May 7, 2026 • 44 mins
See if you pick up on that during today's conversation about Ted Turner! Also, we learn a lot about stud fees (no one asked), the hantavirus, and more.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I think I speak for everybody when I say, in
the wake of the news yesterday that Ted Turner died
the age of eighty seven. I thought he died twenty
years ago.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
So did he he?
Speaker 1 (00:15):
For someone who was so loud and everywhere for such
a long time, he got real quiet for the last
couple of decades. Or maybe I just stopped or everyone
stopped paying attention. I thought, Ted Turner, if you, I
would have bet a lot of money that Ted Turner
died at least ten years.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Ago, well after his first night with Jane Fonda. He
wanted to die. It just took another twenty five or
thirty years for it to happen.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Okay, we're just.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
A few seconds into the broadcast today and we have
a shot at Jane Fonda. That's fine. I'm just making
sure that the toad board is updated.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
I just can't get past soon her sitting in a
Addi Aircraft turret in North Vietnam and talking about how
our guys ought to be jailed and ought to be
tortured and all of that stuff. Now they've gotten past it,
but I haven't. Yeah, Ted Turner looked at all of
that and said, she's for me.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
And he was hot. He was married, well, she was.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
He married three times, including to Jane Fonda.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I don't know. Did they have any kids to get
I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
They were past the h they were past the farming
stage when they got married.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
I don't know. And not anymore.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Five kids, fourteen grandkids, two great grandkids.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
I don't know who. I don't remember. Jane Fonda, haven't
anymo I don't think she's any kids.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Ted Turner has a couple of things here with local roots.
One we had those Buffalo Burger restaurants here in town.
He had one there on West Dodge by Boys Town that.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Was pretty good.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Do you ever go in there? I don't think big
Fat Ted's Montana Grill or what was what was of.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
The things called?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
It was just Ted's Montana Grill. But again it was
the Jane Fonda thing. They kept me out of there.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
You didn't go to Ted's Montana Grill because you didn't
like Jane Fonda.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I said, if this guy has enough sense to marry her,
then I'm not really sure that's a safe restaurant to
eat in.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
That was my approach.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
You thought, if you sunk your teeth into a bison
Berger that somehow the North Vietnamese would win, or you're
am I sitting there in nineteen ninety eight, or I
might die. I might die because you know, poor management
by Ted's Montana grill, which stems from the fact that
he has poor judgment and marrying Jane Flonda.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
It's amazing. Jane Fonda should have been executed for true.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
No, we're not going to execute she should have got
she should have got you needled?
Speaker 2 (02:42):
What is that?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
See, despite these very strong opinions on Jane Fonda, you've
got a picture of her as barbarilla here in the studio.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
That's the only thing that kept me from continuing to
push the process of having her get the needle for
what she did. You're a very conteen sixty eight, very
confus she was attractive as barbarossa. I can't argue that
although this was before my time. Barbarella, barbararella, barbarossa, of
any barbarossa. No, she was very, very fetching in the sixties,
(03:13):
but that was before I was interested in that kind
of thing.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Ted also, as Craig Evans reported a moment Ago, was
the largest landowner in Nebraska. A bunch of ranching land
in the sand Hills, like four five hundred thousand.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Eight in his trust whatever still owns that.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Yeah, So he bought a bunch of land because he
wanted to preserve buffalo herds. And he's a little bit
of a conservationalist, unlike say Bill Gates. I don't think
Ted Turner had this notion that we're going to make
plastic beef. He just thought it would be great to
preserve the native bison herds of the Great Plains, which
were almost wiped out back in the nineteenth century, and
(03:54):
so he bought up a bunch of land. I don't
know if it was a profit center for him. I
don't know what out of a cattle ranching operation he ran,
I think, or a buffalo ranching operation he ran. I
think it was more about I have the money, I
think this is important, and so I'm going to do it.
And then people say, well, when he dies, what's going
to happen. Well, it's in a land trust apparently at
(04:16):
least at last report when I read about it, and
when it goes into a charitable trust, suddenly that land
is no longer taxed. Well, that would put a tremendous
burden on some of those counties out there, tax wise,
they need the money. So my understanding is is that
his trust includes property tax for however many years, perhaps
in in anfinitem, but it's probably about four million a
(04:39):
year in property taxes.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Part of two million acres of land that he had
owned across America. So yeah, I don't it's not like
he was out there saying, all right, here, we're gonna
we got to protect the bison. Also, I need big
satellite dishes so we can broadcast TNT and CNN and
TBS all the other stuff that he founded there. He's
(05:01):
also responsible for a cartoon network, Turner Classic Movies.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
He sold all of that to Time Warner, but he
founded it yet.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Launched CNN in nineteen eighty, so you have that to
be upset with him for as well.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
No, in the beginning, CNN was great. CNN peaked during
the Golf War. Everybody watched CNN during the Gulf War,
and then they somehow got hijacked by the radical left
in this country. By that time, I think Ted had
sold it off. Yeah, yeah, he sold it to Time Warner,
which I think merged to sundergree with CBS. But he
(05:35):
was a great maverick, a great American media maverick. He
kept doing things people said couldn't be done, and I
had a lot of respect for. Ted Turner is a
business guy. He started his media empire with one billboard
in the state of Georgia. I bet that he remember
he won the America's Cup the end of that like
two hundred year winning streak by Europe.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
I remember turning on CNN during the Gulf War of
Wolf Blitzer's out there broadcasting in the background, I'm like,
who's that on that anti aircraft missert missile?
Speaker 2 (06:06):
There? Jane was Jane Fonda there in Baghdad. She didn't
believe it. She jumped in with Saddam Hussein. Couldn't believe it.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
See now you got me doing It's got at kfab
dot com.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Angie email says.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
In the nineteen nineties, Ted Turner bought my dad's herd
of bison in California. Found out when he got the check.
He said it was he was paid nicely, not way
over price, but nicely from how he told me.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Uh so, yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Ted Turner would come around and go, hey, you got
any uh you got any bison here about Buffalo? I
bet you could Ted Turner. Could you sit a buffalo
next to a bison and have Ted Turner tell the difference,
like the Pepsi coke challenge?
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Maybe really not anymore.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
No, he's not available for it today, Lucy.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
But hey, I wouldn't pad it past him. The guy
was a genius. The guy was a bold. He was
a great American. Ted Turner was just a great American.
This is a guy who took a risk every fifteen
pike of seconds of his life. You and came up,
you know, box cars each time.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
You are a conundrum. No he is.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
I mean you said he married someone who should have
been executed crimes against America.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
It wasn't perfect, but he was a great American. And
we all look when it comes to the female wiles,
we all get weak, and that's probably what happened to Ted.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
But he was a great American. Look at him. He was.
His success story is the stuff of legend.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Remember when he suited up in his own baseball game
when he owned the Braves.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
They were so bad that he suited up for a
game as the owner of the team.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
It basically got started by launching the superstation WTB when
it was just Braves game.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Yeah, all it was was a high power TV station,
you know, a UHF tower TV station in Atlanta. He
bought the team uh and put the team on that
station every night, and suddenly it was on every cable
system in the country. So we're watching the Braves play
every night, and Dale Murphy and Bruce Eggs Benedict at
(08:10):
Millard South High School was getting on my TV every
night because a dead turner.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Did we want to watch the Braves? There was no
other baseball team on every.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Now was in the dawn of cable where you had
like fourteen channels, Wow, fourteen channel gig you had the
Braves over here on MTVTVS, and then the Cubs were
playing on WGN and you thought, wow, this is living.
It doesn't get any better. They play, will ever have
more access to the world than I do right now?
Speaker 3 (08:37):
The Cubs didn't have lights at Wrigley Field, so they
played in the afternoon and their game was over, we'd
have time for dinner and then turn the Braves.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
On and you watched it because it was on. Yeah,
just because it was on.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
What else is going on? Eleven KFAB Certified Transmission Sports
Brief Jim Rose.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Okay, Scott bor He's good morning, everybody local golf. Some
familiar names made it through the first round of qualifying
for the US Open at at the Omaha country Club,
the golfing Kuchevski's Scott and Luke, along with Nate Vaance
of Lincoln and a high school kid with a famous
last name, Zach Erstad, whose father is the best left
handed college baseball hitter I've ever seen and a future
(09:10):
pick in the Major First future first pick in the
Major League Baseball Draft. Had a good round at the
Omaha country Club. So Zach and these other guys play
thirty six in the final qualifying locally. The top two
advanced to the Sectional tournament later this month. Best scores
from the sectionals qualify to play in the US Open,
which is in mid June from Southampton, New York.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
This year, the.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Supernovas are in the last weekend of the season playoffs.
Not a great year for them fourteen and fourteen fired
their coach two thirds of the way through the season,
but they go on a two match winning streak there
number one, playing the Indianapolis Ignite.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
To night from Dallas.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Win that get the winner of Dallas or San Diego
on Saturday for the league title. Baseball games last night
Tampa Bay three in Toronto, Zip Angels eight, White Sox two,
Boston for Detroit nothing. It was Texas over the Yankees,
final score six to one, and I saved the worst
news for last the Cleveland Guardians three to one over
the Casey Royals, which snaps of the Royals five games
(10:09):
winning streak. Milwaukee, San Diego, the Cubs, Pirates and metscott wins.
