Holding Out for a Hero

Up where the mountains meet the heavens above, out where the lighting splits the sea, this is where we've come together to talk about Platner dropping out, America renewing bombing in Iran, Gov. Pillen cutting spending, a cow traipsing through West Omaha streets, and the legendary Bonnie Tyler leaving us too soon.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now let's check timesavorite traffics with Lucy Chapman.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Use caution. We've got a cow that is loose and
very close to the road at one hundred and ninety
fifth and pacifics If you're in that area, use caution
through there. That's a look at your roads. And Lucy Chapman, yeah,
let's just move on with the show after that. I'm sorry, Lucy,
there is a cow in the road at one hundred
and ninety fifth and Pacific. Yes, sir, that is exactly

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what was reported.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
I know that there are some people have horses out there.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Right cows, but now I don't know. Maybe it's a pet.
Best which which If it's a pet, you really want
to be careful. You don't want to hit a cow.
No under any circumcisi.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
I agree with you. You know who else agrees? The
cow right got Nebraska's Morning News coming at you here.
Thank you so much for withstanding the blow. Craig Evans
is back after a day off. Jim Rose is right there.
Lucy Chapman is watching video footage of a caw moving

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through traffic. I am Scott Vorhees, looking more and more
like a cow every day and sounding more and more
like a pig. And we're all here on news radio
eleven ten kfab Why are you yelling? Good morning, Jim Lucy?
How's that cow?

Speaker 2 (01:16):
I wish I had video? Oh cool, we don't.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
Do your drone camera footage ends at about one hundred
and eightieth in Pacific. It doesn't go out to one
hundred and ninety.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Something ends at one hundred and eighty first shoot.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
All right, So there's a cow on the road near
one hundred and ninety fifth and Pacific.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
Near h W. S. Cleveland Boulevard. Really figure out exactly
where that starts and where it ends. No, it's north,
is it south?

Speaker 3 (01:45):
It's like a puzzle piece. It kind of goes everywhere.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
It really does.

Speaker 3 (01:50):
All right, Well, watch out for the cow out there
in southeast Omaha, I should say in south east Omaha
there is a I don't know, there is a there's
a building there that someone just painted a swastika on.
There are Democratic officials urging it to run for the

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US Senate in Maine, so that would be good for
that building. We might have a a swastika painted building
in Omaha. Be the next Senator from Maine. Graham Plattner
dropped his bid for the Senate race in Maine last night.

Speaker 4 (02:26):
But I don't think he's done doing damage. If you
saw that video, which was released at like one in
the morning, it was not positive. It was a little
bit modeling, and he essentially told his what do you expect. Well,
he essentially told his his supporters that look, this was rigged.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
I got screwed here. Yeah, well he none of these
accusations are used.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
Those words.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
Well, he didn't say screwed, but he got screwed.

Speaker 4 (02:53):
He didn't apologize, and now he only suspended him. He says,
we're not gonna which essentially me but that's political speak
for I don't have to give the money back because
if he ends, he doesn't have a lot of money
to give. He's only got about one hundred thousand of
the bank for the campaign. Right, Yeah, but if you
suspend your campaign, you don't. You don't actually have to

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give the money back because your campaign never officially ends. However,
the tone of this video was, you know what, you
guys out there that voted for me, they don't care
about you, They don't care about democracy. This is a
machine in Maine. This is the Democrat Party machine. This
is what they did to us. And if you don't

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want to vote in the election, I understand. So this
guy is going to go on a jihat against the
Miami Orrhythm Miami, the main Democrat machine, the Democrat party
structure that literally just booted him out. And yet again,
the hypocrisy here is just on parade, Scott. This is

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an organization that ignored all of these things for all
of this time and kept saying, he's our guy, He's
our guy. He'd pay no attention to that Republican woman
who says that he attacked her.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
All of these.

Speaker 4 (04:10):
Things were known, were processed, were illuminated, and they still
went for him. But now he's a pariah. This is
why these people have absolutely no credibility whatsoever. It's the
same thing with Joe Biden, just on a state level. Politically,
I'm not a fan of Graham Platner. He's saying a socialist, communist,

(04:30):
call him what you will, Hayden, not even a Democrat.
He's got a Nazi tattoo on his chest, and he
doesn't strike me as someone who I think would be
a good leader of the people. That said, just because
people suddenly as soon as you decide I'm going to
run for this office, and now people come out of
the woodwork. He attacked me, right, and then suddenly people go, well,

(04:53):
you got these accusations, you got to drop out. Look,
I will be consistent here, whether it's Brett Kavanaugh or
Graham Platner, this is no way to try and take
down your political opponents. So when he says, look, I
didn't do this stuff I'm accused of, why do I
need to grow dig myself a hole and then crawl

(05:15):
in it and cover myself over with dirt because these
people want me out. I didn't do this stuff. Maybe
he did, maybe he didn't. But the place to adjudicate
this kind of thing is not in the court of
public opinion. After you've decided you're running for the US Senate.
Now for all of those maga Republicans, going good, we
got rid of this guy. You know who you're left with,
right Susan Collins. She is about as far away from

(05:38):
a Republican as you could possibly get while still having
the audacity to call herself Republican. She she's been pretty
consistent in voting for conservative Republican principles, but her challenges
is a whimp.

Speaker 3 (05:50):
Well, hold on, you heard the challenge.

Speaker 4 (05:52):
The reason that her brand among many Republicans is so
damaged is because she has not been falling in line
with Donald trum either in his first term or in
this one. Now she'll vote for legislation that he supports,
like the Big Beautiful Bill, for example, but she voted
to him to not just impeach him but convict him
in the United States Senate over the January sixth business

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and everything else. So that has driven a lot of
Republicans away from Susan Collins. But you know, typically Susan
Collins will be down by eight points about a week
before the election and win by nine. That's the way
it's been for her in Maine since the very beginning. Now,
who do they get. There's this guy named Troy Jackson
in Maine who is now the favorite among the Bernie

(06:36):
Sanders crowd. In other words, it's Graham Patner two point zero.

Speaker 3 (06:40):
Where's his Nazi tattoo? Looking for that? All right? Well,
look harder, leave no stone unturned.

Speaker 4 (06:47):
I don't think he has a Nazi tattoo. But he
may be a Jew hater, because a lot of them are.
He may be one of these people that believes in
free stuff, who says that anybody who makes more than
minimum wage is making too much and needs to give
it to the govern that kind of thing. But let's see,
there is no doubt the Democrat Party is a steaming
pile right now in the state of Maine, as it
is in a lot of states.

