March 26, 2026 • 44 mins
Before the basketball game tonight, we have to talk about the social media verdict, the hand vs. train incident here in Omaha, and so much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This has been brother against brother, neighbor versus neighbor. This
hold on, This isn't the sun. It's worse. This is
so much worse. This is our antinam today here And
the question, of course is is this it or is
this just another step? It's six point thirty tonight tip
off on Tibis. TBS is hosting this one. Nebraska and
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Iowa in the Soweet sixteen. I don't know how to
go about watching Nebraska in the sweet sixteen of March Madness.
We've we've never passed the first round. Maybe you heard
that over the past week or so, so do you
have any tips on what Husker fans are supposed to do?
We just we just watch a basketball game, right, Do
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we need to do anything give to this special?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
No?
Speaker 3 (00:51):
No, no, We're used to. This is not our first rodeo.
It is our first.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
No, it's not.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
We've been watching the football team. It's been a while
better than most of us still remember day.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
That we were playing that's football.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
We were watching the volleyball team summarily decimate the entire
country until the Texas A and M match. So we're
used to championships, we're used to having our teams play
for championships. So the worst thing you can do is
start interrupting your routine. The worst thing you can just say, oh, now,
this is a big deal, this is something I really
gotta worry. No, just go out and do what you do.
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And if Iowa was able to execute it's game plan
better than Nebraska, than Iowa wins.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
You haven't changed your socks since we made the turn.
I really have.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
But no, this is what the first thing the coach
will tell you is, don't make this into more than
it is. It's another game. We all understand the gravity,
it's the tournament, it's the NCAA. Nobody's confused about the
difference between this game and the October exhibition against Done.
But if you go out there and you start making
it more than it is, then you'll be tight. You'll
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you'll start second guessing yourself, you'll wonder if you're prepared enough,
and you won't have a good game.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
My read on this team, and by the way, Lucy
Chapman has just vacated the premises. She's like, are you
guys going to talk basketball all morning? Maybe? Probably not,
but maybe my read on this team at this point
was they got real, real tight the last part of
the season, and they just couldn't stop focusing on We've
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we've got to win that first game in the bracket.
We got to get that monkey off the back. They
extracted the monkey. I don't know how that shot by
Vanderbilt doesn't go in. Now we advanced to this one.
The pressure is kind of off these guys, and I'm
sure that they allow themselves to feel it from time
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to time. They've got a great coach. They have made
it this far, and I don't think that they decided that,
all right, we made it this far just to make
it this far. I think these guys are are playing
more loose right now. They're having fun and everyone's stepping up.
I have very very high hopes for tonight.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Well that's good, and you know a lot of Husker
fans I think do too. This is this is going
to be fun to watch. Yeah, and yeah, you look
at the Vanderbilt game. That ball was halfway down the
cylinder and it probably should have stayed down the cylinder
and Nebraska loses on a heartbreaker. But the truth of
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the matter is that this team has been wired for
this all year long. It is a veteran team. Very
few schools have as many seniors as we do, especially
seniors that have played as much. So Frank mast is
thirty four years is he's going to collect social Security.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
He's a grandfather.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Sam Hoiberg actually has his own kids, and he's been
divorced twice. That's how That's how much experienced this ball
club has. JaMarcus lauren Man looks like, you know, he's
climbed a mountain and then back down the other side.
So you're talking about a veteran team. You're talking about
a head coach who installed a specific philosophy and the
guys wrap their arms around it. Now, Nebraska has chinks
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in the armor. We know what those chinks are. This
is not a particularly good rebounding team. This is not
a particularly physical team, and it's not very deep. They
go seven guys, that's about it. So if you find
a way to keep Pryce Sandford from getting any open shots,
you have a good chance to win this game. And
Rick mast is a guy who cannot play a long stretches.
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He needs breaks. So I'm sure Ben McCollum is thinking
when he goes out for his rests. A couple of
times each half. Then that's when we got to go
hard inside on these guys and look, hey, Tioway has
the same problems. Iowa's got issues, offensive issues. They really
don't have consistent scorers. This is it and if it's
a tight game that favors Nebraska. Jim Rose is right
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back with brief after traffic, weather and news update. And
to my buddy James, who has been texting the Iowa
stuff all week, we can talk again tomorrow. Now the
eleven ten KFAB Certified Transmission Sports Brief. Here's Jim ROAs
Okay Sky, Good morning everybody. Kenny Loggins must have been
thinking NCAA tournament and when he wrote the lyrics to
this is It, you think maybe it's over only if
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you want it to be. Are you gonna wait for
a sign your miracle? Stand up and fight? That's the
daily theme for the sixteen team still alive. Two of
them from around here, Nebraska and Iowa, and the regional
semifinals from Houston, Texas. I think our guys are wired
for the moment, says Huskers head coach Fred Hoiberg.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
If you get caught up in it, and if you
get satisfied, you're not gonna last very long in this tournament.
And again I look back at the team that we
put together all season long. They've found a way to
move past it. And whether it's been a tough, devastating loss,
our guys have found a way to regroup and refocus,
or if it's been a big emotional win.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Pretty resilient group. But so two are the Hawkeyes. They
may not have been the last at large team picked
for the tournament, but they were close. They won an
eight to nine matchup against Clemson in round one and
then toppled the top seed Florida Gators in round two.
This one is about defense. The team that knocks the
other guy off his horse will win it. Can we
guard Bennett Sturtz? Can they guard Price? Sanford six point
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thirty on TBS. The other semifinal in that regional is
the two seed Houston versus Illinois. Meanwhile, the white and
blue smoke billowed from above Saint John's Church on the
Hilltop yesterday. Starting with Old Klaus Delfs one hundred and
fifteen years ago, Creighton has hired good basketball coaches, only
eighteen of them officially introduced the nineteenth yesterday as former
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j player and assistant Alan Hust takes over. He knows
this past season was a loser for the Jays and
many of their fans have leaned toward Lincoln. He promises
that won't last.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Two of you that put your blue shirts down and
maybe put a red one on for what's going on.
We're going to win you back. We're going to get
you back. Don't let me get a snapshot of you
in a red shirt, though, I'm keeping receipts anybody I see.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Coach Mack was there. He engineered this hire, took him
away from a head coach position last spring to be
an assistant at Creighton with a promise that Huss would
get the job upon mcdermot's retirement. See how this goes.
It starts with money, either Creighton spends it on players
or the good times are over. Other coach stuff. Bill
self says he's not retiring as coach of Kansas, at
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least not yet. The Internet was buzzing about it social media. Yes,
he's thinking about his future, but nothing has been decided.
Tj Otselberger, coach of Iowa State two seed this year,
playing in the Sweet sixteen tomorrow night in Chicago against Tennessee.
He had to fend off social media contention that he's
taken the job at North Carolina.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Made it clear no.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
The big leaguers took the field to open twenty twenty
six Yesterday in San Francisco. The Yankees, back of mac Freed,
belted the Giants seven to nothing. He went into the
seventh allowing just two hits. Twelve more openers today, including
the Twins at Baltimore, the Nats at Wrigley for the Cubs,
Saint Louis hosting Tampa Bay. The Royals open tomorrow at Atlanta,
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Sale against Reagans Wild New Year's e for Rams wide
receiver Puka Nakua, a woman in Los Angeles, has filed
a civil lawsuit in court against Puka. She says he
uttered an eddy Semitic remark to her a Jew and
then bit her on the shoulder. Gender violence, assault, in
battery and negligence. Tried a restraining order, it was denied.
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Poka says it didn't happen unless she still has the
tooth marks or a video. She's looking at. Mostly legal
fees even in plaintiff happy California. Sports his news on
Nebraska's newsweathern traffic station. What am I missing in this
lawsuit where a jury found Meta, that's Facebook and YouTube
libel for failing to rein in that which makes their
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platforms their social media platforms, whether it's that which you
sign up for on Facebook, determine with whom you connect
on Facebook and Instagram, or what you watch on YouTube.
Apparently they said the platforms knew that they were harming
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children who were using their services, and awarded a plaintive
three million dollars in damages. This was a woman who
said her use of social media as a child addicted
her to social media technology and thereby exacerbated her mental
health struggles. So now she has three million dollars according
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to this jury in California, forty hours of deliberation across
nine days, and the jurors said, yeah, Meta, Facebook, YouTube
negligent in the design or operation of their platforms. This woman,
how could she help but get addicted to social media
when she was on it constantly as a kid. Was
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she raised in a cave, buy a phone or a tablet?
Or was there a parent, maybe a couple parents, heck
maybe multiple parents who knows who were there to watch
her spend all day every day as a kid buried
in the technology that they bought and gave her and said, sure,
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you can sign up for this social media platform and
all the rest of it.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Do the parents bear no responsibility in this? Now, I
know that media can be distracting. I'm here on the
radio right now, Jim Rose is over there reading the newspaper. So,
I mean it's very easy to get distracted by media.
