December 23, 2025 • 41 mins
Here are some alleged highlights from the last couple of days' show, including a former OPPD official responding to allegations from activists about a coal plant remaining open, the latest Epstein file letdown, Jim's favorite childhood Christmas memory, and the "Feliz Deportad" bit!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I want people to generally get what they want. I mean,
after all, it's Christmas. But for those of you who
have been thinking, this is the time, this is what's
going to do it. They're going to release all the
Epstein stuff, and this is the stuff that's going to
bring down And on this one partisan be darned. There
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are people on one side that say it's going to
bring down Trump, people on the other side saying it's
going to bring down Clinton or whoever. You know, this
is never going to happen, right, Sorry to be a
big old wet blanket on what your Christmas hopes and
dreams are. There are people in this country who want
nothing more for Christmas than for either a current or
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former president of the United States, or city member of Congress,
or some titan of industry or what, or the King
of England or someone to go down in this Epstein thing.
And it's never going to happen. For those of you
who have been saying, well, they're covering up this, the
Trump administration, covering up all the Trump's You remember who
the president was the first time everyone in the Department
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of Justice and that administration had a chance to look
through every single one of these files. It wasn't Trump,
it was the Biden Obama Clinton machine. And for anyone
who said, well, they weren't going to throw Trump under
that bus as long as like Clinton was going to
be under there too, Look, they would to get Trump
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under that Epstein bus. They would have thrown Clinton under there,
They would have thrown Obama under there, they would have
thrown Obama's mom under there. Everyone would have gone under
that bus if there was any chance of getting Trump
under there. So you got to try and tell me,
Jim that there were people in the Biden administration who
saw that, Oh, yeah, we have all this juicy, juicy
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evidence on Donald Trump. But you know what, I think
the American people have been through enough. Let's just put
all this behind us and move forward. Do you try
to tell me there people out there that think that
scenario existed.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Year hundred percent right.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
If they'd had anything on Trump, this would have been
on Earth fifteen minutes after Joe Biden took the oath
of office. But there were other people in there that
would have embarrassed the Democrat Party, probably some big Democrat
donors and a few other folks that pretty much made
it clear to the Biden administration. You leave this alone.
But I would also tell you, and I believe this
to be true, what happened on Lolita Express and on
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Sex Island down there was dreadful, It was deplorable, it
was criminal, and you would hope he's dead now, but
you would hope that anybody who's still alive that had
anything to do with that would have the book thrown
at him. But I think most Americans don't care. I
really don't. I mean, Scott, you look at the world today,
and you look at the world that average Americans do
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with every day. Jeffrey Epstein is a non factor. What
Jeffrey Epstein, a rich guy from New York City, did
in his spare time, is of little consequence to most Americans.
There are some, especially those folks who really stand up
for the rights of rape victims, where this is super important,
but that's a very small small percentage of people. Most
folks are a lot more worried about their insurance premiums.
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Most people are a lot more worried about whether they
can put their kid into college next year. Most people
are a lot more worried about whether or not they
can pay their freaking property taxes. Are they going to
have to move out of this house because their property
taxes are through the roof. Jeffrey Epstein is a media
created phenomenon as a means to try to embarrass the
President of the United States. It's never as you say,
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it was never going to happen. It ain't gonna happen.
It's over. Okay, Now we're still going to have stuff
that this White House and this Department of Justice is
going after Biden because they went through Malania's underwear mar
A Lago, apparently for no real reason other than.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
To do it. Not the terrible Guyson.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
For most of us, it might be actually an interesting
field trip, but legally it was not on strong ice,
was not on thick ice legally, and somebody's gonna pay
for that because the President didn't like it when somebody
rolled into his house with guns drawn and said step
aside as we tear apartsure home.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
I would love for everyone in America to have the
same thought, well some of the same thoughts as you,
especially as pertains, to just let the Epstein things.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Let it go.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
He's dead to a different Two wildly different administrations have
looked at the same evidence, and we still don't have anything.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
He's dead. If that's the case, you're not going to
have anything. Yes, young women were abused. Yes it was tragic,
Yes it was dreadful. Yes, yes, yes, you're right. But
what Okay, he's dead. Everything about Epstein is over his life,
his business, his his empire. It's gone. So can we
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we Sadly, sometimes we just have to suck it up
and move on.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
All right, Since we're on this bridge that Jim just built,
let's let's take a look at one part of it.
You were talking about how Americans don't care about the
Epstein stuff because they're trying to afford, among other things,
healthcare cost.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Now by comparisons, twenty two.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Million Americans at the end of next week the end
of the year are going to see what they have
on the marketplace aka the Affordable Care Act aka Obamacare.
AKA thank you Senator Ben Nelson, Thank you Senator John
McCain for still allowing us to have taxpayers subsidized health
premiums for the American people. Twenty two million people on
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Obamacare are going to see their premium skyrocket.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Scott, everybody's insurance premiums they're up. But this is the
one that gets the attention.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Yeah, well, when some people and I don't know how
many of that group we're talking about, but some of
the numbers they continued to describe for us, are you're
going to have people are only paying like twenty dollars
a month suddenly paying three hundred and fifty dollars a month.
How are they supposed to afford that kind of jump?
I don't know how. How in the world do we
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have people out there with health insurance that was only
costing them twenty dollars a month for the same basically
the same insurance you have that's costing you upwards of
however much per month. And the same people who are
complaining that I can't believe that these health premiums are
going away, they're going so high up, and that the Republicans,
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the evil Trump Mega Republicans, are trying to reform healthcare.
This is just the same people who do They are
the same ones that complain that rural hospitals and health
clinics are closing. Do you know why that's happening. It's
happening because there are so many people in this country,
on whether it's Medicaid or Obamacare, when they go to
the hospital, and oftentimes they're still just going into the
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emergency room because even though Obamacare, for example, and even
Medicaid will pay for preventative health care, they're still not
going in there for some of their preventative stuff. So
they get anything from a hangnail to a shark bite,
and they head into the emergence room. Are they heading
there for some sort of surgery? And then because they're
on Medicaid or Obamacare, the federal government, your tax dollars
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only subsidize that hospital about twenty cents on the dollar,
if that for all of that which the hospital just
put forth. So they have to try and make that
up either by raising your premiums, raising your health care costs,
taking it to the taxpayers, taking it to the American people,
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And a lot of them have decided, we can't afford
to keep the lights on here. We're closing this down,
and a huge reason is because of government funded health insurance,
which shouldn't exist in the first place.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
We didn't have this problem back before we had lots
and lots and lots of government intrusion in healthcare. Youre
one hundred percent right, Sky. We've talked a lot about
this for the last fifteen years, and on this program,
and it was not alone. On conservative talk radio stations
at the time, we said, this is what's going to happen.
We had experts on from the insurance industry. We had
Republicans like Chuck Grassley on who watched.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
All of this.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
He was the Senate Minority leader at the time, and
he said, here's what's going to happen. If this becomes law.
The government will take over health insurance. Okay, and it
has now. It's not going to take over health care
right away. That's going to drip drip, trickle down. But
this was wholly predicted that what the president at the
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time said was not going to happen. You cannot do
what they were planning to do actuarily and not have
prices go up. And it was the same issue with
Medicare and Medicaid when it was invented in the nineteen sixties.
The Democrats made promises that this is going to lower
health care costs, this is going to provide health care
for people that don't have it, and here's what it's
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going to cost. And Republicans who knew what they were
talking about at the time said, no, it'll be ten
times that and it has been. And anytime the government
gets involved in the marketplace, you do not have market
forces at work. And just look at how we buy
insurance now in the private industry, we don't get a choice.
Our company proved employer sponsored healthcare. Whether it's good, batter
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and different depends on who you are, but we don't
get to decide. And Obamacare subsidies provide a lot of support,
but there are strings attached that require you to take
on care you don't need. This is what happens when
the government it inserts itself into the private marketplace. The
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Congress is about to take the holiday recess without doing
anything on this. It's not a great look for the
Republicans who have been saying for years we have a
better plan. And now people's health insurance premiums are going
to skyrocket and these guys are taking off for vacation.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Well, they did pass a plan. The Republicans did pass
a plan.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
It's got to go to the Senate though, and it
stands very little chance of doing anything. I want to
welcome on here in response to a story we discussed
a lot here over the last few weeks, especially on Friday,
as community activists in northeast Somah are accusing OPPD of
letting people die by keeping open a coal fired power
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plant in that area. This is someone who has been
in a leadership position with OPPD Estate senator and currently
running for oppd's board of directors and District three. Frequent
contributor to this program, Jim Smith joins us here on
Nebraska This Morning News. Jim, good morning, and Merry Christmas.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Good morning, Scott, and good morning Jim, and Merry Christmas
to both of you. In a prosperous new year, you too, Jim,
And also congrass on the new show.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
It's it's yeah, it's the same show. It's just so
much less than just to be honest, just to be
honest here I miss Gary too.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Now there's a petition circulating. You never know, we might
have a Christmas meek.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
We don't need a petition.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
We just need Gary to change his mind, all right, Jim,
would you if you were serving with OPPD now, would
you recommend that they keep this coal fire plant open?
