Coming Soon: Soccer Stadium, Ann-Margret, Ugly Angel

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's Friday morning, Mother's Day. Eve, Eve, thank you very
much for being here with us. Whether or not your
name is Eve, I'm Scott Borhees. Lucy Chapman is right there,
Craig Evans, Jim Rose is here at Courtney, Donaho as well.
This is Nebraska's morning News News Radio eleven ten kfab.

(00:20):
Are we getting a soccer stadium? Are we not getting
to soccer stadium? They It seemed like yesterday the press
release came out and everyone seemed pretty happy about this
for north downtown Eleventh and Izard Streets. They're just north
of the Chi Health Center Center. Everyone seemed like, this

(00:41):
is great we're getting but it's not so fast. It's
not completely a done deal. We'll examine that. As developers
are also saying, yeah, if you want to go west
of there, those grain silos off the interstate as you're
going into downtown, we might knock those down and put
some apartments up there. We've only heard that eighty seven

(01:02):
trillion times in the last several years. I still like
the idea of just converting the existing grain silos into
apartments in the silos, but I'm not a developer. I'm
not putting up the money.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
So we got that, and you know absolutely nothing about
construction and architecture.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
There is that? Okay?

Speaker 2 (01:21):
Well, I mean you could I just turn a grain silo.
You go condo company?

Speaker 4 (01:26):
Why not do it?

Speaker 2 (01:29):
They start with plumbing and electricity and all the other
good stuff that goes with living in a place.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
Why not?

Speaker 1 (01:36):
You know it's it's a big empty space in there.
You just put some drywall up and throw a carver
window here and there. I a sink in there. Why
need a window? No one goes outside? Why do you
want to look out there? I'll tell you what's out there?
Traffic on the interstate. What are you looking at? You
got the nice people down there on Vinton. If you're
looking the other way, you might be able to see dinkers,

(01:57):
depending on what floor you're on, But for most of
you there with a western, southern easterly view, even to
the north, you're going to see four eighty. You're going
to see the interstate. So rather than put windows in there,
just put a couple of TV screens, and that way
you can see whatever you want. Rather than look out

(02:18):
a window and see traffic, you could see a TV
screen and see Ted Lasso. I might not be a
developer in London or wherever he's going to be next.
I might not be a developer, but I think we
all agree I'm a visionary. I'm an idea person. Someone
else needs to put up the money and actually do

(02:38):
the work. But I'm here for the ideas. And then
at our university systems, at all the university systems, and
I'm not sure whether this impacts Omaha public schools as well,
having had kids go up through APS and now I've
got a kid in college. They all use this thing
called Canvas. It's an online resource where when you're doing

(03:02):
your homework and even sometimes when you're there in the class,
you have to submit your paperwork and sometimes you get
your assignments from your teachers through this online portal called Canvas.
You submit your homework there, you submit your papers there.
Sometimes the testing that's done through there, you get your

(03:24):
grades on there. That's all shut down because hackers called
shiny Hunters has hacked this entire website and prevented students
from getting in there. The timing of this is important.
It's finals week at some of these schools, or will

(03:45):
be next week, so the inability to get on there
and get your finals, submit your last thesis paper or whatever,
see your grades, be able to move on with your life.
Is has hundreds of universities around the cont impacted heard
about this yesterday. Parent of an un L student said,

(04:07):
what's going on with U and L. I think they
got hacked? And then I saw that you ando was hacked.
Got a guy email me and say, hey, look at this.
So I checked with my daughter and said, can you
get on this portal? And she sent me the screenshot
of the hackers ransom note. So Shiny Hunters has breached
instructure again. Instead of contacting us to resolve it, they

(04:31):
ignored us and did some security patches. It didn't work.
You got to submit you have him to the end
of the day on May twelfth, and negotiate a settlement
before we release all the data. No one's really sure
what that data is or whether or not these kids care,
but it is a huge headache for these universities and
they'll probably have to part with some bitcoin to get

(04:53):
it all up there unless you know what else you
could do. You could hire the hackers for maybe need
more money than the hackers are paying them, and then
they could battle the hackers their former employers. So there's
a little bit of a rundown on what's going on
around here. The turnback tax that provides future tax revenue

(05:17):
towards the development of a new soccer stadium downtown right
down the street from the existing soccer stadium downtown and
right across the street from the existing baseball stadium where
soccer could be played, is now moving forward. What I
don't know is does this mean, Jim Ros, we get

(05:37):
another soccer stadium down there?

Speaker 3 (05:39):
Yes, do we need it?

Speaker 2 (05:40):
Quite probable because the city has approved the tiff financing
for it, So we needs to do what which to
me is even more voodoo economics than this turnback tax deal.
The turnback tax deal is not a massive amount. It's
a little over a million a year for twenty five years.
Oh that's nothing now, but that's at least not tied
to property taxes that the sales tax turnback tax scheme

(06:04):
that they've hatched for. This involves future sales taxes that
are collected over and above existing sales taxes. Now, if
you go down to that part of town right there
isn't a whole lot of retail happening. Okay, The biggest
retail happening is when I buy a beer at a
Creighton game. So the plan is, we build this thing,

(06:26):
there's going to be a whole bunch of new economic
activity down there, new stores, new shops. An excise tax
might get attached to any employment down there, stores and stuff,
and all of the tax that is new will go
toward this turnback and then they can use it for
some of the financing on this soccer stating. But that's

(06:47):
only one of the financing mechanisms. Well the all the
one is tiff financing, which is you know, I think
is a fools are and especially.

Speaker 3 (06:55):
Downtown right now.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
But guess what, I'm not on the city council and
I'm not an emperor using a.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
Lot of loaded language there. This scheme, it is a
scheme they hatch what it is. They've hatched a scheme.

Speaker 3 (07:05):
Based and the idea is now.

Speaker 2 (07:08):
For example, if you go out to where the CHI
Sports complex is in La Vista, that is surrounded by retail, hotels, restaurants,
gas stations and other things like Cabela's and all the
other stores, what's the Chi.

Speaker 3 (07:23):
Help, that's the soccer facility. Soccer that's a Chi.

Speaker 2 (07:28):
Yes, it is if you go out there and there
are thousands and thousands of kids every weekend from the
first of March all the way through the end of
October and into November, and their families that come in
for these soccer tournaments out there, they come in and
they buy retail items. Now, when you place a facility
like that out there, you already have existing commercial retail

(07:52):
and commercial tax sponsoring entities or i should say tax
collecting entities. That's a good place for a turnback tax
because you already have the infrastructure in place, and with
all of the new kids and their families coming into
town every weekend, that drives larger sales taxes and lodging taxes,
which is a big boon to Lavista and Sarpi County. Conversely, Okay,

(08:18):
this facility is on dirty dirt. Okay, this is on
old Union Pacific land. There has been no economic activity
on the north side of Cumming Street around that area ever.
Now Schwabfield and you've seen some development in no do
and that's great. But what they're planning is that this
facility will germinate new retail opportunities and the new taxes,

(08:43):
sales taxes that are generated from them will be turned
back towards this project to help finance.

