July 14, 2026 • 54 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Who wants to take the first shot at trying to
figure out what Brett Linstrom is up to.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Now.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
This is the guy who served Northwest Omaha and the
Nebraska Unicameral over a couple of terms, decided he wanted
to run for governor, didn't make it out of that primary.
Jim Pillen did, he is our governor, and then Brett
Linstrom said, you know, I think I'd like to run
for Congress. And after Don Bacon said he wasn't running
for reelection, Brett Linstrom said, I'm in, Bringer Harding said
(00:27):
I'm in. Leinstrom dropped out and changed his designation from
Republican to independent and is now starting a petition drive
to potentially get on the ballot to be governor in November.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Jim, your analysis.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
With one hundred and sixteen days before the election, this
one makes no sense to me. You've forgot to remember
he challenged Lee Terry back at twenty thirteen and did
not do well in that primary against Lee Terry, who
ultimately lost to Brad Ashford.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
But that's what.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Happened in Brett Linstrom's political opus. This one is a
bit puzzling, Scott. If the objective is to win, and
maybe that's not his objective. It might be you know what,
I'm going to change the conversation away from a high
partisanship to inclusion. You're right, he gave up his Republican designation,
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but he went to non partisan, not officially independent. There's
a little bit of a distinction there. But he's not
technically an independent because that's a voter designation. He's nonpartisan
and this will be a monumental challenge. He doesn't have
any of the things that you need to win a
statewide election in place. He doesn't have a structure, he
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doesn't have a base of political support. There must be
money behind him in some degree. He doesn't even have
a spot on the ballot yet, which makes Rick Beard
the cannabis candidate, a better shot to win than Brett
Lindstrom today. Legal marijuana is the name of that party.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
And at least he's on the ballot, but Brett's not
on the ballot. He needs four thousand signatures by the
third of August, and seven hundred and fifty of them
have to be from each of the congressional districts. Can
he get the four thousand? Probably if he's got one
hundred people out there standing in the Walmart parking lot
in Thedford, then he'll probably be able to get seven
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to fifty from out there.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Is there a Walmart in Thedford, something like that.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
But you know Brett's Brett's got will you never say
no chance. But typically third party candidates and we've only
had seven of them win of statewide election in this
country since World War Two. Usually when a third party
candidate emerges, it's because the other two are as Alvas
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used to say, rumdums. They either have a major legal issue,
a major scandal, or some sort of major you know,
f up during the time they were in office that
have caused people to say no way, no way, no
how so he doesn't have that for this That's how
they get elected. Now, if he just wants to enter
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this race because he wants to demonstrate that a former
Republican can be not so stridently one way or the
other in a divisive political climate, which is what we
have today, then okay, then that's an objective and God
bless him for that. But I did the numbers last night,
and if he gets eighteen percent of the vote, given
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that Ms Carrol Blood got thirty five percent, which to me,
says Lynn Walls, who's running for governor this year, could
get forty one percent. If Brett Linstrom gets eighteen percent
and mister Beard gets three percent, then Lynn Walls's governor
of Nebraska. I see this as one of three different paths.
Either you do this because you feel like you can
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draw You're just liberal enough, you can draw enough Democrats
to come over to your side. You're just conservative enough,
you can draw enough Republicans to come over to your side.
