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Anthony Fauci's journal entries would definitely qualify as "Moonbat Email" on the Chris Baker Show!  We get into that, as well as a troubling update on a scary southwest Omaha incident from this past spring, surgeons who have a bad day at work, the ongoing issues with Cracker Barrel, and more!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
What time do you think Chip Maxwell wakes up to
start his day Because Chip was in for Gene Stothard
yesterday hosting the KFAB comment line, and Chip and I
exchanged text messages late last night to say, might need
to have you host the comment line again. As Gene
Stothard is stuck on a tarmac in Cincinnati. There's storms

(00:22):
all across the that portion of the Midwest from Cincinnati
to Chicago. She can't get home. Well, she finally got
home after midnight, and I need to text Chip and say, hey,
don't worry. She said, she's going to do the comment
line today at ten o'clock. You don't have to So.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
Win is a win?

Speaker 1 (00:39):
Is the early enough not to completely further disrupt his
day text but not too early that I unnecessarily wake
him up?

Speaker 2 (00:47):
And he said, well, I didn't need to know that. Now.
What time is that? Anytime? Anytime? Okay, lots of people
have their text turned to silence at night.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
I always you can't I feel bad when I text her.
When I text someone, no one calls anyone anymore, and
they say like, oh, I was right in the middle
of something, or I was, you know, in the middle
of a Broadway player.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
I was sleeping or.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
I'm like thinking, well, turn your notifications off right for
a while. I feel awful about it, but it's not
my fault. It's yours. You got to manage your life.
I'll wait another half an hour, though.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
You can always email them. Everybody's looking at their email
on their phone. Here's what's going to happen.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
I'm gonna say, I'm going to wait another half an hour,
and then I'm going to forget, and I'm not going
to remember until approximately nine point fifty when who comes
striding None necessarily through the door, but Chip Maxwell and
Jeans Douthard.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
Well, it'd be nice to see him.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yeah, Chip, Well, good morning. I'm Scott Vorhees. There's Lucy Chapman.
Just heard from Craig Evans. Jim Roses right there, and
we are in Nebraska's morning news on news radio eleven
to ten KFA.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
How about that. That's cool. Grand Island's getting a basketball
game again, an exhibition game. I thought it was in
Grand Rapids, according to some news reports. National news reports,
the Nebraska K State exhibition basketball game is in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
I thought it was in the Grand Canyon. No doubt
at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum with

(02:21):
a basketball court. No, it's in Grand Island, Nebraska, at
the Big Iron Arena out there, which is actually a
very cool little arena. It's part of the State fair
Grounds out there now and it's seventy five hundred seats
in October twenty six K State Nebraska Men's basketball exhibition game.
Ticket information to come. But if you have Nebraska season
basketball tickets, this isn't part of it.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
They want extra money. Have they held a basketball game
in that arena? Don't they do hockey and rodeos and
stuff like that all in thest tractor polls demolition tractor
poll at halftime of this.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
Game, drag queen shows, they're all out there.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
I don't think that they do drag queen shows that
the rather small arena in Grand Island. That kind of
thing around here would be reserved for memorial studio. We
love a good dragon Queen show, especially if they're reading
books to our children.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
Exactly. No, it's it's very popular. They've got basketball tournaments
out there. The volleyball team has played out there exhibition matches.
So this is a real highlight for you people out
in Grand Island. Chance see the Huskers. Yeah, you people
in Grand Island who've had to, you know, drive all
the way to Lincoln to watch the Huskers. Just drive downtown.
Just drive over to South Locust Street. You know, it's

(03:32):
not that far to drive. It's far enough if you
had to walk, or if you're on yoke of Oxen.
But in this case, you just need to go down
to the State fair Grounds in Grand Island on October
twenty sixth.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
Then you know, enjoy the Husker basketball. It's huge news
for you people. And Donovan, it is. Donovan is a
big deal. Hastings Mann. You've got Central City just down
the road. It's Carney too far away. Comarty's to one.
You can't make that. You can't make that.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Uh. And Gibbon. Gibbon's a little closer, a little closer,
but not close enough, is it? Yeah? Now a Wood
River sure sure? Oh yeah. And on the other side,
if you're an Aurora Husky, you can make it over.
Oh great, yeah, carow Yeah, problem yo, carow Is. Carrow
is right next to Cairo, Nebraska, just north of the

(04:22):
Grand Island area. Good golf course. You people in Saint
Paula you've got a chance now or you know the
the if you're not a Dinsdale and Palmer, you can
come down to this. So yeah, it's kind of a
regional draw, all right.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
So wait, back up, Nebraska is playing a state subis
basketball game against Kansas State.

Speaker 2 (04:40):
In Grand Island.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
In Grand Island, October twenty sixth. What day of the
week is that i'd like to go to that? Okay, well,
let's take a ticket information to come. That's a Monday night,
I'd like to Are they going to be on TV?
Maybe I'll watch that on TV? Really and maybe, but
I doubt it.

Speaker 2 (04:59):
They're want to draw a big crowd in there, and
it's an exhibition game that's right up against I'm sure
there's a lot of high school volleyball going on at
the time, and their high school volleyball is big out
in that part of the state, big all over the state.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
Probably not on a Monday night. I think they probably
know what they're doing with this game.

Speaker 2 (05:16):
No, they know what they're doing.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
Okay, well, good, that's exciting'll be that'll be the first
to tip for Nebraska basketball exhibition or whatever for the season.
And it you know, we've got a football season between
now and then.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
The football season will be going on.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
Yeah, we got a football season starting here in about
a month now.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
Based on recent performance, most folks will be thinking basketball
about that time of the shirt month of October.

Speaker 1 (05:39):
We got an NFL season starting here pretty soon as well,
at least with the preseason games and a big problem
for the Kansas City Chiefs. Jim Rose will have more
in sports brief coming up after traffic, Weather and News. Next,
it is Tuesday morning here on Nebraska's Morning News.

Speaker 3 (05:54):
Hello, KFAB Nation, Chip Maxwell here reminding you to start
your day right breakfast, take your vitamins, and check with
Chip my podcast at kfab dot com.

Speaker 1 (06:05):
Full disclosure, I just texted Chip Maxwell. I didn't want
to forget and leave him hanging out there.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
All right. I'm so glad that.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
We were able to share this communal experience this morning.
I'm Scott Vorhees. Let me tell you more about my
summer vacation.

Speaker 2 (06:21):
Next, I'm kidding.