Speaker 3 (07:08):
Look, I think of Maine, I think of a beautiful scenery,
lobster roles. I'd rather not think about Graham Platin or Almardin.
We'll see if this is the end of that. Yeah,
that's good stuff. America went up and down the coast
of Iran and knocked out some missile defense and radar
systems and drone storage sites. And haven't we done this
eighty eight times in the last few months. How many

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of these things do they have over there? What do
they do? We go over there and we bomb a
drone storage site or a radar defense system, and they
go in there and rebuild it, and it's there again
the next morning. Is that the entire economy of Iran
is just rebuilding the radar systems that we blow up

(07:51):
every single night. Here's the statement from Senate Minority Leader
Chuck Schumer of New York. He said, quote UMP's so
called deal to end hostilities with Iran has turned into
total utter disaster. Yeah, I like how this is Trump's fault.
By the way, the President gave Iran a very very

(08:15):
good deal. Everyone said that, right, Everyone said it was
too good a deal. Chuck Schumer had problems with it.
Jim Rose had problems with it. You know, those two
guys are in bed together a lot, Chuck Schumer and
Jim Rose. Just seeing if you're paying attention.

Speaker 4 (08:28):
Yeah, well, we had coffee the other day. Yeah, he
came to Omaha under the radar. Yeahs. Everyone said that
this is too sweet a deal for Iran, and they
and Iran couldn't even agree to it. They couldn't resist
trying to attack some cargo ships. And so Trump says,
all right, we gave him a deal. They renegged on

(08:48):
the deal. We're gonna blow up a lot of their stuff.
And what's the headline here, here's a headline. World markets
take a hit from Trump's Iran remarks, not from Iran
going on the deal to which they agreed. It's because
Trump had the audacity to say something about it. And
that's why world markets took a hit by the way.

(09:09):
Nasdaq's up big here this morning.

Speaker 3 (09:12):
The Nasdaq. Yeah, because and I don't know. I guess
it's the exact same thing we see is yesterday, except
today it looks a little bit better in the light.
I don't know. It's quite a deal. We'll be talking
about it throughout the morning here, Jim. Right now, let's
get to the eleven ten kfab Certified Transmission Sports Brief. Okay, Scott,
good morning everybody.

Speaker 4 (09:31):
We have a genuine fairy tale as an Arthur Ferry
at Wimbledon, twenty three year old Britt, who added the
tournament as a wildcard, meaning his world ranking was so
low he needed a special invitation to play, has made
the semi finals. He beat the number nine seed Flavio
Kobuli on a raucous center court. He's only the second
wildcard to ever make Wimbledon's final four. He's a fun story.

(09:55):
He grew up rich. His family has been a member
of the All England Lawn and Tennis Club forever. His
dad is a hedge fund manager. Mom was a good player.
Arthur went to Stanford, where he was a two time
All American, but a brit Getting this far at Wimbledon
is huge for the country. He plays Alexander Zaverev, the
German and the semifinals. Zaverev took out Tyler Fritz, the

(10:15):
last American and the men's draw. Cocoa Golf of the
United States place for the semifinal. Today, Ronda Rebel is
living large. Thirty four year Husker softball coach got a
new contract keeps her in Advisor through twenty thirty. New
deal is up to three hundred and seventy five thousand
a year. And if you think that's a lot to
coach softball, and it is. When she started, she was

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working for three seventy five an hour, had a great year,
fifty two wins, won a lot of hardware baseball games.
Mets exploded for five runs in the eighth inning beat
the Royals sixty two. Yeah, we hung in there, all
of us, says second baseman Brett Batty.

Speaker 5 (10:50):
I mean this whole season, even known what we can
do as an offense, it's just about going out there
and doing it every single night. We got guys that
are specializing getting on base. We have bats, and then
we get guys that can put it in the seats too.
So it's a complete lineup when we're all firing on cylinders.

Speaker 4 (11:06):
He drove in two of the six runs. Toronto tens
to nothing over the Giants. The Cubs beat the Orioles
nine to seven. Miami shut out Seattle, and Washington beat
Houston and interleague play winners in the National League where
the Dodgers and Padres, Saint Louis Reds and Braves. In
the American League, it was Tampa Bay, Detroit, the Twins,
Boston and the Angels all got victories. Louisville twelve, Omaha eight.

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College football. Nebraska is shutting down It's Nil collective the
eighteen ninety group, and now Iowa is doing the same
shutting down it's nil program called the Swarm. These universities
will now take over the summary paying of the players.
Not sure why they're doing this. Let the third party
groups like these guys do the dirty work, raise the money,
romance the donors. It's about control. World Cup soccer tonight,

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what do we have? The quarterfinal round France and Morocco
they are in one of them. This is a rematch
of the twenty twenty two finals in the World Cup,
won that day by the French and Lionel Messi and
the defending champions of Argentina get back to work on
Saturday against Switzerland. England and Norway clash earlier that day.

(12:11):
Tomorrow we got a matchup between Spain and Belgium. Sports
His News on Nebraska's news weathern traffic station KFAB News
Time in the morning, six twenty three.

Speaker 3 (12:19):
Is Iran still in the World Cup?

Speaker 5 (12:21):
No?

Speaker 3 (12:23):
They did they ever go back to Iran. No, they
had this. They went down to state in Mexico. They
didn't want to stay in America. No, they now live
in Bakersfield. They live in Bakersfield, California.

Speaker 4 (12:33):
Now they've relocated to Bakersfield and they're running a youth
soccer club there.

Speaker 3 (12:38):
Great, how many members of the Iran national soccer team
are running for the US Senate in Maine.

Speaker 4 (12:44):
Several because they're getting recruited right now by Graham Platner
and Bernie Sanders. Because nobody understands socialism as well as
the Iranians. Okay, we made up all of that stuff, folks,
Just so you know, they're not living in Bakersfield. They're
probably back somewhere in Iran hiding, trying not to get
blown up by American guns.

Speaker 3 (13:01):
I wouldn't want to go back to Iran having lost
a soccer game right now.

Speaker 4 (13:05):
As long as they didn't lose to the United States,
that's a good point, Lucy.

Speaker 3 (13:12):
We lost our friend, Bonnie. You didn't hear that news today, no,
Bonnie Tyler?

Speaker 2 (13:19):
No? Yeah, seriously, she's.

Speaker 3 (13:26):
Been holding out for a hero for several decades. This
is from Footloose and Shrek. Yeah, they did a great
job with this in Shrek as well. That's Jim Rowse
right there, Lucy Chapman, Craig Evans, I'm Scott Borhees. This
is Nebraska's morning News.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
And don't you think it's a little soon? Poor joke
about joking.

Speaker 4 (13:51):
God, She've got a lot of money for this song
in Shrek.

Speaker 3 (13:55):
Trust me. I love this song. I always wanted her.

Speaker 2 (14:01):
Voice, but to make it about her holding up her
hero And what are you insinuating she gave up she
was never going to get.

