KFAB's State of the State with Pillen, Smith, and Sadlemyer!

A fun Friday morning with police chases, Gov. Pillen counting the money for us, Rep. Smith providing the view from the 3rd District, Greg Wagner, and even Gary Sadlemyer stopping in for a few laughs!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Anyone have any idea what happened with my police chase
this morning? Good morning, Lucy Chapman.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Was there a police chase?

Speaker 1 (00:05):
Yeah, I'm no. I'm coming in and I only see
the two cop cars with the lights on behind me.
This is on dodging around West Roads, and it's heading
eastbound because I can't see the car they're chasing because
he doesn't have his lights on and he's speeding, So
I'm move over to the side. There, car with no
lights on flies by me, starts barreling through the light

(00:26):
at ninetieth heading down Dodge Street towards Children's Hospital. Two
cop cars are on chase. I see two more cop
cars come flying around a different corner, and now they're
chasing him. And then I'm you know, everyone's kind of
getting out of the way of this thing. I see
two more cop cars come around this way and then
another one over here. I'm like, I want to keep
following this. I want to follow that all day. I

(00:47):
want to know what happened there. Guy lights off flies
by me on Dodge, and I did what any good
citizen would do because I pay attention and I want
to always I had a banana peel No, I've always
wanted to be Batman, and I saw the opportunity to

(01:08):
be Batman there, and so I definitely maneuvered my vehicle
to get in the way of the cop cars chasing
him so I could block them. Because that poor guy
who probably fleeing, scared out of his mind, just trying
to get his kids to school, just about to turn
his life around, never done anything wrong, maybe hadn't unpaid

(01:30):
parking ticket he didn't even know about from eighteen years ago,
and those cops are harassing him. So I moved my
vehicle there to block the cop cars. They come smashing
into the side of my car, and then I get
out and I just start yelling at.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
Him, shame, shame.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
And I did that for a while and we all
had a good laugh about it, and they said, hey,
thanks for Well, that's what they do up north.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
Can you imagine?

Speaker 1 (02:00):
And when I say no, I don't mean for Calhoun
further Wayne.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
Yeah, they've got some snow in Wayne.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
Did they get a little snow up there?

Speaker 2 (02:11):
It's it's actually coming down. If you're traveling now, they
have snow. There's some snow floating around out there.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
We talked, that's what it does. We talked about the
possibility of snow Oma Dome. Seems like we're gonna probably
keep that from really making a big mess here in
Omaha though, with the high winds and if we get
some the fat flurries out there. Not to fat shame
the flurries, but they I don't mean the people that

(02:37):
dress up as cats and dogs in high school. Those
are furrieses. No, no, no, the furies. That's that's a
different thing. Anyway, might be a visibility issue. Can you
imagine if we had the issues that you're seeing in Minneapolis,
people out there actively, you know, fighting like they just

(03:00):
they say, what are you guys gonna do? Well? I'm
gonna sleep until two or three o'clock. I want to
make sure I got my energy. I'm gonna wake up.
I'm gonna knock back a couple of cases of beer.
Am I to go out there. I'm just gonna go
toe to toe with these ice agents. They're not even
gonna see what's coming. I got weapons, bottles, rocks, snowballs, whatever, snowshovels,

(03:20):
broom handles. I'm gonna go out there. I'm just gonna
fight with ice agents all day. Sweet dude, can I come, absolutely,
let's go. And so you have hundreds of these morons
out there fighting with law enforcement, ice, whoever else is
out there. There's probably mall cops, you know, going to
protect the container store at the Great Mall, and and

(03:45):
they're like close enough, and these guys like start to
fight the and like, what do we do. We're not ice,
you know anyone. There's probably there are these morons up
there in Minneapolis protests, these fighting protesters, and I say protesters,
I don't mean the peaceful ones, I mean the vi
fighting ones. They're probably going after children as safety patrol
officers at the elementary school. You got the sash on

(04:09):
that's close enough pig and they start punching these kids.
That's how stupid these guys are. So can you imagine
that's happening in Omaha? President of the United States says
I can send in additional resources to stop this right now.
And we're talking about Omaha and Mayor John Ewings says, no,
we're good. And we just see this happen night after

(04:31):
night after night, cars getting set on fire, businesses are
getting damaged, and the Mayor's like, hey, we're fine, we
want the we want the law enforcement to leave, and
then the protesters will stop. Can you imagine if that
were happening in Omaha, what are.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
The good people of Minneapolis doing.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
Heading waving away from that mess?

Speaker 4 (04:55):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (04:55):
I think, honestly, I think the next movie out of
Hollywood's going to be Anneapolis has fallen.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
Well.

Speaker 5 (05:02):
The other thing to remember is this is a relatively
small number of people by comparison to the three point
eight million who live in the Twin Cities.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
Yes, but if you've got a guy with a gun
in your face, you're looking at this one guy going
well in the world's population scheme, this is almost zero pleeple.

Speaker 5 (05:19):
I'm not suggesting that it's not an issue, but this
is not like Tehran. Okay, we don't have hundreds of
thousands of people around the countryside that are protesting in
this case Ice in that case a brutal dictator regime.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
But gouls are shut down, police resource as are strained
for no reason. The president says, you guys want some help,
because we're going to give it to you, whether you
like it or not, to send in the army, and
the mayor up there is like, no, how about you
pull out the guys that are making our violent protesters
want to fight them. That's what's happening up there.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
Why don't they just find the person that's paying these
protesters and cut the head of the snake off.

Speaker 1 (05:58):
We well, because they're you, and all the stuff that
you would use for headcutting, they're using it to fight ice.
We have nothing left to cut off heads of snakes.
So Omaha crime, We've got a couple of granddaughters accused
of making their grandma who was the owner of an
Italian restaurant in midtown downtown Omaha, just off four to

(06:21):
eighty between Martha and Leavenworth, there was a little Italian
place called Malara's Italian Restaurant. You're you're nodding your head
as though you're familiar with it.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
Oh, oh my goodness.

Speaker 1 (06:37):
I'm so sad by the story. One because of the
accusation too, because I love checking out little mom and pop,
family owned Italian restaurants, and I'm so sad that this
is the first I've heard of it and it's closed.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
And it was absolutely some of the best Italian food
I'd ever had.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
Man early to mid nineties downtown south of downtown, there
was it's a little Italian joint in a house. It
was either off thirteenth or tenth Street, And for the
life of me, I can't remember what that placed all about,
but I went there a couple of times. It was
kind of a cool spot to go before, like a homecoming.
Where was it a something like that south of downtown,

(07:16):
like between downtown and the zoo right off of somewhere
between tenth and thirteenth. I'm always driving around there going
which of these buildings was that place? It was in
a house. I don't even know if it was a
real restaurant. We might have just shown up, knocked in
the door and found one of those sweet Italian mothers like.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
Yeah, come on in, that's possible.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
A bunch of teenagers were in ties, let's let's feed them.
So this place there was open for a while. And
then a woman who owned it died a few years ago,
and now her granddaughters are accused of opening several fraudulent
credit cards and paying them off using the restaurant's bank

(07:58):
account for grandma to write them checks. And they said, oh,
Grandma gave us this money. We're talking about hundreds of
thousands of dollars. Grandma gave us this money. Families like
Grandma was not going to give you this money. Oh yeah,
it's very generous. Well, no one else got any money.
So these are the accusations fighting in a family. I
don't know it's they're in court today. Ugly deal. Then