Speaker 1 (06:22):
There's Lucy Chapman, Jim Rose with sports and just a moment,
Craig Evans there as well. Courtney Donahoe's part of this
program always. And this is Nebraska's Morning News on News
radio eleven to ten kfab. I understand that it was
toasty yesterday when I got in the car after five
thirty or so yesterday afternoon, and you're thinking, it's kind

(06:47):
of a long day at the radio station. Obviously you
didn't do any show preps. So what is it that
you do there? You know, anytime that you're gone on vacation,
that first day back is like, all right, I missed
last week. Oh everything, All right, let's do this and
do that. So five thirty six o'clock last night, I
get back in my car, which is not an accurate

(07:09):
barometer at the temperature said one oh seven. That was
the feels like temperature baking your car, baking the car. Yeah,
huh yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
When I got in there, the reading, well, you need
to stop at the dealership. One oh seven. Yeah, it was.
It was. It was absolutely that hot yesterday. People still
have those windshield yeah glasses they can put on the
inside of their windshield keep the heat.

Speaker 3 (07:34):
You know.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
It's it's sort of like a little blanket that you
can stick right there on the windshield above the steering wheel.
And when I lived in Kansas, they were very popular,
and I'm not sure they ever did a lot of good.
But back in the nineties some of them are cardboard,
and then the yeah you get there, they turned into
sort of a you know, a silky heat reflective material.

Speaker 1 (07:55):
You get that big silver thing you put up there. Uh, yeah,
I tried. I had had one of those when I
was started driving in the early nineties, and and after
a while you just kind of forget about it, and
you think this doesn't really do any good and it's annoying,
and plus I'm such an idiot I would start driving
and forget to take it off.

Speaker 2 (08:14):
Yeah, that does tend to sell you down.

Speaker 1 (08:17):
Yeah, but that was when ace Ventura was popular in
the theaters, and we would just drive hanging out the
window like ace Ventura alrighty then. So I hadn't seen
one of those really in a long time. But my
son is now sixteen and driving, and his car is
sitting out there at the curb because we're those neighbors,
and it's getting baked by the heat, and he's like,

(08:40):
it was so hot. So my wife went and found
one of those wind shield shields and put it up
in there, and my son did exactly the same thing
if I did, no what I expected him to do.
He's like, what the heck is it? And he threw
it in the back seat and it's not been touched
ever since I failed.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
Your son would just stick his head through the moon
roof and to just drive that way.

Speaker 1 (09:03):
Well, he'd first have to cut a moon roof into
his little car. But I wouldn't put it past him.
Oh my gosh. Last night he calls my wife. He
and his friend.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
He didn't call you.

Speaker 1 (09:18):
He and his friends had this great idea that they
were going to sneak up on a friend of theirs
with a toy gun and uh and scare him.

Speaker 2 (09:26):
That'll get you into jail.

Speaker 1 (09:28):
And and he's he was questioning whether or not that
was a good idea, and do we have any spray paint?
And my wife and you need spray paint for you
to turn a toy gun into a black realistic and
and my wife explained to him in no uncertain terms,
this was just about the dumbest thing that she'd ever heard,

(09:51):
and that he would not be doing this because all
would take is some good Samaritan constitutional carry guy nearby
to go, hey, they're about to attack that. Let me
save that young man's life and be a hero.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
That'd be one thing that could happen.

Speaker 1 (10:05):
Yeah, and then I would show up as my son
is sitting there with a gunshot wound and say, Hey,
what exactly did you expect was going to happen?

Speaker 2 (10:14):
Moronjez, Folks, he's not like that. All the voorhees is
embellishing the behavior of his sixteen year old. Just this
sort of stereotype a sixteen year old.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
I don't know how serio stuff they do, but I'm
giving him the benefit of the doubt that they were
not serious about this.

Speaker 2 (10:32):
But I really don't know. Well, if they're asking about
spray paint taking it to the next level.

Speaker 1 (10:37):
Now, sorry, this is a weird way to get into sports.
But speaking of gunshot wounds, well, the ELEVENFAB certified Transmission
Sports Free with Jim Rose.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
Well, when the news first hit Chiefs training camp, this
was head coach Andy Reid. What the wide wide world
of sports is are going on here? Well, we had
a shooting the wife of Eric b Enemy, the former
Colorado running back who's scored three touchdowns against US in
the fourth quarter of the nineteen ninety game and then
went on to become a very respected assistant coach in

(11:07):
the NFL when he was offensive coordinator for the Chiefs
that went to three Super Bowls and won two of them.
Now back with Kansas City, his twenty seven year old
son shot his wife at their home in Virginia. Apparently
she's doing okay. She didn't die. She was rushed to
the hospital a chest wound and an arm wound. The

(11:29):
kid has been arrested and is being held without bond.
At Coach Andy Reid said what he was asked, what
do you know about it?

Speaker 4 (11:36):
I can't get into details on it. But things happen sometimes,
and Eric will work through and he's got a great
support group here, as does a family as needed, and
then we'll just let time take care of it from there.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
Things happen sometimes. Yeah, it's pretty common when his son
shoots his mom. Eric b enemy is no longer with
the Chiefs. He is with mom in Virginia trying to
sort all of this out, and there's no timetable for
his return. Big Ten Conference Football Media Days opens today
down Inshure down in Over in Chicago. Tony Petiti, the Commissioner,

(12:12):
will have the Commissioner's Address. This is the State of
the Conference address that he makes to the news media
assembled there every year. What about it? Do we have
issues that will be resolved with the power of the
Big Ten Conference, like the Save College Sports Act? Where
is the Big Ten on this? What about a potential
merger with the SCC. Why out Big Ten Conference teams?

(12:36):
Football teams play at least one Power four Conference opponent
every year in the non con like every other conference.
And what about expansion? Some of these questions will probably
be asked by the media today, whether or not Petity
answers them. We'll see baseball games yesterday afternoon and last night.
Texas Rangers seven to three over Seattle in American League Baseball,

(12:56):
Baltimore eight to five over Detroit Yankees, Beachicago, Houston over
the End Angels, Boston over the A's National League, San
Francisco three, Milwaukee zip, cub seven, Cards three, Mets four,
Braves three, Marlin's eight, Philly seven, Pittsburgh three, Arizona two,
Italy played Toronto by Washington the Cleveland. That Cincinnati game
was postponed. Kansas City opens up a series at Minnesota

(13:18):
tonight and no. Josh Passner, the head basketball coach at
the University of Nevada Las Vegas, does not want an
owner for the team. He said last week, why buy
an NBA team when you can own a college team
for ten to twelve million dollars a year. He had
to walk that back yesterday. That's not what I meant.
I didn't say you can buy the team. I said

(13:40):
you could be like an owner of a team if
you gave us twelve million dollars that we could then
spend on the players. By the way, if Nebraska's sold
it's football team, would what would it be worth? Well,
we'll add it up for you and tell you in
about twenty minutes or so. Okay, if it'd be newstime
of the morning, six twenty five. All right, Jim, thank you.