And if so, what about the community activists is say
that it's contributing to health problems and deaths in that area?
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Sure, let me just address your first questions very clearly.
I see no condition under which I would support closing
the north Omahak coal plant or any other coal plant
on the OBBD system, and I have a number of
reasons for that. I spent thirty years in the utility industry,
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seventeen at OPBD. Look, I'm very, very pleased with the
vote last week by the board to keep the north
Omahak coal units in place. Although it's temporary. OPBD originally
voted to retire the north Omahawk coal units as part
of its larger net zero carbon emissions plan, and the
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well intentioned the net zero goal is simply not realistic.
And I know there's dueling studies out there on air quality,
on health impact. I believe that due diligence has been done.
OPBD study was very very clear. I believe the OPPD
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can operate that plant properly. I believe it's a clean
coal plant. I think they've done everything that they can
do to remedy any concerns on the health front. We
have to keep the coal units in place for a
number of reasons.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
The biggest question here I think we're seeing is the
green energy policies that led to the promised closure of
the plant to begin with, everyone from the European Union
to New York to San Francisco are rolling back not
so much emission standards in San Francisco, but they're looking
after widespread power outages the other day that they need
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to do something different. Omaha area Oppd's area is adding
these we have more neighborhoods, more businesses, these big data
centers that suck up a lot of energy. How is
Omaha looking here for the next ten to twenty years
if we don't do anything in terms of being able
to keep people have the opportunity to turn the lights
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on affordably.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Jim, you're right.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
You know the coal operation is critical to the physical
operation of the grid, and not a lot of people
are talking about that, but coal plays a very important
role in the stability of the grid. It also is
part of the obligation to provide affordable and reliable power.
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So I can list off a lot of technical reasons
as to why coal is critical to keep in place,
but it also helps us to keep the rates low
and provides the baseload generation for us to be able
to bring on new load. New load in the form
of population growth and businesses and jobs. Now, there's a
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lot of other types of power generation that we can
bring on board to help us meet those demands, but
cole absolutely must be part of that mix.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Yeah, because coal is available right now, and nuclear energy
is expensive to build and you have to get through
the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Jim, you're a big fan of
nuclear energy. It's one of the reasons I'm voting for you. Well,
I can't because I don't live in your district, but
I'm going to tell everybody that I know who does live.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
In vote for you.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Let's visit for just a second though about the data centers,
if you?
Speaker 2 (14:26):
If you?
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Because I don't think people understand, and it's not because
they don't know, they just haven't really been informed. And
that is one data center uses the same energy as
a thousand walmarts.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
That's that's unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
When are we going to start mandating the data centers
create their own power sources because we just can't afford.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
To have them suck that kind of juice out of
the energy system.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
I'm not certain I would totally agree with that, you know,
premise that they have to have to generate their own power.
I think they can contribute in different ways. Maybe they
do want to selve journalmy but also they are paying
race as well, and they are creating a pathway for
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competitiveness for Nebraska. Look, I was never a huge fan
of some of the tax abatement programs that help bring
these data centers online, but guess what, they're here, and
data centers is the leading factor towards AI and all
of the other type of growth opportunities our country has.
Nebraska is in a prime position to compete against our
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neighboring states on that front. And so to that point,
we have to make certain we have the generation capacity
there to meet the demands. And I believe that data
centers are part of the mix of the path forward
for Nebraska's competitiveness.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
I just asked AI whether we should make these data
centers contribute their own energy, and I said, tell Jim
Rose to shut up.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
So I guess it's up to me. I wouldn't have
him here, Guys, they are here now.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
It's a great conversation for another day. Right now, Jim,
We'll wish you a merry Christmas, happy New Year, and
I'm sure we'll talk a lot more here in the
year ahead.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Thank you very much for joining us.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
All Right, Merry Christmas.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Welcome on here News Radio eleven ten kfab National correspondent
Rory O'Neil back here on the program, Rory, Merry Christmas,
Happy holidays, do you.
Speaker 6 (16:26):
Hey, there's got mery Christmas.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Got a few things to talk about here. First of all,
as we've been detailing, is the wrong word. There are
no details the Epstein files, anything in there that worth
talking about.
Speaker 6 (16:39):
Not a whole lot of stuff. I mean, if you
really want to get into the weeds. There are some
interesting notations and absences when it comes to emails relating
to that prosecution deal that Epstein took with South Florida
prosecutors decades ago. Also pretty interesting that some of these
first allegations that Epstein may have been trading in child
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porn date back to nineteen ninety six, believe it or not.
And an Epstein employee who filed a complaint that the
FBI ignored decades ago.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Who's getting locked up based on what you've seen.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
Based on this nobody? And that's the other big question, right,
how do you have a sex trafficking ring with no
guys involved?
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (17:23):
Yeah, you know, so far, Epstein is the only guy
who was really charged in this. And yes, you know
there are photos with him with plenty of billionaires and
presidents and future presidents and past presidents and rock stars
and the like, But does that necessarily make them guilty
of crimes? You know, there's a lot more video video,
by the way, that's also available that won't be released
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because it's so explicit in nature, But at some point
there had to be some of the guy involved.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Yeah, anything you see there to justify the accusations from
the political left in this country that Trump is hiding
something that they took a picture off of the DOJ website,
then they brut it back in and all the rest
of stuff.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
But what do you think.
Speaker 6 (18:03):
Yeah, well, that's the thing is that President Trump has
really never been accused of any wrongdoing himself. You know,
I think the real stink on the president is that
he kept associating with Epstein even after these accusations may
have surfaced. But that's it from what we know and
what's been released. But there's not any direct accusation against
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the president. As many people have observed, if the Biden
administration and the Biden Justice Department knew that Donald Trump
was involved, You bet we all would have found out
during the last campaign, and that didn't happen. So you
know why the president is still so reluctant to have
this STARp released is the head scratcher. And then a
lot of Republicans are saying, for crying out loud, let's
put this behind us, get it out there, and give
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us time to recover ahead of November twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
You just quoted Jim Rose this morning, Rory nice JOBN
News Radio eleven ten kfav National correspondent Rory O'Neill with
us here on eleven ten KFAB for a couple more minutes.
You've also been doing some of the work on a
question I don't know if we're really ever have answered,
and that is what compelled a guy who went.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
To college decades.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Ago with another guy, then goes on to become an
MIT professor to go and kill that guy and then
open up fire on some students taking finals at Brown University.
What more have you found on this story, Rory?
Speaker 6 (19:23):
Yeah, it's really interesting though that you know, this seems
to be something that's much more personal, right, This wasn't
this didn't seem to be motivated by politics or religion. Instead,
this seems like more of a personal beef. And you know,
we're still waiting to get the official motive. But when
you had that week long search going on, there were
a lot of voices on websites like x saying, you know, oh,
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it's no they were targeting the young Republican woman, or
they were he shouted a lock bar before carrying out
the killings. And apparently none of that is true. And
this is coming from influencers that may have millions of
followers out there, not just some random with you know,
fifty eight people following him. And this has real ramifications
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because the press conferences were all jammed up with this
hype in this talk that was apparently irrelevant in the case.
But at the same time, the semi homeless guy who
helped really crack the case was posting what he felt
and saw on Reddit and his experiences really led to
this whole case being cracked.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Why didn't he call the police?
Speaker 6 (20:28):
Right? I mean, we know he was on Reddit and
posting things there and when his picture got out there,
he went forward to police within an hour. So that
was also interesting because he said on Reddit, like I
think the police should talk to me. He said, well,
why didn't they? And then when his photo got out there,
he went forward. And then now they're saying he's the
one who should get that fifty thousand dollars reward.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
And maybe if he'd called the police to begin with,
rather than try and impress his friends on Reddit, this
would be an excellent am I the a Reddit forum,
you know, the a for not going to police with
details that could But this guy, I mean, it sounded
like he committed these two atrocities, went right to his
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garage at that storage facility, and took care of himself
right there in the garage. So no matter who called police,
win sounded like that one was done. And that means
will I might never know why.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
This guy did, is right?