(08:22):
you got an Omaha woman who's in jail this morning,
accused of shooting at a house the other night or
the other day because her daughters had issues with other
girls at their school. I don't know how old these
kids are, but mom said, well, let's go and just
went over to the house and started shooting at the house.
So the law enforcement told her you're not allowed to

(08:45):
do that, and so she's in county jail. Governor Jim
Pillen joining us in about an hour from now. It's
seven thirty five this morning. As Craig Evans has told
you in the news updates here on news Radio eleven
ten KFAB this date of the state is two billion
dollars strong. We got a reserve of two billion dollars,
says Governor Pilling. State senators are like, no, we don't

(09:08):
what's he talking about. So we're gonna have Governor Pillen
count it like in one of those movies where they
you know, put the briefcase or a duffel bag of
money on the table. You can count it. It's all there.
How about you count it. It's two billion dollars. Yeah,
I got time count it. It's in ones. Fine, I'm

(09:29):
not going anywhere. So we're gonna have Governor Pillin count
out the money today. That's It's seven thirty five. Congressman
Adrian Smith, Nebraska's beautiful fight in third District, which covers
all of Nebraska except pretty much Lincoln and Omaha parts around. Then. Uh,
we got a lot to talk about politically with Congressman Smith.

(09:49):
As always, he's gonna pop in here, be in the
studio just after eight and then you know, the the
transition here of my only being on the radio till
ten prevented right now a round of petty Complaint Thursdays
with the PCT girls. We've got a couple of couple

(10:10):
of weirdos that pop in here. We do petty complaint
Thursdays from time to time. Well, that couldn't work out
on a Thursday for them, so we're gonna do petty
Complaint Thursday on a Friday at nine this morning. That's
a good way to close out the week. I can't
believe that this woman here shot at the house of

(10:30):
someone her daughter had beef with in South Omaha. This
was near thirty second in r the other night, fired
a couple shots at the house, nearly hitting the homeowner
who was standing by the window looking out, going there's
people outside a little late for Christmas Carols? Does she
have a gun just standing at the window? People? She's

(10:52):
shooting at the house. Cops told her she's not allowed
to do that.

Speaker 2 (10:56):
What is wrong with people?

Speaker 1 (10:59):
I know you. The house didn't do anything to you.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
I can chuckle because nobody was hurt, right, nobody was
hurt right.

Speaker 1 (11:08):
The sighting took it and.

Speaker 2 (11:12):
There's you know, because it was on the wrong side.

Speaker 1 (11:15):
The sighting was like, oh no, the panel next to
me got hit. I'm not leaving you like you can't.
You're sighting, just personifying sighting. Now. Is everyone a little
sad for that siding right now? It's big panel? Why
was sighting board?

Speaker 6 (11:33):
No?

Speaker 1 (11:33):
I am oh man, lefty No. I can't believe this
woman shot at this house, especially since just yesterday Mayor
John Ewing declared twenty twenty six the Year of the Neighbor. Well,
that's the problem this shooting of the house in South
Omaha by the angry mom because her daughter had beef
with some girl in that house. That happened on Monday.

(11:56):
John Ewing declared the Year of the neighbor for all yesterday.
Yesterday was Thursday. We've been rudderless for two weeks, not
knowing what this year was in Omaha. Had he done
this on January first, perhaps you'd have better neighbors. There's
going to be a different theme every month. It's the

(12:17):
Year of the Neighbor, says the City of Omaha Mayor
Ewing says. In twenty twenty six, Omaha will explore what
it means to be a good neighbor, starting with ourselves
and moving outward to our family's streets, neighborhoods in the
entire city. January is the month for looking inward. How
can you be a good neighbor in twenty twenty six?
What does he want me to do? I'm going to

(12:39):
continue to leave my neighbors alone.

Speaker 5 (12:41):
That's the best thing you could do for your neighborhood
is just keep to yourself, draw the blinds, close the bathrobe,
but deep to yourself.

Speaker 1 (12:50):
I've got a quiet neighbor. You will see me on
the news when they started pulling bodies out of this
guy's basement, Like, did you know he had an incinerator
in the basement? You know, I always thought he was
just cooking And uh, well did you ever talk to
He was a quiet neighbor, kept to himself. Yeah, what
about throwing trash in your neighbor's yard? Still doing that

(13:11):
every time my kids run over there to retrieve a basketball. Yeah,
my kids are trash.

Speaker 5 (13:17):
I could get a you know, kind of a note
card on what they want me to do to be
a better neighbor.

Speaker 2 (13:21):
Well this is oh, that's a great idea, like a
neighbor passport. Yeah, you can get stickers whenever we are getting.

Speaker 5 (13:27):
Hs, like like it's Scooter's coffee, you get the smiley
faced sticker if you get a cup of coffee. Well,
if you go over there and say hi to your neighbor,
pick up the garbage that you threw into his yard
last year, you get a sticker.

Speaker 2 (13:38):
What happens when you fill your card up with stickers,
you can.

Speaker 1 (13:42):
Redeem it for a free street car passport ticket.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
Nit.

Speaker 1 (13:46):
I I've tried to be a good neighbor and I
hope that I've achieved this. I from on the other side,
away from the quiet neighbor, I've got a super anti
Trump lefty, and then on the other side of her,
I've got a super conservative neighbor over there. And for
a while there they had dueling signs related to abortion,

(14:09):
because that's what you want to see when your kids
are out, you know, out there throwing the baseball around
with your kids.

Speaker 7 (14:14):
Dad.

Speaker 1 (14:15):
What's abortion something that these two people are fighting about
in their yards? Oh? Okay, you know. So we had
a little block party this past summer and both of
them showed up, and one of them had never come
to the block party before. The big left. He'd never
come to the block party before. She was kind of
sitting there by herself. I went over there and I

(14:36):
bothered the crap out of her. How's it going, Thanks
for coming. I don't think she loved it, but you know,
for a while there we were all laughing and having
a good time.

Speaker 2 (14:46):
That's a great example of being a good neighbor. Yeah,
how many stickers you get for that?

Speaker 1 (14:52):
I don't know. I got a sign. I stole it
out of her yard.

Speaker 5 (14:55):
Maybe if we have hats KVB hats and then put
stickers on the side of that hats, like the Ohio
State football team.

Speaker 1 (15:02):
They see, that's good. Put a little bunch of Buckeyes
on our houses. Yeah for having a good neighbor, or
just you know, wear hats around town. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (15:09):
I want all the little buck guy stickers on our hats.
Then people will know who's a good neighbor.

Speaker 1 (15:13):
I went over and told the neighbor, Hey, your lawnmowing
crew knocked your air conditioning unit off of its concrete slab.
If you want, I can help you move it back
on there. That'll get you sticker. You get a sticker.
That's good.

Speaker 7 (15:25):
Border residents may wake up this morning to find frozen
iguanas lying on the ground. When temperatures get as low
as they're expected, the cold blood at iguanas that live
in the trees can become stunned by the frigid weather,
loose their grip and fall to the ground. They usually
recover once it warms up. I'm Craig Evans More News
at the top of the hour at news Radio eleven
ten KFAB.