Speaker 1 (13:57):
Can I hould off a couple of months on answering
that question about what this football team is worthing?

Speaker 2 (14:03):
No, as of today, if you are buying it today.

Speaker 5 (14:05):
A former US Senate candidate is suing the Nebraska Democratic Party.
William Forbes filed the lawsuit after Democratic nominee Cindy Burbank
dropped out of the twenty twenty six Senate race. In
a lawsuit, Forbes alleges that the party supported Purbank's candidacy
with the expectation that she would later withdraw and clear
the way for independent candidate Dan Osborne. Forbes is asking

(14:28):
the court to rule that the Nebraska Democratic Party is
required to fill the vacancy. I'm Craig Evans.

Speaker 1 (14:34):
I happen to think that the story that Craig just
provided us here about this lawsuit against the Nebraska Democratic
Party from someone who, let's face it, the Nebraska Democratic
Party is right. This guy, William Forbes, is absolutely a
Pete Ricketts Republican plant in this race. He just he is.

(14:59):
This guy is not a Democrat. He's been on social
media promoting President Trump and all kinds of other stuff,
and then he decides, I'm gonna run for the United
States Senate as a Democrat, try and get that. So
he he does. He doesn't win that Cindy Burbank cardboard
cutout one and then dropped out of the race less

(15:21):
than twelve hours later, right, so the state Democratic Party
could throw their support behind the independent candidate Dan Osborne.

Speaker 2 (15:29):
Even though he says he's not a Democrat.

Speaker 1 (15:31):
Yes, subject of a bluegrass song that scanning ahead looks
like we're gonna look like we're gonna hear at least
a couple of times later this morning.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
So makes me wonder if Pat Roberts, the former US
Senator from Kansas, isn't the voice behind that song. He's
a fake.

Speaker 1 (15:49):
I called it yesterday we were talking off the air.
I said, people are gonna think that's cable guy doing that.
And I got my first email. Is that Larry the
cable guy singing that song?

Speaker 2 (15:59):
No, it's it's not list some guy probably AI. I
don't know. So it's not a it's a real guy,
is it. Okay?

Speaker 1 (16:08):
I don't know anymore. And I'm done trying to figure
it out. I don't even know if you're real. I'm
just going to live and.

Speaker 2 (16:15):
You know what I am. I'm unreal.

Speaker 1 (16:16):
Yeah, oh yeah, that's that's accurate. So anyway, William Forbes.
Back to William Forbes, he is suing the Nebraska Democratic Party, saying, hey,
you guys need to give your people, Nebraska Democrats, both
of them. You guys need to get statewide anyway other
than the blue dot adoptees. You need to give Democrats

(16:39):
in the state of Nebraska a choice here in November.
You're a major party and you got to put a
candidate on the ballot in the November election. So he's
suing them, saying Nebraska law requires the party to name
a replacement nominee following a post primary vacancy. So Cindy

(17:01):
Burbank wins, she drops out of the race, It's up
to the party to name a replacement nominee. Now, they
have not officially named Dan Osborne. They've just said, hey,
we're supporting the independent candidate. Whatever gets Pete Ricketts out
of office, we're fine with. And he says, no, that's
against the law. Leaving the nomination open would deny Democratic

(17:22):
voters a party affiliated candidate in the general election. Now,
the response from the Nebraska Democratic Party and the chairperson
Jane Kleb JFK Jane Flemingkleb says, William Forbes was and
still is a Ricketts plant who voted for Trump twice.

(17:44):
The Nebraska Democratic Party will not bow down to this
frivolous lawsuit brought by a DC firm with connections to
Senator Josh Holly of Missouri. State law does not require
us to nominate a replacement, and the First Amendment protects
our right to decline to do so. As usual with
Ricketts and his billionaire buddies. They think they can buy

(18:05):
their way through our elections. Voters are tired of corrupt
one party Republican rule and are forming coalitions to create
a better, stronger Nebraska unquote. So that's the response from
the party. Someone's going to have to decide whether or
not this has any merit. I imagine that would come
down to Attorney General Mike Hilgers here in Nebraska and

(18:27):
would have to be decided on pretty quickly. But I
do think the whole thing is funny. I think this
Forbes guy is absolutely so called Ricketts plant. Well, he's
not a Democrat, and I think it's funny that he's
continuing to push this.

Speaker 2 (18:45):
Well, if some offshore Pete Rickett's account is paying his
legal bills, that'll add another piece of evidence to your
assertion that Petes behind all of this.

Speaker 6 (18:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (18:54):
And by the way, I don't know and I don't
care if he is, though these are the rules. Yeah,
this is how the game is played. It's happened before
you know Pete. I don't quite candidly, I don't understand
why Pete doesn't have a massive lead in this race.
And I'm an educated man. I have a degree from
a Big ten conference institution. Yes, you do. But for

(19:17):
some reason, the people of Nebraska have had difficulty warming
up to Pete Ricketts and even though they voted for
him multiple times, multiple times. I don't know. I just
think in this case, there's something there. There is a
nerve that Dan Osborne has touched that has people a
little bit frustrated or if not outwardly unhappy with Pete.

(19:41):
And I don't know why that is. You know, he's
he's a nice guy. He's he's fun to be around
in casual situations, but he comes off very officious when
he is doing public things, whether it's you know, talking
about legislation in the US Senator when he was governor.
But he needs to remind Nebraskans, and I think this

(20:03):
is his greatest accomplishment in public service. He needs to
remind Nebraskans just how tough he was during COVID, how
he rejected a lot of pressure from Washington, d C.
To keep Nebraska open, to keep people functioning during the
pandemic when a lot of economies really took a dive,
and this guy was one of the premier governors in

(20:25):
the country during COVID.

Speaker 1 (20:28):
You said, I don't know why Ricketts doesn't have a
more sizable lead in this Senate race. And you think
that perhaps Nebraskans just have soured on Pete Ricketts.

Speaker 2 (20:37):
And I don't know that they've soured on him. I
just know that I don't know that they've ever warmed
up to him.

Speaker 1 (20:42):
He's been elected governor senator. That's a pretty good barometer
of popularity.

Speaker 2 (20:48):
But be that as it may, look at some of
the people he's run against.

Speaker 1 (20:51):
I think in this election cycle, some of the polls
that have come out there have less to do with
Pete Ricketts and Dan Osborne in this race and have
everything to do with the drumbeat of the media who
have decided whether it's accurate or not that Republican voters
are going to stay home in November.

Speaker 2 (21:10):
We talked about this yesterday. They said that.

