Cinco de Honky

On this Cinco de Mayo, we also happen to be one week away from Nebraska's Primary Election Day.  Douglas County Election Commissioner Danielle Jensen gives you all the rules on that, and Secretary of State challenger Scott Petersen talks about why he should get your vote.  We also talk today about Rhule at the Derby, Lucy's gas tank, my farpin' problem with FARP, and more!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, and thank you very much for being up
here with us on this Tuesday morning, Nebraska's Morning News
right here on news Radio eleven ten KFAB with Craig
Evans and Lucy Chapman, Corney Donaho, and Jim Rose. I
am Scott Vorhees. Then we'll be with you for the
next several hours right here. I hope you listen to
every single word that we say. It's a lot going

(00:22):
on here today. We've got ships trying to fire on
American warships in these Strait of Horn moves, and obviously
he's got some people a little upsent on, a little
uneasy over there. That's a violation of the ceasefire that
we apparently agreed with with the bots that are running Iran.

(00:42):
We've got primary election days in Indiana and Ohio today.
We're one week from primary election day in Nebraska. The
twenty twenty six Nebraska football team is currently undefeated, and
it's sink good to Mayo, which is either a celebration

(01:05):
of Mexican Independence Day or an opportunity for white people
to drink on Taco Tuesday. Either way, it all sounds
like a good reason to celebrate. Thank you very much.
For spending part of your Cinco de Mayo with us.
Now on Saint Patrick's Day, people get started real early,

(01:28):
and I don't know if that's the case for Cinco
de Mayo. All I know is that Jim Rose yesterday
came in here twenty four hours ago completely clean shaven,
and today has an impressive goatee. Is that is that
a merkin? That a face? Mrkan What you got there?
How is it that you had no hair on your

(01:50):
face yesterday and you got a full goat today?

Speaker 2 (01:52):
Well? I had it yesterday. The light you bad? We
had a couple of light bulbs out here, which is
kind of a metaphor for how things are.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
Jim Rose likes to hang out in the shadows.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Did you hear this report from Craig Evans a moment
ago one hundred arrests and seven hundred and fifteen citations
over the last couple of months here in Omaha related
to now that the phrasing that Craig use comes from
the Omaha Police Douglas County Sheriff's Office talking about side shows, Well,
it's talking it's about these street racers and the people

(02:23):
who gather to watch the street racing. To watch the
hot cars and motorcycles do burnouts in target parking lots,
Walmart parking lots, things like that. It's it's not like
the bearded lady is racing the dogface boy down Fort Street,
or at least if it is, then we need to

(02:44):
know more about that. They're calling them Lucy's side shows.
Lucy just giving me a side shows.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
You said, one hundred arrests.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
One hundred arrests, that's a good start. Seven hundred and
fifteen citations.

Speaker 4 (02:55):
That's a real good start.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
It is.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
But you know what I've noticed, it's gotten a little
quieter in West Omaha the last week or so.

Speaker 5 (03:04):
Well.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
When you have to give up your car when it's
forfeited for racing.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
I try and start to get my brain ready to sleep.
There's a variety of ways I do that. Lots of drugs. Yeah, sorry.
I play a little game on my phone, and if
all of us fails, I will beat myself senseless with

(03:32):
a ball, peen hammer, anything I can do to fall asleep.
But when I'm sitting there, we got a little chair
in the bedroom, and I have the lighting just right,
and I'm just trying.

Speaker 4 (03:43):
We want to hear the rest of the story.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
And then a mariachi band comes in. This helps me
get I'm ready to conk out right now. No, I
just I'm trying to get myself prepared to get a
good night's rest. And out my window I.

Speaker 4 (04:06):
Hear I told you not to move to Eagle.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
Eagle the raceway. Yes, so you're talking about the town
outleard Lincoln, which I guess that's where. Yes, I thought
you were talking. I thought you were bad mouthing the
entire town. Oh gosh, no, sorry, Eagle, I haven't mentioned
Eagle and my Thanks for listening, and Eagle, I'll try
and remember to do that today. Sorry, So you hear

(04:34):
I haven't heard those things for the last week or so. Now,
granted I was out of town for part of that time,
but I didn't hear them Sunday night. I didn't hear
them last night. I know why because they're arresting everyone
taking their cars.

Speaker 4 (04:47):
That's not why.

Speaker 3 (04:48):
Why because I just paid four fifty nine for a
gallon of gas yesterday.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
Oh foine, Yeah, I'm not going to say where.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
What did you you get a Diesel eighteen wheeler and I.

Speaker 2 (04:59):
Know about don't know why it was dragged to Los
Angeles fifteen.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
It's not four to fifty nine? Yeah, what you put
in ninety one octane or something like that?

Speaker 2 (05:08):
No, what are you doing?

Speaker 3 (05:09):
Just just regular premium? I mean it's it is the more,
a little more expensive, but not four to fifty nine.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
So I don't know, it's not four to fifteen nine,
that's what I paid. You got tooked?

Speaker 4 (05:19):
I think I did.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
You got tooked. I might have to digging more into this. Yeah,
four fifty nine. What'd you do you put? You put
like a nice chardonnay in your in your tank? What
is there?

Speaker 3 (05:33):
I don't know now that I'm thinking about it. At
the time, I thought, wow, gas has gone up, and
then I remembered us talking. We were talking about this yesterday.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
I filled up yesterday and it wasn't uh what And
I did so at one of the retailers that allows
you to get a slight discount on your gas, and
it was under four But it's not four four to
fifty nine. Now, if if if other people it was
a premium, that's what.

Speaker 4 (05:57):
Yeah, but still that'd be I.

Speaker 2 (05:59):
Well, that that's about right. Oh wait, you put premium
into your car. She has a lot of money, not.

Speaker 4 (06:09):
Anymore, not anymore.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
I complained about gas prices for four hours yesterday and
Kfabian Nation told me, and I quote Scott, shut up.
So you put in premium gas into your car? Lucy?

Speaker 3 (06:24):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (06:25):
Were you going street racing? Are you one of the
side show members?

Speaker 4 (06:29):
The side Show?

Speaker 1 (06:30):
Well, that's what they call him, they called Yeah. That's
that's how this conversation started. Omaha Police made one hundred arrests,
seven hundred and fifteen citations, two hundred and thirty nine
speeding citations, sixty eight tickets for careless or reckless driving.
Careless driving was a great song back in the eighties.
That was Wham George Michael, We're going to dance again.

Speaker 2 (06:53):
No, his guilty feet have got no rhythm. He's really
good at remembering lyrics. Ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 3 (07:01):
Well I had to get him started well on that one.

Speaker 1 (07:04):
When it comes to singing songs, you got to remember
the words and also be able to sing in tune.
I can remember the words. You could sing it too.
Never got a dish, Sorry it's two.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
He all the lyrics to the Michael Jackson songs of
the nineteen eighties.

Speaker 1 (07:19):
Name one Ah, you.

Speaker 2 (07:21):
Name it, You name it, you can do it.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
She's Out of My Life.

Speaker 3 (07:25):
That's one that is such a great song and it's underplayed.