And this is the kind of candidate who can be
bipartisan and lead the people that we've been crying for
for years. People always always say that, how did that
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work out for Mike McDonald? People always say that, But
the reality is, I don't think that's what voters are
really thinking when they go to the polls, especially in
today's political climate. So it's a great idea. I don't
think that that's what we're doing here, And that's all
that want Path one. Path two.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Path two is I want Lynn Wallas to be governor,
and I want to siphon away enough votes from Jim
Pillen to allow the Democrat Lynn Wallace to become the
next governor of Nebraska. That's path two, Path three, And
this is what I think is what they're thinking is
the most likely path. This is not the Scott Vorhees
a prediction of what's happening.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
This is what we do. This is speculate wildly.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Here's my wild speculation as to why they think that
they need to do this. I believe there are people
out there who think that there's something going on with
Jim Pillen that's going to have him either be politically
handicapped or off the ballot by November, and you want
to have someone there to catch those votes.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Oh, I don't think that will happen, meaning I don't
think he'll leave the race, and I don't imagine that
there's enough nuclear energy inside of a bombshell.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
To do that.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
But I do believe that he has some headwinds ahead
of this election. There is a general disappointment in some
circles around the state about the governor. It might be
his personality, it might be his I'm in charge kind
of guy. He's twisted a lot of arms over the
last four years. There is a business community reluctance to
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wrap their arms around him. And I don't know why
that is because he shepherded a lowering of the income tax,
which is something the Nebraska State Chamber is championed for
a long time, and that's something certainly that the Omaha
business community is champion. The property tax promise is going
to come back and bite him. He's blown through a
lot of money that was left over from the previous
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administration thanks to COVID, and we still don't have property
tax relief.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
In fact, it's gotten worse.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
So there is a pothole or two that the gym
buss can hit between here in November. The other thing
that I think that Brett Linstrom may be banking on Scott,
which dovetails a little bit to your doors Number one,
two and three, is that there's just a general disappointment
with the current political system in our country, and Donald
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Trump has something to do with that. There's just a
lot of political fatigue and so that may really hold
down turnout. It's not going to be I'm gonna vote
for the other guy. It's you know what if I
miss election day this year? So what I'm just not
into it. That said, I think there is energy on
the Democrat side because they got lapped pretty well in
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the last presidential election, and that might bring out more
folks who typically wouldn't vote. I also will not. And
I know this is gonna sound strange and some people.
I want you to process this. Rick Beard is gonna
get votes, Okay, now, not a lot. He's not gonna
win this election, no, but he could be the ralph
Nator to Jim Pillen. What he could be the Ralph
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Nader what he was to Al Gore in two thousand. Say,
he would draw more from those you were probably inclined
to vote Democrat. He's a the Legal Marijuana Now Party potentially,
But what he's liable to do is just get a
percentage of the electorate, and the electorate may be down
because it's an off year election. I think the most
likely path is that third one, which has an offshore
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where Lindstrom gets the signatures to be on the ballot.
But if Pilling is not somehow derailed between now and
the point where Brett could hop off this train, Brett
does not end up on the petition. He decides, yeah,
I put this, I got the signatures, but I don't
want to be on the petition, which is a likely path.
We got a lot to talk about throughout the morning.
Let's get to the eleven ten KFAB Certified Transmission Sports brief.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Now here's Jim Rose.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Okay, Scott, good morning everybody. If you weren't sure we
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he's calm.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
What you missed there is that a kid dropped a
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The Royals have a starter shortstop, Bobby Whitt. Dylan Carry
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They are your semifinalists in the World Cup Final four.
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basketball team, was arrested in Memphis. He's accused of shooting
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This on top of another felony charge of breaking into
the apartment of a former girlfriend. Sports his news on
Nebraska's news weather station. I think we're learning a lot
about Jim Rose this morning. He is the only person
in Nebraska media who has twice in the same hour
(11:08):
mentioned the political ambitions of Rick Beard of the Legal
Marijuana Now Party. He does have some cute signs.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
He's very cute, So you've got some political signs out there.
He had him out last time, and what did he
get anywhere approaching two percent of the vote last time
three percent of the vote.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Let but see this is after that was before we
the people voted for legal medicio marijuana.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
In this state.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
That has been foot dragged by the administration.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Right, But if you.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Vote for governor the head of the Legal Marijuana Now party,
does that make marijuana legal in Nebraska.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
No?
Speaker 3 (11:46):
No, it has a very powerful advocate. Look that medical
marijuana is legal in Nebraska, just hasn't been implemented yet.
