"Inappropriate Contact With Himself"

Thanks to Craig Evans' phrasing in a news report for today's podcast title.  We talked about that story, a former state senator trying to break up a US Senator's marriage (or whatever this is all about), the Husker Buzz with Sean Callahan following Coach Rhule's news conference yesterday, an outdoor report with Greg Wagner, wasp infestations, and more!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Nebraska's morning news news radio eleven ten Kfab
and Lucy, Good morning. I will be with you all
morning here today. Yesterday, yesterday I snuck out. I should
have just left and not said like, hey, I gotta
step out. I've got a function I must be a

(00:21):
part of here today. I shouldn't even I should have
just left and waited to see if anyone noticed.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Honestly, you might have felt really bad about that.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
The implication based on what you just said is that
no one would have noticed.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Well, you don't want to invite negative feelings. You don't
know if they'd be there, but you don't need to
invite them.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Well, Lucy and Jim are not letting Scott get a
word in edgewise. He needs to say something it maybe
he doesn't need to say something.

Speaker 3 (00:53):
So let me tell you what I did yesterday. Just briefly.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
About a year ago, I was asked to be a
part of a casino night like m seeing and helping
launch a casino night for a really cool company here
in Omaha called Prime Secured. It's cybersecurity experts, say AI.
They handle all this stuff. They work with a lot

(01:17):
of different companies, provide technology and security for a lot
of different people around the world, and they're also super
great people. And they said it would be it'd be
fun to have Scott come do the thing, and I
said absolutely, And so after that, they said, now next summer,
we have a really big event downtown Omaha. Would you

(01:39):
be the MC for that. I said, just tell me
where to be at what time. Well, at that time,
I didn't know I was going to be hosting the
morning show, and I didn't know what time it was.
So I of course learned since then, and I kept
that commitment because I like these guys. It was a
really fun event. I felt guilty sneaking out how way

(02:00):
through the show yesterday, but it was a day long
event downtown Omaha, and I was pleased to be a
part of it. So I go in there and we
start the thing, and then some of their customers, clients, partners,
they're coming up to me saying, Hey, I was listening
to you on the radio this morning.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
What was the bakery? Now?

Speaker 1 (02:23):
Before I snuck out midway through the morning show yesterday,
we talked about a local bakery. And it's not a
big bakery. It's not a nationwide bakery. I'm not naming them,
either because I don't want to give them publicity, or
I don't need people firing off angry messages to them

(02:44):
saying I heard what you did on your social media
and I'm gonna blow the place up. I don't think
any of you would act like that, but I don't
need that, so I just not name them there when
I every single person I told though yesterday, so why
was the bakery? I said, here's the name of the bakery,
and they said, oh, I've never heard of them. So

(03:07):
these are people who are looking for attention. I'm not
inclined to give it to them. But some of their
posts are very, very political. I joked about how they
said that MAGA stands for Mexicans aren't going anywhere, which I.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
Mexicans are either in Mexico. I think they are free
to leave. What you can't do is coming legally into
the country, which doesn't matter then if you're Mexican or
El Salvadorian, or Canadian or a Chinese spy via Canada.
By the way, that is a news story today. There

(03:47):
was a Chinese spy who was working as a Canadian
intern and was assigned to NATO and was going around
all the buildings, asking a lot of questions and taking pictures,
and it says that she was working on behalf of
a third nation state party. Hmm, I wonder who that
would be. AnyWho. If you're in the country illegally, it

(04:12):
doesn't matter where you're from. Illegal immigrants need to rectify
that situation, and if they don't, the United States of
America will rectify it for them, in which case they
are going somewhere.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
And that has nothing to do. See.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
It's funny because if I were to come on here
and say we have a problem with illegal immigrants in
this country and they're all Mexicans, long, how do you
think that would go over? But this place says Mexicans
aren't going implying that illegal immigrants are all Mexicans. They're okay,
though they're on the right side of politics.

Speaker 3 (04:49):
Anyway.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
The thing that we really were talking about yesterday more
than that, was they had a cookie available and they
posted it online and it's a little heart shaped cookie
and it says on it, corse your Republican husband, which
we discussed a little bit yesterday about just how awful
it is that you can't have people who have different

(05:11):
political opinions come together, whether they're friends, co workers, Facebook friends,
the tie that binds or married. Well, I kind of
forgot about one high profile mixed political marriage here in

(05:33):
the Omaha Lincoln, Washington, DC area, and someone who is
a very staunch liberal in our community is calling her
out for not doing something with her Republican husband. And

(05:54):
this has implications for November. We're going to get to
that in just a moment.

Speaker 4 (05:59):
Here's the latest from KFAB Radio News. An incident at
Uno leads to the arrest of a former Central Nebraska
police chief. Wayne Ally, is accused of making inappropriate contact
with himself during a class on trafficking and child exploitation.
A deal to disarm the Palestinian militant group Hamas and
the Gaza Strip has been reached. President Trump said there

(06:21):
will be a complete disarmament of all armed groups in Gaza,
Israel will withdraw from the enclave, and a new Palestinian
government will be created. Spider Man Brand New Day is
looking to secure one of the biggest openings ever this weekend.
The fourth film in the Tom Holland led series is
looking to make between two hundred and sixty and two
hundred and eighty million dollars in its first weekend in theaters.

(06:43):
I'm Craig Evans. More news at the bottom of the
hour at news Radio eleven ten kfab.

Speaker 5 (06:49):
Ah.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
Yeah, we'll be going to see the Spider Man movie.
We like the Spider Man movies. And how did Craig
phrase that story. We'll talk about it at some point
this morning. Now, former law enforcement community or law enforcement
member in a wonderful community near Hastings was making inappropriate

(07:12):
contact with himself during a class at UNO. That's how
Craig chose to phrase it. A nice job. Greg well
worded he was making inappropriate contact with himself. Craig Evans
right there. Lucy Chapman two, I'm Scott Voorhees. I'll take

(07:33):
care of sports in just a moment. Jim Rose out today.
This is Nebraska's Morning News. Yesterday on this program here
on news Radio eleven ten kfab, I told you about
this local bakery that had a cookie that they posted
online that got a lot of attention from their social
media followers that said, divorce your Republican husband. We were

(07:57):
lamenting the I guess that there is a civil war
brewing in this country and there have been a lot
of relationships that have been destroyed due to politics. Kind
of forgot about one couple though. Megan Hunt, though didn't

(08:17):
the technically still a Nebraska state senator but term limited
out here from Omaha. She posted this online and she said,
many Democrats are telling me they agree completely, but they
can't say anything publicly because they want her money and donations,
not me. That's no way I could live. So she's

(08:38):
not running for anything, Megan Hunt. So she's calling out
Suzanne Shore.

Speaker 3 (08:46):
The name ring a.

Speaker 2 (08:47):
Bell, No, it truly doesn't.