Speaker 6 (21:24):
The brown shooting happened Saturday, the MIT professor was killed Monday,
and then we think the suicide was Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
We'll have to see if they if they are able
to uncover anything and what he left behind. But you know,
here we are a week later and haven't heard anything,
and his name didn't come up in the Epstein files.
So there's all that, all right.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
And now we're in the holidays and everything else. So
who knows when when the intil will get out there.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Rory, there's you never know when you'll be a guest
on this program. But if we don't talk to you
before Christmas, have a merry one, my friend, and we'll
talk to you soon.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
Thanks God, Merry Christmas to you as well.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
I'm actually broadcasting live right now from my car, still
waiting in line to see the Christmas Land lights out
there just west of Bennington, between like Bennington and Valley.
When we left there last night, we did go through there,
and actually we got there at about six o'clock and
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the entire process at that point took about two hours,
about an hour waiting in line and nearly an hour
to go through there. And it's a really cool special place.
My favorite thing about the Christmas Land display out there,
right off of the seventy five Highway to seventy five
out there is everyone who's got a sunroof on their car.
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They just pop open the sunroof and the kids just
jump up there and they're looking through the sunroof and
looking at all the lights.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
And the lights are fun.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
It's everything from your traditional sandy claws and elves and
snowman and polar bears, and then there's just a section
where it's like, here's an abominable snowman and a fire
breathing dragon, and a hippo playing golf in a spider
and a lizard. I mean, it's just it's all over
the place out there. It's crazy. And the entire thing.
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You got kids hanging out at the top of the car,
you know, from the sun roof, just screaming and having
a great time and laughing. My daughter is a college
freshman aged almost nineteen year old. I popped open the
sun roof and she jumped right up there and was
doing it and taking pictures and having fun and laughing. Now,
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her sixteen year old brother could not possibly be bothered
to care about it. He was pretty much held against
his will like a kidnap victim. But even he admitted
like it was cool, you know, which is effusive praise
from a sixteen year old high school sophomore. But the
line of cars waiting to get in there when we
left at about eight o'clock last night, I don't see
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how those people got through. What time do they shut
that thing down? Probably after the last car noon, I mean,
at some point you sun up you live out that way,
and the people who live in that immediate area have
been like, look, we're glad that it's a nice attraction
and families are enjoying it and they're raising money for
the Salvation Army. That's great, but there are a lot
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of cars on roads I didn't even previously know existed.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Yeah, you know, it's a little bit like junkstock. And
you know when you go to junkstock and they try
to go in there at that Waterloo exit just as
you begin that turn from Highway six into two seventy five,
it's the same thing. You gotta be careful because people
are getting off of that Love's Interchange two.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Hundred and fifty second Street. Not anymore.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
The Douglas County Sheriff's Office is directing traffic out there
because it's pretty dangerous. All well, it's it's a little risky.
It's a little risky because if you get off on
where you know Love's Dairy Queen is that little exit
there off two seventy five, you do that and you
take that immediate right turn to get into it, and
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then you'll have what you had a couple of weekends ago,
which was cars backed up on the highway exactly, which
is what we're trying not to do. So now they
want you to get off a little bit further east,
the further down, well north up to I don't know
what that exit is there, but you end up getting
off like on Aida and State Street, coming all the
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way around on dirt roads and going around that way,
and cars were backed up on that next exit clear
back by the time we left there. It's I mean,
there are people. If I was in there and we
started fairly close to the attraction and that took about
two hours, there had to have been people in their
car for five hours last night to do that starting
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at eight o'clock at night.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
It's a cool attration. Cool.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
I don't know if it's five hours in the car cool.
I don't know if there's anything in the world's five
hours in the car. Well, there are a couple of things,
but we won't talk about the four and a half
hour's tops.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
My personal favorite is the hook shot Santa and the
combine gobbling up the corn.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Oh, those are my two favorite exhibits out there.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
But Travis has done a great job and it really
is an attraction, and you know he's he's spent a
lot of money to do this. He's making a lot
of money, but he's he's issuing a proceed to the
Salvation Army. So there is a charitable thing here and
it takes once you get in, it takes about thirty
five forty minutes to go through it. So you just
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have to enjoy being in the car with your kids.
Think of the Grizwolds and that's what you've got. But
it is a unique experience. There were the first time
I said something like that, it was up in Minnesota.
We went up there to see my son when he
was living up there at Christmas time, and they had
one in Chaska, Minnesota, and it took about an hour
and a half to get into that one too. These
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things are money making machines.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Now.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
That said, he started setting those exhibits up, those lighted
exhibits up in October.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
They've got an area of Wichita that's a lot of
really cool lights and the displays set to music. But
this is one you walk through and that might be
something on the long term horizon for Omaha. We can
look at that's that's that's not only a nice cool thing.
It's also the kind of thing to where if you're
midway through it and you need to use a restroom
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or get some hot coco or something, that's right over here,
and whereas if you're in your car, people are jumping
out of their cars to use the restroom, which is
the ditch, or some guy's front yard right there off
the highway, which is we'd prefer that that not happened.
Nothing says Merry Christmas. Like watching the guy in the
truck in front of you purge his build on the
side of the road in front of your children.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Go what's he doing?
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Take care of that business before you climb into the car,
and don't drink a six pack.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
That's all Scott at kfab dot com and the Zonker's
custom was inbox talking about the roads out there near
Christmas Land and Valley, Like take the two seventy five,
you go past Megs, take Ada the other round to
the dirt road by state run and you come out
on Mats. Aaron says, you got I sound like the
Californians talking about the roads in Omaha. You go ahead,
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a Christmas Lang, what are you doing here? That's still
what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Here. What are you doing that bid right there?
Speaker 3 (28:17):
An ongoing bed is as good as a got on that.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Saturday night live.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Steering, Good morning, and thank you so much for being
here with us on Nebraska's news, weather and Traffic station
eleven ten k f A B.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
Phelise depoorda, phelise depoord phileas deepoord prospero vi a hey enowelvas.
We're gonna get you out of a country, Get those
bed mbres out of a country, get everyone the hell
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out of our country, and will never let them back.
Speaker 7 (29:05):
We closed our border to save the nation. We all
love ice and mess deportations. Send the illegals to a
new location, then don't ever let them back. Pheleas deporda,
phelas deporda pheles deporda prospero vi a hey do veelvass
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crassias me fellow americanos pelis deporda, and thank you for
your attention to this matter.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Miss you.
Speaker 6 (29:41):
Merry Christmas, with you a merry Christmas. I want your
marry Christmas.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
All right.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
That is Sean Farrash as President Trump wearing a sombrero
and a bad Christmas sweater here. That's Jim Rose, I'm
Scott Vorhees.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
He's even got the breath down, you know, you know
he's got that right, and he's he's just so freaking
spot on with him.
Speaker 6 (30:16):
You know.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
People think that's Trump.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
I know, and in the Christmas spirit, I will say this,
I believe what we're talking about there with the cheering
of the deportations would be the bad ombres, the criminals,
those who are bringing nothing but drugs, human trafficking, violence,
murder into our communities.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
We want them out of our country.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
And obviously there are some people who get caught up
in these ICE, these little operations that ICE is doing,
and then there's a process in there like all right, hey,
sorry about that, And sometimes a paperwork issue is not
on the same level as a murder.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
We're not cheering for those things.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
Now.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
The problem is is that all of those hate President Trump,
they hate ICE, and they want you to go and
battle Ice in the street every single night. They think
every single person that ICE picks up is some sweet,
kindly old you know aunt who's you know, just like, Oh,
I was told to sign here and pay this guy
some money and I could work freely in America. I
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didn't know they think every single person that ICE picks
up is someone who's just ready for sainthood, including Kilmar Abrego,
Garcia and the rest of them. So it's kind of
hard to separate this from that. The Catholic bishops of
Florida have made an appeal for a pause and immigration
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enforcement for Christmas, like, hey, let the illegal immigrants spend
Christmas with their families and then we'll get them all
out of here by New Year. That's not exactly what
they're saying, but they're asking for a humanitarian pause in
ICE deportations for Christmas.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Well, one of the things that never gets reported and
it doesn't match the narrative, and it does match they
hate Trump narrative, is that there are avenues and there
are waivers for people like the little old lady who's
been here from Guatemala since nineteen seventy four. There is
an accommodation for them. It never ever gets reported. Now,
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that doesn't mean that ICE doesn't know who they are,
and that doesn't mean that ICE doesn't cite them. But
this very notion that ICE jack boot thugs are busting
down doors in Fremont, Nebraska to get a bunch of
Hispanic folks who might have come here in the nineteen
eighties at the border, paid somebody who looked like a
cop five thousand dollars and they've been fine ever since.
