peaceful protestment, based on the comments of elected officials
around here, I thought that they were peacefully protesting. I mean,
(37:40):
you hear everyone from Congressman Mike Flood to Omaha mare
John Ewings saying if people should be able to peacefully
protest without being hit by cars makes it sound like
if you didn't see the video that some guys saw
kids peacefully protesting up on school property and drove the
car up on the lawn at them, which is not
what happened. And then why aren't we arresting the entities
(38:05):
involved paying said protesters. Well, Pam Bondi has said as
much we are looking at all this. I don't think
that these student protesters in Fremont were paid. These useful
idiots will do anything as long as it gets them
out of social studies. Speaking of Mayor Ewing, I'm going
to try and do this throughout the year. You remember
(38:26):
last month the mayor said that twenty twenty six is
the year of the neighbor, and there's a different theme
every month. My apologies for waiting until February fifth to
tell you the theme for the month of February. So
you can be a good neighbor here in Omaha. Whereas
last month you were supposed to look inward, how can
you be a good neighbor in twenty twenty six? Now
(38:47):
you look at your family. How can we be good
neighbors within our families? In other words, how can we
be good family members? To do your neighbors for a
family who live next door to you or across the street,
how can you be good neighbors? How can we be
good neighbors? I think looking at how the family can
be better neighbors.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
Lucy's whole family?
Speaker 6 (39:10):
Or yeah, what is he talking about about?
Speaker 2 (39:13):
Talking to you?
Speaker 6 (39:14):
Talk me within my family? I could be good.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
Yeah, and you talked within your family and say, how
can we as a family be better neighbors?
Speaker 2 (39:21):
Well, no, Lucy's gonna say, how about.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
You get your kids inside from making all this racket
all day and night. Come on, it's ay thirty at night,
it's dark. Stop dribbling the basketball out there. See, that's
how you could be a better neighbor.
Speaker 6 (39:36):
Raise your children to respect the elders and respect their parents.
And that's all you need to do with family.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
Ain't nobody got time for that? All right? Quit yelling?
Speaker 1 (39:45):
Sorry, sorry, sorry, jam thank you. Quite a sports world
in which we find ourselves right now. We've got Nebraska
basketball players wearing sports bras on the court, and this
is going to be and this is surprising because you
see these every time you turn on professional football. This
is going to be the first Super Bowl featuring players
(40:07):
wearing those giant mushrooms on their heads. This is the
the oversized.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
Pattings.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
The Guardian cap is what it's called. Yeah, there'll be
a few players out there who have them on. And
we've seen these for a few years now in the
National Football League. And if you're you know, it's it
is weird. You know, the players get back in the
huddle and everyone's got their helmets on, and then you
(40:36):
got like one lineman wearing something that looks like it's
five times bigger than everyone else's helmet. And I remember
the first one we saw wearing something like that. There
was a defensive back for the Bills like twenty thirty
years ago that wore kind of an oversized helmet because
he had an issue with concussions. But now you see
(40:59):
a lot of lignement wearing them, and part of about
five hundred thousand players and from youth sports up to
the pros wearing the oversized soft shelled cap stretches over
your regular helmet, and that's supposed to help guard against
the possibility of concussions. But Jim, I wonder about it
(41:19):
because I mostly see linemen wearing them. They're in the trenches.
You're not usually getting concussion level hints.
Speaker 5 (41:25):
Well, you're getting your head's getting bang in there on
every snap. I don't know enough about what causes concussions.
I just know the NFL is mortified by them. There
have been hundreds of millions of dollars given to former
players who suffered from CTE because the NFL ignored this
for year after year after year after year.
Speaker 2 (41:44):
We know that story.
Speaker 5 (41:45):
But I'd like to know which Nebraska basketball players are
wearing sports bras, all of them. That could be a
very very damaging element to their confidence against a big
and physical team.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
Yeah, we can't have them. Well, that's what people are saying.
They're like, why do they need a sports guy for
they got to wear sports bras. Yeah, you see it
when they have their whites on. You can see the
outline of their what looks to what it is a
sports bra. We've talked about.
Speaker 5 (42:09):
I don't think it's a sports bra, people, It's a
compression undershirt that for some reason is helpful. Yes, well,
Bill Walton never wore one.
Speaker 1 (42:20):
Bring this up because as the Nebraska basketball team is,
you know, now in the top ten still and made
it into the top five, super exciting. People are like,
what are these guys all about? Are those sports pras?
So people are just coming to them for the first time.
Speaker 2 (42:36):
Now.
Speaker 1 (42:36):
It's it's something that they wear for training, during practices,
the science of sports kind of thing measures this and that.
