Jim Rose is Erin Brockovich

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Great to have you with us here on Nebraska's Morning News.
My name is Scott Voorhees. I'm hanging out today with
Craig Evans. Just heard from him. Jake Goodman is in
for Lucy Chapman with Timesaber traffic updates throughout the morning,
and Jim Rose is right there. Jim just told me
privately that he is mentally checked out. And ah, you

(00:23):
see you have. You don't even have your headphones plugged in,
ready to go. I'm I'm done a well, you can't.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Count on me today. I just I can't. I can't
deliver today. I've checked out. Well, thankfully we have, Jake.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
I've embraced socialism.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
Four day work week, how long and after the four
day work week is set in before people are like,
I don't like working on Thursdays either Wednesday. You have
a three day work week. I'm gonna take off a
little early on Wednesday afternoon and then just.

Speaker 3 (00:55):
Take Thursday off. And it's good there.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Probably I know the former president wake up at eight,
you know, come down for a meeting at ten, take
lunch and noon shut her down. After that, he's led
the way President Carter, President, Joe Biden, President bid. Yeah,
President James K. Polk would do that. I have no
doubt that President Carter worked hard. By all indications, those

(01:18):
who are around him said, look the last six months
when he's trying to get the hostages out, he's working
eighteen hour days.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
Yeah. This idea about well we need a four day
work week. The thing about anyone having a holiday, or
let's say we go to a four day work week
or whatever that might look like. You know what they
all do on that day off. They want to go
someplace and make sure somebody else is working to provide
them the goods and services that they want. Like, all right,

(01:46):
so good, we have a holiday, or this is a
day we should all have off. I think I'll go
get some food, gas up at a convenience store, or
grab a few things inside there.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
I want to go to a movie. I want to
go to the mall. I want to go to the store.
How come these things aren't open.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
Everyone wants a day off for themselves, but if they
get that day off, somebody else better be working.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
I'm just glad that you know our ancestors who packed
everything they had into the back of a five foot
by eight foot wagon hooked a yoke of ox into
it and took off. Didn't have the same attitude about work,
Oh my god, or the western edge of the United
States would be a lower Manhattan.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
Yeah, I know, it said an awful lot that today's
youth when they get to the point where they're in
charge and they have to go out and fight these
battles and conquer the great Unknown and all that. You
know somehow, you know, Cayden with a g H and
a nut allergy, you know, crying about toxic masculinity and football,

(02:51):
probably not going to conquer the great Unknown and lead
us into the next American chapter of fantastic Uh.

Speaker 3 (03:01):
I guess future.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
We just won't reach our manifests, suggesting we won't reach
our second manifest destiny with this next generation.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
I'm saying it's off and set. But I guarantee, like
the greatest generation, those who went through the Depression, they
did it all in the Second World War, you know who,
the who thought they were absolutely worthless their parents.

Speaker 3 (03:23):
No generation, Oh yeah they did.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
Oh they those kids were coming up, No, they did
under you know, President Teddy Roosevelt. They're looking at President
Theodore Roosevelt and then their own kids going these kids
are worthless. Now is the most worthless kids I've ever seen.
So that's just how it goes.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
I don't think the kids today are worthless. I don't
think they're being prepared.

Speaker 3 (03:42):
My kids are worthless. Your kids are not everyone else's kids.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
You talk about your kids all the time in such
a disparaging tone.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
Your kids are not worthless. I mean, you got your
kids are fine? Uh.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
Now you know your sixteen year old is following much
of your example when you behaved when you were sixteen.
That's why I know he's worthless. You turned out. He's
having fun. It's not that they don't have it. They're
not being trained. We're not getting them ready. And when
you put your thumb on the scale of your son's
baseball team or basketball team and say you don't have

(04:16):
to make the team, I'll find a team that'll play you.
That's bad preparation. I think worse than that is all
the adults want to do everything for their kids. I
don't want my kid to ever come up against an obstacle.
I don't want my kid to ever have to try
and think for himself. How do I get out of
this situation.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
I don't want them ever to have anything bad happen
in their entire lives, which I understand the sentiment. I
understand where that comes from. I think it's child abused.
But yeah, you can't do it. You have to let
them fall down. You have to let them try and
get yep back up. And this is not how I
wanted to start the show, But here's where I did

(04:54):
want to start the show. And I think it actually
is a perfect meeting of what we're talking about and
what has happened over and near Iran and some of
the people who were saying, look, our nation's military, these
guys on this aircraft carrier have absolutely had it. There
were a lot of moves made on this front yesterday
and I got this email in yesterday as we were

(05:16):
responding to reports that the crew aboard the USS Abraham
Lincoln over there near Iran just there to make sure
the straight of horror moves and everything else is flowing
the way it's supposed to, and be ready to go
and blow Iran off the face of the planet if
they act up anymore. The crew has been there for
about eight months. They were not supposed to be deployed

(05:37):
that long, and they are so distressed at having to
still serve in this capacity, that some of them are
jumping off the aircraft carrier. That was the report. I
called that report hot garbage. It was based on one
wife who said, my husband is so distressed over there,
he's thinking about jumping off the aircraft carrier. And then

(06:01):
suddenly the media is like several members of the crew
either have or are thinking about jumping off the aircraft carrier.
That's hot garbage. Now, it doesn't mean and I said
this yesterday, that these guys aren't in an incredibly stressful
situation and this could be handled better. Secretary war Pete

(06:24):
Hegseth completely agreed. He came out yesterday and said that
report is hot garbage, but there is something to be
said for We need to do something for this crew.
So we're sending in another carrier. I think it's the
Washington to replace the Lincoln so these guys can catch
a break. And I got this email says I'm trying

(06:44):
to make this as anonymous as possible, no names or
identifiers sent to Scott atkfab dot com. Emailer says, I
understand your comments on the story. I understand you're defending
the US military and I appreciate that, buts are a
bit different this time. Have a family member been in

(07:04):
the military for a couple of decades, this is what
they signed up for. This family member is a Trump
supporter and a die hard Republican, spent time and now
we got Afghanistan, Africa, Iraq. Our service member wanted to
go serve in this war as well, happy to sacrifice
time with the family to do that. It is a calling.

(07:27):
But after five months of being over there dealing with
this Iran situation, this person is discouraged. They felt fine
with it at first, but the ceasefire, the trying to
make a deal with Iran, and the wandering sitting on
their hands. Missions are not well defined. It feels like
Israel's getting the shaft here, feels like Trump is no

(07:47):
longer interested in a deal, that he's no longer making
the best decisions. Our service member's tour has been extended
for two months. The job is not well defined. Sitting
and waiting for Iran to lie to us, to gain
to us again, and Trump to keep looking foolish and weak.
That's how this feels to some of these people. And
I get how it feels that way. I keep saying,

(08:11):
I just hope that those in charge here in America
know what they're doing and are doing things the right way. Look,
it's either we all agree here of this mindset, Iran
can't have a nuclear weapon. But it also seems like
there are a lot of people President Trump chief among them,
Commander in chief among them, who say, well, we're not

(08:32):
going to go in there and just kill a bunch
of Iranian Iranian people. So we kind of have to
be in this holding pattern try and give them and
all of the other nations in this area the opportunity
to lean on Iran and say it is in your
best interest to do the right thing here. Trump will
kill you. But he just hasn't lost his patience and said,

(08:56):
all right, kill him right now. He's threatened to do so,
and that's why it looks like he's weak. That's it.
It's it's roads and bridges and energy plans, and we're
gonna kill all the all right, We've decided to hold
off on that. This is gonna be the biggest strike
anyone's ever seen. And it's coming tonight, all right, It's
not gonna come tonight. So if you're a member of
the military, or a loved one back here in the

(09:18):
area emailing me. I get how it looks. Hopefully, as
we look back on this time, whether it's months or
a year from now, we realize, Okay, that went about
as well as it could have and everything is much
better now. That's all our hope can be. At this point,
what I don't want to do is start a give
and take fight between people who are serving, or have served,

(09:40):
or have family members currently serving. But we have this
from good gravy can a military veteran in the talkback Mike,
So let's get all the perspectives out there.

