July 15, 2026 • 47 mins
Today's topics: Daylight saving getting Trumpy, Mayor Pete stops by Omaha, Willie Mays Hayes joins the Huskers, a wildly popular Strait of Hormuz Update, Jim's first job, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We are underway now here it comes. Thank you so
much for hanging out here with us, Sun Nebraska this
morning news. Jim Rose is right there, Lucy Chapman and
Courtney Donaho. Chris Turner is in for Craig Evans this week,
and I'm Scott Borhees. Glad to have you with us
on news radio eleven ten KFAB. So, if the House
of Representatives had their way, it'd still be dark right now.
(00:22):
It'd be dark till like two o'clock in the afternoon.
Is is that how that works? We go to the
permanent daylight savings switch and we would just stay there, Yes,
we would.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
We would, I think what it is right now?
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Bring forward?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
No, I think what it is right now, which.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Would be yeah, right, we sprung forward in the spring,
in the spring, and we would just stay here, so
you get another hour of daylight in the evening and
you would lose that in the morning. And the President
loves this, and does anyone want to take a guess
as to why that is anyone.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
It's the biggest. It's a it's a most beautiful.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
He gets along very well, very well with that extra
light in the evening. Me and a summer solstice, go
back a long way. We were very good, very good friends.
He's a beautiful summer solstice. No, it's good because he
can win. That's why he likes it. He can win this,
he can win this legislation.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
And that's always in there. But no, I always keeping score.
I believe the keeping score is part of this. I
truly believe that the reason the president wants this is
because he's a golfer.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Ah because in the in the hard to golf in
the morning.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
During the winter months when it's colder. Okay, so let's
say it's it's one of those warm winter days in January,
but it's not warm at seven am. You can't tee
off at seven am. You're going to have a frost delay.
The ground is going to be frozen. It's going to
be twenty eight degrees. You can't golf at seven am,
but you can golf at three o'clock. But if you
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tee off at three o'clock, not going to get done
before it gets dark. At three o'clock in the afternoon
on one of those nice warmer January days might be
fifty eight degrees. Beautiful. President Trump wants to get in
another nine. But you can't do that if it's dark.
So you throw an extra hour in there, you might
(02:18):
be able to get her done.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
They don't.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I honestly believe as a golfer that this is what
the President is pushing this for. But the House of
Representatives overwhelmingly approved the Sunshine Protection Act.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
So those who didn't, they're not golfers.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
They're not okay or mean or yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Definition you have to be a golfer to before this.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Really, they're in my viewpoint, there are two different types
of people. You got your golfers and you've got people
who just haven't learned how to live yet.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
We call them gophers.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
You got golfers and gophers. Excuse me, sir, But if
we kill all the golfers, they lock us up and
throw away the key golfers caddy shack. So now it
moves to the Senate, and I don't know what's going
to happen. And here's the biggest concern with the Daylight
Savings Plan. This particular bill allows states to opt out.
(03:24):
So let's say Nebraska says, yeah, we got a lot
of great golf courses here. We want to push this
so people can play more golf. In January, but Iowa says, yeah,
but we've got a lot of ag producers here and
we need to we need to have this set up
the way that it is right now. And we don't
(03:48):
want our kids to wait at the bus stop in
the dark in the morning for school, even though we've
moved the start of school back so early that even
with the time change, they're still waiting in the dark
at the bus stop. They're walking to school in the dark.
But Iowa, for whatever reason, just to be obstinate, says
we're gonna do whatever Nebraska doesn't. And so in Nebraska
(04:11):
it's four o'clock in the afternoon, but in Iowa it's
three o'clock in the afternoon. How is anyone supposed to live,
How is anyone supposed to deal with life in a
circumstance like that. But that's how it could go. If
a state decides we're not touching the clocks the way
that the Congress, we're going to opt out, and then
(04:32):
we'd all be like Arizona. No one knows what time
it is in Arizona.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
You have relatives that go down to Arizona.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
I have relatives that live there, and I'm constantly true
doing the math. Wait, can I all?
Speaker 3 (04:44):
I know it's the first conversational point every time you
call what time is it there? It confounds me too.
No one knows. Yeah, but I do like Arizona, So
go easy on Arizona. I like Arizona too well.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
I think when you go there, you move there, and
you live there, you don't care anymore what time it
is you're on Arizona, unless.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
You're like a lot of Nebraskans who are down there
when it's cold here.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Yeah, and then they don't care what time it is.
You've got a couple of different times. You got the
morning where you can do stuff. You got the afternoon
heat where you shouldn't be out doing stuff, and then
you got the evening where you come out and you
drink wine in.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
The summertime Arizona wintertime. In the summertime, you known't after
about nine o'clock in the morning, you stay inside.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Yeah, it's Arizona time. They don't care what time it
is here. They don't care what time it is there.
We can all be like Arizona anyway. That's what the
House did yesterday. See what else is going on? We
had the former Transportation secretary in Omaha, and half of
Omaha liked it, half of Omaha didn't.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
And a whole bunch of Omaha didn't know and care. Yeah,
it looked pretty white at this event.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Now.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
I didn't think that was today's Democratic Party. Anyway. We'll
get into that next.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Some of the emails on the subject at the House
deciding and this isn't a done deal yet, but the
House yesterday voted that we just spring forward and stop
messing with the clock. Greg emails Scott atkfab dot com says,
just be ready for the complaints about all the clock
radios that have the time change built in that will
(06:18):
now have to change manually. Probably. Doug says, I love it.
I'm in the delivery business and delivering in the dark sucks. Also,
I want my daylight in the evening when I'm doing stuff.
I hope it passes. That's from Doug, and best email
so far comes in from Patrick says it's simple. If
Trump is for it, blue states will opt out. That
(06:43):
is probably how it would go down. Patrick, thank you
very much for that email. Sentimen Scott at kfab dot com.
The former Transportation Secretary Mayor Pete Bootage Edge of South
Ben Indiana. Maated campaign stop in Omaha yesterday, he decided
the voters here needed to vote for Denise Powell. He
(07:04):
told that to a room full of Democrats, who I
presume are already inclined to vote for Denise Powell said,
Denise Powell is someone who understands not just what we
have to stand up against, but what we have to
stand for. She is somebody who could look to the
future and embodies the idea of out with the old
(07:25):
ways and in with something new and better. Oh boy,
that that sounds great. What old ways need to go?
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Pete? Maybe the constitution? What's new and better?
Speaker 1 (07:35):
And by the way, did you do the exact same
speech when you stopped in Iowa earlier this week the
campaign for Rob sand for governor. Just scratch out Rob
Sand and write in Denise Powell. Denise Powell is someone
who under the same speech, Denise sands. Yeah, of course.
There's a statement from Brinker Harding's campaign says there's no
(07:57):
surprise to see dark money Denise in failed Former Transportation
Secretary Pete Budhaji is her surrogate for the general election.
It's also telling that despite a competitive Democratic primary, she
has yet to earn the public endorsement of a single
John Cavanaugh primary endorser.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
That's interesting, well, she'll be getting. The problem is, we
don't know what she is. And when you look at
what the Democrats Socialists of America came out with yesterday
in their updated platform, everything from the elimination of the
United States Senate to the choosing of the president from
the House of Representatives, to eliminating the Department of War,
(08:38):
which would be the Department of Defense. It'd be really
nice to hear from Denise to see just how much
of this she agrees with. But as long as the
news media in this community other than us who call
her out and nobody else does, she gets a pass.
And this is not a tacit endorsement of Republicans or
Brinker Harding or anybody else. This is about public accountability.
(08:59):
Is a member of the United States Congress, member of
the House of Representatives with hundred and thirty five that's it? Okay.
Don't you think it would be helpful to know where
her priorities lie, where she is on the Democrat spectrum
and have her go on the record and say I
would not support the elimination of the United States Senate.
(09:19):
I would not support the elimination of customs and immigration enforcement.
I would not eliminate this, this, all of the things
that are. I don't advocate for free college. I don't
advocate for open borders. She's got to go on the record,
and she has not gone on the record, and yet
she could very well win this race. So I just
(09:41):
think it's critically important that somebody ask. And I don't
know if there was anybody there watching mayor Pete yesterday.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
But it sure didn't make much of the news. There
will be debates between Harding and Powell.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Can't wait.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Hopefully we host one of them here on eleven ten
KFAB where it's now time for the certified transmission Sports
freef Jim Rose.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
All right, Scott for He's good morning everybody. Husker football
got a new free agent yesterday, running back Tyke Hayes.
Here he was pulling up in his tricked out v
W bug to the Osbourne Performance Complex yesterday. Played like Mays,
run like Hayes.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
How you doing?
Speaker 5 (10:17):
How you doing? Man?
Speaker 3 (10:20):
In high school outside of Pittsburgh, he ran for seven
thousand yards and one hundred touchdowns. Signed with Penn State
because his great uncle was an assistant head coach. Change,
so Tyke transfers to Iowa Western, and then McKay nelson
gets into a little legal scrape with his baby mama
got arrested on charges of aggravated battery in Florida. The
(10:40):
Husker running back won't be rained until next Thursday, and
coach Matt Ruhle needs an insurance policy. Meet Taykwa Devey Hayes.
All Star game was over pretty early. The Americans scored
three runs in the first inning and beat the Nationals
last night four to nothing. Here's American League first baseman
Ben Rice.
Speaker 6 (10:58):
You know, interviews left in right, trying to at the
same time soak it all in and meet all these
players that you play against all the time.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Yeah. Cody Bellinger the Yankees drove in two of the
four runs. He is the MVP a CS and ten
reliever shut out the National League hitters. That's hard to do.
Soccer and horra buena Spanish four congratulations to nil over
France in one semi final of the World Cup. First
time back in the finals for Spain in sixteen years.