And National League Play Italygue play NAT's fifteen, Minnesota two,
Baltimore seven, Miami four, Philly six, the Athletics three. It
was Seattle three and Atlanta won. The Dodgers twelve to
two over Houston. Omaha five nothing over Indianapolis in the
first of a doubleheader from Indianapolis, but the Indians came
(10:32):
back and won the second game, final score four to one.
We've only had thirteen Triple Crown winners in history, and
we won't get a fourteenth this year. Golden Tempo, which
won the Derby, is not running in the second leg
of the Triple Crown, the Preakness Stakes. His trainer says
it's two taxing, two taxing. He runs for two minutes
gets two weeks off and that's not enough. Back in
(10:53):
the fifties and sixties, good horses raced once a week. Well,
that's not it. It's about money today. If you win a
race and then perform poorly in the next race, your
stud value goes down. Now this horses stead This is
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A horse's stud fee could also be a crucial consideration
(11:16):
for a Derby winner to skip the Preakness.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Why Rosie, you ask?
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Justified, the twenty eighteen Triple Crown winner, had his breeding
rights is sold for seventy five million dollars.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Okay, he was expected to be.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Capable of breeding at least two hundred and fifty times
in his first year at an average of one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars per live full wow now by comparison, Justify,
which won the Triple Crown in twenty eighteen, won a
one point two to four million for that race, won
nine hundred thousand for the Preakness and another eight hundred
thousand for the Belmont. So by comparison, that's peanuts. So
(11:52):
they say, why risk lowering the value of your stud
rights by not actually performing as well in the remaining races.
Is not good for the sport, It's not good for
we the fans. But that's why they do it. I've
been giving it away for free. That's what bothers me.
I'm thinking, if fifteen thousand dollars, that's that's a stud career,
(12:12):
a studfee career for Justify by virtue of winning that derby,
his stud fee is at fifteen thousand a pop. Well,
if you to two hundred and fifty thousand stud fees
a year, not two hundred fifty thousand, two hundred and
fifty stud fees a year, that makes your winnings from
the races look like nothing.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Well, no wonder that horse has worn out.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Well, he hasn't started doing that yet, but if he
does wake up one morning and hobbles around, you'll know
that it was a long night Sports His news on
Nebraska's News Weather in Traffic station KFAB News Time in
the morning, six twenty six.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
What do I feel like this entire show today is
going to be something for which we have to apologize
this afternoon, Greg email says, I hope you mentioned Kean
McMahon today. I subject line what an example. Yes, this
is the Bellevue West kid who played I shouldn't call
(13:04):
him a kid. This is a young man who is
more man than many old men like me. This is
a two sport athlete for the Thunderbirds, joined several clubs
and academic organizations, and then decided to apply for the
Air Force Academy. He'll attend Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs.
(13:25):
He was accepted into four military academies and chose the
Air Force. So I don't think that there's much in
the way of nil for some young man who makes
that decision. Come on, it's not like he does something
super important like shoot a basket or throw a football
or something like that. He's only going to go defend
(13:46):
our freedoms. A nice job there, Ken McMahon of Bellevue West.
A great story on the first Alert six web page.
That is wowt dot com. On the other side of
that coin, you've got another young guy here in the
Omaha Metro. His first name Braylin. Just do his first
(14:07):
name here. No reason to pile on. He's the guy
who is Craig Evans just reported a moment Ago was
sentenced by a judge here in Omaha yesterday. He was
a server at it says A West, Omaha. Iye Hop,
don't we just have one we talked about West. I
can think of two eye hops here in the entire
(14:28):
metro area. You got Bellevue, then you got the one
out there on West Center.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
I think that.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Maybe they meant yeah, maybe they meant the.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
That's what I would think, But it says A West.
In case they're more, there should be more. This guy
was at the International House of Pancakes and stabbed two
customers in the restaurant last summer. He said, I did
it in self defense. Sure, I can envision a scenario,
(15:00):
all right, when do I pay you? Do I go
up to the counter. Here, you go up to the
counter rather just pay you and I have to wait
at the counter. Well, it doesn't work that way. Listen
here Powell and people get out there forks and knives
start coming at him with times, so then he has
to use self defense, which I think, as an I
(15:21):
HOP server would be whatever sticky little container of syrup
he might have at his disposal, which gets everything sticky,
and he says, yep, I did stab these guys. I
admit that, but I did it in self defense. Well,
it turns out they do have interior camera footage of
(15:43):
inside the restaurant. Boy, why don't we put that on
closed circuit television and watch that all day? Look at
that guy, he's having the sticky bun is I hop
the sticky bun ers that Perkins?
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Anyway? That's Perkins? Okay?
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Oh, I hop has the Rudy two D fresh and fruity,
as does kfab Jim Rose of Sports coming up. So
interior camera footage showed the entirety of the incident, and
according to the Affidavid, the video footage was inconsistent with
Brailin's statement that he stabbed these guys in self defense
(16:22):
and that's the end of the story.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
No, it is not.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
I want to hear all right, So Braylan, then why
did you stab these guys? Stab two customers? At I
hoop see. I hear the story, and I think I'd
like to know more. I'm sure he didn't. Just I'm
someone's getting stabbed today, all right, it's going to be
these guys. If they ask me for any more. Butter,
(16:48):
how many refills of coffee do you need?
Speaker 3 (16:51):
So?
Speaker 1 (16:51):
I want to know why he stabbed him. Also, the
other thing I think when I hear the story, I
could really go for a big steak omelet right now.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
Pancakes.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
The big steak omelet loosey comes with a side of pancakes. Okay,
because the big steak omelet, which is the size of
a speed bump, there's not enough food. You also need
a couple of pancakes on the side. I'm a bit
of a health nut. What is the fascination here with
the hantavirus? Here's what it is and isn't people. I mean,
(17:23):
the news has been saying like, oh yeah, people are
sick on this cruise ship. This isn't a carnival cruise line.
And you see these advertisements. Take a Royal Caribbean cruise
and you got people up there like they're going on
water slides and zip lines and singing karaoke and there's
(17:44):
a comedian and a casino and it's like sixteen decks
and multiple pools and hot tubs and private islands, and
you're like, wow, is everyone on that ship gonna die?
This isn't one of those ships, not even close it's
I mean it's a cruise line. I'm not saying that
(18:05):
a small boat where you can get one hundred and
fifty people on it is nothing. I don't have one,
but that's what we're talking about. This is a smaller
cruise line that I guess featured people who wanted to
go see Antarctica. Yeah, it was a luxury, smaller Antarctic cruise.
(18:32):
How do you get the haunt of virus in Antarctica?
Don't you have to get the haunt of virus by
rolling around with mouse and rat droppings? Is what's going
on in Antarctica? I mean, I heard of global warming,
but I thought it was still pretty much covered in
ice and not rat droppings down there. Al Gore might
want to get down there and see what's going on.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Well, they have penguins.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Can you get the haunt of virus from rolling around
in penguin droppings?
Speaker 4 (18:57):
I don't think So.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Someone needs to alert the zoo. So tourists were going
to these remote southern waters south of Africa, No, Scott,
we thought Antarctica was north of Africa. Hey, listen, I've
had just about enough out of you, and don't be
don't be disparaging AOC like that again. Now, I was
(19:22):
talking to ilhan Omar, same thing.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Yeah, the uh oh.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
We had a fun conversation with your buddy Jimmy Failey yesterday.
We were laughing at ilhan Omar and Rocky eleven, and
I said, I'm gonna watch the one where he fights
clubver Lang Rocky one hundred and eleven with ilhan Omar
World War eleven.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
She said, dumb. All right.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
I'd have jumped in on that conversation, but I don't
want to be seen as some sort of a Jimmy
Faylis sycophant. I have to maintain some level of self respect.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
He's in La Vista at the Admiral, down the street
from yet another astro. Pardon me, yes, it's Admiral South Omaha,
the Astro, Thank you, Lucy, Astro and Lavista right down
the street from another IHOP. I forgot about the one
there near eighty fourth and Harrison, right, yeah, yeah, So
about thirty passengers get off at this tiny Atlantic island
(20:09):
of Saint Helena, known for its bird watching and hantavirus.
Now probably not in the tourism pamphlets, and so the
passengers come back on the ship. You get a few
people there, three deaths and five hantavirus infections so far
linked to the end the Andy's strain of the hantavirus,
(20:33):
which is there's no strain of the haunt devirus. It's
not like you have like mild case of the hantavirus.
You don't want it. So now they said, well, we're
gonna quarantine the rest of the passengers, Like wait a second,
the rest, Oh, yeah, we let some other people off
at their various supports. So now they're trying to track
down those people.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
There's a couple in the US. I think Georgia.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
There, No, this is Georgia, like Russia. Georgia.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
There were a few Americans on there, and I'll check
myself before I wreck myself on that, but I think
that they're not here in America.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
And yes, they think that they picked this up by
bird watching. Is that what the story says?
Speaker 2 (21:12):
They?