Speaker 3 (14:09):
On our hero. I'm not insinuating. Well, she found her
songwriting hero and Jim Steinman. Jim Steinman's the guy who
wrote Megan Love out of nothing at All for air Supply.
She did a great version of that song as well,
and then pretty much any meatloaf song you can think
of that was a Jim Steinman song. But Jim loved

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her voice and loved writing songs. She had two hit
songs with Jim Steinman, that one Holding Out for a
Hero from the Footloose soundtrack, and of course Total Eclipse
of the Heart, which is probably the greatest power ballad
of all time. It's up there, it's on the Mount
Rushmore of power ballads. But yeah, she was the always

(14:58):
described as the gravelly voiced singer. She and Kim Carnes
from the eighties. Yeah, Kim Carnes to Betty Davis eyes.
She had that rasp to her voice as well, you know.

Speaker 4 (15:10):
A good healthy dose of bourbon and cigars and it
really paid off for Bonnie Tyler and Kim Carnes. But no,
it's she's got one of those distinctive, distinctive sounds, and
that's that's what you miss most about artists, ones that
are so unique and different.

Speaker 3 (15:24):
Well, it sounds like everybody else. She was an absolute sweetheart.
She was a guest on our program about five years ago.
She had a new album called The Best As Yet
to Come. She had plans for a tour this this
past spring, but that's this is why she died. She
was hospitalized in late April and underwent emergency surgery for

(15:46):
a perforated in testing, and she didn't recover as expected,
was placed in a medically induced coma. She was on
a ventilator. You don't want to be on a ventilator.
And she came out of the coma, remained in ICU,
kept canceling tour dates, and finally succumbed to all of

(16:08):
that horror and passed away in a hospital in Portugal
at the age of seventy five. She was an absolute sweetheart,
and I'm trying to find here. Oh yeah, Jim, we
do a bit on the show where we did one

(16:30):
for years. Doesn't happen as much anymore where we asked
celebrities to make us pancakes. Yes, I know I've heard
every one of them. You've never recorded that line, but
the line is, good morning, honey, I made you pancakes
for breakfast. And Bonnie Tyler was I believe, the only
one who ever sang the pancakes line for us. Here
we go, Come on, darlin, I've just made your pancakes.

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She was so sweet. I we're going to replay all
or at least part of that conversation from March third,
twenty twenty one. A little bit later this morning after
nine o'clock also got Tyros on the show after nine o'clock.
George loved George. George.

Speaker 4 (17:12):
Yeah, George and I go way back. George Murdoch, Yeah,
he was. I have a great Tyres's story about recruitment
to Nebraska as a matter of fact.

Speaker 3 (17:21):
Oh okay, well let's we'll lead into because he's on
at nine oh five. So at eight thirty five, I
want your tire. Tyrus and I are tight. Okay.

Speaker 4 (17:28):
Yeah, he came back when I was running the Nebraska
Greats Foundation. He came back and did a fundraiser for us,
and he was fantastic, sold the place out. Then came
back about half a year later and did another show
in Omaha, sold out. The man is not only impressive
in so many ways physically and intellectually, but the guy

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has a comedic bent to him too that's really actually underrated.

Speaker 3 (17:53):
He's coming to Omaha next month for his comedy tour
at the Relevance Center. Five years in a row for
that one. It's Thursday, August thirteen. He'll be on with
me at nine oh five, and he and I actually
do go way back to Carne. Are you guys friends?
He does not know me. Well, there was more than
three or four people at Carney at the time. Well
he was you know, the football players and the baseball players.

(18:16):
Only hung out with the football players and the baseball players,
so it was it was hard to break in with
some of those guys. And I wasn't on the football team. No,
they were good, uh back in those days. And Chad Ruttar,
who's a local financial whiz, he's he was the starting
quarterback at the time. That's right when George to later
George Murdoch his real name later became Tyros when he

(18:38):
was a big MMA guy. But Tyris has lived three
lives already. The man has been a Hollywood celebrity. The
man's been a bouncer and MMA champion. There's a lot there.
Wrestling champion, Yeah, there's a lot there. Snoop Dogg's bodyguard,
it was Snoop Dogg's bodyguard. That's gotta be a book.
Just A new.

Speaker 1 (18:56):
Survey says two hours is too long for today's movie audiences.
Filmgoers from several age groups were pulled. On average, adults
prefer a film to be about eighty eight minutes long.
Ten Z viewers preferring an eighty two minute movie, while
boomers can be patient for ninety three minutes. I'm Craig
Evans more News at the top of the hour at
news Radio eleven ten KFAB.

Speaker 3 (19:18):
That's a good question, Craig Evans, how long should a
movie be? See when I was growing up, I'm still
growing up. I'm Scott Vorhees, by the way, Jim Rose
was sports brief here in just a few minutes. Lucy
Chapman here too, and this is Nebraska's morning news, news
Radio eleven ten KFAB. But Lucy and I are both
jen Xers. We were growing up here. It seems like

(19:40):
movies were always an hour and a half, give or
take a few minutes. Like all the movies were about
an hour and a half. And every once in a
while you'd have something that would get towards two hours
and like, wow, that's a long movie. And then Oliver Stone,
I think, was like I'm putting out a three hour movie.
JFK film was about three hours long, and you know what,

(20:03):
it was great. I would have watched it for another
few hours. He did that one. I think the Ali
movie was approaching three hours long. I think Oppenheimer that
these aren't all Oliver Stone films, but I think, well,
now I'm just jumping around. In the seventies and eighties,
the movies were all about an hour and a half long.

Speaker 2 (20:24):
That's as long as the shark would continue to swim.

Speaker 4 (20:28):
We didn't see the shark for the first twenty minutes
of that movie.

Speaker 3 (20:32):
No I whether it was Jaws or Josh two, or
Jaws three and three D or Jaws four The Revenge
or Jaws five. That Jaws five, that's the one where
he fights Tommy Gunn right in the street, or wait,
that's Rocky Anyway, all the popcorn movies the eighties were
all about an hour and a half long. And now

(20:53):
I don't mind if I'm gonna go to the theater.
If I'm gonna pay money to go to the theater,
I don't want to be in there for eighty minutes,
shoot the previews, or eighty two minutes. You're gonna bring it.

Speaker 4 (21:03):
If you're gonna bring a co signer just to get concessions,
you want a lot more than eighty two minutes.

Speaker 3 (21:08):
Yeah, I want a good movie. I want something that's uh,
you know, two hours and seventeen minutes.

Speaker 4 (21:13):
Now, I want Doctors of Ago, I want Gone with
the Wind. I need an intermission. Well, yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (21:19):
I don't know about that brand, but I want to
see big explosions and superheroes for at least two hours
and seventeen minutes. That's that's a good length of film
if I'm sitting there in the movie. But if you
see a movie it's over two hours long, especially since
as I said, you know jen x Kid, which means now,

(21:41):
if I'm going to go see a movie that's more
than two hours long, I am at that point in
my life where I do need to think before the
film starts strategically, what do I need to say the
rest of this No, well it becomes an issue.