Speaker 1 (15:46):
That's one of my favorite stories. We don't get it
very often, where you get freezing temperatures in Florida. But
when we do, we get the frozen iguanas. That'd be
a good name for one of those little trailers that
sells like sweet treats on summer day. The frozen iguana.

Speaker 2 (16:02):
You're supposed to just leave them alone, right, yes.

Speaker 1 (16:04):
Because that's the that's my favorite part of the story.
There's Lucy Chapman, Craig Evans, Jim Roses. Here, I'm Scott Voorhees.
This is Nebraska's Morning News. Now for Florida's Morning News.
Leave the frozen iguanas alone. Because what happens is these
iguana's just hanging out in a tree doing iguana stuff
and uh then they freeze and fall to the ground,

(16:27):
and some well intentioned neighbor goes out of it, goes
running out there and says, oh no, this iguada is freezing.
It's gonna die. No, it's not. It's cold blooded, Like Lucy.

Speaker 2 (16:40):
Hey, I didn't deserve that.

Speaker 1 (16:42):
I like to kick people while they're down. Lucy's still
not feeling well, she can't fight back. It's easier. So
they say, oh no, this this guanda is gonna die.
And so they're running out there with like towels, and
they get those little hot water bottles like your mom
used to like put this on your head, and your
kid up your head or whatever. You get a hot
water bottle on your head. Yeah, I don't know, but

(17:05):
I think I need ice.

Speaker 2 (17:07):
Did you tie a piece of loot around your head
when you had a toothache?

Speaker 1 (17:11):
Yes? Yeah, you have the hot water bottle and then
you tie a bed sheet or whatever on your head. Yeah, toothache,
hangover whatever it is that you had when you were
a kid. And then they would nurse these iguanas back
to warmth, which kind of re animates them. And every

(17:31):
single time, the iguana shows their appreciation by biting the
ever loving heck out of the person who's just like,
I'm just I'm hugging you, I'm wrapping you with towels.
Like iguanas, I don't care, I want to bite your arm.
Iguanas love to bite people's arms. And officials are like,
the iguanas are fine, just let them sleep it off.

Speaker 2 (17:53):
Maybe with those towels you're using to warm them up,
maybe you'd be better off just spreading those towels out
underneath trees so they have a soft landing. And then
leave them alone.

Speaker 1 (18:04):
You know, there's you know, there's someone in Florida looking
at an iguana and the temperature going, all right, any
minute now, we're gonna eat We're gonna hit frozen iguana
equilibrium here, and I'm gonna catch that iguana. I don't
want it to hurt itself when it falls out of
that tree. You can't eat them, I'm sure you could.

Speaker 2 (18:21):
I suppose.

Speaker 1 (18:22):
I don't know, I mean eat anything. I don't know
that people would. I bet people in Louisiana would.

Speaker 2 (18:30):
Hey, don't disparage I'm not good friends in Louisiana.

Speaker 1 (18:33):
Oh the people who said, how come it's against the law,
we can't eat rats. And then they said, all right, fine,
you can eat rats. And they said, all right, we're
passing the law says you can eat rats. They did
that in Louisiana. Well, they changed the name of them nutrient. Yeah,
it almost sounds nutritious, doesn't it. It's still a rat.
It's just a big rat. It's a it's a bar
a big rat. And they eat them and then they

(18:57):
come up here for the College World Series and year
around Rosenblatt when the Tigers are at the College World
Series LSU fans would be camping out with all their
RVs and campgrounds and all that, and Dingerville at Dingerville,
and every year there'd be animals that would disappear from
the zoo.

Speaker 5 (19:15):
And then the next thing you know, they were made
into cowboy boots and belts.

Speaker 1 (19:18):
And that's by the LSU fans. Peacock Gumbo. You good,
You'll get you something, so thank you. Randy mac.

Speaker 5 (19:30):
Steak, Peacock Iana singles tiger suod.

Speaker 1 (19:36):
This is Nebraska's morning News. My name is Scott Voorhees
here with Lucy Chapman, Craig Evans, Jim Rose, Governor Jim
Pillen joining us here at seven thirty five this morning.
Congressman Adrian Smith, and Nebraska's fighting third district in an
hour from now, and they've cut off the funding. This
guy says, okay, all right, I think I have enough

(19:57):
to survive. The Ford worker up in Michigan, who as
President Trump was there getting a tour of that Ford plant.
One worker couldn't help himself started yelling at the President
of the United States, calling him a pedophile protector Epstein's stuff,
and the President responded by cursing at him. A couple
times and then flipping him the bird, which I think

(20:20):
we had determined that when the President flips you the bird,
that bird is a bald eagle. So people set up
a GoFundMe account because that worker got suspended, and they said,
all right, hey, this guy deserves money. Helped he made
the president mad and called him a pedophile protector. So
they gave this guy eight hundred thousand dollars. This guy

(20:43):
gets a great story flipped off by the president. He
didn't get fired from his job. He's probably back on
the floor today, and eight hundred thousand dollars. And then
he finally said, all right, enough's enough. You can cut
off the money, give it to someone who deserves it more.
Eight hundred thousand dollars. When's the next time President Trump's
coming to Omaha Council of Loffs, I'll buy how much

(21:06):
does it cost to buy one of those planes with
the streaming banner behind it? I mean this guy, he
just shouted at him off camera. If I take out
billboards or something, I'd probably get twice with that guy got.
And I'm not saying I believe that. I'm saying I
believe I want eight hundred thousand dollars and I bet
I can get the president to flip me off.

Speaker 2 (21:25):
I like it. How he cut it off at eight hundred.
Give it to somebody that deserves it more.

Speaker 1 (21:29):
Yeah, I'm sure they had that conversation when it was
rounding six point fifty. Should we cut it off? Now,
let's see give another day eight. I'm good with eight. Meanwhile,
Bill and Hillary Clinton were called by the House Oversight
Committee and to say, all right, we have subpoened you

(21:51):
to come and sit before this House committee for closed
door depositions. This wasn't going to be like the January
sixth thing where we're putting it on prime time television
to embarrassed people. This was a closed door private deposition
with the House Oversight Committee, that's James Comer's committee, to
talk about the Epstein investigation. This was a subpoena from Congress.

(22:13):
Bill and Hillary Clinton said no, we'll be held in
contempt of Congress. Now I'm listening for all of the
Ford Auto workers, referring to Bill and Hillary Clinton as
pedophile protectors, those who are literally defying a congressional subpoena

(22:33):
to help out the victims there in the Epstein thing.
As the Babylon B said, Bill Clinton said he'll visit
Congress just as soon as he gets back from this
cool Island headline from the Babylon B. All right, Jim Rose,
you're fired up, and maybe the only person other than
Lance Fritz Nebraska Medicine Board of Director's chair, you're the

(22:56):
only two people fired up about this Nebraska Medicine tast
fired up about it. I'm on top of it, Okay.
I want you to be on top of it next.
Because the more I look at the story, the more
I cannot bring myself to care about it. I can't.

Speaker 5 (23:10):
Are you a patient of Nebraska Medicine? No, and that
explains it.