Speaker 3 (09:51):
Hey, good morning morning.

Speaker 4 (09:52):
Say, I'm going to try to be as respectful as
I can. I'm not trying to disrespect the email you got,
but suck it up, buttercup. All right, in the airport,
all right, if you're on a recon flight, every mission
you have sensitive stuff on that plane. Everyone knows before
we get on their zip sign a non disclosure before
you come into that unit that knows that of the plane,

(10:13):
so none of that stuff can get enemy hands.

Speaker 3 (10:15):
Every mission we get locked.

Speaker 4 (10:16):
On by missiles, jam the signals, take that stress.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
Come on, all right? Well, hey, Ken, God bless you
Thank you very much. Appreciate that message. We've got all
the perspectives out there now. And since I'm diving back
into a little bit of what we did in the
nine o'clock hour yesterday, I'll throw this out here in
the six o'clock hour this morning. The people who are

(10:42):
a lot of this just has to do with Trump.
What's President Trump like?

Speaker 3 (10:45):
All right?

Speaker 1 (10:46):
We don't like whatever it is that he likes. We
support the other thing. So you can see this with
some of the reports about oh yeah, the military, they
would rather jump off an aircraft carrier, which I don't
know if that means jump to your death or jump
off and swim towards shore miles and miles that way.

Speaker 3 (11:05):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (11:05):
I've never jumped off an aircraft carrier. Imagine it's different
depending on a lot of factors. I wouldn't want to
jump off the deck of an aircraft carrier that's got
to be four or five stories in the air.

Speaker 3 (11:17):
I would imagine it's not good.

Speaker 1 (11:19):
So it just has to do with whatever it is
that Trump is in favor of. We have to report
the other side. For example, Jim, the idea that we
can't have our members of border security ICE throughout the
country detaining people or coming up against armed protesters who
are either using guns on their person or cars as

(11:42):
battering rams, and have these members of law enforcement who
are with ICE pull out a gun and do anything.
So people have said, we don't want ICE to be armed.
This is an armed, masked gestapo in our streets. We
don't want them to have guns. This is terrible. So
then ICE came out and said, all right, we've got
these things called shot gloves.

Speaker 2 (12:02):
Yeah, we have a taser. Remember the old joy buzzer,
Joe little buzzer in there. Well, this one's got three
hundred bolts. It's like that, except it's a little bit more.
It's like if you hooked up to the joy buzzer
to an ever ready battery. It's kind of like that,
and so it won't kill you, but it will get
your attention, it'll take it down. So we're gonna have

(12:23):
these ICE members out in the streets with shot gloves
in case someone wants to go up there and start
trying to interrupt an ICE operation somewhere.

Speaker 3 (12:31):
Shaking hands and kissing baby.

Speaker 2 (12:32):
Now, the same people, Yeah, hey, let's post for a selfie. Yay,
the same people said I don't want members of ICE
to be armed. Are now seeing them wearing taser shot
gloves and they don't like that either.

Speaker 3 (12:45):
Oh okay, what like what sex Scott.

Speaker 2 (12:47):
They don't want anybody arresting illegals in this country. They
could wear they could wear bikinis or sun dresses, and
they still say, get out of my neighborhood because they
don't think it's really quite to me.

Speaker 3 (13:01):
A paradox in Minnesota.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
This is one of the most subsidized states in the country,
and yet they don't want the government involved in their
lives except send us a bunch of money so that
we can put up phony Somali daycare and senior care centers.

Speaker 3 (13:16):
But stay out of our neighborhoods. Government.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
This is the state of Minnesota, and this is the
state of the DEI a bigger part, and this is
the state of the ICE culture in our country. The
President has said I'm going to round up people who
are here illegally and send them home. I'm going to
incentivize them to come forward and voluntarily to port in
which case they'll have every opportunity to come back legally

(13:41):
through points of entry.

Speaker 3 (13:42):
But there are so.

Speaker 2 (13:44):
Many out there, especially in the news media, who will
amplify this narrative that ICE are just a bunch of
jack booted thugs, they are descendants of Hitler, schut Staffel
and all of that. It's not true. It's hardly ever
been true. You've had one or two incidents where a
guy or an ICE agent probably stepped out of bounds,
but in most cases, I mean, think of the hundreds

(14:06):
of thousands of illegals that have been rounded up, who
have been identified and who have been sent home for
which there is no incident, hundreds of thousands across the country.
We have mayors here who are literally breaking the law.
We have governors and mayors in states blue states and
heavy blue states that are breaking the law. But we could,

(14:26):
we could characterize ICE agents under any conditions, and these
people will have a platform. It's the it's the mainstream
news media that are that are demonizing ICE agents and
demonizing law enforcement.

Speaker 1 (14:39):
I know two things is an absolute fact. One, if
these shock gloves get in the hands of my son
and his friends, it's all over. They'll just be jokingly
shocking each other, tasing each other, and.

Speaker 3 (14:52):
That would be that would be bad.

Speaker 5 (14:53):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (14:54):
Two, the same people said, we don't want Ice to
have guns. All right, we're gonna give them taser gloves.
We don't I want I used to have taser gloves.
They would be mad if Ice committed the same fouls
that you see on a regular basis in the w NBA,
they would say, oh, that's not fair. Those people need
to be ejected, unless, of course, someone does it to
Sophie Cunningham, then they would be fine.

Speaker 2 (15:14):
Yeah, you're welcome to assault people on the floor in
the w NBA game, but if you look at somebody weird,
you're to be locked up, yes, and unmasked and ridiculed
and harassed by everybody else.

Speaker 1 (15:25):
A couple of messages here, and the Zonker's custom was inbox.
This is via the talkback Mike on our free iHeart
radio app getting some of this today.

Speaker 6 (15:35):
Good morning, kfap Land, Good morning. I was so happy
to hear Jake Goodman back on the radio this morning.

Speaker 1 (15:43):
Good job Jake. Yes, Jake is a highly controversial figure
here when he jumps in from a he's a national guy.
I have never met Jake, but we're glad to have
him in for Lucy Chapman and very glad to have
Lucy enjoy a day off here in a three day weekend.
She's been working real hard this week. We also have

(16:04):
this in the talkback Mike this morning on the shock
taser gloves that Ice is getting. Hey, fellas uncommon about
the shot gloves.

Speaker 2 (16:16):
I sure hope they train them to take them off
if they have to pee. Have good morning, guys, Go
Big Red, good to go Big Red, indeed negative, thank
you for that.