Speaker 1 (08:49):
Professional soccer team Union Omaha. That would be their home.
They think that they're going to lure a women's professional
soccer team. They'll be use soccer academy. They're retail dining,
housing and it's a it's a big project. It would
look great. I'm still not one hundred percent convinced. We
knew a new soccer stadium. It's right down the street
from Morrison at Creighton, which the Union Omaha uses right now,

(09:11):
and it seems to work just fine. And then then
they're asked like, how come you can't use this, and
they we want our own field.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
Because they don't make money off Morrison Stadium that's gowned
to buy Creighton.

Speaker 3 (09:21):
There you go, this is the deal, all right.

Speaker 1 (09:23):
Morris Sports eleven to ten KFAB Certified Transmission Sports Brief.

Speaker 2 (09:27):
Here's Jim Verry, good scout, Good morning, everybody. Fairly large
weekend for Husker Bay baseball. After that bout with reverse
Paristalsis at Ohio State a week ago, look it up,
lost all three to a mediocre team. Nebraska's back home
for the Iowa Hawkeys. They'll be bringing their girlfriends. Nebraska
hopes to bring back their offense after losing it on

(09:47):
the way to Ohio State. Shortstop Dylan Kerry.

Speaker 5 (09:50):
Yeah, kind of just flushing it, leaving it in Ohio.
There's no reason to think about it when we're when
we're at home and have an opportunity this next week.
So had a great conversation as an offense with Coach
Bowl and as a team overall, just you know, bouncing
back and distrusting our process, which is the practice with
Join ten every day.

Speaker 2 (10:05):
The Huskers who were rolling, had a bunch of flat
tires at Ohio State, only thirteen hits and five runs
the whole weekend.

Speaker 6 (10:12):
Coach will Bolt, Certainly, we could have done some things
differently situationally and been better in those spots. But it's
not wholesale change time for a team that's been so
good all year to look at it that way. Now,
can I push some different buttons in terms of the
lineup construction.

Speaker 2 (10:28):
Maybe he's moved pitcher Ty Horn back into the weekend rotation.
He'll start. Saturday's game should be big crowds, weather forecast
is awesome. Nebraska needs to win at least two of these.
They are tied with Oregon for second place in the league,
just one game ahead of fourth place USC. If the
Huskers have a replay of last weekend, they could fall
out of the top four of the Big Ten, which

(10:49):
will wreck their chances of hosting a regional. Jays are
hosting Georgetown. Creighton is trying to stay in first place
in the Big East Major Leagues. The Royals loose again
Cleveland eight to five over Kansas City, so nobody remembers
the five game winning streak after having lost two in
a row. The Yankees beat Texas nine to two, Tampa
Bay over Boston eight to four. National League Cubs eight,

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Reds three, Rocky six, Mets two, Pirates four, Dbacks two
Cardinals two Padres one. Itter League play Nats seven Twins,
five A's twelve, Phillies one, Miami four, Baltimore three. Indianapolis
beat Omaha five to four. The Nebraska softball team had
a tough game with Michigan yesterday, but Nebraska prevails final
score four to two, so they move along in the

(11:32):
Big Ten Conference postseason softball championships from College Park, Maryland.
The Hoscars will play Indiana at five o'clock tonight. The
number two seed. Oregon got beat by Wisconsin the seventh
seed yesterday. Trey Taylor, the superstar quarterback of the Nebraska
recruiting class for next year. I beg your pardon, superstar

(11:52):
quarterback prospect for next year's recruiting season, admits that the
Ohio State Buckeyes are in on him now. He's gonna
move to Omaha and he's gonna play for Millard South
next year. I don't like it. You don't like it,
but that's the way it goes. They were in his
high school. Ohio State was in his high school in Mundalene, Illinois.

(12:14):
The other day. Nebraska was contacted by Taylor's dad, who
told Ohio State he's not taking any more visits. But
that didn't stop Nebraska from high tailing it to Mondalene, Illinois,
and they showed up at Trey Taylor's high school too.

Speaker 3 (12:31):
Must be a little worried.

Speaker 2 (12:32):
Ohio State wants Trey Taylor quote unquote, he is a
high priority target for them. In twenty twenty seven, we're
gonna find out what commitment means to the Taylor family
and KFB Husker Info strong man Sewan Callahan will be
along at six forty six, forty five.

Speaker 3 (12:47):
Actually to tell us all about this, I.

Speaker 1 (12:49):
Don't know how you picture us, but we're all in
suits and ties, even Lucy. There's Lucy Chapman, Craig Evans,
Jim Rose, Courtney Donahoe. I'm Scott Vorhees. I'm wearing a
tuxedo with tails and a top hat.

Speaker 3 (13:02):
It's hard to fit the.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
Headphones over the top hat, but we make do and
we just get it done right. Right here, we're not
lying on news radio eleven to ten Kfab. Lucy's wearing
a suit and.

Speaker 7 (13:13):
Tie meat dress, and.

Speaker 1 (13:15):
Well, part of it is the Lady Gaga inspired meat dress.
But that's only because occasionally LOUI go over and try
and take a bite out of Lucy, which again once
again to hr, I don't see any problem with any
of this. See look, Lucy is nervously laughing, being polite.
I think it's just fine. Now Here in the Zonker's

(13:37):
Custom Woods inbox, Scott atkfab dot com, Michael email says,
are these apartment complexes needed or are we just shifting
population from the latest trendy spot to the next trendy spot. Well,
I think that our friends down there off thirty fifth
and Vinton, right off the I eighty, the I eighty

(13:58):
which is next to the four and just kind of
northwest of the Kennedy Freeway. I think that they would
probably enjoy knowing that they're in the trendy spot. They're
thirty fifth invented. That is a great that's a classic
o Maha neighborhood. This is where the grain silos are.
For most of us that don't live down there, we

(14:19):
drive into downtown and off to our left are these
giant grain bins that are occasionally graffitied. Sometimes people try
and put some big art on them.

Speaker 2 (14:28):
Yeah, that was there for about a year, and then
the art came down. Why did the art have to
come down? I don't know.

Speaker 1 (14:33):
They talked about kind of fitting apartments condos inside the silos,
but now they're talking once again about just knocking them down,
and all the neighbors there say, and knock them down?

Speaker 3 (14:47):
How you know?