Today it'll be Leonie Messi and Argentina against England. If
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England makes the final. It'll be their first time to
the finals in sixty years. College football is back in
the courtroom and involves a former Husker. Ole Miss is
suing two of their guys who transferred to LSU. They
want one million of the revenue share money that they
paid these players the Czechs did clear. One of them
(11:51):
is Prince Weell. Yuma melan defensive end who spent his
first two years of college ball at Nebraska, wasn't nearly
as effective last year. He had eleven and a half
so and twenty tackles for loss for the Rebels. Sports
his news on Nebraska's news weathern traffic station.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
People are going to think that's actually Nebraska's new running back.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
It's not.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
It's Willie Mays Hayes from Major It's Wesley Snipes Scott
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Speaker 4 (12:28):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (12:29):
People, calm down. The amount of sunlight that the Earth
receives is dictated by our rotation and the tilt as
we move around the sun. Daylight savings time and standard
time only moves the clock, not the amount of daylight.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
Sir.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
I appreciate that scientific response and invite you to recognize
that nobody likes you. That's not the deal.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
It's not the reality of how we perceive when we
receive the daylight. It's either you know, okay, we get
an extra hour daylight in the morning. Well, a lot
of people are still sleeping at that time and they're
not really doing anything, and when they leave work at
the end of the day, it's already getting dark. Now,
on the bright side on that one, if you'll pardon
(13:25):
the pun, on the bright side, But in the winter,
when I get home at five point thirty five forty
five and it's dark outside and I already go ahead
and put my pajamas on, it doesn't look as weird
as it does in the summer, and I'm walking around
on my bathrobe.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
You gotta think that always looks weird.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Six o'clock, you got your pajamas on, Its still three
hours of daylight. Now for me, I'm going to My
wife will look at me sometimes and she'll say you
can go to bed, And I'll look at the clock
and go seven thirty. No, I can't go yet. Now
(14:04):
here's the other question. In addition to the daylight savings
time issue that the House voted on yesterday, the Omaha
City Council yesterday voted to approve the minimum wage proposal.
I don't know anymore who makes what? I am so
confused right now. See, I thought that the wage that
you receive was dictated by the employer and such as before.
(14:29):
Nebraska voters a few years back said we think we
should raise the minimum wage to fifteen dollars an hour.
That's funny because I drive by McDonald's and they'd have
a sign out there that says McRib is back, and
then right below that it says we started eighteen fifty
an hour, or whatever it was.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
It was above fifteen.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
And the reason why they had jacked up that hourly
wage so much is because no one was going in
there wanting to work. So they thought, well, we'll try
and entice people to come work here, not a bad job,
come in here and work, we'll pay you this. And
there were still apparently no one interested in doing that,
(15:11):
So we move it to fifteen dollars an hour.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
That would be less.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
And suddenly I still see McDonald's and other places like
we will literally hire you for a million dollars an
hour if anyone wants to work. So, I don't know
why we're even arguing about wages. No one wants to
work anymore. But the people of Nebraska said it should
(15:37):
be fifteen an hour, and then the unicameral said, yeah,
but that doesn't make sense for fifteen and sixteen year olds.
And then the city council said, yeah, I didn't really,
I don't know about that.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
And so.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
The Nebraska legislature said, let's move the minimum wage back
cheaper for hiring younger labor, and the city council said,
that's not fair. We're going to bump it back up
for those workers. Apparently there's a lot of fourteen year
olds who are looking to start a family and they
need to have a living wage to be able to
(16:11):
take care of that family. You know, when that fourteen
year old comes home selling cars all day, got a
short sleeve oxford on beije tie comb over. His wife
comes in there like do.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
You want macarady and cheese or do you want cheerios
for dinner? He's like, hey, just give me a millton.
And I had a rough day. Just give me a minute. Here,
kids are running up there. Daddy, daddy, will you take
us all to school tomorrow? We go to the same school.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Apparently there's a bunch of fourteen year olds looking start
a family. You got that fourteen year old, he got
bags under his eyes.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Oh man, one to day. Oh just give me my
video game controller. I got to hit the bottle of Alani.
So the city council yesterday said we're going to bump
that minimum wage up. Now, the attorney general in Nebraska said,
we're going to sue you. That's against what the law is,
(17:15):
and so city council said, fine, sue us. Amy Melton said,
we're literally just throwing good taxpayer money down the drain
fighting the units Nebraska way right, We've got taxpayer money
in Omaha being thrown a taxpayer money at the state
of Nebraska and vice versa.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
That should be our new slogan.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Yeah, And at the crux of this is we're all
trying to figure out what to pay fifteen year olds
who aren't working. You know what fifteen year olds are
doing for money if they're not asking their parents. Most
of them are asking their parents. The rest of them Yeah,
they're what country do you think this is? Sometimes I wonder, No,
(17:55):
they're going on they they're going online because mom bought
them a shirt a year ago and they grew out
of it and they go online. So I'll sell you
the shirt for eight dollars and then they pay twenty
dollars in shipping and handling and have someone pay them
eight dollars for that shirt. I just made eight dollars.
Like that's funny because it looked like mom just covered
twenty dollars for you to send it to somebody.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Just go to Plato's closet and save on shipping. That's it.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Basically, online is just Plato's closet for all these kids.
They're selling their old clothes, toys and all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
All I know is if they'd been offering fifteen bucks
an hour when I had a part time job way
back in the Stone Age, I'd have been working as
many hours as I could. You've probably kind of stacked
up as many hours during the summertime as I could
at fifteen bucks an hour.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
I'd be curious, though, the buying power that I got
when I started working at four to twenty five an hour.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
That was my min Yeah, fifty that was a minimum wage.
And I started working in the nineties as a teenager, Oh,
when I was fifteen dollars an hour. Now, when I
was a Rockies pancake ranch, it was two dollars an hour, you.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Know, buying power aside fifteen dollars an hour. Right now,
when somebody else is paying for your board, your rent, your.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Clothing, and no tax on tips.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Everything, I would be working as many hours as I
could do, putting that away a heck.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Of a short Yes, I was still serving a Rockies
pancake ranch, you know, and I was getting like a
fifty cent tip on top of the two bucks an hour,
which was you know, probably pretty good back then, maybe
a dollar tip, and I wasn't taxed. Hello, are you
depressed working here in radio that you don't have the
money and prestige you had when you worked at Rockies
(19:31):
Pancake ranch. Well, as it relates to inflation, I'm I've
actually lost ground. Yes, So if you had to.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Bring that, we should get tips.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Well, we just gave you another iHeartRadio T shirt last week.
How much do you want?
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Tips?
Speaker 3 (19:43):
And a coffee mug from Y one oh four The
Slappy and The Commandant Morning Show and Cedar Rapids. We
got a bag of cookies upstairs. What do you want coffee?
We got coffee.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
We don't even get T shirts anymore.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Really, Oh did you not get a new shirt last? Well,
if you should been here on Friday, I'm.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Talking about T shirts from all kinds of places. We
don't get T shirts anymore.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Heart would just pay us in tips.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Right, That's what Robin over here saying.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Jim's first job was at Rocky's Pancake Ranch, which apparently
was a real place Lincoln, Nebraska. Whatever happened to Rocky's
Pancake Ranch?
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Who knows?
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Did it go the way of Rocky's Rocky Rococo's Pizza Restaurant?
Speaker 4 (20:23):
No idea?
Speaker 1 (20:24):
That was a place here in Omaha, Rocky Rococcos. There
you go one place? Hey, hey, Lucy, Yes, that's what.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
That's one of those moments where you think, what what.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Well, if they would just again, if they would just
pay us in tips. Get ahead.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
I actually do want your attention that stall or possible
crash on the inside left shoulder is actually iighty westbound
at forty second.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Why didn't you say that the first time?
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Because I made a mistake.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Lucy, I love you. What was your first job?
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Uh baskin Robbins.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Oh, that's right.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
I've seen pictures of you in your little Yes yeah,
someone no posted them on Facebook once upon a time.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
I would like to see that because I don't even remember.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
I've seen picture you in your little pink basket Robin's uniform,
your little basket Robin's hat.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Now there will be an AI generated by somebody someplace.
Now I got I didn't. I didn't last long.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
You were like, I'm not making one more milkshake. I
have scoop out, like four or five scoops of ice cream.
I gotta get all the way down and the bucket
of ice cream down here.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
I always feel bad.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
They seem like they're working so hard with the frozen
ice cream and they're trying to dig that out.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
It's interesting that you chose milkshakes to talk about, because
that's one of the reasons why I left or got fired.
I can't remember if I got fired. It was the
only job I've ever been fired from.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Did you put the paper cup?
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Yep?
Speaker 3 (21:55):
You gotta put true story, the ice cream and the
milk in the metal cup and then pour it in
the paper cup. Otherwise the rotator on the milkshake machine
will tear the paper cup to ribbons and splatter things everywhere.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
Is that what happen?
Speaker 2 (22:11):
And did I scream everywhere?
Speaker 1 (22:14):
My first job, like, other than helping my dad out,
I got paid a few bucks working for my dad
at his business.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
But when I was.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Fifteen, Rodkush's furniture on consignment seventy second and l ol, maha, I've.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Been there many times. It's not there now.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
There was one time when they moved a basketball game
and I had to go tell my boss I can't
work the afternoon shift on Saturday. I've got a JB
basketball game. And he looked at me. I'm sixteen years old.
He looked at me and said, you gotta make a decision.
You're gonna work here or are you gonna play basketball?
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Unfair?