Speaker 3 (16:26):
On that note.

Speaker 1 (16:27):
On the Go Big Red notes, Time for the eleven
to ten kfab Certified Transmission Sports Breef. It's the Husker
Buzz edition. Sean Callahan and Lincoln and Jim Rose is
right there.

Speaker 2 (16:36):
Okay, Shanna, let's visit about your compatriot, Jake Crane. Do
you ever watch his podcast The Cove?

Speaker 5 (16:42):
Yeah? I do. I've been on the show a few times.

Speaker 3 (16:47):
Oh good.

Speaker 5 (16:48):
They worked with on three in our building. Now, so
he talked about their prediction what they do on their show.

Speaker 3 (16:56):
Well, no, I was.

Speaker 2 (16:58):
Going to reference a remark that he made about the
quarterback situation, and Jake says that a one eyed Anthony
Calandria is better than Dylan Riola. Now, I don't know
if that's just clickbait. Or if Ryola snubbed him once,
or maybe Ryola took one of his girlfriends. I don't know,
but he says a half blind Jake Calandria would be
better than Dylan Ryola.

Speaker 5 (17:20):
Yes, I mean that's a little extreme. I mean I
think this is his biggest thought on that as the
mobility factor and how much they were limited by not
having a quarterback that could bail you out in situations
when you needed to get away. And you know, Matt Ruhland,
I know, has said they will never not have a
mobile quarterback. If they have to have a mobile quarterback
always moving forward, and you know, I think it hurt

(17:43):
them when you look at some of the games against
Minnesota and Michigan and you know their offensive line issues.
But a quarterback with some mobility could get away from
some of that if if they were able to run better. So,
I mean, that was probably the biggest thing last year Dylan.
No one's going to question his arm mobility, his armed
t all, but his ability to kind of create when
the play breaks down, and then college football you have

(18:04):
to be able to do that well.

Speaker 2 (18:06):
He might have been the only one that questioned his
arm talent because he refused to throw a fader out.
But let's visit about a couple of other people. There's
a lot of buzz about how much better this.

Speaker 3 (18:15):
Defense is going to be. Well, we'll see about that.

Speaker 2 (18:17):
But it doesn't matter what scheme you're playing if you
don't have people up front who can stop the run.
And this has been a major problem for Nebraska at
least certainly was since the Natt Hutmasher and ty Robinson
left the program. But is Jasher Winningham enough? What else
we've talked about Tyson Terry, But is Jasher Winningham, who's

(18:38):
the big money free agent?

Speaker 3 (18:39):
Is he enough to fix that?

Speaker 5 (18:41):
Well? O, when stodhom Ire is in that category two
and Whittington and stadhom I are going to play a
lot in the middle, you know, with Riley van Poppol,
probably Tyson Terry. Then you have a group of other
guys they want to play six and I think the
first three games are going to allow them to do that.
The biggest thing I think is the left of coaching
and teaching is better than what it has been. Terry

(19:04):
Braden had never coached really a room like that last year,
and it showed they just I don't think they were
really lined up right or developed properly. And you know,
even Terrence Knight and before that had been kind of
more of a rookie coach in that role. And now
you've got Corey Brown, who's a longtime coach who's coached
all the way down on the small college level. Dave

(19:25):
Tollison was his assistant. Roy Manning came on the edges
with Rob Warwich. So I think the continuity in the
teaching and the coaching is night and day from what
I've gathered, and that is going to make a difference
because it wasn't a lack of material always at times
it was it was it wasn't like Nebraska was getting

(19:46):
blown off the ball. It was more were guys lined
up where they're playing the right techniques, the right gaps,
the right reads. Because some of those reasons were why
we saw the big plays last.

Speaker 3 (19:57):
Year, especially in the Island Penn's Day game.

Speaker 2 (19:59):
There's another player that I think a lot of Husker
fans are wondering about. And it is a crowded wide
receiver room, but what about Dimitrius Bell. This was one
of the top receivers out of the recruiting class of
a couple of years ago, He's had a lot of injuries.
He's a red shirt junior. Is this guy ready for
a breakout season? And will they have enough footballs in

(20:19):
the air to make all of these receivers happy?

Speaker 5 (20:22):
No, he's really I mean, I don't even know if
he's practicing at this point right now. I don't know
where he's at with the injury situation with him. That
is a very defined, established top group. Jim Quasi Gilmer
is their big free agent. He was a leading receiver
for THECLA J Corey Barney, Nasaanah Hunter the leading of
receivers from the Huskers a year ago. That's your top three.
And then Quinn Clark, Jediron, Bonner, Cortez Mills, maybe than

(20:46):
Keelan Smith. I mean, those guys all would be ahead
of him right now in the depth chart.

Speaker 2 (20:52):
So he's one of those recruits that just didn't work out.
And the injuries are probably a factor. What you've been
injured enough, it's very difficult to motivate yourself back, especially
when you look at all of the guys in front
of you on the depth chart. All right, we got
a scrimmage tomorrow. What do they hope to get done
in a scrimmage tomorrow.

Speaker 5 (21:08):
Yeah, you only get a couple of these, and this
is a big one for Nebraska. But I think the
live work with your running backs is so important because
you just don't get an opportunity to take them down
live a lot in camp. So I think that's big.
But yeah, your defense, I mean, you want to see
how these guys respond, how they play in the scheme
as well, and who wins the script. I mean, is

(21:33):
it a good side of defense wins it, or is
a good sign at the offense wins it. You'd like
to maybe see both sides have some success. Most importantly,
you want to clean scrimmage, nobody getting hurt, but just
you don't want you don't want procedural penalty balls on
the ground, things that really come back to bite yet
when you start playing in September, all right, that's kaf.

Speaker 2 (21:52):
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Speaker 1 (21:56):
There's Jim Rose, who, like a lot of us, has
been staring at the reports of the guy accused of
killing the CEO of United Healthcare Iowa was Brian Thompson,
who left behind a family with two young kids, because
there are some really, really awful, terrible people in this
country who say, yeah, he deserved to get killed. This

(22:18):
Luigi guy probably had United Healthcare and those big healthcare companies,
you know they love to deny coverage, and probably denied
him coverage or bankrupted a family member. And they if
it takes someone to die so that we can have
better health care and socialized medicine in this country. None
of that was true this guy, no one in his family,

(22:39):
no one had any of those things that people were
attaching to the situation. This guy is just accused of
going up there and for whatever reason, murdering a guy.
And now there are a lot of people nervously looking
at this and thinking he might if he doesn't get
away with it, he might not spend a lot like
life in prison has.

Speaker 2 (23:00):
Really smart lawyer Scott. First of all, a side note,
just to illustrate the sickness in the country. The number
of young women who have become sexually attracted to the
guy is really whacked.

Speaker 3 (23:11):
But that's a whole separate show.

Speaker 2 (23:13):
So in New York they have a double jeopardy law,
meaning you cannot be tried in a state court for
the same charges that got you in a federal court.
So he is liable to plead guilty. Plead guilty today
to federal charges of stalking which resulted in a death,
that is probably good for fifteen to twenty years in
a federal prison at the most, okay, Now, a federal prison,

(23:37):
by comparison to say Attica or Rikers Island, which are
some of the tougher state prisons in New York State,
is a country club. A federal prison. You got guys
that are there for tax evasion or writing bad checks.