Speaker 1 (14:48):
It's it's fraught to take down a big tree in
someone's backyard if it's near your house. How are you
going to take down these giant silos without having dust
and junk? And what if it goes the wrong way
and it falls on my house.

Speaker 3 (15:03):
How do we do this?

Speaker 1 (15:03):
And then they're going to take down the silos and
put up some very nice apartments, hundreds of apartments. And
that's noted that the median rent in this development would
be more than a lot of people's mortgages or what
homes are renting for in the neighborhood, and it might
drive up property taxes in the neighborhood. And to Michael's point,

(15:26):
would that just be the new trendy spot. Let me
say this and then I'll shut up for a moment.
When it comes to affordable housing, we have affordable housing
in Omaha, but the people who can afford to live
there don't want to live there. It's either like, well
that house or apartment is not new enough for me,
and it's in a part of town in which I

(15:46):
don't want to live. Well, where do you want to live?
I want to live out here in this newer place.
Well you can't afford it. Well, who's going to subsidize
it for me? That's the attitude we have right now. Well,
first of all, let's talk about the grain silos. Aren't
houses like directly underneath them, there's that South Omaha Trail
and the Field Club trail on one side, and then
a giant empty lot on the other. So if they

(16:08):
do tear them down, you got Venting Tire Services across
Vinton Street. That'd be the closest actual business in proximity
to the grain bins and the elevators, So they could
take them down and you don't have to worry about
your humble house there on thirty fifth Street get knocked over.
You're right about the dust, and the grain dust could
be sort of dangerous. So they'll be passing out masks

(16:30):
to everybody with a quarter mile radius when they start
tearing this thing down.

Speaker 3 (16:35):
Who knows what's in there. People think ice lives over there.

Speaker 2 (16:38):
Yeah, I don't know that it's You'd have to talk
to a building developer and find out whether it's in
any way feasible to turn those into actual dwellings.

Speaker 3 (16:46):
I'd rather talk to you. The truth is which is smart?
The truth is this.

Speaker 2 (16:50):
This would be a real better visual for the community
if those things came down unless they're being used. If
they're being used and they're filled with grain and they're
a part of that economic food chain for us sending
the grain to wherever in the world where they needed
to make into food, that's fine.

Speaker 3 (17:09):
But if they're just sitting.

Speaker 2 (17:10):
There, they're just sitting there, who owns it and would
they be willing to tear it down or do we
have the money somewhere to tear down or would they
sell it to a developer who could build something else.
That is a lower income neighborhood, not from the standpoint
of a bunch of homeless people walking around, but those
are humble starter houses, smaller houses, and the proximity to

(17:32):
the Interstate makes them more difficult to sell for a
high premium because the interstate noise is a big turnoff
for most people. And I think about one hundred thousand
cars go back and forth on that interstate stretch every day.

Speaker 3 (17:43):
Well, if you have.

Speaker 1 (17:44):
Hundreds of apartments in the area that used to be
these silos, how they all get over there? The traffic
then through the neighborhood is going to be increased exponentially.

Speaker 6 (17:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (17:55):
The only way to know if the neighbors want that either. Yeah,
the only.

Speaker 2 (17:59):
Actual There are two ways to get there. Number one
forty second Street. You get on a forty second and
then take the Vinton Street run around past you know
some of those residential houses, and then Martha Street as
you turn around and get on four to eighty, but
you can't get off right there.

Speaker 1 (18:15):
I think the people in that neighborhood are gonna miss
seeing the sunrise for the first time at about eleven
to fifteen am. But I finally comes over, Oh that's
the sun. We have never seen the cress the silos.
There's going to be a huge loss from the skyline
standpoint for those of us who have lived here a
long time.

Speaker 2 (18:32):
All right, but yeah, they don't look very good or
paint that we're gonna do anything.

Speaker 3 (18:36):
Let's paint them.

Speaker 1 (18:36):
An emergency Husker Buzz edition. Jim Rose, Sean Callahan, What are.

Speaker 3 (18:39):
We doing well?

Speaker 2 (18:40):
Actually, Sean Callahan and I had a summit last week
and we declared that every Friday during the summertime we
need to bring on Shanna just to ensure that Husker
Nation is up to date on what's going on and
in fact, big stuff this weekend, Shano, Let's talk about
Trey Taylor first and then Tory Pittman. Taylor is the
commit from Chicago, big time quarterback prospect. He's moving to

(19:01):
al Maha to play for Millard South. But Ohio State's
not giving up on this guy. How close is he
to taking a visit to Ohio State.

Speaker 8 (19:09):
It's hard to say. I mean, I know when Ohio
State said that they were coming to his school, you know,
he they let Nebraska know right away, and in Nebraska,
I think timed it out to be there at that
exact same time. So, I mean he's been getting paid
by Nebraska too. I mean, you can pay high school
players off the rev share before they sign, so he's

(19:32):
received payments for probably a year over a year now
from Nebraska at this point. So it it would take
a lot, But it's Ohio State. I mean they have
one of the more expensive rosters you know, in the country.
I mean you look at what they're going to do
this year. I mean they're probably one of six teams
that will have maybe over a fifty million dollars roster.
So that is the name of the game. There's a

(19:54):
direct correlation with the winning in the playoff teams and
the money they have to buy these rosters. You know,
if there's a team that could almost buy him out
of what he had, it would be Ohio State. But
Trey Taylor has been as committed in loyal to Nebraska
as anyone had ever seen. But teams like Ohio State,
teams like LSU, teams like Miami, they don't accept no.

(20:15):
That's why they're at the top of college football in
a lot of respects in terms of what they're doing,
because their coaches will be relentless and they don't accept
no until the very end.

Speaker 2 (20:23):
Now, the first thing that Husker fans are going to
say to Sean is, well, we've been through this before
with Dylan Riola. His family literally moved to Buford, Georgia
after he committed to Georgia. Efford is about as far
from Athens, Georgia as Millard South is from Memorial Stadium,
and Dylan Royola never stepped foot on the campus at Georgia.

(20:44):
Is there a correlation between the two.

Speaker 8 (20:47):
No, I think the game has changed even that much
more since then. I mean, just with the way your
high school players weren't getting paid back when Dylan was
doing it. Now it's common practice for four and five
stars to commit early and you know, enter into an
agreement with the collective of our school or Howard it's
done now, how they do it now, but they do

(21:09):
it still like we're you know, so it Dylan Rayola
at that point, you know, he left Georgia because they
weren't going to really give him a deal. He was
gonna have to come in Kirby Smart doesn't pay freshmen,
They don't really do much yet, and you know when
they saw these quarterbacks were getting these big deals and
an opportunity to start like, that's what led them to Nebraska.