Speaker 1 (22:50):
I said, well, I'm a sophomore in high school. I'm
probably gonna play to play basketball, so I can't come
here on Saturday. Let's talk about Obviously, that was the
end of you the furniture industry. I enjoyed my time there,
got a lot of stories from it. Thank you so
much for hanging out with us here. On news radio
eleven KFAB. How do you think the meeting went at
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Taco Bell's headquarters when they said, well, there's there's a
parasite that's infecting people's bowels and creating an issue. And
the FDA, according to their acting Acting Deputy Commissioner for
(23:33):
Food says, the FDA is certainly looking into the investigation
multiple produce items, including locations reported by the case patients
before they become sick. They have not specifically targeted any
food vendor or distributor. But still Taco Bell came out
(23:59):
an issue statements saying we've voluntarily and temporarily removed limited
ingredients at select restaurants as a precautionary measure. Will continue
to closely monitor the situation and follow the guidance of
public health authorities. This is that they call it the
cyclist spora. It's a heat loving parasite that infects the
(24:23):
bowels and in the past people have become infected by
consuming fruits or vegetables lettuce that were exposed to contaminated
irrigation water. Well, how does that happen? We were not
going to go through This is breakfast time for a
lot of people. It's just The phrase that many in
(24:45):
the news media have used in talking about those who
have received this parasite is it's an explosive experience. And
I'm sure there were people at Taco Bell saying, we
don't need to put out a statement. The jokes are
already there. No no one's even mentioned us. We don't
(25:06):
even know that anyone's gotten sick from eating any of
this stuff. It's only going to cause people not to
go here. Yes for some people. For me, I'm thinking,
you know, a crunch wrap doesn't sound too bad.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
So they removed the lettuce.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
That they they said limited ingredients, but.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
They're not saying what has been no eliminated.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
And it's limited ingredients at select restaurants as a precautionary.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Measure, so you get a little bit of lettuce.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Well, they in Michigan, where more than three thousand cases
have been reported, officials say that the early information points
to lettuce or salad greens as a possible culprit. And
I'm looking at my diet and going, I'm good, I
just eat meat. Scott, what do you want with your meat?
(25:58):
More meat? Time for a rate of horror moves.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Updates straight form. Jim Rose's favorite update Patty lebel doing
the vocals.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Yeah, thank you to patty Leabelle for singing our straight
of Horror Moo's theme song.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
She did sound drunk at times.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Last night, President Trump says oil is flowing like never
before thanks to the awesome power of the United States military.
He salutes all the people who in the military have
been doing all this.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
It's because it's salame.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Because of them, all members of the most powerful military
anywhere in the world by far. The Strait of Horror
Mooz has opened all ship traffic except for Iran, and
that is because of their lying, violent, malicious leadership, which
is taking them down a path of total destruction. We
will therefore have a full blockade, but only on ships
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coming to you and from Iranian ports or carrying anything
having to do with Iranian cargo. Based on highly productive
conversations with Middle East leadership, I've decided to replace the
twenty percent United States reimbursement fee with trade and investment
deals that the various Golf states will be making into
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the United States. These investments will be massive, but at
the same time extraordinary good for them and their future.
As everyone is aware, we have the largest dollar investment
in the United States of any country, and history in
America's winning again. And Iran will never have a nuclear weapon.
Thank you for your attention this matter, President Donald J.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Trump.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
So sorry. It's a long statement there. I even skipped
over part of it there from that's the president's post
on truth social Well, who.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Knows if it's true. You know, you see some ships
burning in the Gulf of Oman near the Straits of
Horror moves? Was that one of our ships that got hit?
Was it one of their ships that got hit? What
we get out of the Pentagon at times does not
match what we see in video, but maybe it does.
We'll see. But it's pretty scary stuff over there. I
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see that the price of oil has sort of steadied.
We didn't see a big jump yesterday. The MARKT was
actually up a little yesterday, and the Nasdaq was way
up yesterday. And prices for gasoline to the pump have
stabilized a little bit over the last week. Where they
go from here? Who knows? Oil still under eighty dollars
a bear? It is?
Speaker 1 (28:26):
It was one hundred and eleven just a couple of
months ago, exactly, and it was very high during the
Biden years too. He says it's because of COVID. Okay,
what does COVID had to do anyway, That's what we
got for four years.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
In case you forgot, he talked yesterday with Trey Yanks
to Fox News and made it clear next week is
bridges and power plants week. Now when Donald Trump says that,
you need to take it to the bank, because when
he says we're gonna do something, he usually does it
unless there are new circumstances, which would be, for example,
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a breakthrough. He said yesterday we had a deal on
Sunday night. It was a ninety nine point nine percent deal,
and then somebody in Iran walked in and said, no, no,
we're not going to have this now. Were they really
that close to a deal on Sunday night? That's the
President trying to stabilize the markets, meaning we're still negotiating,
we're still talking. I don't believe they're still negotiating in
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good faith. I don't believe they're still talking, just based
on forty seven years of watching Iran. But if the
President says yesterday to Trey Yanks to Fox News, next
week is power plants and bridges week, he needs to
blow up some power plants and bridges. Now that affects
Iranian civilians. That's not the e mooms or, as George W.
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Bush used to say, the Moulahs laws. These are the
things that affect average, ordinary, everyday Iranians. And just remember
this is a country of one hundred million people, that
is twice the size of Texas. That is a large,
large area.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
The Iranian government doesn't care whether their civilians have power
or bridge transportational availability.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
They don't care.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
The Iranian leadership with whom we've been negotiating will gladly
say all right, fine, hey, don't do this. Mister president
will give you anything you want. And the president say,
I want you to stop going after cargo ships and
oil transport in the Strait, and they'll say, we won't
touch it, and then the next day they're going after
exactly what they said they weren't going to do. So
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we can continue to do this over and over again,
and apparently we will. Basically, it comes down to whether
or not you believed Iran was trying to get and
close to getting a nuclear weapon, and if they got it,
would they use it? You either believe that, and we
need to do everything necessary to stop it, or you
don't believe it. I believe Iran absolutely was close to
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getting a nuclear weapon, and they definitely would have used it,
would have sold it to a terrorist group and let
them use it under no flag, same thing it would
have been used. It would have been their fault, and
we stopped them doing probably in Israel. Do I love
this little ping pong battle we have going on, I don't,
But ultimately it's better than Iran suddenly setting off a
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nuclear weapons someplace. So I don't know how long this
is going to go, but obviously the president is getting very,
very frustrated with how long this is taking and the
level of lack of good faith he's getting from the
people with whom were allegedly negotiating. We might have to
blow up a few more iatolas.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Well, if you if you connect the dots, this is
a president who railed against needless wars quote unquote for years,
all the way back to when George W. Bush invaded
Iraq to try to get weapons of mass destruction. This
is a guy who just really believed we were spending
way too much time, money, and people and listen, needless wars.
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So if you believe that about him, and I do
why would he do this? Because they were so close
to acquiring a nuclear weapon and that changes the ballgame.
So here's a guy who would never do this unless
it was absolutely necessary, especially within a year of the
midterm elections. So I think the one thing you can
take to the bank with President Trump is he really
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firmly believed that without action, Iran would get a weapon
that could cause mass destruction.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
You either believe that or you don't. He did it,
he's still doing it. And like I always say about
people in positions of power, I hope they know what
they're doing. This guy is all mad because he got
onto a flight wearing an inflammatory T shirt and he
got the attention he wanted. His shirt said bombing kids
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is not self defense. He is of Middle Eastern descent
that would be in the region that would be known
as Palestine if they stop blowing up innocent Israelis and
voting into power a terrorist organization. It's not my assessment,
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that's the reality of what has happened. So this guy,
the media says, well, he's a Palestinian.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
No he's not.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
There is no Palestine. So he gets on a flight
he's wearing a shirt that says bombing kids is not
self defense. And people complained, yeah, when you see someone, now,
you can't say bomb in an airport, right, You can't
joke about that kind of thing. So he's got this
shirt on talking about bombing kids, making a political statement,
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and they said, look, you've got to change your shirt,
or you got to walk to Newark or wherever you're going.
And he got all mad. He said, I was upset
and humiliated. Ah so wait a second, you wanted to fight,
you picked a fight, you found one, and then you're
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upset and humiliated that someone called you out on your nonsense.
He'll probably soe and get a whole bunch of those
vouchers vouchers for a free meal that can only be
used at TGA Fridays Monday mornings from seven to eight thirty.
But like they're not open for breakfast. Oh sorry, you
agreed to the terms when you accepted the vouchers, sir.
I got some pushback here. Well, we got some pushback here,
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and it comes from Christopher via the Zonker's custom was
inbox Scott at kfab dot com. Christopher says, you guys
just believe everything they tell us Huh, you really believe
Trump is the greatest? You really believe we're the good
guys all of the time. I love you all, but
you're also big.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Idiots at times.
Speaker 5 (34:45):
S M.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
D H. Shaking my darn head. That's from Christopher. So
he's asked us questions. Do you we really believe everything
they tell us? No? No, okay, listen, do we believe
Trump is the greatest? No? The greatest?
Speaker 5 (35:04):
What?
Speaker 3 (35:04):
Yeah, he's the greatest president we have today? Yeah, well,
I mean he's now, he's an impactful president.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
And Joe Biden was the greatest president we had when
Biden was president?
Speaker 3 (35:14):
Uh, well when when? When? At the time, at that day,
he was the ones president he was at the time.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Because he was the president. And do you really believe
we're the good guys all the time?
Speaker 6 (35:26):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (35:27):
Gooder than whom gooder? Yeah, than whom gooder? And then
we go.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Back to third grade grammar, right, good the good guys,
well compared to who you know, president, compared to Hamas presidents,
the presidents don't get graded until they're out out of office.
You can't say he was the greatest president of all
time until the totality of their time in office. Harry
Truman left with thirty one percent approval rating. Harry Truman
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might be the very best president of this country's had
in the last one hundred years. You could make the
case for it. I mean, you can make a strong
case what Harry Truman did in the wake of the
end of the war and the dynamic recession that followed,
and how he kept the country in place. But the
Marshall Plan saved Europe. If we didn't do the Marshall Plan,
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we think we got problems with the Soviet Union today,
or we got problems with international terrorism today. Imagine Western
Europe under communist rule. So you know, we look back
now it's been one hundred years and ninety years since
he was in office and say Harry Truman was as
good as it got. But at the time, for the
next twenty thirty years, no, because the totality of his
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time in office had not been fully prods. Well, I
can't decide what the people in the history books are
going to write several decades from now. I can just
look at and a lot of people lose sight of
this why Trump was elected twice in the first place.
And that is and the analogy I often give is
you have sewage backing up in your basement, and you
(37:00):
call two plumbers and one of them says that sewage
belongs there, and for you to think that it shouldn't
be here is problematic and you need to check your privilege.