Speaker 1 (08:50):
Suzanne Shore is running for nu regent position. And Suzanne
Shore is the wife who retains her her maiden name.
She's the wife of Nebraska US Senator Pete Ricketts. Pete
Ricketts is a Republican. Suzanne Shore is a Democrat and

(09:10):
she's running as a Democrat for regent. And Megan Hunt
has been lighting her up and basically asking people basically
she's she's laid down this line. Either don't vote for
Democrat Suzanne Shore because she's married to a Republican and

(09:33):
not calling him out for his Republican stances, or she
needs to do the right thing, stand up against Pete Ricketts.
And what divorce him? They've got kids. She I think
she wants Suzanne Shore to leave her husband because politics.

(09:57):
Here's what Megan Hunt says. The husband of Suzanne Shore,
that's Pete Ricketts, who's running for the NU Border Regents
as a Democrat, calling for the husband's calling for ending
birthright citizenship, which would have massive implications for all students
in our universities, immigrant dhaka, the Dreamers, first generation, even

(10:21):
first generation not a This wouldn't say like, oh hey,
if you previously had been born here and had birthright citizenship,
we're revoking it.

Speaker 3 (10:32):
Get out.

Speaker 1 (10:33):
I don't think Senator Ricketts or anyone's talking about that,
but says this is settled constitutional question. A settled constitutional question,
it is, unless Congress goes back and does something else
with it. There's nothing is necessarily settled in this country. See,
there's a process, and we're having the discussion in the

(10:54):
debate and going through the process.

Speaker 3 (10:56):
Megan, that's how it works.

Speaker 1 (10:59):
But this is a position that is incompatible with American values. Yes,
Megan Hunt cares very much about American values, and Suzanne
Shore has nothing to say about it. Sure's supporters need
to get serious about her lack of judgment and character
American citizenhip. Citizenship is one of the greatest privileges in

(11:20):
the world.

Speaker 3 (11:22):
That's why I.

Speaker 1 (11:22):
Support common sense reforms to protect the value of American
citizenship and ensure it isn't abused. So she's saying, Suzanne
shor supporters either need to call her out and say, hey,
you need to denounce everything that Pete Rickett stands for
your husband, or maybe you should just leave it, or
as a local bakery said, divorce your Republican husband.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
Who is she how? But who oh yeah, Conway made
it work.

Speaker 1 (11:58):
I don't understand how though her husband was a piece
of yeah work. That's the rest of that sentence, and
that poor kid of theirs was caught in the middle.
All right now the eleven to ten KFAB certified transmission
sports brief in for Jim Rose. I'm Scott Vorhees, coach
Rule addressed the media yesterday at Big ten Media Days, saying, look,

(12:21):
I know we think Nebraska is still going in the
right direction. We also realize it's not quite good enough.

Speaker 6 (12:27):
I stood up here a few years ago and said,
before we can talk about doing great things, now, we've
got to earn back the respect and these guys, they
kind of erased the narratives. You know, Nebraska can't win
a close game. They've erased that Nebraska there's a bull drought.
They've erased that they went to back to back bowl
games last year. But we know that's not enough. We

(12:48):
didn't come to Nebraska to go seven and six. We
came to compete for this and being here today with
the teams who won the national championship, it's inspiring. It
speaks to this French that speaks to the people that
run at the coaches and the players that are in it,
and we understand that we have to take a step
this year.

Speaker 1 (13:05):
Kfab Husker and Cider Sean Callahan with a Husker Buzz
coming up here in about twenty five minutes from now
in this hour of the program. We also learned yesterday
that I'm on Green, a legend from Omaha, Central Nebraska
and the Green Bay Packers, says that he has Parkinson's
disease forty nine years old. Says he's ahead of most

(13:25):
symptoms through medication and proper diet. Was diagnosed over a
year ago.

Speaker 7 (13:30):
In the major leagues, pitch swung on and hit high
in the v deep right center field for Cody Clemens
towards the pig.

Speaker 8 (13:36):
Wall, and it's gone for a game winning grand slam,
and Cody Clemens has fulfilled the prophecy and the Twins
walk off the Royals for the second time in three dymnatic.

Speaker 1 (13:50):
Days in Minneapolis. That's the Twins beating the Royals four
to three. That grand slam there with one strike left
before this game was over, was blasted by Cody Clemens,
last name shared by his father, the Rocket Roger Clemens.
Mayor John Ewing Scheduled to be a guest on The

(14:11):
Chris Baker Show three thirty five this afternoon.

Speaker 3 (14:16):
Can't wait.

Speaker 1 (14:17):
Set a reminder on your phone and if you get
the iHeartRadio push notifications, we will remind you. I'm Scott Vorhees,
Lucy Chapman right there, Sean Callahan with a Husker buzz
coming up here in about twelve minutes.

Speaker 3 (14:32):
On Big Red Radio.

Speaker 1 (14:33):
Jim Rose out today back on Monday, Craig Evans, Courtney Donahoe,
we're all here. All the rest of us other than
Jim are here on Nebraska's Morning News News Radio eleven
ten Kfab Courtney Dunahoe just talked about summer ween. Summer
ween is the phenomenon. We're here in July. She said,
there are people already stocking up, like I gotta get

(14:56):
it now. I gotta buy my Halloween candy now and
then hold on to it for three months.

Speaker 3 (15:04):
Mmmmmm, that's gonna be good.

Speaker 2 (15:06):
You know how I get into the Halloween spirit?

Speaker 3 (15:08):
How's that, Lucy.

Speaker 2 (15:11):
I like to be frightened sometimes, so I just walk
into a grocery store and look at prices.

Speaker 1 (15:17):
I get a little freaked out every time you turn
your mic on, like, oh boy, it's gonna go. Oh
Sometimes really.

Speaker 2 (15:24):
Does it scare you? But there you go your Halloween style.

Speaker 3 (15:27):
Now.

Speaker 1 (15:28):
I like to be kept on my toes. Okay, that's
why I'm wearing these ballet slippers and the two two.

Speaker 2 (15:36):
The two two actually works for you.

Speaker 3 (15:39):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (15:40):
I've been working a lot on my legs. But she
also said that you can, I mean, not only I
guess put up your Halloween decorations. I suppose, but it
is funny. For the last couple of weeks, I go
into Low's and you're greeted at Low's. Have you been

(16:01):
into Low's there near one hundred and forty fourth in
Maple the last week or two, and maybe it's been
up longer than that. I guess I haven't had reason
to go in, but I have to go into Lows
three times a day to stock up on wasp spray.
We are under attack, murder wasp No, not yellow jackets.

Speaker 3 (16:20):
These.

Speaker 1 (16:21):
I almost feel bad laying waste to all of them
because they're pretty docile. But I can't have them.

Speaker 2 (16:27):
Oh, oh, no, they're only docile because you haven't done anything. Well, no,
I've looked at them wrong.