Speaker 3 (23:50):
But you don't have the boys.

Speaker 2 (23:52):
You don't have the brothers that are in there for
a reason bad stuff. You don't have dudes that are
really rotten people by compare into state prisons. So what
we have now is a conundrum because if he pleads
guilty to this this charge, his lawyers will be skilled
enough to say this stalking charge is very similar to

(24:15):
the murder charge, because he'll go checkbox, checkbox, checkbox, checkbox,
as the two laws are very very similar, or at
least they'll make that argument.

Speaker 3 (24:25):
They are.

Speaker 2 (24:26):
From an evidentiary standpoint, this it's not about it's not
about what's right, it's about what your lawyers can negotiate
for you. And there are enough boxes that you can
check on both cases that you can say to a
jury or a judge, this is a similar charge. I
don't believe it either. Now if I were a judge,
you're a lawyer, I wouldn't. But if this happens and

(24:49):
he gets a favorable ruling, he will not be he
will not be tried in state court on these murder charges.

Speaker 1 (24:57):
That's the work that I can't that we are out
of common sense thinking adults.

Speaker 2 (25:03):
We are, no. I get, we are very out of
common sense thinking adults.

Speaker 3 (25:07):
I get.

Speaker 1 (25:07):
We're a lawyer, and I'm going to just to try
and save us all from throwing up in our mouths.
Here I get where a lawyer isn't trying to get
this guy off the hook. He's trying to hold the
state or the Feds in this case, to a burden
of proof. If they're going to take away any of
our constitutional rights, they have to prove it. That's how
they have to do this. That's how we have to
look at it. Otherwise we would all lose our minds.

Speaker 3 (25:29):
So it could.

Speaker 2 (25:29):
I get where they're doing that. But this is a
very if you're a if you're able to no, no, no,
this is not good.

Speaker 3 (25:38):
Hold on.

Speaker 1 (25:39):
The Paul Maniford thing was he was accused of doing
something by the Feds and accused of the exact same
thing of doing something by the State of New York,
and the State of New York also wanted to throw
the book at him, and they said you can't. It's
double jeopardy of New York. He's already been found guilty
of the same thing. You can't find him guilty the
same thing in state. In this case, the federal charge
against Luigi is stawk talking which resulted in a murder.

(26:02):
The state charge is umber one. These are not in
the same ballpark. I don't care legally, and then ask
the judge. If a judge is thinking, well, yeah, maybe
the same thing, what would you rather have happened this weekend?
Would you rather be stalked or would you rather be murdered?

Speaker 2 (26:19):
I don't disagree with you, as a common thinking, average
Nebraska who looks at things as they are without the technicalities,
I agree with you. But in New York, where you
have activist judges, where you have legislators from the bench,
and you have moral morality police from the bench, I

(26:41):
would not be surprised if it happens, if they are
able to win this, I don't think it will. But
I'm not a lawyer, and I'm not in New York,
and I'm not a judge. It seems to me this
is pretty obvious. You can plead guilty to anything you
want in federal corp. But we're coming after you on
this murder one charge in state court and we have
all the evidence in the world to support it. The

(27:02):
other thing that works against him here is that in
federal court if there's a trial. Again, if he pleads guilty,
there is no trial, But if there's a trial, they
can admit evidence in the federal court that would not
be admitted in the state court, stuff like what was
in his backpack and other indicators that he was going
to kill this guy. Look, he's a bad person, he's

(27:24):
mentally deranged. This guy has anger issues, and nobody wants
Luigi Mangioni out walk in the streets. But the legal
system in a very liberal state like New York will
allow for this loophole to keep him from going to
Rikers Island. What you said there about activist judges in
that state siding with him and you know, we're also

(27:47):
working to find a way to get him off the
hook here is so hauntingly disgusted. Well, they'll say, hey,
you know, we do have a healthcare crisis in this country,
and those fat cat CEOs of these healthcare companies and
these insurance companies, somebody needs to send them a message there.

Speaker 1 (28:02):
It should be illegal for you to get me all
angry about something like that on a Friday morning.

Speaker 3 (28:06):
Is what we do here. We get people worked up.

Speaker 2 (28:09):
It's one of the reasons that it's the most listened
to radio station now in multiple states, including the state
of New Mexico.

Speaker 3 (28:16):
I've been doing we will learn later this morning.

Speaker 1 (28:18):
Oh, I've been doing a pretty bad impression of Gary
Saddlemeyer this year. But Gary Gary occasionally used to do this,
and I think this is the first time I'm going
to do it. I'm going to issue a Gary Saddlemeyer.
I can't take it anymore. There's another thing drives me crazy, Jim.
I don't know what has happened to people and the
judicial system in New York. This isn't has this nothing

(28:40):
to do with the judicial system of New York, but
it is into the same tap root here, which is
what has happened to people. We've got a guy in
Michigan who says football is toxic, it's part of that
toxic masculinity and really doesn't like football, like to see

(29:00):
football go away in Michigan, where the University of Michigan
is saying, yeah, freshmen shouldn't be graded as they come
here to the University of Michigan because bad grades make
students feel bad. Now are These are not third graders.
These are colleged aged freshmen who've gotten into a Big
ten institution at the University of Michigan. These are people

(29:23):
who are the same age as those who enlist in
our nation's military, and they go off to do things
like hold Iran's feet to the fire that we started.
You know, hey, we're going to hold your feet to
the fire.

Speaker 3 (29:35):
What fire?

Speaker 1 (29:36):
Well, we just we just lit all your house on
fire here, and your feet are now going to be
held to it. These guys are eighteen nineteen twenty years old.
These college freshmen are eighteen nineteen years old, and on
one front, these guys are going off and serving in battle.
We entrust them to keep our world safe. But at

(29:57):
the University of Michigan, we couldn't give one of them
a D if they earn it in a college class
because they've been passed along every grade throughout public schools,
through high school. They got a diploma and graduated in
high school. But now they get to college where someone
has a different set of standards, which is to say standards,
and they earn a C minus and they don't know

(30:19):
how to deal with it. So rather than make them
deal with it, the University of Michigan says, we're just
going to do away with grades for a freshmen.

Speaker 3 (30:26):
What in the world has happened?

Speaker 1 (30:28):
And how if we lose to Michigan State in this climate,
in that state, we could I.

Speaker 2 (30:33):
Could lose to them. I know they're not stack, but
they got a great coach. Not exactly what they're doing
is they're hiding the grades. They're still earning the grades,
but for the first semester of freshman year, they're hiding
them so they don't know what they actually got.

Speaker 3 (30:50):
The same now.

Speaker 2 (30:51):
I don't know about you, but when I was in college,
when I was traversing the ivy colored building, well, okay,
we didn't have a lot of ivy on the building
at the Universitas.

Speaker 3 (31:01):
I knew.

Speaker 2 (31:03):
I knew exactly what I was doing in those classes.
I knew exactly which ones I was doing okay in,
which ones I was doing good in, and which ones
I was sucking in.

Speaker 3 (31:13):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (31:14):
So, but at Michigan, they want to make sure that
these kids hang around for another semester or two and
pay the tuition and the fees in the room and board,
so they don't want to traumatize them with their own
bad grades. Now look again, they still have the grades
on their transcripts, but they just don't see them. They're
just not going to have access to them until second semester.