But if you go on his website, now, Rick's a
wine bar operator here in all and like this is
not a serious candidate for office, but he believes in
a lot of He's a libertarian by nature, I think,
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and he believes that medical cannabis and cannabis crop, the
cannabis crop will address a lot of our economic issues.
And he's right about that. It could generate massive, massive amounts. Now,
he doesn't address some of the negative things that come
from people basically getting stoned.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
All the time.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
But there is a growing population of people in the
country that believe in this.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
But more importantly than that's good, I just think there
is a cadre of people who say, look, I've voted
for this, I want this, and this guy is on
my side, and I don't like any of these other candidates.
And in in a mid term election, you tend to
get the activists out, the ones who just say I'm
going to make a statement. I'm going to vote for
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Rick Beard. Not because I think he'd make a great governor,
but because I don't like these other people. Number one
and number two, I've voted for medical marijuana in this
state and it hasn't happened yet. Now it's on the
road to happening, but it's taken a while. Yeah, And
that's why I think it's possible he could get two
two and a half three percent.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
There are a lot of people who love to sit
around and smoke weed and make their problems go away
and just kind of live that lifestyle. And if you
ask him when election day is, they would say Buffalo.
So good luck getting them out to vote. By the way,
don't knock it till you try it.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
I've tried it.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Not today, not in this decade, not in the last decade.
What decade do we We're in the twenty twenty, maybe
the previous day. Okay, in the nineties, I was a teenager,
my mom said try everything. I think she was talking
about Brussels. Frutz got this message via the Zonker's custom
was inbox from Dave says Brett Linstrom. The Gavin Newsom
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of Nebraska Politics's not.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
The Gavin Newsom of Nebraska politics, but he does have
a brand issue. Not sure exactly what he is. I
think he's conservative. I think he's baseline a conservative Republican.
He's not a libertarian, he's not a freeman. But I
think he's a precret club Republicans. He's much like brinker Harding.
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He's a traditional Republican who just believes in some of
the bedrock conservative Republican principles of the last seventy five years.
And that's fine, okay, but his voting record would be
of some concern to those who you'd have to convince
as much. The death penalty vote, that's a big, big one.
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And it wasn't the death penalty vote because you can
give him slack on religious grounds, but when he voted
to override the veto, that it's political and I don't
think that was helpful. The other issue with Brett is
he's not been very successful in elections. Like I said,
he challenged Lee Terry, that didn't go well. He did
win those two legislative races. You know, that's that's swimming
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in the shallow end political in our state. He spent
a lot of money and a lot of time and
finished third in the race for the GOP nomination for
governor in twenty twenty two, and then this business with
the House race. Got twenty six percent of that Republican
primary vote and pilling one with thirty three percent. So
it's not like he lapped the field with And if
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anyone's like who was second, carls Herbster was. Herbster won
on a lot more counties. But the issue involves, in
my view, the issue involves I don't know what this
guy is. I don't know who this guy is. I
don't know what I can count on with this guy.
And the dally outs with the run for Congress was misguided.
I don't know why anybody with young kids would want
to be a member of the United States Congress. It's
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a horrible job. It's sixty hours a week, The travel
back and forth from the district to d C is draconian,
and you're raising money seven hours a day. I'll let him,
you know, deal with his family dynamic. I think Brett
Linstrom is a guy who everybody likes.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Well, if you've met him, you do.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
He's a smart, measured guy, and everybody likes him, I
like him this, maybe I'll go this way, maybe I'll
do this, and all that. It raises questions as to
exactly who he is politically. Now here's the assessment of
Lynn Walls, who would stand to gain the most if
so if he got into this race. A senior advisor,
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we don't even have a statement from the candidate herself,
who's running her campaign. A senior advisor to Lynn Wallas,
in a statement to the Nebraska Examiner, says Brett Linstrom
is a lifelong conservative Republican whose record speaks for itself.