Speaker 1 (16:33):
No, I spray them. There was one we've discovered a
new big nest. Yesterday my wife said, I think that
there are wasps that are flying up underneath the cock's
cable box that's up against the house by her back door.
I said, well, let's open it up and find out.
And I saw, I'm I'm getting ready to open this

(16:56):
box up, and I'm I'm up on the I'm there
in the yard and I said, honey, I want you
buy the back door with the door open.

Speaker 2 (17:07):
Are you still wearing the two two at this point?

Speaker 3 (17:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (17:11):
Okay, So I said, I want you at the back
door with the door open case I need to go
flying through there. So she's ready to go. I open
up the box and there it is. This thing is
the size of a soft ball, and there's I don't
know twenty seven trillion wasps in there, and they all
just kind of look over at me like, hey, shut

(17:33):
the door. You see what's going on in here. It's
dusk stuff happening in here. Like, sorry, fellas, but I'm
gonna have to do this. And I just spray foamed
the ever loving snot out of them. Wow, well they
can't live there.

Speaker 2 (17:53):
You are way braver than I gave you credit for.

Speaker 1 (17:57):
Oh no, I was shrieking in horror the entire time
I had there. You go, full beekeeper's outfit on, and.

Speaker 2 (18:05):
But your wife was not wearing a beekeeper outfit.

Speaker 1 (18:08):
She had on one of those suits of armor. She
had a full suit of armor on. And yeah, yeah,
So that was the easy one. But the other one.
We are gone for a week, and that meant my
son wasn't out in the driveway shooting hoops. The wasps
used that opportunity to make a nest inside one of

(18:31):
the upper poles against the backboard on our basketball hoop.
There are five holes in this pole, and from no
angle am I able to properly spray and clear out
this nest because once I started spraying this way, they
fly out the other way, and I haven't been able

(18:51):
to just get the ladder out and start taping up
holes and mess with them. I'm just killing them, like
two or three at a time, flying around, burn the
house down anyway, I'm spraying. Oh, I made a great
move the other day. I knew that the breeze was
in my face and the only angle into the backside

(19:12):
of this pole to shoot up through it and try
and get this nest was into the wind. But I
thought I can do it. I was blinded for hours.
I got frosted like a cake from this with wasp
spray flying back in my face. So I have to
go to Low's two or three times a day just

(19:33):
to load up on more cans of spray.

Speaker 2 (19:36):
Look, since you've already done it, I have to ask,
is wasp spray effective as a deterrent if you're being
mugged since you've already.

Speaker 3 (19:49):
Been there, Yes, Because well.

Speaker 2 (19:56):
What if you're being mugged by a wasp?

Speaker 1 (19:57):
Yeah, I wouldn't just make sure if you're spraying the mugger,
make sure that he's downwind. Otherwise it's gonna blow back
and you're gonna get more easily mugged because you're blinded,
you know, have muggers and then wasps going through your pockets.
You'll be powerless to do anything about it. So I
go into Lowe's and I'm great, I didn't forget about
the root of the story. Summer ween you go into Lowe's.

(20:18):
What are you greeted by a thirty five foot scary
pumpkin that is motion detected. So you go in there
and it raises up and it got its arms flailing
and goes ah and everyone that goes through, especially the kids,
are like, oh, it's fun. And then we remember, like
it's July. What do we I guess we're doing that?

(20:42):
Couldn't even wait till mid to late August. Gotta have
that out. And then I immediately think about the employees,
because you know, I go into Low's occasionally, they work
there all day as customers are constantly coming through the door,
each one setting off the ba big scary pumpkin, and

(21:05):
you other, like three more months of this, well, probably
only a month and a half because then they'll put
the Christmas stuff up.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
Can you get that big one right there at the
end of the Halloween season at a dramatic discount because
it's all out of juice.

Speaker 1 (21:22):
That's an excellent question for Tom Lowe, owner of Low's.
I don't know if that's true. Good question, Lucy Dave
emails via the Zonker's Custom Woods Inbox Scott at kfab
dot com. So, Scott Shirley, you're not surprised by a
big box retailer pushing Halloween in July. That same big

(21:43):
box retailer wants you to buy your mulch and planting
supplies during a Valentine's Day blizzard.

Speaker 3 (21:50):
Yeah, we can't.

Speaker 1 (21:51):
President Trump do something about having more strict parameters for
win the seasons the holiday season start, though. I will
say this, that haunted house in Glenwood that throughout the
year says, yeah, We're having a haunted Leprechaun Saint Patrick's
Day weekend. I do think that's funny and I'm on

(22:11):
board now. The eleven to ten KFAB Certified Transmission Sports
briefits the Husker Buzz Edition Big ten Media Days. Coach
Will addressed the media yesterday, and Sean had a lot
to say about the quarterback situation. He seemed pretty pleased
by the three quarterbacks that we have here who all
started games last year.

Speaker 3 (22:32):
Good morning, Sean, Good morning guys.

Speaker 5 (22:34):
Yeah, from Matt Ruhle, I think you know, they really
like the spot they're in with three quarterbacks that have
been starters in major conference games a year ago. And
you know, there's really probably not very many, if any
teams in the country that can say that, with Danny
Kalin coming from obviously Virginia Calandria with what he did

(22:56):
at UNLV and then what TJ Latif was able to
do a year when Dylan Ryola got hurt, so they
got a good situation. But let's be clear, this is
Calandria's job, and you know they're they're excited about what
he's going to be. But that room is in great
shape as they get ready to open up fall camp
when players are port on Tuesday.

Speaker 1 (23:14):
We kind of for I forgot about TJ Latif, but
coach said that he's he's bigger, stronger, and it seemed
pretty high on him yesterday. It's always good to have depth.
What about the running back position, what did coach reveal
about that yesterday?

Speaker 5 (23:31):
Well, we know this that Mikai Nelson is not going
to be internally suspended. And you know, with no charges
being filed from his July situation, and Key was Key
West Florida, you know there's there's nothing more from the
Nebraska and that's going to happen there. So he's back
with the program. He'll be in fall camp, et cetera.

(23:52):
They added tyche Hayes, the Penn State running back, and
Matt Ruhle said he told his GM Pat Stewart, we
were in the NFL right now, we'd be out getting
a running back, and they kind of use the same mindset, like, hey,
we would take this guy no matter what because we
need a back, and it just made sense. But you know,
they've got three or four guys there as well, with

(24:14):
Jamal Rule and Isaamh Mosey as well, that are all
going to contend, and they would like to have really
three playing games. One kind of more of a featured back,
one a secondary back, and then kind of a multiple
guy that can be a receiving type, third down back.