But parents, parents have to let their kids had the technology,
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sign up for the technology, spend twenty four to seven
on the technology before they get addicted to it. What
am I missing here? I mean three million dollars? I'd
let my kids get hooked on social media for three
million dollars?
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Wrong?
Speaker 1 (11:19):
I would?
Speaker 5 (11:19):
That is wrong?
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Hey, what's the difference between getting hooked on it and
just spending time on it a couple of hours a day?
Three million dollars?
Speaker 5 (11:28):
Well, when you put it that way. Mister Chapman and
I were talking about this last night. If we had kids,
thank god no, but if we had kids, we would
This is his idea, and I agreed. He would hire
a computer expert for once a month to come in
and do an audit on the kid's computer.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Yeah, you know, here's what we did, rather than set
our kids up to we could get three million dollars
in a lawsuit we had and still do. They're teenagers
who have these parental controls on their devices. They go
off at this time, and you can start using it
again tomorrow at this time, and you get notifications when
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they've been on it for longer than this, many minutes
or hours per day. But this woman went up there
and told a jury, yeah, I started using YouTube at
age six, using YouTube like it's a drug. I started.
I started in on YouTube at six, and then I
graduated to Instagram at the age of nine. And I
was on social media all day long as a child.
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And these jurors said, well, your parents couldn't have done
a thing. Here's three million dollars. Here's what Facebook and
YouTube said about it in court. They said. We had
many therapists on their up on the stand talking to
the judge the jury. Not one of them identified social
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media as the cause of her mental health issues. She
had a turbulent home life. What the parents allowed her
to spend nothing but hours and hours a day on
her phone or tablet or whatever. Maybe didn't raise her
well in any facet of her home life and maybe
that was a reason for her mental health issues. And
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then YouTube said, we have the details about how much
time she spent on YouTube. Now, YouTube is it's a
video platform. It's like television. You decide when to turn
it on, what to watch, And they said, according to
our data, she spent about one minute a day on
average watching YouTube short videos since its exceptions in twenty twenty. Yeah, minute,
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one minute a day. It takes me a minute to
get to YouTube, she said. And she had declining YouTube
use as she got older, so she wasn't addicted to YouTube,
and Facebook said, look, she'd signed up for the platform.
She decided. We all we do is make it available.
And if you spend too much time, if you allow
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your kid to spend too much time on there, how
is that our fault? Well, jury said, it is your fault.
Here's three million dollars, which is nothing. This is them crazy.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Look, this is the twenty This is the twentieth first
century version of smoking. This is the same thing the
big tobacco companies went through at the end of the
twentieth century. You know that cigarette is addictive, and you
have been promoting it to people for a long time,
and now you got to pay the piper. And they
paid hundreds of millions, I mean hundreds and hundreds of
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millions of dollars in damages. In fact, some states still
have tobacco funds in their state conference.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Right. Oh yeah, we're paying for children's health insurance and
roads and everything else out of the tobacco money. It's
the same thing. Where is the personal responsibility? Okay? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Is it addictive? It's like the It's like DraftKings and
fan duel. It's right there on your phone. And a
lot of college kids are addicted to gambling online because
all they have to do is just punch in a
credit card. They never actually have the friction of the transaction.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
And they really want to expand that use in to
Nebraska as well pay for a lot of stuff with it.
Oh we could lower your property taxes, or I could
get addicted to gambling and get kicked out of my house.
I mean, what one person, what one person does for
recreation and has no problem with it, whether that's alcohol,
social media, smoking, gambling, whatever, another person gets hopelessly addicted to.
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And I just can't understand how a jury can award
millions of dollars to a family that allowed their kid
to spend hours and hours a day with her face
pressed up against a phone or a tablet.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Are you going to sue the golf companies? I'm hopelessly
addicted to golf. I should the way I play clubs,
the amount of time I put into this game, and
I play terrible.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
I should sue golf. Hear the equipment of the clothes.
I'm suing titleists now. These parents let their kids get
addicted to social media. They got millions of dollars now
in a lawsuit. I'm rethinking my entire parent strategy.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
Do you think that they'll put that money away for
her and help her in the future for her mental
issues that she allegedly has.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Well, here's an email from Linda says the problem is
the parents themselves are glued to their phones instead of
parenting and using social media as a babysitter. They'll probably
just get a stronger Wi Fi signal. We need more
of those, watch mccaull. It's that you put around the
house to the boosters. We need more boosters boost the
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Wi Fi signal. Here's how bad a parent I am. Yesterday,
At this time I was distracted a bit by a
text message from my son. He was on his way
to school and I thought, good, he might actually make
it to class on time today. That's great. But he said, hey, Dad,
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you know because I read him The Riot Act over
the Winner when I went to every once in a
while like to drive his car, see how it's doing,
make sure everything's okay. And the check engine light was on,
and I said, hey, you got to tell me when
this And it was just because his gas cap wasn't
screwed on, so I figured it was just an omissions thing.
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And he's he texted me yesterday and said, my check
engine lights on. What should I do? I said, we'll
drive it to school and then we'll check it tonight. Okay.
So he makes it to school and then after school
he's trying to make it back home. He makes it
about three blocks from the school and the car shuts down,
won't start back up. Click click click click click. So
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the car was towed to our friends with the Mister
Mechanic Show, the guys that do the Mister Mechanic Show
Saturday mornings at eleven and eleven ten kfab. So you know,
you get teenagers with the you know I've always I'm
rethinking all of my parents ing decisions. First of all,
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I didn't let my kids get addicted to social media,
and I didn't get millions of dollars in a lawsuit.
And then I thought it'd be better if my kids
get an old car, one of those that you have to,
you know, take a look and see what the coolant
is is doing throughout the year. You know, I'm not
gonna put my kids behind the wheel of a newer
car and have them drive to school like it's some
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sort of car show. No, no, you gotta, you gotta,
you gotta move up in the world. You start off
with something that runs occasionally. That's what I did for
my kids. But now I'm looking at these kids at
his high school that drive these newer cars, and I think,
you know what those dads aren't worrying about car trouble.
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A built character, hundreds if not thousands of dollars that
go along with these car repairs. Oh yeah, yeah, as
my son getting the character built, or am I as
the dad.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Well you'd put him in shop class. He can fix
it himself.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Yeah. They used to have auto repairs part of like
a high school career.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Still do some schools. Yeah, that's what Omaha Technical High
School was built to do. When Tech was built, it
was okay, we're going to teach you guys how to
fix stuff.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
So all you folks that you guys out there that
want to fix cars, boats, trucks, Yeah, you want to
you know, put together HVAC systems and roof of house.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
They don't have that anymore. Now they've got YouTube videos.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Well they got rid of it for a long time,
but it's coming back in some schools West Side, for example,
I think as a huge industrial arts department.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Speaking of YouTube, Matt emails and says, you know, YouTube
is the gateway social media platform that leads to harder platforms.
Sarcasm intended. Oh I picked up on it. Thank you,
Matt for that. Scott at kfab dot com Jim suggested
I should sue golf because I'm addicted to golf. Dennis says,
I know a couple hundred guys would join you in
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a class action lawsuit against Titleist. We would all lose.
We wouldn't show up for our court date because it
was a nice day and we decided to go play golf.
H you just take the Mulligan and then I got
these emails. One of them says, consider yourself served in
my upcome in lawsuit against kfab getting me addicted to
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listening all morning Monday through Friday. You knowingly schedule Lucy
Chapman during these hours so I can't get anything done
when she's on the air.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
Who signed that? Where's who's that from?
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Unsigned? Oh? And then but Olie says, to put a
little finer point on this, He says, I listen to
you guys every morning, and I believe my poor life
decisions are purely because of this trash. Thank you, Olie,
appreciate you being here. Scott at kfab dot com. Monica
emails Scott atkfab dot com. Here in these zonkers, custom
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Woods in box says Scott, you need to talk to
a pediatric psychiatrist about what they're treating these days. Addiction
to gaming social media causing debilitating anxiety and kids under
eighteen at a staggering level. It's a huge problem that
most parents and their children are too embarrassed to talk
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about publicly. Monica, I I completely agree with you, and
it's also incredibly uh. I I don't want I want
to say this, But I also don't want to make
it sound like I'm being judgmental. You know my feelings
on parenting. I'll screw up my kids, you screw up
your kids. But come on, it's it is about parenting.
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It is about trying to figure out what limits you
can set on these devices that your kids have access to,
all of this stuff that we know is not good
for them to be able to get all of it
all the time. You can do this. In fact, it's
your responsibility when you bring a child into this world. Bloodedy, bloody,
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bloody blah. On another story here, the firefighters are picketing today,
but they're not picketing against the city of Omaha. The
firefighter Omaha Firefighters Union is joining those on the picket
line at the Premiere Midwest Beer and beverage strike that's
been going on. This is two months of this strike.