Speaker 1 (07:31):
Can I tell you a quick story about that song? No,
we're hanging out. It's a it's a there's they're playing
a Chiefs game in Kansas City, and I'm down there
at Tanner's with my friends, and over on one side
of the bar, everyone's watching the Chiefs game, which is
why we're here. But over here there's a lonely karaoke
DJ who's like, hey, if anyone wants to sing karaoke,

(07:52):
and no one's of course doing it, because we're watching
the game, and anyone singing here would just annoy everyone
watching the game.

Speaker 4 (07:58):
Oh I know where this is going.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
I immediately said I'm in, and I chose She's Out
of My Life by Michael Jackson because I knew that
there was a good chance that someone would murder me.
And my friends of course thought that was the funniest
thing they've ever seen, which of course only encouraged me. Thankfully,
I don't have those tendencies anymore, do you. That was

(08:24):
really funny, though. Twenty four dui and drug arrests, six
and six seat belt violations just six.

Speaker 4 (08:32):
Yeah, hey, these guys least they're responsible.

Speaker 1 (08:35):
Guys are going three hundred and seventy miles an hour.
You should buckle up. I love that these guys take them,
impound their vehicles, crush those vehicles into cans and leave
the drivers in them. Now the eleven ten KF I
don't like them. Eleven ten KFAB Certified Transmission Sports FREEF
Jim Right.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
Okay, Scott, good morning, everybody. One of Omaha's top high
school football players is off to another place. Whyt Eban Tritt,
the defensive back from Scott picks Minnesota. It was Minnesota,
North Dakota State, and Iowa State picks Minnesota. He's a
good athlete. He's actually quite underrated a track guy in
the tough events, quality defensive back all State, but he
also runs the one to ten and three hundred meters hurdles,

(09:18):
long jump, triple jump. Tom Osburn and Milteneper used to
look at stuff like that before they offered football players,
and it looks like Minnesota might be getting Wyatt Leban Trip.
His brother originally signed with Notre Dame and then transferred
to Nebraska to play his last two years of college football.
But Wyatt is off to Minnesota. Baseball games last night
Boston five, Detroit four, Tampa Bay five, Toronto one. The

(09:41):
Yankees beat Baltimore twelve to one. The Royals beat Cleveland
six to two to open up a home stand at
Kansas City. It was Chicago over the Angels six to nothing.
National League, the Giants and Cards, Cubs, Phillies, and Mets
won games. Italygue play had Los Angeles eight and Houston three,
Seattle five, and the Braves four. In Game one East

(10:01):
Semi Finals of the NBA Playoffs, the Knicks one to
thirty seven, Philadelphia ninety eight, Minnesota one oh four, San
Antonio one oh two, as the Timberwolves pull off an
upset in the first game of the West Semifinals NHL Playoffs,
Game two, Carolina three, Philadelphia two, second Round of the
Eastern Conference, second round of the Western Conference Game one,

(10:21):
Vegas three, and the Anaheim Ducks won. Nebraska Volleyball releases
its Big Ten schedule. The Huskers have nine home matches
this coming season, including Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Ohio State, Purdue, Rutgers, UCLA,
USC and Wisconsin. On the road to Indiana, Maryland, and Michigan,
Michigan State, and northwestern Oregon, Penn State, and Washington. Matt

(10:45):
rule is being ridiculed on social media again. Apparently he
was at the Kentucky Derby and he was wearing a fedora,
which is not uncommon most guys do. But apparently he
looked like Lyle Laney from The Simpsons. Do you think
that he looked like Lyle Laney from Thesen's This is
the guy that sold them the Monto rail, sold Springfield
the monorail that.

Speaker 1 (11:03):
Fell apart monorail. Yeah, yeah, that's I think that was
a Phil Hartman. Yeah bit.

Speaker 2 (11:09):
But apparently he looks like Lyle Laney. So I went
looking up Lyle Laney and yes, there is a striking resemblance.
Hat the Jackie, Yeah, the Hathaga, followed by several snarky
comments about what are you doing to the Kentucky Derby
worrying about horses when you need some dogs on the
offensive line. This is what you get when you don't
meet expectations. Back to the NBA, do you have a

(11:31):
three to one lead on the number one seed in
the Eastern Conference. You lose that three to one lead
and they fire you The magic Blue out coach Jamal
Moseley early yesterday. The news came after Orlando Blue the
three to one series lead against Detroit in the opening
round of the NBA postseason. The Magic who made the
East Playoffs in three straight seasons under Mosley, But if

(11:52):
you blow a lead like that, you're Route sports his
news on Nebraska's News Weather in traffic, Lyle Laney.

Speaker 1 (11:58):
I'm looking at it right now.

Speaker 6 (12:00):
Ye see.

Speaker 1 (12:02):
Well, I mean the more ridiculous the outfit is that.
I don't know why the Kentucky Derby suddenly has to
be ridiculous outfits, But yeah, I would say that Matt Rule,
who traditionally is wearing a hoodie, does not look at
home in his boxer hat.

Speaker 2 (12:17):
Well, in the hacket, it's the hats turned up, which
is not a good look for him.

Speaker 1 (12:22):
Is that a box and a bowler hat? It does?
It's not a bowler has here to quote your favorite movie, Jaws.
That's one bad hat, Harry, I'm Scott Voorhees. The Nebraska's
Morning News had a couple of kids teenagers brandish a
weapon and hold a few people on a bus here

(12:43):
in Omaha this past weekend. I hope it wasn't some
people in town for the Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders weekend. These
guys are on one of those. There's big orbit buses,
the big orange buses where you get the gum and
then you travel, you circum navigate, Omaha. They're all all

(13:05):
definitions of orbit. You got the orbit, orbit gun or
orbit you're circling Omaha. Get it.

Speaker 4 (13:11):
It's it's second Monday.

Speaker 1 (13:14):
It's yeah, it's a Monday, Part two, The Revenge aka Tuesday.
But Lucy is sinco de mayo. Ah, you want some tequila?
It would be Would it be culturally insensitive for me
to play the song tequila this morning?

Speaker 4 (13:30):
I'm sure somebody would think.