Speaker 1 (24:30):
What about the overall tone from coach Rule, He in
his opening statement seemed to suggest, Hey, we're moving in
the right direction. Remember what we were dealing with before
I got here. These players got here, the rest of
this coaching staff got here. We hadn't won a bowl game.
Now we're going to bowl games. We're winning occasionally bowl

(24:51):
games where we didn't come here to be seven and six,
but we are moving in the right direction. We realize
that's not good enough. That was kind of the tone
that I got. And coach, what did you get?

Speaker 5 (25:02):
Yeah, that's definitely been the message. And you know the
ending of last season, you know, the way they lost
to Iowa, the way they lost the Penn State, the
way they lost the Utah that really soured in any
progress that's maybe made at times a year ago. Just
to get the doors blown off. You buy three opponents,
especially on defense at the line of scrimmage, and and

(25:23):
everyone knows that the way it ended last year was
not acceptable. But I think he still likes where this
team is at, the additions they've brought in and and
and what they've done, and the big X factor is
going to be quarterback and and what they can get
out of Callandria now moving forward, and the offensive line
upgrades they they made in the portal, and then how

(25:44):
the scheme comes together under Rob Warwich and and and
and what he's going to bring to the table because
they've got to get this defense figured out rolling and
they have a schedule early on. I think that allows
for some of those things. So they've got to take
advantage of that now as they move forward in this year.

Speaker 1 (26:00):
What else did you hear from coach or not hear
from coach yesterday that you want to address, Sean, Well.

Speaker 5 (26:07):
We talked to Troy dan and too, so I want
to make sure I get that on the air. I
had about a ten minute interview with Troy and you know.

Speaker 8 (26:14):
The.

Speaker 5 (26:16):
Save College Sports bill that is, you know, being talked about.
You know, it doesn't look like you're going to be
able to get that vote in. It's still could happen
before the recess, but I know he's really excited about
just some of the things he could do. Like they're
going to raise what Nebraska can pay the athletes, where
there could be twenty one million for recruiting, twenty million

(26:39):
for player retention, and five million for women's sports, and
that actually really reflects probably what Nebraska is paying. But
they have to use the you know, the different ways
to do it with the multimedia deals and other things.
So they're trying to make some changes to this bill
and hopefully I know that goes through. So yeah, then,

(27:00):
you know, the basketball ticket receipt was something we discussed
because that was a big hot topic this last week.
They're not going to do that until twenty twenty nine. Now,
it was going to happen in twenty twenty seven, and
he told me, yeah, And they never intended to have
that basketball ticket receipt. It was always going to be volleyball,
then football, and then later on basketball. So they pulled

(27:23):
that back. But the stadium receipt for football is going
to be pretty intense, and they know that there's going
to be so much going on here in the next
couple of years for the fans. And the volleyball one
was very intense. This football one, I think is going
to be at a whole different level. Was just trying
to manage all the ticket holders. And you're talking about
over sixty thousand season ticket holders for Nebraska.

Speaker 1 (27:45):
Football, right, Yeah, that's certainly gotten a lot of attention.
The reseating of season ticket holders and some of these
other sports. We also learned, Yeah, go ahead, Sean.

Speaker 5 (27:56):
It's like trying to find new seats for the whole
city of Belgiue, it will be an easy job.

Speaker 1 (28:02):
Moved down, moved down a little bit real quickly, Shan.
We also learned yesterday about A'man Green saying that he
has Parkinson's disease. Where do you rank Aman Green in
the great Husker running backs of all time?

Speaker 5 (28:17):
Yeah, I think he's definitely in that discussion for top five.
Obviously Rogier is at the top of that list, and
then you know Mon Green is kind of in that
next group, and you know Lawrence Phillips with his talent
and where he was drafted. Obviously, Roger Craig now in
the NFL Hall of Fame and what he brought to
the table. Mir Abdullah Rexburghead were more recent backs. But

(28:40):
I'm on Green, there's no doubt is in the top
five in my opinion of backs that have played at
Nebraska and won a national championship, multiple national championships, and
what he did as a as a freshman when he
was on He came in on that ninety five season,
and Lawrence Phillips had the situation that year and he
stepped in fleet and he's a great person. I've known

(29:02):
him on and got to know him over the years
and watched him play in high school. I mean, he's
just tragic to hear that news this past week.

Speaker 1 (29:09):
I watched him real close in high school. He was
running all over our Alston rams that year. So yeah,
we we would wish him the best. He says he's
managing well medication diet, but it was startling for someone
that young, he's not yet fifty to get a diagnosis. Sean,
I'll let you get back to work, have a great weekend,
and we'll talk next week.

Speaker 5 (29:31):
Okay, guys, thank you.

Speaker 1 (29:32):
Jim rose back on Monday, I am Scott Forhees. We're
all here on news Radio eleven ten KFAB. Even when
we're not all there, we don't have all the details
on this story. You've heard it reported by Craig a
couple of times today. It's the woman who went to
Costco back in twenty eighteen and she bought a patio table.

(29:56):
I'm guessing this was a big, heavy patio table. This
is the Costco at one hundred and twentieth Issue and Dodge,
and she said Costco employee was loading the table into
her vehicle when they dropped it and hit her in

(30:16):
the back. She says she has a permanent neck injury
and nerve damage. She says Costco is libel due to
the negligence of its workers. Costco denied the allegations, and
in court they said this was her fault. It was
her negligence. Earlier this year, a jury had awarded her

(30:38):
more than three and a half million dollars in damages.
Immediately afterwards, Costco filed a motion for a new trial,
said the verdict was excessive and unsupported by the evidence,
and so the Costco situation now is on appeal. That's
why this is kind of back in the news here.

(30:58):
I don't remember the story when it happened, but here
we are. Here's what I am wondering, Lucy. If you
buy a patio table and you've got some nice, strapping
young women loading the patio table into your truck. Because
I don't want to be sexist and say it has
to be men, So you got some strapping young women

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loading this thing into your truck and they drop the
patio table and it hits you in the back. Please
explain to me where you are versus where they are,
and where the vehicle is, whether they're loading it into
the back of a pickup or into the back of
an suv, you got the seats laid down all that.
Where are you at this moment to where a patio

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table carried by other people would land on your back?

Speaker 2 (31:47):
Ah? Well, you know, unless, first of all, a patio table,
unless it's one of those really big, heavy, expensive ones,
which I don't know that Costco actually carries. They might,
but that just seems like a lot of damage from
a patio table that's all into a box, because the
box is going to hit you first.

Speaker 3 (32:05):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (32:06):
I don't either.

Speaker 1 (32:07):
I don't know how big the table is. I don't
know how big this woman is. She might be a
little thing, and you know, a piece of paper could
blow her over.

Speaker 3 (32:17):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (32:18):
But where am I standing?

Speaker 3 (32:19):
Yeah? But you know the table.

Speaker 1 (32:20):
They were carrying the table and she says that they
dropped it and they hit her in the back.

Speaker 2 (32:25):
Yeah, I don't understand that.