Speaker 1 (21:12):
We pulled reliable GOP voters in several swing states. In
one of those states was Iowa, which is, in my estimation,
hardly a swing state. But okay, they said one in
five voters reliable GOP voters in Iowa, for example, and
they're finding this consistent in other states they pulled are

(21:34):
not going to vote or they're going to vote for
a Democrat in November. Now, you're someone who voted for
Donald J. Trump in November twenty twenty four and maybe
four and eight years before that, and perhaps you're one
of those that said, look, we need to fight for
this country. Whatever that fight looks like to you, we

(21:55):
need to go take up this mantle here. You got
to stop the other side from sliding into communism and
having unchecked borders and uh.

Speaker 2 (22:06):
All whatever that was.

Speaker 1 (22:08):
You were ready to go fight, and you were ready
to vote for Donald Trump. And now two years later
you're like, hey, you still want to fight for this country?

Speaker 2 (22:15):
Ahh, I'm done. That's fine, It's probably fine. I don't
want to.

Speaker 1 (22:19):
I don't want to fight for the country anymore, you know.
And by fight for the country, all they're asking you
to do is go vote. I'm I'm sorry. I'm not
seeing that from that crowd that felt so passionately that
they voted for Trump all these Novembers over the last
decade or so.

Speaker 2 (22:37):
I'm not seeing it. Well, it's I think it's a
combination of messaging and Trump himself. Trump has not kept
promises very well, some, yes, not all. And I think
people are going, uh okay, Well, you know it sounded
good back in twenty twenty four and Biden was a disaster.
And I do remember things were pretty good before COVID,
when Trump was president. Before you know, you promise this, this, this,

(23:01):
this hadn't happened. It's a messaging issue too. The GOP
has spent so much time fighting with each other and
fighting over Iran and the filibuster and the Save Act
that they have not gone out to the streets and
explained to the average American this is why the Big
Beautiful Bill was a good idea. This is all the
stuff the Big Beautiful Bill is doing for you right now.

(23:24):
They're not taking any credit for it. And you know,
you look around. Just the natural economic electoral process of
midterm elections typically don't favor the incumbents party. On top
of I'm not sure great candidates they can move the meter,
like Ashley Hinson, for example, blondie over there in Iowa

(23:47):
running for the US Senate.

Speaker 1 (23:49):
For Joan erricksomplished who happens to have blonde hair. She is,
but you know her, does she have the power to
move a room. She's been a congresswoman in Northeastern Iowa.
I believe for a while, does she have the power
to move the room? Does Brink her Harding? Can Brinker
Harding get average Republicans to get up off the sofa
and come vote and their chances of winning?

Speaker 2 (24:12):
Hinge on that? And I think Zach Lane can. This
is the Republican candidate for governor of Iowa. I think
he can. He can move a room. I don't think
Rob sand can. I think the guy's a dweeb. I've
watched TV commercials and done it and seen interviews with
Rob sam going this guy's a dweeb. Zach Lane should
be mopping the floor with a guy. But he's going

(24:32):
to have to motivate these average rank and file Republicans
and independents who voted for Trump.

Speaker 1 (24:38):
A couple of rather interesting stories here involving crimes, or
at least maybe a crime. We'll start with an obvious one,
Council Bluff's. As Craig is reported here throughout the morning
part of the KFAB Radio news updates, the Council Bluff's
police department ended up dealing with a woman who had

(25:00):
headed over to the Nebraska Medical Center. She walked into
the emergency room with a gunshot wound. Yesterday afternoon, She said,
I was driving along I eighty westbound near South twenty
fourth Street when she quote noticed her ex boyfriend to
driving next to her. You got to imagine the range

(25:23):
of emotions just in seeing that sight. And then she
said she heard several gunshots fired, one of which struck
her in the shoulder. She drove to a friend's house,
who said, what say we get you to the hospital,

(25:43):
after all, you've been shot. Her injuries are not considered
life threatening. The suspect, described only right now as a
forty year old male for some reason not being identified
as booked on charges of attempted murder, violation of a
no contact order, and other weapons charges that happened yesterday

(26:06):
on I eighty. Now the other story, you would think, well,
this is a crime. Someone needs to pay for this, right,
this is the one from West Omaha mid April one
hundred and ninety sixth in wy Streets, Southwest Omaha. Remember
the story of a couple of young girls out playing
at a park with some of their friends and here

(26:27):
comes this older guy who's wandering around and then chasing them,
saying that he wanted to have relations with them. These
girls were like twelve years old or something like that.
This is an adult male. Well, then we've come to
find out that the adult male has developmental issues. I mean,

(26:51):
whether he does or he doesn't.

Speaker 2 (26:53):
He does.

Speaker 1 (26:54):
But in this instance, some of the story here from
the Omaha World, Harold talks about autism, obsessive compulsive disorder,
Schitz effective bipolar disorder, and bipolar disorder. Well, that's an
interesting cocktail. So the family has been caring for him.
They adopted him when he was two. He's now, however,

(27:16):
many decades older than that. I forget how old the
guy is. But you can't chase around young girls and
do this, right, Well, maybe maybe not. The judge dismissed
two charges of what was described as intentional child abuse

(27:37):
against this guy, saying, well, he didn't actually touch them.
He just chased them around, said he wanted to have
sex with them, and tried to grab one of them.

Speaker 2 (27:49):
Twelve year old girls. Yeah about that. Yeah, they were
scared to death. Yeah, they're running around, They're scared to death.
They thought they were about to be kidnapped. This judge,
Stephanie Shearer. Judge Shearer said it's more of a thought
crime and does not. The Court does not believe it

(28:09):
reaches the level a probable cause of knowingly and intentionally
placing these individuals in a situation that endangered their physical
or mental health. She must not have daughters. What in
the world is she talking about now, granting some level
of leniency to someone who has developmental issues? Fine, but

(28:31):
let's also go down here to whether or not any
of this involves the level of a crime. We now
know we have a guy living near one hundred and
ninety six in wy Streets whose family that adopted him
and are ostensibly taking care of him are not taking
care of him to the point where he's not out
there bothering and who knows what else he might do

(28:52):
in the future. How old is with kids? I don't
remember how old this guy is. Twenties let's see here,
I'm sorry, thirty five, that's old. He is thirty five.

Speaker 6 (29:03):
Men at.

Speaker 1 (29:05):
Home now, the family they're playing the victim. The people
have gone out there and they've done some vandalizing to
the home and said something like there's a sex offender
living in this house or whatever it is. People put
signs up or painted the fence. Yeah, that's not that.
People have gone out there in the sidewalk, and they've

(29:26):
done like a neighborhood watch to make sure this guy
doesn't get out, and he's chasing people around and all
the rest of this stuff. So they say, well, we're
the victims here again. You got a couple of young
girls who were chased around a park by this guy
and they were afraid for their lives. Something needs to
be done. So the judge dismissed it. Douglas County Attorney

(29:47):
Don Klein is fighting back on this and the family says, well,
that perpetuates people's fear of this guy.