Speaker 1 (31:34):
Ridiculousas certified transmission sports brief gym.

Speaker 3 (31:41):
Yeah, the campus.

Speaker 2 (31:42):
I must admit that campus has improved dramatically in the
many autumns since. So we went back and forth and
dumped laundry detergent in the broiled house. Okay, they built it,
and they came. The Field of Dreams baseball diamond over
in Dyersville, Iowa gets big League game each summer, and
it was last night Philly seven Twins won. Philadelphia hit
three home runs into the cornstalks. Chances are it hit

(32:04):
a Hall of Famer on the head twenty six Hall
of famers were there to come through the cornstalks, just like.

Speaker 3 (32:09):
In the movie. A lot of the game.

Speaker 2 (32:12):
That you want that well, I gave you a bad
sign in the third base box. That got to me,
says Phillies manager Don Mattingly.

Speaker 3 (32:20):
Here we go.

Speaker 6 (32:20):
A lot of the guys I know, so it was
it was nice to see those guys in the back
before we came out. A lot of few guys I
played against a lot of guys that I know actually coached.

Speaker 3 (32:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (32:34):
Kyle Schwarber hit two home runs, finished with three rbi.
It was not a good night for hitting in the
big leagues. Only fourteen runs were scored by losing teams.
And in the American League this they had four games
and four shutouts. A National League NAT's seven Cubs nothing,
Pittsburgh thirteen, Miami one, and Milwaukee beat the Dodgers, final

(32:57):
score five to four. One other interleague game, it was
the Reds and the White Sox eight the Rugs of Carpetland.
The Lincoln East High kids playing Legion baseball got to
win in their first Legion World Series game yesterday four
to two over the Western Region champs from Fairfield California.
The Lincoln Kids the next play on Saturday against Tetupelo, Mississippi.

Speaker 3 (33:17):
Now, how good are these guys?

Speaker 2 (33:18):
Well, the best high school team in Nebraska in the
last fifty years is the twenty fourteen West Side Warriors
State champs. Legion Champs made it all the way to
the semifinals of the Legion World Series.

Speaker 3 (33:28):
They finished the.

Speaker 2 (33:29):
Spring and summer at ninety two to nine, had three
guys drafted, two of them made the big leagues. Well,
this year's Lincoln's kids are spring and summer record up
to eighty four and nine fifty two and six. This summer.
They didn't win the state high school title, which is
a factor. But if they take the Legion World Series title,
how are they not the greatest of all time? That

(33:50):
coach Michael Lanic, former assistant at Prep, is pathologically competitive.
He's built a college style program at a public high school.
Good first round for Jordan Speed at the stud Classic
down in Memphis, five under sixty five among five players
at five under. He hasn't won in four years, hasn't
finished in the top ten in any tournament this year.

(34:10):
He's distracted. He's got three kids and all the money
he'll ever need Hey, look at the crap sandwich lives
of pros who don't have a quality home life. Phil
winding down the regular season for NASCAR. Three more races
before we get to the playoffs. This week they are
on Richmond, Virginia. But how do you top the race
in Iowa last week on Sunday won by TDD Gibbs

(34:30):
by one quarter of a second. Sports His News on
Nebraska's News Weather in Traffic station on news radio eleven
ten KFAB. This is Nebraska's morning News. We got Craig Evans,
Courtney Donaho here, Lucy Chapman not here, she's off today.
Jake Goodman with your traffic updates throughout the morning. There's
Jim Rose. I'm Scott Vorhees. Thank you so much for

(34:53):
being here with us. Jim helped me understand this. There
was streetcar construction in Blackstone, and near the streetcar construction,
a building that's been there for about one hundred years
that has never had any foundation problems suddenly has the
ground open up and a foundation problem near the streetcar construction.
The owners of the building said, we think this was

(35:15):
due to the streetcar construction. The city came out and
said no, that's ridiculous. And the owners of the building said, well,
someone's got to pay for this, and the city said,
you guys have to. This has nothing to do with us.
The owners of the building complained, and yesterday the city said,
I tell you what, we'll pay for it. We'll pay

(35:36):
to repair the damage, or if you want to demolish
the building, we can demolish the building. But that's on us,
while not admitting fault that it was the city's responsibility
streetcar construction that caused this giant sinkhole near this building.
What about the other property owners along this line or
anywhere along the street policy construction line. I don't understand

(35:58):
any of this. Well, this is an easy one. They
were threatening to sue the city, which would enjoy the streetcar,
and they would delay the streetcar if they sue. And
a judge says, okay, all right, hold off on the
streetcar construction until we solve this. That could delay the
streetcar construction by a year, year and a half, maybe

(36:21):
more so. They said the city attorney or whoever down there, said, look,
pay them what they want, because if they tie this
thing up in court, this is going to drive the
costs of the streetcar up another five, ten, fifteen percent
maybe more, to say nothing of the impact on those
businesses on Farnham and Harney Street and along that whole
streetcar corridor. So they said, yeah, you can stop, you

(36:43):
can do this, but if we get we get served.
A judge is going to enjoy the streetcar.

Speaker 1 (36:49):
Jim, I don't know if it's just I'm a little
tired today or what, but you're making a lot of sense.

Speaker 3 (36:54):
Okay, I've seen this and that makes perfect sense.

Speaker 2 (36:58):
And in addition to that, they said, well, well all
those other businesses, well they're going to sue us too,
and we're gonna have to pay them. So what we
need to do is keep this quiet. We need to
shut them up with a check because if we don't
do this, then they're gonna sue us, and then we're
going to have a major shit storm on our hands

(37:18):
because this streetcar is going to get delayed maybe a
year or two. This is the reality of bad public policy,
of not collaborating with the community on the decision to
build the streetcar.

Speaker 3 (37:31):
Geane yesterday had a little fun with me, and that's fine.
On the air.

Speaker 2 (37:34):
We'll continue to do that it's good radio and it's
all in good fun. She's a pal and we're friends.
But she said, well, this streetcar was not a new idea.

Speaker 3 (37:42):
That's true.

Speaker 2 (37:43):
Hal Dobb was the first guy talking about a streetcar
back when he was mayor of Omaha, which was nearly
twenty years ago. That's true. But there was no more
than that. There was no car years ago. Oh no, no,
he was a mayor in the early two thousands. I believe,
no faith he was. I mean, so, yeah, you're right,
it has been thirty years. But there was no community
collaboration here. There was no gathering of stakeholder groups. It

(38:09):
was a railroad job, pardon the pun. And it was
about money and greed and power. And that's a shame
by influential people. And you know who you are, and
most people know who they are too. So the issue
is this, This baby is going to get birthed. It's
going to be a very expensive baby. And in ten

(38:30):
or fifteen years when the streetcar bonds start, come and do.
This is going to put the City of Omaha in
a tremendously horrible, horrible financial position, which will result in
massive cuts in services and massive tax increases. Across the
entire community, and they'd better hope that the unicamer which

(38:52):
is one vote shy of this happening, doesn't change the
property valuation formula because the entire financing model for the
streetcar is based on massive increases in property taxes in downtown.