(21:30):
He got a big deal in the opportunity to start,
where at Georgia he was not going to have a
big deal and he was going to sit behind Carson
back for a year, which looking for as we can
do this year now at Oregon more or less. So yeah,
it's changed a lot, Jim, and it's going to continue
to change with just how the prospects kind of look
at these situations and the money involved everything else.

Speaker 2 (21:52):
Now, let's visit about Tory Pittman. This is the premiere
high school player in Nebraska this year. He's a top
fifty defense back prospect. He has been committed to Nebraska,
but LSU and Miami are in the mix, maybe Notre
Dame too, And in fact, he was quoted as saying,
I'd worry about LSU and Notre Dame if I were

(22:12):
you quote Tory Pittman, the third what's.

Speaker 3 (22:15):
Up with him?

Speaker 8 (22:17):
Yeah, you know, he committed early to Nebraska with the
group of Trey Taylor, and again I think he entered
into an agreement early on. But you know, now it's
in home visit season. That's the other thing people have
to understand, Like right now, this is the old school
January December. Coaches no longer do in homes. They're not
allowed to in December, and in January kids are generally

(22:40):
enrolled by the time the coaches were even on the road.
So this now is the time of year where people
are going into homes in the living rooms. You had
LSU and you had Miami, you know, both come in
and making their run. And that's what's going on here
the next week or two. As you're going to see teams.
They can only visit you one time though it's not

(23:01):
like the old days where they could come once a
week for five weeks. But yet teams are making a run.
He's arguably one of the top safeties in the country,
as you mentioned, a top fifty overall national recruit in
the national top one hundred. And you know LSU should
scare you too. I mean they have the highest valued
roster right now in the country. I mean they went

(23:22):
with Lank with Brian Kelly, they were right under thirty
million a year. Now they're going to be maybe fifty
five million dollars a year with the highest roster in
the country with Lane Kiff, And so that allows you
to buy players. And there's there's I mean ten of
the twelve playoff teams had rosters have rosters right now
that were valued thirty five million plus going into the year.

(23:44):
So you know, it's a different game and it's it's
hard for a lot of people to grasp that. But yeah,
team Mike Lsu and Miami they're gonna be very aggressive
Ohio State because they have that ability to not only
do they have the winning or the coach, but they
also have the resources to do with the want to do.

Speaker 2 (24:00):
Yeah, he transferred from Central to Miller North. All right, Sean,
I we'll stay up today with this and maybe get
an update on these guys next week and whether they're
starting to lean away from Nebraska or recommit to Nebraska.
That's kaf it be Husker Info Strong by Sean Callahan
with the Husker Buzz Summer edition, Spring and Summer edition
every Friday.

Speaker 1 (24:18):
We got Ann Margaret coming on the radio with us
here in about a half an hour, the legendary and
Margaret is back in Omaha for the latest Bruce Crawford
movie event. That's one week from to night, the screening
of her film Bye Bye.

Speaker 3 (24:31):
Bertie with Dick Van Dyke.

Speaker 1 (24:34):
That's at the Omaha Community Playhouse one week from the night.
Details at Omaha Film Event dot com, star of that
film and the start of that event next week. And
Markaret will join us here in half an hour. I'm
Scott Vorhees with Jim Rose, Lucy Chapman, Craig Evans, Courtney Donaho.
Great to have you with us on News Radio eleven

(24:54):
ten kfab. Speaking of films, is it possible that Mark Hamill,
who played Luke Skywalker in nineteen or twenty Star Wars.

Speaker 7 (25:05):
Movie, do you really feel like you had to say that?

Speaker 1 (25:09):
Yeah? I don't take anything for granted. Why do you
think I announced Mark Hambill? Why do you think I
announced who we are every two minutes on this show? Okay,
people forget We're busy. People who are they? Who's talking?
Where's Tom Becka?

Speaker 3 (25:23):
You know?

Speaker 1 (25:24):
People forget? So Mark Hamill the who Yeah, he is
it possible for him not to be a complete jack
and ape all the time? He just on his blue
Sky account. Blue Sky is a social media platform where
people apparently constantly wish and plot death on the President
of the United States. That's my understanding. I might be wrong,

(25:45):
but he just posted a picture of Trump lying there
dead with his head against his gravestone, showing that he died.
In twenty twenty four, Mark Hamill said, if only he
should live long enough to witness his inevitable devastating loss
in the mid terms, he should be held accountable for
his all right, So I don't I'm not going to
read all this garbage.

Speaker 7 (26:06):
I'm so glad I broke up with him years ago.

Speaker 1 (26:11):
It's it's not enough that you just wouldn't vote for him.

Speaker 3 (26:18):
You have to wish him dead.

Speaker 1 (26:20):
You have to actively either actively wish, plot, or try
and carry out the death of people with whom we
disagree politically. Look, Mark, I'm sorry that they're not making
more Star Wars movies.

Speaker 7 (26:34):
For you, are making him for him, for him.

Speaker 1 (26:36):
I don't think he's in the new Mandalorian Grogu movie.

Speaker 7 (26:41):
I don't think so.

Speaker 1 (26:42):
I still have nothing but love for the Star Wars
movies that I grew up with. But Mark Hamill, you
are a complete Ouchhe day knock it off there.

Speaker 7 (26:53):
That ought to do it, that set him and his place.

Speaker 3 (26:56):
That's right.

Speaker 1 (26:57):
I'm no longer gonna wear my return of the Jedi
belt and suspender said, I got a nineteen eighty three
with your face on them there. It means I have
to take them off right now. Rory O'Neill back here
to news radio eleven ten KFAB and Nebraska's Morning News.
It's stuff like this, Rory. Why Americans are losing friends.

(27:19):
They're separating from family members, probably separating marriages because of politics.

Speaker 9 (27:24):
Right, yeah, it's gotten that far, even separating members of
the force right light and dark side.

Speaker 3 (27:30):
But thirty seven.

Speaker 9 (27:32):
Percent of Americans report having lost at least one relationship
due to political differences. We're talking friendships, family ties. You know,
there's that uncle you won't go to his house for Thanksgiving,
coworker relationships, that cubicle you won't visit, and of course
romantic partnerships. All of them have fallen apart due to

(27:54):
political differences. And in fact, they found that sixty six
percent of Democrats said they were the ones who ended
it compared to twenty seven percent of Republicans.

Speaker 1 (28:03):
Now, I know that you and I grew up at
about the same time watching Star Wars movies and being
big fans of all that. But at the same time,
I don't ever remember anyone wishing death on President Reagan
or Tip O'Neil, and families arguing at the dinner table
or at holidays, or our teachers suddenly telling us a

(28:24):
big political screeen what happened?