Speaker 1 (13:32):
So, yeah, you don't have to answer that, because if
you answer the affirmative and I end up doing it later,
then I violated your trust and many other things, and
I don't want to do that. So we get these
kids that two fifteen year olds and a seventeen year old.
They get on the bus with their guns and they
decide to put those guns in the faces of some

(13:53):
passengers on the bus. I think I speak for everybody
when I say, first of all, I'm surprised they got
on a bus with anyone on it. Two, I mean
I'd never seen anyone on the buses, Scott. There's lots
of people that take the bus. Great, I'm still you
can tell me that the statistics show, oh no, the

(14:14):
eighty seven thousand people an hour take the buses in Almaha.
That's great. My eyes tell a different story when I
drive by the buses and I happen to look to
see anyone on the body on there, and there's no
one on the bus. So the number, I'm just surprised
they could find anyone on there. And then two because
these are such young people, nothing really happens to them,

(14:35):
and why is it that we have so many problems
with juvenile crime and no juvenile justice in this town.
But I start to do that and look like Papa Smurf,
one because I get blue in the face, and two
because I am old looking. So I'm not going to
do that. Instead, here I want to give some names
on the other end of the spectrum that don't get
as much attention. This is the eight right one two

(15:03):
eight area veterans with no known surviving family members who
will be honored this afternoon at Omaha National Cemetery out
there in Grete Pillion. The Patriot Guard Riders will provide
an escort in honor of the local deceased veterans with
no known family, and they will travel from about two

(15:27):
let's see here two forty five today, they'll arrive at
Omaha National Cemetery. They'll travel from one hundred and forty
fourth in corn Husker to the cemetery. They'll head out
of two fifteen, arrive at the cemetery to forty five,
provide flags for the flag line, and there will be
a ceremony at three point thirty this afternoon to honor
these individuals. Navy Ensign James fry Du Vietnam War veteran

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who died about a year ago at age seventy four.
Army specialist Thomas Michael Weiss, Cold War veteran died October thirtieth,
twenty twenty four, at the age of eighty six. Marine
Private first Class Gerald Lee Gamble, Vietnam veteran, died January
twenty eighth at the age of seventy four. Senior Airman
Arnold James Wilson, veteran of the Cold War, died October

(16:16):
first at age seventy three. Army staff Sergeant John Carmack
Steele Vietnam VET, died November twelfth, twenty twenty four, at
the age of eighty seven. Army Private Mark Allison Olds,
veteran of the Cold War, died April twenty fourth, This
is just a few weeks ago at the age of
sixty eight. Army Private E one Ricky Lee Osborne, Cold

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War VET died April twenty third, again this past month,
the age of sixty two. And Marine Corporal Robert Theodore
Borne Junior, Vietnam veteran, who died just a few weeks
ago April twenty fourth at the age of seventy. These
are eight area veterans with no known surviving family members
and the Patriot Guard riders. God blessed these guys. Make

(17:00):
sure that there are people there to honor their passing.
That will be at three point thirty this afternoon for
the ceremony at Omaha National Cemetery. Now, you watched a
movie last night that would be the basis of the
Rosie de Genozi commentary later today, And this has to
do with Nebraska's safe haven law. This goes back fifteen

(17:24):
sixteen seventeen, almost twenty years two thousand and eight Wow.
This was Ernie chambers idea that if we're going to
allow it was, if we're going to allow, But he
wasn't there are you arguing with me by saying the same.

Speaker 2 (17:37):
Thing was He wasn't the bill sponsor.

Speaker 1 (17:39):
No, no, But it was his idea, and it was
super sarcastic. His idea, which I actually appreciate. The idea
was is that if you can drop off a newborn,
why can't you drop off any kid of any age.
If we're just gonna say I don't like the look
of this kid, here you go and you drop him off,
like returning a movie to a clause video, then you

(18:01):
should be able to do that to a kid up
to the age of seventeen. And the Nebraska unicamer said,
all right, we're not going to argue with Ernie Chambers
on this one. It's not like someone's gonna drop off
their thirteen year old. And then they eventually, after just weeks,
had to shut that down because people were coming from
across the country dropping off their kids. They're fourteen year olds,

(18:23):
they're sixteen year olds. Just they just get to the
border and go welcome to Ruloh, and they'd drop off
their kid and they would leave because now it was
Nebraska's fault and the unicamer had to go back in
there and changed it. And this is the basis of
apparently a very sensitive movie, and I made it the
basis of a very insensitive bit back when this was happening.

(18:45):
In two thousand and eight, mal Adjusted Hospital dropped Abandon teenagers.
Maladjusted Hospital dropped abandon teenagers. Maladjusted Hospital dropped abandon teenagers.

Speaker 7 (18:55):
Hi, I'm Al Harrington, President and CEO of Al Harrington's
Maladjusted Hospital drop up to abandon teenagers and poorium and
warehouse thanks to a shipping error. I am now currently
overstocked on Maladjusted Hospital dropped to abandon teenagers, and I
am passing the savings on the YEO get your lawnmode
if he feels like it, Have him run to the
store to pick up some eggs if he feels like it.

(19:16):
Take him fishing if he feels like it. Wonder what
happened to the car. Come home to find nefarious characters
in your kitchen, routinely get panicked phone calls from his teachers.

Speaker 1 (19:24):
Whatever.

Speaker 7 (19:25):
Your Maladjusted Hospital dropped to bandon teenagers needs har So
come on down to Al Harrington's Malajusted Hospital, drop tobandon
teenagers and pooriam Man Warehouse Route two in Weiga Bog.

Speaker 1 (19:37):
That's what we did with that bit back in the day,
which is a ripoff of a family guy bit.

Speaker 2 (19:41):
Thankfully you've outgrown some of that tomfoolery. This movie. It
depicts the experience of a father, a single father who
is at the end of his rope with his two kids.
I won't give it away, but I can assure you
that as embarrassed as Nebraska was by that law, it

(20:03):
was horrible, it was dreadful. It made us the butt
of jokes all over the world. And Dave Heineman signed it,
probably didn't think about Arnie Sessman from Colfax County District
twenty two was the bill sponsor. They didn't consider the
consequences of not having an age restriction on these kids.
To your point. They came back four months later fixed it,

(20:24):
and they actually updated it a couple of years ago.
Now ninety days, you cannot be any older than ninety
days to get dropped off, and we've only had two
kids dropped off since the revision of that statue two
years ago. But what this movie does and I think
this is wonderful. What this movie does is finally lift
the stain off Nebraska. This movie brings a compassion to Nebraska,

(20:48):
and it brings a sense of heartfelt welcoming to families
that are in a terrible economic and social strain.

Speaker 1 (20:56):
Bok, I'm not gonna make fun of the hardships that
parents have with kids. It's a horrible dynamic. I will, however,
put the stain back on Nebraska because we learned nothing
from that episode. Because because the root issue was problems
with youth mental health, the ability for people to have

(21:16):
access to mental health, especially for kids, and what's going
on in schools. The teachers were going to the legislatures saying,
please help us. We can't do anything about these kids.
They're threatening, they're violent. The unicameral did nothing. We've done
nothing on the issue of mental health. We've done nothing
for these juvenile justice centers which sit in Douglas County
completely empty, while the what small thing we have right

(21:40):
now is overstocked with maladjusted, hospital drop abandoned teenagers. We've
learned nothing from that episode.

Speaker 2 (21:47):
Okay, well, we were the forty we were the fiftiest
state to pass a safe haven law back in two
thousand and eight, So at least we did that.

Speaker 1 (21:54):
If that's for newborns, we got to do something about
the rest of these kids.

Speaker 2 (21:58):
Look, just because you have eight kids, don't cast us
versions on the rest of us.

Speaker 1 (22:02):
And I can't take them back to Blockbuster video hearing
the Sonker's custom with inbox, people are beating up on
Matt Rules Kentucky Derby outfit. James Emails Scott at kfab
dot com says after seeing Coach Rules Kentucky Derby outfit
channeling the monoail huckster Lyle Lanley from The Simpsons, maybe

(22:25):
the Omaha Street streetcar proponents could hire Matt as their
PR person. Tom says, Matt Rule looks more like Doug
Heffernan with his hat on backwards. That's the Kevin James
character from King of Queen. Okay, maybe you started this
by drawing attention to the online scorn that our coach

(22:45):
is getting. We're going to the Kentucky Derby.