Speaker 2 (29:58):
Again.

Speaker 1 (29:59):
Tell that to the girl and their families and other
young women in that neighborhood.

Speaker 2 (30:03):
Well, there are some gaps here. First of all, is
this a Boo Radley or is he just a lazy loser?

Speaker 1 (30:08):
No, it diagnosed autism obsessive convulsive disorders, he said, So
he's Boo Radley.

Speaker 2 (30:13):
All right. That's the character from Ta Kila Mockingbird played
by Robert Duval dominated the movie, even though he didn't
have a single speaking role in You Haven't Seen It,
You as shit. So this guy's got issues. He's got
health issues. That means the family is either obligated to
control this, or they need to turn him over to
some sort of public assistance and he needs to be institutionalized,

(30:37):
or he needs to have some sort of extraordinary oversight.

Speaker 1 (30:41):
We don't do that anymore. We don't institutionalize anyone.

Speaker 2 (30:44):
But if this guy is out of control, then the
family needs to say we can't keep doing this. I mean,
this is something we can't manage. And if they have
yet to do that on them, clearly this guy has
major health issues and if that that's the case, he's
a danger to himself and obviously twelve year old girls
in the area.

Speaker 1 (31:04):
Douglas County Attorney Don Klein says he's filed his petition
to have him remain in custody and receive treatment, saying
he poses a threat of harm to others. Now, I
don't know what ends up happening with all of this.
There's one good way that this could move forward, and
that is the family to realize he might be a

(31:25):
sweet guy. But I don't know what else has happened
other than this story. But this story is a warning
flag that they need to deal with if this is
their kid. This this guy is not manageable. If he's
allowed to leave the home and go about the neighborhood
either threatening or intimidating or scaring kids. That's a problem,

(31:49):
and unfortunately the family is responsible for him. So there's
the update on that story. Mid aprils when that happened
here in southwest Omaha, Zonker's custom was inboxes open kfab
dot com. We were talking earlier about this alleged enthusiasm
gap that the Republicans are suffering in advance of the
November midterms. One in five reliable GOP voters in Iowa

(32:14):
says I'm either not going to vote at all in November,
or I'll vote for a Democrat. Got some response to
all of this, Michael says, Republicans now either not voting
or voting for a Democrat. What is the alternative? Do
these supposed registered Republicans actually know what the Democrats want
to implement? I've never understood this mentality. Unless this is

(32:38):
just another Democrat partysyop with their willing accomplices in the media,
I'm guessing it's the latter.

Speaker 2 (32:47):
Well.

Speaker 1 (32:48):
As far as the question what do these Democrats want
to implement? Well, I can tell you what. Zron Mamdani,
the Socialist mayor of New York City is doing?

Speaker 2 (32:57):
You know that?

Speaker 1 (32:57):
He he says, we're going to open up some government
owned grocery stores, that's taxpayer funded grocery stores. And now
he says, I tell you what we're going to do.
Thirty percent discount on produce, meat, and a host of
other kitchen staples. Is a way to offset the rising

(33:18):
food costs, you know, President Trump, whether it's as tariffs
or what's happening with gas prices because of the war
in Iran. That's not fair to use a New Yorker.
We're going to offer a thirty percent discount on meat
in the city owned grocery stores in New York City.
Number one, what kind of meat, what level of raccoon,
badger or marmott is being served in these government run

(33:42):
thirty percent off meat grocery stores. People from Louisiana be
moving up to New York City for that. Also, you
can't provide a thirty percent discount on anything. That is
we're taking thirty percent from taxpayer funding and applying it
to artificially lower prices here on these things. Now, will

(34:04):
the people of New York City understand and appreciate that
maybe this is not the best way to run a city.
This is socialism, which has never worked in all the
forms that's been tried throughout history. Probably not. They elected
the guy and they love aoc up there as well.

Speaker 2 (34:20):
So free stuff is hard to compete with.

Speaker 1 (34:23):
Hard to beat Santa Claus. We'll see though. At some
point they will run out of other people's money. Now
we don't know how Senator Ran Paul of Kentucky obtained
the journals of former National Institute at Health the director,
doctor Anthony Fauci, But Senator Rand Paul has now released

(34:47):
to the public more than one thousand pages from doctor
Fauci's private journals. Now, this is probably a breach of trust.
There's no smoke looking gun in any of this that
suggests that Fauci knew that this was created in a
Chinese ladd and released on the public. This is a

(35:09):
violation of someone's private trust. And it would be beneath
me to read any segments of this on the radio.
It's none of our business, but I just checked, and
since nothing is beneath me a let's read a few passages.
March of twenty twenty. This is during two weeks to

(35:30):
flatten the curve. Doctor Fauci writes, the public adulation of
me has been amazing, with every young intern as well
as seasoned veterans in the White House coming over, congratulating
me and thanking me from my work, and even asking
for selfies. It is not hyperbably to say that today

(35:54):
I am probably no, he said, It's not hyperbole to
say that today I am the most famous and talked
about person in the country and one of the most
recognizable people.

Speaker 2 (36:06):
In the world.

Speaker 1 (36:09):
Very flattering front page story in the Washington Post. He
had achieved the Fauci Five, he said, appearances on all
five major Sunday morning news talk shows. Doctor Fauci was
lapping it up. Boy was he enjoying it.

Speaker 2 (36:28):
He has become the face of American distrust of government,
and it's the Rosi de genozi this morning, and so
many Americans were not convinced of what he was telling us.
And all it did was not only in rich hymn,

(36:48):
but it literally for a generation, has destroyed the trust
that the American people should have in its governmental health agencies,
whether it's the CDC or the National Institute of Health.
The truth is Anthony Fauci is one of the worst
human beings this government has ever been a part of.
And everybody from me to you, to Chris Baker to

(37:11):
Gary Sademayer back when this whole thing started and then
millions of other Americans were hold on just a second, now,
wait a minute, you mean we need to do this, this,
and this. Are you sure about that? And I was
the first one to say, I think this is just
a really rough strain of the flu. And then I

(37:32):
was pillaried by the news media. I was pillaried by
Nebraskan medicine and the epidemiologists over there. You're purporting misinformation.
This is unhealthy. Look at his diary, he says exactly
the same thing. You know, this really actually could just
be a really rough strain of influenza, Okay, because I

(37:53):
looked at it like, wait a minute, let's stop a
second and look at the bigger picture here, and that is,
we have a few people who are sick, so let's
treat them, but let's not turn the country upside down,
when in reality, much of his motivation was bringing down
Donald Trump. It had nothing to do with making the

(38:15):
country safer, or making the country healthier or ensuring that
more people didn't die. In reality, our COVID protocols killed
more people than the COVID virus itself. But this guy
was all about getting Donald Trump and the toady's in
the news media nationally and locally. Nobody asked any intelligent questions.