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Yeah, they said that perhaps some people got off on
this island and in the midst of bird watching picked.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Up the hubs.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
So the island had this very weird new strain that
can pass from human to human hantavirus that couldn't in
the past. The Island had it. No, hantavirus isn't new,
but being able to pass it from human to human
that's brand new.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
I don't think it is.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
OK.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
They just shut down the hata virus so often that
it's really hard. Like once you get it, it shows
itself pretty early and they're able to usually quarantine that
person and shut her down. But now they're just making
sure that well, I hope that you didn't. You weren't
on a plane or an uber ride or whatever. But
(22:03):
they're not concerned. And one expert says, look, this is
not the next COVID. We don't have that scheduled until
twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Well, I'm never going bird watching ever. I don't want
to catch hanta.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
You don't get You don't get the hand to haunta
by just looking out your back window and going, is
that a cardinal?
Speaker 2 (22:24):
And then I don't know. You don't know boom hantavirus.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
You don't know.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
I do.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
It depends on which way the arrows are on my floor.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
It does not work that way. Lucy, put your mask on.
There's a little microphone icon right there on your screen.
To touch that button, you can send a message right
in here. To the Zonker's custom woulds inbox with your
own voice.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Early on in Ted and Jane's relationship is when they
started saving the buffalo. And then after the divorce, that's
when Ted decided to start eating the buffalo and selling them,
which I thought was an awesome idea.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
This listener here in the talkback Mike suggests that Jane
Fonda thought that saving the bison the buffalo would be
a great idea. Ted Turner said, you bet, baby, anything
you want. And then they got divorced and Ted said,
all right, all those bison that Jane Fonda loves so much,
we're now going to eat them. Is that what the
story is there? Jane Fonda is remembering ex husband Ted Turner.
(23:27):
She posted an old photo of her, which obviously it's
an old it's not a new photo of her and
Ted Turner eighty eight years old. Is Jane Fonda paid
tribute to her ex husband, who she described as her
favorite ex husband. I don't know how many ex husbands
she has.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Well, it's a colorful group and they all got together
and sort of code dependent on each other.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Can you imagine any of your ex wives, Jim speaking
of you calling you gloriously ham handsome, deeply romantic, your
swash buckling pirate. After long after your divorce, My wife
and I we're a wonderful partner.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
She's my best friend.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
She wouldn't call me any of those things now, let
alone after some day she finally comes to her senses
and leaves me.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
My favorite Ted Turner quote of all time is when
he had finally merged with Time Warner and truly captives
media empire by saying, if I had a little humility,
I'd be perfect.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Yeah that was a good line. Lord, is hard to
be humble when you're perfect. Here's the other thing. I
don't need more of these news stories reminding us that
when oil goes up a little bit, gas prices go
up a lot. But when oil comes down a lot,
gas prices don't even go down a little bit. Why
(24:47):
in the world are we still allowing these people Jim Rose,
to give us this bunk, this unnecessary market condition that
they created. Pardon my language, but.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
This is bunk. Why are we Why do we let
them get away with that? They can do it.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
They can drop gas prices right now, Yeah, sure, but
they don't. They never do gas price Oil goes up
a little. Gas prices go up a lot, oil goes
down a lot, which it has the last two days.
Gas prices don't even.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Move because they are not sure that they're going to
stay down there, so they're hedging by squirreling away the
nickels for when the gas prices or the oil prices
don't come down. Look, Scott, geez the oil embargo, and
this is this is before your time, Lucy and I
might remember this, the oil embargo back in the nineteen
seven called you old. No, I didn't call her old,
I said she might remember this.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
I was in gas lines in the seventies. I was
in I was a uterus. Well in the seventies they
didn't have car seats for no toddlers.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
They just let you back, which explains a lot in
my case is in the bed of a pickup truck.
But anyway, Uh, this was the this is supposed to
be the shot across the bout. Okay, you know, are
we going to rely on a bunch of third world
countries four five six thousand miles away for our energy?
How about let's get busy finding something else that was
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fifty freaking years ago. Now you would think that we
would have made a commitment, let's get off fossil fuels
and come up with another alternative energy source, whether it's
cold fusion, whether it's nuclear power, whatever, that can power
our cars. And what about hydrogen? Why didn't we come
up with a way to ensure that there's another more
renewable source of energy that would cost us a quarter
(26:27):
a gallon. We shouldn't be paying any more than a
quarter of a gallon for energy to put into our cars.
But the oil and gas lobby and taking campaign contributions
all these years, just said no, I know we have
the technology to do that, but see these guys over
here fund our campaigns. We have about one hundred years
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left of oil in this world, okay, and that's not
just for gas. That's for everything from the case that
covers up your cell phone to the lipstick to the
tennis racket. If we don't find something else, we're going
to have a real problem down the road. Why are
we not finding something else to put into our planes,
our trains, and our automobiles.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
I'm not worried about any of it. We can still
ride our bikes.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Yeah, we can still hook up a yoke of oxen
and get across town in three days. But this is
infuriating to a lot of us who thought to ourselves,
you know, we got a sign from on high fifty
years ago, and here we're quibbling about why isn't it
three to eighty instead of three to ninety It should
be twenty five cents.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Just decisions we've made.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
You can go get a vehicle right now that runs
on compressed natural guess, yeah, where do I fill it up?
Speaker 2 (27:37):
I don't know. There's a couple spyeah, there's a couple
of many. Yeah. But then they've got.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
You know, your your you plug in your electric vehicle
and all that. These things when when forced to adapt,
we will adapt. But right now it's we're faced with, well,
what's the most what's the easiest way forward? And they say,
well this is the easiest way. It doesn't do much
for your great great grandkids, like I won't know them,
so but you don't care. I don't know. I don't
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care about my great great grandkids today. I barely care
about my kids and I know them. Let's get to
the feeling is mutual. I know news radio eleven to
ten kfab where right now we Welcome from Fox News Radio.
Jeff Minasso, back to the program to take a look
at Chicago's Operation Midway Blitz. This was not a Chicago
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Bears defensive strategy. This was the Trump administration sending in
National Guard members from Texas and everywhere else in there
to Chicago to try and clean up the place and
an immigration sweep. Well that happened, and now we've got
the Department of something or other with the Pentagon Inspector
(28:46):
General taking a look at it.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Jeff, what's going on here?
Speaker 6 (28:50):
Yes, So, the Department of Wars Office of Inspector General
evaluating the deployment of active duty troops and National Guard
members not just to Chicago, but Los Angeles, Memphis, Washington,
d c. Others, according to an agency memo, all to
determine the effectiveness of the Pentagon planning and execution of
domestic deployments and to assess any corresponding impact on the
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Department of War readiness. The OIG thing that it may
identify additional locations to look at during the evaluation. As
you know, since last year, President Trump authorized the mobilization
of National Guard members to protect federal personnel and property
in response to some of the violent protests we saw
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over sweeping immigration enforcement campaigns in which ice and Border
patrol officers, facilities, and vehicles were targeted. Now, it's unclear
exactly what the Inspector General would do to measure the
effectiveness of domestic guard deployments. I mean, what, you know,
what are they looking at? They're looking at you know
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here in Chicago where you know, well, they they were deployed,
but then they were a federal judge told them they
couldn't be deployed beca Once they were deployed, things were
tamped down. The temperature was taken down a bit outside
that detension facility. Are you comparing Memphis in Washington, d C.
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Where Democrat leaders who actually worked with the Trump administration
and things went smooth, or are you looking at Chicago
and Minneapolis where there was pushedback and things were chaotic.
We don't know yet, but this is this. This evaluation
was launched in response to a request from Democrat members
of the US Senate Dick Derbin, Chuck Schumer, Tammy Duckworth,
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and many others who wrote the Department of Defense Acting
Inspector General expressing concerns about the deployment of US troops
states of the constitutional and dangerous for American civil rights
and so on and so forth. So that's where we're at.
And I think you know the Office of Inspector General
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for the Department of War. It operates as an independent
and objective into They mandated by law the reports to
both Congress and the Secretary of War. We'll see what
they come up with. Is what it means politically.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
It's not clear yet, really is it whether or not
this is Hey, we think we got this wrong. Let's
take a look so we don't make the same mistakes,
which is what Senators Durban and Duckworth of Illinois would
certainly say, or hey, this was great, We've got to
do more of it. Let's figure out how better to
do it next time. It's really not clear, is it correct?
Nor do we really have any numbers about how many
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people we took off the streets of Chicago and other
areas of Illinois and these other communities you mentioned who
are in the country illegally. Those numbers have kind of
gone by the wayside. Correct, Well, we'll have to wait
for the report. Any timetable on this, Jeff, No, we don't.
Speaker 6 (31:53):
So this is just beginning and we'll see. We'll see
what they have to.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Say, all right, and you'll be on here reporting it
when they say it. Jeff, thank you very much. Scott
atkfab dot com and the Zonker's custom was inbox. Craig says,
Happy National Prayer Day and God bless all my friends
at eleven to ten kfab. Thanks man, right back at you.