Speaker 1 (23:14):
I'm just I'm looking at the reality of the situation,
and I don't know what Some people are all bent
out of shape about it. You a doctor, yes, and
we'll talk about this. Doctor John doesn't count. Oh, I'm
a doctor like doctor dre Is a doctor J or
doctor J or doctor John, Doctor John. I can't get
on top of the story. Nebraska Medicine had an agreement

(23:37):
with Clarkson that if Clarkson ever pulled there hundreds of
millions of dollars in funding away from Nebraska Medicine. Then
it defaulted to the university system by way of the
Board of Regents. Clarkson said, we're out. Morder Regions suddenly
jumped in there as the only entity, and I didn't
hear anyone else step up and go. I'll give these

(23:57):
guys hundreds and hundred, like eight hundred million dollars. It's
only the university system by way of the Bard of Regents,
and Nebraska Medicine's like, we don't want their money. Do
you hear anyone else coming at you with nearly a
million dollars or nearly billion dollars?

Speaker 2 (24:15):
No?

Speaker 5 (24:15):
Okay, calm down, you calmed down, you go. First of all,
they didn't they're not pulling their funding. They're pulling their
partnership out Clarkson keeping the funding Clarkson, well, no, they
don't write checks every year for Nebraska Medicine. Clarkson provides
facilities and some buildings and some offices in exchange for

(24:36):
the services that Nebraska med provides patients. So the reason
this matters is twofold number one. It is the number
one hospital in the state of Nebraska. It has ten
thousand plus patients, that has hundreds of doctors, across the state,
and it has delivered the kind of care you rarely
see in a nonprofit hospital. I believe it's extraordinary care,

(24:58):
serious medicine, extraordinary care. Now it's serious money, extraordinary concern.
So it was a really great operation rolling along for
about thirty years. And the thing that made it special
was how it grew through the private sector. Much of
Nebraska medicine and that campus down there is the result
of philanthropic dollars that have come in to build these
magnificent facilities, whether it's the Davis Global Center or it's

(25:23):
the Durham Lead Center, a stem cell research center, and
all the rest of them down there. So this is
a major, major reason why Nebraska's get the best care
in the world. Bucket Cancer Center and all that. They
say that they're still going to be able to well.
But there's concern that if you now become a function
of the University of Nebraska, which is a state agency,
that they could very well adversely impact the quality of care,

(25:46):
the maintenance of doctors and all the rest. The other question,
and I think this is a legitimate concern, is I
don't know that it's I'm not an accountant, and I
haven't done an appraisal, but I have a hard time
believe in that the buildings down there that Clarkson owns
are worth three hundred million dollars. In fact, many people
don't believe that it's even close. In fact, take one
zero away, now you're more in the ballpark. The other

(26:09):
thing they have is a wonderful lease arrangement with a
lot of these doctors and nurses and offices down there
that reach into the twenty sixties. Well, the university says
we're going to make the money to pay for this
by rent and other revenues that come from the existing facility.
Some people are very skeptical about that. But to me,
what you're doing is I think asking a lot of

(26:31):
the philanthropic community, which has not only been extremely generous
in the building of Nebraska Medicine to this magnificent healthcare
operation that serves so many people. These people are now
going to be asked to fund the project health Project
after they've been told to get out. And I believe
that a consortium of big philanthropy in Omaha, given the opportunity,

(26:56):
would have come up with the money to buy out
Clarkson's share and keep Nebraska Medicine into pendant, but it's
dead now. It's under the auspices of the university.

Speaker 1 (27:03):
The scare tactic I think used here is well, Nebraska
University is going to get in there and they're going
to start cutting programs, cutting all this try and save money,
cut all skim the money off other things. Because they
just cut all that those programs and millions. And how
about this as President Trump is trying to do here,
I need surgery. I just got bitten by a shark

(27:25):
on my way into work. Hard to do an omahammed. Okay,
look on the website with my good hand, and I
find out what Nebraska Medicine charges for that procedure, and
then I pay it. Okay, what what? Who needs to
get involved with this? Well, it has to do with
the quality of care, and it has to do Uh,
it's gonna be good care.

Speaker 5 (27:45):
What you're talking about is the fear of the future.
What's going to happen down the road. We know how
good it's been in the past. Not about down the road.

Speaker 1 (27:52):
Transparent pricing and competition, that's what's happening in the future.
I don't think that has anything to do with this transaction.

Speaker 5 (27:57):
But I'm telling you that the Omaha's philanthropic community is
the reason why Nebraska Medicine and you and MC have
reached the very, very tall heights that they have and
this transaction could injure that relationship.

Speaker 1 (28:13):
And maybe it won't. Maybe it won't hear it. I
don't hear anyone coming out there going, here's billions dollars.

Speaker 5 (28:19):
You know, the billions are there for the hundreds of
millions are there for it. The challenge is finding the
right people to do it. And I think that outside
private interests that might buy in because of the revenues
that can be mitigated by creating a consortium of local nonprofit.

Speaker 1 (28:36):
Agencies to invest in Nebraska medicine. Who are we talking
about the same philanthropic dollars that said don't lock up
juveniles because they're nice kids and all they need is
a hug and have influenced that and be familiar with
who that is? Millions and millions of dollars. Yeah you are, Oh,
I'm not okay, And we now welcome back here on
to news radio eleven ten KFAB in the wake of
yesterday's State of the State address you've been hearing about

(28:59):
in those news dates here on Nebraska's news, weather and
traffic station. All morning, Governor, Jim Pillen. Governor, you announced
yesterday we have a two billion dollar general reserve and
the highest credit writing in the state's history. We're doing fine.
You got state senators like George Dungan of Lincoln says
the governor doesn't know what he's talking about. Can you

(29:20):
count that money out for us this morning?

Speaker 7 (29:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (29:23):
You know, I think that the rhetoric just continues all
the time. Lots of people don't want to deal with
the facts. It doesn't take much.

Speaker 1 (29:32):
We have.

Speaker 6 (29:35):
A balanced budget. We're running government like a business, and
when you do that and you learn your business. I'm
incredibly proud of our cabinet. They're working tirelessly. We're not
worrying about going out and giving speeches. We're worrying about
rolling our sleeves up, working with all of our public servants.
We don't have bureaucrats anymore. We've gotten rid of those.

(29:58):
We have public servants that are working hard to do
the people's work. And we're learning our business better and
better every day and getting rid of nonsense and saving
lots and lots of money and proving our services for Nebraskans.
So that's how we've filled the hole in from the
forecasting board. And like I say, we've got over two

(30:19):
point one billion dollars in the banks and we've filled
the hole in with our budgets. So you know, George
can sit and do his criticism. Like everybody that wears
the blue vest, it seems like does these days the
facts of the proofson putting talk to banks. They don't
give the top credit ratings if you're not doing good work.

Speaker 1 (30:42):
Well, Nebraskans are saying, I'm trying to pay property taxes
and all the rest of my taxes around here. Why
would the state of Nebraska be sitting on two billion dollars?
What would that do? I know we got to buy
some new posters for the capital that were torn down recently,
but why would we hold on to that money?