(38:38):
They just lapped up what was told without saying, wait
a minute, how about want you to do some research
into this, this, this, and this and then ask intelligent questions. Well,
no one ever happened.

Speaker 1 (38:48):
No one wants to be the person who sits there
from the sidelines without any degree in infectious disease and says, ah,
this is a bunch of whoy and then you die
from it, you know, because it turns out COVID is
vindict div or, you know, is attracted to spite or whatever.
No one wants to be that guy. But as it
starts off, first of all, I always want to put

(39:10):
doctor Fauci in charge of the National Institute of Health.
That's that's incorrect, the NIAID, the National Institute of Allergy
and Infectious Diseases. So that's one two. In the very
beginning of this, in March of twenty twenty, I'll give
them all the benefit of the doubt. They were saying

(39:31):
that this coronavirus is in the same category as stars
and mers. Now, because they had not done a full
test in the population to see who had it, and
didn't even know they had it. They had death rates
associated with these particular coronaviruses of ten and thirteen percent.
So when they're looking at we might have ten percent
of the population get this disease and die. I don't

(39:52):
blame them for being cautious.

Speaker 2 (39:54):
That was never gonna happen, Skot, That was never going
to happen. Yes, we didn't know the beginning. That was March.
That was March of twenty twenty. That was now ever
going to happen. Let's go. Let's go to the nation.
Let's go to the continent of Africa. This is a
third world continent. They lost fourteen people for every one
million thanks to COVID in Africa, where tuberculosis still kills people,

(40:18):
we lost three hundred for every one million. Okay, because
of our protocols, because of our behavior, because of what
we did. These people had a political agenda.

Speaker 1 (40:30):
I'm not disagreeing with you with what we know now,
I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt at the time.
Now that's spring of twenty twenty. That's the two weeks
to flatten the curve stuff. Let's fast forward to November
of twenty twenty when Trump. This is also in doctor
Fauci's private journals. I guess Trump pulls them aside and says, Tony,

(40:52):
I really like you, and you know that, but what
the blank are you doing? Everybody wants me to fire you.
I gonna fire you. You have too illustrious a career.
But you have to be positive. So Trump was off
the Fauci train. Fauci was saying, every time Trump did
a news conference on the outbreak, he wasted the opportunity

(41:14):
to pass along helpful information and went into a diatribe
against previous administrations. Well, hey, that doesn't sound like Donald Trump,
he said, incredibly sarcastically. So this is some of the
stuff that is out here, with what Rand Paul has
put out on doctor Fauci's private journals. We don't know
how we got him well or why he even put

(41:35):
him out, other than these guys have been publicly spatting
now for six years.

Speaker 2 (41:40):
What Rand Paul is a physician. Now he's an optometrist,
but he's a physician. There are other physicians in the
United States Senate who never challenged Anthony Fauci on anything
because they were all afraid Wait a minute, what if
I'm on the wrong side of this, Well, there's being skeptical.
Is the difference between being cynical and just turning into

(42:02):
a Pollyanna. We didn't have enough skeptics in government, we
didn't have enough skeptics in the media, we didn't have
enough skeptics anywhere saying before we freeze the country, before
we take every first, second, and third grader and put
them at home and ask him to learn how to
read and write on a computer, why don't we analyze

(42:23):
what's actually happening here? And that never ever occurred, to
say nothing of how he enriched. He was enriched financially
because of some of the COVID policies that were put
in place by this government.

Speaker 1 (42:34):
We can debate all of that six year old activity
all morning if you want, and I clearly have nothing
else to talk about.

Speaker 2 (42:41):
No, I'm kidding.

Speaker 1 (42:43):
What I'm more concerned about is those who look at
that and don't see what you're seeing, what a lot
of people are seeing, and instead they're looking at the future,
and they're almost rooting for the next pandemic. How many
people do you think are out there who want to
go back to a time where they weren't allowed to
go to work and the kids weren't allowed to go

(43:03):
to school, and everyone had to wear masks and look
out for one another and all the rest and get vaccinated.
How many people, though, just want to be told, hey, sorry,
you can't go to work right now, and they just
want to sit home and watch Tiger King or whatever
the latest thing is on Netflix, and they want to
be on social media and say things like, hey, be brave,

(43:26):
We're going to get through this. There are so many
people who don't want to get through this. We're talking
about young people who spent a couple of years of
their lives or more in some cities just being told, Hey,
don't go to school, don't go to work, stay away
from people. Just sit there by yourself. And they want
to do it, and they want to go back to it.
And that's what's scary to me. That's scarier to me

(43:48):
than any of the decisions made six years ago. The
people will look at that and long for it. That's
concerning to me.

Speaker 2 (43:56):
Or don't want to address the fallout like the kids
they can't read.

Speaker 1 (44:00):
One of the things I really love about my job
is if I really screw things up, very few people die.
For example, I was on vacation last week and my
family was getting ready and I was checking some emails
and I got an email from a listener that said

(44:23):
that there was some issue with hearing the kfab comment line,
that it wasn't on the iHeartRadio app. And I thought, well,
for what reason would that be? And then it dawned
on me. The light bulb went off in my head
as I realized, I don't think I put a command
in the computer after putting Glenn beck on in the

(44:45):
nine o'clock hour to be able to create a live
element for the kfabe comment line to habitat, and I
get on the computer and I realized actly what I
had done, and I fixed it Tuesday through Friday. But
it was a problem at the start of Monday's kfab

(45:07):
comment line with Jeane Starter and Peyton. So that was
an example where I screwed that up. That was my
fault on Monday. I apologize for that, and very few
people died. No, it was not a medical emergency for
anybody except perhaps Peyton, who was like, what the heck
is going on?

Speaker 6 (45:23):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (45:24):
Yeah, but we did have we did have the hotline
number that Walt Kavanaugh used to answer. Yeah, it was
may you have your comment please? Yes, Wal The show
wasn't on. We had ten o'clock. What happened is it?
We call it's got for Eves and said drive into
the Grand Canyon something like that.