The Vice President is honoring today's National Day of Prayer
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by going to the Vatican and telling the Pope, Hey, man,
back off, that's my boss, that's my friend, Don you're
messing with. Back off. I don't know if that's exactly
how that's gonna go down. But speaking of the vice president,
the man accused of firing a gun at Secret Service
officers near the Washington Monument this past week was walking
(32:45):
along the path of Vice President Vance's motorcade before the shooting. Well,
it doesn't really tell us anything, right, if you walk
along the National Mall and anywhere in DC, you're probably
gonna be walking the path of a motorcade. That doesn't
mean he wanted to do any harm, necessarily to anyone
in the Trump administration. Well, we now also learned what
(33:09):
this forty five year old guy from Texas who was
shot multiple times and did not die, said to authorities
in the back of the ambulance on his way to
the hospital, he said, blank the White House and asked
the technicians they're the med technicians and the Secret Service
agents to kill him. Begged them to kill him as
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he was saying vulgar things about the White House, or
as the media would say, we still have no idea
what his intentions were. Trump is busy this morning on
truth Social he posted a picture of Congressman Hakim Jeffries
saying we need maximum warfare against the Trump administration. And
(33:53):
then three days after that, here comes the guy to
the White House correspondence dinner a week and a half ago,
and Trump says, this lunatic, Hakeem low Iq Jeffries should
be charged with inciting violence. The radical left Democrats actually
want to destroy our country. And then he posted a
picture of the golden Trump statue down at his golf
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course in Miami and Jim, I'm gonna try and describe
for you the ai image here from the Biden White
House that Trump posted saying highly accurate depiction of the
sleepy Joe Biden administration. Tremendous damage done. But we're back
and you've got Hillary and Obama and the auto pin
there and a big thing a melted ice cream around
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President Biden at the Resolute desk sleeping as Susan Rice.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
Is filling in papers for him.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
And there on the front of the desk snorting cocaine
is Hunter Biden.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
This is the yes Ai.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
Image that has just been posted this morning on true
Social by the President of the United States doesn't have
enough to do.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
I would ask.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Jim what his assessment of what Ted Turner must have
had going for him to have Jane Fonda say all
these nice things about him after their divorce, after he's passed,
but based in your obsession with stud prices throughout the
Sports Update today, I'm afraid. I'm afraid what you might
say about what Ted Turner must have had going for him.
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I'm still digging into Jane Fonda's loving assessment. They were
married for about twenty years. It was twenty. I thought
it was like ten and that now they got married
in nineteen ninety one, it is it is ten years.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Math is hard now.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
He was married to Tom Hayden for about twenty but
right so they get married in nineteen ninety one, he
has an.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Affair just weeks after their wedding. It's Ted Turner. And
then she says, we had a big fight over it. Well,
I imagine you did.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
And then she once wrote that she noted that Ted
Turner kept his promise of fidelity for seven years.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
Let's see here, Mary for ten.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
Pop in the corral for three years weeks after the wedding,
and then seven years.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
And then still after he dies, she's like, oh, yeah,
he was my favorite ex husband.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
I'll always love him.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
He was so sexy and brilliant and all the stuff
that she's saying now.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
Well she wants to be that's an easy one.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
You know, this is a woman who has craved attention
from the very beginning of her life. This is a
woman who has done outrageous things just to get attention
for herself. And this is a chance for her to
come off as magnanimous rather than the bitter ex wife
you know who says, I'm glad I'll be dancing on
his grave. She said nice things which can only endear
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her to people. Okay, because you know it's it's an
ex husband. But she's saying nice things about him in
the wake of his death. She's actually older than he is.
He had a syndrome, Uh, Louis syndrome. Doing Louis syndrome.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
I think that's maybe not the right pronunciation for it,
but it was. It was a nerve name some of'
donald Duck's kids.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
Very funny. Yeah, it was. It was an order or
disorder that affect his central nervous system. And uh, he
struggled with it the last I think five six seven years.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
Are you talking about Louis body. Louis body sentem that's it.
I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
Uh, he had that and uh and yet it was
it was a remarkable American life. And uh, you know,
you can't hold the man responsible for his marital choices.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
You can't. You can't.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
Wait, you need you need to judge his life in
its totality. You can't just pick and choose one or
two incidents. I'm gonna give you a chance to retract
what you just said.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
No, you can't, you know, I mean, you can't hold
a man responsible for cheating on his wife.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
Well, no, I didn't say cheating on his wife. For
picking his wives and he was.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
Probably unhappy with her for some reason, which would make
part of most of Americana who did not find her
to be a particularly endearing person. When she sits in
an anti aircraft installation in North Vietnam in nineteen seventy two,
the very installation the shot American pilots out of the sky,
killing them, maiming them, wounding them, sending them to the
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most notorious prisoner of war camp in all of American
and in probably global history. This is a woman who
should have been locked up and in my view, executed
for treason. But I wasn't a Vietnam veteran, and many
of them have forgiven her, those who were still around,
there was a big story about it some years ago.
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Many of them said, you know, we didn't like it
at the time. We've moved on, We've forgiven her, and
she has marginally apologized for it. But you know, there's
you can protest, and you can say I don't like
something and I think this is wrong. But when you
do what she did, which was aiding and abetting the enemy,
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even though it might have been by pure public relations,
that's disqualifying, and in my view that's grounds for execution,
but capital punishment.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
But that's just me.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
What in the world was she thinking, Why in the
world where she was looking for? I mean, for example,
we have tomorrow with twenty three hours from now, we'll
be talking to Ann Margaret, and Margaret's coming back to town.
She's part of Bruce Crawford's big event next Friday night
at the Omaha Community Playhouse. And Margaret just received an
award from the USO, thanking her for her service and
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entertainment to the troops. There are two people have gotten
the special accommodation from the USO, Bob Hope and here
recently and Margaret so and Margaret's over there entertaining the troops,
thanking them for their service. What in the world was
Jane Fonda thinking.
Speaker 3 (39:49):
Well, she was a rabid anti Vietnam protester and she
married perhaps the nation's most active and notorious Vietnam protester,
Tom Hayden, who was a California activist, and he was very,
very mischievous during those days. So she was growing in
her Hollywood popularity. She was appearing in films. You know,
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her father was famous in Refonda, so she had sort
of an entree into Hollywood and she began her acting
career and she was in film and television. But she
just was violently, virulently opposed to the Vietnam War, our
engagement in the Vietnam War, and she took this to
the next level. There were lots of photographs taken, lots
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of video taken. She was smiling, she was wearing an
MVA hat helmet, she was cavoorting with the enemy. And
when she did that, she did it to demonstrate how
much she hated our involvement in the war, but probably
didn't realize that it's long term impact would have guys
fifty years later like me talking about it on the
radio and that vet who spat on her, Yes, I
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forget where that was. This is a woman who should
have been arrested and tried for treason, and she wasn't
because we had lacks interpretations of the rules. Then she
was Barbarella, and she was Barbarella, and even the judge
probably wanted to see her back on the Barbarella set.
This is just part of what our culture in the
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nineteen sixties, and we're seeing it again today with these
violent outbursts by people who protest the way things are.
Peaceful protests not only are allowed legally, but they should
be encouraged but violent protests, whether it's BLM or the
Me Too movement, or anti Trump movements or any of
the other things that we've seen where property is damaged,
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people are injured, and lives are changed and altered. This
is unacceptable and these people need to pay a price.
January sixth included. So anyway, Ted Turner died. He did,
and she said nice things about him because she wants
to be liked by people.
Speaker 1 (41:54):
I like those Bison Bergers that was over where Stokes
is now on tedd Montana.
Speaker 3 (41:59):
I think I was in there. Actually, you mentioned the
company good. I think I was in there once.
Speaker 1 (42:03):
Also, the thing, it's pretty telling that no one else
has picked up the mantle of bison Burgers rather than
a good ground beef cheeseburger.
Speaker 2 (42:10):
I think they're good.
Speaker 1 (42:12):
They said there was leaner and better for you, but
I'd rather have a ground beef burger. But I thought
those burgers are pretty good. Jim, you're frankly closer to
him than I am. What was Gary Sadelmeyer's stud feet
when he retired from KFAB.
Speaker 3 (42:24):
That's classified information because we have hippa regulations.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
Oh okay, all right, thank you, Jim, lives out in Valley.
Would you do run off the police chief out there?
It's MESSI Valley is a sprawling community involving what used
to be a very vibrant downtown. Then they moved the
highway and they've they've really rebounded since then, honest to
good news. And then you got some of those lake communities.
Thinks they're going well in Valley. I love Valley, but
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apparently there were people out there with hot chocolate coming
out of the tap.
Speaker 2 (42:54):
At least that's what it looked like.
Speaker 1 (42:56):
Brown water is an issue, and you have city officials
say it's They says not fine as brown.
Speaker 2 (43:02):
Not fine.
Speaker 1 (43:04):
You can shower and it's going to stay in your
clothes in the laundry, but it's fine. And so they
ran out a bunch of elected officials out there.
Speaker 3 (43:11):
There was a special election, and city council member and
the mayor got bounced.
Speaker 2 (43:16):
And now the police chief is leaving.
Speaker 3 (43:18):
Police chief is going to become the police chief of
Metro Community College. Apparently feels like there's more action there
than in Valley.
Speaker 1 (43:24):
I don't know that he's looking for action, but he's
trying to get out of Valley.
Speaker 3 (43:29):
Now, there have been some issues involving several city officials
and summer thinking, wait a minute, hold on, I don't
know that I want to be here anymore. It's a
town that's growing faster than its infrastructure, and that's the problem.
This is a community. It's a small Douglas County suburb.
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It's not going to be annexed anytime soon, but it's
growing very rapidly, but does not have the political infrastructure
or the physical infrastructure to accommodate this growth.
Speaker 2 (44:00):
And that's the issue.
Speaker 1 (44:01):
You got five full time police officers and Jim Rows
out there, so you're still in good shape in the valley.