Speaker 2 (21:55):
Just don't get a soda.

Speaker 3 (21:58):
No, I don't have that kind of money. Guess who
had to write an op ed in Maine and say, hey,
thank you very much for reaching out, but I'm not
going to jump in and pick up the baton from
Graham Platner to run for the US Senate. None other
than actor Patrick Dempsey. Didn't know that he cared about politics,

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didn't know that he lived in Maine. Hadn't really thought
much about Patrick Dempsey since Grey's Anatomy or before that
can't buy me love. Good Morning. I'm Scott Vorhees, Lucy Chapman,
Craig Evans, Jim Rose, Dan Schwartzman, and for Courtney Dnahoe
Today and this is Nebraska's morning News. Senator McDreamy, is
he McDreamy or McSteamy. I didn't watch Grey's Anatomy.

Speaker 2 (22:44):
I didn't either, but I think McDreamy.

Speaker 3 (22:46):
It says here he's doctor McDreamy, Patrick Dempsey. So now
they got to go get Stephen King. Who else lives
in Maine? Oh, the Bushes. I don't think that any
of the Bushes are gonna run as the Democratic Senate candidate.
Is there a Bush that hopped the Republican corral and

(23:06):
went out and got a little democraty?

Speaker 4 (23:08):
Well, many of them have acted like Democrats down through
the years. I don't know if that qualifies, but yeah.
They usually convened at Walker's Point for the summer up
there in Kinney Bunkport, which is right there on the ocean.

Speaker 3 (23:19):
It's pretty cool.

Speaker 4 (23:20):
I've been in the family for like one hundred and
fifty years that little spot up there.

Speaker 3 (23:24):
I've never been invited up there. I haven't.

Speaker 4 (23:26):
I've been by it, but I've never been welcomed in.
And that was an oversight. You've been shoot away for now,
the President said, that.

Speaker 3 (23:31):
Was an oversight. Are you up there protesting?

Speaker 2 (23:34):
No?

Speaker 4 (23:34):
I was actually sailing around the Panopscott Bay one time
on a little eight nineteenth century sailing schooner.

Speaker 3 (23:40):
It was a wonderful trip. Tell me more about your dinghy. Well,
it wasn't a dingy. It was a large ship.

Speaker 4 (23:45):
But yeah, So I saw this advertised, and I thought
this was like twenty five years ago. I saw this advertised.
So I'd called a friend, said so we went up there,
you know. So we flew into a Hartford, you know,
visited a friend there, and then drove up along the
coast of Maine, past Kittery and Kenney Bunkport to Camden, Maine,
which is a beautiful little cove. And that's where we

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boarded the ship and sailed around for several days and
then came home.

Speaker 3 (24:10):
It was great. Did you wear the little schooner outfit? No,
but it rained for the first I was. It was
not the World's Greatest Experience for the first day because
it rained and we kind of had to sit there
and just ride it out.

Speaker 4 (24:24):
But it was funny. I ran into a couple from
New York City. This guy was a hedge fund manager
and his wife had forced him to go on vacation.
And you have to go on vacation, dear, this is
a save the marriage trip.

Speaker 3 (24:37):
So I met they.

Speaker 4 (24:38):
They found out we were from Nebraska, and of course
the first thing that he said was Rose Blumkin, Nebraska
furniture mark, because she just bring profiled in the Wall
Street Journal. So anyway, the wife is talking to him
and he pulls out his phone and he's going to
take a call on his little flip phone cell phone.
She grabs it and throws it into the ocean. Wow,
she said, I warned you this their vacation.

Speaker 3 (25:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (25:01):
I wonder if they're still around. But no, that was
a beautiful state. It's a truly beautiful state. Now I
wasn't up there in the wintertime. I guess he gets
a little nippy up there in the wintertime, certainly can,
but in the summertime it is just a magnificent place.
It's cool, the breezes deep rich blue skies. It's a

(25:24):
very clean state. They don't even allow advertising on the highways,
no billboards.

Speaker 3 (25:29):
Well, Platner was going to represent that state if indeed
he was victorious in November, but he couldn't even get
to mid July. He last night suspended his campaign, which
is not dropping out. No he could jump back in.
You know, he says, I have not been even No
one's even filed a charge against me. I've just got

(25:49):
a bunch of Democrats and say no, no, you gotta go.
We gotta get someone else in there. This is after
the voting process. So who do the Democrats get after
the voting process to suddenly step in there and go, okay,
I'll do it. Does Kamala Harris have a little place
in bar Harbor or something, then maybe seems to be
the way that they do it. I'm sure Bernie knows
a few communists up there. They're going to have a convention.

(26:12):
They're going to have a little mini convention in Maine
and Bangor or Augusta or wherever they have their conventions
up Branfield, and they'll have six hundred maners there picked
their Senate candidate. But the bigger broader issue if you're
a Democrat up there is this how much rampaging across
the landscape will Graham Platner do?

Speaker 4 (26:32):
And the answer will be a lot. If you look
at that video I'm sure it's online easy to get
to that he released early this morning, pretty much saying
that I'm suspending my campaign and not because I want to.

Speaker 3 (26:43):
And this is not an admission of guilt.

Speaker 4 (26:46):
You know, I'm not saying that those women are right,
But that's what people are going to think. I'm dropping
out because they found out about me. He says, that's
not the case. I'm doing it because the structure here
screwed me over implied that much. It says that these guys,
these Democrats here, they caught something in the wind and
said that's it. We're gonna dump this guy. We're gonna

(27:06):
cancel this guy. So he's probably not going to be
supportive of the Democrat candidate, whoever that one is.

Speaker 3 (27:12):
Well, since apparently, according to Pete Ricketts, Dan Osborne and
Graham Plattner are best friends practically Siamese twins, then maybe
Platner can run as an independent Senate candidate up there.

Speaker 4 (27:23):
Well, maybe Dan Osborne can run for Senate and Maine.
If things go a little south here, if we continue
to get these nasty ads and he gets pushed out
of Nebraska, maybe he could sign up it run in Maine.

Speaker 3 (27:34):
Well, the one person not running is actor Patrick Dempsey.
Here's what he said. Quote. As I reflected on all
of this, I kept coming back to one question, Do
I truly want to serve in Congress? After a lot
of thought, I realized the answer is no. Not because
public service isn't honorable, it absolutely is, but because I
believe I can contribute more effectively through the life I've

(27:55):
already built. Unquote. Let's just pause for a moment and
reflect upon what life Patrick Dempsey, actor, over several decades,
has built for himself there in Maine. I'm guessing it's
pretty comfortable. I can contribute more effectively through the life
I have already built. And what effective life is that? Patrick? Well,

(28:17):
I'm going to have grapefruit for breakfast, and lobster, and
then lobster rolls for lunch, and then for dinner, a
whole plate of lobster. It is, after all, in Maine
things could not possibly be moving more slowly than in Utah.
This is the Charlie Kirk murderer's trial. The alleged murderer,

(28:39):
Charlie Kirk is in there. We're not even to a
place where the judge is asking for a plea at
this point. To Jim, you've been following, we don't have
a plea yet. Going on in a year, and we
don't even have a plea because of this judge. This judge,
Stephen Groff, is pulling a lance etol. He wants it
to be about him, and so yesterday he allowed the
defense to just hatch all sorts of conspiracy theories about

(29:02):
the ballistics test and all this other jazz. We still
have two more defense witnesses. This is just this is
essentially the grand jury stage. We're just deciding if there's
enough evidence to move forward with a trial and get
a plea. And look at we got a note, we
got video, we got a roommate, we got all sorts
of stuff, we got a gun, we got scratches on

(29:24):
shell casings.