Speaker 1 (45:43):
Now, I don't know, I'd love to hear your story
when you've screwed up at work here and when it
finally happens. I'm trying to you have, but you know,
there's that moment where you screw up and someone maybe
points it out, or you come to the realization there's
that oh no moment that pops in there. This was

(46:04):
probably the case for a surgeon in Maine. Woman went
in to see this surgeon was supposed to be a
routine surgery for a benign Overian cyst, which doesn't sound
like all that pleasant a surgery, but it is something
that happens, and it's a pretty common thing. And so
the surgeon went in there and said, all right, benign

(46:25):
OVERI insists got it. Later she calls up the doctor
and probably says something like look, I'm not accusing you
of malpractice or any wrongdoing or anything. But after a
surgery procedure like this, am I supposed to be just
essentially leaking UREA from every single pore? The doctor's like, no,

(46:49):
that sounds like a. And then probably a little light
bulb went off and he went, wait a second, I didn't,
by chance to remove her block by mistake, did I.
He's probably thinking back in his head, going, no, see
I go in there, you take a left at the
small intestine, and oh, I went right. I think I

(47:11):
took her bladder out. I wonder if he maybe had
that moment, because that's what happened. She goes in there
for a benign cyst to be removed, and the surgeon says,
bladder coming out. I don't know if he thought he
was supposed to take the bladder out. I'm not sure

(47:33):
how many surgeries involved removing a person's bladder, but generally
it's probably right there on the toadboard, gonna need to
take a He's like, yeah, I know what I'm doing.
I don't need to double check my work here toad board. Yeah,
I don't know, like someone's rare putting orders in at
the kitchen order up, so.

Speaker 2 (47:52):
We're driving through runs. I wanted the cob salads instead
of the number one. Look, there are so many people
involved with an operation like that. Now, it's pretty hard
to do that because you've got nurses there, you got
the anesthesiologists there, and it says we're we're treating adnoids.
So I don't think we need to amputate his left leg.

(48:14):
There was. It's pretty rare.

Speaker 1 (48:17):
There was a surgeon who accidentally amputated the patient's wrong
leg once and so they let the guy continue to
do surgery. But then when they do something like that,
let's say you needed to have a leg amputated, they
would put like a big sign on the leg that's
supposed to this one. Yeah, this is the one, big

(48:37):
giant arrow. Yeah, the left one. He's in there, going
all right, left one. He takes off the right leg. Oh, sorry,
I was talking. I was looking at my left. Anybody
got some tape. It's a common mistake. I thought you
met my left, not his left. He should be more Yeah,
exact with these things? Which one of these things do
you want?

Speaker 2 (48:54):
Lucy?

Speaker 1 (48:54):
There they found a treasure trove of some items personal
belongings that belonged to Colonel Sanders. I thought you were
gonna say clink. Colonel Harland Sanders, the founder of Kentucky
Fried Chicken. Am I allowed to say Kentucky Fried Chicken anymore?
They went to KFC years ago.

Speaker 2 (49:15):
I think it's back to Kentucky Fried Chicken.

Speaker 1 (49:16):
That it's always been Kentucky Fried Chicken to me. To me,
as long as they don't mess with the mashed potatoes
and gravy recipe, it will always have a special place
in my heart. They found a bunch of stuff that
belonged to Colonel Sanders, including his Bible, his trademark black
string tie, some pressure cookers, nineteen sixty four leather day planner,

(49:40):
which contains a handwritten list of let's kind of them up,
eleven herbs and spices. Well, that might be the famous
and secret KFC or a recipe also says here his
knife kit. I didn't know that Colonel Sanders carried around
a knife kity. If someone, some franchise owner somewhere in Millard, Nebraska,

(50:05):
didn't get the recipe right, Colonel Sanders might have to
slice you to ribbons. One of my best friends in
the world, who I've never actually met is our national
correspondent on this radio station. He's Rory O'Neill. Rory, come
to omahon hang out with us sometime.

Speaker 6 (50:21):
Ah huh, that's a good idea.

Speaker 1 (50:23):
I enjoy having you on the radio. And we're picking
up the thread and a story that we had a
lot of fun with a year ago. It's so much
fun with the story a year ago that a listener
actually went and found one of those little golf tea games,
the triangle game at Cracker Barrel where you have to
pull out and jump the teas and pull them out there,

(50:46):
and if you don't get at least you know one
or two of those tea's remaining, you are an Igno
Ray Moose.

Speaker 2 (50:54):
That kind of thing.

Speaker 6 (50:56):
I call that the COVID special game.

Speaker 1 (51:00):
That Cracker Barrel thing a year ago. Remind us how
that went last summer and what led to the news
with Cracker Barrel this week.

Speaker 2 (51:09):
Rory O'Neil.

Speaker 6 (51:10):
Yeah, and I'm going to go back another two years. Actually,
let's go back to twenty twenty three, because that was
the year that Cracker Barrel hired Julie Messino. She had
a history of working at Starbucks and Taco Bell they
bring her in to try to refresh the Cracker Barrel brand.
They have a problem. Their customer base is aging out.

Speaker 5 (51:30):
You know what.

Speaker 6 (51:30):
Twenty two year old looks at his girlfriend and says, hey,
let's go to Cracker Barrel on Friday night. Right, So
that's part of the problem. So she tries to bring
in you know, let's get this stuff off the wall.
Let's change the color palette, let's reduce the menu, streamline
the menu, let's add some dinner options to make it
a more popular place to add dinners. And then in
August of last year, she says, here's my newest idea,

(51:54):
here's our new logo, and Uncle Herschel is an honest
Well that's where all hit the fan. Everyone was outraged
that favorite Uncle Herschel was not going to be on
the logo anymore. And it was weeks of a big
controversy about as bad as New Coke or bud Light.

Speaker 1 (52:11):
Why in the world with someone who doesn't like the
food at Cracker Barrel want to be the CEO of
Cracker Barrel. People aren't going in there for healthy options
or to be hanging out with a bunch of teenagers.
I want to eat my weight in gravy and fried
okra cater to that well.

Speaker 6 (52:29):
A lot of that state. I think there was a
sweet potato thing they took off that made people mad.
But I think in terms of streamlining the menu, you know,
the Cheesecake Factory is the rare exception to menus being streamlined,
but most places would rather get it down to fewer items.
It's fewer items to ship and store in inventory. It's
just an inventory management thing more than anything. But yes,

(52:51):
so she did sort of streamline the menu, but it
was changing the logo that really set everyone off. And
then weeks later, after saying uncle Hirsh was coming off
the logo, she admitted that she made a mistake and
reverse positions. What's interesting, though, is that if you bought
stock in Cracker Barrel in January of this year, you

(53:11):
will have more than doubled your money because she has
really turned the company around. It has been on a
much more profitable path. She got rehired by the board
of directors a contract extension last November, and everything was on.
This seemed to be on the great path, and Wall
Street was a bit surprised to hear that she chose
to leave or is choosing to leave. She'll step down

(53:32):
next month, stay on as an advisor until October, and
they've already named her replacement.