Speaker 2 (44:07):
Don't worry about it.
I think I speak for everybody when I say, in
the wake of the news yesterday that Ted Turner died
the age of eighty seven. I thought he died twenty
years ago.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
So did he he?
Speaker 1 (00:15):
For someone who was so loud and everywhere for such
a long time, he got real quiet for the last
couple of decades. Or maybe I just stopped or everyone
stopped paying attention. I thought, Ted Turner, if you, I
would have bet a lot of money that Ted Turner
died at least ten years.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Ago, well after his first night with Jane Fonda. He
wanted to die. It just took another twenty five or
thirty years for it to happen.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Okay, we're just.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
A few seconds into the broadcast today and we have
a shot at Jane Fonda. That's fine. I'm just making
sure that the toad board is updated.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
I just can't get past soon her sitting in a
Addi Aircraft turret in North Vietnam and talking about how
our guys ought to be jailed and ought to be
tortured and all of that stuff. Now they've gotten past it,
but I haven't. Yeah, Ted Turner looked at all of
that and said, she's for me.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
And he was hot. He was married, well, she was.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
He married three times, including to Jane Fonda.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I don't know. Did they have any kids to get
I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
They were past the h they were past the farming
stage when they got married.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
I don't know. And not anymore.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Five kids, fourteen grandkids, two great grandkids.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
I don't know who. I don't remember. Jane Fonda, haven't
anymo I don't think she's any kids.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Ted Turner has a couple of things here with local roots.
One we had those Buffalo Burger restaurants here in town.
He had one there on West Dodge by Boys Town that.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Was pretty good.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Do you ever go in there? I don't think big
Fat Ted's Montana Grill or what was what was of.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
The things called?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
It was just Ted's Montana Grill. But again it was
the Jane Fonda thing. They kept me out of there.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
You didn't go to Ted's Montana Grill because you didn't
like Jane Fonda.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I said, if this guy has enough sense to marry her,
then I'm not really sure that's a safe restaurant to
eat in.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
That was my approach.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
You thought, if you sunk your teeth into a bison
Berger that somehow the North Vietnamese would win, or you're
am I sitting there in nineteen ninety eight, or I
might die. I might die because you know, poor management
by Ted's Montana grill, which stems from the fact that
he has poor judgment and marrying Jane Flonda.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
It's amazing. Jane Fonda should have been executed for true.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
No, we're not going to execute she should have got
she should have got you needled?
Speaker 2 (02:42):
What is that?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
See, despite these very strong opinions on Jane Fonda, you've
got a picture of her as barbarilla here in the studio.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
That's the only thing that kept me from continuing to
push the process of having her get the needle for
what she did. You're a very conteen sixty eight, very
confus she was attractive as barbarossa. I can't argue that
although this was before my time. Barbarella, barbararella, barbarossa, of
any barbarossa. No, she was very, very fetching in the sixties,
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but that was before I was interested in that kind
of thing.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Ted also, as Craig Evans reported a moment Ago, was
the largest landowner in Nebraska. A bunch of ranching land
in the sand Hills, like four five hundred thousand.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Eight in his trust whatever still owns that.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Yeah, So he bought a bunch of land because he
wanted to preserve buffalo herds. And he's a little bit
of a conservationalist, unlike say Bill Gates. I don't think
Ted Turner had this notion that we're going to make
plastic beef. He just thought it would be great to
preserve the native bison herds of the Great Plains, which
were almost wiped out back in the nineteenth century, and
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so he bought up a bunch of land. I don't
know if it was a profit center for him. I
don't know what out of a cattle ranching operation he ran,
I think, or a buffalo ranching operation he ran. I
think it was more about I have the money, I
think this is important, and so I'm going to do it.
And then people say, well, when he dies, what's going
to happen. Well, it's in a land trust apparently at
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least at last report when I read about it, and
when it goes into a charitable trust, suddenly that land
is no longer taxed. Well, that would put a tremendous
burden on some of those counties out there, tax wise,
they need the money. So my understanding is is that
his trust includes property tax for however many years, perhaps
in in anfinitem, but it's probably about four million a
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year in property taxes.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Part of two million acres of land that he had
owned across America. So yeah, I don't it's not like
he was out there saying, all right, here, we're gonna
we got to protect the bison. Also, I need big
satellite dishes so we can broadcast TNT and CNN and
TBS all the other stuff that he founded there. He's
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also responsible for a cartoon network, Turner Classic Movies.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
He sold all of that to Time Warner, but he
founded it yet.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Launched CNN in nineteen eighty, so you have that to
be upset with him for as well.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
No, in the beginning, CNN was great. CNN peaked during
the Golf War. Everybody watched CNN during the Gulf War,
and then they somehow got hijacked by the radical left
in this country. By that time, I think Ted had
sold it off. Yeah, yeah, he sold it to Time Warner,
which I think merged to sundergree with CBS. But he
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was a great maverick, a great American media maverick. He
kept doing things people said couldn't be done, and I
had a lot of respect for. Ted Turner is a
business guy. He started his media empire with one billboard
in the state of Georgia. I bet that he remember
he won the America's Cup the end of that like
two hundred year winning streak by Europe.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
I remember turning on CNN during the Gulf War of
Wolf Blitzer's out there broadcasting in the background, I'm like,
who's that on that anti aircraft missert missile?
Speaker 2 (06:06):
There? Jane was Jane Fonda there in Baghdad. She didn't
believe it. She jumped in with Saddam Hussein. Couldn't believe it.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
See now you got me doing It's got at kfab
dot com.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Angie email says.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
In the nineteen nineties, Ted Turner bought my dad's herd
of bison in California. Found out when he got the check.
He said it was he was paid nicely, not way
over price, but nicely from how he told me.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Uh so, yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Ted Turner would come around and go, hey, you got
any uh you got any bison here about Buffalo? I
bet you could Ted Turner. Could you sit a buffalo
next to a bison and have Ted Turner tell the difference,
like the Pepsi coke challenge?
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Maybe really not anymore.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
No, he's not available for it today, Lucy.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
But hey, I wouldn't pad it past him. The guy
was a genius. The guy was a bold. He was
a great American. Ted Turner was just a great American.
This is a guy who took a risk every fifteen
pike of seconds of his life. You and came up,
you know, box cars each time.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
You are a conundrum. No he is.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
I mean you said he married someone who should have
been executed crimes against America.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
It wasn't perfect, but he was a great American. And
we all look when it comes to the female wiles,
we all get weak, and that's probably what happened to Ted.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
But he was a great American. Look at him. He was.
His success story is the stuff of legend.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Remember when he suited up in his own baseball game
when he owned the Braves.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
They were so bad that he suited up for a
game as the owner of the team.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
It basically got started by launching the superstation WTB when
it was just Braves game.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Yeah, all it was was a high power TV station,
you know, a UHF tower TV station in Atlanta. He
bought the team uh and put the team on that
station every night, and suddenly it was on every cable
system in the country. So we're watching the Braves play
every night, and Dale Murphy and Bruce Eggs Benedict at
(08:10):
Millard South High School was getting on my TV every
night because a dead turner.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Did we want to watch the Braves? There was no
other baseball team on every.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Now was in the dawn of cable where you had
like fourteen channels, Wow, fourteen channel gig you had the
Braves over here on MTVTVS, and then the Cubs were
playing on WGN and you thought, wow, this is living.
It doesn't get any better. They play, will ever have
more access to the world than I do right now?
Speaker 3 (08:37):
The Cubs didn't have lights at Wrigley Field, so they
played in the afternoon and their game was over, we'd
have time for dinner and then turn the Braves.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
On and you watched it because it was on. Yeah,
just because it was on.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
What else is going on? Eleven KFAB Certified Transmission Sports
Brief Jim Rose.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Okay, Scott bor He's good morning, everybody local golf. Some
familiar names made it through the first round of qualifying
for the US Open at at the Omaha country Club,
the golfing Kuchevski's Scott and Luke, along with Nate Vaance
of Lincoln and a high school kid with a famous
last name, Zach Erstad, whose father is the best left
handed college baseball hitter I've ever seen and a future
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pick in the Major First future first pick in the
Major League Baseball Draft. Had a good round at the
Omaha country Club. So Zach and these other guys play
thirty six in the final qualifying locally. The top two
advanced to the Sectional tournament later this month. Best scores
from the sectionals qualify to play in the US Open,
which is in mid June from Southampton, New York.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
This year, the.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Supernovas are in the last weekend of the season playoffs.
Not a great year for them fourteen and fourteen fired
their coach two thirds of the way through the season,
but they go on a two match winning streak there
number one, playing the Indianapolis Ignite.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
To night from Dallas.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Win that get the winner of Dallas or San Diego
on Saturday for the league title. Baseball games last night
Tampa Bay three in Toronto, Zip Angels eight, White Sox two,
Boston for Detroit nothing. It was Texas over the Yankees,
final score six to one, and I saved the worst
news for last the Cleveland Guardians three to one over
the Casey Royals, which snaps of the Royals five games
(10:09):
winning streak. Milwaukee, San Diego, the Cubs, Pirates and metscott wins.
And National League Play Italygue play NAT's fifteen, Minnesota two,
Baltimore seven, Miami four, Philly six, the Athletics three. It
was Seattle three and Atlanta won. The Dodgers twelve to
two over Houston. Omaha five nothing over Indianapolis in the
first of a doubleheader from Indianapolis, but the Indians came
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back and won the second game, final score four to one.