Speaker 3 (32:27):
Where is she?

Speaker 2 (32:28):
Yeah? Where I would be as far away from the
guys that are trying to do their job. I've stood
around when I've ordered stuff and had it loaded. You
stand back, you let them do their job. That's why
at the mart they ask you to stay in your car.

Speaker 1 (32:41):
I was thinking that exact same thing. Yeah, pull up
at Nebraska French of Mart. These guys all come out here,
waned some help? No, no, you stay in the car.
You're going to be no help. In fact, I don't
even trust you behind the wheel of your own vehicle.
Just sit there, sit still, look pretty anything you guys
to help you tie this down? Absolutely not. Don't get

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out of your car. Don't even look at us. It's
gonna be fine now when you get home. That's on you.
But here this is our domain, and they it's a
well oiled machine. And it wasn't that long ago. It
looked more like an ant farm. I mean, they did
a pretty good job before, but it used to be
just a massive humanity driving all over the place, people

(33:26):
walking all over If people are like I once it
was such a madhouse in that area where you pick
up your furniture, and it was something like all I
wanted to we just had like a table lamp or something.
Oh no, you got to go drive through and you
got to get through the warehouse, Like how about I
just carry this thing out? Well, because we're not selling

(33:46):
you this one. It's in the all right, okay, okay,
where do I go? And you go out there and
there's people just carrying furniture all over the place. Here's
a fridge, here's a washer dryer. This guy's got a
bad in his teeth and I can see my and
I just walked in there, said this is mine. I'm
just gonna take it, and they're like, no one cares go.

(34:07):
So that's how it used to be, right, and now
it's just a well oiled machine. They tell you where
you go, what stall you're going to park in.

Speaker 2 (34:15):
I bought a toaster online, and like, you.

Speaker 3 (34:18):
Didn't, I did. I don't have to make up stories
to impress us.

Speaker 2 (34:21):
I did. I know, I am kind of fancy, but
I bought it at the mart and just drove through.
They said, hey, just drive through and pick it up. Okay,
So there was nobody around, literally, because it was when
they just opened. There was nobody around and it was
just a toaster they were throwing into my back seat.
So yeah, I got out of the car.

Speaker 1 (34:41):
They threw it in your back seat, just trying to
see it roll on your window and drive fifteen miles
per hour where we got a quarterback in training. He's
going to see if he can thread that needle. The
costco lady. Either these guys were carrying it, lost her
balance and then just slammed into her or something.

Speaker 2 (35:04):
Surely carry I don't know.

Speaker 1 (35:06):
No, I'm saying, like, maybe she was walking ahead. My
car's this way, and they're looking going, how are we
gonna get this giant patio table into a Toyota Tursell?
And and they I don't know, so they they that's
a Fiat. We're not gonna where's the where's the trunk
in this thing on the front. This is the dumbest thing.

(35:27):
So maybe they were carrying it and she was walking
ahead of them and they lost their balance, tripped and
whoa and they and they slammed into her.

Speaker 3 (35:36):
That could have happened. I can take a picture.

Speaker 1 (35:39):
That I suppose, or or they're putting it into her
vehicle and she's crawling underneath it, just making sure I
get a good view at it, and then they drop
it on it. Says they dropped it on her back?
Was she crawling underneath these guys get out of the way.

Speaker 2 (35:55):
How are there not cameras of this?

Speaker 1 (35:58):
There's gotta be cameras everything. Well, this is back in
twenty eighteen. That's practically the Stone.

Speaker 2 (36:03):
Age, Okay, Yes.

Speaker 1 (36:06):
Craig Evans just reported a man was accused of having
inappropriate contact with himself. It's the forty six year old
man from central Nebraska. His hometown's listed here as Clay Center.
That's not far from Hastings and right down the road

(36:28):
from one of my very favorite places, not just Nebraska,
but in the entire universe. And I've been all over
the universe. One of my very favorite places in the
whole universe Harvard, Nebraska.

Speaker 2 (36:40):
I prefer Yale, Nebraska.

Speaker 1 (36:43):
My dad, a graduate of Harvard High School, has long
made the yep By'm a Harvard Man joke. It never
gets old. When I was a kid, my grandparents lived
in Harvard, and I had two sets of aunts, uncles,
and cousins that also lived in that community, which made
up more than half of the population of the town.

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It's a great, great little town not far from Hastings.
And this guy was their police chief recently. I don't
know him. I don't currently have any family that still
live in Harvard unless you count those in the cemetery.

Speaker 3 (37:21):
So and I do.

Speaker 1 (37:22):
But I love Harvard and it's awful that their police
chief he came to Uno. The story starts good enough.
He came to UNO this month to take a class
on human trafficking and child exploitation. A member of law enforcement,

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police chief in a Nebraska community, you gotta be vigilant.
You gotta know what to look for. What are the
latest tools, what's all the information I need?

Speaker 3 (37:51):
And while there was.

Speaker 1 (37:55):
A presentation of graphic subject matter, this guy is accused of.

Speaker 3 (38:02):
Being into it.

Speaker 1 (38:05):
The accusation was he was making we'll just use Craig's phrasing,
he was making inappropriate contact with himself a heem. Two
female students were so bothered they left the class.

Speaker 3 (38:20):
You know.

Speaker 1 (38:21):
Police then reached out to him, and this is what
got him in real big trouble. He's like, I'm the
police chief. I can't, No, you can't. He was in
possession of a loaded nine milimeter handgun in his pants pocket.
Well what exactly was he having contact with I don't know.
So you can't take a gun on school grounds. And

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that's what booked him into jail this week, as well
as the allegations of the Lute Act. He is is
he now the yep? He is now the former police
chief of Harvard, Nebraska.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
I thought he was former before this.

Speaker 1 (39:02):
Though, Uh, that I if. Oh yeah he was, Hey,
look at Lucy reading the news.

Speaker 3 (39:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (39:16):
I don't know why he uh, I don't know why
he resigned alright, is he hadn't been the police chief
for a year and a half.

Speaker 3 (39:22):
Oh okay, good. So wait, so what was he doing
at the class That.

Speaker 2 (39:26):
Is what puzzled me. Unless he's trying to do some
I don't know, detective work. Maybe he's going to be
a detective or something.

Speaker 1 (39:33):
Well, I don't know what he's looking for, but you're
not going to find it in there, sir. A genie
is not going to pop out.

Speaker 2 (39:40):
Well, you know what I mean. He's going to maybe
he's going to investigate child trafficking or something, do it
on his own.

Speaker 8 (39:48):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (39:49):
Well, you know, he'll have some time to think about
what he has done. He is in jail, the police
former police chief is in jail. And that was with
what I presume to be an actual teacher in the classroom.
You think back to how you behave when you had
an actual teacher in the classroom. Depending on the teacher,

(40:09):
sometimes we as students weren't that great when you got
a substitute teacher in the classroom. The behavior level dropped exponentially,
and the behavior level was even worse. Every once in
a while, they'd let a teacher's aid or some teacher
and training take over the classroom. We would just leave.