He is no moderate. Lynn Walls is the only candidate
with the viable path of de beat Jim Pillen.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
That's the dumbest thing. They should be funding Brett.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Linstrom's campaign because if he gets in, he's going to
siphon votes away from Pilling more than he would from Walls.
And Lynn Walls is the next governor of Nebraska. People
are idiots.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Like I said, I ran the numbers if Carol Blood,
who ran virtually a stealth campaign against Jim Pillon, and
that's when people didn't really know Jim except other than
he was number twenty nine who saved the Oklahoma and
Alabama games back in seventy eight and seventy seven, she
got thirty almost thirty six percent of the vote, And
if she gets thirty six percent in that election, then
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Lynn Walls can get forty one or forty two percent
this time around, unless she just falls off the truck.
She gets forty one to forty two percent. So if
Lindstrom gets fifteen to eighteen percent and mister Beard gets
two percent, then Lynn Walls may be taking the oath
of office in January. Rick Beard is not a factor
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in this election. Okay, Well, they said the same thing
about Ralph. I like his son, I like his science.
They're very cute.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
We learned yesterday we were enlightened by the Governor of
South Carolina that the individual tapped to fill out the
rest of Senator Lindsey Graham's term after he died over
the weekend will be his sister. This is a nice note.
I didn't think that they would go this route because
they want, obviously a Republican to fill that seat. So
the Republican governor of South Carolina in pushing for someone
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to win the Republican primary and then the vote as
a Republican in November. I would think would put someone
in there who would have a leg up on the
job by already serving in the job. But this is
a it's a really nice thing to do for the
Graham family. If people aren't aware, Lindsey Graham raised his
little sister. Their parents died when they were very young. Well,
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she was thirteen, he was seventeen, and he actually became
her legal guardians so that he could have or that
she could receive his military benefits. Correct, that's an amazing
thing that how many of today's kids would do something
like that, would be in a situation where they would
do something like that.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Well, it wasn't just after her parents died. Their parents died.
He really kind of raised her too, because they were
both hardworking folks and they ran a pool haul in
a bar, and they lived in a one bedroom apartment
behind the pool hall. So as you listen to her,
she would say, this guy taught me to ride a bike.
This guy taught me to time my shoes. This guy
was really like my dad. So to that extent, these
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two were extraordinarily tight. Now, he did finish high school
and he went to college and joined the Air Force
the ROTC program. At the time, he arranged for her
to live with an aunt until he could take over
her needs as she grew up, so they did have
other family. But I think this is really cool. I
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think it's really special. And here's the thing about South Carolina, Scott.
It's rather than the South Stadium on fall Saturdays, you're
going to have to have a real dummy below that
race if you're a Republican. And if you look at
the well, it's happened. But if you look at those
who are vying for the primary, and I think the
primaries in a couple of weeks or they're going to
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specially to have the special election to find a replacement
because he won the primary last spring, you know you're
going to get somebody who's not going to have a
problem holding on to that seat.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Yeah, And as far as what she brings to the table,
it's not just that she is Lindsey Graham's sister. She
has worked with people with disabilities. The last several years,
she's been the commissioner of the South Carolina Commission for
the Blind. She has, you know, some idea what it
takes to lead groups and to serve in government. And
so I don't think she's I mean she's there as
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a placeholder. I don't think that she's like I kind
of like this. I like the taste of this us
N it's see, I'm going to do that. I want
to stick around. I don't think that's the case with her.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Well, and this also gives some stability to his staff.
This means they have six months to find another job
or warm up to whoever wins the primary, to keep
their gigs in DC. So that's nice for them. She
will do exactly what the White House tells her to do,
or exactly what the staff there for Senator Graham will do.
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She will not be the power broker that he was.
She will vote yes on issues that matter to Republicans.