We've only had thirteen Triple Crown winners in history, and
we won't get a fourteenth this year. Golden Tempo, which
won the Derby, is not running in the second leg
of the Triple Crown, the Preakness Stakes. His trainer says
it's two taxing, two taxing. He runs for two minutes
gets two weeks off and that's not enough. Back in
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the fifties and sixties, good horses raced once a week. Well,
that's not it. It's about money today. If you win a
race and then perform poorly in the next race, your
stud value goes down. Now this horses stead This is
the kind of information ladies and gentlemen that continues to illustrate.
YKFB is the number one rated radio station within three states.
A horse's stud fee could also be a crucial consideration
(11:16):
for a Derby winner to skip the Preakness.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Why Rosie, you ask?
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Justified, the twenty eighteen Triple Crown winner, had his breeding
rights is sold for seventy five million dollars.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Okay, he was expected to be.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Capable of breeding at least two hundred and fifty times
in his first year at an average of one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars per live full wow now by comparison, Justify,
which won the Triple Crown in twenty eighteen, won a
one point two to four million for that race, won
nine hundred thousand for the Preakness and another eight hundred
thousand for the Belmont. So by comparison, that's peanuts. So
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they say, why risk lowering the value of your stud
rights by not actually performing as well in the remaining races.
Is not good for the sport, It's not good for
we the fans. But that's why they do it. I've
been giving it away for free. That's what bothers me.
I'm thinking, if fifteen thousand dollars, that's that's a stud career,
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a studfee career for Justify by virtue of winning that derby,
his stud fee is at fifteen thousand a pop. Well,
if you to two hundred and fifty thousand stud fees
a year, not two hundred fifty thousand, two hundred and
fifty stud fees a year, that makes your winnings from
the races look like nothing.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Well, no wonder that horse has worn out.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Well, he hasn't started doing that yet, but if he
does wake up one morning and hobbles around, you'll know
that it was a long night Sports His news on
Nebraska's News Weather in Traffic station KFAB News Time in
the morning, six twenty six.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
What do I feel like this entire show today is
going to be something for which we have to apologize
this afternoon, Greg email says, I hope you mentioned Kean
McMahon today. I subject line what an example. Yes, this
is the Bellevue West kid who played I shouldn't call
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him a kid. This is a young man who is
more man than many old men like me. This is
a two sport athlete for the Thunderbirds, joined several clubs
and academic organizations, and then decided to apply for the
Air Force Academy. He'll attend Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs.
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He was accepted into four military academies and chose the
Air Force. So I don't think that there's much in
the way of nil for some young man who makes
that decision. Come on, it's not like he does something
super important like shoot a basket or throw a football
or something like that. He's only going to go defend
(13:46):
our freedoms. A nice job there, Ken McMahon of Bellevue West.
A great story on the first Alert six web page.
That is wowt dot com. On the other side of
that coin, you've got another young guy here in the
Omaha Metro. His first name Braylin. Just do his first
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name here. No reason to pile on. He's the guy
who is Craig Evans just reported a moment Ago was
sentenced by a judge here in Omaha yesterday. He was
a server at it says A West, Omaha. Iye Hop,
don't we just have one we talked about West. I
can think of two eye hops here in the entire
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metro area. You got Bellevue, then you got the one
out there on West Center.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
I think that.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Maybe they meant yeah, maybe they meant the.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
That's what I would think, But it says A West.
In case they're more, there should be more. This guy
was at the International House of Pancakes and stabbed two
customers in the restaurant last summer. He said, I did
it in self defense. Sure, I can envision a scenario,
(15:00):
all right, when do I pay you? Do I go
up to the counter. Here, you go up to the
counter rather just pay you and I have to wait
at the counter. Well, it doesn't work that way. Listen
here Powell and people get out there forks and knives
start coming at him with times, so then he has
to use self defense, which I think, as an I
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HOP server would be whatever sticky little container of syrup
he might have at his disposal, which gets everything sticky,
and he says, yep, I did stab these guys. I
admit that, but I did it in self defense. Well,
it turns out they do have interior camera footage of
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inside the restaurant. Boy, why don't we put that on
closed circuit television and watch that all day? Look at
that guy, he's having the sticky bun is I hop
the sticky bun ers that Perkins?
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Anyway? That's Perkins? Okay?
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Oh, I hop has the Rudy two D fresh and fruity,
as does kfab Jim Rose of Sports coming up. So
interior camera footage showed the entirety of the incident, and
according to the Affidavid, the video footage was inconsistent with
Brailin's statement that he stabbed these guys in self defense
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and that's the end of the story.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
No, it is not.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
I want to hear all right, So Braylan, then why
did you stab these guys? Stab two customers? At I
hoop see. I hear the story, and I think I'd
like to know more. I'm sure he didn't. Just I'm
someone's getting stabbed today, all right, it's going to be
these guys. If they ask me for any more. Butter,
(16:48):
how many refills of coffee do you need?
Speaker 3 (16:51):
So?
Speaker 1 (16:51):
I want to know why he stabbed him. Also, the
other thing I think when I hear the story, I
could really go for a big steak omelet right now.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
Pancakes.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
The big steak omelet loosey comes with a side of pancakes. Okay,
because the big steak omelet, which is the size of
a speed bump, there's not enough food. You also need
a couple of pancakes on the side. I'm a bit
of a health nut. What is the fascination here with
the hantavirus? Here's what it is and isn't people. I mean,
(17:23):
the news has been saying like, oh yeah, people are
sick on this cruise ship. This isn't a carnival cruise line.
And you see these advertisements. Take a Royal Caribbean cruise
and you got people up there like they're going on
water slides and zip lines and singing karaoke and there's
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a comedian and a casino and it's like sixteen decks
and multiple pools and hot tubs and private islands, and
you're like, wow, is everyone on that ship gonna die?
This isn't one of those ships, not even close it's
I mean it's a cruise line. I'm not saying that
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a small boat where you can get one hundred and
fifty people on it is nothing. I don't have one,
but that's what we're talking about. This is a smaller
cruise line that I guess featured people who wanted to
go see Antarctica. Yeah, it was a luxury, smaller Antarctic cruise.
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How do you get the haunt of virus in Antarctica?
Don't you have to get the haunt of virus by
rolling around with mouse and rat droppings? Is what's going
on in Antarctica? I mean, I heard of global warming,
but I thought it was still pretty much covered in
ice and not rat droppings down there. Al Gore might
want to get down there and see what's going on.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Well, they have penguins.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Can you get the haunt of virus from rolling around
in penguin droppings?
Speaker 4 (18:57):
I don't think So.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Someone needs to alert the zoo. So tourists were going
to these remote southern waters south of Africa, No, Scott,
we thought Antarctica was north of Africa. Hey, listen, I've
had just about enough out of you, and don't be
don't be disparaging AOC like that again. Now, I was
(19:22):
talking to ilhan Omar, same thing.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Yeah, the uh oh.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
We had a fun conversation with your buddy Jimmy Failey yesterday.
We were laughing at ilhan Omar and Rocky eleven, and
I said, I'm gonna watch the one where he fights
clubver Lang Rocky one hundred and eleven with ilhan Omar
World War eleven.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
She said, dumb. All right.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
I'd have jumped in on that conversation, but I don't
want to be seen as some sort of a Jimmy
Faylis sycophant. I have to maintain some level of self respect.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
He's in La Vista at the Admiral, down the street
from yet another astro. Pardon me, yes, it's Admiral South Omaha,
the Astro, Thank you, Lucy, Astro and Lavista right down
the street from another IHOP. I forgot about the one
there near eighty fourth and Harrison, right, yeah, yeah, So
about thirty passengers get off at this tiny Atlantic island
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of Saint Helena, known for its bird watching and hantavirus.
Now probably not in the tourism pamphlets, and so the
passengers come back on the ship. You get a few
people there, three deaths and five hantavirus infections so far
linked to the end the Andy's strain of the hantavirus,
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which is there's no strain of the haunt devirus. It's
not like you have like mild case of the hantavirus.
You don't want it. So now they said, well, we're
gonna quarantine the rest of the passengers, Like wait a second,
the rest, Oh, yeah, we let some other people off
at their various supports. So now they're trying to track
down those people.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
There's a couple in the US. I think Georgia.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
There, No, this is Georgia, like Russia. Georgia.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
There were a few Americans on there, and I'll check
myself before I wreck myself on that, but I think
that they're not here in America.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
And yes, they think that they picked this up by
bird watching. Is that what the story says?
Speaker 2 (21:12):
They?
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Yeah, they said that perhaps some people got off on
this island and in the midst of bird watching picked.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Up the hubs.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
So the island had this very weird new strain that
can pass from human to human hantavirus that couldn't in
the past. The Island had it. No, hantavirus isn't new,
but being able to pass it from human to human
that's brand new.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
I don't think it is.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
OK.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
They just shut down the hata virus so often that
it's really hard. Like once you get it, it shows
itself pretty early and they're able to usually quarantine that
person and shut her down. But now they're just making
sure that well, I hope that you didn't. You weren't
on a plane or an uber ride or whatever. But
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they're not concerned. And one expert says, look, this is
not the next COVID. We don't have that scheduled until
twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Well, I'm never going bird watching ever. I don't want
to catch hanta.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
You don't get You don't get the hand to haunta
by just looking out your back window and going, is
that a cardinal?