Speaker 2 (22:47):
We hear at kfab reflect the views of the vast
kfab nation. We don't shape them, we reflect them. Then,
and I was checking out social media, and that's a
good way to get a pulse on what's happening, and
this is what they were doing.

Speaker 1 (23:01):
I don't like to start bar fight movements. No, I
like to watch bar fights. I don't like to start movements.
But is there some way that we can shape kfab
nation and focus our attention on getting rid of what
I think everyone would agree is the worst thing happening

(23:21):
in our community. And we've allowed it to happen now
for about four years. I'm talking, of course, the streetcar. Now,
I'm talking, of course, of the false Alarm Reduction Program,
the FARP. This thing is so farping ridiculous. The false
Alarm Reduction program is you got to pay twenty five
dollars a year to some service. So if you have

(23:45):
an alarm at your house, you got a security alarm
at your house. Well, apparently a lot a lot of
times these alarms go off unnecessarily and that sends the
police and sometimes fire out to check on make sure
everything is okay. And they get there and everything's just
fine because it is a false alarm. You didn't set
it right, you're out of town, a mouse runs by

(24:07):
the censor, the alarms go off. Whatever. Well, the idea
here is that if you pay twenty five dollars a
year it somehow cuts down on false How How is
me paying twenty five dollars too? I don't know who
these people are. How does it cut down on false alarms?
By the way, I've had an alarm at Vorhees Villas

(24:29):
for years. Also, I got a drunk guy with a
shotgun sitting on my porch. Sometimes it's me we take shifts.

Speaker 2 (24:38):
But you pepper that tailgate is a savoy with your
daughter and I tiny white tank top.

Speaker 1 (24:43):
I've lived here twenty years, and I would say that
I had one false alarm, and that was because that's
a different story that was related to a smoke detector
and not my security alarm. I've not had a fall alarm,
that is contact that had authorities come out there. Why

(25:03):
do I got to pay twenty five dollars a year
because some other guy down the street or whatever is
throwing off the curve. How about the people who are
responsible for the false alarms pay fines so they're changing
their behavior and learning how to use their systems. Why
do I have to pay for this? The fact that
I'm paying for this doesn't mean the police don't come
out for false alarms. All the time, which apparently does happen.

(25:24):
I'm not saying it's not a problem. I'm just wondering
why I have to pay for it. I'm not part
of the problem.

Speaker 6 (25:29):
You know.

Speaker 1 (25:29):
It's like if we have a speeding problem around town
and we do and they say, all right, Scott, you
got to pay twenty five dollars a year because police
are out there catching speeders. Like, but I'm not speeding.
I'm not getting pulled over for speeding. Well, we still
want you to pay for I'm tired of it. I
don't want to pay for Omaha's ridiculous false alarm reduction

(25:51):
program anymore.

Speaker 2 (25:53):
Well, move to Valley because we don't have that problem
out there.

Speaker 1 (25:56):
You don't have any crime out there.

Speaker 2 (25:57):
We have crime. Oh it's more, it's more victimless crime.
Or we are No, we don't have that issue out there.
But no, I gotta tell you this is this is
a frustration for a lot of people. We're paying for
things that have nothing to do with what we need. Now,
we all agree government has to exist, you know, you
cannot have government, and government has to be funded by

(26:19):
the people who function under government and the taxpayers that
support it. But it's one of those fees. And this
is one of the things that gets Nebraska and trouble
Scott little fees and little search charges here and there
that raise the tax burden.

Speaker 1 (26:34):
I get it. My property taxes go to schools, and
there are a lot of people that don't have kids
in schools. But there's a there's a community benefit to
educating the next generation. I get that. There's no benefit
to this fee, and I lose twenty five dollars, twenty
five dollars a year.

Speaker 2 (26:49):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (26:49):
What do you think I'm made of money? I'm money
in my in my yard. Well, I don't. You're quibbling
over twenty five twenty five dollars traffic, weather and news. Next,
is anyone with me on this? I'm ready to launch
at jahat on this farping excuse for a farp Nebraskans.

Speaker 2 (27:06):
Have, They've thrown up their arms and moved to South Dakota, Wyoming,
Arizona and Texas.

Speaker 1 (27:10):
Lucy. At some point, you might be reporting on driverless
cars here in Omaha getting an accidents, holding up intersections,
causing problems. You know the same thing that driver cars
very drivered cars that right like it works if we
have driverless then we get driver cars. And there's there

(27:32):
are some people who would probably benefit from having a
robot or some sort of AI scenting it object drive
their cars because they're not doing it. They're driving down
the highway, speeding, changing their pants, eating soup, texting, watching
a movie.

Speaker 3 (27:50):
Think about the boom shape bar business.

Speaker 1 (27:54):
Because you could have a few drinks if you're not
driving your car. Yeah. I don't think those are the rules.
In California, though, where they have a lot of driverless cars,
they've had to deal with something that they're like, all right,
what do we do about this? And an instance where
one of these driverless vehicles runs a red light or
hits somebody or does something wrong, who gets the ticket?

Speaker 4 (28:17):
Weird?

Speaker 3 (28:18):
They technology that something mechanical might go wrong.

Speaker 1 (28:22):
Yeah, starting this summer, California cops will finally have someone
somewhere to send a ticket to. If a driverless car
causes a problem, They're going to send it to the
manufacturer of the autonomous vehicle.

Speaker 3 (28:36):
I cannot believe that I actually agree with something that
California is doing.

Speaker 1 (28:42):
So in if a Weaymo vehicle blows through a red
light and takes out the San Francisco trolley. Then Waimo
gets the ticket. It's on Waimo.

Speaker 3 (28:54):
It won't last long, but well they'll figure out a
way to make that stop.

Speaker 1 (28:59):
But to your point there of can you just get
you know, bombed? And if you're sitting there in the
vehicle but not driving it, are you guilty of duy? Well,
if you're sitting there in the vehicle and the driverless
vehicle blows through a red light and you know, hits
Roy Rogers and trigger galloping across the street, if you're

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not responsible as a driver for that, you shouldn't be
responsible for the driver if you're drunk.

Speaker 4 (29:26):
Or the other way around.

Speaker 3 (29:28):
If you maybe they do make the driver responsible for
running a red light, even though it is mechanical. It
is is a computer glitch. Something has happened with the
cameras or whatever.

Speaker 1 (29:39):
An officer was unable to ticket Awaimo after watching it
and make an illegal U turn or the vehicles like
I'm turning around like you can't do that, Hey, I'm
not driving.

Speaker 4 (29:49):
Well they can't pull them over, right, Well.

Speaker 2 (29:51):
Don't can you?

Speaker 1 (29:53):
How it was the vehicle understand if it's able to
recognize everything else traffic flow signals all the round.

Speaker 4 (29:59):
You turn not you turn side.