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The very idea that that's happening is nonsense, and it
isn't happening. It's never been happening. And for those folks
who are here illegally, and maybe they aren't the bad dudes,
the bad ombres, there is.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
An accommodation for them now.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
It may not be as perfect and as carefree as
it was before, but the the Department of Homeland Security
and the President, because he knows how critical these people
are to the small business economy, are providing for them.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
But we never read or hear about that.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
All we read and here is how these nice little
ladies are locked up in McCook, Nebraska, headed back home
where they haven't been since they were children.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
And that's just not universally true. Here's something else that
is not going to be widely reported. President Trump. You know,
he said like, hey, if you self deport we'll give
you a thousand dollars or whatever to go ahead and
save us a bunch of money because the process of
tracking you if you're in the country illegally, overstaying a
visa or whatever. About two million have done that. Yeah,
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it's about seventeen thousand dollars. So right now we're issuing
up to three thousand dollars as an exit bonus. Merry Christmas,
you self deport three thousand dollars. Up to three thousand
dollars if you self deport, that's a pretty nice thing
to take back to your home country. If you know
you're in the country illegally, this is your last shot.
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This deal is ending at midnight on New Year's Eve. Well,
and there is another component to that. In addition to
the three thousand dollars, you now have the opportunity to
get in line to come back, and if you are
an essential worker in an essential industry, you move to
the front of the line. So essentially this you to
deport yourself. You get the three thousand dollars, you go
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home for Christmas, and there's a real good chance you're
back in this country by the end of January.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
I might take it.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
I think I could declare myself an illegal alien because
my people came over from a foreign country and I
don't know if they were actually here legally, But so, what.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
In God's name makes you think that you're an essential
worker who'd be allowed back into this country.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
I've got the Emergency Response Team badge right here, as
signed by the Chairman and chief executive officer of this company.
It says, critical Operations employee, Please go.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
To Mexico and do a Facebook live of you talking
to the border patrol trying to get back into America
with your fake badge.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
Look at me, sir, sir, that's really me, a picture
of me. I got a radio show to do.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
What's one of your earliest Christmas memories? They're one that
when you're a kid, sticks out as being an interesting
Christmas memory.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
Well, my favorite one was it wasn't a Christmas gift
as much as it was an experience because I got
a They used to have these special footballs that were
autograph footballs. They weren't an actual football, but it was
a football that was designed for autographs. It had the
surface was easy to write something.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
On real autographs or screen real autographs, because the Huskers
used to put out those screen printed autographs. Those are
worthless time, Yeah, but I liked it. I got the
eighty six version eighty six Verst eighty six.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
That was a good team. Yeh yeah, I won a
Sugar Bowl. Uh and uh so I got this. This
was about three weeks before Christmas. I got this football,
and my mom and dad said, now, look, here's the deal.
You're going to get a football for Christmas. But what
you need to do is come with me now because
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we're going to go down to the campus and the
Huskers are going to be signing autographs.
Speaker 4 (36:14):
Now.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
This was the nineteen seventy one Nebraska football team who
just defeated Oklahoma in the Game of the Century, being
called the greatest team of all time in front of
my money, it still is, although the twenty fifteen LSU
team is pretty good. So I go instead of getting
this football on Christmas morning, I got it like on
December fourth, and I go down there and there are hundreds,
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if not thousands of kids. They were on the floor
of the old coliseum, which is still around. That's where
Husker volleyball played, and they were on these long tables
and every single member of the team was there. And
so you would get in line and you would have
your thing, whether it was a football or a jersey,
or a program or a Pennant or whatnot, and you
would follow it along around the table to these hundred
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plus football players.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
You're walking around as a little kid, going, Damn Krueger.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
That's Jerry Taggy right there, that's Jeff Kenny right there,
that's Rich Glover, right that's Willie Harper right there.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
These are the heros.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
There was a Heisman winner on that team too. If
you're gonna start throwing names around.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
There's a story to that.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
Johnny wasn't there because Johnny charged for autographs there. Now
the story ends happily because I was able to get
Johnny to sign that football about twenty years later under
you know, stressful conditions for Johnny.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
But he wasn't there.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
Now that was a big disappointment because everybody wanted Johnny Rodgers.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
I bet well, I could probably get you his autograph.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
Now, there's no trouble getting the Jets autograph now, friend
of the radio store. So that's that's the most wonderful
gift gift I've ever gotten. But you know the experiences
of Christmas, see my kids grow up and have Christmas morning,
it's really cool.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
Whose autograph would you ask for?
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Now? If you just walked out of this door and
that person was sitting there. You're like, you know what,
I don't usually ask anyone for autographs, but if that
person was sitting there, I've got to get an autograph.
H I'll tell you the last person I asked for
an autograph with Marcus Allen. He was my favorite player
and I was a kid. I was working with a
sports station or in the same building as a sports
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station in Kansas City.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
Came in.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
I walked out of my office and nearly knocked him down.
And suddenly I just turned into a stuttering idiot, even
more so than normal. I'm like Marcu's out look number
number thirty two, that's been Drophy winner, Wow blocked for
Bo Jackson. I'm selfish, you know. I turned into him
more like, hang on, don't move. I got a Finesmann
forre you autograph. I printed out a picture of him,
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just on a bad printer, and so will you sign
this please, mister Allen. I'm a grown man. I'm sure
begging for this guy's autograph. H.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
Well, for years it was Jack Nicholas and I got
that autograph about twelve years ago. Yeh, he's my favorite
all time sportsman athlete.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
He wasn't.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
I don't consider him an athlete. I consider her a
great champion and a great sportsman. So for years I
kind of hoped it one day i'd get Jackson. I did,
and that was pretty cool. Yeah, and he learned something
from Arnold Palmer, which you probably know because Arnold Palmer
is one of your favorites. I got a picture of
me and the King on my desk down the hall,
and Jack was very deliberate as he signed his name,
Jack Nicholas, very slowly, and I said, you know, that's
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really I really appreciate that, Jack, because you know most
guys did he just scribble something, right? He goes, well, actually,
I learned that from Arnold Palmer, really, he goes.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
He said. When I first beat him for the US
Open and.
Speaker 3 (39:19):
People were asking for my autograph all the time, he said, not, Jack,
make sure you sign every autograph slowly and deliberately, because
then they'll be able to read it and it'll mean
something to them.
Speaker 5 (39:31):
I do that.
Speaker 3 (39:32):
And if you look at Arnold Palmer's signature, it was
very well done, very very classy, and you could see
a R N O L D P A LM.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
Same with Jack.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
He signed every autograph, very very slowly and deliberately, because
he said, if I just scribble something on there, people
are going to go, what's that? That's Jack Nickolo, it's
not Jack Nicholas. Well this does say Jack Nicholas on it.
So that was pretty cool today.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (39:56):
I'm kind of a cynical bastard these days, Scott. So
I'm not sure if there's anybody out there that impresses
me enough to do it. I don't think about it.
For him as an athlete, probably not. I don't think
there's an athlete out there that just wow that guy.
You know, Ann and Nancy Wilson from Heart, Carol King.
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I know your fans, Carol King. I would really appreciate
Carol King. Yeah, definitely, she's one of my all time favorites.
What you think about it, well, I mean some of
the guys that I really like. An autograph from her
dad so hard to get it. It's hard to get
that now, see, but you could probably pay for it.
Someone else got it. And now I paid for this
person's autograph, but I never met this I never saw him.
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Why would anyone do that?
Speaker 6 (40:41):
Now?
Speaker 3 (40:41):
I wouldn't buy an autograph just to have it. It
would have to be something that I got. And that's
why I still remember all these years later, Jerry Taggy
signing my football, you know, or or Bill Old signing
my football, or any of these other great Husker heroes,
Frosty Anderson, you know, signing my football. These guys were
like my heroes. I mean, we didn't see the many
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games because only one or two were on TV. And
you know, I got to one or two, maybe one
with my parents because they go to the games, and
then I'd listen to them on the radio.
Speaker 1 (41:11):
Well, thanks for the sidetrack down Christmas slash Huskers Memory Lane.
You got more than your bargain for. I knew i'd
get that. I'll think this out. I'll think of an autograph.