And the other guy comes in there, and uh, yeah,
he's maybe a bit of a bore, and he says
some ridiculous things once in a while and uses some
(37:21):
salty language, but he's gonna get that sewage out of
your basement. That's why Trump was elected. There are a
lot of people in this country that think that there's
some sewage in the basement, and President Trump is the.
Speaker 3 (37:33):
Guy to go and fight. He's the guy to go
fight and get it out. Now. This is how Jimmy
Carter was elected. Jimmy Carter was elected because we wanted
the bipolar opposite of what we'd had, which was a
Richard Nixon administration of Washington insiders and fat cats and
corrupt fat cats. And the country said, I gotta have
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somebody I don't know. I got to have somebody who
doesn't know Washington, DC from a washing machine. And that's
how he was elected. And he was a very good
and decent man who should never have been President of
the United States, given policy decisions, his inaction, his perceived weakness,
and all the rest. So that got us Ronald Reagan,
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who is the bipolar opposite of Jimmy Carter. I appreciate
the email, though, Chris, and you can send years in
as well as Scott at kfab dot com from the
talkback Mike, Okay, Hey Scott, just driving into work. Love
your analogy of illegal aliens are sewage? Love it is
(38:35):
so true. No, but you're a hate for it. Yeah,
I imagine I would if that's what I said, illegal
aliens are that sage illegal aliens to people. If this
is where you are, If your imagination has been so
dull that you believe that Scott Vorhees was referencing, you know,
illegal immigrants, real people and likening them to sewage backing
(38:58):
up in your basement, you need to spend a lot
more time listening to AM radio because that fertilizes the mind.
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
Yeah, this is my favorite talk radio game. I say
one thing, you hear whatever you want. No, When I
say the analogy of you've got sewage in your basement
and one person says, hey, that sewage deserves.
Speaker 3 (39:19):
To be here. That is all this political stuff with
which you would disagree, and it comes on a lot
of different fronts, and President Trump's like, we're getting that.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
Out of here now. I'll give you credit on this one.
I can see where you can get to that level
if that's your first political issue. But I wasn't talking
about one issue. I was talking about a lot of it,
for example, And we'll work in this as well. It
has to do with ICE, and it has to do
with someone who said, they said, well, he did everything
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by the book in the United States, and he was
killed on his own block by a federal agent. He
was murdered at the hands of the US government. It
was an assassination, is what they're saying here. This is
another case of someone who I don't know whether ICE
was specifically looking for this person or this person's background status.
I don't know any of that. And in fact, none
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of that has anything to do with anything. It has
to do with Suddenly law enforcement wants to pull you
over and ask you some questions. And if you decide
that these instructions are impossible for you to follow, and
you drive your vehicle into armed law enforcement, bad things
are going to happen. Now, all of these Democrats who
(40:35):
are saying, oh, there'd be Ice is murdering people on
the streets. And if they spend as much energy telling
people say, look, you got to know when law enforcement
border patrol ice that when they need to pull you over,
when they're asking you to stop your car, either stay
in the car or get out of the car. They're
going to tell you what to do. They're going to
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be very very clear about it. You need to follow
those commands so you don't end up dead. That they
should be doing that, but they're not because they love
the fact that this guy was killed. They love the
fact that he tried to drive into Ice and got
killed fourly so they can make Ice seem like the
bad guy.
Speaker 3 (41:12):
It's something to hang on refrigerator. They love it. And
that's sewage and that makes me so angry. It's true,
this guy did not need to die. They politicize the death.
They are trying to create a narrative that says Ice
is nothing but a bunch of jack booted thug straight
out of Adolf Hitler shoot Staffel. It's not true, it's
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never been true. It's not even close to true. But
in a world. In an age, what all we do
is look at TikTok videos and decide what's real in
the world. That's an easy one. I got all fired
up there. Sorry, okay, all right, only emails says bridges
and power plants have to be next week. If it
doesn't happen, Trump will have to wait until Shark Week
is over. Shark Week starts July twenty sixth, Dad, what
(41:55):
are you doing?
Speaker 4 (41:56):
It's Shark Week?
Speaker 1 (41:57):
Like to now walk theme onto the program eleven to
ten kfab National correspondent Rory O'Neil joins us here.
Speaker 3 (42:03):
Rory, good morning, Hey, good morning, Happy Wednesday. So if
happy Wednesday to you as well, Rory. If Congress just
leaves the clocks where they are, is it's still dark
at noon? Is it light at midnight? Are we going
to some sort of Icelandic time where it's just three
months of daylight? No one knows how to deal with
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this daylight savings push what's going on here?
Speaker 4 (42:27):
And a lot of us forget our history.
Speaker 5 (42:28):
You know, in the nineteen seventies we tried locking the
clocks down.
Speaker 4 (42:32):
And we were all excited when it started.
Speaker 5 (42:34):
The approval was like eighty percent but four months into
that wintertime experiment in nineteen seventy four, we hated the idea,
so support for it fell pretty rapidly. And now we
saw the House this week resident pass a bill that
would let states decide if they want daylight saving time,
if they want to lock the clocks and not do
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a switch roo twice a year. There are some real
downsides to this. The you know you'd rough where you are.
Sunrise would roughly be around eight thirty in the morning
on January fifteenth of twenty twenty eight, and for a
lot of people, that's just too late.
Speaker 1 (43:12):
Yeah, And that people say, well, the kids, they'll be
out there in the dark. Well they're out there in
the dark now because school starts early enough that it
doesn't matter unless you dramatically start shifting the time. So
let's throw that argument out. For a lot of people,
it's either you go to work in the dark or
you go home from work as it's getting dark. And
I'd rather have the extra daylight in the evening because
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on a nice day, I can play a few more
holes of golf, and you can't do that in the
morning because there's a frost delay. And I wonder Rory.
If because Trump is a golf officionado, If that's not
the reason he's pushing this, well, you know he.
Speaker 5 (43:47):
Also plays golf in Florida, and you know, when it's summertime,
they're in Bedminster, so you know he's he's got the
clock on his side already. But to your point there,
there is a real econom argument to be had here
that when you come home from work. For normal people
who come home after five o'clock, if it's still light out,
you're more likely to say, hey, honey, get in the car,
(44:10):
let's go downtown, let's go out to eat, let's go shopping,
let's go do stuff. But when you come home at
five o'clock and it's already dark and it has been
for half an.
Speaker 4 (44:17):
Hour, you're on lockdown.
Speaker 5 (44:19):
You know, you're just like Netflix and Chill, get the
comforter out, and we're just going to cozy up on
the couch because we're done well.
Speaker 3 (44:26):
But let's be clear, this doesn't mean we're going to
be like noalm Alaska in the middle of the summer,
where you get twenty three and a half hours of
sunshine just because of this.
Speaker 5 (44:35):
No, all we're doing is changing the number on the clock.
We're not going to get more or less sunshine as
a result. It's about when you're up to see it
and again to have an eight point thirty sunrise.
Speaker 4 (44:47):
It might be a little too late for some folks.
Speaker 5 (44:49):
You know, in Indianapolis, sunrise would be at nine four
am on January fifteenth and twenty twenty eight. That's pretty late.
Speaker 4 (44:58):
For most folks.
Speaker 1 (44:59):
I just I don't see this happening because if some states,
all it takes is one state to opt out. You know,
Nebraska is on one time, Iowa was on an hour later.
I mean, that's stupid. So all it takes is for
everyone to start pulling on Arizona and decide that they're
on whatever time they want to be on, and it
all falls apart. Plus, I got this great email earlier
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says if Trump is for it, the Blue states will
immediately opt out just because it's Trump, and no one
will have any idea. Rory O'Neil with us here for
a few more minutes on Nebraska's morning News. I also
want to ask you about where we rank in terms
of the healthiest and least healthy cities. I'm guessing, like
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a lot of things, Omaha probably falls somewhere right in
the middle on this one.
Speaker 4 (45:47):
Yeah, and I had it on my screen and then
went away.
Speaker 5 (45:51):
Top of the heat of the ninth year in a
row is Arlington, Virginia, Washington, DC, and Minneapolis. They're pretty close.
Speaker 4 (45:59):
This survey.
Speaker 5 (46:00):
It actually looks at things like, you know, how well
people are on their diets, how often do they exercise?
You know, what's the outdoor athletic opportunity out there. That's
one of the spots where Omaha, by the way, it
ranked pretty high, was on outdoor facilities.
Speaker 4 (46:16):
Otherwise, where did you go on the list?
Speaker 3 (46:19):
You went away, but you were somewhere in the metal.
Speaker 4 (46:21):
There is number number thirty there.
Speaker 5 (46:23):
You are number thirty on the list of one hundred.
It was actually you had a lower ranking for personal fitness,
whether or not you're on medication or how help you
are regularly, But you rank twenty fourth out of one hundred.
When it comes to the facilities, the bike pass, the
hiking trails, the venues, and the community that supports the
individual's good health.
Speaker 3 (46:42):
Jim Rose is throwing off the curve. Well, the street
car is not going to help. This just means people
are going to walk less downtown. Not that the street
car would take them to any place anyway, But they
can just get on that thing instead of walking around
the la he mal just right around that like it's
mister Rogers trolley.
Speaker 1 (46:59):
They're gonna have to get all at some point walk
if they want to go eat something. But what what we'll
do is we'll overeat and then we'll exactly then we'll
just sit a number on the street car, Rory. Another
factor in this, though, is air quality.
Speaker 5 (47:12):
That's one of the numbers where they were tracking. They
see a big divergence to healthier cities have much healthier air.
Those in the bottom worse air. And that gets back
to car pollution. So maybe that trolley does help by
giving you a cleaner air to breathe.
Speaker 1 (47:26):
Ooh see Geene stout there smiling right now, Rory, always
smiling when you're on the program. Thank you very much.
I appreciate the time today, Thanks guys. Eleven to ten
kfab national correspondent Rory O'Neil right there and right here
on Nebraska's Morning News.