Speaker 1 (53:38):
I wonder what she'll do now long John Silver's no
more fish.

Speaker 2 (53:43):
But you can't stop a chicken.

Speaker 1 (53:46):
Yeah, you can't argue with the result. I have to
tell you that last summer, when we were having fun
laughing about the cracker Barrel logo and all that stuff,
I was hungry for cracker Barrel about every single day,
and I went in there a couple of times for
ribs and grits or whatever. So maybe her, maybe she's
an evil genius. Well, yeah, Rory, I want to ask

(54:08):
you about a couple of things that might actually be
a bit more prominent in our lives than the ongoing
saga of cracker Barrel. Now, the pause and Iran still
seems to be holding. Now we're into like three and
a half days. Oil's still going down a little bit.
Stocks except for the Nasdak are up here. This is

(54:28):
as not only the United Nations Security Council was meeting,
but also we got Benjamin Nett and Yahoo in America
meeting with the President. Ahead of Lindsey Graham's funeral, explain
what's going on here with the latest from Iran to
Israel to Ukraine. Now being a part of these conversations, I'd.

Speaker 6 (54:45):
Rather talk about Uncle Herschel. But okay, you know, as
we speak, President Zelensky of Ukraine is supposed to be
sitting down in the Oval Office with President Trump. Obviously
there's a lot to discuss as Ukraine really has started
to turn the tables on Russia. Don't want to say
they're winning this conflict, but certainly more than holding their
own and launching more strikes into Russia than ever before

(55:08):
thanks to their drone technology, so that the US and
its support of Ukraine continued to be vital for Ukraine
to try to stand up to that Russian aggression. And
then headlines this week that Russia may have been slipping
some intel to Iran to help them find targets for
their missile strikes. You know, Iran has been launching these

(55:29):
missile attacks all to their neighbors in the Middle East,
but somehow they've been hitting a lot of targets associated
with our CIA and intelligence operations. That how does Iran
know where they are? But Russia, maybe China they do,
and maybe Russia and China are feeding Iran some information,
so that's going to be a big part of today's talks,
we believe.

Speaker 1 (55:49):
Yeah, no surprise there more that we're preoccupied with Iran
and not looking at especially at Russia and then obviously
China as well. That benefits Russa and China. So I'm
not surprised by this. They've had decades long ties to Iran.
No one should be surprised by this.

Speaker 6 (56:07):
No, but I think that this more the direct maybe
there's direct knowledge. I think maybe Russia got caught a
little bit red handed, so to speak, in sharing some
of this information. So no, it's not a complete revelation. Also,
these reports that you know, the US is running out
of ammunition, just to clarify that too, that's we're sort
of running We may be running low on defensive munitions.

Speaker 3 (56:30):
You know.

Speaker 6 (56:30):
You'll hear the administration respond of you know, we can
destroy anything we want in Iran at any time, and
that's true. But it's these defensive technologies that stop the
drone attacks. That's where supplies might be getting a little
bit tight because a lot of countries are using that
right now. We're using it, Ukraine's using it. We want
to make sure Taiwan has it and doesn't need it.

(56:51):
So there's a lot of demand on that kind of
defensive munition.

Speaker 4 (56:54):
Right now.

Speaker 1 (56:54):
You can talk about anything eleven to ten. KFABE National
correspondent Rory O'Neill, thank you very much for the conversation
this morning. Thanks and at kfab dot com slash contests
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for you to win tickets to the Iowa State Fair

(57:16):
that's coming here in just a matter of days. Back
to Des Moines and as always, an absolutely incredible lineup.
I always have state Fair envy every time the and
I like the Nebraska State Fair. I like going there.
I've seen some great shows there. I've gone there to
see train I've gone there to see Huey Lewis in
the news. I've gone there to see weird Al Yankovic.

(57:37):
I mean, you see, there're some of the greatest entertainers
of all time.

Speaker 2 (57:40):
What else do they have out there that's different, that's unique?
And did they have a do they have a you know, ah,
a Jim Zobo biggest tomato contest at the Nebraska State Fair?
Do they have like Iowa? Does they don't do anything
like with a butter. They don't have that. The Iowa
State Fair. They got Rod Stewart playing there. I think

(58:02):
he might be about eighty now, but still I hope
he's able to make it. He's been kind of in
and out of concert dates. But yeah, Rod, who's coming
to the Iowa State Fair.

Speaker 1 (58:11):
Well, they got a lot of different performers there, but
the one I would most want to see is Rod Stewart.
I've only seen him in a concert once.

Speaker 2 (58:19):
You got to have a state fair that says, this
is what we do here that nobody else can do.
That's the essence of a great state fair. You come
to the Nebraska State Fair and you see exhibits and
you see demonstrations, and you see promotions that only Nebraska
can produce. If we start doing that, maybe they're doing
it now. I haven't been to GI for the State Fair.

(58:40):
Oh you never have, not the GI Okay, Yeah, it's
it's great. I've been. I've broadcasting the show out there
a couple of times.

Speaker 6 (58:46):
You did.

Speaker 2 (58:46):
Yeah, thanks for listening. Well, you know, I'm busy, that's
been a while. I'm busy that morning doing see that
morning for the next show. So I mean, I hope
they do. Maybe they do, and if they do, they
should publicize that, promote the state and come here and
see this. Okay, if we have a bearded lady, that's
the kind of thing we should have with the Nebraska

(59:07):
State Fair.

Speaker 1 (59:07):
That reminds me we got to get this couple there.
This is at the Orange County Fair in Middletown, northwest
of New York City. And it's a wonder that this
kind of thing doesn't happen more often. It's a married
couple from Waukeshaw, Wisconsin that the amazing feats of skill
and fortitude where this like this guy's spinning around and

(59:30):
she's spinning around, and she shoots a target that he's
holding with a crossbow.

Speaker 2 (59:35):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (59:35):
And they've been doing it for years, never had any
problems until the other night she missed, caught a crossbow
right in the neck.

Speaker 2 (59:43):
Okay, I guess that's the end of that act.

Speaker 1 (59:46):
Yeah, and I guess he's fine, he said, Yeah, you know,
it's like getting.

Speaker 2 (59:50):
Your ear pierced.

Speaker 1 (59:51):
Yeah, catching a crossbow to the neck. This is a
strong relationship. Now, I'd like, my wife is my best
friend and an incredible mother. Who are children. I don't
know that i'd trust her to do this, but my
marriage is strong. Is it she accidentally shot me with
a crossbow strong?

Speaker 2 (01:00:11):
No.

Speaker 1 (01:00:11):
I don't want to find out, but I don't know.
I can tell you that if I accidentally shot her
with the crossbow that I don't know that she would
be like, it's like getting your ear pierced.