Speaker 2 (22:24):
And then I don't know. You don't know boom hantavirus.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
You don't know.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
I do.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
It depends on which way the arrows are on my floor.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
It does not work that way. Lucy, put your mask on.
There's a little microphone icon right there on your screen.
To touch that button, you can send a message right
in here. To the Zonker's custom woulds inbox with your
own voice.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Early on in Ted and Jane's relationship is when they
started saving the buffalo. And then after the divorce, that's
when Ted decided to start eating the buffalo and selling them,
which I thought was an awesome idea.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
This listener here in the talkback Mike suggests that Jane
Fonda thought that saving the bison the buffalo would be
a great idea. Ted Turner said, you bet, baby, anything
you want. And then they got divorced and Ted said,
all right, all those bison that Jane Fonda loves so much,
we're now going to eat them. Is that what the
story is there? Jane Fonda is remembering ex husband Ted Turner.
(23:27):
She posted an old photo of her, which obviously it's
an old it's not a new photo of her and
Ted Turner eighty eight years old. Is Jane Fonda paid
tribute to her ex husband, who she described as her
favorite ex husband. I don't know how many ex husbands
she has.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Well, it's a colorful group and they all got together
and sort of code dependent on each other.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Can you imagine any of your ex wives, Jim speaking
of you calling you gloriously ham handsome, deeply romantic, your
swash buckling pirate. After long after your divorce, My wife
and I we're a wonderful partner.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
She's my best friend.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
She wouldn't call me any of those things now, let
alone after some day she finally comes to her senses
and leaves me.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
My favorite Ted Turner quote of all time is when
he had finally merged with Time Warner and truly captives
media empire by saying, if I had a little humility,
I'd be perfect.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Yeah that was a good line. Lord, is hard to
be humble when you're perfect. Here's the other thing. I
don't need more of these news stories reminding us that
when oil goes up a little bit, gas prices go
up a lot. But when oil comes down a lot,
gas prices don't even go down a little bit. Why
(24:47):
in the world are we still allowing these people Jim Rose,
to give us this bunk, this unnecessary market condition that
they created. Pardon my language, but.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
This is bunk. Why are we Why do we let
them get away with that? They can do it.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
They can drop gas prices right now, Yeah, sure, but
they don't. They never do gas price Oil goes up
a little. Gas prices go up a lot, oil goes
down a lot, which it has the last two days.
Gas prices don't even.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Move because they are not sure that they're going to
stay down there, so they're hedging by squirreling away the
nickels for when the gas prices or the oil prices
don't come down. Look, Scott, geez the oil embargo, and
this is this is before your time, Lucy and I
might remember this, the oil embargo back in the nineteen
seven called you old. No, I didn't call her old,
I said she might remember this.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
I was in gas lines in the seventies. I was
in I was a uterus. Well in the seventies they
didn't have car seats for no toddlers.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
They just let you back, which explains a lot in
my case is in the bed of a pickup truck.
But anyway, Uh, this was the this is supposed to
be the shot across the bout. Okay, you know, are
we going to rely on a bunch of third world
countries four five six thousand miles away for our energy?
How about let's get busy finding something else that was
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fifty freaking years ago. Now you would think that we
would have made a commitment, let's get off fossil fuels
and come up with another alternative energy source, whether it's
cold fusion, whether it's nuclear power, whatever, that can power
our cars. And what about hydrogen? Why didn't we come
up with a way to ensure that there's another more
renewable source of energy that would cost us a quarter
(26:27):
a gallon. We shouldn't be paying any more than a
quarter of a gallon for energy to put into our cars.
But the oil and gas lobby and taking campaign contributions
all these years, just said no, I know we have
the technology to do that, but see these guys over
here fund our campaigns. We have about one hundred years
(26:48):
left of oil in this world, okay, and that's not
just for gas. That's for everything from the case that
covers up your cell phone to the lipstick to the
tennis racket. If we don't find something else, we're going
to have a real problem down the road. Why are
we not finding something else to put into our planes,
our trains, and our automobiles.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
I'm not worried about any of it. We can still
ride our bikes.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Yeah, we can still hook up a yoke of oxen
and get across town in three days. But this is
infuriating to a lot of us who thought to ourselves,
you know, we got a sign from on high fifty
years ago, and here we're quibbling about why isn't it
three to eighty instead of three to ninety It should
be twenty five cents.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Just decisions we've made.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
You can go get a vehicle right now that runs
on compressed natural guess, yeah, where do I fill it up?
Speaker 2 (27:37):
I don't know. There's a couple spyeah, there's a couple
of many. Yeah. But then they've got.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
You know, your your you plug in your electric vehicle
and all that. These things when when forced to adapt,
we will adapt. But right now it's we're faced with, well,
what's the most what's the easiest way forward? And they say,
well this is the easiest way. It doesn't do much
for your great great grandkids, like I won't know them,
so but you don't care. I don't know. I don't
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care about my great great grandkids today. I barely care
about my kids and I know them. Let's get to
the feeling is mutual. I know news radio eleven to
ten kfab where right now we Welcome from Fox News Radio.
Jeff Minasso, back to the program to take a look
at Chicago's Operation Midway Blitz. This was not a Chicago
(28:25):
Bears defensive strategy. This was the Trump administration sending in
National Guard members from Texas and everywhere else in there
to Chicago to try and clean up the place and
an immigration sweep. Well that happened, and now we've got
the Department of something or other with the Pentagon Inspector
(28:46):
General taking a look at it.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Jeff, what's going on here?
Speaker 6 (28:50):
Yes, So, the Department of Wars Office of Inspector General
evaluating the deployment of active duty troops and National Guard
members not just to Chicago, but Los Angeles, Memphis, Washington,
d c. Others, according to an agency memo, all to
determine the effectiveness of the Pentagon planning and execution of
domestic deployments and to assess any corresponding impact on the
(29:14):
Department of War readiness. The OIG thing that it may
identify additional locations to look at during the evaluation. As
you know, since last year, President Trump authorized the mobilization
of National Guard members to protect federal personnel and property
in response to some of the violent protests we saw
(29:34):
over sweeping immigration enforcement campaigns in which ice and Border
patrol officers, facilities, and vehicles were targeted. Now, it's unclear
exactly what the Inspector General would do to measure the
effectiveness of domestic guard deployments. I mean, what, you know,
what are they looking at? They're looking at you know
(29:55):
here in Chicago where you know, well, they they were deployed,
but then they were a federal judge told them they
couldn't be deployed beca Once they were deployed, things were
tamped down. The temperature was taken down a bit outside
that detension facility. Are you comparing Memphis in Washington, d C.
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Where Democrat leaders who actually worked with the Trump administration
and things went smooth, or are you looking at Chicago
and Minneapolis where there was pushedback and things were chaotic.
We don't know yet, but this is this. This evaluation
was launched in response to a request from Democrat members
of the US Senate Dick Derbin, Chuck Schumer, Tammy Duckworth,
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and many others who wrote the Department of Defense Acting
Inspector General expressing concerns about the deployment of US troops
states of the constitutional and dangerous for American civil rights
and so on and so forth. So that's where we're at.
And I think you know the Office of Inspector General
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for the Department of War. It operates as an independent
and objective into They mandated by law the reports to
both Congress and the Secretary of War. We'll see what
they come up with. Is what it means politically.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
It's not clear yet, really is it whether or not
this is Hey, we think we got this wrong. Let's
take a look so we don't make the same mistakes,
which is what Senators Durban and Duckworth of Illinois would
certainly say, or hey, this was great, We've got to
do more of it. Let's figure out how better to
do it next time. It's really not clear, is it correct?
Nor do we really have any numbers about how many
(31:35):
people we took off the streets of Chicago and other
areas of Illinois and these other communities you mentioned who
are in the country illegally. Those numbers have kind of
gone by the wayside. Correct, Well, we'll have to wait
for the report. Any timetable on this, Jeff, No, we don't.
Speaker 6 (31:53):
So this is just beginning and we'll see. We'll see
what they have to.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Say, all right, and you'll be on here reporting it
when they say it. Jeff, thank you very much. Scott
atkfab dot com and the Zonker's custom was inbox. Craig says,
Happy National Prayer Day and God bless all my friends
at eleven to ten kfab. Thanks man, right back at you.