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No wonder, I'm so cranky, I can't get all of
my booze. But let me tell you again about how
addictive social media. I'm kidding, I'm kidding. This is the
president of the Omaha Firefighters' Union talking to First Alert
six News says we've helped them out. The guys on
the picket line at this beer and beverage company. We
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help them out with supplies. We set a food truck
to the strikers on the picket line so they don't
have to buy their lunch or worry about paying the
grocery bills. Well, it's a the teamsters that are right.
This is the teamsters that are on strike. The teamsters
get dues from everybody who is a teamster so they
can pay people to go on strike and get paid. So,
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I don't know what the firefighters think that they're doing.
These guys are on strike. The teamsters are paying them
to be on strike, and the firefighters are like, hey,
we're helping them out. They don't have to buy their luck,
you're worry about grocery bills. Sounds like they're doing pretty well.
They stand around all day, the strikers do, and they're
they're getting paid for it. Can't we put them in
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charge of the TSA or something. I'm not a fan
of being on strike. So you don't like your job,
You feel like your boss just jobbed you at your job.
We were hoping that we'd get a little bit more
in terms of benefits and all the rest of this stuff.
And we didn't get it. Oh, I'm sorry you didn't
get what you want. Go work someplace else.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
I don't get job as a verb.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Job do got jobbed?
Speaker 5 (23:35):
What does that mean?
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Good job? It means that you got taken advantage of.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
Oh yeah, now that I understand.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Look, and I'm not saying that I let them at it.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Lucy, you've never been knee captain of the business. What
do you know about it?
Speaker 1 (23:49):
I'm not I'm not on the side of you. You
spent an hour with me and Chris Baker, right, I'm oh,
that's dangerous territory. I'll make sure HR is present. I'm
not on the side of management on this one. I'm
just saying that if you don't like your job, quit,
go find something something else to do, or just power
through it. I mean, don't I don't get we're going
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on strike. Oh you got all the answers, don't you?
I do. Let me just let me know what I
can help you out with. I'm here all morning, I'm
here all morning now. Lucy Chapman, your emphasis during recent
traffic reports has got my attention. You said we got
to crash over here on Blair high Road again. Got
an email from someone said, wasn't there a crash in
that same place yesterday at this time?
Speaker 5 (24:31):
Yes, So new traffic signals, new traffic signals. I don't
will that for sure, but I know that they're new.
What wait, I don't know that it's causing it. Ah,
for sure, I know that they're new.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
But so people are used to just barreling up on
this intersection without lights being there, and now there are
lights there and they and people don't know. Hey, when
you see a red light, you are too st Is
that what's going on? Potentially?
Speaker 5 (25:02):
Potentially?
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Maybe?
Speaker 5 (25:04):
Sure, I don't. I don't know for sure, but that's
the only thing that's changed.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
But but you know, to be fair, they've had crashes
right at the same spot off and on for years. Okay,
well since Potter's been there.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Right, Well, you get up around I mean some of
these these roads up in that that mid like North
Midtown up to northwest Omaha. You're on you're on Blair
high Road, then you're on Crown Point, then you're on Military.
Then you're like what I thought I was on radio?
Where am I right? Ferm you a triangle of roads. Also,
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I don't know what the heck happened yesterday, but I
had a bright idea.
Speaker 5 (25:48):
So I'm not going to as unusual. Well, you were
surprised at something happened night listener?
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Can you hear my look I'm giving Lucy Chapman. I
know it sounds like silence, but it also sounds like stinky,
doesn't it?
Speaker 5 (26:02):
Interpret it?
Speaker 1 (26:03):
You can hear that, you can see it.
Speaker 5 (26:05):
I would interpret it, but FCC would not be happy.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
I had bright idea yesterday that I'm not gonna go
down Dodge at rush hour. I'll just take a little
leisurely stroll. I had a little time to kill and
it was a nice day. I was enjoying driving around.
Don't give away an with the windows down? No, no, oh,
I'm this is if it was a secret route before.
It wasn't yesterday. About five o'clock yesterday, I thought I'll
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just go up Pacific. No, nice day, roll the windows down,
take a little leisurely Wednesday afternoon drive. Nope, I'm still
stuck in traffic.
Speaker 6 (26:41):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Forty five minutes to get from about ninetieth and Pacific
back to my house near one hundred and sixty eighth
in Mapril, and most of that time was spent between
ninetieth and Pacific and six eighty.
Speaker 5 (26:57):
That sounds about right.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
What is the matter with you people, Well.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
They've got too many traffic signals for one thing. Did
you see any construction, because I've got no.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
West of six eighty, there were two cars that were
I don't know if one was a vehicle that just
stopped running. It didn't look like there was an accident,
But there were two cars blocking the left lane there
west of six eighty. But they didn't have anything to
do with the fact that you know, through Regency and
past Happy Hollow, in that whole area, we weren't moving.
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And you have people who are now heading northbound taking
a left to go westbound on Pacific that are now
stuck in the intersection. So mylight'screen, no one can move,
And all I could think of all the city leaders
we always hear that say, we've got to increase the
ability to keep young people in Omaha and attract new
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people at Omaha. No we don't. We need to do
rid of some of the ones we need to get
rid of. It wouldn't look not not us, but you
know these other people. Wouldn't Omaha be a better city
if we got rid of thirty five percent of people
in this town.
Speaker 5 (28:12):
No, we need to build more apartments. No, we don't
get the bus service out this people. Some people just
don't belong.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Well, you are singing the song the anthem of the streetcar.
If we just had streetcars going all over town, we'd
never be stuck in traffic. Fine, then then build them everywhere.
Streetcar down billion dollars. Let's spend twenty billion on street cars.
Let's have them go here and there and everywhere, and
up and down and all around.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
I'm still stuck in traffic on Pacific Street from yesterday.
That was a terrible idea.
Speaker 5 (28:47):
You only do it once, so I know even I
did that once.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
I once had a similar experience going up Center from
west of one hundred and twentieth, and I still, even
if it's the middle the night and there's no one
else on the road, I'm like, I'm not going down Center.
I'm making that mistake again.
Speaker 5 (29:05):
There's a couple of roads you just never use. Center
is number one from sixt eighty all well, actually ninetieth
all the way out to one hundred and fifty.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
And fifty six. Yeah, that's where it gets super bottlenecky.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
And then Maple is the other one. Just don't take Maple.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
I don't have a problem with Maple.
Speaker 5 (29:24):
There's so many lights.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
I don't have a problem with me maps.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Maple's a nightmare.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Yeah really, Oh, I have not had that.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
There will be migrating traffic to Fort, and then from
Fort to State and then from State to South Dakota.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
And we've been a we've got a brush fire at
one hundred and thirty sixth and.
Speaker 7 (29:40):
Q that should be under control. What side of the
street sat on we know, Well, don't tell me though,
what was that. It's on the It's on the north
side of Q. That's where you've got some of those
That's where you have those areas where there are trees
and little bike trails and a lot of people living
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inside those trees. And I agree with Chris it says
brush fire hundred thirty six and Q. Probably our lovely
Millard homeless population. That's where they live in those trees.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
Yeah, that would be just on the other Yeah, on
the other side of the creek, a little bit from
a hobby lobby in that area.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Yep, it's right back well, probably just east of there.
So last night a woman is walking around. I don't
know what would cause someone to think I'll just hang
out here on the tracks while the train is coming
and then get hit by the train in such a
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way that it sheared off the lower part of her
arm to where she had to tell the authority. Now
she walks over to a nearby gas station and she's
calling the authorities via probably a hands free device. Then
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she has to go over to the gas station and
tell the authorities. Hey, you guys got to go find
my hand. It's over there by the by the tracks,
and I guarantee someone found it and probably had to
hold it up. Is this it? Is it a right one?
Do you?
Speaker 2 (31:20):
And I?
Speaker 5 (31:21):
Do we need to talk about getting you a vacation time?
Probably vacation time.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Probably looked at it and said, no, that's that's the
wrong hand. The thumbs on that, like, well, you have
to turn it around. You're looking at it from the
other side. Oh wait, yeah, now that I do this. Look,
I'm not I'm not making I'm not making fun of
the fact that a series of horrible things happened to
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this woman even before her hand was taken by a train.
It's just it's an interesting situation, isn't it. That's why
it's definitely right. And then you've got this lady. I
say lady, because I presume she had just left finishing
school and now she has taken a car from the
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Omaha Via Medical Center. She knew the guy that this
well it was a truck. She knew the guy the
truck belonged to, but he told authorities afterwards, I haven't
seen her in months. So she drives the vehicle away
from the VA and now she's out in front of
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a gas station. You can see the surveillance video shows
her in the car, and then she leaves the car
carrying a bunch of clothes, and then the car catches
on fire. So authorities find her. She's walking along holding
her clothes. I think she's still wearing some clothes at
the time, and they said, madam, you left that car
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back there at the pumps at the megasaver and it's
on fire. Any idea what happened? She's like, well, first
of all, I had permission to drive this car. Okay,
well we didn't asked about that, but now we can
check on that. Thank you. What happened to the car?