Speaker 1 (30:01):
We haven't figured that out. Will it pull over if
there's a cop behind it? I don't like the idea
of driverless cars. Oh I don't either, but I every
time I drive amongst people here in Omaha, I don't
like the concept of driver cars. To use your term,
we're horrible drivers, I'm not. You guys are. Occasionally I

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look up while texting and see that you guys are
horrible drivers.

Speaker 2 (30:27):
We are a week.

Speaker 1 (30:28):
Away from primary election day here in Nebraska, in Douglas County.
You are, We are all subject to the whims of
our Douglas County Election commissioner. Who joins us now it
is Danielle Jensen.

Speaker 8 (30:41):
Hello Danielle, Good morning, Scott.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
It is a pleasure to talk with you. For those
who know you know that you were working with Don
Bacon for a while and you had some health scares
here in the last couple of years. How are you doing?

Speaker 8 (31:01):
You know, I'm doing really good. My ovarian cancer is
in remission, and then I had had some lung surgery
due to pulmonary embolisms, and I'm doing well there. I
still need oxygen on occasion. You know, and I'm running
laps somewhere, but otherwise doing really good. Thanks for asking.

Speaker 1 (31:21):
Well, we think about you, of course, we love you
and your family. Here you are. You're a KFAB member
by virtue of your father, longtime KFAB newsman Bill Jensen. So,
now that we got all of those niceties out of
the way, what is going on with primary election day
here for Douglas County? What deadlines have we missed? What
can we still do? What's going on, Danielle?

Speaker 8 (31:44):
Well, as you know, next Tuesday is our election and
currently we're in the process of people voting early by
mail or in person. No matter what, your ballot needs
to be to us by APM next Tuesday, no postmarks, nothing,
it needs to be to us. So the Post Office
recommends that if you're going to mail it, you do

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so today. You will need to include seventy eight cents
postage seventy eight seventy eight cents, yes, seventy eight cents postage.
But you can get it to us for free by
dropping it in one of thirteen dropbox locations across.

Speaker 5 (32:21):
The county which are.

Speaker 8 (32:23):
Open and available twenty four to seven and we pick
those up daily, so you get there there sooner. Make
sure you sign that ballot envelope. We have a lot
of people who we turn them without signing, and please
don't combine it with your spouses or maybe someone else
living with you, and try and save that postage. It
has to be sent back to us in its own envelope.

Speaker 2 (32:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (32:43):
I can't go around and just gather all the votes
of all the people in my neighborhood put them in
one envelope and drop them off in a dropbox.

Speaker 8 (32:50):
We can't do That's no, no, you cannot do that.
That would not that would not bode well for you.

Speaker 1 (32:56):
Scott ruins my whole day. Yeah, all right, so that's today.
The deadline for early voting is yes.

Speaker 8 (33:07):
Early in person is next Monday, and we do have
some extended hours today and Thursday. Our office is open
until six pm so you can come vote in person there.
We will also be open Saturday nine am to one
pm if people want to come vote on Saturday, and
then regular hours on Monday, and then on Tuesday you

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have to go to your polling place.

Speaker 1 (33:29):
And for people to say, well, I don't know, I
always go to this school and I don't know where
I'm supposed to go obviously, it's real easy. You go
to the Douglas County Election Commission website. You put in
your street address, all the details right there, right he'd go.

Speaker 8 (33:44):
To vote Douglas Counties dash any dot douv. There's a
little great boss on the upper left of the homepage
and show your house number, zip code, and you click
on your address and it will show you the location
as well as a picture where you're votevoting, and also
links to sample ballots. You can look ahead of time
and see what races you're voting for.

Speaker 1 (34:05):
Do you have an idea yet as to what kind
of turnout percentage wise we might get here in Douglas County?
This Democratic primary race for Congress has got some interest
to it, and some of the legislative races as well.
Are we going to have decent primary election turnout?

Speaker 8 (34:24):
We're guessing about thirty five percent, which is about four
percent more than four years ago, and it is to
that Democratic primary. We have seen a slight uptick in
buy mail request and also in person early voting. But
I will note that those who have requested by mail
only about forty two percent of return their ballots, so

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there's quite a few people out there who are still
sitting on those ballots and they need to get those
turned in.

Speaker 1 (34:53):
You're fairly new in the job there, Danielle. Have you
figured out how to commit to wanton fraud yet? Because
that's what course is alleged by a lot of people
when it comes to election software and all this stuff.
Have you figured out how to do it? Are you
still trying to clean up from Brian Cruz's mess in there?

Speaker 8 (35:10):
Well, you know, it's interesting that just went back to
the mortuary business. So I guess he does get to
work with the dead people now.

Speaker 1 (35:19):
Right, Yes, yes, and they're all voting thanks to Brian. Now,
we we love Brian Cruise, Danielle, you know, we adore you.
Thank you very much for the very great information. Vote
Douglas County dash Andy dot gov. Just do a Google
search or ask Jeeves. Oh wait, they shut that down yesterday.

Speaker 2 (35:41):
I think it's I think it's great that Danielle is
willing to stick her neck out giving her problems with
her family. You know Bill Jensen and all notorious radio guy.

Speaker 8 (35:51):
But yeah, that Bill radio guy is. When I worked
with him at a radio station, that was crazy as well too.

Speaker 2 (35:56):
Ye see, most of his family had to leave town. Yeah,
that's why we don't have Bill here anymore. He was
four set down march to the county line. Danielle, this
is what you can expect for years to come. Now
in your position, is Douglas County Election Commissioner, join us anytime,
not just right before election day?

Speaker 1 (36:15):
Okay, we love it. I would love to all right, thanks,
Danielle s our Douglas County Election Commissioner, Danielle Jensen, Happy
Cinco to my.

Speaker 4 (36:27):
Own best much.

Speaker 1 (36:34):
This is a song bemoaning white people taking the Mexican
celebration of the Mexican Army's victory over the French at
the Battle of Puebla, May fifth, eighteen sixty two. I
think I don't have I don't speak Spanish. I took
French in high school and college and I barely speak that.

(36:56):
But beautiful language. And uh it's it's it's going to
be both bemoaned and celebrated that on this Sinko to
Mayo Ito also happens to fall on a Tuesday, which
is Taco Tuesday, and it's going to be a lot

(37:16):
of white people going out and drinking some survesa and
eating tacos and there'll be a lot of people saying,
you know, this is not a great representation of the culture.
But at the same time, I also like beer and tacos,
so hey, you know it could be worse. This is
the It's Sinko to Mayo day, Jim, happy sinco to

(37:38):
Mayo to you.

Speaker 2 (37:39):
Thank you. I'm happy to be a part of it
in any small way.

Speaker 1 (37:43):
You speak Spanish. Uh, No, you do a wonderful representation
of a mariachi band.

Speaker 2 (37:48):
Yes, but see that that can be insulting on seagull
a mariachi band. That's I'm a mariachi band, real mariachi
banders out there.