(40:30):
I had it may or may not have been the case.
I don't know what the statute of limitations is on this.
I may or may not have had a number of
those little pink slips that would get you out of
class that were available at the principal's office. Turns out
you could, if someone was looking the wrong way, just

(40:52):
take a whole pat of them and pull them out
when you needed them.

Speaker 3 (40:56):
I have to leave this class. I have a slip.
You mean a hall pass, Yeah, kind of like that
as soon as uh.

Speaker 1 (41:04):
Ah, I didn't do anything bad when I left class.
I just I wasn't going to be there for the
substitute or whatever. So I mean, didn't you ever act
like that? Or didn't you ever have? Maybe you were
a good student, probably sitting right there in the front
of the classroom paying rapt attention. Didn't some of those

(41:24):
idiots like me sitting behind you, didn't they act like
Jack and Apes when you had a sub in there?

Speaker 2 (41:31):
Yes? Yeah, So how do you think, how do.

Speaker 1 (41:35):
You think these students are going to behave? When the
Sala Mecca City Central School District and Upstate New York
announced that, hey, we were really excited about this. To
help us teach classes in our school district this year,
please meet Sally. Sally is a humanoid otherwise known as

(42:00):
a robot, an AI powered humanoid, life sized robot that
looks like, if you allow me to speak this way
about a robot, an attractive blonde woman who is proportionally
right there with a lot of men's fantasies. One parent said,

(42:24):
where did you guys? Where did the school district get
this robot? And so we bought it from this company
and they looked into the company and it turns out
they have a sister company. The sister company makes sexpots.
Sally could probably probably teach you any number of things.

(42:45):
And they said, well, well, all right, So even though
the humanoid structure that we created, Sally might also be
used for our sister company, don't worry about that. We
progres to steer clear of inappropriate topics such as sex,
violence and gambling.

Speaker 2 (43:07):
Because programming always works.

Speaker 1 (43:09):
Yes, what about gambling on sex? No, you're not going
to talk about any of that stuff. Mostly, I just wonder,
how are the students going to behave or not behave?

Speaker 2 (43:20):
Is this a public school when you have.

Speaker 3 (43:23):
A robot teaching class?

Speaker 2 (43:25):
They need to do what we need to do here
and look at our school board and fix it. Know
who you're voting for, know what they want.

Speaker 1 (43:35):
Then again, depending on who's doing the programming, maybe it'd
be better than some of the things we get from
today's human teachers. There is a parent think this. I
want to say Seattle. I might be wrong, could be Houston.
They're right next to each other. Right somewhere in across

(43:56):
our fruited plane. There was a teacher who was teaching
kids about during summer school classes. I guess the Pride
month and all the different great things that you can be.
You can be male, female, you can be transgender, you
can be any in all genders. To spirit, all that stuff. Now,

(44:21):
these kids, a lot of them, they'd never heard of
any of this before. After all, they were second graders.
And a parent said, what in the world my kids
coming home saying that they're now to spirit. They don't
even know what that means. No one knows what that means.
What is happening. Oh, the teacher taught me this. So

(44:42):
they went to the school and the school said, yeah,
we stand by our lesson. Okay, then my kid's not
in the school anymore.

Speaker 3 (44:51):
And it's.

Speaker 1 (44:53):
Of course a lot of people are good. Get out
you and your Bible thumping parents, you all get out. Look, no,
it's age appropriate. And also what what what business does
the school have getting into something like this during what
math class or whatever was going on there?

Speaker 2 (45:15):
You know, there might be an upside to this, and
that would be at least when the teacher, i e.
Little robot is attacked, it won't hurt much.

Speaker 1 (45:29):
Sad to say that might be an upside. A couple
of organizations that have taken a bit of a public
relations hit recently are trying to.

Speaker 3 (45:38):
Claw their way back one Taco Bell.

Speaker 1 (45:45):
Have we even had any kind of definitive link between
this little cyclist spora, virus, bacteria, germ, whatever it is.
I know that they think that I think it was
some tainted lettuce, and they think perhaps the company that
sold some of this lettuce at some Taco Bell locations

(46:09):
in some parts of the country may or may not
have caused people to get that and then suddenly they
have some gastro intestinal distress after eating that food, and
so people are like, ah, Taco Bell, and Taco Bell
does say that US sales here in this current quarter

(46:32):
where we've had this story in the news have slipped,
and they attached a percentage slip? Lucy, do you do
you know what that percentage? Okay, what would you guess?
I mean, you've heard this, this has been in the news. People,
and there are some people that probably just come right
out and say like, oh, yeah, I heard people eat

(46:53):
at Taco Bell and they get sick. I mean, they're
all sorts of information out there. What percentage of their sales?
Do you think that they're down right now?

Speaker 2 (47:04):
Thirty eight?

Speaker 3 (47:05):
Thirty eight percent? Thirty eight percent, it's a fair estimate.

Speaker 1 (47:10):
A lot after Oh it'd be a ton. Yeah, it's
not thirty eight, it's not even three point eight. It's
about two percent.

Speaker 2 (47:19):
Good.

Speaker 1 (47:21):
I think that's fine too. And they're not coming right
out and saying why it is, but I will. And
I'm saying this with all due love and respect, and
as someone who is I'm not a frequent Taco Bell customer,
especially now that my my my days and nights have
been flipped up a little bit. Taco Bell is usually

(47:43):
when it's ten thirty at night, I've been out or
doing whatever, and I'm hungry. There's only one thing I
want to eat, Taco Bell.

Speaker 2 (47:54):
It was set into your DNA when you were when
you were sixteen.

Speaker 1 (47:59):
And that's not just because the other places aren't open.
If it's ten thirty at night, I'm driving home and
i want a little bit of something to eat, and
I'm gonna go through a drive through. It's Taco Bell,
and it's only Taco Bell run for the border. So
I'm not someone who's like, way way up on Taco Bell,
and I'm certainly not down on Taco Bell.

Speaker 3 (48:21):
I like Taco Bell.

Speaker 1 (48:23):
I will say this though, as someone who counts myself
as part of this population. People would listen to that
and go a second. I thought the news was that
people were getting sick eating this stuff and sales are
only down two percent? Why how is that? I'll tell
you how it is. People who eat at Taco Bell

(48:45):
are not exactly overly health conscious. That's my assessment of
me and other people who are going through the drive through.
And I would probably put a lot of other fast
food places in that category as well. That's why I
always make fun of like McDonald's. Every once in a while,

(49:05):
will say, well, we got a lot of healthy options
at McDonald's. You can go by and get a salad.
I don't want to go to McDonald's and get a salad.
I want to go to McDonald's get a twenty piece
chicken McNugget with extra sweet and sour sauce. That's why
I'm going to McDonald's. We're not exactly health conscious people.