Speaker 4 (29:25):
What do we need? It's if I were the Kirk family,
I would be just outraged by this behavior. And then
yesterday this judge says to the guys, would you guys
be okay with us? Maybe wrapping this up by Friday.
That's not what a judge says. A judge says, I'm
making a decision. And he's not even gonna say at
the time. He's going to write about it and let

(29:46):
him think about it over the weekend and then maybe
on Monday. But to go this long without even a
plea to me is judicial malfeasance.

Speaker 3 (29:55):
And go to trial.

Speaker 4 (29:57):
Put all of this stuff on trial, all right, but
get a plea out of this guy. Are you guilty?
Are you not guilty? Are you animal, vegetable or mineral? Whatever?
But to allow this to go on and on. Now,
we're gonna get a video I guess of the roommate.
This is the trans part of our part of it.
We're gonna it's a thirty seven minute video. They hacked
out seventeen minutes of it that apparently would be was prejudicial.

(30:22):
The Kirk family and the prosecutor saying that is prejudice
against our case. But anyway, we're gonna get at least
mister Lance Twigg. We're gonna get him on video today.
It's not gonna be televised, it's gonna be audio for
people outside the courtroom.

Speaker 3 (30:36):
But what else do you need? But they're cut they're
cutting out the part where he allegedly admits to the crime. Correct.
So I'm not quite sure what the point of this is.
Donald Trump Junior is among those who's been in the
courtroom in Utah, and he said, this evidence is monumental.
I mean, this is gonna be a cut and dry

(30:57):
case if the judge will allow it to be. They
don't move that quickly in Utah. They should move that quickly.
What's the hold up? But I think that Elizabeth Smart
case took years.

Speaker 4 (31:08):
It took eight years for her, and she said, that's
the guy.

Speaker 3 (31:11):
Oh my gosh, I'm not do forget just silly things.

Speaker 2 (31:23):
I'm going through.

Speaker 3 (31:27):
Bonnie Tyler from her most recent album, which is now
five years old, the best is yet to come. Sadly
that would be her last album, and maybe truest statement
I'm not is Bonnie Taylor. Bonnie Tyler is not up
there singing with the angels, then who deserves to?

Speaker 5 (31:48):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (31:48):
I think she's doing a lot of so. Yeah, so
the best is yet to come, even if you shake
off that mortal coil. Bonnie Tyler gone at the age
of seven. I talked to her a few years ago.
I've been listening back to that interview.

Speaker 4 (32:03):
She is so sweet. I love Bonnie till now. You
have a crush on Bonnie Tyler.

Speaker 3 (32:07):
I know. I have always had a crush on Bonnie Tyler.
That faster than the Speed of Night album cover like that,
did you?

Speaker 4 (32:14):
Yeah, she's beautiful, got into that the eyes she has.
Grim Garnes was very attractive in her prime too, So.

Speaker 3 (32:20):
No, I like women with We've got a celebrity death
mash going right now with Kim Carines and Bonnie Tyler.
Mm hmm.

Speaker 4 (32:27):
You know, I've always kind of been attracted to uniquely
sounding female voices. Many of them sound the same, but
the ones that aren't the same, the ones that are
very throaty, very raspy, smoky, I've always liked those. I
had a thing for Mary Chapin Carpenter back in the
nineteen nineties when she was rocking and rolling. She was
sending out one great album after another, crossing over country.

(32:50):
She was one of those people that got me into
country back in the nineties. And I'm thinking this this
one nobody sounds like this.

Speaker 3 (32:56):
Yeah. Man.

Speaker 4 (32:57):
She had a guy named John Jennings who did most
of the lyrics for her songs. But she she puts
something on him that most people didn't. So Bonnie Tyler
is going to be missed.

Speaker 5 (33:06):
You know.

Speaker 3 (33:06):
She was one of those and it's a it's a
loss for us. Yeah. Jennie Joplin the greatest, most unique
rock voice, and not just female rock music, his all
and all of music. Yeah, she led the parade. Jannis
Choplin led the parade. That's Jim Rose right there. Craig Evans,
so you talk about your throaty female vocalist, Craig Evans,

(33:27):
Craig right there. Yeah, a lot of people don't know
he is. Get him to sing Anita. I'm holding out
for her here, I think, yeah, I'm a few bars
of that. We should we should have Craig sing. I'll
do the turnaround bright Eyes parts, and Craig can sing
the vocals on Total Eclipse of the Heart. And I'm
rolling tape. Be good. We have a few hours to
talk him into it. Lucy Chapman's right there. I'm Scott

(33:49):
Voorhees and this is news Radio eleven ten kfa B.
I'd like to hear Lucy Chapman sing.

Speaker 4 (33:55):
Lucy's kind of got one of those voices she's in
that parade.

Speaker 3 (33:58):
I'd like to hear her sing. You've done some karaoke.
We done some fun karaoke stuff over the years, and
maybe we can do total Eclipse the Heart later this morning, Lucy,
do you want to take the Bonnie Tyler part or
the Rory Dodd part. He's the guy who sings the
turnaround bride Eyes. I once sang karaoke at an event
with Jeff co Turba, and he did the turnaround bride

(34:20):
Eyes parts, and I sang the Bonnie Tyler part. And
is there any evidence of this? No evidence. Well, there's
a picture, but there's no audio that exists. It was
burned immediately. Governor Jim Pillen says it's time for Nebraska
state agencies to implement some spending cuts again. Yeah, well,
he said that the revenues are down and the State

(34:43):
Budget Division you got to reduce your monthly budget by
no less than five percentikes. Well, I mean there's a reason.
Look this. People think that this can't happen in government.
It happens in business all the time.

Speaker 4 (35:01):
Yes, is there room to cut more, It depends on
who's receiving what. But the whole is the property tax
relief fund. That is the hole in this budget. It's
a billion dollars that we pour into a bucket that
has a hole at the bottom, and nobody seems to
want to do anything about it, okay, except the governor.