Speaker 10 (28:28):
Right?

Speaker 9 (28:28):
And how much of this has to do with social media?
I know it gets to blame for everything, but it
does seem that there were also rules of what we
would never talk about in public. You don't talk about money,
you don't talk about religion, and then you sure don't
talk about politics. But those now tend to be the
first three topics of conversation, and there are.

Speaker 1 (28:45):
A lot of people that use especially politics, as the
basis for whether or not they're going to date someone.
It's gotten where we all take it very very personally.
I don't know what happens in the future on this.
Now another story you're looking at, Rory, is can I
make one quick note though, Yes.

Speaker 9 (29:02):
It's just that people who experience these breakups. They also
held a very distorted view of what the other person felt,
So it's sort of based on cartoonish views of what
the other person believed, not necessarily based in reality.

Speaker 10 (29:16):
Surprise pride.

Speaker 3 (29:16):
Yeah, just talk to each other. Stop taking it. Also, personally,
y'all like pie.

Speaker 9 (29:21):
Let's agree on pie.

Speaker 10 (29:22):
Everyone loves pie.

Speaker 1 (29:23):
Right, you know, And a lot of the people who
have these strong opinions I think that we ought to
all right, Okay, Well there's nothing they can do about
it other than post about it on Facebook, and if
you don't like it, just don't follow them and move
on with your life, all right, real quickly here, Rory.

Speaker 3 (29:39):
You're also looking at the story.

Speaker 1 (29:41):
There are a lot of people betting on everything on
some of these these online you know, to these apps,
to trading things.

Speaker 3 (29:47):
Well, obviously, if.

Speaker 1 (29:49):
There are trades where people are betting on the timing
of Iran, like war, oil prices and so forth, then
some of these are going to come in there suspicious times.

Speaker 3 (30:02):
Are are we happened that week? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (30:05):
Is this insider trading accusations or just just a coincidence?

Speaker 9 (30:10):
Well, that's what they're trying to figure out. And this
is not some prediction market.

Speaker 10 (30:14):
Kyle.

Speaker 9 (30:14):
She bet kind of a thing. This is the way
that you trade oil, and someone was essentially placing a
trade that they were expecting oil prices to fall. Well,
they made that bet about seventy minutes before Axios released
his report showing that hey there's a one sheet possible
piece deal out there. That headline alone caused oil to
drop twelve percent. So this big bet essentially paid off

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to the tune of about one hundred and twenty five
million dollars. And the question is did the person who
made that investment did they have insider information? We don't
know yet. The Justice Department may look into it.

Speaker 1 (30:51):
Well, I mean, you try and time the market. Sometimes
you get right, sometimes you go to jail for it.
Rory great reporting. Does always have a wonderful weekend.

Speaker 3 (30:59):
Thanks guy, take care.

Speaker 1 (31:00):
One week from tonight, it's time for another Bruce Crawford
film event. Details at Omaha Film event dot com screening
of this film, Bye Bye, Bertie and.

Speaker 3 (31:21):
Welcoming back to Omaha.

Speaker 1 (31:22):
This legendary actress and Margaret's coming back to town. Yes, you
were here in Omaha with Pat Boone and to a
lesser extent meet almost exactly a year ago, and now
we're getting you to come back to town.

Speaker 3 (31:38):
Well, how's your elbow?

Speaker 9 (31:40):
Oh?

Speaker 11 (31:40):
Thank you for asking. Yeah, it's kind of creaky.

Speaker 3 (31:45):
Oh no, what happened?

Speaker 11 (31:47):
Oh please? I can't do anything except fall down? Go boom?

Speaker 3 (31:56):
Were you on a motorcycle again?

Speaker 9 (31:58):
No?

Speaker 11 (31:59):
I wasn't. I just fell down.

Speaker 1 (32:01):
Well I think that you need to make up a
better story then I just fell down. Say you were
doing you were doing ninety on the pch on your
motorcycle and someone cuts you off and all you sustain
was just a little injured elbow. That's a much better story.

Speaker 11 (32:17):
Okay, I'll buy that.

Speaker 1 (32:19):
Well, I know you've got a lot of stories about
this movie. We're gonna hear those while you're here in
Omaha next week. But I just have to ask you
about Dick Van Dyke because I think, like you, Dick
Van Dyke is a national treasure. And this is the
part where you tell me, oh, no, he was the worst,
he was terrible.

Speaker 3 (32:37):
To work with.

Speaker 11 (32:41):
He was wonderful.

Speaker 3 (32:42):
Oh, I'm so glad to hear that.

Speaker 1 (32:44):
There's one other thing I really want to talk to
you about and Margaret, and that is you just got
an incredible award. When you were here in Omaha a
year ago for a Memorial Day we were talking about,
as you described them, your guys American Armed Forces, enlisted military,
and of course in Vietnam a lot of them were drafted.

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And you made it a point to go over a
couple of times to Vietnam to entertain out your boys
as part of these USO shows. And you just got
the USO Challenge Coin award. You the only the second
person to ever get that behind Bob Hope. What kind
of honor was like? That was that like for you

(33:26):
to get this award the other day in Los Angeles?

Speaker 11 (33:29):
Oh my goodness, I just was so honored. I had
no idea that it was coming, which is really fun.

Speaker 1 (33:41):
I feel blessed when you think back to seeing the
looks on the faces of the guys out there that
you are entertaining and traveling to Vietnam to do it.
What memories and thoughts come back to you from those experiences.

Speaker 11 (33:59):
I kept meeting incredible guys. I was thrilled one right
after the other, and well, funny, well funny that war
was over.

Speaker 10 (34:13):
I don't know.

Speaker 11 (34:13):
I just feel blessed that I have met so many
remarkable men and women.

Speaker 1 (34:21):
And you were out at that ceremony in Hollywood with
Bob Hope's daughter, right, Yes, that's such a Yes, what
an incredible bit of history to have the two of
you there together. And it's called the USO Challenge Coin.
Is it actual? Isn't a real coin that they gave
you an? If so, where is that coin today? What'd

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you do with it?

Speaker 11 (34:42):
It is in my room.

Speaker 1 (34:44):
Do you have a room in your home that just
is memorabilia from things that you picked up, things that
people have given you, things you've taken from movie sets
that that you can walk into and kind of have
those memories flood back from time to time.

Speaker 11 (34:59):
Yeah, yes, yes I do. It means the world to
me and I go in there and I'm I remive
those moments.

Speaker 1 (35:14):
What did you take from Bye Bye Birdie that you
have on display in your home?

Speaker 3 (35:17):
Anything of things?

Speaker 11 (35:20):
There are a lot of things everywhere in my home.
I've done a lot of work. It's not work for me,
it's fabulous.