The Vice President is honoring today's National Day of Prayer
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by going to the Vatican and telling the Pope, Hey, man,
back off, that's my boss, that's my friend, Don you're
messing with. Back off. I don't know if that's exactly
how that's gonna go down. But speaking of the vice president,
the man accused of firing a gun at Secret Service
officers near the Washington Monument this past week was walking
(32:45):
along the path of Vice President Vance's motorcade before the shooting. Well,
it doesn't really tell us anything, right, if you walk
along the National Mall and anywhere in DC, you're probably
gonna be walking the path of a motorcade. That doesn't
mean he wanted to do any harm, necessarily to anyone
in the Trump administration. Well, we now also learned what
(33:09):
this forty five year old guy from Texas who was
shot multiple times and did not die, said to authorities
in the back of the ambulance on his way to
the hospital, he said, blank the White House and asked
the technicians they're the med technicians and the Secret Service
agents to kill him. Begged them to kill him as
(33:32):
he was saying vulgar things about the White House, or
as the media would say, we still have no idea
what his intentions were. Trump is busy this morning on
truth Social he posted a picture of Congressman Hakim Jeffries
saying we need maximum warfare against the Trump administration. And
(33:53):
then three days after that, here comes the guy to
the White House correspondence dinner a week and a half ago,
and Trump says, this lunatic, Hakeem low Iq Jeffries should
be charged with inciting violence. The radical left Democrats actually
want to destroy our country. And then he posted a
picture of the golden Trump statue down at his golf
(34:16):
course in Miami and Jim, I'm gonna try and describe
for you the ai image here from the Biden White
House that Trump posted saying highly accurate depiction of the
sleepy Joe Biden administration. Tremendous damage done. But we're back
and you've got Hillary and Obama and the auto pin
there and a big thing a melted ice cream around
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President Biden at the Resolute desk sleeping as Susan Rice.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
Is filling in papers for him.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
And there on the front of the desk snorting cocaine
is Hunter Biden.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
This is the yes Ai.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
Image that has just been posted this morning on true
Social by the President of the United States doesn't have
enough to do.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
I would ask.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Jim what his assessment of what Ted Turner must have
had going for him to have Jane Fonda say all
these nice things about him after their divorce, after he's passed,
but based in your obsession with stud prices throughout the
Sports Update today, I'm afraid. I'm afraid what you might
say about what Ted Turner must have had going for him.
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I'm still digging into Jane Fonda's loving assessment. They were
married for about twenty years. It was twenty. I thought
it was like ten and that now they got married
in nineteen ninety one, it is it is ten years.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Math is hard now.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
He was married to Tom Hayden for about twenty but
right so they get married in nineteen ninety one, he
has an.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Affair just weeks after their wedding. It's Ted Turner. And
then she says, we had a big fight over it. Well,
I imagine you did.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
And then she once wrote that she noted that Ted
Turner kept his promise of fidelity for seven years.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
Let's see here, Mary for ten.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
Pop in the corral for three years weeks after the wedding,
and then seven years.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
And then still after he dies, she's like, oh, yeah,
he was my favorite ex husband.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
I'll always love him.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
He was so sexy and brilliant and all the stuff
that she's saying now.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
Well she wants to be that's an easy one.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
You know, this is a woman who has craved attention
from the very beginning of her life. This is a
woman who has done outrageous things just to get attention
for herself. And this is a chance for her to
come off as magnanimous rather than the bitter ex wife
you know who says, I'm glad I'll be dancing on
his grave. She said nice things which can only endear
(36:50):
her to people. Okay, because you know it's it's an
ex husband. But she's saying nice things about him in
the wake of his death. She's actually older than he is.
He had a syndrome, Uh, Louis syndrome. Doing Louis syndrome.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
I think that's maybe not the right pronunciation for it,
but it was. It was a nerve name some of'
donald Duck's kids.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
Very funny. Yeah, it was. It was an order or
disorder that affect his central nervous system. And uh, he
struggled with it the last I think five six seven years.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
Are you talking about Louis body. Louis body sentem that's it.
I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
Uh, he had that and uh and yet it was
it was a remarkable American life. And uh, you know,
you can't hold the man responsible for his marital choices.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
You can't. You can't.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
Wait, you need you need to judge his life in
its totality. You can't just pick and choose one or
two incidents. I'm gonna give you a chance to retract
what you just said.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
No, you can't, you know, I mean, you can't hold
a man responsible for cheating on his wife.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
Well, no, I didn't say cheating on his wife. For
picking his wives and he was.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
Probably unhappy with her for some reason, which would make
part of most of Americana who did not find her
to be a particularly endearing person. When she sits in
an anti aircraft installation in North Vietnam in nineteen seventy two,
the very installation the shot American pilots out of the sky,
killing them, maiming them, wounding them, sending them to the
(38:19):
most notorious prisoner of war camp in all of American
and in probably global history. This is a woman who
should have been locked up and in my view, executed
for treason. But I wasn't a Vietnam veteran, and many
of them have forgiven her, those who were still around,
there was a big story about it some years ago.
(38:40):
Many of them said, you know, we didn't like it
at the time. We've moved on, We've forgiven her, and
she has marginally apologized for it. But you know, there's
you can protest, and you can say I don't like
something and I think this is wrong. But when you
do what she did, which was aiding and abetting the enemy,
(39:01):
even though it might have been by pure public relations,
that's disqualifying, and in my view that's grounds for execution,
but capital punishment.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
But that's just me.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
What in the world was she thinking, Why in the
world where she was looking for? I mean, for example,
we have tomorrow with twenty three hours from now, we'll
be talking to Ann Margaret, and Margaret's coming back to town.
She's part of Bruce Crawford's big event next Friday night
at the Omaha Community Playhouse. And Margaret just received an
award from the USO, thanking her for her service and
(39:34):
entertainment to the troops. There are two people have gotten
the special accommodation from the USO, Bob Hope and here
recently and Margaret so and Margaret's over there entertaining the troops,
thanking them for their service. What in the world was
Jane Fonda thinking.
Speaker 3 (39:49):
Well, she was a rabid anti Vietnam protester and she
married perhaps the nation's most active and notorious Vietnam protester,
Tom Hayden, who was a California activist, and he was very,
very mischievous during those days. So she was growing in
her Hollywood popularity. She was appearing in films. You know,
(40:13):
her father was famous in Refonda, so she had sort
of an entree into Hollywood and she began her acting
career and she was in film and television. But she
just was violently, virulently opposed to the Vietnam War, our
engagement in the Vietnam War, and she took this to
the next level. There were lots of photographs taken, lots
(40:34):
of video taken. She was smiling, she was wearing an
MVA hat helmet, she was cavoorting with the enemy. And
when she did that, she did it to demonstrate how
much she hated our involvement in the war, but probably
didn't realize that it's long term impact would have guys
fifty years later like me talking about it on the
radio and that vet who spat on her, Yes, I
(40:57):
forget where that was. This is a woman who should
have been arrested and tried for treason, and she wasn't
because we had lacks interpretations of the rules. Then she
was Barbarella, and she was Barbarella, and even the judge
probably wanted to see her back on the Barbarella set.
This is just part of what our culture in the
(41:18):
nineteen sixties, and we're seeing it again today with these
violent outbursts by people who protest the way things are.
Peaceful protests not only are allowed legally, but they should
be encouraged but violent protests, whether it's BLM or the
Me Too movement, or anti Trump movements or any of
the other things that we've seen where property is damaged,
(41:39):
people are injured, and lives are changed and altered. This
is unacceptable and these people need to pay a price.
January sixth included. So anyway, Ted Turner died. He did,
and she said nice things about him because she wants
to be liked by people.
Speaker 1 (41:54):
I like those Bison Bergers that was over where Stokes
is now on tedd Montana.
Speaker 3 (41:59):
I think I was in there. Actually, you mentioned the
company good. I think I was in there once.
Speaker 1 (42:03):
Also, the thing, it's pretty telling that no one else
has picked up the mantle of bison Burgers rather than
a good ground beef cheeseburger.
Speaker 2 (42:10):
I think they're good.
Speaker 1 (42:12):
They said there was leaner and better for you, but
I'd rather have a ground beef burger. But I thought
those burgers are pretty good. Jim, you're frankly closer to
him than I am. What was Gary Sadelmeyer's stud feet
when he retired from KFAB.
Speaker 3 (42:24):
That's classified information because we have hippa regulations.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
Oh okay, all right, thank you, Jim, lives out in Valley.
Would you do run off the police chief out there?
It's MESSI Valley is a sprawling community involving what used
to be a very vibrant downtown. Then they moved the
highway and they've they've really rebounded since then, honest to
good news. And then you got some of those lake communities.
Thinks they're going well in Valley. I love Valley, but
(42:50):
apparently there were people out there with hot chocolate coming
out of the tap.
Speaker 2 (42:54):
At least that's what it looked like.
Speaker 1 (42:56):
Brown water is an issue, and you have city officials
say it's They says not fine as brown.
Speaker 2 (43:02):
Not fine.
Speaker 1 (43:04):
You can shower and it's going to stay in your
clothes in the laundry, but it's fine. And so they
ran out a bunch of elected officials out there.
Speaker 3 (43:11):
There was a special election, and city council member and
the mayor got bounced.
Speaker 2 (43:16):
And now the police chief is leaving.
Speaker 3 (43:18):
Police chief is going to become the police chief of
Metro Community College. Apparently feels like there's more action there
than in Valley.
Speaker 1 (43:24):
I don't know that he's looking for action, but he's
trying to get out of Valley.
Speaker 3 (43:29):
Now, there have been some issues involving several city officials
and summer thinking, wait a minute, hold on, I don't
know that I want to be here anymore. It's a
town that's growing faster than its infrastructure, and that's the problem.
This is a community. It's a small Douglas County suburb.
(43:50):
It's not going to be annexed anytime soon, but it's
growing very rapidly, but does not have the political infrastructure
or the physical infrastructure to accommodate this growth.
Speaker 2 (44:00):
And that's the issue.
Speaker 1 (44:01):
You got five full time police officers and Jim Rows
out there, so you're still in good shape in the valley.
Speaker 2 (44:07):
Don't worry about it.
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