She goes, well, I'm not sure, but I did start
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stabbing various areas inside the truck, which areas according to
this report from First Alert six News, she wasn't specific
on where she stabbed in the truck, just anywhere that
looked like furniture. According to the police report, she I
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guess the steering wheel eventually caught fire. She was stabbing
a lot of that, and then she left, and she says, well,
the wires were the last thing I cut, and then
I left. She'll be in court today held on thirty
five thousand dollars bond. She'll need a ride. Everyone just
needs to just take it. Just hang out today, get
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ready to watch basketball tonight and enjoy a great basketball
game that's coming up in sports brief after traffic, weather,
and the news update next here on Nebraska's Morning News.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
I say start painting your face now and make it,
you know, easily removable, because your face. If one team
has a bad half, you can pull that off at
halftime and put a different color on in the second half.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Start with a black bass that can work for either teams.
Nebraska has been using black, so I'd start with a
black bass. So let me just check here you are.
You are telling people to go blackface. You're on the
radio this morning. What can possibly go wrong?
Speaker 3 (34:38):
No good, go go start with a black bass on
your face so that it can go Iowa or Nebraska,
depending on the officials.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Got it. Thank you very much for the the emails here,
particularly this one from Dave said to Scott at kfab
dot com and the Zonker's custom was inbox, says, regarding
the lady and the incident with the train last night,
you got to remember there's a chance she ingested something
that made her think the train was a sugar plum
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caterpillar bringing her a mush or a marshmallow lollipop on
a cloud of golden butterflies. I'll have what she's having.
Speaker 5 (35:20):
Sounds like he's been there or might.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Be there now. I don't know. I know that everyone's
and we noted yesterday, everyone's a little bit on edge
right now, especially before the game. Every Nebraska and Iowa
fans are on edge right now. People are losing it.
People are losing it. I'm anything you said, I'm just
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gonna repeat. Let's just do that the rest of the show. Okay,
everyone's just a ticking time bomb. They're just driving around.
We saw the said that yesterday because I looked up
at the TV and the actor from Reacher, the TV series,
and I also saw him recently in a pretty fun
movie with Kevin James. It's just a big action hero
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star guy and he's just punching his neighbor out in
the streets between their homes with his kids. The actors
kids are on little motorbikes in front of the home,
and he's like, hey, this guy just needed to be
put in his place. I'm guessing the neighbor's dispute was
probably something about how the actor and his kids were
riding those loud little motorbikes, speeding them up and down
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the street, and the neighbors said, do you guys think
maybe you can quiet down, take this someplace else? Stop
doing this. Well, time to have his buttocks beat right
here in front of his ring doorbell camera.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
So we saw that not exactly what happened. He got
out in the middle of the road and pretty much
stopped the motorcycle traffic. He didn't go over to him
and say, hey, just wanted to ask is there any
chance and he stood in the middle of the road.
Now does mean he deserved to get his ass kicked at.
What I'm saying is that's what started it. And there
was almost an accident with the actor because he was
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zipping down the road and suddenly this guy just jumps
out in the middle of the street, stops everything.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
What are you doing? Yeah, not the best way to
go now. I would say everyone's in the wrong there.
And it's funny how so many people can be in
the wrong at the same time and they always seem
to find each other. Yeah, right now. I Scott Vorhees
here on News radio eleven ten kfab Welcome from Fox
News Radio Evan Brown on a story we've been talking
about a lot throughout the morning. Evan, tell me what
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this jury in California did yesterday when it comes to
social media accounts.
Speaker 6 (37:35):
So, this was a lawsuit by a woman who we
know only as KGM, and the jury agreed with her
that her use of social media, specifically the platforms of
Meta as well as YouTube, which is a Google subsidiary,
that they her use of that of those products starting
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at the age of six, was harmful to her mental health,
and that they those companies ought to be responsible to
some degree. And so the jury decided that there should
be three million dollars paid to her in compensatory damages.
The judge put another three million on top of that
as punitive damages, So six million dollars about seventy percent
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of that directed towards Meta specifically, and for companies like
Meta and Google, these that's couch cushion change. Really, they
could write a check and be done with it, but
they do plan to appeal in some way, and the
reason for that is actually quite easy to ascertain. If
this court ruling were to survive the affiliate or excuse
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me appellate challenges all the way up to the let's
maybe even say the US Supreme Court, it would be
open season on these social media companies. So many people
would claim to have been suffering mental health because of
their use, and they could be suing, maybe even at
the class action level, just suing these companies into oblivion.
So they obviously have a real pressing business need to
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fight this and be interesting to see how it plays out.
But in the meantime, this woman is to be awarded
this money, it'll probably be held up during these appeals,
so hard to see how much, hard to say how
much money she actually gets from them at the end.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
Of the day. Were her parents who let her get
hooked on social media and spent hours and hours and
hours scrolling and watching videos every single day since she
was the age of six. Were her parents there beaming
at all good we won, we get millions of dollars.
We're the worst parents of all time, and we just
got paid for it. Raw.
Speaker 6 (39:40):
Let's draw a real parallel here. At one point in time,
the tobacco companies told you that nicotine was safe and
not addictive. At some point in time, lawsuits revealed otherwise,
and damages were awarded. At some point in time, we
had to say, all right, you know what, under the
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age of in this case, eighteen with tobacco or twenty
one with alcohol, we're not really ready for that kind
of use of that legal product, which we now know
can have harmful effects if abused. At some point in time, however,
long ago, when she was six, these social media companies
were telling everyone, how this is great, this is the
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harms of this. Now we know differently now, and in
the past few years we've seen social media companies make
great changes. They've put in parental controls and time limits
for youthful accounts and so on, and that does enable
parents to better control some of this and to make
sure their kids are not using this for hours and
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hours on end every day. But at some point in time,
these social media companies who are providing a consumer product,
we're saying this is safe. So we see that parallel
between this and the tobacco lawsuits of the nineteen nineties. Now, yes,
parents do need to step up. And now parents often
have the tools in these social media environments and as
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well as the operating systems of the devices that they use.
So for instance, my kid's iPhone, it locks her out
at seven pm and if she needs to get back
into it, or even a specific app, let's just say
it's for school or whatnot. And that is a reality
in this day and age. Whether and I have the
ability to unlock that app for fifteen minutes, now, whatever
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the case is. So nowadays, the tech companies, whether it's
for hardware software, providing parents the means for helping to
control their kids using social media as opposed just handing
this to or all parents, everything is safe here, everything
is fine. We know that that's not true. We know
that young kids lack the maturity to say to themselves, hey,
i've been on this long enough, I need to give
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it a rest. And so, yes, parents do need to
step up, but now they have tools to do that.
In the meantime, they may have caused harm in the
past and there may be a real need to use
the court system to hold them accountable for that, and
that of course will direct changes at the corporate level
as well. From a legal perspective, a lawmaking perspective that's
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also playing into this. We know in Australia it is
illegal for children under the age of sixteen to be
on social media, just like it is illegal to buy
to sell cigarettes to anyone under the age of eighteen,
and anyone caught doing that can be held legally accountable.
Same thing for buying alcohol for someone under the age
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of twenty one. Right, So, parents and other adults who
have kids in their lives, if we have a law
like that with social media, you have to be careful
to not allow your kids and don't do anything to
facilitate that. Don't allow them to defeat age restrictions. Don't
allow them to change the age profile on the phone
to say that they're sixteen or seventeen or whatever it is,
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when they're actually maybe ten or twelve or whatever.
Speaker 1 (43:00):
I fine argument on both sides. They're Eben fantastic work.
I just know that if this lawsuit and the payment
is allowed to not only stick in this case, but
for anyone else who says, yeah, I want to get
paid too, and they end up shutting down Facebook, how
am I going to know what my aunt's cat is doing.
I mean, let's think about that for a second.
Speaker 6 (43:21):
There was a point, there was a point in time
where your aunt would call you until you have a
cat restoring.
Speaker 1 (43:26):
I'll have to wait for the Christmas letter. Evan great
conversation is always thanks a lot for the time today,
Frank says, So it's not the parent's fault. Seriously, when
are people going to start filing lawsuits against the television
industry for the addiction their kids have watching TV ten
hours a day. Well, of you can file a lawsuit
and probably win for anything. People they file lawsuits against
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pop and fast food because they're fat. They file lawsuits
against McDonald's for ordering a hot coffee and they come
out and the coffee's hot and they burn their lip
and they file a lawsuit for that. And you let
your kids grow up being babysat by social media, they
have problems later in life, you file a lawsuit and
get millions of dollars. I'm telling you I should have
raised my kids differently, much much worse, which is difficult
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to believe, but I think we could have done it
and probably gotten paid
This has been brother against brother, neighbor versus neighbor. This
hold on, This isn't the sun. It's worse. This is
so much worse. This is our antinam today here And
the question, of course is is this it or is
this just another step? It's six point thirty tonight tip
off on Tibis. TBS is hosting this one. Nebraska and
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Iowa in the Soweet sixteen. I don't know how to
go about watching Nebraska in the sweet sixteen of March Madness.