Asked Jim Rose, a good question, You're going to get
a good answer.
I want people to generally get what they want. I mean,
after all, it's Christmas. But for those of you who
have been thinking, this is the time, this is what's
going to do it. They're going to release all the
Epstein stuff, and this is the stuff that's going to
bring down And on this one partisan be darned. There
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are people on one side that say it's going to
bring down Trump, people on the other side saying it's
going to bring down Clinton or whoever. You know, this
is never going to happen, right, Sorry to be a
big old wet blanket on what your Christmas hopes and
dreams are. There are people in this country who want
nothing more for Christmas than for either a current or
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former president of the United States, or city member of Congress,
or some titan of industry or what, or the King
of England or someone to go down in this Epstein thing.
And it's never going to happen. For those of you
who have been saying, well, they're covering up this, the
Trump administration, covering up all the Trump's You remember who
the president was the first time everyone in the Department
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of Justice and that administration had a chance to look
through every single one of these files. It wasn't Trump,
it was the Biden Obama Clinton machine. And for anyone
who said, well, they weren't going to throw Trump under
that bus as long as like Clinton was going to
be under there too, Look, they would to get Trump
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under that Epstein bus. They would have thrown Clinton under there,
They would have thrown Obama under there, they would have
thrown Obama's mom under there. Everyone would have gone under
that bus if there was any chance of getting Trump
under there. So you got to try and tell me,
Jim that there were people in the Biden administration who
saw that, Oh, yeah, we have all this juicy, juicy
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evidence on Donald Trump. But you know what, I think
the American people have been through enough. Let's just put
all this behind us and move forward. Do you try
to tell me there people out there that think that
scenario existed.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Year hundred percent right.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
If they'd had anything on Trump, this would have been
on Earth fifteen minutes after Joe Biden took the oath
of office. But there were other people in there that
would have embarrassed the Democrat Party, probably some big Democrat
donors and a few other folks that pretty much made
it clear to the Biden administration. You leave this alone.
But I would also tell you, and I believe this
to be true, what happened on Lolita Express and on
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Sex Island down there was dreadful, It was deplorable, it
was criminal, and you would hope he's dead now, but
you would hope that anybody who's still alive that had
anything to do with that would have the book thrown
at him. But I think most Americans don't care. I
really don't. I mean, Scott, you look at the world today,
and you look at the world that average Americans do
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with every day. Jeffrey Epstein is a non factor. What
Jeffrey Epstein, a rich guy from New York City, did
in his spare time, is of little consequence to most Americans.
There are some, especially those folks who really stand up
for the rights of rape victims, where this is super important,
but that's a very small small percentage of people. Most
folks are a lot more worried about their insurance premiums.
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Most people are a lot more worried about whether they
can put their kid into college next year. Most people
are a lot more worried about whether or not they
can pay their freaking property taxes. Are they going to
have to move out of this house because their property
taxes are through the roof. Jeffrey Epstein is a media
created phenomenon as a means to try to embarrass the
President of the United States. It's never as you say,
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it was never going to happen. It ain't gonna happen.
It's over. Okay, Now we're still going to have stuff
that this White House and this Department of Justice is
going after Biden because they went through Malania's underwear mar
A Lago, apparently for no real reason other than.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
To do it. Not the terrible Guyson.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
For most of us, it might be actually an interesting
field trip, but legally it was not on strong ice,
was not on thick ice legally, and somebody's gonna pay
for that because the President didn't like it when somebody
rolled into his house with guns drawn and said step
aside as we tear apartsure home.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
I would love for everyone in America to have the
same thought, well some of the same thoughts as you,
especially as pertains, to just let the Epstein things.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Let it go.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
He's dead to a different Two wildly different administrations have
looked at the same evidence, and we still don't have anything.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
He's dead. If that's the case, you're not going to
have anything. Yes, young women were abused. Yes it was tragic,
Yes it was dreadful. Yes, yes, yes, you're right. But
what Okay, he's dead. Everything about Epstein is over his life,
his business, his his empire. It's gone. So can we
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we Sadly, sometimes we just have to suck it up
and move on.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
All right, Since we're on this bridge that Jim just built,
let's let's take a look at one part of it.
You were talking about how Americans don't care about the
Epstein stuff because they're trying to afford, among other things,
healthcare cost.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Now by comparisons, twenty two.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Million Americans at the end of next week the end
of the year are going to see what they have
on the marketplace aka the Affordable Care Act aka Obamacare.
AKA thank you Senator Ben Nelson, Thank you Senator John
McCain for still allowing us to have taxpayers subsidized health
premiums for the American people. Twenty two million people on
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Obamacare are going to see their premium skyrocket.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Scott, everybody's insurance premiums they're up. But this is the
one that gets the attention.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Yeah, well, when some people and I don't know how
many of that group we're talking about, but some of
the numbers they continued to describe for us, are you're
going to have people are only paying like twenty dollars
a month suddenly paying three hundred and fifty dollars a month.
How are they supposed to afford that kind of jump?
I don't know how. How in the world do we
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have people out there with health insurance that was only
costing them twenty dollars a month for the same basically
the same insurance you have that's costing you upwards of
however much per month. And the same people who are
complaining that I can't believe that these health premiums are
going away, they're going so high up, and that the Republicans,
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the evil Trump Mega Republicans, are trying to reform healthcare.
This is just the same people who do They are
the same ones that complain that rural hospitals and health
clinics are closing. Do you know why that's happening. It's
happening because there are so many people in this country,
on whether it's Medicaid or Obamacare, when they go to
the hospital, and oftentimes they're still just going into the
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emergency room because even though Obamacare, for example, and even
Medicaid will pay for preventative health care, they're still not
going in there for some of their preventative stuff. So
they get anything from a hangnail to a shark bite,
and they head into the emergence room. Are they heading
there for some sort of surgery? And then because they're
on Medicaid or Obamacare, the federal government, your tax dollars
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only subsidize that hospital about twenty cents on the dollar,
if that for all of that which the hospital just
put forth. So they have to try and make that
up either by raising your premiums, raising your health care costs,
taking it to the taxpayers, taking it to the American people,
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And a lot of them have decided, we can't afford
to keep the lights on here. We're closing this down,
and a huge reason is because of government funded health insurance,
which shouldn't exist in the first place.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
We didn't have this problem back before we had lots
and lots and lots of government intrusion in healthcare. Youre
one hundred percent right, Sky. We've talked a lot about
this for the last fifteen years, and on this program,
and it was not alone. On conservative talk radio stations
at the time, we said, this is what's going to happen.
We had experts on from the insurance industry. We had
Republicans like Chuck Grassley on who watched.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
All of this.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
He was the Senate Minority leader at the time, and
he said, here's what's going to happen. If this becomes law.
The government will take over health insurance. Okay, and it
has now. It's not going to take over health care
right away. That's going to drip drip, trickle down. But
this was wholly predicted that what the president at the
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time said was not going to happen. You cannot do
what they were planning to do actuarily and not have
prices go up. And it was the same issue with
Medicare and Medicaid when it was invented in the nineteen sixties.
The Democrats made promises that this is going to lower
health care costs, this is going to provide health care
for people that don't have it, and here's what it's
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going to cost. And Republicans who knew what they were
talking about at the time said, no, it'll be ten
times that and it has been. And anytime the government
gets involved in the marketplace, you do not have market
forces at work. And just look at how we buy
insurance now in the private industry, we don't get a choice.
Our company proved employer sponsored healthcare. Whether it's good, batter
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and different depends on who you are, but we don't
get to decide. And Obamacare subsidies provide a lot of support,
but there are strings attached that require you to take
on care you don't need. This is what happens when
the government it inserts itself into the private marketplace. The
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Congress is about to take the holiday recess without doing
anything on this. It's not a great look for the
Republicans who have been saying for years we have a
better plan. And now people's health insurance premiums are going
to skyrocket and these guys are taking off for vacation.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Well, they did pass a plan. The Republicans did pass
a plan.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
It's got to go to the Senate though, and it
stands very little chance of doing anything. I want to
welcome on here in response to a story we discussed
a lot here over the last few weeks, especially on Friday,
as community activists in northeast Somah are accusing OPPD of
letting people die by keeping open a coal fired power
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plant in that area. This is someone who has been
in a leadership position with OPPD Estate senator and currently
running for oppd's board of directors and District three. Frequent
contributor to this program, Jim Smith joins us here on
Nebraska This Morning News. Jim, good morning, and Merry Christmas.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Good morning, Scott, and good morning Jim, and Merry Christmas
to both of you. In a prosperous new year, you too, Jim,
And also congrass on the new show.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
It's it's yeah, it's the same show. It's just so
much less than just to be honest, just to be
honest here I miss Gary too.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Now there's a petition circulating. You never know, we might
have a Christmas meek.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
We don't need a petition.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
We just need Gary to change his mind, all right, Jim,
would you if you were serving with OPPD now, would
you recommend that they keep this coal fire plant open?