Speaker 6 (31:00):
Yeah, well that's exactly that's exactly the point. You know,
you keep there's a constitutional number of like sixteen percent
for reserves. You know, that's why we've been working on it.
We've been criticized for taking sweeping reserves. There's over six
hundred cash funds in state government, and there there was

(31:22):
over two and a half billion dollars in those cash reserves.
That doesn't count what's in the general and General fund
and cash reserve fund. We've been sweeping those and being criticized.
We don't need all that money. It's Nebraska's money and
we need to get it back, and we're working at it.
We're making progress, and that's a part of the five

(31:44):
hundred million that we've changed is decreased spending and then
taking some of this excess crazy money that's sitting around everywhere.
So we're working hard on doing it, and exactly the point.
Can't get it done found I don't have a lot
of patients. We're working hard to get it and get
it right size. The other piece of the property tax

(32:06):
is we we have to cap local spending. We've got
to make sure the only way we increase spending is
if there's growth. You know, we've we've got to get
there and we'll keep plowing away at it. It's the
epiphany for me starting the since this calling happened is
it's thirty three, thirty three sixteen. It takes thirty three

(32:26):
votes to do anything. It only takes seventeen to stop everything.
So we got to get team. We got we got
to keep building the team. We have to have teams
that will vote and stay together.

Speaker 5 (32:38):
Jimmy promised property tax relief. In your first year, you
promised structural sustainable property tax relief. Come up short on
that area. Now in the next this is you've got
one term. Unlike almost any anybody who's ever been elected
to office in Nebraska in the last fifty years, I
don't think you're thinking about the next election after this one.

(32:58):
So is it safe to say that you're planning on
a major property tax issue in your second term that
could really deliver on sustainable structural property tax reductions.

Speaker 6 (33:11):
Yeah, you know this process. It takes too long. But yeah,
there's no offens or butts about it. The game plan
is really simple. We have to have broad based sales
tax transformation. All the politicians for the last four decades
have been duped. With all due respect to whoever has served,

(33:35):
they have voted for carve outs, constantly giving sales tax exemptions.
I believe they voted believing they were tax cuts. But
anybody that's in business knows that when you have a
decrease in revenue, the only way you stay in business
is you cut expenses. Now I have asked, and I

(33:57):
can't find anywhere over those forty years where there's been
one single decrease in government spend. Those are a tax shift,
and it's gone on to the property taxpayers of Nebraskans.
The ten or twelve or whatever percent of Nebraskans that
can afford that they don't care and that might not
be an issue in their mind. Well, the eighty five

(34:20):
percent that I'm governor for that are trying to figure
out how they can stay in the house when you're
retired that they've already paid for. We are going to
have it, and the state has to fund K twelve education,
just like we have with community colleges, and we have
to have hardcaps on local spending because property tax Nebraska

(34:41):
and ice saying yes to everything. So yeah, that's a
sweeping change, and we will not give up. State will
fund education, not run it. Fund it, not run it,
just like we've done with community college.

Speaker 5 (34:53):
Let me ask you about fraud, because this is the
big national issue. Nebraska spends a billion five on DHHS
medicaid expenses every year. Now, Jim, you've run a business,
you build a business from the ground up. There is
no way under any conditions that there isn't at least
one hundred and fifty to two hundred million in fraud

(35:13):
in Nebraska. So how do you go get that? Is
it about hiring investigators? Is it about creating a larger
army of people that can go get it? But there's
no chance in a billion five that there isn't two
hundred and fifty to three hundred million in fraud in Nebraska.

Speaker 1 (35:28):
And if I can also throw something on top of
that little frosting here from Alex Berenson's reports, spending on
Nebraska's autism program went from four and a half million
to eighty two point eight million in four years. So
what there is it? What are we looking into here?

Speaker 6 (35:45):
Yeah, well, actually the autism went eighty four million, not
eighty two point two. And that's an example of out
of control. So we people have said we cut autism.
No we haven't. We've right size that. We have gotten
rid of the providers and cut the spending down to
where it used to be and should have been. There's yeah,

(36:08):
there's I don't know what word you want to use it,
but when we are paying a ninety eight year old
lady three hundred thousand dollars a year to stay at home.
I don't care what word you want to use. It
just sure as hell not right when we are paying
grandma's to be grandma. I don't care what word you
want to use it, but that ain't Nebraska. So and

(36:31):
so there are really really silly things going on. And again,
as I say, we're working hard to learn our business
and we haven't gotten to the front lines yet. So
you ain't seen nothing yet. This the way money has
been being spent in our state is unacceptable. Instead of so,
there'll be people attacking it that the services are gone. Well, no,

(36:54):
the services are not gone. We want people to stay
at home. We just can't pay three times more than
if they went somewhere else. Some of these decisions have
been crazy, and we're working really hard. I'm really pleased
with the team that we have in place at the
Department of Health and Human Services. It's really important, Rosie.

(37:15):
It took time to build a new team. When you
have you have to have a team of people who
believe you can run government like a business and who
believe in fiscal conservative policies and believe in the Nebraska way.
I know this. If you don't believe, if you believe
you can't. You're one hundred percent right. We have a
team that believes you can and we're making progress, so

(37:38):
no question about it. And you know, I think in
this first year and this first year of that buy in,
I think there's like we'll have like eighty or ninety
million next year, over one hundred and fifty million in
decrease in spend. Nobody's ever thought about it. And we're
working on the structures of people. We're getting rid of
really really terrible contracts with and we got to.

Speaker 1 (38:01):
Get our we got to get our third graders to
be able to read too. We talked a lot about
that yesterday. I know that's one of your priorities, the governor.
That's that's the we're out of time here this morning.
I know we'll have more conversations in the weeks and
months ahead. Thank you very much for this morning and
happy New year.

Speaker 6 (38:16):
Well yeah, thank you. And let's make sure too, we're
getting rid of pronouns DEI and all this CRT and craps.
So it's important we figure out who we are. We
are Nebraska. Let's remember that.

Speaker 1 (38:28):
Go big Red. Governor Jim Pillen, thank you so much.
Great to talk with you as always here on Nebraska's
Morning News. Here's what Governor Pillen said in a State
of the state yesterday and looking at education spending, specifically
at the university system, and I quote, the University of
Nebraska system has over seven hundred and fifty million dollars
of cash pillowcase money. Let me use an analogy. If

(38:52):
you ever fed a sal fatsw squeals for feed just
as much as a skinny sow does, and you can
never give them enough. Our higher education systems got to
quit being a fat sow.

Speaker 5 (39:07):
This guy We've never had anybody like him, and the
reason for that is that he really doesn't care about
the next election. And when he wins in November and
he's way out in front, the next four years are
going to be a transformation of Nebraska government thanks to
this guy. Because even Dave Heineman when he left in

(39:28):
twenty fourteen, he was still in the back of his
mind thinking maybe I have another election in me. Now,
I'm not saying he was consciously thinking that, but he's
always been political in his approach to business. First, Pillin
is not this guy is I'm gonna do it my way,
and if you don't like it. I'm smart enough to outfox.