Speaker 1 (35:28):
Would you consider being in another movie?

Speaker 11 (35:33):
Yes, if, if, If it's something that really appeals to.

Speaker 3 (35:37):
Me, sure.

Speaker 1 (35:39):
The Grumpy Old Man movies are some of my favorite
movies of all time. I think both of them are
so perfect.

Speaker 3 (35:47):
Can you can you give me.

Speaker 1 (35:49):
An example of what it was like to be on
set there with Burgess Meredith, with Jack Lemon and Walter
mathow all goof and or whatever? What were they doing
when the cameras weren't rolling? And what was that experience
like for you?

Speaker 8 (36:06):
Oh?

Speaker 11 (36:07):
I have pictures of Jack and Walter taking a little
nap in the sun with the special chairs. Been so cute.

Speaker 3 (36:30):
When's the last time you watched Bye Bye Bertie in
its entirety? Nineteen sixty two, So it's been a minute.

Speaker 1 (36:40):
Yes, Well, it's going to be a wonderful event. It'll
be great having you back here in Omaha. And Margaret
safe travels to Omaha next week and we'll see you
on Friday night.

Speaker 11 (36:52):
You are a sweetheart.

Speaker 4 (36:53):
Thank you very much, Well and Margaret.

Speaker 1 (36:56):
Bruce Crawford is hosting his next film event one week
from to night Friday, May fifteenth at the Omaha Community Playhouse,
a screening a Bye by Bernie in a Visit from
and Margaret. Proceeds benefit the Douglas County Historical Society. All
the details taking information at Omaha Film event dot com.
Great to have and Margaret coming back to town. Better believe it.

(37:20):
We are too legit to cease, to stop, to quit.
That's the one. Thank you hammer. I'm Scott Vorhees here
with Lucy Chapman, Craig Evans, Jim Rose, Courtney Donahoe. This
is Nebraska's morning News News Radio eleven ten kfab. Here's
my latest dumb idea. If AI is taking a lot

(37:43):
of jobs away, how about we just turn off AI?

Speaker 3 (37:47):
How about I mean, what.

Speaker 1 (37:49):
If we just do That's there's what like three different
companies that basically emanate all the artificial intelligence, all the chatbot,
all the AI stuff. What if we just turned that
st off off and say, oh, now, who's going to
do all this stuff? I guess we have to hire Bob,
you know, and then Bob comes back and has a job.
You give Bob a job. It's called the Bob a

(38:10):
Job Initiative. Turn off AI.

Speaker 7 (38:16):
I'm in. I vote for that. Yeah, let's do it.

Speaker 1 (38:19):
Until you realize AI was so much better at the
job than Bob was. But hey, that's part of the
human element of all this stuff.

Speaker 7 (38:26):
Right, I know, I disagree it might be different than
the aih he's.

Speaker 1 (38:32):
Clearly worse have you met Bob. He's there's a reason
he's not working there.

Speaker 7 (38:38):
Bob the loser, Bob.

Speaker 1 (38:40):
He's the worst. But you know he's got mouths to feed. No,
he doesn't have kids. He just he has a lot
of mouths. Is he's a collector, clinically grown, and he
feeds them. We should stop talking about Bob, I think.
So let's talk about Tranquility part. Jim Mayor Ewing is

(39:00):
disappointed that we got the turnback financing for a new
soccer stadium in downtown Omaha. Which is what I think
when I talk to people around Omaha, this is what
Omahans are truly clamoring for is more soccer, right, and
the professional soccer team, a women's professional soccer team.

Speaker 3 (39:20):
I don't other soccer stuff.

Speaker 1 (39:23):
Well, we didn't get the turnback tax coming here for
forty three and a half million dollars towards doing something
that Tranquility Park one hundred and twentieth between Maple and Ford.
I thought Tranquility Park was all pretty much done. It's
just fields, yeah, trees, what do we need to dump?

(39:45):
Now we don't do that anymore because we cleaned up
the parking lot. Now it's just fields. How much does
the cost of more the grass and the soccer fields.

Speaker 2 (39:52):
I think they want artificial soccer fields. That's the first thing.
Tranquility Park has been up for discussion for the last
ten years.

Speaker 3 (40:01):
What do we do with this?

Speaker 2 (40:02):
Can we turn this into a soccer complex that will
attract tournaments, that will attract all sorts of external visitor tourism,
hotel nights, all that stuff. It's not in a great
part of town for that, but that doesn't mean that
that can't grow. If you look again at that area,

(40:22):
the economic area around there, how much of that can
be developed in the next three to five years To
lure these kinds of events. They have to have artificial
turf number one. They have to have lights.

Speaker 3 (40:34):
Number two.

Speaker 2 (40:35):
They have to have parking and other amenities to attract
these tournaments. Now, again, I'll use an example the La
Vista Chi Sports Complex which is just off Giles Road
in Southport Boulevard over there, just across from PayPal. That complex,
which is a community project that was not a tax
support project, that was placed in an area with existing retail,

(41:00):
entertainment and other amenities. Plus it's right lodging, Plus it's
right off the road and if you bring outside folks
into town for a weekend, they're gonna spend money that
Omaha wouldn't have gotten without that complex. That's the kind
of turnback tax formula that the governor likes. But what
he's a little worried about and has been advised about,

(41:23):
is these turnback tax projects. They are counting on a
lot of new sales taxes to finance the project. Now
they may happen, they may not. Now in the case
of Tranquility Park, that's a city owned facility, and they
wanted a bunch of turnback tax money because Gene Stuther
was talking about this ten years ago. Let's do something

(41:44):
with Tranquility Park. Let's spend a bunch of city tax
money to fix it up, because right now it's just
a city park. But if you're gonna turn it into
a complex, it's got to be a lot more than
just field sitting there.

Speaker 1 (41:55):
But sometimes you need fields for kids who parents aren't
paying to have him in select sports, travel teams paying
a bunch of money per parent per grandparent to go
and watch them do that. Sometimes just a field with
grass on it and a couple of goals is fine.
Ray quality park is great for that.

Speaker 2 (42:14):
It's that now there were some other projects that I
think would have been actually pretty good investments.

Speaker 1 (42:20):
Then let me get back to you on that next.
All right, Jim, that's a broadcast teas?

Speaker 3 (42:24):
Is that what that is? Broadcast teas? Keep people around
for another fifteen minutes? Is that how it works? Well?
At least fifteen hours.

Speaker 1 (42:30):
Scott at kfab dot com and the Zonker's custom was inbox.
Kyle says, if we can adjust the streetcar route, I'm
sure those funds are the future estimated funds. They should
take care of any costs that may incur. Let's make
sure to ask former nurse Jean Stother that question.