(35:23):
The governor has tried, he's been trying very hard to
get people to change the way we tax things in
this state. And if we don't address that, okay, if
we don't systematically change the formula for how we value
property and tax property in this state, that number is
going to keep growing up, going up, and every year

(35:45):
the governor, if they are a fiscal conservative, is going
to say we have to cut more out of the
state budget to accommodate that. That is, that is not
the way to fix the problem. And it's a band
aid on a compound frame. And compound fractures don't work
without resetting the leg. And that's what we have to do.

(36:06):
And guess what that hurts. Okay, If anybody out there
has had a compound fracture, they know how hard it
is and how painful it is to reset the leg.
But that's how you fix it. And nobody wants to
reset the leg down there.

Speaker 3 (36:21):
Very politically unpopular.

Speaker 4 (36:23):
And I don't understand why it is that that seventy
five percent of Nebraskans will tell anybody running for office
property taxes are my biggest problem. Seventy five percent, seven
and a half out of every ten Nebraskans will say,
I want you to lower my property taxes systemically. Okay,
not just one time, but I need a new system.

(36:46):
And they won't do anything about it. They just keep
pouring money into a bucket that has a hole at
the bottom, and nobody saying does that okay except us
in state government in Nebraska. So that's that's what it's
boiling down to, Scott. I mean, it's a billion dollar hole.

Speaker 3 (37:03):
You don't think that some of these agencies can just
implement a restaurant tax across the state to you go eating.
What is this restaurant tax in Gothenburg? Now that's the
pay property taxes in Douglas County. Really, Now it's there
are solution.

Speaker 4 (37:19):
It won't be easy, it will be painful, it will
cost people elections, but this is how you fix it.

Speaker 3 (37:26):
I don't know that we did a real good doze
action in Nebraska. They got one hundred and fifty million
out of the DHHS budget, which is also one of
the well and that's the other thing, Scott, we talked
about trimming around the edges. We got four bills in
this state. That's it. The rest of it's peanuts.

Speaker 4 (37:44):
You got the university, you got K through twelve, Education,
you got DHHS. That's pretty three bills basically, and then
the rest of it is just by comparison, peanuts. So
if you really want to save money, you got to
go to those three. Well, you can't go to those
three now because the university says we're at the end.
I'm not sure they are K through twelve. Wait a minute,
I'll jack up property taxes if you do that right,

(38:06):
university can jack up tuition, room and board. So I
don't know why we're giving them that much money. They
should be self sufficient. None of my tax dollars should
go to the university. The university should go get money
from sports. If the university needs money to shore up
its budget, it's academic budget. It needs to go to
the Husker Athletic department. They've got all the money at

(38:27):
tuned into the Chris Baker Show the other day and
was suddenly sucked into an addition of live pd Omaha
adoptee The Chris Baker Show always an interesting ride, whether
you're driving in the passenger seat, handcuffed in the back,
gagged in the trunk. I mean, everyone has a different
feeling when riding along with The Chris Baker Show. Afternoon's

(38:51):
two to six right here on Nebraska's News Weather in
traffic station. This is News Radio eleven ten KFAB and
we got Nebraska's morning news right here. Jim Row with
sports brief in just a moment, Lucy Chapman, Craig Evans there,
I am Scott Vorhe's city boy. I didn't realize this.
You're not allowed to fix your own John Deere equipment.

(39:13):
I didn't know about this, but it took a lawsuit,
a right to repair settlement that was resolved yesterday as
attorneys general and several states secured that settlement with John
Deere that required the company to allow farmers to fix
their own equipment. The Illinois based Deer and Company has

(39:38):
face complaints for years for withholding the software needed for
repairs and forcing customers to use authorized dealers instead of
independent ones or being able to do it themselves, and
so as a class action lawsuit. Nebraska was not part
of this lawsuit, as far as I can tell, Arizona, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin.

(40:00):
I imagine there were probably some guys going, I'm not taking
it to the authorized dealer. I can do a better
job than they can. And they're even older agg producers
who have older John Deere equipment that they've been fixing
themselves for years. Going software. This thing doesn't need no software.
There's no software in this thing. I've been using this
thing for forty six years. Still runs great. I take

(40:23):
good care of it.

Speaker 3 (40:24):
Still runs like a deer, runs like a deer. That's right.
We were talking about property taxes in this last hour.
Governor Pillen says, these state agencies need to cut a
lot of their budgets because the revenues aren't coming in.
That's funny. I paid my property taxes and state income
tax this past year. How did they not have any money?
I paid a lot of money to them. Yeah. I

(40:46):
live in a very, very sprawling, multi acreage compound. I no,
you don't.

Speaker 4 (40:53):
Well, of course, you know the state doesn't get much
property tax that mostly goes to local districts. If you
look at your property tax bill. They're fifteen miles there.
None of them are state. They're all county or school
or city or bond issues. So it's sales taxes and
income taxes. That's pretty much what we get in Nebraska. Nebraskas. Hey,
you know, we're not buying cars. We're not buying new cars,

(41:16):
not buying you know, washers and dryers and dishwashers.

Speaker 3 (41:19):
We like you were. You went into the rant on
property taxes and elicited. This email from Tannis says, we
moved from Nebraska to Iowa in two thousand and two
to save on property taxes, but since then Iowa was
almost caught up to Nebraska and taxing people to death.
We just sold our house in glen Wood and we've
moved to Missouri. They've gone from six thousand dollars a

(41:43):
year to six hundred dollars a year in property taxes,
and they're overlooking the Lake of the Ozarks. Much happier
looking out at the lake every morning, and saving ninety
percent in property taxes and enjoying listening to you all
in the morning on iHeartRadio. Thank you, Tannis, appreciate the email.

Speaker 4 (42:01):
It's happening a lot of Nebraskans are relocating to other states,
especially when they get to a retirement age, when they
have more financial resources. Many of them are fleeing to
Wyoming or South Dakota or Arizona or Texas or Missouri.
And it's because of that. So you think, well, but

(42:22):
they're here like half the year. They may be official
residents of Arizona, but they're here during the summer and
they're back down in Arizona in the winter. There are
thousands of Nebraskans that behave that way. But here's the problem.
You take somebody out of the state, you take everything out.
They may be here, but they're not participating like they
were if they were actual citizens.

Speaker 3 (42:41):
What do you mean, Rosie.

Speaker 4 (42:42):
They don't buy as much stuff here, they don't give
as much money away here. In other words, they're charitable
giving changes, They are not investing, and they are not
participating in day to day life like if they were full,
full time citizens here. So those who say well, that's
not any big deals, that is a big deal. It's
a huge deal, and it's having a tremendously negative effect

(43:05):
on economic development in Greater Nebraska, particularly in what we
call the Class one city. So the North Platts, the
Grand Islands, the Carnes, the Yorks and that kind of thing.
So you have to stop people from fleeing. Tax policy
is the single biggest reason that people flee. But you
could have a better tax policy, and you're still going

(43:25):
to look at Florida and Arizona versus thirty degrees below
zero here in the winter. Yes, but they'll stay as
residents here, which means they'll file their income tax here. Okay, Now,
we have been more competitive in income tax Scott. That's true,
not as low as some states like South Dakota which
is zero, or Texas which is zero, Florida zero.