And since they practice in them, it feels weird to
play in games without them on, so they wear them
in the games. Looks like a sportspra sometimes. But you
know what, these guys could wear bron pennies out there
if they're gonna be winning. Yeah, if they're gonna keep winning,
(42:57):
I don't care what they wear. Speaking of injuries, the
latest TikTok phenomenon that's burning children is something called knee
Doe n eedh. It's like a stress ball. It's a
sensory toy. The company's website says it's a gratifying, super soft,
(43:19):
super stretchy, dough filled groovy glob wry. That's my online
OnlyFans profile. Anyway, When I guess you first get them
out of the packaging, they're kind of hard, not exactly
stress ball like, So what do you do well. People
on TikTok is like, hey, if you want to break
(43:41):
in that, you can either break in that little groovy
glob there the knee, do over time, or just throw
it in the microwave and it's perfect. And I imagine
that there is probably a setting, a low power setting
with just a few seconds in the microwave that might
achieve that.
Speaker 6 (43:58):
What happens if you go over that.
Speaker 1 (44:00):
I'll tell you what happens. We're talking about kids gone, oh,
I just throw this in the microwave. I'll just put
it in there for a minute. That's not very long,
and this thing now becomes a molten lava center.
Speaker 6 (44:13):
Oh that's not funny.
Speaker 1 (44:14):
No, And I'm looking at pictures of these kids, not
at all funny. So these kids get the thing out
of the microwave. Now the sensitive stretchy coating to this
thing has been weakened by the power of the microwave
and the hot magma within it. And the kids get
it out and they're like, oh, this is easy to squeeze,
(44:36):
And of course they squeeze the thing as hard as
they can. The thing bursts open and hits them in
the face. Moms have been rushing. They're tots to burn
centers and emergency centers over the last several weeks with
the second degree burns to face his hands.
Speaker 6 (44:54):
Well, not toddlers, because toddlers can operate microwave.
Speaker 5 (44:58):
I'd like to see the test results of that thing
before it hit the market.
Speaker 6 (45:01):
It's the same stuff in stretch Armstrong, probably.
Speaker 1 (45:05):
Not completely dissimilar. But at no point does the manufacturer
of this thing say throwing the microwave for ten minutes
or anything like that. This is TikTok telling these kids, Yeah,
these things are fun, but they're you know, too hard
when you get them out of the package. Oh heat
them up. So heat them up there for a little bit,
(45:27):
throwing the microwave and they're perfect. And like I said,
these kids, aren't they done any idea? You know, might
has anyone else had a kid who thought like, I'm
just gonna warm this up for just thirty seconds and
next thing you know, your microwave's on firing. Like, first
of all, there's metal in there. You know, you get
(45:47):
ten year old eight seven year old kids using the microwave,
it doesn't always end well. But you know, if you've
got this knee doe for your kids or grandkids, tell them,
don't in the microwave, or you'll look like this kid
with the burns all over his face. You don't see
that kid on TikTok. And then you have to wear
(46:08):
one of those big helmets for a while. This is the,
like I said, first super Bowl, which will feature players
wearing those caps. And since there are people who only
watch football one day a year, you expect to answer
that question from those at the party, why are they
got big mushroom heads? That's coming up Sunday evening. Kid
(46:31):
Rock's gonna wear one for the Turning Point USA halftime show.
All right, Scott at kfab dot com and the Zonker's
custom was inbox. We had the forecast there that mentioned
the possibility of ice jams causing some flooding in areas
that would normally expect that kind of thing this time
of year. But if you're wondering what it's the uh,
what's the spring flood forecast? Here for the metro where
(46:53):
right now runoff in the Missouri River basin and everything
above Sioux City is is well below average, like one
hundred and thirty two percent below average. Now, certainly if
you get a blast of snow up in Montana or wherever.
That's got to go somewhere, and that's going to cause things.
(47:14):
But it sounds like the reservoirs are in a place
right now where they can handle it. Below normal, below
normal precipitation, that's rain, that's snow, and above average temperatures
have caused some early snow melts, so it hadn't had
a chance to just pack and sit there and get
more on top of it. So it doesn't look likely
they have any kind of flooding related to the rivers here,
(47:37):
especially the Missouri River into the spring. Certainly, rainy, rainy
spring could change that, but that's the prediction right now
from the United States Army Corps of Engineers.
Speaker 2 (47:47):
So good news there. We need snow, we need rain. Yeah,
they're not getting the bad news.
Speaker 5 (47:52):
They're not getting it on the front range of the Rockies,
and that's what fills the Platte River and that's what
recharges the aquifer.
Speaker 1 (47:59):
It's really easy forest here in Omaha to say. I
thought they said that this winter was going to be
snowy and colder than normal.
Speaker 2 (48:06):
Well it has been.
Speaker 1 (48:07):
I don't know if you'd noticed what the rest of
the country looks like normally that weather you would get
the rain, the snow, the really cold temperatures that would
be here in parts northeast of here. That all shifted
well southwest. So that's why they're dealing with more of
a possibility of snow melt in Florida right than in
South Dakota.
Speaker 5 (48:28):
Right, we have a snow melt problem in South Carolina.
Speaker 2 (48:31):
Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (48:33):
So yeah, they did predict snowier and colder winter than normal,
but here in Omaha were like, has that han't been
so bad? Well, we're not the only people in the country, damn.
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