Speaker 3 (42:47):
To ten.

Speaker 1 (42:48):
That's from Kyle Atlanta says, time to extend the streetcar
route for soccer people. They better not mess with Herron Haven.
Now that's across the street on other side there. I've
never actually seen a Heron in there, but I haven't
spent a lot of time exploring. And one more thing
on Tranquility Park, Brandon says the biggest disappointment with them
developing Tranquility Park on hundred twentieth and Maple areas the

(43:10):
fact that no one wants to improve the ice rink
there if I played hockey games at that rank, and
it's been very neglected from taking care of the ice
to locker rooms and such. I really wish they'd include
the rink as well instead of leaving it as an afterthought. Well,
I don't know that the Moyle and ice Plex there
is a city owned thing. I think it's its own

(43:32):
entity and near Tranquility Park, but not exactly part of it.
But behind that you've got all those great tennis courts
they've been adding on to, and that's a fantastic area.
It's a good area there near one hundred twentieth in Maple.
But they didn't get some of the turnback tax money.
Mary Ewing is disappointed. Jim Rose just said there are
other places that could use that money.

Speaker 2 (43:54):
Well, what I think that there are other projects that
were rejected. There were eleven projects that were reviewed. Dude,
they only spent a half an hour doing this, So
it seems to me the governor knew what he wanted
to do before the meeting even began. But there were
eleven projects. Nine of them got the thumbs down, to
of them got the thumbs up. They all have merit, Okay,
they all can make a strong case there are lots

(44:17):
and lots of really quality projects that will make communities better,
more attractive, help retain people, and drive people. But we
have such a screwed up tax system in this state.
It's a Swiss Cheese tax system. Some people pay sales
taxes on some things, other people don't. And one thing
the governor's been trying to do is uniform the tax code,

(44:37):
the sales tax code, eliminate exemptions so that we can
collect more in sales tax. This looks a lot like
a government handout, and they're carving up some areas to
support some things but not others. If the Unicamera would
just grow a pair and stop worrying about getting re
elected and start actually charging sales tax some things that

(44:58):
have been exempted for years, we could we do more
projects like this.

Speaker 3 (45:01):
But I would tell you that the wolf.

Speaker 2 (45:02):
Pack Sports Foundation project in Gretna was one that if
I were on the board, I'd have voted for it
because I think that area and people around there know
that is a very very attractive area for retail and
other development. And that is a volleyball project. Well it's
not just a volleyball and it's a cheer athletics project,

(45:22):
and that's a hugely popular growing sport among young girls.
And I think you build a big time project there.
That's just an example, but they all have merit. Then
you're going to drive more tourism because there aren't a
lot of those facilities out.

Speaker 3 (45:36):
There, I understand.

Speaker 1 (45:37):
I mean that High V out there is so big
you could put a volleyball complex in there. They played
a volleyball game in that High V. That's an airport.
Or that BUCkies you could put a volleyball complex in
that new BUCkies. They're going to get out there as well.

Speaker 2 (45:48):
All Right, we have to stop exempting sales taxes so
we can do more stuff like this. The day that
the unicamerl does your bidding will be a really fun day.

Speaker 3 (45:56):
I hope. I'm here for it.

Speaker 1 (45:57):
Great to have you with us on Nebraska's Morning News. Yeah,
we are called Nebraska's Morning News. That has nothing to
do with any Despite Jim playing sheep sound effects when
talking about Iowa players bringing their girlfriends over here for
a baseball series, we love our friends in Iowa one
hundred percent. In fact, there's a really cool event happening

(46:21):
in Council Bluffs tomorrow and to talk more about it.
Got Nick Turner here joining us on eleven ten KFA B. Nick,
Good morning, Good morning.

Speaker 10 (46:30):
Sir, Thanks for taking the time to chat with us.

Speaker 1 (46:32):
The Flying Memorial is going to be in the skies
over Council Bluffs tomorrow. Tell me about this helicopter.

Speaker 10 (46:40):
Yes, sir, so, this is a Sikorski UH thirty four
D true Vietnam survivor's. It was recovered from the boneyard
after its time in Vietnam, and a Oklahoma businessman had
repainted it exactly the way it was in Vietnam to

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honor the thirty three Marines that died in the squadron
between nineteen sixty two and nineteen sixty nine in the
Vietnam conflict. And unfortunately that gentleman passed away and I
had the opportunity to take custodianship of this aircraft and
I brought it from Oklahoma up to Iowa, and our
plan is to fly it all over the state and

(47:21):
beyond to showcase and memorialize the sacrifice of those thirty
three Marines.

Speaker 1 (47:27):
Before we talk about this event tomorrow, tell me about
the Ugly Angels.

Speaker 10 (47:33):
Yeah, So, the Ugly Angels are a squadron that a
Marine Corps helicopter squadron started out in Vietnam. What is
significant about the squadron is they were the very first
Marine Corps helicopter squadron to go into Vietnam April fifteenth
and nineteen sixty two, led by their commanding officer, Colonel

(47:55):
Archie Klapp. The significance of the name Ugly Angels came
affectionately from the infantrymen that had supported They were like, man,
this thing is an angel.

Speaker 9 (48:08):
You know.

Speaker 10 (48:08):
It's taken me out of the battlefield when I'm busted up,
I'm shot, I'm blaeding, I need food, I need AMMO.
But it is the ugliest thing I've ever seen. So
they dubbed it the Ugly Angel. And the squadron has
been in existence for a long time. My father was
an Ugly Angel. When I was a Marine Corps helicopter pilot,
I was in the Ugly Angels. And that is what's

(48:31):
awesome about this weekend. We are reuniting this helicopter with
one of the only remaining Ugly Angels in existence. And
he's over He lives over in Omaha, but we're going
to meet him in Council Bliss at the airport. So
I'm really excited to reunite this old warrior, Colonel Joseph
Sales with this aircraft.

Speaker 1 (48:52):
Yeah, retired marine, because there's no such thing as a
former marine. Colonel Sales will be there, this helicopter will
be there. This helicopter did not come through Vietnam like
so many over there people, personnel, and of course machinery.
This thing's got bullet holes all over it, doesn't it

(49:13):
It does.

Speaker 10 (49:13):
Yeah, it served in Vietnam from nineteen sixty five to
nineteen sixty eight. It's got fifty four bullet holes in
it with patches. The tail was actually blown off in
a rocket attack. It was pretty heavily damaged in a
hot zone. And the helicopter that I flew in the
Marine Corps, the H fifty three, externally lifted it out

(49:33):
of a zone back to the base. And then as
the as technology progressed, turbine engines became more prolific, and
the piston engine that's in this helicopter kind of became obsolete.
So they sent it back to the States and used
it as a training aircraft, and then it ultimately ended
up in Davis Moppin at the boneyard.