Speaker 1 (39:07):
I hope that in ten to fifteen years from now,
when that prediction doesn't come true, that you and I
are sitting here so you can admit you are wrong,
not because I'm not wrong, not because I want you
to be wrong. I think you also want you to
be wrong.

Speaker 3 (39:21):
I do.

Speaker 1 (39:22):
I do, actually, and I hope it doesn't get to
that point. But we're not gonna know. There's little point
in arguing about that today when we don't know exactly
what's going to happen in the future, other than just
the fun of the argument. I'll let you and Jean
Stouth do that. But people are looking at this thing
here with the city not admitting liability and paying for this,

(39:43):
but they're saying, well, wait, didn't the city just pay
off all those businesses have been impacted by the streetcar.

Speaker 3 (39:48):
No, they didn't.

Speaker 1 (39:49):
No, I don't know if you heard the announcement on
Jean Stothard show the KFAB comment line two days ago.
She said, this is Susie Buffett and the Sherwood Foundation,
Warren's daughters. Susie Buffett has directed the money and she's
paying that's correct these business owners while not Also, she says,
I don't like the street car anymore than anyone else
in this town right right now, but what's happened in

(40:11):
these businesses is unfortunate.

Speaker 2 (40:13):
I'll pay well. What she has done is she has
funded the enterprise fund. There is an enterprise fund. I
believe it's state, that it might be city. I don't
know exactly what its origin is, but it's an enterprise
fund that does create a stream of revenue for businesses
that are adversely affected by public works projects. And it
was woefully underfunded. Again bad public policy by the city

(40:38):
of Omaha. They did not put enough money in the
enterprise fund for these businesses. So Susie God bless her.
She is a really, really, really conscientious citizen and she's
very generous and she and her foundation funded that. Again
bad public policy. Another one. And I brought this up
to our good friend Brinker harding, you do not have

(40:59):
enough money in the environmental cleanup fund for that new
soccer stadium. I promise you people you have got downtown
there is that is dirty dirt, that was an industrial
site for decades. There is not enough money in that fund.
When the EPA gets in there and they start finding
particles in there upon which you're gonna build a soccer stadium,

(41:19):
you better have a hell of a lot more money.

Speaker 3 (41:21):
In that fun than you have now.

Speaker 1 (41:22):
So what so people working on that site, we can't
I'm not saying the kids are down there eating, eating
dirt or living there. You can't play soccer on dirty dirt. No,
you cannot write out that's ridiculous. The e p a
ridiculous like it. No one's gonna be in it. Like
in stoppage time in a soccer game, and suddenly start

(41:45):
growing a fourth arm.

Speaker 2 (41:47):
That's right, that's gonna happen during halftime of the soccer game.
There is no halftime on the burm are gonna start
growing a fourth r there's no halftime in three stupid periods.
Did you have see the movie Aaron Brockovich, Now, well
you need to watch it. Get back to me. We'll
talk about this same thing. I know, I know the story,

(42:08):
the same thing. Yeah, well, if you had her cleavage,
maybe I got nothing to do with her. It always
has nothing to do with it. It's got nothing to
do with that. Although she pulled it off. You know,
the broad technology worked for Julia Roberts. All right, we're
not talking about that because it's Friday and we're supposed
to be in a better mood.

Speaker 3 (42:28):
Hello, honey, I made you pancakes for bread.

Speaker 1 (42:31):
Thank you, Steve Martin, and happy birthday Steve Martin celebrating
a birthday today. Great to have you with us. And
if I missed your birthday, see.

Speaker 3 (42:47):
One of the.

Speaker 1 (42:47):
Greatest of all time. Right there, I'm Scott Vorhees, there's
Jim Rose, Craig Evans, Lucy Chapman's out today, Jake Goodman
providing your traffic updates here in this hour of Nebraska's
Morning News on news Radio eleven to ten kfab. Jim,
I want to get your thoughts on this. We have
the story here that American workers are stepping away from

(43:10):
the labor market. Now it's not because they're retiring, it's
younger workers are said to not be participating in the
labor market.

Speaker 3 (43:19):
Now.

Speaker 1 (43:19):
This is either because they've decided they don't need money.
They're on an agrarian lifestyle. They're living in a commune,
they're growing their own beans, and they're able to subsist,
in which case they don't need to barter or trade
or be a part of a job or anything like that.

Speaker 3 (43:36):
That's great.

Speaker 1 (43:37):
I don't see that happening a lot. And I don't
know that every single parent is saying that's all right, kids,
you can live here well into your fifties and we'll
take care of you. You'll never want for anything. I
know that happens. I don't think that's it either. I
think it is not just a gig economy, which I
would think would be counted in the larger labor Department statistics.

Speaker 3 (43:59):
But it's a gig economy.

Speaker 1 (44:02):
And it's also the trading stuff with the websites, like whatnot?
What old stuff can I find here in the house
that I can sell online and then I can make
some money doing that. The predictions markets here where I
can go on an app like Calshi and predict whether
you know tomorrow is going to be Saturday. Hey, I

(44:23):
won you know, here's six bucks. This is great. If
I do this every single waking moment of the day
and get hopelessly addicted to it. Maybe I can make
a living. And of course you've got sports betting. As
the story here is sports betting is gaining ground in
gen Z's long term wealth plans.

Speaker 3 (44:40):
Yes, wed this is a career.

Speaker 1 (44:43):
Yeah, they could just be cultivating and selling their own weed.
But if they're all selling it to each other, where
do they all get the money? Like, I'm gonna sell
you some weed, and tomorrow you can sell me weed
and I'll give you the money right back. How are
these young people who are checking out of the labor market.
How do you think they're able to make a living.

Speaker 2 (45:02):
It's a really big challenge in a lot of places,
scott especially in big cities where it's really expensive to live.
It might be expensive in Omaha to live, but compared
to Chicago, this is mean. This is a Walnut Grove,
Minnesota town. Bottom line is this Corporate America has really
really made it hard for young people to plan a

(45:26):
career for their adult lives. Corporate America in the last
twenty five or thirty years has gravitated away from building
a business to mergers and acquisitions, and federal law has
relaxed ownership standards, federal.

Speaker 3 (45:40):
Law has relaxed.

Speaker 2 (45:42):
You know, well, you would consider the old anti trust
considerations Department of Justice. Okay, wait a minute, how much
of the marketplace will you have if we do allow
this merger? When was the last merger that was ever
denied by the Department of Justice? And as I said
in the Rosi Degenozi yesterday, if an employee doesn't feel
like the company cares about them, if an employee believes

(46:06):
they could be in the next round of layoffs, if
the company doesn't develop their skills and talents and give
them new challenges to grow in the company, they will
never ever have the loyalty of an employee. And so
that trickles down to kids. Okay, you know what, I'm
not going to work for anybody. I'm going to work
for myself and just live sort of hand of mouth.

(46:26):
I'll do gigs here and there just to keep the
lights on, but I'm not really committed to a career
of building wealth, of acquiring assets and having a comfortable life.

Speaker 3 (46:35):
As I get older, it's.

Speaker 2 (46:37):
Become an issue in our country that has been exacerbated
by the things they've experienced, but also what they've been
taught and the example that they've followed.

Speaker 1 (46:46):
But we've also taught these young people that you have
to get into a job that you absolutely love and
how you feel value and seen and heard and all.
I don't know about you. I've worked in some soul
crushing jobs.