Speaker 1 (39:50):
You, and he is. I want a strong primary challenge
and a fun election. Give us something to talk about here.
He a't gonna get a I don't think he's getting
a primary challenge, linnle Wall. We're gonna give him something
to run for me. He's he is. You bring up
all the abuse and everything. You can't help, but think
about the Somali deal and all the hundreds of millions
of dollars floating around in Minnesota. Well, the other thing

(40:11):
they're looking at now is how in the world did
someone who no one really had heard of, Tim Walls,
governor of Minnesota, suddenly joined that Kamala Harris ticket. And
suddenly the Harris Walls campaign got thirty six million dollars
within the first twenty four hours of the announcement of
Walls joining the ticket. Many of those contributions from quote

(40:33):
first time donors. You're telling me there were Democrats sitting
around going all right, now, we got the old ball coach,
you know, from Nebraska's governor of Minnesota up there. I
like this guy. I'm gonna give a whole bunch of money.
There are a lot of people wondering where that money
came from. That could be the next shoe that would
allegedly drop. These things never really drop, you know, and

(40:53):
nothing ever happens. But they're looking into it. And with
this Department of Justice, who knows a Nick Shirley up there,
it's worth looking into. Nick Shirley's going to find it.
He in his phone. Yeah, that's that independent journalists who
uncovered the Leering Center. We are now joined in the studios.
We continue a busy morning here by Nebraska third District
Congressman Adrian Smith, congressman in Nebraska's third district. We got

(41:16):
a new jail out there in McCook, and we got
rural hospitals saying if we don't get some funding from somebody,
we're going to close down. You're in a house of
representatives talking about subsidies for Obamacare. That relates also a
bit to some of these health care issues, hospital issues
across the state. It's a lot to respond to what's

(41:36):
going on with healthcare across Nebraska.

Speaker 3 (41:39):
Well, there are a lot of things happening.

Speaker 8 (41:40):
One thing that is so impressive are the rural critical
access hospitals. Those are the that's the designation for rural
hospitals twenty five beds and fewer, and across the third
district we have more than fifty of them, and no
two are alike. They really reflect the needs of the community.
I'm glad to say that the Working Family tax cuts
bill that we pas last summer included fifty billion dollars

(42:02):
for rural health care. Nebraska shares roughly two hundred and
eighteen million, and I think that will strengthen rural healthcare
that you know, there's some gaps out there. We want
to make sure they have the resources and that the
safety net is appropriately applied and in an innovative way
forward rather than just you know, enrolling and expanding the

(42:23):
roles of Medicaid to actually encourage providers to have the
flexibility that.

Speaker 3 (42:30):
They need to meet the needs of the community.

Speaker 1 (42:32):
As more people are off Obamacare, which has a startlingly
low rate of return on what the government then pays
that hospital someone goes in there in Obamacare, that hospital's
only getting reimbursed like twenty cents on the dollar. Same
with some of the abuses we see in Medicaid. I
would think that eliminating some of those programs might help

(42:55):
those rural hospitals, but they're still out there saying we
might have to close down or cut service and you're
gonna have to drive further for worse services across Nebraska
if we don't do something about all of this and
the government shut down because of Obamacare subsidies. So what's
going on on that front.

Speaker 3 (43:12):
Well, clearly Obamacare is failing the American people.

Speaker 1 (43:15):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (43:16):
We we see less coverage, higher premiums as a result
of Obamacare, and we need to change that. And I
think we're starting to see that. The Senate is working
on an alternative to what passed the House with the
just a clean three year extension, kicking the can down
the road. Sadly that is not the right the right
way to go, but I'm glad to send it. I

(43:38):
think can give us an alternative. I think ultimately we
want patients to have choices. And you know, Obamacare big
thrust of Obamacare was just to grow the roles of Medicaid.
When you see the expanded qualifications for for for Medicaid,
it's a problem. And actually when Medicaid is an insufficient

(44:02):
reimbursement for hospitals themselves. They tell us this all the time,
and so we want to shift away from Medicaid to
enroll folks on a private plan of their choosing with
coverage of their choosing, and I think we can do that.
Some would prefer a higher deductible so that they can
have a lower premium, and we need to get away

(44:23):
from the centrally planned Obamacare approach that's been in place
for a while.

Speaker 5 (44:28):
Now twenty million people are still not covered by Obamacare
and it's been around for sixteen years. So failure, that's
the best definition of Obamacare had to tow It was
supposed to cover everybody right and lower everybody's costs. Well,
my costs, I don't know about borhees. My costs are
up eighty nine percent in the sixteen years minor, mostly
because of an unhealthy lifestyle. Yeah, well that's a separate issue.

Speaker 1 (44:50):
But you're right. So are we going to have a
shutdown at the end of January?

Speaker 3 (44:54):
I don't think so.

Speaker 8 (44:55):
I think you know we're passing more appropriations bills ready,
the shut down drama.

Speaker 3 (45:03):
I hope folks have checked that box.

Speaker 8 (45:06):
And we can't have a thoughtful discussion how we can
wrap this up by the end of end of January
and get into another new appropriation season where we need
to do the appropriations process again.

Speaker 1 (45:18):
We have Nebraska third District Congressman Adrian Smith here in
the studio. Now, we've had a member of the House
of Representatives, Republican member just pass. We've got a special
election in Texas that looks like it's going to replace
a Republican with one of two Democrats. Marjorie Taylor Green
is back on whatever planet she came out of, and

(45:40):
we have a shrinking Republican majority, and the President's like,
we gotta get going because after the midterms Democrats win,
they're going to impeach and remove me from office in
dismantle ice. Is that the situation right now in our
House of Representatives.

Speaker 8 (45:54):
But I think it's clear that the Democrats they will
they will attempt to impeach again. I think actually when
they did that last time, that the first impeachment on
on President Trump, they actually strengthened President Trump for you know,
in the public eye.

Speaker 1 (46:11):
The guy who lost that ensuing election. Well, but they
can impeach them all they want. Impeachment just says we
don't like this guy. Yeah we know, we heard, so
could they remove him from office? Dismantled defund and dismantled ice.

Speaker 8 (46:27):
I think they would have a really hard time getting
all the votes they need House and Senate to to
remove the president.

Speaker 3 (46:32):
But they will.

Speaker 8 (46:32):
They will certainly undermine anything they possibly can that the
president is doing, even if they've previously agreed with what
he's doing. That that's there. You know examples of that
a lot. I look at the UH, the trade front.
I work a lot on trade, and it's interesting one

(46:53):
of my Democratic colleagues the other day was decrying tariffs
and yet voted against the most recent tarf relief bill.

Speaker 1 (46:59):
All right, so do you agree with what he's doing?
Some people say he's provoking, stoking protests across the country,
trying to get people out there to fight with his gestapo,
as Joe Rogan even referred to them as or insinuated.
Does the president have a problem within his own base?
Based on some of the stuff we see when we
turn on the news.

Speaker 8 (47:18):
I don't think the president has a problem with his
own base. Obviously, the president campaigned on many of these
things that he's acting on Minneapolis, they are pushing back.
I think that, and then that sadly, many of my
Democratic colleagues, they tend to make statements that I think
make things worse, draw conclusions without all the facts. Let's

(47:40):
make sure we gather the facts before before judgments are made.
And they're you know, getting at dangerous illegal immigrants is
not easy and it needs to happen. And I think
that that's been the goal of the administration.

Speaker 1 (47:58):
And we got a place to put him in McCook
Jim Rose.

Speaker 5 (48:01):
We know that Tim Walls is a buffoon and the
Jacob Fry is a brainwashed radical leftist, So they're not
retrievable stated as facts by Jim Rose. Guys, the evidence
speaks for itself. It stands on its own. What about
the Democrats in the House of Representatives from Minnesota? Are
these people just like that? What are they telling you

(48:21):
about the business up there? That is really really sad
to watch. These are fanatical, paid agitators. They are not
the typical Minnesota up there. Now, there's some wackos rain
freezes up there, but you gotta I can't believe that
the representatives of Minnesota in the United States Congress are
behaving like these two guys.