We've we've never passed the first round. Maybe you heard
that over the past week or so, so do you
have any tips on what Husker fans are supposed to do?
We just we just watch a basketball game, right, Do
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we need to do anything give to this special?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
No?
Speaker 3 (00:51):
No, no, We're used to. This is not our first rodeo.
It is our first.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
No, it's not.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
We've been watching the football team. It's been a while
better than most of us still remember day.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
That we were playing that's football.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
We were watching the volleyball team summarily decimate the entire
country until the Texas A and M match. So we're
used to championships, we're used to having our teams play
for championships. So the worst thing you can do is
start interrupting your routine. The worst thing you can just say, oh, now,
this is a big deal, this is something I really
gotta worry. No, just go out and do what you do.
(01:24):
And if Iowa was able to execute it's game plan
better than Nebraska, than Iowa wins.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
You haven't changed your socks since we made the turn.
I really have.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
But no, this is what the first thing the coach
will tell you is, don't make this into more than
it is. It's another game. We all understand the gravity,
it's the tournament, it's the NCAA. Nobody's confused about the
difference between this game and the October exhibition against Done.
But if you go out there and you start making
it more than it is, then you'll be tight. You'll
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you'll start second guessing yourself, you'll wonder if you're prepared enough,
and you won't have a good game.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
My read on this team, and by the way, Lucy
Chapman has just vacated the premises. She's like, are you
guys going to talk basketball all morning? Maybe? Probably not,
but maybe my read on this team at this point
was they got real, real tight the last part of
the season, and they just couldn't stop focusing on We've
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we've got to win that first game in the bracket.
We got to get that monkey off the back. They
extracted the monkey. I don't know how that shot by
Vanderbilt doesn't go in. Now we advanced to this one.
The pressure is kind of off these guys, and I'm
sure that they allow themselves to feel it from time
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to time. They've got a great coach. They have made
it this far, and I don't think that they decided that,
all right, we made it this far just to make
it this far. I think these guys are are playing
more loose right now. They're having fun and everyone's stepping up.
I have very very high hopes for tonight.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Well that's good, and you know a lot of Husker
fans I think do too. This is this is going
to be fun to watch. Yeah, and yeah, you look
at the Vanderbilt game. That ball was halfway down the
cylinder and it probably should have stayed down the cylinder
and Nebraska loses on a heartbreaker. But the truth of
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the matter is that this team has been wired for
this all year long. It is a veteran team. Very
few schools have as many seniors as we do, especially
seniors that have played as much. So Frank mast is
thirty four years is he's going to collect social Security.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
He's a grandfather.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Sam Hoiberg actually has his own kids, and he's been
divorced twice. That's how That's how much experienced this ball
club has. JaMarcus lauren Man looks like, you know, he's
climbed a mountain and then back down the other side.
So you're talking about a veteran team. You're talking about
a head coach who installed a specific philosophy and the
guys wrap their arms around it. Now, Nebraska has chinks
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in the armor. We know what those chinks are. This
is not a particularly good rebounding team. This is not
a particularly physical team, and it's not very deep. They
go seven guys, that's about it. So if you find
a way to keep Pryce Sandford from getting any open shots,
you have a good chance to win this game. And
Rick mast is a guy who cannot play a long stretches.
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He needs breaks. So I'm sure Ben McCollum is thinking
when he goes out for his rests. A couple of
times each half. Then that's when we got to go
hard inside on these guys and look, hey, Tioway has
the same problems. Iowa's got issues, offensive issues. They really
don't have consistent scorers. This is it and if it's
a tight game that favors Nebraska. Jim Rose is right
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back with brief after traffic, weather and news update. And
to my buddy James, who has been texting the Iowa
stuff all week, we can talk again tomorrow. Now the
eleven ten KFAB Certified Transmission Sports Brief. Here's Jim ROAs
Okay Sky, Good morning everybody. Kenny Loggins must have been
thinking NCAA tournament and when he wrote the lyrics to
this is It, you think maybe it's over only if
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you want it to be. Are you gonna wait for
a sign your miracle? Stand up and fight? That's the
daily theme for the sixteen team still alive. Two of
them from around here, Nebraska and Iowa, and the regional
semifinals from Houston, Texas. I think our guys are wired
for the moment, says Huskers head coach Fred Hoiberg.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
If you get caught up in it, and if you
get satisfied, you're not gonna last very long in this tournament.
And again I look back at the team that we
put together all season long. They've found a way to
move past it. And whether it's been a tough, devastating loss,
our guys have found a way to regroup and refocus,
or if it's been a big emotional win.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Pretty resilient group. But so two are the Hawkeyes. They
may not have been the last at large team picked
for the tournament, but they were close. They won an
eight to nine matchup against Clemson in round one and
then toppled the top seed Florida Gators in round two.
This one is about defense. The team that knocks the
other guy off his horse will win it. Can we
guard Bennett Sturtz? Can they guard Price? Sanford six point
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thirty on TBS. The other semifinal in that regional is
the two seed Houston versus Illinois. Meanwhile, the white and
blue smoke billowed from above Saint John's Church on the
Hilltop yesterday. Starting with Old Klaus Delfs one hundred and
fifteen years ago, Creighton has hired good basketball coaches, only
eighteen of them officially introduced the nineteenth yesterday as former
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j player and assistant Alan Hust takes over. He knows
this past season was a loser for the Jays and
many of their fans have leaned toward Lincoln. He promises
that won't last.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Two of you that put your blue shirts down and
maybe put a red one on for what's going on.
We're going to win you back. We're going to get
you back. Don't let me get a snapshot of you
in a red shirt, though, I'm keeping receipts anybody I see.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Coach Mack was there. He engineered this hire, took him
away from a head coach position last spring to be
an assistant at Creighton with a promise that Huss would
get the job upon mcdermot's retirement. See how this goes.
It starts with money, either Creighton spends it on players
or the good times are over. Other coach stuff. Bill
self says he's not retiring as coach of Kansas, at
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least not yet. The Internet was buzzing about it social media. Yes,
he's thinking about his future, but nothing has been decided.
Tj Otselberger, coach of Iowa State two seed this year,
playing in the Sweet sixteen tomorrow night in Chicago against Tennessee.
He had to fend off social media contention that he's
taken the job at North Carolina.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Made it clear no.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
The big leaguers took the field to open twenty twenty
six Yesterday in San Francisco. The Yankees, back of mac Freed,
belted the Giants seven to nothing. He went into the
seventh allowing just two hits. Twelve more openers today, including
the Twins at Baltimore, the Nats at Wrigley for the Cubs,
Saint Louis hosting Tampa Bay. The Royals open tomorrow at Atlanta,
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Sale against Reagans Wild New Year's e for Rams wide
receiver Puka Nakua, a woman in Los Angeles, has filed
a civil lawsuit in court against Puka. She says he
uttered an eddy Semitic remark to her a Jew and
then bit her on the shoulder. Gender violence, assault, in
battery and negligence. Tried a restraining order, it was denied.
(08:37):
Poka says it didn't happen unless she still has the
tooth marks or a video. She's looking at. Mostly legal
fees even in plaintiff happy California. Sports his news on
Nebraska's newsweathern traffic station. What am I missing in this
lawsuit where a jury found Meta, that's Facebook and YouTube
libel for failing to rein in that which makes their
(09:03):
platforms their social media platforms, whether it's that which you
sign up for on Facebook, determine with whom you connect
on Facebook and Instagram, or what you watch on YouTube.
Apparently they said the platforms knew that they were harming
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children who were using their services, and awarded a plaintive
three million dollars in damages. This was a woman who
said her use of social media as a child addicted
her to social media technology and thereby exacerbated her mental
health struggles. So now she has three million dollars according
(09:46):
to this jury in California, forty hours of deliberation across
nine days, and the jurors said, yeah, Meta, Facebook, YouTube
negligent in the design or operation of their platforms. This woman,
how could she help but get addicted to social media
when she was on it constantly as a kid. Was
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she raised in a cave, buy a phone or a tablet?
Or was there a parent, maybe a couple parents, heck
maybe multiple parents who knows who were there to watch
her spend all day every day as a kid buried
in the technology that they bought and gave her and said, sure,
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you can sign up for this social media platform and
all the rest of it.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Do the parents bear no responsibility in this? Now, I
know that media can be distracting. I'm here on the
radio right now, Jim Rose is over there reading the newspaper. So,
I mean it's very easy to get distracted by media.