Speaker 1 (38:00):
And no, you're good at that's impressive, Jim. We had
a guy out at the Washington Monument with a gun
yesterday waving a gun around. The Secret Service said one
of their officers shot a guy. This is around four
o'clock d C Time yesterday. The identity and condition of

(38:21):
the person shot have not been disclosed. I imagine there's
already a judge in Washington, d C. Who's looking to
make sure he's nice and comfy in prison. Did you
hear some of that detail yesterday? This is about the
guy who tried to run into the White House correspondence
dinner a week and a half ago to buy his
own admission take a shot at the President of the

(38:41):
United States. And a judge said, I can't believe that
he's being held in such horrible conditions in this jail.
He shouldn't be in there by himself. Let's make this
guy cozy and then apologize to this guy who tried
to overturn a national election.

Speaker 2 (38:59):
This is a absolute gift wrapped gift for the defense.
They now know they have a sympathetic judge. It's much
like that judge out in Utah in the case against
the guy who shot Charlie Kirk. Their idea is we're
going to delay, delay, delay, We're gonna throw lots of
roadblocks up to keep this prosecution from moving forward. And

(39:21):
to compare them. All you need to know about judges
in DC, and they're not all like this, but it
seems like a large percentage of them are. All you
need to know is that this judge referenced the January
sixth rioters said, well, we treated those people a lot
better than we're treating this guy. This guy had a manifesto.
This guy was armed to the tee. This guy did

(39:42):
a video, this guy predicted it. This guy said, this
is what I'm going to do. My job here is
to kill the President of the United States. But when
you have judges that hate Trump as much as many
of them do, and you have judges who have hijacked
jobs and their job descriptions and believe that their opportunity

(40:04):
is to politic and legislate from the bench, this is
what you get. But Janeine Piro, who is the US
Attorney in the District of Columbia, shook her head and said,
anybody here really surprised. No, She lit this judge up.
This is a DC magistrate, Judge Zia Feruki Fuki, who

(40:24):
sharply criticized the DC jail for keeping this guy on
suicide watch. Now why would he be on suicide watch? Well,
because he stands faced with charges to try and assassinate
the president. And I think it's very important to drill
down a little deeper into why not only he has
these thoughts, but why so many people like him have

(40:47):
these thoughts. So he was on lockdown, he had a
stint on suicide watch, which means you're in a constantly lit,
padded cell.

Speaker 1 (40:56):
No phone, no books, no religious material, no recreation in
the judge says, oh my gosh, if we can get
someone vegan food, we can get you a Bible, and
then said I'm sorry, whatever you've been through, I apologize
for that.

Speaker 2 (41:12):
This is someone who tried to kill the prison is
the judge. This is not just some defense attorney. This
is the judge. And our country's legal system has been
hijacked by the far left on so many levels, Scott
that you really are just blown away by what seems
like an open and shutcase. Here. This is an open

(41:33):
and shutcase. This is a guy who videoed it, who
wrote about it, who executed it. And you would think
a judge would say, it's all right there, lawyer, a lawyer,
b do your gig. Instead this person is standing up
as a member of the ACLU for mister Allen speaking.
It's really it's hard to fathom, but we just have

(41:55):
to accept that this is what happens when presidents of
the United States are allowed to appoint judges that are
important and have lifetime, lifetime opportunities. They don't go away
after a few years. They stay until they retire or die.
And just remember that when you go to the polls.

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When we elect a governor, when we elect a president,
we're electing judges too.

Speaker 1 (42:20):
This is something that Jim Rowse stirred up earlier today
by pointing out in a sports brief that Nebraska's football
coach was out at the Kentucky Derby. Some people are
having some fun online with Matt Rule getting into the
spirit of the derby and wearing a fun hat and
a fun jacket and all that stuff.

Speaker 6 (42:37):
I'm Morning kfab, Morning crew.

Speaker 1 (42:40):
This is from the talkback.

Speaker 7 (42:41):
Mike wows not Rule just a total clown.

Speaker 9 (42:50):
Does he think he's some kind of a celebrity or
what is his deal? He's awful, have a great day.

Speaker 1 (42:59):
He's not awful. He's our football coach. And in addition
to doing things like you had to mention while he
was at the Bud crowveror fight, and this is at
the Nebraska basketball game. And this is what social media
age sixteen, I know he's at the Kentucky Derby. You
know where else he is. He's at nonprofit events, local
high schools. He's you don't see that on social media.

(43:20):
He's around Omaha all the time. He's connecting with his kids.
His kids go to Brownel Tabot.

Speaker 2 (43:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (43:25):
And here's the other thing. All right, this just in
Matt Rule has a lot of money. If he wants
to pick up and go down to Houston for the
Sweet sixteen or Kentucky Derby action there in Louisville, he can.
He's got he's got the money. Did he go to
the Masters? All right? Well, I know I draw the
line there. He shouldn't be out there.

Speaker 2 (43:42):
Ah hey, I'm just reporting on the passing parade. This
is what I see from a lot of Husker fans
on social media. They're not happy with the performance of
the football program, and they believe that the coach should
be spending less time having fun on his big fat
side and more time developing players. That's all.

Speaker 1 (44:02):
Well, Kurt Signetti was out there at the Kentucky Derby
dress and the hat and the JACKI and all that.

Speaker 2 (44:07):
I didn't see anything social media photos of him. Oh
he wasn't. Maybe he was, but there was nothing on
social media. It made him look like Lyle Lanley.

Speaker 1 (44:15):
I didn't see anything either. But if you go to
the Kentucky Derby, that's how you're supposed to dress, and
you go to a Kentucky Derby party, that's how you're
supposed to dress. So let's see. Bob Ebnan, Nebraska Secretary
of State, was on with Gary and Jim while I
was away this past Wednesday. We hadn't had that posted
on the podcast link for Nebraska's Morning News at KFAB

(44:38):
dot com. So for our podcast listeners, we're going to
put that in right here.

Speaker 6 (44:44):
We welcome Nebraska's Secretary of the State, Bob Ebnon, back
to the program.

Speaker 5 (44:48):
Bob, good morning, Good morning Gary. It's great to be
with you.

Speaker 6 (44:53):
Thank you, good to have you on. You are on
in the midst or toward the end of a of
a primary election transparency tour where you visited several counties,
and it's Douglas and Sarpi today to do something that
is I guess required by state statute right before elections.

Speaker 5 (45:16):
Yes, the state law requires this. In the one month
prior to every statewide primary election, in every statewide general election,
every single ballot counting machine in the state has to
be tested three times and there are three separate test
decks of ballots that are run through every ballot counting
machine in the state. Again, in the one month prior

(45:38):
to every state wide election.

Speaker 6 (45:40):
All right, have you found any you've been let's see Lancaster,
Scott's Bluff County, Lincoln County, Buffalo, and Hall. Have you
found anything out of the ordinary?

Speaker 2 (45:49):
Yet?

Speaker 5 (45:51):
All of these machines are running well. What you're looking
for is are they running well mechanically? And then are
they accurate in their accounts? And all of the machines
that have been tested that I've been around and seen,
they've all been fine. They've all tested accurately, and they're
all running great.

Speaker 6 (46:08):
Okay, that's good. I got an email here from Frank
Bob and he says, would you ask the Secretary of
State why the state wastes money on advertising the fact
that you need to bring ID to vote. Wouldn't you
think by now the voters of the state would know this.