And if so, what about the community activists is say
that it's contributing to health problems and deaths in that area?
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Sure, let me just address your first questions very clearly.
I see no condition under which I would support closing
the north Omahak coal plant or any other coal plant
on the OBBD system, and I have a number of
reasons for that. I spent thirty years in the utility industry,
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seventeen at OPBD. Look, I'm very, very pleased with the
vote last week by the board to keep the north
Omahak coal units in place. Although it's temporary. OPBD originally
voted to retire the north Omahawk coal units as part
of its larger net zero carbon emissions plan, and the
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well intentioned the net zero goal is simply not realistic.
And I know there's dueling studies out there on air quality,
on health impact. I believe that due diligence has been done.
OPBD study was very very clear. I believe the OPPD
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can operate that plant properly. I believe it's a clean
coal plant. I think they've done everything that they can
do to remedy any concerns on the health front. We
have to keep the coal units in place for a
number of reasons.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
The biggest question here I think we're seeing is the
green energy policies that led to the promised closure of
the plant to begin with, everyone from the European Union
to New York to San Francisco are rolling back not
so much emission standards in San Francisco, but they're looking
after widespread power outages the other day that they need
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to do something different. Omaha area Oppd's area is adding
these we have more neighborhoods, more businesses, these big data
centers that suck up a lot of energy. How is
Omaha looking here for the next ten to twenty years
if we don't do anything in terms of being able
to keep people have the opportunity to turn the lights
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on affordably.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Jim, you're right.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
You know the coal operation is critical to the physical
operation of the grid, and not a lot of people
are talking about that, but coal plays a very important
role in the stability of the grid. It also is
part of the obligation to provide affordable and reliable power.
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So I can list off a lot of technical reasons
as to why coal is critical to keep in place,
but it also helps us to keep the rates low
and provides the baseload generation for us to be able
to bring on new load. New load in the form
of population growth and businesses and jobs. Now, there's a
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lot of other types of power generation that we can
bring on board to help us meet those demands, but
cole absolutely must be part of that mix.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Yeah, because coal is available right now, and nuclear energy
is expensive to build and you have to get through
the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Jim, you're a big fan of
nuclear energy. It's one of the reasons I'm voting for you. Well,
I can't because I don't live in your district, but
I'm going to tell everybody that I know who does live.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
In vote for you.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Let's visit for just a second though about the data centers,
if you?
Speaker 2 (14:26):
If you?
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Because I don't think people understand, and it's not because
they don't know, they just haven't really been informed. And
that is one data center uses the same energy as
a thousand walmarts.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
That's that's unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
When are we going to start mandating the data centers
create their own power sources because we just can't afford.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
To have them suck that kind of juice out of
the energy system.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
I'm not certain I would totally agree with that, you know,
premise that they have to have to generate their own power.
I think they can contribute in different ways. Maybe they
do want to selve journalmy but also they are paying
race as well, and they are creating a pathway for
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competitiveness for Nebraska. Look, I was never a huge fan
of some of the tax abatement programs that help bring
these data centers online, but guess what, they're here, and
data centers is the leading factor towards AI and all
of the other type of growth opportunities our country has.
Nebraska is in a prime position to compete against our
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neighboring states on that front. And so to that point,
we have to make certain we have the generation capacity
there to meet the demands. And I believe that data
centers are part of the mix of the path forward
for Nebraska's competitiveness.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
I just asked AI whether we should make these data
centers contribute their own energy, and I said, tell Jim
Rose to shut up.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
So I guess it's up to me. I wouldn't have
him here, Guys, they are here now.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
It's a great conversation for another day. Right now, Jim,
We'll wish you a merry Christmas, happy New Year, and
I'm sure we'll talk a lot more here in the
year ahead.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Thank you very much for joining us.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
All Right, Merry Christmas.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Welcome on here News Radio eleven ten kfab National correspondent
Rory O'Neil back here on the program, Rory, Merry Christmas,
Happy holidays, do you.
Speaker 6 (16:26):
Hey, there's got mery Christmas.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Got a few things to talk about here. First of all,
as we've been detailing, is the wrong word. There are
no details the Epstein files, anything in there that worth
talking about.
Speaker 6 (16:39):
Not a whole lot of stuff. I mean, if you
really want to get into the weeds. There are some
interesting notations and absences when it comes to emails relating
to that prosecution deal that Epstein took with South Florida
prosecutors decades ago. Also pretty interesting that some of these
first allegations that Epstein may have been trading in child
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porn date back to nineteen ninety six, believe it or not.
And an Epstein employee who filed a complaint that the
FBI ignored decades ago.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Who's getting locked up based on what you've seen.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
Based on this nobody? And that's the other big question, right,
how do you have a sex trafficking ring with no
guys involved?
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (17:23):
Yeah, you know, so far, Epstein is the only guy
who was really charged in this. And yes, you know
there are photos with him with plenty of billionaires and
presidents and future presidents and past presidents and rock stars
and the like, But does that necessarily make them guilty
of crimes? You know, there's a lot more video video,
by the way, that's also available that won't be released
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because it's so explicit in nature, But at some point
there had to be some of the guy involved.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Yeah, anything you see there to justify the accusations from
the political left in this country that Trump is hiding
something that they took a picture off of the DOJ website,
then they brut it back in and all the rest
of stuff.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
But what do you think.
Speaker 6 (18:03):
Yeah, well, that's the thing is that President Trump has
really never been accused of any wrongdoing himself. You know,
I think the real stink on the president is that
he kept associating with Epstein even after these accusations may
have surfaced. But that's it from what we know and
what's been released. But there's not any direct accusation against
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the president. As many people have observed, if the Biden
administration and the Biden Justice Department knew that Donald Trump
was involved, You bet we all would have found out
during the last campaign, and that didn't happen. So you
know why the president is still so reluctant to have
this STARp released is the head scratcher. And then a
lot of Republicans are saying, for crying out loud, let's
put this behind us, get it out there, and give
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us time to recover ahead of November twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
You just quoted Jim Rose this morning, Rory nice JOBN
News Radio eleven ten kfav National correspondent Rory O'Neill with
us here on eleven ten KFAB for a couple more minutes.
You've also been doing some of the work on a
question I don't know if we're really ever have answered,
and that is what compelled a guy who went.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
To college decades.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Ago with another guy, then goes on to become an
MIT professor to go and kill that guy and then
open up fire on some students taking finals at Brown University.
What more have you found on this story, Rory?
Speaker 6 (19:23):
Yeah, it's really interesting though that you know, this seems
to be something that's much more personal, right, This wasn't
this didn't seem to be motivated by politics or religion. Instead,
this seems like more of a personal beef. And you know,
we're still waiting to get the official motive. But when
you had that week long search going on, there were
a lot of voices on websites like x saying, you know, oh,
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it's no they were targeting the young Republican woman, or
they were he shouted a lock bar before carrying out
the killings. And apparently none of that is true. And
this is coming from influencers that may have millions of
followers out there, not just some random with you know,
fifty eight people following him. And this has real ramifications
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because the press conferences were all jammed up with this
hype in this talk that was apparently irrelevant in the case.
But at the same time, the semi homeless guy who
helped really crack the case was posting what he felt
and saw on Reddit and his experiences really led to
this whole case being cracked.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Why didn't he call the police?
Speaker 6 (20:28):
Right? I mean, we know he was on Reddit and
posting things there and when his picture got out there,
he went forward to police within an hour. So that
was also interesting because he said on Reddit, like I
think the police should talk to me. He said, well,
why didn't they? And then when his photo got out there,
he went forward. And then now they're saying he's the
one who should get that fifty thousand dollars reward.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
And maybe if he'd called the police to begin with,
rather than try and impress his friends on Reddit, this
would be an excellent am I the a Reddit forum,
you know, the a for not going to police with
details that could But this guy, I mean, it sounded
like he committed these two atrocities, went right to his
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garage at that storage facility, and took care of himself
right there in the garage. So no matter who called police,
win sounded like that one was done. And that means
will I might never know why.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
This guy did, is right?