Speaker 8 (48:42):
Well, there's certainly some liberals that join us in the
House from Minnesota. They see the world a little bit differently.
But you go back to the fraud that has been
committed for.

Speaker 3 (48:56):
A long time.

Speaker 8 (48:57):
You know, the state legislators came to d C last
week week before to share their perspective on what they've
observed over time. I think there's a lot more to
uncover in terms of who knew about the fraud and when.
And you know that underlying issue, whether it's on the

(49:18):
childcare front across Minnesota or in Minneapolis more specifically, whether
it's say duplication in medicaid, where if we eliminate duplication
in Medicaid, no one loses care. Now there's there's someone
profiting from the combody's actually get because they're getting paid,
But that's not the patient. And so we we need

(49:40):
to do more. And I'm shocked, disappointed, surprised that my
Democratic colleagues refuse to cooperate when it comes to even
eliminating duplication.

Speaker 1 (49:51):
Yeah, we just got a moment left here at Congressman,
as you go back to Washington to kick off twenty
twenty six there with your colleagues in the House, what
is it that you want to see get done for
the people, not just the third District, but all of Nebraska.

Speaker 8 (50:03):
Grow the economy, ben the spending curve, and we've been
making some progress. The bill, the Working Family Tax Cuts
bill that we passed last summer has been the right thing.
We've seen that tax policies that we kicked off in
twenty seventeen were the right thing that even a lot
of Democrats have been supporting many of those policies.

Speaker 3 (50:23):
I'm proud to say that. So we took that.

Speaker 8 (50:27):
Policy and extended that basically made it largely permanent.

Speaker 3 (50:31):
That's good.

Speaker 8 (50:32):
We need to really address the spending curve to get
our fiscal house in order. There's a lot of work
to do on that front. We need to, I think
implement more technology and healthcare. That's how we actually bend
the cost curve in healthcare itself, not just financing you know,
the deductibles and premiums and shifting around who pays how much,

(50:52):
but actually bending the cost curve on healthcare.

Speaker 3 (50:56):
That can literally help everyone.

Speaker 1 (50:57):
All right? That, yeah, how hard can it be to
get all that done here in this day? And there's
a lot of word this Congress, and then I'll let
you get back to it. Nebraska third District Representative Adrian
Smith here on Nebraska's Morning News. Happy New Year, good
to see you, Happy New yeark thank you, Good morning.
I am Scott voorh He's here with Craig Evans, with
Lucy Chapman, Jim Rose, and someone who just couldn't stay

(51:18):
away from Lucy Chapman any longer. We warned you that
there would be some occasions when he would suddenly just
show up here on the radio station. Ladies and gentlemen,
Gary Saddlemire, warn them boys, Hey se Gary, Lucy's crying.
We missed you so much.

Speaker 4 (51:38):
Man, I was feeling for you the other day. Lucy.

Speaker 2 (51:40):
You know you just stopped. You didn't care anymore.

Speaker 4 (51:43):
Wednesday, Yeah, for your first day back.

Speaker 2 (51:45):
Have you heard me today?

Speaker 4 (51:46):
Yeah, you're much much better much Wednesday I thought, why
are you back? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (51:50):
I was asking myself that.

Speaker 1 (51:52):
We needed her. I mean, you got to play hurt.

Speaker 4 (51:55):
Is there anybody in the building tape it up who
hasn't had mala fever? Barry the flu and that most
reddit of all diseases will go on and over the
last two months.

Speaker 1 (52:06):
Battling the alien. Gary, you're you're a Minnesota guy. You
turn on the news and you see what's going on
up there. You must be so proud.

Speaker 4 (52:15):
Oh my god, it's just unbelievable. The South Minneapolis. You
it's incredible. That's fairly close to where George Floyd died.
It's pretty close to where I went to radio school
all those years ago. It's a generally middle class residential area,

(52:36):
broadly speaking, the south south part of the city, so
well south of downtown Long Lake Street and Hiawatha Bulloar.
I think this was on follering. They're nuts, but these
are all paid for it, right.

Speaker 5 (52:49):
A lot all of them, but a lot of them
are I mean the ones that are the ones that
are really really in the face of the the ice
agents and the ones that are throwing things and cause
reckless behavior, those are probably paid for by some very
difficult to track LLC that's being funded probably by somebody
some out of the nation foreign you know, billionaire who's

(53:13):
got nothing better to do with his money.

Speaker 4 (53:14):
But you know the thing.

Speaker 5 (53:15):
But the problem is, of course that buffoon governor of
theirs and that just absolutely unhinged Mayor.

Speaker 4 (53:22):
These are the guys mentioned the communist Lamney.

Speaker 5 (53:26):
Yeah, he's these are the ones that continue to incite
this kind of emotional behavior.

Speaker 1 (53:33):
They're the ones. It was it was.

Speaker 5 (53:35):
Walls yesterday who said you need to take your phone
out and gather evidence of atrocity.

Speaker 4 (53:41):
That's the Thing's the thing that bothers me about it
more than I think anything else. Maybe they're repairenting this
over and over again about how these law enforcement federal
law enforcement people ICE start committing these atrocities and dragging
people out of there. Do you have any examples? No,
they never have any examples that we know what they're
doing up there. We know what they're doing up there.

(54:03):
They're finding assaults and rapists and murderers and traffickers from
these foreign countries that are here illegally, and they're trying
to get them the hell out of here.

Speaker 1 (54:11):
And people who've overstayed their visas.

Speaker 4 (54:13):
What citizens are they dragging out of their houses? Please?

Speaker 1 (54:17):
None there, there are no.

Speaker 4 (54:18):
They never have an example.

Speaker 1 (54:19):
Well, I think we might have some breaking news here.
I think State Senator Mikayla Kavanaugh of Omaha is going
to leave her job and be an ICE agent. She
can just run around and start grabbing people, putting them
under her arm and storing them in her office like
she did with Best posters at the unicameral. You got
some thoughts on that era of the governor. But what
does he What do you mean a criminal investor? I

(54:41):
got your criminal investigation right here, Gov, here's a video.
She tore them off the wall.

Speaker 4 (54:45):
What do you want? Criminal investigation in the corner?

Speaker 1 (54:49):
She wants to go to the Cornerscer clink. Anyway, what investigations.
It's like we said yesterday, she's admitted she did.

Speaker 4 (54:56):
There's an apologizing.

Speaker 1 (54:57):
The intrigue is.

Speaker 4 (54:58):
I don't understand what the investigations.

Speaker 1 (55:01):
She went out to McCook and she's I demand to
see the Cornhusker Clink. Well, now she's committed a crime.
Give her a night there. Yeah, this is what she wants.

Speaker 5 (55:10):
Yeah, I don't know that the misdemeanor is going to
get her a night of the corn Husker Clink. But
this is this is red meat for Killin's base.

Speaker 4 (55:19):
Now, it's awful you mentioned it earlier, Rosie. By far,
most people up there, it's close to six million people
in the state of Minnesota, almost four million in the
Twin Cities metro almost all of them are like, what
are you people doing?

Speaker 1 (55:35):
Are they why do they keep why do they keep
voting for this it's the block of Democrats in the
Twin Cities, the dog Democrat.