But parents, parents have to let their kids had the technology,
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sign up for the technology, spend twenty four to seven
on the technology before they get addicted to it. What
am I missing here? I mean three million dollars? I'd
let my kids get hooked on social media for three
million dollars?
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Wrong?
Speaker 1 (11:19):
I would?
Speaker 5 (11:19):
That is wrong?
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Hey, what's the difference between getting hooked on it and
just spending time on it a couple of hours a day?
Three million dollars?
Speaker 5 (11:28):
Well, when you put it that way. Mister Chapman and
I were talking about this last night. If we had kids,
thank god no, but if we had kids, we would
This is his idea, and I agreed. He would hire
a computer expert for once a month to come in
and do an audit on the kid's computer.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Yeah, you know, here's what we did, rather than set
our kids up to we could get three million dollars
in a lawsuit we had and still do. They're teenagers
who have these parental controls on their devices. They go
off at this time, and you can start using it
again tomorrow at this time, and you get notifications when
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they've been on it for longer than this, many minutes
or hours per day. But this woman went up there
and told a jury, yeah, I started using YouTube at
age six, using YouTube like it's a drug. I started.
I started in on YouTube at six, and then I
graduated to Instagram at the age of nine. And I
was on social media all day long as a child.
(12:32):
And these jurors said, well, your parents couldn't have done
a thing. Here's three million dollars. Here's what Facebook and
YouTube said about it in court. They said. We had
many therapists on their up on the stand talking to
the judge the jury. Not one of them identified social
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media as the cause of her mental health issues. She
had a turbulent home life. What the parents allowed her
to spend nothing but hours and hours a day on
her phone or tablet or whatever. Maybe didn't raise her
well in any facet of her home life and maybe
that was a reason for her mental health issues. And
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then YouTube said, we have the details about how much
time she spent on YouTube. Now, YouTube is it's a
video platform. It's like television. You decide when to turn
it on, what to watch, And they said, according to
our data, she spent about one minute a day on
average watching YouTube short videos since its exceptions in twenty twenty. Yeah, minute,
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one minute a day. It takes me a minute to
get to YouTube, she said. And she had declining YouTube
use as she got older, so she wasn't addicted to YouTube,
and Facebook said, look, she'd signed up for the platform.
She decided. We all we do is make it available.
And if you spend too much time, if you allow
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your kid to spend too much time on there, how
is that our fault? Well, jury said, it is your fault.
Here's three million dollars, which is nothing. This is them crazy.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Look, this is the twenty This is the twentieth first
century version of smoking. This is the same thing the
big tobacco companies went through at the end of the
twentieth century. You know that cigarette is addictive, and you
have been promoting it to people for a long time,
and now you got to pay the piper. And they
paid hundreds of millions, I mean hundreds and hundreds of
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millions of dollars in damages. In fact, some states still
have tobacco funds in their state conference.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Right. Oh yeah, we're paying for children's health insurance and
roads and everything else out of the tobacco money. It's
the same thing. Where is the personal responsibility? Okay? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Is it addictive? It's like the It's like DraftKings and
fan duel. It's right there on your phone. And a
lot of college kids are addicted to gambling online because
all they have to do is just punch in a
credit card. They never actually have the friction of the transaction.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
And they really want to expand that use in to
Nebraska as well pay for a lot of stuff with it.
Oh we could lower your property taxes, or I could
get addicted to gambling and get kicked out of my house.
I mean, what one person, what one person does for
recreation and has no problem with it, whether that's alcohol,
social media, smoking, gambling, whatever, another person gets hopelessly addicted to.
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And I just can't understand how a jury can award
millions of dollars to a family that allowed their kid
to spend hours and hours a day with her face
pressed up against a phone or a tablet.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Are you going to sue the golf companies? I'm hopelessly
addicted to golf. I should the way I play clubs,
the amount of time I put into this game, and
I play terrible.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
I should sue golf. Hear the equipment of the clothes.
I'm suing titleists now. These parents let their kids get
addicted to social media. They got millions of dollars now
in a lawsuit. I'm rethinking my entire parent strategy.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
Do you think that they'll put that money away for
her and help her in the future for her mental
issues that she allegedly has.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Well, here's an email from Linda says the problem is
the parents themselves are glued to their phones instead of
parenting and using social media as a babysitter. They'll probably
just get a stronger Wi Fi signal. We need more
of those, watch mccaull. It's that you put around the
house to the boosters. We need more boosters boost the
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Wi Fi signal. Here's how bad a parent I am. Yesterday,
At this time I was distracted a bit by a
text message from my son. He was on his way
to school and I thought, good, he might actually make
it to class on time today. That's great. But he said, hey, Dad,
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you know because I read him The Riot Act over
the Winner when I went to every once in a
while like to drive his car, see how it's doing,
make sure everything's okay. And the check engine light was on,
and I said, hey, you got to tell me when
this And it was just because his gas cap wasn't
screwed on, so I figured it was just an omissions thing.
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And he's he texted me yesterday and said, my check
engine lights on. What should I do? I said, we'll
drive it to school and then we'll check it tonight. Okay.
So he makes it to school and then after school
he's trying to make it back home. He makes it
about three blocks from the school and the car shuts down,
won't start back up. Click click click click click. So
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the car was towed to our friends with the Mister
Mechanic Show, the guys that do the Mister Mechanic Show
Saturday mornings at eleven and eleven ten kfab. So you know,
you get teenagers with the you know I've always I'm
rethinking all of my parents ing decisions. First of all,
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I didn't let my kids get addicted to social media,
and I didn't get millions of dollars in a lawsuit.
And then I thought it'd be better if my kids
get an old car, one of those that you have to,
you know, take a look and see what the coolant
is is doing throughout the year. You know, I'm not
gonna put my kids behind the wheel of a newer
car and have them drive to school like it's some
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sort of car show. No, no, you gotta, you gotta,
you gotta move up in the world. You start off
with something that runs occasionally. That's what I did for
my kids. But now I'm looking at these kids at
his high school that drive these newer cars, and I think,
you know what those dads aren't worrying about car trouble.
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A built character, hundreds if not thousands of dollars that
go along with these car repairs. Oh yeah, yeah, as
my son getting the character built, or am I as
the dad.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Well you'd put him in shop class. He can fix
it himself.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Yeah. They used to have auto repairs part of like
a high school career.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Still do some schools. Yeah, that's what Omaha Technical High
School was built to do. When Tech was built, it
was okay, we're going to teach you guys how to
fix stuff.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
So all you folks that you guys out there that
want to fix cars, boats, trucks, Yeah, you want to
you know, put together HVAC systems and roof of house.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
They don't have that anymore. Now they've got YouTube videos.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Well they got rid of it for a long time,
but it's coming back in some schools West Side, for example,
I think as a huge industrial arts department.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Speaking of YouTube, Matt emails and says, you know, YouTube
is the gateway social media platform that leads to harder platforms.
Sarcasm intended. Oh I picked up on it. Thank you,
Matt for that. Scott at kfab dot com Jim suggested
I should sue golf because I'm addicted to golf. Dennis says,
I know a couple hundred guys would join you in
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a class action lawsuit against Titleist. We would all lose.
We wouldn't show up for our court date because it
was a nice day and we decided to go play golf.
H you just take the Mulligan and then I got
these emails. One of them says, consider yourself served in
my upcome in lawsuit against kfab getting me addicted to
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listening all morning Monday through Friday. You knowingly schedule Lucy
Chapman during these hours so I can't get anything done
when she's on the air.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
Who signed that? Where's who's that from?
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Unsigned? Oh? And then but Olie says, to put a
little finer point on this, He says, I listen to
you guys every morning, and I believe my poor life
decisions are purely because of this trash. Thank you, Olie,
appreciate you being here. Scott at kfab dot com. Monica
emails Scott atkfab dot com. Here in these zonkers, custom
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Woods in box says Scott, you need to talk to
a pediatric psychiatrist about what they're treating these days. Addiction
to gaming social media causing debilitating anxiety and kids under
eighteen at a staggering level. It's a huge problem that
most parents and their children are too embarrassed to talk
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about publicly. Monica, I I completely agree with you, and
it's also incredibly uh. I I don't want I want
to say this, But I also don't want to make
it sound like I'm being judgmental. You know my feelings
on parenting. I'll screw up my kids, you screw up
your kids. But come on, it's it is about parenting.
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It is about trying to figure out what limits you
can set on these devices that your kids have access to,
all of this stuff that we know is not good
for them to be able to get all of it
all the time. You can do this. In fact, it's
your responsibility when you bring a child into this world. Bloodedy, bloody,
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bloody blah. On another story here, the firefighters are picketing today,
but they're not picketing against the city of Omaha. The
firefighter Omaha Firefighters Union is joining those on the picket
line at the Premiere Midwest Beer and beverage strike that's
been going on. This is two months of this strike.