Speaker 3 (46:57):
I'm blessed.

Speaker 1 (46:58):
I'm blessed not to be in that situation right now,
at least not all the time. I've been through the
ringer a couple of times, maybe briefly once a week,
but other than that, I'm very blessed to love what
I do. But we've told these young people that this
old thing where you and I and we've all done it,
where you go and you clock in, you do your work,

(47:18):
you keep your head down, you try not to murder anybody.
Then you clock out and then you go do something
you love. Yeah, I mean, we don't.

Speaker 3 (47:25):
Do that anymore.

Speaker 2 (47:26):
But the other thing we've done is we've we've disincentivized
success and rush used to talk about this. We've demonized
success in this country. Oh you know, you're not special
just because you were really good at that.

Speaker 3 (47:39):
You're not.

Speaker 2 (47:40):
So we've had this mob mentality that says to somebody
who's really an achiever and tried to make them feel bad,
and social media has allowed that kind of shaming. We've
we've made success a dirty word. We've we've said to kids,
you know, don't don't stand out, don't don't strive, because
you know then you're gonna you won't have any friends,
you know, because now you're friends are like that.

Speaker 3 (48:01):
When I was growing up, man, we competed.

Speaker 2 (48:03):
I competed with my friends and it wasn't negative, it
wasn't angry, but I competed with them, you know, for everything. Well,
now we've desocialized kids. We've disincentivized success. We've demonized it.
We have we've made people successful unattractive, that are successful unattractive.
And it's not something that happens overnight. It's an accumulation

(48:26):
of one small impulse like that after another. To say
nothing of how we talked about this yesterday. I don't
believe parents today understand in many ways their job. Yeah,
their job is not to be their kid's friend or protector.
Now your job is to protect them from harm, but
not the world. And if you look around and see
helicopter parents, it's like the parent that just spent twenty

(48:47):
thousand dollars on their kids dorm room. What parent two
generations ago would do that?

Speaker 1 (48:54):
Thornton Mellon from the movie Back to School, I mean
Rodney Dangerfield would do that.

Speaker 2 (49:00):
Look at some of the look at some of the
gifts that parents give to their child. Parents give their
children credit cards, credit My dad and mom would no
more give me a credit card when I was growing up,
then they'd give me a freaking house and a boat
to go with it.

Speaker 1 (49:15):
You know that maybe the kids are just getting these
offers and opening up credit cards on their own. My daughter,
as soon as she turned eighteen, my mailbox bends over
from the amount of credit card mail that she gets
in her name.

Speaker 2 (49:28):
The part of it was because she was also an
academic achiever. They've got all that, dad on Oh yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, well, hey,
good for her. Funny my son's not getting a stuff
credit card. She couldn't couldn't, couldn't help but take a
shot at the boy.

Speaker 3 (49:44):
Now.

Speaker 1 (49:44):
Nowhere is the rearing of kids to fit a model
that you just described, more a parent than outside of
a New York courtroom.

Speaker 3 (49:51):
We'll talk about that next time. I am Scott Moore.

Speaker 1 (49:53):
He is with you until and actually through then I'll
be producing the comment line with Chip later this morning
right here News Radio eleven ten kfab as a producer.
Peyton has one more day of honeymoon and then he's back.
I'm not sure where Peyton. People ask, like, where's Peyton
right now on his honeymoon?

Speaker 3 (50:11):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (50:13):
I know that a moment ago they turned on the
cameras on the crowd. They're outside of a Manhattan courtroom
in New York City, and I didn't see him there,
which is really good because I don't know if i'd
want him back here if he was out there. Like
some of these guys, they're dressed up like Luigi from
Super Mario Brothers, supporting a guy who is alleged to
have murdered, a guy who leaves behind a wife and

(50:36):
two young kids. Yes, walking down the street, Iowa was
Brian Thompson, who was new in the job, who was
trying to do some things in the job that some
of these people say, we need healthcare companies to be
better for You know who agreed with you, Brian Thompson,
who was a really good man who was new in
that job, who never did anything to the family of

(50:56):
Luigi Mangione. That healthcare company, no healthcare comp This guy
was a nut and he was accused of murdering rich
a rich kid from Philadelphia, And there are young people
out there supporting him because they think that, oh, we
need to have socialized healthcare, and the way to do
it is to support a murderer because he's kind of cute.

Speaker 3 (51:17):
I'm sick about it.

Speaker 2 (51:18):
Well, the other thing is they're cameras, and you know,
social media and the media culture in which we exist now,
where everybody has a camera that can go viral, people
perform for cameras. Back during the Vietnam War demonstrations and
some of the civil rights demonstrations and the er demonstrations,
we didn't have nearly the media coverage that we have

(51:38):
on events like this, and there were hundreds of thousands
of people who marched in supportive causes back a generation
or two ago. Today they just show up to get
on TV. Did they just show up to get on
social media? They can become a social media darling for
a days and it's disgusting. And again, who are these
people's parents, you know, did these people's parents set any

(52:01):
kind of an example for them?

Speaker 3 (52:02):
Do they have any.

Speaker 2 (52:03):
Social discourse that isn't objectionable And the answer is no.

Speaker 1 (52:07):
All I know is I want these pot smoking hippies
to get off my lawn. That's what I want. Yeah,
they better do it. Are there really somehow about your yard.

Speaker 3 (52:15):
And they smoke? Yeah? I grow a lot of marijuana
in my yard. That's why they're there. Knock off now
and take the next two days off. Hello, just one too,
one two three four five one two one two three
four five. Who are these people? These fricking people? Why
are they here?

Speaker 6 (52:28):
Good morning, honey, I made you pancakes for breakfast.

Speaker 3 (52:32):
Oh guess what day it is?

Speaker 5 (52:34):
Now I can say.

Speaker 3 (52:38):
I've got one hundred dollars walking in my bat hole.

Speaker 4 (52:42):
I know, I'll say that Barby's burning.

Speaker 5 (52:46):
I do my bogging in and.

Speaker 3 (52:48):
Do my scam. Come on the morning, hoppy Brown. I
see I'm freeing here. I again find that I'm out
of control forgetting the organs time. Yeah, what a child?

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He lit the How about that for me? I'm a man.
Little girl needs her daddy. What's up?

Speaker 2 (53:18):
I don't really have to believe in this stuff?

Speaker 3 (53:20):
Do ill that got a shout up? Tell that gout
a shut monny. I'm gonna be.

Speaker 2 (53:24):
Hurting in my head in her eyes June the Army,
wondering if I ever somebody in a.

Speaker 7 (53:31):
Thirsty homies slowly tuning in Friday, I'll be in and
up my own up finding.

Speaker 3 (53:38):
That Friday I'm freeing again. I got my mother running
more again, all right, find that time out of control,
forget the orsi she doing. I got my mother running more. Wow, lady, fine, Hey.

Speaker 2 (54:01):
Nobody.

Speaker 3 (54:06):
That sounds for you? Or should I do a better job?
That is unbelievable. Man.

Speaker 1 (54:12):
All right, now it's Friday, good morning, Thank you very
much for hanging out here with us Nebraska's morning news
news radio eleven ten KFAB. I'm Scott Boorhees here with
Jim Rose, Craig Evans, Lucy Chapman out today, Jake Goodman.