We are underway now here it comes. Thank you so
much for hanging out here with us, Sun Nebraska this
morning news. Jim Rose is right there, Lucy Chapman and
Courtney Donaho. Chris Turner is in for Craig Evans this week,
and I'm Scott Borhees. Glad to have you with us
on news radio eleven ten KFAB. So, if the House
of Representatives had their way, it'd still be dark right now.
(00:22):
It'd be dark till like two o'clock in the afternoon.
Is is that how that works? We go to the
permanent daylight savings switch and we would just stay there, Yes,
we would.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
We would, I think what it is right now?
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Bring forward?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
No, I think what it is right now, which.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Would be yeah, right, we sprung forward in the spring,
in the spring, and we would just stay here, so
you get another hour of daylight in the evening and
you would lose that in the morning. And the President
loves this, and does anyone want to take a guess
as to why that is anyone.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
It's the biggest. It's a it's a most beautiful.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
He gets along very well, very well with that extra
light in the evening. Me and a summer solstice, go
back a long way. We were very good, very good friends.
He's a beautiful summer solstice. No, it's good because he
can win. That's why he likes it. He can win this,
he can win this legislation.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
And that's always in there. But no, I always keeping score.
I believe the keeping score is part of this. I
truly believe that the reason the president wants this is
because he's a golfer.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Ah because in the in the hard to golf in
the morning.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
During the winter months when it's colder. Okay, so let's
say it's it's one of those warm winter days in January,
but it's not warm at seven am. You can't tee
off at seven am. You're going to have a frost delay.
The ground is going to be frozen. It's going to
be twenty eight degrees. You can't golf at seven am,
but you can golf at three o'clock. But if you
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tee off at three o'clock, not going to get done
before it gets dark. At three o'clock in the afternoon
on one of those nice warmer January days might be
fifty eight degrees. Beautiful. President Trump wants to get in
another nine. But you can't do that if it's dark.
So you throw an extra hour in there, you might
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be able to get her done.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
They don't.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I honestly believe as a golfer that this is what
the President is pushing this for. But the House of
Representatives overwhelmingly approved the Sunshine Protection Act.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
So those who didn't, they're not golfers.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
They're not okay or mean or yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Definition you have to be a golfer to before this.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Really, they're in my viewpoint, there are two different types
of people. You got your golfers and you've got people
who just haven't learned how to live yet.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
We call them gophers.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
You got golfers and gophers. Excuse me, sir, But if
we kill all the golfers, they lock us up and
throw away the key golfers caddy shack. So now it
moves to the Senate, and I don't know what's going
to happen. And here's the biggest concern with the Daylight
Savings Plan. This particular bill allows states to opt out.
(03:24):
So let's say Nebraska says, yeah, we got a lot
of great golf courses here. We want to push this
so people can play more golf. In January, but Iowa says, yeah,
but we've got a lot of ag producers here and
we need to we need to have this set up
the way that it is right now. And we don't
(03:48):
want our kids to wait at the bus stop in
the dark in the morning for school, even though we've
moved the start of school back so early that even
with the time change, they're still waiting in the dark
at the bus stop. They're walking to school in the dark.
But Iowa, for whatever reason, just to be obstinate, says
we're gonna do whatever Nebraska doesn't. And so in Nebraska
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it's four o'clock in the afternoon, but in Iowa it's
three o'clock in the afternoon. How is anyone supposed to live,
How is anyone supposed to deal with life in a
circumstance like that. But that's how it could go. If
a state decides we're not touching the clocks the way
that the Congress, we're going to opt out, and then
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we'd all be like Arizona. No one knows what time
it is in Arizona.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
You have relatives that go down to Arizona.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
I have relatives that live there, and I'm constantly true
doing the math. Wait, can I all?
Speaker 3 (04:44):
I know it's the first conversational point every time you
call what time is it there? It confounds me too.
No one knows. Yeah, but I do like Arizona, So
go easy on Arizona. I like Arizona too well.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
I think when you go there, you move there, and
you live there, you don't care anymore what time it
is you're on Arizona, unless.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
You're like a lot of Nebraskans who are down there
when it's cold here.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Yeah, and then they don't care what time it is.
You've got a couple of different times. You got the
morning where you can do stuff. You got the afternoon
heat where you shouldn't be out doing stuff, and then
you got the evening where you come out and you
drink wine in.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
The summertime Arizona wintertime. In the summertime, you known't after
about nine o'clock in the morning, you stay inside.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Yeah, it's Arizona time. They don't care what time it
is here. They don't care what time it is there.
We can all be like Arizona anyway. That's what the
House did yesterday. See what else is going on? We
had the former Transportation secretary in Omaha, and half of
Omaha liked it, half of Omaha didn't.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
And a whole bunch of Omaha didn't know and care. Yeah,
it looked pretty white at this event.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Now.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
I didn't think that was today's Democratic Party. Anyway. We'll
get into that next.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Some of the emails on the subject at the House
deciding and this isn't a done deal yet, but the
House yesterday voted that we just spring forward and stop
messing with the clock. Greg emails Scott atkfab dot com says,
just be ready for the complaints about all the clock
radios that have the time change built in that will
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now have to change manually. Probably. Doug says, I love it.
I'm in the delivery business and delivering in the dark sucks. Also,
I want my daylight in the evening when I'm doing stuff.
I hope it passes. That's from Doug, and best email
so far comes in from Patrick says it's simple. If
Trump is for it, blue states will opt out. That
(06:43):
is probably how it would go down. Patrick, thank you
very much for that email. Sentimen Scott at kfab dot com.
The former Transportation Secretary Mayor Pete Bootage Edge of South
Ben Indiana. Maated campaign stop in Omaha yesterday, he decided
the voters here needed to vote for Denise Powell. He
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told that to a room full of Democrats, who I
presume are already inclined to vote for Denise Powell said,
Denise Powell is someone who understands not just what we
have to stand up against, but what we have to
stand for. She is somebody who could look to the
future and embodies the idea of out with the old
(07:25):
ways and in with something new and better. Oh boy,
that that sounds great. What old ways need to go?
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Pete? Maybe the constitution? What's new and better?
Speaker 1 (07:35):
And by the way, did you do the exact same
speech when you stopped in Iowa earlier this week the
campaign for Rob sand for governor. Just scratch out Rob
Sand and write in Denise Powell. Denise Powell is someone
who under the same speech, Denise sands. Yeah, of course.
There's a statement from Brinker Harding's campaign says there's no
(07:57):
surprise to see dark money Denise in failed Former Transportation
Secretary Pete Budhaji is her surrogate for the general election.
It's also telling that despite a competitive Democratic primary, she
has yet to earn the public endorsement of a single
John Cavanaugh primary endorser.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
That's interesting, well, she'll be getting. The problem is, we
don't know what she is. And when you look at
what the Democrats Socialists of America came out with yesterday
in their updated platform, everything from the elimination of the
United States Senate to the choosing of the president from
the House of Representatives, to eliminating the Department of War,
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which would be the Department of Defense. It'd be really
nice to hear from Denise to see just how much
of this she agrees with. But as long as the
news media in this community other than us who call
her out and nobody else does, she gets a pass.
And this is not a tacit endorsement of Republicans or
Brinker Harding or anybody else. This is about public accountability.
(08:59):
Is a member of the United States Congress, member of
the House of Representatives with hundred and thirty five that's it? Okay.
Don't you think it would be helpful to know where
her priorities lie, where she is on the Democrat spectrum
and have her go on the record and say I
would not support the elimination of the United States Senate.
(09:19):
I would not support the elimination of customs and immigration enforcement.
I would not eliminate this, this, all of the things
that are. I don't advocate for free college. I don't
advocate for open borders. She's got to go on the record,
and she has not gone on the record, and yet
she could very well win this race. So I just
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think it's critically important that somebody ask. And I don't
know if there was anybody there watching mayor Pete yesterday.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
But it sure didn't make much of the news. There
will be debates between Harding and Powell.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Can't wait.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Hopefully we host one of them here on eleven ten
KFAB where it's now time for the certified transmission Sports
freef Jim Rose.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
All right, Scott for He's good morning everybody. Husker football
got a new free agent yesterday, running back Tyke Hayes.
Here he was pulling up in his tricked out v
W bug to the Osbourne Performance Complex yesterday. Played like Mays,
run like Hayes.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
How you doing?
Speaker 5 (10:17):
How you doing? Man?
Speaker 3 (10:20):
In high school outside of Pittsburgh, he ran for seven
thousand yards and one hundred touchdowns. Signed with Penn State
because his great uncle was an assistant head coach. Change,
so Tyke transfers to Iowa Western, and then McKay nelson
gets into a little legal scrape with his baby mama
got arrested on charges of aggravated battery in Florida. The
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Husker running back won't be rained until next Thursday, and
coach Matt Ruhle needs an insurance policy. Meet Taykwa Devey Hayes.
All Star game was over pretty early. The Americans scored
three runs in the first inning and beat the Nationals
last night four to nothing. Here's American League first baseman
Ben Rice.
Speaker 6 (10:58):
You know, interviews left in right, trying to at the
same time soak it all in and meet all these
players that you play against all the time.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Yeah. Cody Bellinger the Yankees drove in two of the
four runs. He is the MVP a CS and ten
reliever shut out the National League hitters. That's hard to do.
Soccer and horra buena Spanish four congratulations to nil over
France in one semi final of the World Cup. First
time back in the finals for Spain in sixteen years.