Speaker 4 (55:44):
That's right. A lot of people, a lot of people
will vote. They're they're married to the D. They're married
to the D.

Speaker 1 (55:50):
But did they vote for this? No, this is going
to hurt them.

Speaker 5 (55:54):
No, Walls is not running for re election. But let's
see what happens in the Senate race up there. I
don't know that we have a front runner for the GOP.
The lieutenant governor I think, is running for the Senate
seat that Tina Smith is giving him.

Speaker 1 (56:09):
Mike G. Lindell's up for governor.

Speaker 4 (56:12):
What seat are you talking about?

Speaker 1 (56:13):
The Senate seat?

Speaker 9 (56:14):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (56:14):
Yeah, because Tina Smith is leaving. This is the Al
Franken replacement. And I know Michelle Tafoya who she's a
sports broadcaster who got famous in the Twin Cities. She's
been up there a long time. She's very conservative. She's
talked about running for the Senate. I don't know if
it's legitimate, really a shot. Well, she certainly Klobachar will

(56:35):
run for governor and win most likely, which gets her
out of d C at least. But no, this is
I just I just find it very hard to believe
that a Minnesotan in ottertail, you know you always use
or white Bear Lake or still Water or some of

(56:55):
these other or Albert Lee think, yeah, thinks that this
is okay behavior by Minnesotan's that if you're if you're
a state farm agent in Albert Lee, Minnesota, and you're
looking at this going this is not my state, this
is not my these are not my people.

Speaker 1 (57:10):
Gary what Gary Sademeyer, our guest here on his show
on news radio eleven ten kfab Yes. Yeah. President went
into the Ford Plant the other day, ended up flipping
off a guy and telling him to you know, telling
him you'll forget yourself a few cut times there. And
then he who went out before that and grabbed the
dictator in Venezuela. What are your thoughts on some of

(57:32):
the stuff President Trump's been doing lately.

Speaker 4 (57:34):
That's endlessly entertaining. I mean every day you never know.
H Yeah, that was pretty good up at the Ford plant.
And I heard you say earlier the guy's still working there.

Speaker 1 (57:43):
So yeah, he's he just got suspended. Yeah, they got suspended.
I think for a day's a union like that. He's
got eight hundred thousand dollars came into a GoFundMe. I'll
tell the president anything you want for eight hundred thousand dollars.

Speaker 4 (57:57):
Well, here's the thing. With the possible exception of Andrew
Jackson to who we've read about, can you imagine any
other president responding that way? No, No, it's just endlessly entertaining. Yeah,
I got a bird for you.

Speaker 1 (58:14):
Well, i'll tell you that we only got a minute
left here. We got Greg Wagner and Rosie to Genozi
coming up here. I'll tell you what has not been
endlessly entertaining? Is this show without you on. I have
been doing my best. I've been doing my best to
be so awful that you are listening to home you
slam the radio off and say, I'm going I'm coming
back in. Have we achieved that yet? Because I there's

(58:37):
so much worse I can get.

Speaker 4 (58:38):
And I come back for petty complaint Friday?

Speaker 1 (58:40):
Yeah, we got a petty complaint Friday coming in here.
You want to pop back in for that? Come back
anytime anytime you. Oh yeah, PCT girls will be in here.
We're doing a petty complaint Thursday Friday. All right, good
to see Gary will pop back in here. Ladies and gentlemen.
Gary Saddle that see, we told you that he'd be
popping back in on the show from time. We threatened
that he'd be coming back, and he did.

Speaker 2 (58:59):
There he is Nebraska's news, weather and traffic station.

Speaker 6 (59:03):
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Speaker 1 (59:07):
Guaranteed human doesn't get more human than Greg Wagner.

Speaker 9 (59:15):
Booms and as he's out there looking for animals from
Nebraska gaming parks, Greg Wagner stops by here on Nebraska's
Morning News ice fishing. We're talking ice again, on again,
off again conversation throughout what passes for winter. I guess
around here at the ice fishing so far, what do

(59:36):
we what we got? Scottie, they're in depression.

Speaker 10 (59:38):
Yeah, they have not really they have not had ice,
and I don't know if we'll have any ice. And
I was asked the other day, what's it gonna take
to form enough ice for ice fishing?

Speaker 4 (59:47):
Ice?

Speaker 1 (59:48):
Cold weather?

Speaker 10 (59:48):
Yeah, it's gonna take this three or four nights of
sub zero weather zero or below and then daytime highs
that don't touch freezing. Not's asking a lot, because here
in your forecast got fifteen tomorrow and then it's forty
on Sunday. Yeah, topsy tribute. Weather doesn't mode well. But
the big thing why we haven't had a lot of

(01:00:11):
ice obviously the warmth, but the wind. The wind is
just keeping a lot of these waters open and waterfowl.
Jim and I were talking about that before we came
on the air here.

Speaker 1 (01:00:20):
All right, so what can we do then with a
weekend like this.

Speaker 10 (01:00:24):
Well, you know, I was thinking about that, and one
of the fun things to do is go to Mahony
State Park. We've got the ice rink open, the open
air covered ice fishing, not ice fishing, ice rink. Yeah,
no ice skalle that rink. But got the ice rink open.
You can have skate rental there.

Speaker 1 (01:00:40):
Yeah. And can people go to the ice rink and
drill a hole in it ice fish? You're right behind
Greg Wagner, who's not I'm just saying, think about this.
You've got the kids going around and around that ice rink, right,
but you've got that whole middle of the ice rink
that's just sitting there. Yeah, but put stock stock and

(01:01:00):
let some people put some little shanties up on it
and drill.

Speaker 10 (01:01:04):
Some new there's new fish under the ice. Okay, well
not young fish under that artificial ice.

Speaker 1 (01:01:10):
So we got that.

Speaker 10 (01:01:11):
Got that, and then we have the indoor play area
that's connected to in the climbing wall area, so you
can you can get warm, you can do both. You
got the snack bar there. It's pretty cool something to do,
all right, to do with the fan.

Speaker 1 (01:01:22):
What about hunting, if you're gonna go out and brave
these auditions, oh boy, and I know hunters will brave these.

Speaker 9 (01:01:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:01:29):
Pheasant quail seasons are open pockets of them, tough conditions
to get out and hunt. The mild conditions have not
boted well because the birds have spread out.

Speaker 1 (01:01:40):
They'll need snow cover and cold.

Speaker 10 (01:01:41):
But still have pheasant quail seasons going to the end
of the month. And a lot of the hunters know
where those pockets are, so I get out and hunt
them and they'll hold tight on a daylight, you know
today or tomorrow with wind and cold.

Speaker 1 (01:01:55):
And on the outdoor bulletin board, Greg, Jim and I.

Speaker 10 (01:01:58):
Were talking lots of eagles in the area, of bald eagles,
lots of swans, we have a lot of those in
the area, and a lot of migratory waterfowl it's kind
of a cool time of year, just you know, even
sightseeing or driving around some of the reservoirs in the metro.

Speaker 1 (01:02:12):
Yeah, it's a good weekend to do that. Which whether
it's if you're brave enough to go outdoors, you got
some opportunities of us. We find some hot coc and
a fire and something to do indoors, and Nebraska game
in parks gives you plenty of opportunities to do both.
Greg Wagner, always a pleasure, Thank you so much.