Speaker 5 (46:31):
This informational campaign is winding down. I don't anticipate that
we're going to run it again. A legislature provided funds
to do this, and it's in the the law that
implemented voter ID, and so we had a big campaign
in twenty twenty four. We've got a much smaller campaign
going informational campaign going on now, and I think that'll

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be it.

Speaker 6 (46:53):
This appears to be a relatively contentious election campaign for
the Secretary of State. You're running for reelection. Uh, and
you and your opponent are out there with with with
advertising a fairly fairly heavy extent. What are you seeing.
I don't know if you're doing polling or what, but

(47:15):
what are you expecting?

Speaker 5 (47:18):
Well, I expect to be re elected. I expect to
win the primary. Uh. And that's what I'm seeing in
my travels across the state.

Speaker 6 (47:28):
Scott Peterson the challenger. By the way, this is not
to be confused with the Scott Peterson, the former attorney
general of Nebraska. This is the different Scott Peterson.

Speaker 5 (47:38):
Well, the former attorney general in Nebraska's team was Doug.

Speaker 6 (47:41):
Yeah, I'm sorry, Okay, I was my mistake.

Speaker 5 (47:45):
There is another famous Scott Peterson.

Speaker 2 (47:47):
Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 5 (47:49):
That's a different story.

Speaker 2 (47:50):
Not to be confused with former athletic director Steve Peter.
That's right, that was Doug.

Speaker 6 (47:54):
Sorry America anyway.

Speaker 2 (47:57):
All right, why do you think you're getting a primary challenge?

Speaker 5 (48:01):
Well, you'd have to ask the people who are mounting
the primary challenge. You know, there's a small group of
people who are after me because I won't get rid
of the ballot counting devices. And you know, if the
people of the state of Nebraska want to get rid
of the ballot counters, they can do it. There's a
petition drive going on. If enough people sign the petition,

(48:23):
it'll go on the ballot. And if it's on the
ballot and the people decide that they want ballots hand counted,
then that's what we'll do. If I'm asked, is it justified?
The answer is no. There's no justification or reason to
do this, and there are plenty of reasons not to.

Speaker 9 (48:38):
Well.

Speaker 5 (48:39):
One of the things that you can see in this
transparency tour is that these machines are extensively tested to
assure their accuracy. And in addition to that, they're certified
by the EAC, the Election Assistance Commission. This is a
commission under DHS. And you know President Trump, if he
doesn't like an agency, he knows how to get rid

(49:00):
of it. Remember us A, I, D SO. But he
has not. He has not proposed getting rid of the AC.
What he's what he has proposed is his Executive Order
on Election Integrity last year was to beef it up. Well,
uh so, the EAC certifies all of our election ballot

(49:24):
counters in Nebraska. They have a laboratory, they test them,
they check them out, and they certify them. And they
have certified to us that these machines cannot be connected
to the Internet, and if they could be connected to
the Internet, they wouldn't be certified by the EAC. We
only use devices that are certified by the EAC. These

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devices cannot be connected to the Internet, and they're They've
proven out to be very accurate.

Speaker 2 (49:49):
And one of the claims against you is that these
these are machines, these are computers, but they can be
hacked by the Chinese. Have you seen any Chinese hacking
into Nebraska's election machines?

Speaker 5 (49:59):
Like I have not seen any lately. I haven't seen
any earlier, and no evidence of that has ever been
presented to us.

Speaker 6 (50:08):
Well, if they're not connected to the Internet, they couldn't
be right by definition that mess well tech here, I
don't know, but I mean that seems to make sense
to me.

Speaker 5 (50:16):
You know what I can tell you is that we
check them out. They can't be connected to the Internet.
We check them out with these three sets of tests,
sets of ballots, three separate decks. In the one month prior,
every single machine has checked out this way, and post
election we do audits. You know, after November of twenty

(50:37):
twenty four across the state. We took ten percent of
the precincts across the state, at least one precinct in
every county and hand counted seventy thousand ballots. And out
of that seventy thousand, there were five ballots that the
machine couldn't read because the voter market too lightly, and
there were two ballots that were misplaced.

Speaker 6 (50:54):
That was it, all right.

Speaker 5 (50:56):
So we checked these machines out ahead of time, and
we do onits afterwards, and we do it in order
to check the accuracy of the machines, and that's what
we find.

Speaker 6 (51:07):
Bob, thanks for your time. Always good to have you on,
appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (51:10):
Great to be with you right now on the program.
Following that conversation with Bob Evnan, we have a challenger
in the Secretary of State race in the Republican primary
one week from today. His name is Scott Peterson and
joins us now. Scott, Good morning, welcome to eleven to
ten kfab Good.

Speaker 9 (51:28):
Morning, Scott, and thanks for having me on.

Speaker 1 (51:30):
Absolutely so our Secretary of State says, look, we don't
need to hand handcount ballots. If the people want to
change it, they can change it by voting. Our software
is giving accurate totals. It's not connected to the internet.
And Trump likes what we're doing. That's why he hasn't
changed anything. You obviously, I think in running for a

(51:50):
secretary of State against mister Evnan think otherwise, what are
your thoughts that led you to enter this race.

Speaker 9 (51:57):
Well, one issue is huge for me and people losing
confidence in our election systems, and that's going on nationwide
over the last six years. Since the twenty twenty election,
more and more people are understanding that you can't blindly
trust computers and software with elections. And it's actually getting

(52:17):
into the courts because cash Petel says they're going to
prosecute people in Georgia for voter fraud in the twenty
twenty election. So, you know what, we have the same
systems here, so we need to absolutely have systems that
you can get accurate counts and verify those counts.

Speaker 1 (52:34):
Now, I'm sympathetic. After twenty twenty, there were obviously allegations
a lot of stuff posted online related to the twenty
twenty presidential election, and some interesting moves made in some
precincts around the country, and I think it led to
people asking the right questions. Since then, there have been
some elections where people with those questions have been put

(52:55):
into either county election commissioner or Secretary of State's office.
And we really haven't seen that much uncovered as much
as was alleged by some people after the twenty twenty elections.
So what is it that you think you're going to
uncover that's different than what other people have made Some
of the same statements have yet to uncover in those districts.

Speaker 9 (53:18):
Well, a lot of it might not be uncovering. A
lot of it just is restoring confidence. You know, people
have questioned Secretary Evandon and he almost takes a defensive
attitude and gets mad at him for even questioning, and
he goes around and says, we have the gold standard. Well,
let's prove it, because quite honestly, he's not transparent. There's
a lot of things you can point to where you

(53:39):
know to prove that, and quite honesty, we're going to
talk about one of them this week. There was a
Pennsylvania Supreme Court case that just got dropped last Wednesday
that says these casts vote record audit reports that the
computers and software produced with elections are supposed to be
public information, and the Supreme Court rule that the public

(54:02):
should have access to that. Well, Nebraska, our Secretary of
State won't let the county clerks who run those reports,
and they even do it for the reason that if
we don't run the reports, there is no record and
you don't have to give it to the public. So
that's not transparency, and that doesn't give people confidence in
our election systems. Then there's a lot more than that,
So number one, restoring confidence. We can have perfect systems

(54:27):
or there could be flaws in them, but if people
don't trust them, we have a problem that needs to
be addressed in Our current Secretary State doesn't do that.