Speaker 6 (21:24):
The brown shooting happened Saturday, the MIT professor was killed Monday,
and then we think the suicide was Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
We'll have to see if they if they are able
to uncover anything and what he left behind. But you know,
here we are a week later and haven't heard anything,
and his name didn't come up in the Epstein files.
So there's all that, all right.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
And now we're in the holidays and everything else. So
who knows when when the intil will get out there.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Rory, there's you never know when you'll be a guest
on this program. But if we don't talk to you
before Christmas, have a merry one, my friend, and we'll
talk to you soon.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
Thanks God, Merry Christmas to you as well.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
I'm actually broadcasting live right now from my car, still
waiting in line to see the Christmas Land lights out
there just west of Bennington, between like Bennington and Valley.
When we left there last night, we did go through there,
and actually we got there at about six o'clock and
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the entire process at that point took about two hours,
about an hour waiting in line and nearly an hour
to go through there. And it's a really cool special place.
My favorite thing about the Christmas Land display out there,
right off of the seventy five Highway to seventy five
out there is everyone who's got a sunroof on their car.
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They just pop open the sunroof and the kids just
jump up there and they're looking through the sunroof and
looking at all the lights.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
And the lights are fun.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
It's everything from your traditional sandy claws and elves and
snowman and polar bears, and then there's just a section
where it's like, here's an abominable snowman and a fire
breathing dragon, and a hippo playing golf in a spider
and a lizard. I mean, it's just it's all over
the place out there. It's crazy. And the entire thing.
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You got kids hanging out at the top of the car,
you know, from the sun roof, just screaming and having
a great time and laughing. My daughter is a college
freshman aged almost nineteen year old. I popped open the
sun roof and she jumped right up there and was
doing it and taking pictures and having fun and laughing. Now,
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her sixteen year old brother could not possibly be bothered
to care about it. He was pretty much held against
his will like a kidnap victim. But even he admitted
like it was cool, you know, which is effusive praise
from a sixteen year old high school sophomore. But the
line of cars waiting to get in there when we
left at about eight o'clock last night, I don't see
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how those people got through. What time do they shut
that thing down? Probably after the last car noon, I mean,
at some point you sun up you live out that way,
and the people who live in that immediate area have
been like, look, we're glad that it's a nice attraction
and families are enjoying it and they're raising money for
the Salvation Army. That's great, but there are a lot
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of cars on roads I didn't even previously know existed.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Yeah, you know, it's a little bit like junkstock. And
you know when you go to junkstock and they try
to go in there at that Waterloo exit just as
you begin that turn from Highway six into two seventy five,
it's the same thing. You gotta be careful because people
are getting off of that Love's Interchange two.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Hundred and fifty second Street. Not anymore.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
The Douglas County Sheriff's Office is directing traffic out there
because it's pretty dangerous. All well, it's it's a little risky.
It's a little risky because if you get off on
where you know Love's Dairy Queen is that little exit
there off two seventy five, you do that and you
take that immediate right turn to get into it, and
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then you'll have what you had a couple of weekends ago,
which was cars backed up on the highway exactly, which
is what we're trying not to do. So now they
want you to get off a little bit further east,
the further down, well north up to I don't know
what that exit is there, but you end up getting
off like on Aida and State Street, coming all the
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way around on dirt roads and going around that way,
and cars were backed up on that next exit clear
back by the time we left there. It's I mean,
there are people. If I was in there and we
started fairly close to the attraction and that took about
two hours, there had to have been people in their
car for five hours last night to do that starting
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at eight o'clock at night.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
It's a cool attration. Cool.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
I don't know if it's five hours in the car cool.
I don't know if there's anything in the world's five
hours in the car. Well, there are a couple of things,
but we won't talk about the four and a half
hour's tops.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
My personal favorite is the hook shot Santa and the
combine gobbling up the corn.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Oh, those are my two favorite exhibits out there.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
But Travis has done a great job and it really
is an attraction, and you know he's he's spent a
lot of money to do this. He's making a lot
of money, but he's he's issuing a proceed to the
Salvation Army. So there is a charitable thing here and
it takes once you get in, it takes about thirty
five forty minutes to go through it. So you just
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have to enjoy being in the car with your kids.
Think of the Grizwolds and that's what you've got. But
it is a unique experience. There were the first time
I said something like that, it was up in Minnesota.
We went up there to see my son when he
was living up there at Christmas time, and they had
one in Chaska, Minnesota, and it took about an hour
and a half to get into that one too. These
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things are money making machines.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Now.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
That said, he started setting those exhibits up, those lighted
exhibits up in October.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
They've got an area of Wichita that's a lot of
really cool lights and the displays set to music. But
this is one you walk through and that might be
something on the long term horizon for Omaha. We can
look at that's that's that's not only a nice cool thing.
It's also the kind of thing to where if you're
midway through it and you need to use a restroom
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or get some hot coco or something, that's right over here,
and whereas if you're in your car, people are jumping
out of their cars to use the restroom, which is
the ditch, or some guy's front yard right there off
the highway, which is we'd prefer that that not happened.
Nothing says Merry Christmas. Like watching the guy in the
truck in front of you purge his build on the
side of the road in front of your children.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Go what's he doing?
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Take care of that business before you climb into the car,
and don't drink a six pack.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
That's all Scott at kfab dot com and the Zonker's
custom was inbox talking about the roads out there near
Christmas Land and Valley, Like take the two seventy five,
you go past Megs, take Ada the other round to
the dirt road by state run and you come out
on Mats. Aaron says, you got I sound like the
Californians talking about the roads in Omaha. You go ahead,
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a Christmas Lang, what are you doing here? That's still
what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Here. What are you doing that bid right there?
Speaker 3 (28:17):
An ongoing bed is as good as a got on that.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Saturday night live.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Steering, Good morning, and thank you so much for being
here with us on Nebraska's news, weather and Traffic station
eleven ten k f A B.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
Phelise depoorda, phelise depoord phileas deepoord prospero vi a hey enowelvas.
We're gonna get you out of a country, Get those
bed mbres out of a country, get everyone the hell
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out of our country, and will never let them back.
Speaker 7 (29:05):
We closed our border to save the nation. We all
love ice and mess deportations. Send the illegals to a
new location, then don't ever let them back. Pheleas deporda,
phelas deporda pheles deporda prospero vi a hey do veelvass
(29:32):
crassias me fellow americanos pelis deporda, and thank you for
your attention to this matter.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Miss you.
Speaker 6 (29:41):
Merry Christmas, with you a merry Christmas. I want your
marry Christmas.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
All right.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
That is Sean Farrash as President Trump wearing a sombrero
and a bad Christmas sweater here. That's Jim Rose, I'm
Scott Vorhees.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
He's even got the breath down, you know, you know
he's got that right, and he's he's just so freaking
spot on with him.
Speaker 6 (30:16):
You know.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
People think that's Trump.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
I know, and in the Christmas spirit, I will say this,
I believe what we're talking about there with the cheering
of the deportations would be the bad ombres, the criminals,
those who are bringing nothing but drugs, human trafficking, violence,
murder into our communities.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
We want them out of our country.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
And obviously there are some people who get caught up
in these ICE, these little operations that ICE is doing,
and then there's a process in there like all right, hey,
sorry about that, And sometimes a paperwork issue is not
on the same level as a murder.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
We're not cheering for those things.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
Now.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
The problem is is that all of those hate President Trump,
they hate ICE, and they want you to go and
battle Ice in the street every single night. They think
every single person that ICE picks up is some sweet,
kindly old you know aunt who's you know, just like, Oh,
I was told to sign here and pay this guy
some money and I could work freely in America. I
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didn't know they think every single person that ICE picks
up is someone who's just ready for sainthood, including Kilmar Abrego,
Garcia and the rest of them. So it's kind of
hard to separate this from that. The Catholic bishops of
Florida have made an appeal for a pause and immigration
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enforcement for Christmas, like, hey, let the illegal immigrants spend
Christmas with their families and then we'll get them all
out of here by New Year. That's not exactly what
they're saying, but they're asking for a humanitarian pause in
ICE deportations for Christmas.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Well, one of the things that never gets reported and
it doesn't match the narrative, and it does match they
hate Trump narrative, is that there are avenues and there
are waivers for people like the little old lady who's
been here from Guatemala since nineteen seventy four. There is
an accommodation for them. It never ever gets reported. Now,
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that doesn't mean that ICE doesn't know who they are,
and that doesn't mean that ICE doesn't cite them. But
this very notion that ICE jack boot thugs are busting
down doors in Fremont, Nebraska to get a bunch of
Hispanic folks who might have come here in the nineteen
eighties at the border, paid somebody who looked like a
cop five thousand dollars and they've been fine ever since.