Today it'll be Leonie Messi and Argentina against England. If
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England makes the final. It'll be their first time to
the finals in sixty years. College football is back in
the courtroom and involves a former Husker. Ole Miss is
suing two of their guys who transferred to LSU. They
want one million of the revenue share money that they
paid these players the Czechs did clear. One of them
(11:51):
is Prince Weell. Yuma melan defensive end who spent his
first two years of college ball at Nebraska, wasn't nearly
as effective last year. He had eleven and a half
so and twenty tackles for loss for the Rebels. Sports
his news on Nebraska's news weathern traffic station.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
People are going to think that's actually Nebraska's new running back.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
It's not.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
It's Willie Mays Hayes from Major It's Wesley Snipes Scott
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Speaker 4 (12:28):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (12:29):
People, calm down. The amount of sunlight that the Earth
receives is dictated by our rotation and the tilt as
we move around the sun. Daylight savings time and standard
time only moves the clock, not the amount of daylight.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
Sir.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
I appreciate that scientific response and invite you to recognize
that nobody likes you. That's not the deal.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
It's not the reality of how we perceive when we
receive the daylight. It's either you know, okay, we get
an extra hour daylight in the morning. Well, a lot
of people are still sleeping at that time and they're
not really doing anything, and when they leave work at
the end of the day, it's already getting dark. Now,
on the bright side on that one, if you'll pardon
(13:25):
the pun, on the bright side, But in the winter,
when I get home at five point thirty five forty
five and it's dark outside and I already go ahead
and put my pajamas on, it doesn't look as weird
as it does in the summer, and I'm walking around
on my bathrobe.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
You gotta think that always looks weird.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Six o'clock, you got your pajamas on, Its still three
hours of daylight. Now for me, I'm going to My
wife will look at me sometimes and she'll say you
can go to bed, And I'll look at the clock
and go seven thirty. No, I can't go yet. Now
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here's the other question. In addition to the daylight savings
time issue that the House voted on yesterday, the Omaha
City Council yesterday voted to approve the minimum wage proposal.
I don't know anymore who makes what? I am so
confused right now. See, I thought that the wage that
you receive was dictated by the employer and such as before.
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Nebraska voters a few years back said we think we
should raise the minimum wage to fifteen dollars an hour.
That's funny because I drive by McDonald's and they'd have
a sign out there that says McRib is back, and
then right below that it says we started eighteen fifty
an hour, or whatever it was.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
It was above fifteen.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
And the reason why they had jacked up that hourly
wage so much is because no one was going in
there wanting to work. So they thought, well, we'll try
and entice people to come work here, not a bad job,
come in here and work, we'll pay you this. And
there were still apparently no one interested in doing that,
(15:11):
So we move it to fifteen dollars an hour.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
That would be less.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
And suddenly I still see McDonald's and other places like
we will literally hire you for a million dollars an
hour if anyone wants to work. So, I don't know
why we're even arguing about wages. No one wants to
work anymore. But the people of Nebraska said it should
(15:37):
be fifteen an hour, and then the unicameral said, yeah,
but that doesn't make sense for fifteen and sixteen year olds.
And then the city council said, yeah, I didn't really,
I don't know about that.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
And so.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
The Nebraska legislature said, let's move the minimum wage back
cheaper for hiring younger labor, and the city council said,
that's not fair. We're going to bump it back up
for those workers. Apparently there's a lot of fourteen year
olds who are looking to start a family and they
need to have a living wage to be able to
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take care of that family. You know, when that fourteen
year old comes home selling cars all day, got a
short sleeve oxford on beije tie comb over. His wife
comes in there like do.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
You want macarady and cheese or do you want cheerios
for dinner? He's like, hey, just give me a millton.
And I had a rough day. Just give me a minute. Here,
kids are running up there. Daddy, daddy, will you take
us all to school tomorrow? We go to the same school.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Apparently there's a bunch of fourteen year olds looking start
a family. You got that fourteen year old, he got
bags under his eyes.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Oh man, one to day. Oh just give me my
video game controller. I got to hit the bottle of Alani.
So the city council yesterday said we're going to bump
that minimum wage up. Now, the attorney general in Nebraska said,
we're going to sue you. That's against what the law is,
(17:15):
and so city council said, fine, sue us. Amy Melton said,
we're literally just throwing good taxpayer money down the drain
fighting the units Nebraska way right, We've got taxpayer money
in Omaha being thrown a taxpayer money at the state
of Nebraska and vice versa.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
That should be our new slogan.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Yeah, And at the crux of this is we're all
trying to figure out what to pay fifteen year olds
who aren't working. You know what fifteen year olds are
doing for money if they're not asking their parents. Most
of them are asking their parents. The rest of them Yeah,
they're what country do you think this is? Sometimes I wonder, No,
(17:55):
they're going on they they're going online because mom bought
them a shirt a year ago and they grew out
of it and they go online. So I'll sell you
the shirt for eight dollars and then they pay twenty
dollars in shipping and handling and have someone pay them
eight dollars for that shirt. I just made eight dollars.
Like that's funny because it looked like mom just covered
twenty dollars for you to send it to somebody.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Just go to Plato's closet and save on shipping. That's it.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Basically, online is just Plato's closet for all these kids.
They're selling their old clothes, toys and all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
All I know is if they'd been offering fifteen bucks
an hour when I had a part time job way
back in the Stone Age, I'd have been working as
many hours as I could. You've probably kind of stacked
up as many hours during the summertime as I could
at fifteen bucks an hour.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
I'd be curious, though, the buying power that I got
when I started working at four to twenty five an hour.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
That was my min Yeah, fifty that was a minimum wage.
And I started working in the nineties as a teenager, Oh,
when I was fifteen dollars an hour. Now, when I
was a Rockies pancake ranch, it was two dollars an hour, you.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Know, buying power aside fifteen dollars an hour. Right now,
when somebody else is paying for your board, your rent, your.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Clothing, and no tax on tips.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Everything, I would be working as many hours as I
could do, putting that away a heck.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Of a short Yes, I was still serving a Rockies
pancake ranch, you know, and I was getting like a
fifty cent tip on top of the two bucks an hour,
which was you know, probably pretty good back then, maybe
a dollar tip, and I wasn't taxed. Hello, are you
depressed working here in radio that you don't have the
money and prestige you had when you worked at Rockies
(19:31):
Pancake ranch. Well, as it relates to inflation, I'm I've
actually lost ground. Yes, So if you had to.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Bring that, we should get tips.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Well, we just gave you another iHeartRadio T shirt last week.
How much do you want?
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Tips?
Speaker 3 (19:43):
And a coffee mug from Y one oh four The
Slappy and The Commandant Morning Show and Cedar Rapids. We
got a bag of cookies upstairs. What do you want coffee?
We got coffee.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
We don't even get T shirts anymore.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Really, Oh did you not get a new shirt last? Well,
if you should been here on Friday, I'm.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Talking about T shirts from all kinds of places. We
don't get T shirts anymore.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Heart would just pay us in tips.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Right, That's what Robin over here saying.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Jim's first job was at Rocky's Pancake Ranch, which apparently
was a real place Lincoln, Nebraska. Whatever happened to Rocky's
Pancake Ranch?
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Who knows?
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Did it go the way of Rocky's Rocky Rococo's Pizza Restaurant?
Speaker 4 (20:23):
No idea?
Speaker 1 (20:24):
That was a place here in Omaha, Rocky Rococcos. There
you go one place? Hey, hey, Lucy, Yes, that's what.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
That's one of those moments where you think, what what.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Well, if they would just again, if they would just
pay us in tips. Get ahead.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
I actually do want your attention that stall or possible
crash on the inside left shoulder is actually iighty westbound
at forty second.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Why didn't you say that the first time?
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Because I made a mistake.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Lucy, I love you. What was your first job?
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Uh baskin Robbins.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Oh, that's right.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
I've seen pictures of you in your little Yes yeah,
someone no posted them on Facebook once upon a time.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
I would like to see that because I don't even remember.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
I've seen picture you in your little pink basket Robin's uniform,
your little basket Robin's hat.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Now there will be an AI generated by somebody someplace.
Now I got I didn't. I didn't last long.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
You were like, I'm not making one more milkshake. I
have scoop out, like four or five scoops of ice cream.
I gotta get all the way down and the bucket
of ice cream down here.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
I always feel bad.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
They seem like they're working so hard with the frozen
ice cream and they're trying to dig that out.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
It's interesting that you chose milkshakes to talk about, because
that's one of the reasons why I left or got fired.
I can't remember if I got fired. It was the
only job I've ever been fired from.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Did you put the paper cup?
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Yep?
Speaker 3 (21:55):
You gotta put true story, the ice cream and the
milk in the metal cup and then pour it in
the paper cup. Otherwise the rotator on the milkshake machine
will tear the paper cup to ribbons and splatter things everywhere.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
Is that what happen?
Speaker 2 (22:11):
And did I scream everywhere?
Speaker 1 (22:14):
My first job, like, other than helping my dad out,
I got paid a few bucks working for my dad
at his business.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
But when I was.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Fifteen, Rodkush's furniture on consignment seventy second and l ol, maha, I've.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Been there many times. It's not there now.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
There was one time when they moved a basketball game
and I had to go tell my boss I can't
work the afternoon shift on Saturday. I've got a JB
basketball game. And he looked at me. I'm sixteen years old.
He looked at me and said, you gotta make a decision.
You're gonna work here or are you gonna play basketball?
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Unfair?
Speaker 1 (22:50):
I said, well, I'm a sophomore in high school. I'm
probably gonna play to play basketball, so I can't come
here on Saturday. Let's talk about Obviously, that was the
end of you the furniture industry. I enjoyed my time there,
got a lot of stories from it. Thank you so
much for hanging out with us here. On news radio
eleven KFAB. How do you think the meeting went at
(23:11):
Taco Bell's headquarters when they said, well, there's there's a
parasite that's infecting people's bowels and creating an issue. And
the FDA, according to their acting Acting Deputy Commissioner for
(23:33):
Food says, the FDA is certainly looking into the investigation
multiple produce items, including locations reported by the case patients
before they become sick. They have not specifically targeted any
food vendor or distributor. But still Taco Bell came out
(23:59):
an issue statements saying we've voluntarily and temporarily removed limited
ingredients at select restaurants as a precautionary measure. Will continue
to closely monitor the situation and follow the guidance of
public health authorities. This is that they call it the
cyclist spora. It's a heat loving parasite that infects the
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bowels and in the past people have become infected by
consuming fruits or vegetables lettuce that were exposed to contaminated
irrigation water. Well, how does that happen? We were not
going to go through This is breakfast time for a
lot of people. It's just The phrase that many in
(24:45):
the news media have used in talking about those who
have received this parasite is it's an explosive experience. And
I'm sure there were people at Taco Bell saying, we
don't need to put out a statement. The jokes are
already there. No no one's even mentioned us. We don't
(25:06):
even know that anyone's gotten sick from eating any of
this stuff. It's only going to cause people not to
go here. Yes for some people. For me, I'm thinking,
you know, a crunch wrap doesn't sound too bad.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
So they removed the lettuce.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
That they they said limited ingredients, but.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
They're not saying what has been no eliminated.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
And it's limited ingredients at select restaurants as a precautionary.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Measure, so you get a little bit of lettuce.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Well, they in Michigan, where more than three thousand cases
have been reported, officials say that the early information points
to lettuce or salad greens as a possible culprit. And
I'm looking at my diet and going, I'm good, I
just eat meat. Scott, what do you want with your meat?