Speaker 2 (54:34):
Jim Rose, you've hinted Scott that you believe it's possible,
if not likely, that there has been foreign engagement in
our elections, meaning and implying that China is somehow manipulating
the elections in Nebraska. Do you have hard evidence of that?

Speaker 9 (54:51):
Well, actually there is hard evidence. Attorney General Hilgers is
prosecuting a foreign billionaire in Madison County, and that was
like last month or not in the recent weeks. Basically,
they send money into especially Omaha and Lincoln. We have

(55:12):
a thirty five day election quite honestly, with our mail
in ballot period, and what that does it encourages outside
sources to come into Nebraska. They send money and people
and they collect ballots for thirty five days and then
Omahon Lincoln especially, we lose close elections, so we send
people that don't care about rural Nebraska and don't care
about pro life in Nebraska to Lincoln. Good example is MICHAELA.

Speaker 5 (55:35):
Kavanaugh.

Speaker 9 (55:36):
Ld. Six is a Republican leaning district. Here in Oman
is another one, especially in Lincoln. George Duncan won be
Grus Barterer by two hundred and twenty four votes. That's
a good Republican district, but we lose those because of
that thirty five days of ballot harvesting if you want
to call that, or collecting ballots. It's legal, but money

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comes into Nebraska because of that thirty five day period.
And the example that Attorney General Hills there is prosecuting
is a foreign billionaire put ten million dollars into a
petition in Nebraska and it took Attorney General Hilder's a
lot of time to figure it out. Actually, somebody on
my campaign team put it in touch with somebody that's

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very good at figuring out.

Speaker 2 (56:19):
All the different Now, yeah, you're talking about Heinsbourg waste
and it has to do with money coming through LLCs
for battot initiatives. But you've implied that the Chinese are
engaged in our elections, which means that they are infiltrating
our computer system and our electronic voting system.

Speaker 9 (56:36):
Is that so pardon me, Jim, I'm going to stop
you there, because I've never implied that Chinese put money
in there. I say outside sources. We don't know if
it's other states or we don't know because by the
time you figure it out, the election's over and nobody
really invests. But have do you do you believe?

Speaker 2 (56:55):
Do you believe there's foreign involvement that they've hacked into
our computer systems?

Speaker 9 (57:00):
Uh, it's for an involvement in hacking in our computers.
I don't know if I've alleged that. I'm saying that
our systems are vulnerable, and that's been proven across the nation.
It just go to some of the other states that
have had problems, and we use the same software, same computers.
You know. Bob Evan says that our systems are built

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in Nebraska, but we actually use chips from you know,
Taiwan or some people say they come from China, so uh.
And then he says they're not connected to the Internet,
which technically may be true, but there's something called first
net and there's all kinds of technicalities there. Prove, you know,
prove your cell phone it's not connected the Internet. You
can't prove it.

Speaker 1 (57:40):
I want to get you, yeah, I want to I
want to jump in here. Will We just got another
moment left here, Scott, and I want to give you
a chance to respond to this. Congressman Don Bacon has
tried to tie people who have posted some statements online
accusing rich Jews of essentially killing Charley Kirk. One of

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the individuals saying this is someone who ran for this
job a couple of years ago unsuccessfully, who's been tied
to your campaign, Robert Borer. Don Bacon says he's a
member of your team, and there are a couple of
other people who are anti Semites who are part of
your campaign. Will you respond to this please?

Speaker 9 (58:19):
Oh? Absolutely, I'll tell you what our campaign is doing.
So good We're in a position to win big and
part of the proof of that is they're resorting to
dirty campaign tactics and they've recruited Don Bacon to do it.
So Don Bacon's taken little statements of and even Robert Borr.
If you know Robert Borr, he's the most passionate Christian

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you'll ever meet. He studies the Old Testament and New Testament.
He has a big theological geopolitical discussions, and they can
take something he says and twist it into anti Semitism.
That's wrong. It's a dirty politics. Shame on Don Bacon.
Evnan is trying to act like he's endorsed by Trump.
That's a fake endorsement. Trump has an endo and so

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he's using Trump hater Don Bacon to do his dirty politics.
Shame on Don Bacon, you should ask that's the real
question is actually we called him out on it and
told Evan and he should disavowt Don Bacon. And I
think what he didn't understand. When Don Bacon attacks me,
it helps our campaign. We are put us in a
great physition to win and we're going to have a

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big game next week. Looking forward to it.

Speaker 1 (59:25):
Primary election for Secretary of State, among other offices. Is
one week from today here in Nebraska, Scott Peterson vying
for your vote in the Republican primary against incumbent Secretary
of State Bob Evvan. You can read more at Peterson
for Nebraska dot com. That's Peterson S and Scott Peterson
for a Secretary of State. Really appreciate the time today,

(59:46):
Thank you so much for hanging out here with us.
It is Nebraska's morning news news radio eleven ten KFAB.
One of our more popular features is the Rosie to
Genozie that's coming up here in just a moment with
Jim Rose, Lucy Chapman Evans Here, I'm Scott Vorhees, one
of the most unpopular features here on eleven ten KFAB,
but by virtue of the fact that I get a

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chance to talk on this heritage over a one hundred
year old, fifty thousand watt radio blowtorch. Sometimes my kids
teachers or friends' parents will say, Hey, tell your dad,
I like what he's doing on the radio. And so
that caused my son a year or so ago to
check with AI to see who I was who. One

(01:00:30):
of the AI chatbots regurgitated some information found online as
to who I am, and mentioned that I'm on KFAB
radio and here in Omaha, Nebraska born and raised. And
also the AI chatbot said that I was married to
someone named Jordan my wife, and nor do I have

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a husband. No one in my life is named Jordan Vorhees.
But the AI chatbot told my kids that I have
a wife named Jordan.

Speaker 3 (01:01:00):
That can't be because AI is never wrong.

Speaker 5 (01:01:03):
Right.

Speaker 2 (01:01:04):
Maybe it's a dating app and it matched you up
with somebody named Jeordan.

Speaker 1 (01:01:08):
Yeah. Well, I still had to answer a lot of
questions that day in my kitchen to the entire family.
Do I have a secret family? And we've always suspected
you had a double life. I mentioned this because you
go on social media, you see all sorts of fake
posts related to Some of the more recent ones are
Tom Osborn and even Eric Piatkowski is getting the fake

(01:01:29):
treatment online here recently. Well, there's finally a musician in
Canada who is suing Google because their AI chatbot had
his name linked to being a convicted sex offender and
he was getting dropped from concerts and he had to
go and fight it and say I'm not this guy,
and they're like, oh, sorry, he's like, sorry's not good enough.

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He's suing on behalf of anyone who's ever had to
answer uncomfortable questions because of what the AI chatbot has
said about us. I say I wish him well.

Speaker 9 (01:02:00):
No,