Speaker 3 (43:51):
By next year, our income tax rates set to drop
to three point ninety nine percent.

Speaker 4 (43:56):
If we meet economic metrics. See there was a little
fine p on that law, and that is only if
revenues are here or here or here. If we have
a big gap in sales tax revenues, then that won't
trigger the change. But the main thing that we have
to address because I believe there's enough revenue in Nebraska
to do what we need to do. It's the way

(44:18):
we tax, it's what we tax, it's what we don't tax.
If you get down to Arizona, where they have a
very very low state income tax and very low property taxes.
You can get a two million dollar house in the
Phoenix area and pay four thousand dollars in property tax.
That two million dollar house in Omaha, you're paying thirty
thousand oh in property taxes. But they tax everything. Everything

(44:39):
has a sales tax associated to it. It's a discretionary tax.
We don't okay, we have exempted too many things. And
you say, well, that adversely affects for people. It's discretionary, okay,
if property tax is not. And you people that live
in the urban core, in your little houses in the
urban core, get ready because in the next five years

(45:00):
your property taxes are going through the roof thanks to
our little streetcar project. And you're thinking, well, I can't hide, No,
you can't hide. Geez, it's a tax policy problem.

Speaker 3 (45:10):
Jean's Doutor's gonna come running in here two hours early
for the kfab comment line, just to strangle you with
your own micro And I got.

Speaker 4 (45:16):
Into it yesterday over the garages because she was propagating
false information about the garages yesterday and I had to
set her straight on that.

Speaker 3 (45:24):
Sometime you need to be a guest on the kfabe
comment I'll.

Speaker 4 (45:27):
Come on, but look, it's gonna happen. We can't stop it.
That streetcar has left the station.

Speaker 3 (45:34):
All right by the way, Council Bluffs Mayor Jill shootackt
was it great yesterday. That was a great conversation.

Speaker 4 (45:40):
And she's a sharp gal, you folks and Council Bluffs
have a sharp gal in charge.

Speaker 3 (45:45):
I probably got off on the wrong foot with her.
What did you say? Because you know, I left the
studio as Jeene was coming in here and I said,
I'll go get your guests and bring her in. And
I went up to her and said, you're not Tom Hannafan.
I heard the Mary of Council Bloss was out here. Meanwhile, meanwhile,
Matt Walsh is like, if you miss any part of

(46:08):
the kfab comment line, it is on the podcast link
at kfab dot com. Just click on jeans stop. It's
a good show it is. The President says that Iran
called him up after we hit on last night. We
hit the radar installations, we hit the drones installations, we
hit the missile sites, and they called us up and
they were begging please, We so badly want to make

(46:30):
a deal. Please, let's make it. H mister President. I
say this with all due respect. I don't believe you.
I imagine someone talked to somebody. But the fact that
we're hitting the same stuff that we always hit when
they already had a really sweet deal laid out for

(46:51):
him and they could not bring themselves to abide by it.
And then we hit some more other stuff that they
clearly don't care about. They knew it was coming, and
we did exactly what we said we were going to do.
We hit some of these drone installations or whatever, and
then they're like, oh, please, mister President, we didn't know
it was going to be so awful. Please don't don't
do it anymore. Don't don't hit our radar sites. We

(47:13):
want to make a deal. I don't believe you. I
just because I don't believe them, and I know that
the president is prone to exaggeration. I don't believe any
of that. Well. Look, every observer who.

Speaker 4 (47:29):
Knew or has had some interaction significant interaction with the
regime in Iran over the last twenty five years said
the same thing. When the MoU came out. Mister President,
you're wasting time. These people are not trustworthy, they don't
tell the truth. They slow run negotiations for a reason.

(47:50):
They don't think long term, they think about today. There
is only one answer for these people. Now, does that
involve boots on the ground. I don't know. I'm glad
I'm not Secretary of Defense of the Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of the President. But there's only one solution.
You have to blow these people to smithereens. You have
to destroy that country. You have to burn it to

(48:12):
save it. And I know that's hard for people to process,
but it's either that or you're gonna have this problem
can continue to get worse and worse. It doesn't matter
who's in charge. It is a It is a theocracy
of extremism, religious extremism.

Speaker 3 (48:30):
We have destroyed their nuclear capabilities. Well, we've killed We've
killed a handful of Ayatolas. I don't know that. We're
just blowing up a couple more drones and suddenly Iran's like,
all right, well we didn't know that you were going
to do that. Please, we want to make a deal.
I don't believe. You gotta have regime change. You gotta
have a regime change. Here's what I do believe. Why

(48:50):
would the President say that, Well, let's look at the markets. Oh,
they're up today. How about that, which, by the way,
I'm not complaining about oil is down a little bit.
Tom emails Scott at kfab dot com via the Zonker's
Custom Woods inbox and says, four dollars and sixteen cents
at the MAGA Savers sixtieth and Grover. That didn't take long. Wow,

(49:13):
that would be the Mega Savers four sixteen, he says,
four sixteen. I don't know that's ninety one. I have
a hard time believing that's eighty seven. I don't know
that might be diesel. I don't have any idea it's
like diesel. But the President I think it's funny, he said.
Maga Saver, Yeah, Trumpian slip there, the Mega Saver. But

(49:36):
the President is pushing some MAGA gas stations. He's promoting
a new Freedom Fuel network, twenty five gas stations, especially
around Pennsylvania, that are charging three forty seven a gallon.
For the forty seventh president, the average cost for a
gallon of regular gas in Pennsylvania's three ninety nine and

(49:56):
then three eighty nine in New Jersey. The President says
here's where you'sul get your guess. It's the Freedom Fuel Network.
Can't wait for terrorists to go there and try and
blow up the gas tanks. Even people who don't like
him say, hey, gas price or lower, I'll fill up here. Yeah,
I hate that guy, but I do like paying a
little bit less for guests. Now, I got this email
from Renee says, good morning, I just heard you announce

(50:19):
that Tyros is gonna be on the show today. Yep,
he's coming up at nine oh five. Tell Tyros that
my mom, Betty, and I are true Tyris fans out
here in Hastings. Yeah. Tyros makes my mama smile and laugh,
and for that I am forever grateful. That's from Renee,
sent to Scott at kfab dot com. Yeah, Fox News,
Tyros is coming to Omaha, back to Omaha for the

(50:42):
fifth year in a row. He'll do the comedy show
at the Relevant Center in Elcorn Thursday, August thirteenth, tyrostour
dot org. We'll talk with him here in about a
half an hour on news radio eleven ten KFAB. Now,
when I mentioned that a couple of hours ago, Jim said,
you got to hear my story.