(25:58):
More meat? Time for a rate of horror moves.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Updates straight form. Jim Rose's favorite update Patty lebel doing
the vocals.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Yeah, thank you to patty Leabelle for singing our straight
of Horror Moo's theme song.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
She did sound drunk at times.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Last night, President Trump says oil is flowing like never
before thanks to the awesome power of the United States military.
He salutes all the people who in the military have
been doing all this.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
It's because it's salame.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Because of them, all members of the most powerful military
anywhere in the world by far. The Strait of Horror
Mooz has opened all ship traffic except for Iran, and
that is because of their lying, violent, malicious leadership, which
is taking them down a path of total destruction. We
will therefore have a full blockade, but only on ships
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coming to you and from Iranian ports or carrying anything
having to do with Iranian cargo. Based on highly productive
conversations with Middle East leadership, I've decided to replace the
twenty percent United States reimbursement fee with trade and investment
deals that the various Golf states will be making into
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the United States. These investments will be massive, but at
the same time extraordinary good for them and their future.
As everyone is aware, we have the largest dollar investment
in the United States of any country, and history in
America's winning again. And Iran will never have a nuclear weapon.
Thank you for your attention this matter, President Donald J.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Trump.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
So sorry. It's a long statement there. I even skipped
over part of it there from that's the president's post
on truth social Well, who.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Knows if it's true. You know, you see some ships
burning in the Gulf of Oman near the Straits of
Horror moves? Was that one of our ships that got hit?
Was it one of their ships that got hit? What
we get out of the Pentagon at times does not
match what we see in video, but maybe it does.
We'll see. But it's pretty scary stuff over there. I
(28:09):
see that the price of oil has sort of steadied.
We didn't see a big jump yesterday. The MARKT was
actually up a little yesterday, and the Nasdaq was way
up yesterday. And prices for gasoline to the pump have
stabilized a little bit over the last week. Where they
go from here? Who knows? Oil still under eighty dollars
a bear? It is?
Speaker 1 (28:26):
It was one hundred and eleven just a couple of
months ago, exactly, and it was very high during the
Biden years too. He says it's because of COVID. Okay,
what does COVID had to do anyway, That's what we
got for four years.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
In case you forgot, he talked yesterday with Trey Yanks
to Fox News and made it clear next week is
bridges and power plants week. Now when Donald Trump says that,
you need to take it to the bank, because when
he says we're gonna do something, he usually does it
unless there are new circumstances, which would be, for example,
(29:01):
a breakthrough. He said yesterday we had a deal on
Sunday night. It was a ninety nine point nine percent deal,
and then somebody in Iran walked in and said, no, no,
we're not going to have this now. Were they really
that close to a deal on Sunday night? That's the
President trying to stabilize the markets, meaning we're still negotiating,
we're still talking. I don't believe they're still negotiating in
(29:24):
good faith. I don't believe they're still talking, just based
on forty seven years of watching Iran. But if the
President says yesterday to Trey Yanks to Fox News, next
week is power plants and bridges week, he needs to
blow up some power plants and bridges. Now that affects
Iranian civilians. That's not the e mooms or, as George W.
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Bush used to say, the Moulahs laws. These are the
things that affect average, ordinary, everyday Iranians. And just remember
this is a country of one hundred million people, that
is twice the size of Texas. That is a large,
large area.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
The Iranian government doesn't care whether their civilians have power
or bridge transportational availability.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
They don't care.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
The Iranian leadership with whom we've been negotiating will gladly
say all right, fine, hey, don't do this. Mister president
will give you anything you want. And the president say,
I want you to stop going after cargo ships and
oil transport in the Strait, and they'll say, we won't
touch it, and then the next day they're going after
exactly what they said they weren't going to do. So
(30:30):
we can continue to do this over and over again,
and apparently we will. Basically, it comes down to whether
or not you believed Iran was trying to get and
close to getting a nuclear weapon, and if they got it,
would they use it? You either believe that, and we
need to do everything necessary to stop it, or you
don't believe it. I believe Iran absolutely was close to
(30:55):
getting a nuclear weapon, and they definitely would have used it,
would have sold it to a terrorist group and let
them use it under no flag, same thing it would
have been used. It would have been their fault, and
we stopped them doing probably in Israel. Do I love
this little ping pong battle we have going on, I don't,
But ultimately it's better than Iran suddenly setting off a
(31:18):
nuclear weapons someplace. So I don't know how long this
is going to go, but obviously the president is getting very,
very frustrated with how long this is taking and the
level of lack of good faith he's getting from the
people with whom were allegedly negotiating. We might have to
blow up a few more iatolas.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Well, if you if you connect the dots, this is
a president who railed against needless wars quote unquote for years,
all the way back to when George W. Bush invaded
Iraq to try to get weapons of mass destruction. This
is a guy who just really believed we were spending
way too much time, money, and people and listen, needless wars.
(31:57):
So if you believe that about him, and I do
why would he do this? Because they were so close
to acquiring a nuclear weapon and that changes the ballgame.
So here's a guy who would never do this unless
it was absolutely necessary, especially within a year of the
midterm elections. So I think the one thing you can
take to the bank with President Trump is he really
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firmly believed that without action, Iran would get a weapon
that could cause mass destruction.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
You either believe that or you don't. He did it,
he's still doing it. And like I always say about
people in positions of power, I hope they know what
they're doing. This guy is all mad because he got
onto a flight wearing an inflammatory T shirt and he
got the attention he wanted. His shirt said bombing kids
(32:45):
is not self defense. He is of Middle Eastern descent
that would be in the region that would be known
as Palestine if they stop blowing up innocent Israelis and
voting into power a terrorist organization. It's not my assessment,
(33:07):
that's the reality of what has happened. So this guy,
the media says, well, he's a Palestinian.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
No he's not.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
There is no Palestine. So he gets on a flight
he's wearing a shirt that says bombing kids is not
self defense. And people complained, yeah, when you see someone, now,
you can't say bomb in an airport, right, You can't
joke about that kind of thing. So he's got this
shirt on talking about bombing kids, making a political statement,
(33:39):
and they said, look, you've got to change your shirt,
or you got to walk to Newark or wherever you're going.
And he got all mad. He said, I was upset
and humiliated. Ah so wait a second, you wanted to fight,
you picked a fight, you found one, and then you're
(34:00):
upset and humiliated that someone called you out on your nonsense.
He'll probably soe and get a whole bunch of those
vouchers vouchers for a free meal that can only be
used at TGA Fridays Monday mornings from seven to eight thirty.
But like they're not open for breakfast. Oh sorry, you
agreed to the terms when you accepted the vouchers, sir.
I got some pushback here. Well, we got some pushback here,
(34:23):
and it comes from Christopher via the Zonker's custom was
inbox Scott at kfab dot com. Christopher says, you guys
just believe everything they tell us Huh, you really believe
Trump is the greatest? You really believe we're the good
guys all of the time. I love you all, but
you're also big.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Idiots at times.
Speaker 5 (34:45):
S M.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
D H. Shaking my darn head. That's from Christopher. So
he's asked us questions. Do you we really believe everything
they tell us? No? No, okay, listen, do we believe
Trump is the greatest? No? The greatest?
Speaker 5 (35:04):
What?
Speaker 3 (35:04):
Yeah, he's the greatest president we have today? Yeah, well,
I mean he's now, he's an impactful president.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
And Joe Biden was the greatest president we had when
Biden was president?
Speaker 3 (35:14):
Uh, well when when? When? At the time, at that day,
he was the ones president he was at the time.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Because he was the president. And do you really believe
we're the good guys all the time?
Speaker 6 (35:26):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (35:27):
Gooder than whom gooder? Yeah, than whom gooder? And then
we go.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Back to third grade grammar, right, good the good guys,
well compared to who you know, president, compared to Hamas presidents,
the presidents don't get graded until they're out out of office.
You can't say he was the greatest president of all
time until the totality of their time in office. Harry
Truman left with thirty one percent approval rating. Harry Truman
(35:55):
might be the very best president of this country's had
in the last one hundred years. You could make the
case for it. I mean, you can make a strong
case what Harry Truman did in the wake of the
end of the war and the dynamic recession that followed,
and how he kept the country in place. But the
Marshall Plan saved Europe. If we didn't do the Marshall Plan,
(36:18):
we think we got problems with the Soviet Union today,
or we got problems with international terrorism today. Imagine Western
Europe under communist rule. So you know, we look back
now it's been one hundred years and ninety years since
he was in office and say Harry Truman was as
good as it got. But at the time, for the
next twenty thirty years, no, because the totality of his
(36:39):
time in office had not been fully prods. Well, I
can't decide what the people in the history books are
going to write several decades from now. I can just
look at and a lot of people lose sight of
this why Trump was elected twice in the first place.
And that is and the analogy I often give is
you have sewage backing up in your basement, and you
(37:00):
call two plumbers and one of them says that sewage
belongs there, and for you to think that it shouldn't
be here is problematic and you need to check your privilege.