Speaker 3 (49:22):
Now.

Speaker 1 (49:23):
I don't do that every day. I don't even do
it every week, but every once in a while, I
like to live a little bit. And next time I
want Taco Bell, I'm going to Taco Bell. These news
headlines do not scare me. Taco Bell says, yeah, our
sales aren't down that much. People say, how is that.
I'll tell you how that is. The people who go

(49:44):
to Taco Bell are not exactly the most health conscious
people on the planet. God love all of us. We're
just not. So there's that now. They say, oh, yeah,
we expect maybe he's still a little bit down, but
it already looks like people are coming back. And we've
been telling you like we're not using this and we're

(50:06):
not putting letters in that just to be on the
safe side. Okay, they're doing everything right.

Speaker 3 (50:10):
I think.

Speaker 1 (50:13):
Another organization that's taken a pr hit. This one came
from our Secretary of War, Pete Hegsath, and they made
a big decision yesterday. I'll tell you what this is
all about next.

Speaker 4 (50:25):
A New Jersey community is cracking down on distracted drivers
using a police officer disguised as a bush. Don Allen's
police department had an officer blended with shrubbery in the
background with leaves on his body Wednesday. He was looking
to nab drivers using phones that resulted in seventy two
summonses by the end of the day. I'm Craig evans

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More News at the bottom of the hour at NewsRadio
eleven ten kfab dressed like a bush.

Speaker 2 (50:53):
I believe he said, shrubbery.

Speaker 1 (50:56):
The thing of which bush? Oh, George, jeb George h
W Sophia. This is as Wiley coyote is in custody
to dressed like a bush.

Speaker 2 (51:11):
What was his mom's name, Barbara, Yeah, he's dressed like Barbara.

Speaker 1 (51:17):
Dressed like Barbara Bush. I'm just reminded of it was
so bad, so bad. I shouldn't laugh at it.

Speaker 2 (51:26):
But and yet there you go.

Speaker 1 (51:28):
Phil Hartman was This was as George H. W. Bush
was running for president, and Phil Hartman was Barbara Bush.
And and uh so they're interviewing. They're interviewing the two
of them, and uh and the interviewer looks at Barbara
Bush portrayed by Phil Hartman, says, you must be so

(51:48):
proud of your son. I'm not his mother, I'm his wife.
Oh it was so.

Speaker 5 (51:58):
Ah.

Speaker 1 (51:58):
Saturday Night Live Now told you a moment ago that
Taco Bell is in a bit of a PR crisis.
Here's another organization that has suffered a bit of a
PR crisis here the last few years from every different
political persuasion, and that is the Scouts Scouting America, formerly
known as the Boy Scouts of America. A few couple

(52:22):
of years ago, Boy Scouts of America rebranded to emphasize
inclusion and welcome girls into the Scouting right ranks. And
people immediately, oh, super woke.

Speaker 3 (52:34):
DEI all.

Speaker 1 (52:38):
For some branches, yes for others. They looked at other
options for girls in Scouting and said those options are
too woke. There are girls who want a more traditional
approach to this something that goes beyond selling cookies through
like third grade and then forgetting because there's really not

(52:58):
a lot of options beyond being a little kid for
some girls who want to pursue scouting. So they said, yeah,
we can have girls in this as well. So in fact,
it was for some very anti woke, but they didn't
want to come out and say that, but that's exactly
what was going on. But then there were other parts
of this that said no, no, we're going to go

(53:18):
full wokie and we want to make sure that all
people are represented. And suddenly the jamboree, which sounds kind
of on its face, suddenly was all kinds of gay
and LGBTQ and trans youthyre being a part of this,
and they're all being a part of Scouting so they
all feel included. And some parents said, this is not

(53:42):
the camp experience that we were looking for. And then
Pete Hegsath, the Secretary of War, he came straight out
and said, if they don't change their ways here and stop,
I mean, it's one thing. I mean they're not going
to say like hey, if you have this person as
a young person, you can't be in Scouts. That's one thing,

(54:03):
they're not going to do that. But on the other hand,
it's not like, hey, we're going to have this and
we're going to make sure that and all. It got
too uncomfortable for some Pete Hagseth said, we're going to
drop our alliance with you from the Department of Justice
unless you stop some of that. So they had their

(54:24):
national jamboree. It ends today, and they just said that
they have eliminated dedicated spaces for gay youth and other
protected classes and individuals demographics, and they say, we just
were fully committed to welcoming and serving all youth, but

(54:45):
there's not going to be specific classifications or spaces or
groups dedicated to certain checkbox demographic orientations or the like.
So people are of course losing their minds now on
the left saying, oh, you don't want gay No, we're
not saying, we're just saying you come in here. We're
gonna teach you about all the values of scouting and

(55:09):
useful life skills as well, but we're not doing it
with a special dei. And people are saying, this is
the Trump administration doing this. Like a lot of organizations,
they wouldn't do anything unless they saw a hit either
from finances, pr or both. There are a lot of
more conservative and traditional families that were not having their

(55:33):
kids participate in Scouting America because they felt they'd gone
too far to one side. So Scouting America just made
that decision here this week. We'll see how that goes
in terms of more young people being a part of
this wonderful organization of Scouts.

Speaker 5 (55:51):
Doom Boom.

Speaker 1 (55:55):
Booms and with a co a contret our favorite tree
boy is Greg Wagner from Nebraska Game of Parks, who
is right there. I see I see you. I'm in
Jim Roses Seed everyone I know. We can see each
other for the first.

Speaker 3 (56:09):
Time they have the studio.

Speaker 1 (56:10):
Dynamics are a little little odd here, but Greg, it's
good to see you.

Speaker 3 (56:15):
He had a great vacation, I tell you what I wes.

Speaker 1 (56:18):
We were talking about hiking and seeing the wildlife and
all the beauty of around Mount Rushmore, through Big Horn,
the Yellowstone, through the Grand Tetons, just in a pretty.

Speaker 9 (56:29):
Cool I would have thrown Fort Robinson and chattered into that, you.

Speaker 3 (56:31):
Know, yeah, but you can't do it all. Now, we
can't can't do it all. And I was throwing those
two parks in there.

Speaker 1 (56:36):
That last day, we were driving across Nebraska at break
next speed, just the gid home. A lot of hours
in the car with the family. They were done. But
I want to do some stuff this weekend. Everyone else does.
Is going to be a nice weekend, not too bad.
So what can we do?

Speaker 9 (56:51):
Everything fully rolling in our state parks. Nice weekend, especially tomorrow,
So get out there, maybe do some old school picnicking.

Speaker 3 (57:00):
Do you think of that? I like that. Yeah.

Speaker 9 (57:01):
And we have all of our visitors' services rolling, like
at Mahoney State Park and Platte River State Park, and
I just think a nice weekend before we have school starting,
to get out there and enjoy.