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The very idea that that's happening is nonsense, and it
isn't happening. It's never been happening. And for those folks
who are here illegally, and maybe they aren't the bad dudes,
the bad ombres, there is.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
An accommodation for them now.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
It may not be as perfect and as carefree as
it was before, but the the Department of Homeland Security
and the President, because he knows how critical these people
are to the small business economy, are providing for them.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
But we never read or hear about that.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
All we read and here is how these nice little
ladies are locked up in McCook, Nebraska, headed back home
where they haven't been since they were children.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
And that's just not universally true. Here's something else that
is not going to be widely reported. President Trump. You know,
he said like, hey, if you self deport we'll give
you a thousand dollars or whatever to go ahead and
save us a bunch of money because the process of
tracking you if you're in the country illegally, overstaying a
visa or whatever. About two million have done that. Yeah,
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it's about seventeen thousand dollars. So right now we're issuing
up to three thousand dollars as an exit bonus. Merry Christmas,
you self deport three thousand dollars. Up to three thousand
dollars if you self deport, that's a pretty nice thing
to take back to your home country. If you know
you're in the country illegally, this is your last shot.
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This deal is ending at midnight on New Year's Eve. Well,
and there is another component to that. In addition to
the three thousand dollars, you now have the opportunity to
get in line to come back, and if you are
an essential worker in an essential industry, you move to
the front of the line. So essentially this you to
deport yourself. You get the three thousand dollars, you go
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home for Christmas, and there's a real good chance you're
back in this country by the end of January.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
I might take it.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
I think I could declare myself an illegal alien because
my people came over from a foreign country and I
don't know if they were actually here legally, But so, what.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
In God's name makes you think that you're an essential
worker who'd be allowed back into this country.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
I've got the Emergency Response Team badge right here, as
signed by the Chairman and chief executive officer of this company.
It says, critical Operations employee, Please go.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
To Mexico and do a Facebook live of you talking
to the border patrol trying to get back into America
with your fake badge.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
Look at me, sir, sir, that's really me, a picture
of me. I got a radio show to do.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
What's one of your earliest Christmas memories? They're one that
when you're a kid, sticks out as being an interesting
Christmas memory.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
Well, my favorite one was it wasn't a Christmas gift
as much as it was an experience because I got
a They used to have these special footballs that were
autograph footballs. They weren't an actual football, but it was
a football that was designed for autographs. It had the
surface was easy to write something.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
On real autographs or screen real autographs, because the Huskers
used to put out those screen printed autographs. Those are
worthless time, Yeah, but I liked it. I got the
eighty six version eighty six Verst eighty six.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
That was a good team. Yeh yeah, I won a
Sugar Bowl. Uh and uh so I got this. This
was about three weeks before Christmas. I got this football,
and my mom and dad said, now, look, here's the deal.
You're going to get a football for Christmas. But what
you need to do is come with me now because
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we're going to go down to the campus and the
Huskers are going to be signing autographs.
Speaker 4 (36:14):
Now.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
This was the nineteen seventy one Nebraska football team who
just defeated Oklahoma in the Game of the Century, being
called the greatest team of all time in front of
my money, it still is, although the twenty fifteen LSU
team is pretty good. So I go instead of getting
this football on Christmas morning, I got it like on
December fourth, and I go down there and there are hundreds,
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if not thousands of kids. They were on the floor
of the old coliseum, which is still around. That's where
Husker volleyball played, and they were on these long tables
and every single member of the team was there. And
so you would get in line and you would have
your thing, whether it was a football or a jersey,
or a program or a Pennant or whatnot, and you
would follow it along around the table to these hundred
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plus football players.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
You're walking around as a little kid, going, Damn Krueger.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
That's Jerry Taggy right there, that's Jeff Kenny right there,
that's Rich Glover, right that's Willie Harper right there.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
These are the heros.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
There was a Heisman winner on that team too. If
you're gonna start throwing names around.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
There's a story to that.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
Johnny wasn't there because Johnny charged for autographs there. Now
the story ends happily because I was able to get
Johnny to sign that football about twenty years later under
you know, stressful conditions for Johnny.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
But he wasn't there.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
Now that was a big disappointment because everybody wanted Johnny Rodgers.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
I bet well, I could probably get you his autograph.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
Now, there's no trouble getting the Jets autograph now, friend
of the radio store. So that's that's the most wonderful
gift gift I've ever gotten. But you know the experiences
of Christmas, see my kids grow up and have Christmas morning,
it's really cool.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
Whose autograph would you ask for?
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Now? If you just walked out of this door and
that person was sitting there. You're like, you know what,
I don't usually ask anyone for autographs, but if that
person was sitting there, I've got to get an autograph.
H I'll tell you the last person I asked for
an autograph with Marcus Allen. He was my favorite player
and I was a kid. I was working with a
sports station or in the same building as a sports
(38:07):
station in Kansas City.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
Came in.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
I walked out of my office and nearly knocked him down.
And suddenly I just turned into a stuttering idiot, even
more so than normal. I'm like Marcu's out look number
number thirty two, that's been Drophy winner, Wow blocked for
Bo Jackson. I'm selfish, you know. I turned into him
more like, hang on, don't move. I got a Finesmann
forre you autograph. I printed out a picture of him,
(38:30):
just on a bad printer, and so will you sign
this please, mister Allen. I'm a grown man. I'm sure
begging for this guy's autograph. H.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
Well, for years it was Jack Nicholas and I got
that autograph about twelve years ago. Yeh, he's my favorite
all time sportsman athlete.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
He wasn't.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
I don't consider him an athlete. I consider her a
great champion and a great sportsman. So for years I
kind of hoped it one day i'd get Jackson. I did,
and that was pretty cool. Yeah, and he learned something
from Arnold Palmer, which you probably know because Arnold Palmer
is one of your favorites. I got a picture of
me and the King on my desk down the hall,
and Jack was very deliberate as he signed his name,
Jack Nicholas, very slowly, and I said, you know, that's
(39:09):
really I really appreciate that, Jack, because you know most
guys did he just scribble something, right? He goes, well, actually,
I learned that from Arnold Palmer, really, he goes.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
He said. When I first beat him for the US
Open and.
Speaker 3 (39:19):
People were asking for my autograph all the time, he said, not, Jack,
make sure you sign every autograph slowly and deliberately, because
then they'll be able to read it and it'll mean
something to them.
Speaker 5 (39:31):
I do that.
Speaker 3 (39:32):
And if you look at Arnold Palmer's signature, it was
very well done, very very classy, and you could see
a R N O L D P A LM.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
Same with Jack.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
He signed every autograph, very very slowly and deliberately, because
he said, if I just scribble something on there, people
are going to go, what's that? That's Jack Nickolo, it's
not Jack Nicholas. Well this does say Jack Nicholas on it.
So that was pretty cool today.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (39:56):
I'm kind of a cynical bastard these days, Scott. So
I'm not sure if there's anybody out there that impresses
me enough to do it. I don't think about it.
For him as an athlete, probably not. I don't think
there's an athlete out there that just wow that guy.
You know, Ann and Nancy Wilson from Heart, Carol King.
(40:16):
I know your fans, Carol King. I would really appreciate
Carol King. Yeah, definitely, she's one of my all time favorites.
What you think about it, well, I mean some of
the guys that I really like. An autograph from her
dad so hard to get it. It's hard to get
that now, see, but you could probably pay for it.
Someone else got it. And now I paid for this
person's autograph, but I never met this I never saw him.
(40:39):
Why would anyone do that?
Speaker 6 (40:41):
Now?
Speaker 3 (40:41):
I wouldn't buy an autograph just to have it. It
would have to be something that I got. And that's
why I still remember all these years later, Jerry Taggy
signing my football, you know, or or Bill Old signing
my football, or any of these other great Husker heroes,
Frosty Anderson, you know, signing my football. These guys were
like my heroes. I mean, we didn't see the many
(41:03):
games because only one or two were on TV. And
you know, I got to one or two, maybe one
with my parents because they go to the games, and
then I'd listen to them on the radio.
Speaker 1 (41:11):
Well, thanks for the sidetrack down Christmas slash Huskers Memory Lane.
You got more than your bargain for. I knew i'd
get that. I'll think this out. I'll think of an autograph.
Asked Jim Rose, a good question, You're going to get
a good answer.
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