And the other guy comes in there, and uh, yeah,
he's maybe a bit of a bore, and he says
some ridiculous things once in a while and uses some
(37:21):
salty language, but he's gonna get that sewage out of
your basement. That's why Trump was elected. There are a
lot of people in this country that think that there's
some sewage in the basement, and President Trump is the.
Speaker 3 (37:33):
Guy to go and fight. He's the guy to go
fight and get it out. Now. This is how Jimmy
Carter was elected. Jimmy Carter was elected because we wanted
the bipolar opposite of what we'd had, which was a
Richard Nixon administration of Washington insiders and fat cats and
corrupt fat cats. And the country said, I gotta have
(37:54):
somebody I don't know. I got to have somebody who
doesn't know Washington, DC from a washing machine. And that's
how he was elected. And he was a very good
and decent man who should never have been President of
the United States, given policy decisions, his inaction, his perceived weakness,
and all the rest. So that got us Ronald Reagan,
(38:15):
who is the bipolar opposite of Jimmy Carter. I appreciate
the email, though, Chris, and you can send years in
as well as Scott at kfab dot com from the
talkback Mike, Okay, Hey Scott, just driving into work. Love
your analogy of illegal aliens are sewage? Love it is
(38:35):
so true. No, but you're a hate for it. Yeah,
I imagine I would if that's what I said, illegal
aliens are that sage illegal aliens to people. If this
is where you are, If your imagination has been so
dull that you believe that Scott Vorhees was referencing, you know,
illegal immigrants, real people and likening them to sewage backing
(38:58):
up in your basement, you need to spend a lot
more time listening to AM radio because that fertilizes the mind.
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
Yeah, this is my favorite talk radio game. I say
one thing, you hear whatever you want. No, When I
say the analogy of you've got sewage in your basement
and one person says, hey, that sewage deserves.
Speaker 3 (39:19):
To be here. That is all this political stuff with
which you would disagree, and it comes on a lot
of different fronts, and President Trump's like, we're getting that.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
Out of here now. I'll give you credit on this one.
I can see where you can get to that level
if that's your first political issue. But I wasn't talking
about one issue. I was talking about a lot of it,
for example, And we'll work in this as well. It
has to do with ICE, and it has to do
with someone who said, they said, well, he did everything
(39:52):
by the book in the United States, and he was
killed on his own block by a federal agent. He
was murdered at the hands of the US government. It
was an assassination, is what they're saying here. This is
another case of someone who I don't know whether ICE
was specifically looking for this person or this person's background status.
I don't know any of that. And in fact, none
(40:14):
of that has anything to do with anything. It has
to do with Suddenly law enforcement wants to pull you
over and ask you some questions. And if you decide
that these instructions are impossible for you to follow, and
you drive your vehicle into armed law enforcement, bad things
are going to happen. Now, all of these Democrats who
(40:35):
are saying, oh, there'd be Ice is murdering people on
the streets. And if they spend as much energy telling
people say, look, you got to know when law enforcement
border patrol ice that when they need to pull you over,
when they're asking you to stop your car, either stay
in the car or get out of the car. They're
going to tell you what to do. They're going to
(40:55):
be very very clear about it. You need to follow
those commands so you don't end up dead. That they
should be doing that, but they're not because they love
the fact that this guy was killed. They love the
fact that he tried to drive into Ice and got
killed fourly so they can make Ice seem like the
bad guy.
Speaker 3 (41:12):
It's something to hang on refrigerator. They love it. And
that's sewage and that makes me so angry. It's true,
this guy did not need to die. They politicize the death.
They are trying to create a narrative that says Ice
is nothing but a bunch of jack booted thug straight
out of Adolf Hitler shoot Staffel. It's not true, it's
(41:33):
never been true. It's not even close to true. But
in a world. In an age, what all we do
is look at TikTok videos and decide what's real in
the world. That's an easy one. I got all fired
up there. Sorry, okay, all right, only emails says bridges
and power plants have to be next week. If it
doesn't happen, Trump will have to wait until Shark Week
is over. Shark Week starts July twenty sixth, Dad, what
(41:55):
are you doing?
Speaker 4 (41:56):
It's Shark Week?
Speaker 1 (41:57):
Like to now walk theme onto the program eleven to
ten kfab National correspondent Rory O'Neil joins us here.
Speaker 3 (42:03):
Rory, good morning, Hey, good morning, Happy Wednesday. So if
happy Wednesday to you as well, Rory. If Congress just
leaves the clocks where they are, is it's still dark
at noon? Is it light at midnight? Are we going
to some sort of Icelandic time where it's just three
months of daylight? No one knows how to deal with
(42:24):
this daylight savings push what's going on here?
Speaker 4 (42:27):
And a lot of us forget our history.
Speaker 5 (42:28):
You know, in the nineteen seventies we tried locking the
clocks down.
Speaker 4 (42:32):
And we were all excited when it started.
Speaker 5 (42:34):
The approval was like eighty percent but four months into
that wintertime experiment in nineteen seventy four, we hated the idea,
so support for it fell pretty rapidly. And now we
saw the House this week resident pass a bill that
would let states decide if they want daylight saving time,
if they want to lock the clocks and not do
(42:57):
a switch roo twice a year. There are some real
downsides to this. The you know you'd rough where you are.
Sunrise would roughly be around eight thirty in the morning
on January fifteenth of twenty twenty eight, and for a
lot of people, that's just too late.
Speaker 1 (43:12):
Yeah, And that people say, well, the kids, they'll be
out there in the dark. Well they're out there in
the dark now because school starts early enough that it
doesn't matter unless you dramatically start shifting the time. So
let's throw that argument out. For a lot of people,
it's either you go to work in the dark or
you go home from work as it's getting dark. And
I'd rather have the extra daylight in the evening because
(43:35):
on a nice day, I can play a few more
holes of golf, and you can't do that in the
morning because there's a frost delay. And I wonder Rory.
If because Trump is a golf officionado, If that's not
the reason he's pushing this, well, you know he.
Speaker 5 (43:47):
Also plays golf in Florida, and you know, when it's summertime,
they're in Bedminster, so you know he's he's got the
clock on his side already. But to your point there,
there is a real econom argument to be had here
that when you come home from work. For normal people
who come home after five o'clock, if it's still light out,
you're more likely to say, hey, honey, get in the car,
(44:10):
let's go downtown, let's go out to eat, let's go shopping,
let's go do stuff. But when you come home at
five o'clock and it's already dark and it has been
for half an.
Speaker 4 (44:17):
Hour, you're on lockdown.
Speaker 5 (44:19):
You know, you're just like Netflix and Chill, get the
comforter out, and we're just going to cozy up on
the couch because we're done well.
Speaker 3 (44:26):
But let's be clear, this doesn't mean we're going to
be like noalm Alaska in the middle of the summer,
where you get twenty three and a half hours of
sunshine just because of this.
Speaker 5 (44:35):
No, all we're doing is changing the number on the clock.
We're not going to get more or less sunshine as
a result. It's about when you're up to see it
and again to have an eight point thirty sunrise.
Speaker 4 (44:47):
It might be a little too late for some folks.
Speaker 5 (44:49):
You know, in Indianapolis, sunrise would be at nine four
am on January fifteenth and twenty twenty eight. That's pretty late.
Speaker 4 (44:58):
For most folks.
Speaker 1 (44:59):
I just I don't see this happening because if some states,
all it takes is one state to opt out. You know,
Nebraska is on one time, Iowa was on an hour later.
I mean, that's stupid. So all it takes is for
everyone to start pulling on Arizona and decide that they're
on whatever time they want to be on, and it
all falls apart. Plus, I got this great email earlier
(45:20):
says if Trump is for it, the Blue states will
immediately opt out just because it's Trump, and no one
will have any idea. Rory O'Neil with us here for
a few more minutes on Nebraska's morning News. I also
want to ask you about where we rank in terms
of the healthiest and least healthy cities. I'm guessing, like
(45:41):
a lot of things, Omaha probably falls somewhere right in
the middle on this one.
Speaker 4 (45:47):
Yeah, and I had it on my screen and then
went away.
Speaker 5 (45:51):
Top of the heat of the ninth year in a
row is Arlington, Virginia, Washington, DC, and Minneapolis. They're pretty close.
Speaker 4 (45:59):
This survey.
Speaker 5 (46:00):
It actually looks at things like, you know, how well
people are on their diets, how often do they exercise?
You know, what's the outdoor athletic opportunity out there. That's
one of the spots where Omaha, by the way, it
ranked pretty high, was on outdoor facilities.
Speaker 4 (46:16):
Otherwise, where did you go on the list?
Speaker 3 (46:19):
You went away, but you were somewhere in the metal.
Speaker 4 (46:21):
There is number number thirty there.
Speaker 5 (46:23):
You are number thirty on the list of one hundred.
It was actually you had a lower ranking for personal fitness,
whether or not you're on medication or how help you
are regularly, But you rank twenty fourth out of one hundred.
When it comes to the facilities, the bike pass, the
hiking trails, the venues, and the community that supports the
individual's good health.
Speaker 3 (46:42):
Jim Rose is throwing off the curve. Well, the street
car is not going to help. This just means people
are going to walk less downtown. Not that the street
car would take them to any place anyway, But they
can just get on that thing instead of walking around
the la he mal just right around that like it's
mister Rogers trolley.
Speaker 1 (46:59):
They're gonna have to get all at some point walk
if they want to go eat something. But what what we'll
do is we'll overeat and then we'll exactly then we'll
just sit a number on the street car, Rory. Another
factor in this, though, is air quality.
Speaker 5 (47:12):
That's one of the numbers where they were tracking. They
see a big divergence to healthier cities have much healthier air.
Those in the bottom worse air. And that gets back
to car pollution. So maybe that trolley does help by
giving you a cleaner air to breathe.
Speaker 1 (47:26):
Ooh see Geene stout there smiling right now, Rory, always
smiling when you're on the program. Thank you very much.
I appreciate the time today, Thanks guys. Eleven to ten
kfab national correspondent Rory O'Neil right there and right here
on Nebraska's Morning News.
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