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No wonder, I'm so cranky, I can't get all of
my booze. But let me tell you again about how
addictive social media. I'm kidding, I'm kidding. This is the
president of the Omaha Firefighters' Union talking to First Alert
six News says we've helped them out. The guys on
the picket line at this beer and beverage company. We
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help them out with supplies. We set a food truck
to the strikers on the picket line so they don't
have to buy their lunch or worry about paying the
grocery bills. Well, it's a the teamsters that are right.
This is the teamsters that are on strike. The teamsters
get dues from everybody who is a teamster so they
can pay people to go on strike and get paid. So,
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I don't know what the firefighters think that they're doing.
These guys are on strike. The teamsters are paying them
to be on strike, and the firefighters are like, hey,
we're helping them out. They don't have to buy their luck,
you're worry about grocery bills. Sounds like they're doing pretty well.
They stand around all day, the strikers do, and they're
they're getting paid for it. Can't we put them in
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charge of the TSA or something. I'm not a fan
of being on strike. So you don't like your job,
You feel like your boss just jobbed you at your job.
We were hoping that we'd get a little bit more
in terms of benefits and all the rest of this stuff.
And we didn't get it. Oh, I'm sorry you didn't
get what you want. Go work someplace else.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
I don't get job as a verb.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Job do got jobbed?
Speaker 5 (23:35):
What does that mean?
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Good job? It means that you got taken advantage of.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
Oh yeah, now that I understand.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Look, and I'm not saying that I let them at it.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Lucy, you've never been knee captain of the business. What
do you know about it?
Speaker 1 (23:49):
I'm not I'm not on the side of you. You
spent an hour with me and Chris Baker, right, I'm oh,
that's dangerous territory. I'll make sure HR is present. I'm
not on the side of management on this one. I'm
just saying that if you don't like your job, quit,
go find something something else to do, or just power
through it. I mean, don't I don't get we're going
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on strike. Oh you got all the answers, don't you?
I do. Let me just let me know what I
can help you out with. I'm here all morning, I'm
here all morning now. Lucy Chapman, your emphasis during recent
traffic reports has got my attention. You said we got
to crash over here on Blair high Road again. Got
an email from someone said, wasn't there a crash in
that same place yesterday at this time?
Speaker 5 (24:31):
Yes, So new traffic signals, new traffic signals. I don't
will that for sure, but I know that they're new.
What wait, I don't know that it's causing it. Ah,
for sure, I know that they're new.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
But so people are used to just barreling up on
this intersection without lights being there, and now there are
lights there and they and people don't know. Hey, when
you see a red light, you are too st Is
that what's going on? Potentially?
Speaker 5 (25:02):
Potentially?
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Maybe?
Speaker 5 (25:04):
Sure, I don't. I don't know for sure, but that's
the only thing that's changed.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
But but you know, to be fair, they've had crashes
right at the same spot off and on for years. Okay,
well since Potter's been there.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Right, Well, you get up around I mean some of
these these roads up in that that mid like North
Midtown up to northwest Omaha. You're on you're on Blair
high Road, then you're on Crown Point, then you're on Military.
Then you're like what I thought I was on radio?
Where am I right? Ferm you a triangle of roads. Also,
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I don't know what the heck happened yesterday, but I
had a bright idea.
Speaker 5 (25:48):
So I'm not going to as unusual. Well, you were
surprised at something happened night listener?
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Can you hear my look I'm giving Lucy Chapman. I
know it sounds like silence, but it also sounds like stinky,
doesn't it?
Speaker 5 (26:02):
Interpret it?
Speaker 1 (26:03):
You can hear that, you can see it.
Speaker 5 (26:05):
I would interpret it, but FCC would not be happy.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
I had bright idea yesterday that I'm not gonna go
down Dodge at rush hour. I'll just take a little
leisurely stroll. I had a little time to kill and
it was a nice day. I was enjoying driving around.
Don't give away an with the windows down? No, no, oh,
I'm this is if it was a secret route before.
It wasn't yesterday. About five o'clock yesterday, I thought I'll
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just go up Pacific. No, nice day, roll the windows down,
take a little leisurely Wednesday afternoon drive. Nope, I'm still
stuck in traffic.
Speaker 6 (26:41):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Forty five minutes to get from about ninetieth and Pacific
back to my house near one hundred and sixty eighth
in Mapril, and most of that time was spent between
ninetieth and Pacific and six eighty.
Speaker 5 (26:57):
That sounds about right.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
What is the matter with you people, Well.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
They've got too many traffic signals for one thing. Did
you see any construction, because I've got no.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
West of six eighty, there were two cars that were
I don't know if one was a vehicle that just
stopped running. It didn't look like there was an accident,
But there were two cars blocking the left lane there
west of six eighty. But they didn't have anything to
do with the fact that you know, through Regency and
past Happy Hollow, in that whole area, we weren't moving.
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And you have people who are now heading northbound taking
a left to go westbound on Pacific that are now
stuck in the intersection. So mylight'screen, no one can move,
And all I could think of all the city leaders
we always hear that say, we've got to increase the
ability to keep young people in Omaha and attract new
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people at Omaha. No we don't. We need to do
rid of some of the ones we need to get
rid of. It wouldn't look not not us, but you
know these other people. Wouldn't Omaha be a better city
if we got rid of thirty five percent of people
in this town.
Speaker 5 (28:12):
No, we need to build more apartments. No, we don't
get the bus service out this people. Some people just
don't belong.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Well, you are singing the song the anthem of the streetcar.
If we just had streetcars going all over town, we'd
never be stuck in traffic. Fine, then then build them everywhere.
Streetcar down billion dollars. Let's spend twenty billion on street cars.
Let's have them go here and there and everywhere, and
up and down and all around.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
I'm still stuck in traffic on Pacific Street from yesterday.
That was a terrible idea.
Speaker 5 (28:47):
You only do it once, so I know even I
did that once.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
I once had a similar experience going up Center from
west of one hundred and twentieth, and I still, even
if it's the middle the night and there's no one
else on the road, I'm like, I'm not going down Center.
I'm making that mistake again.
Speaker 5 (29:05):
There's a couple of roads you just never use. Center
is number one from sixt eighty all well, actually ninetieth
all the way out to one hundred and fifty.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
And fifty six. Yeah, that's where it gets super bottlenecky.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
And then Maple is the other one. Just don't take Maple.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
I don't have a problem with Maple.
Speaker 5 (29:24):
There's so many lights.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
I don't have a problem with me maps.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Maple's a nightmare.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Yeah really, Oh, I have not had that.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
There will be migrating traffic to Fort, and then from
Fort to State and then from State to South Dakota.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
And we've been a we've got a brush fire at
one hundred and thirty sixth and.
Speaker 7 (29:40):
Q that should be under control. What side of the
street sat on we know, Well, don't tell me though,
what was that. It's on the It's on the north
side of Q. That's where you've got some of those
That's where you have those areas where there are trees
and little bike trails and a lot of people living
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inside those trees. And I agree with Chris it says
brush fire hundred thirty six and Q. Probably our lovely
Millard homeless population. That's where they live in those trees.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
Yeah, that would be just on the other Yeah, on
the other side of the creek, a little bit from
a hobby lobby in that area.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Yep, it's right back well, probably just east of there.
So last night a woman is walking around. I don't
know what would cause someone to think I'll just hang
out here on the tracks while the train is coming
and then get hit by the train in such a
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way that it sheared off the lower part of her
arm to where she had to tell the authority. Now
she walks over to a nearby gas station and she's
calling the authorities via probably a hands free device. Then
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she has to go over to the gas station and
tell the authorities. Hey, you guys got to go find
my hand. It's over there by the by the tracks,
and I guarantee someone found it and probably had to
hold it up. Is this it? Is it a right one?
Do you?
Speaker 2 (31:20):
And I?
Speaker 5 (31:21):
Do we need to talk about getting you a vacation time?
Probably vacation time.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Probably looked at it and said, no, that's that's the
wrong hand. The thumbs on that, like, well, you have
to turn it around. You're looking at it from the
other side. Oh wait, yeah, now that I do this. Look,
I'm not I'm not making I'm not making fun of
the fact that a series of horrible things happened to
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this woman even before her hand was taken by a train.
It's just it's an interesting situation, isn't it. That's why
it's definitely right. And then you've got this lady. I
say lady, because I presume she had just left finishing
school and now she has taken a car from the
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Omaha Via Medical Center. She knew the guy that this
well it was a truck. She knew the guy the
truck belonged to, but he told authorities afterwards, I haven't
seen her in months. So she drives the vehicle away
from the VA and now she's out in front of
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a gas station. You can see the surveillance video shows
her in the car, and then she leaves the car
carrying a bunch of clothes, and then the car catches
on fire. So authorities find her. She's walking along holding
her clothes. I think she's still wearing some clothes at
the time, and they said, madam, you left that car
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back there at the pumps at the megasaver and it's
on fire. Any idea what happened? She's like, well, first
of all, I had permission to drive this car. Okay,
well we didn't asked about that, but now we can
check on that. Thank you. What happened to the car?