Speaker 1 (49:55):
So for people want to go out to the it's
going to be at the Council Bluffs Airport, East Council
Bluffs up by West Fair Bentry golf Course out in
that beautiful area of Pottawatamee County. For people who want
to see this helicopter and meet Colonel Sales, where do
they need to be at? What time tomorrow?

Speaker 10 (50:13):
So I'm going to land hopefully around noon, weather and
maintenance permitting, and I'd like to protect about thirty minutes
for more of an intimate time for just Kernel Sales
and his family. So if you could give me till
about twelve thirty, you can absolutely show up and watch
us land, but I want to protect about thirty minutes,

(50:34):
so I would say from about twelve thirty to about
two o'clock or you know, as long as I got
people coming, I'll stick around. But no charge. If you'd
like to donate, you know, this is an expensive aircraft
to fly. We don't do this to make money. We
do this to preserve the history. We have a website
y l dash three seven dot org. There's a QR

(50:57):
code on there. You can donate to our Venmo. We'll
have an old Ammo can if you want to throw
a couple bucks in. We're also my wife is going
to be selling t shirts and hats and stuff. And
like I said, we don't keep any of this money.
All the funds go towards the maintenance, the fuel, the grease,
the oil, the insurance. And you know it's this aircraft

(51:18):
sixty five years old, so just finding parts for it
is unbelievably difficult. So anything you can do to help us,
we appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (51:25):
I imagine YL dash three seven dot org. That's your
pilot classification, YL thirty seven.

Speaker 3 (51:32):
Correct.

Speaker 10 (51:33):
So the the every Marine Corps squadron has a two
letter identifier, and the Ugly Angels two letter identifier was
YL or Yankee Lima. There was many under Yankee, November,
Yankee Papa. The other squadrons still hold. But the name
and the designator of this helicopter was Wyle thirty.

Speaker 1 (51:53):
Seven yl dash three seven dot org. And this is
going to be about right before noon. You're gonna see
this Vietnam era helicopter. The Ugly Angel will be flying
around council bluffs. You're not your eyes are not deceiving you. Uh,
so that's gonna be happening right before noon landing there
at the Council Bluffs Airport. Colonel Sales will be there

(52:16):
to get reacquainted with this particular helicopter and uh and
then the public can go out there and talk to
Nick Turner and be able to see this flying memorial
tomorrow at the Council Bluffs Airport just after noon. Nick Turner,
thank you so much for what you're doing. This is
super cool. Thanks for telling us about it this morning
here at eleven ten kfab Yeah, thank you.

Speaker 10 (52:38):
And anybody who wants to come, we'd absolutely love to
see it so very much appreciate you passing on our word.

Speaker 1 (52:44):
You're very welcome. Have a great weekend and enjoy. Thank
you for doing this. Y L Dash three seven dot
org is the website. J.

Speaker 9 (52:51):
Loomis Doomas and.

Speaker 5 (52:57):
Swer cut tree ball.

Speaker 3 (53:00):
From Nebraska game in Parks. Hey, Greg, Hey, how you
doing good? Welcome back?

Speaker 5 (53:04):
Thank you?

Speaker 1 (53:05):
So what do you beautiful weekend? Mother's Day weekend? Oh
happy Mother's Day? You could take mom fishing, Scottie, you
could you know you're gonna be the guy you're not fishing,
and then you could pack that nice picnic lunch. Maybe
you're gonna do the grilling and everything at a state park,
or maybe take her to Sip Nebraska tonight or tomorrow

(53:27):
at Mahony State Park and simple all kinds of wine, craft.

Speaker 4 (53:31):
Beer, hardsider, spirits. There's a lot going.

Speaker 1 (53:34):
So let's say that I take my mother out fishing. Yeah,
my mom's listening right now. She is laughing very hard
at that prospect. But to be a lot of people
who a lot of families out this weekend. Yeah, so
tips for going out fishing this week I just you know,
I like the kiss.

Speaker 12 (53:49):
Principle, keep it simple, silly, And so you're gonna use worms,
you're baiting the hook again, you're guiding, and I think
you pick a comfortable spot and we see how we do.
We have a lot of fish biting. We're entering the
best fishing time of the year. I think you pick
up some bluegill, might catch a bass perhaps, and.

Speaker 4 (54:09):
Just see how you do. Just have a nice relaxing
mother's day.

Speaker 3 (54:14):
What if mom wants to go out hunt turkeys?

Speaker 12 (54:16):
Oh gosh, oh look out, Well it's getting a little
tougher out there, a lot more vegetation, a lot more foliage,
but the toms are kind of wandering solo or in
duos or trios. They're love struck because the hens are
full blown nesting right now.

Speaker 4 (54:33):
They want nothing to do with the boys.

Speaker 3 (54:35):
So you know, hopefully they'll come to your calls and decoys.

Speaker 1 (54:39):
All right, So what if this is a bit more
up my family's alley in terms of my wife, my mother.
This has to do with looking at birds and sipping wine.
Activities abound this week.

Speaker 12 (54:50):
Yeah, you know, we talked about sip Nebraska, the wine Crap,
Beer Hardsider Spirits tasting festival. It's a plast and they
have food available and everything at Mahony State Park tonight
and tomorrow. Check that out our Game of Park's website calendar.

Speaker 3 (55:04):
Do you have to make a reservation for that?

Speaker 12 (55:06):
I think you do, Yes, you do, And so go
online and you'll see our Game of Park's website calendar
outdoor Nebraska dot gov and you can get all the
particulars birds. This is the time when we have the
colorful what we call neotropical Central American South American songbirds
migrating up the orioles, the warblers, the real colorful ones.

(55:27):
You're going, Gee, I've never seen that in my backyard before.
But it's a cool time of.

Speaker 4 (55:32):
Year when we have a lot of birds migrating here
in the breast.

Speaker 3 (55:35):
I hope when you're saying that, you're talking about a bird. Yes,
we are never seen that. Yes before.

Speaker 1 (55:41):
Watch out for ticks. Lucy's got her own homemade tick repelling.
You guys can talk about that while Jim's doing a commentary.
In a moment, Greg, what's on the outdoor bulletin board though.

Speaker 12 (55:50):
Well, we'll talk next week about free fishing and State
Park Inverury Day.

Speaker 4 (55:54):
That will be Saturday, May sixteenth. A lot of big
doings for that as well. May is busy for us.

Speaker 1 (56:00):
That's why you don't go messing with a country boy, right,
black guy from Nebraska Game of Parks, Thank you so much.