Speaker 3 (57:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (57:13):
And if you don't like crowds, then maybe wait a
couple of weeks exactly knows you.

Speaker 9 (57:19):
A lot of friends, a lot of family members, they
wait till school starts, which is coming right up, and
then they take their RV trips and then they take
their vacations. We just want to tell people that we'll
reduce our services because our seasonal workers are high schoolers
and college kids and they're going back, so we'll cut

(57:39):
back on some of those things.

Speaker 3 (57:40):
But the weekends will still be going full throttle. What
are we fishing for?

Speaker 2 (57:44):
Woo?

Speaker 9 (57:45):
This is nice, you know, cool spells really improve things.
Catfish are coming off their spawn right now. If you're
into the catfish, they're coming off their spawn. A lot
of big catfish being caught right now. Scotty cut baits, yeah,
cut bait, stinky old cut bait, or those stinky old
chicken livers, anything like that going to do really well.

(58:06):
Catfish is going to take center stage out in western Nebraska.

Speaker 3 (58:09):
They're following the birds.

Speaker 9 (58:10):
They're following the goals, and they're catching white bass wipers
that's a fish, and walleye as they follow the birds
in are big reservoirs.

Speaker 3 (58:19):
It's that time of year out there.

Speaker 1 (58:21):
It's also that time of year where in a month
from now, we'll be right on the precipice of football season. Yeah,
temperature is starting to go down and hunters getting real
real antsy. So what's that prep work look right now
for hunting season. Let's say get in shape. Seriously, he's
Scott's looking right at me. Yeah, but no, that means
you and your hunting dog. I don't care if it's

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walks around the block, you know, the nearby track or
whatever it is.

Speaker 3 (58:47):
You got to get in shape, and you got.

Speaker 9 (58:49):
To get acclimated to the weather, especially it's still going
to be warm. The other thing to practice on the
target range with a firearm or your bow. That's that's
a big thing that's kind of neglected a little bit.
But we have a lot of indoor ranges in town.
So get familiar with what you want to use as
that wildlife management tool and then get in shape again.

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And on the outdoor bulletin board, Greg got some living
history at Fort Atkinson this weekend. We'll see short birds
starting to migrate in August, and we'll start selling our
fall turkey permits on August tenth as we prepare for fall.

Speaker 1 (59:23):
That's coming right up. Greg Wagner, Nebraska, Cambark. It's always
a pleasure. Thank you very much for stopping by.

Speaker 5 (59:29):
Now.

Speaker 1 (59:29):
Jim is out today. But with all the information that
we got from doctor Fauci's diary that we didn't get
from doctor Fauci in that hearing the other day, and
Jim rose as assertion that he's been calling COVID for
what it is since the very beginning, I thought i'd
go into the Rosie archives and pull this one March
twenty third, twenty twenty. This was in the midst of

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two weeks to flatten the curve here from six and
a half years ago, or so is Jim Rose.

Speaker 7 (59:59):
Now that we are in the four of the COVID
nineteen panic, with normally rational Americans so close to the
brink they are hoarding toilet paper, might be healthy to
focus on something that actually has wholly confused the world,
the numbers. Thanks to what's been reported and misinterpreted, thirteen
percent of Americans think they are infected carrying it around today.

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That would be forty two million people. That's statistically impossible.
According to a Harris poll, three quarters of us also
believe what we are doing crashing the economy, killing businesses,
driving millions out of work, is worse than what the
virus may do to even the most vulnerable among us.
So let's do a numerical reset this morning. These numbers

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don't come from talk radio or politicos. They come from
the Centers for Disease Control, the National Institutes for Health,
and the World Health Organization. They come from people who
know the problem isn't the data. The problem is how
it's being presented and understood. Start with the biggie total
number of cases. Bad stuff. Not the numbers, it's how

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we're hearing about them. It's being presented as a single
data point with no context that is important. My favorite
is that graph released by Johns Hopkins University.

Speaker 3 (01:01:16):
And updated all the time.

Speaker 7 (01:01:18):
It's the one you've seen with the scary, big red
bubbles all over a world map. Looks terrible, ominous, and
the media keeps using it. Many of those cases are
recovered and folks who never got sick completely out of context.
That graph is like using daily revenue is the sole
factor in the health of a business. We should be

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breaking down the rate by the first date of discovery.
And none of the data is presented on a per
capita basis, which makes sense, doesn't it. After all, does
every country have the same number of people?

Speaker 9 (01:01:50):
No.

Speaker 7 (01:01:51):
Based on the reporting through last week, the global average
increase on this is about ten percent, and the growth
rate of the growth rate is about ten percent. So
with increased measurement, the reality is this virus is spreading,
but that doesn't mean it's expanding. That also means that
two other things, more of those who have the symptoms

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will not test positive ninety three percent, and both the
cases of severe COVID nineteen and deaths from it will
keep falling and falling, all of which is the basis
for the great fear of taxation on the healthcare system.
COVID nineteen, just like every other virus, accelerates, plateaus, and declines.

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It's already happened in Japan, South Korea, and Italy. If
you don't trust China's reporting, do you trust them all?

Speaker 3 (01:02:41):
Three?

Speaker 7 (01:02:41):
Or Western democracies. South Korea may as well be the
fifty first state. The problem is decisions are being made
economically with the idea that will all get infected, but
it won't be that bad. Another thing not widely reported
is how the who has found that the virus isn't
as e easily passed along as we thought. Remember that

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stretch a few weeks ago when we all thought we
could get it from our dogs. Even if you come
into direct contact with somebody who has it, you have
a one to five percent chance of getting it. It's
the prolonged, confined contact that gives you the best chance.
See New York City. And if it's so easy to
transmit and it's so deadly, why has it eluded so

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many in the travel industry. Why are pilots, co pilots,
flight attendants, airline staff, airport counter attendants not only unaffected
but not even sick. This says the asymptomatic spread is
very unlikely, or at least a lot slower and more
confined than what we were led to believe. Yes, with
more testing will come more positive cases, but each case

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will be less and less fatal, even less severe. At
the end of the bell curve, likely less than one
percent will even require hospitalization. Even the mild cases will
continue to dip. Look at the numbers. Just this month,
on March eighth, we had a fatality rate of four
point one percent in this country. Twelve days later it
was one point two percent and dropping. By comparison, history

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tells us that the fatality rate for the common flu
two percent, all respiratory ailments four percent, hard disease four
point four percent. So with all this information that isn't new,
what should we be doing by the numbers in this
space tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (01:04:25):
That is, from March twenty third, twenty twenty, in the
midst of two weeks to flatten the curve. Jim Rows
got a lot of criticism for that commentary at that point,
and they say you're going to kill people. I just
re listened to it for the first time since then.
I didn't find anything inaccurate about his assessment.