She goes, well, I'm not sure, but I did start
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stabbing various areas inside the truck, which areas according to
this report from First Alert six News, she wasn't specific
on where she stabbed in the truck, just anywhere that
looked like furniture. According to the police report, she I
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guess the steering wheel eventually caught fire. She was stabbing
a lot of that, and then she left, and she says, well,
the wires were the last thing I cut, and then
I left. She'll be in court today held on thirty
five thousand dollars bond. She'll need a ride. Everyone just
needs to just take it. Just hang out today, get
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ready to watch basketball tonight and enjoy a great basketball
game that's coming up in sports brief after traffic, weather,
and the news update next here on Nebraska's Morning News.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
I say start painting your face now and make it,
you know, easily removable, because your face. If one team
has a bad half, you can pull that off at
halftime and put a different color on in the second half.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Start with a black bass that can work for either teams.
Nebraska has been using black, so I'd start with a
black bass. So let me just check here you are.
You are telling people to go blackface. You're on the
radio this morning. What can possibly go wrong?
Speaker 3 (34:38):
No good, go go start with a black bass on
your face so that it can go Iowa or Nebraska,
depending on the officials.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Got it. Thank you very much for the the emails here,
particularly this one from Dave said to Scott at kfab
dot com and the Zonker's custom was inbox, says, regarding
the lady and the incident with the train last night,
you got to remember there's a chance she ingested something
that made her think the train was a sugar plum
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caterpillar bringing her a mush or a marshmallow lollipop on
a cloud of golden butterflies. I'll have what she's having.
Speaker 5 (35:20):
Sounds like he's been there or might.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Be there now. I don't know. I know that everyone's
and we noted yesterday, everyone's a little bit on edge
right now, especially before the game. Every Nebraska and Iowa
fans are on edge right now. People are losing it.
People are losing it. I'm anything you said, I'm just
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gonna repeat. Let's just do that the rest of the show. Okay,
everyone's just a ticking time bomb. They're just driving around.
We saw the said that yesterday because I looked up
at the TV and the actor from Reacher, the TV series,
and I also saw him recently in a pretty fun
movie with Kevin James. It's just a big action hero
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star guy and he's just punching his neighbor out in
the streets between their homes with his kids. The actors
kids are on little motorbikes in front of the home,
and he's like, hey, this guy just needed to be
put in his place. I'm guessing the neighbor's dispute was
probably something about how the actor and his kids were
riding those loud little motorbikes, speeding them up and down
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the street, and the neighbors said, do you guys think
maybe you can quiet down, take this someplace else? Stop
doing this. Well, time to have his buttocks beat right
here in front of his ring doorbell camera.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
So we saw that not exactly what happened. He got
out in the middle of the road and pretty much
stopped the motorcycle traffic. He didn't go over to him
and say, hey, just wanted to ask is there any
chance and he stood in the middle of the road.
Now does mean he deserved to get his ass kicked at.
What I'm saying is that's what started it. And there
was almost an accident with the actor because he was
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zipping down the road and suddenly this guy just jumps
out in the middle of the street, stops everything.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
What are you doing? Yeah, not the best way to
go now. I would say everyone's in the wrong there.
And it's funny how so many people can be in
the wrong at the same time and they always seem
to find each other. Yeah, right now. I Scott Vorhees
here on News radio eleven ten kfab Welcome from Fox
News Radio Evan Brown on a story we've been talking
about a lot throughout the morning. Evan, tell me what
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this jury in California did yesterday when it comes to
social media accounts.
Speaker 6 (37:35):
So, this was a lawsuit by a woman who we
know only as KGM, and the jury agreed with her
that her use of social media, specifically the platforms of
Meta as well as YouTube, which is a Google subsidiary,
that they her use of that of those products starting
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at the age of six, was harmful to her mental health,
and that they those companies ought to be responsible to
some degree. And so the jury decided that there should
be three million dollars paid to her in compensatory damages.
The judge put another three million on top of that
as punitive damages, So six million dollars about seventy percent
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of that directed towards Meta specifically, and for companies like
Meta and Google, these that's couch cushion change. Really, they
could write a check and be done with it, but
they do plan to appeal in some way, and the
reason for that is actually quite easy to ascertain. If
this court ruling were to survive the affiliate or excuse
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me appellate challenges all the way up to the let's
maybe even say the US Supreme Court, it would be
open season on these social media companies. So many people
would claim to have been suffering mental health because of
their use, and they could be suing, maybe even at
the class action level, just suing these companies into oblivion.
So they obviously have a real pressing business need to
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fight this and be interesting to see how it plays out.
But in the meantime, this woman is to be awarded
this money, it'll probably be held up during these appeals,
so hard to see how much, hard to say how
much money she actually gets from them at the end.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
Of the day. Were her parents who let her get
hooked on social media and spent hours and hours and
hours scrolling and watching videos every single day since she
was the age of six. Were her parents there beaming
at all good we won, we get millions of dollars.
We're the worst parents of all time, and we just
got paid for it. Raw.
Speaker 6 (39:40):
Let's draw a real parallel here. At one point in time,
the tobacco companies told you that nicotine was safe and
not addictive. At some point in time, lawsuits revealed otherwise,
and damages were awarded. At some point in time, we
had to say, all right, you know what, under the
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age of in this case, eighteen with tobacco or twenty
one with alcohol, we're not really ready for that kind
of use of that legal product, which we now know
can have harmful effects if abused. At some point in time, however,
long ago, when she was six, these social media companies
were telling everyone, how this is great, this is the
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harms of this. Now we know differently now, and in
the past few years we've seen social media companies make
great changes. They've put in parental controls and time limits
for youthful accounts and so on, and that does enable
parents to better control some of this and to make
sure their kids are not using this for hours and
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hours on end every day. But at some point in time,
these social media companies who are providing a consumer product,
we're saying this is safe. So we see that parallel
between this and the tobacco lawsuits of the nineteen nineties. Now, yes,
parents do need to step up. And now parents often
have the tools in these social media environments and as
(41:07):
well as the operating systems of the devices that they use.
So for instance, my kid's iPhone, it locks her out
at seven pm and if she needs to get back
into it, or even a specific app, let's just say
it's for school or whatnot. And that is a reality
in this day and age. Whether and I have the
ability to unlock that app for fifteen minutes, now, whatever
(41:30):
the case is. So nowadays, the tech companies, whether it's
for hardware software, providing parents the means for helping to
control their kids using social media as opposed just handing
this to or all parents, everything is safe here, everything
is fine. We know that that's not true. We know
that young kids lack the maturity to say to themselves, hey,
i've been on this long enough, I need to give
(41:52):
it a rest. And so, yes, parents do need to
step up, but now they have tools to do that.
In the meantime, they may have caused harm in the
past and there may be a real need to use
the court system to hold them accountable for that, and
that of course will direct changes at the corporate level
as well. From a legal perspective, a lawmaking perspective that's
(42:15):
also playing into this. We know in Australia it is
illegal for children under the age of sixteen to be
on social media, just like it is illegal to buy
to sell cigarettes to anyone under the age of eighteen,
and anyone caught doing that can be held legally accountable.
Same thing for buying alcohol for someone under the age
(42:35):
of twenty one. Right, So, parents and other adults who
have kids in their lives, if we have a law
like that with social media, you have to be careful
to not allow your kids and don't do anything to
facilitate that. Don't allow them to defeat age restrictions. Don't
allow them to change the age profile on the phone
to say that they're sixteen or seventeen or whatever it is,
(42:57):
when they're actually maybe ten or twelve or whatever.
Speaker 1 (43:00):
I fine argument on both sides. They're Eben fantastic work.
I just know that if this lawsuit and the payment
is allowed to not only stick in this case, but
for anyone else who says, yeah, I want to get
paid too, and they end up shutting down Facebook, how
am I going to know what my aunt's cat is doing.
I mean, let's think about that for a second.
Speaker 6 (43:21):
There was a point, there was a point in time
where your aunt would call you until you have a
cat restoring.
Speaker 1 (43:26):
I'll have to wait for the Christmas letter. Evan great
conversation is always thanks a lot for the time today,
Frank says, So it's not the parent's fault. Seriously, when
are people going to start filing lawsuits against the television
industry for the addiction their kids have watching TV ten
hours a day. Well, of you can file a lawsuit
and probably win for anything. People they file lawsuits against
(43:50):
pop and fast food because they're fat. They file lawsuits
against McDonald's for ordering a hot coffee and they come
out and the coffee's hot and they burn their lip
and they file a lawsuit for that. And you let
your kids grow up being babysat by social media, they
have problems later in life, you file a lawsuit and
get millions of dollars. I'm telling you I should have
raised my kids differently, much much worse, which is difficult
(44:14):
to believe, but I think we could have done it
and probably gotten paid
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