Speaker 4 (51:00):
Yeah, Well, Tyros is a great guy. His real name
is George Murdawchin. What you see on television is what
you get. He's a very, very smart guy who came
from very troubled, humbling, humbling origins. His dad was nineteen
when he was born. His mom was fifteen. His dad
was abusive, and his mom got out of there and
raised you know, Tyros and his brother with a very

(51:23):
stern hand. And as Tyros says, if it weren't for
my mom, I'd have been in jail or dead or whatnot. Well,
he was a football player in high school. He grew
up in a very very rough neighborhood in Los Angeles,
and he wound up playing junior college football at Antelope
Valley College in Lancaster, California. Now this is a Division
two JUCO. It's not even a Division Ie Juco Division

(51:45):
two JUCO. Hey, big guy, you know, a pretty athletic guy,
although he'd had some knee problems. He walks into the
coach's office one day and the coach says, hey, Tyros,
the University of Nebraska wants you to come out on
a recruiting visit. Now, this was back in the early
nineties when we were in the top five. This is
the early Tommy Fraser. He's going to Nebraska.

Speaker 3 (52:04):
Ore.

Speaker 4 (52:04):
They want you to fly out to Lincoln right now
and they'll pick you up and they'll take you on. Really, wow,
I didn't realize they knew anything about me. So he
gets on the plane, flies to Denver, Denver into Lincoln,
and then these two guys holding up a sign that
says George Murdoch, that's his real name. They go, those
are my two guys. So they get in the car
and they're driving out of the Lincoln Airport and they

(52:26):
get on that little interstate there stretch by Cornhusker Highway
and Tyros sees the sign downtown this way exit. Well,
these two guys blow right past that exit and they're
driving west. Now, Tyros knows which direction west and east is.
He knows that Lincoln is east. They're going west, and
he says, guys, did you miss the exit for the

(52:50):
University of Nebraska. And the two of them look at
each other, then look at Tyros in the backseat and
said University of Nebraska. Yeah, Huskers. Am I not going
a recruiting visit for Huskers? He goes, no, you're going
to the University of Nebraska Carnee. Really, that's how he
ended up the lopers at Unk. He goes, well, where
is that? He goes, It's in Carne, Nebraska.

Speaker 3 (53:12):
How far is that?

Speaker 4 (53:13):
About two and a half hours from now? He goes, Really,
so he winds up at Carney. He plays on a
very good team with a really good quarterback, Chad Ruttar
who's now a financial, high level financial guy in Omaha.

Speaker 3 (53:26):
He was the quarterback and Matt Orduna. Orduna was a
really good run.

Speaker 4 (53:29):
There was a good team at Carnee, and of course
Tyrus did not get his degree from Carney. He took
off and became a WWE star and appeared in movies
because he's a six foot seven inch black guy, three
hundred and forty pounds, and he's he's a character actor.
He was also the bodyguard for Snoop Dogg. He got
involved in the celebrity circle.

Speaker 3 (53:49):
Well.

Speaker 4 (53:50):
He then of course grew into this big commentator for
Greg Guttfeld and that was his discovery on Fox News
and now he's one.

Speaker 3 (53:57):
Of their top people. But he does have affection for
car Arney.

Speaker 4 (54:00):
And he came back to Nebraska and I learned that
story when he was providing some support for the Nebraska
Greats Foundation. He donated some experiences with Tyros that were
very very good for the foundation, and he has affection
for Carney And they invited him back about three years
ago and he got an honorary degree and Doug Christiansen

(54:20):
was the chancellor at the time, and Doug was very
welcoming of Tyros back. He came back and said only
nice things about his experience at UNK and.

Speaker 3 (54:30):
I hope that that continues. I knew who he was.
We were both at Carnie had a mess. Yeah, the
fall of nineteen ninety five. I knew who he was
because he would just you know, he Tyros looked like
Tyros back then. He was just a happy guy. He
was always wearing shorts, no matter what the temperature was,
why below zero, still in short And because he's such

(54:52):
a big guy. I just remember his backpack looked hilariously
small on him. It was a regular size backpack, but
he's not a regular size guy, so it looked just
it looks so small on him. And we'd always pass
each other and I'd say good morning, smile. He smiled
everyone happy, seemed like a happy guy. But I don't

(55:14):
know how he I didn't know how he got to Carnate,
how he got to Fox. We'll talk with Tyrus about
all that coming up here in about discovered by Gutfeld
twenty five minutes. But it is well I'm gonna ask him. Yeah,
all right, he was discovered by Gutfeld. But there's a
fun story about Gutfeld getting him on the show that
I'm sure he'll share. We'll see about that. So that's
coming up at nine oh five, where we we will

(55:36):
replay our conversation with Bonnie Tyler, who's passed at the
age of seventy five. That's coming up at nine thirty five.
She's an absolute delight flying instructor in Argentina is taking
his student up for another flight. This is not her
first flight. She is fairly seasoned, but obviously still a
student and a twenty two year old female, and the

(55:58):
instructor suddenly during the less which is you know up
in the plane, turns to her and says, you know
what you have to do. Carry on. He takes off
his headset, he unbuckles his seat belt and leaps out
of the window of the SES NOA one fifty, obviously

(56:21):
plummeting to his death. She stunned by this lands the plane.

Speaker 2 (56:29):
Well, what else was she going to do? I mean,
you got to you gotta put that shock aside for
a minute.

Speaker 3 (56:35):
Yeah, she said, I had no inclination. There's no inkling there,
anything there that he planned to do anything like this.
But you got to admit it's a pretty good flying instructor.

Speaker 2 (56:48):
Well yeah, and I mean, if you're gonna do something
big and you're going to do it, at least get
people talking about it.

Speaker 3 (56:56):
How many times had she landed the plane before? I
don't know, but she'd never done it solo, and she'd
never done it solo while thinking about what just happened.
But this is this is true sink or swim stuff.
This guy. I mean, it's it's terrible what happened. It's
sad that this man is gone. But what a great
flying instructor. He trained her to the point that she

(57:17):
could even fly the plane and land it. No, after
someone just did that. That's an amazing flying instructor. Let's
give this man credit.

Speaker 2 (57:24):
No, he was rude, that's ru rude.

Speaker 3 (57:27):
Yeah, his deck, his tactics were questionable. I don't know
how rude tactics are questionable.

Speaker 2 (57:33):
I would have looked out the doors. That's rude.

Speaker 3 (57:35):
Hey, where you go.

Speaker 4 (57:36):
She must have been she must have been good, and
I bet she'd landed the plane several times before with
him in the jump seat.

Speaker 3 (57:43):
Well, he apparently felt like she was going to be. Okay,
you know what you have to do. Carry on, That's
what Gary said when he left, right, you know what
you have to do. And then he jumped out the window.
Or only on the first floor though, So he's all right.