Speaker 3 (54:27):
We'll have what one or two more traffic updates.

Speaker 1 (54:30):
We'll see if conditions warrant more than that here on
Nebraska's news, weather and traffic station. This is news Radio
eleven ten KFAB and a whole lot of Gary sadlemyre
there and our finally Friday KFAB.

Speaker 3 (54:45):
They had to flame Lis song. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (54:47):
I don't always play that. It gets stuck in my head,
and that's why Monday morning, I'll be waking up with
my head and advice because that song is stuck in
my head all weekend, but it felt appropriate here today.
I'll tell you another song that's not just stuck in
my head. Last night was the Douglas County Republican Parties
Elephant Remembers banquet. It's a fundraiser and also just a

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fun evening here with a lot of Republicans across the area.
And I'll say this here and I said this last night.
I don't know if you've been to a lot of
these events over the last decade or so, but it
used to be it was more of the the old
school Republicans would attend this event and some of this

(55:35):
new like the Freedom Party, the Party, the Freedom Party
and then MAGA. You wouldn't often see them, and I
don't know that they were always welcome, and then there
was a big fight, and then it became MAGA got
into the leadership positions, and over the last few years
since that happened, some of the familiar faces the long
term Republicans that you wouldn't see them at this event.

(55:58):
But I looked at this crowd last night and said,
I'm seeing everyone back here altogether. I said, it's great
to see everyone here, and uh, hopefully this is showing
that people are getting along. But if you're gonna fight tonight,
make it good so we can talk about it on
the radio tomorrow. But everyone got along. It was a
was a good night there with within the divisions of

(56:18):
the Republican Party, there's something bigger that they see that
they're going to be doing. But I also said last night,
I've been thinking about something more over these last couple
of weeks, and that is fake. Dan Osborne's a Democrat,
voted for Hillary.

Speaker 3 (56:35):
That's a fan.

Speaker 1 (56:36):
I started singing that, and then I got to the chorus,
He's a fake, and the crowd, every single man, woman
and child in there said Democrat Osborne, it's a cran Osborne.

Speaker 2 (56:47):
And you know who had a big smile on his
face right there the front row. Senator Pete Rickins was there.
That's the best AI I've ever created. That's money well
spent well the party. Uh that's good to know, because
you KNOWSCA still has sizably larger numbers of Republicans registered
to vote than Democrats, but there is a growing independent
streak in our state where a lot more independence are

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declaring themselves as such when before they just sort of
let it. I'm kind of, you know, I vote the
man and all that jazz. But you know, and I
like Pete Ricketts a lot. We're not close friends, but
we're friends. We're friendly. I've known him a long time.
I go to Cloisters on the plat. His dad is
at my retreat when I go to Cloisters. I've met

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his two brothers, both great guys. But Pete really sort
of ran the show here in Nebraska for most of
the last twenty years. His checkbook has funded a lot
of campaigns, his checkbook has derailed a number of campaigns.
He's been embroiled in high controversy see Janet Palm tag

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and Julie Slama and others. So it got to the
point where a lot of Republican going, what is this?

Speaker 3 (57:59):
Is this just his deal? And that all came to
a head a couple of years ago at the big
state convention in Carnee.

Speaker 5 (58:04):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (58:05):
But this threat of a Democrat socialist winning an election
in Nebraska tends to end the feuds and the rivalries,
and it's now all hands on deck. And look, I
don't know if it's going to happen. I would be
very surprised if Denise Powell appears on this radio station
in any context.

Speaker 3 (58:26):
I hope she does.

Speaker 2 (58:27):
But you know, I would hope that she'd consent to
a debate with Brinker Harding on KFIB sometime between now
an election day. I would hope that she'd recognize that
this is the most dominant media outlet in district too.
It may be the most dominant media outlet in the
state of Nebraska. It certainly has greater reachs than newspapers.

(58:47):
But the bottom line is this. She has to be
defined or you don't know what you're buying. And she
could win this race. But and she may have all
the right answers if she gives me a chance to
ask the questions, which I doubt she will because I
hear from internal situations over there that there's there's not

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a lot of interest in that. But if she would
do that, we can say, Okay, this is where she stands,
and this is what we're voting for or not. But
right now, nobody really knows what she is. She won't
even call herself a Democrat right now.

Speaker 1 (59:23):
No, I know, well, she's it's getting better she was
pod and now she's just fed up. Next time she
might be in a general malaise, and at some point
she might actually be somewhat happy.

Speaker 3 (59:33):
So she's moving in the right direction.

Speaker 5 (59:34):
Now.

Speaker 1 (59:34):
I'm pulling for Denise Powell to have a better life
than apparently she says she's had do.

Speaker 3 (59:39):
Loomis and looms and.

Speaker 5 (59:45):
Swether.

Speaker 1 (59:45):
Country Boy, our country boy Greg Wagner from Nebraska Game
of Parks is here.

Speaker 3 (59:51):
Greg.

Speaker 7 (59:51):
What's going on in our state parks this weekend? Well,
we're gonna be probably battling a little bit of weather.
It looks like, no question.

Speaker 1 (59:57):
Maybe maybe a few pop up or here, enough to
keep an eye on, Steah, keep an eye on the weather.

Speaker 7 (01:00:04):
But state parks activities, we're rolling with them on weekdays.
You know, our staff has gone back to high school
and college. So the weekdays are quiet and everything. But
the weekends we're still rolling. Weather permitting, broadle on things.

Speaker 2 (01:00:19):
Some storms might make for some good fishing, and either
before or after the storm exactly.

Speaker 7 (01:00:24):
You know, I was telling somebody the other day the
best cat fishing and that's what we have really biting
now and big catfish is when you have these waters rising,
whether it's a lake reservoir river these big catfish, it
flushes them out of their holes and they're actively feeding,
building up their fat reserves for fall.

Speaker 3 (01:00:42):
Aren't we all? Yeah about hunting? What about hunting?

Speaker 7 (01:00:45):
Well, you know, it's a great time to get out
and scout when you get a little bit cooler weather.
Probably need to sort some gear if we get some
rain events this weekend and organize your gear for the
big hunting seasons. September first opens up some Biggie's archery deer, dove, grouse,
so they're.

Speaker 3 (01:01:03):
Right around the corner.

Speaker 1 (01:01:05):
We have the outdoor bulletin board, but we also have
on that bulletin board something called Greg's Nature Notes.

Speaker 3 (01:01:11):
Now what's this, Greggy the nature boy?

Speaker 7 (01:01:15):
So well, we've got butterflies. You'll see a lot of
them there, starting to really migrate through Nebraska. And on
a good news front, my farmers are really telling me
they're seeing a lot of young wild turkeys and young
bob white quay, more than they've seen in past years.

Speaker 3 (01:01:32):
So some good news there. What else is on your
outdoor bulletin board? Low water?

Speaker 7 (01:01:36):
You're going to western Nebraska. We have very low water
conditions in our reservoirs, especially at Big Mac, so they've
escaped a lot of the rains that we've had here.

Speaker 3 (01:01:46):
Yeah too, We're looking on two inches out there the
other night.

Speaker 1 (01:01:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:01:50):
Still not enough, I mean long term drought and especially
say not a lot of rain for a while.

Speaker 3 (01:01:55):
Thank you, Greg Wager,