I'm sure John Thune, the Senate Majority Leader, is going
to be very very advisory to Lindsey's sister.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
And yet it.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Also speaks to I think a lot of respect for
him and what he meant to Republicans and to the President.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
It's a nice celebration Henry McMaster.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Who is the governor of South Carolina, who is also
very close to Lindsay.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Graham, and ladies and gentlemen, it is now time here
on eleven ten kfab for a Straight of Horror Muz update.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
In the straight of Horn.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Here's your Strait of Hormuz update. Who is that bono?
I think that is not it's either or Chasity bono.
I forgot who's saying that one the Straight of Horror
Moves update, that's you and the shower isn't. And I
don't think so.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
A horrible singing, but it's.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
The most beautiful thing I've ever heard. President Trump has
been floating the idea of charging a twenty percent toll
on cargo shipped through the Strait of Horror Moves, the
most famous strait of all time, perhaps, and he says
he's not joking. He says he's very serious about implementing it.
A White House official tells the news outlet Semaphore. The
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report adds that Trump has been musing about the idea
since April, although he was apparently talked out of it.
But I think that President Trump is out on some
of these people who are negotiating on his behalf. And
I don't know that he completely blames the US negotiator,
including the Vice President. I think he's just tired of
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the Iranians, who are we talking to what is the
matter with these people? We're giving them everything they could
ever possibly want, and they continue to start blowing up
cruise ships and sending out drones and striking some of
these not cruise ships but cargo ships through the strait.
And I'm just tired. And who's stopping me from blowing
the entire place up?
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Yeah, we see.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
We don't usually see a Princess of the Sea cruise
liner in the Straits of Horror.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Moves now, probably not for a while anyway. Secretary of
State Rubio last month said no country is allowed to
charge tolls or fees on an international waterway that is
existing international law. Now, Iran said, yeah, well we're gonna
do it, then, President Trump, saiover you do it, We're
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gonna do it. We'll charge a twenty percent toll on cargo.
Let's see who's in charge of this straight. Tehran has
responded sarcastically to this suggestion by President Trump, says twenty
percent is too much. We will be more fair, will
charge less than twenty percent. Like most things the President does,
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he throws something out there, says, all right, we're going
to negotiate. Here's what I want you to give me.
I want the stars and the moon and the sun. Oh,
mister president, we couldn't possibly, all right, what the president
wants is a couple of those stars. But he's going
to throw out this first negotiating point to try and
get to where he wants to go. So I think
what he wants. I know what he wants. He doesn't
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want any tariffs on any of those ships, especially the
oil tankers going through the Strait of hor moves twenty
percent charge. In case you're thinking, well, how much is that?
A twenty percent charge on a cargo value? If you've
got a large oil tanker, it add over thirty million
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dollars to a large oil tanker's trip. And who's going
to pay that. It's not going to be the oil company.
It's going to be the American people. Speaking of what's
going on with oil, it is up right now in
early trading on this Tuesday, is about a point and
a half sitting though still under eighty dollars for a
(25:24):
barrel of crude oil. Then why did I just pay
four dollars and fifty five cents a gallon for gas yesterday?
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Lucy?
Speaker 1 (25:31):
I completely agree with you. We were up. How much
do you think oil topped out at this year. In
early April, it was one hundred and eleven dollars for
a barrel of oil. Right now it's less than eighty dollars.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Hi buy half that barrel.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Why am I paying about as much in gas now
as I was in early April?
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Right?
Speaker 1 (25:57):
You know my answer on this, it's not this. It's
not the local gas stations. That's the liars and the
thieves and the chiefs and the oil speculation market who say, well,
you know, the president just blew up a couple of
things in Iran and that could cause the entire world
to be swallowed up into World War three and no
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one will have oil.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
And they think that on a Tuesday, and then twenty.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Four hours later they're like, oh, okay, well the world
didn't blow up yesterday. Maybe oil prices can come down
a little bit. What about gas prices, Well, let's hold
off on gas prices. There are a few people who
are pulling the strings on this through artificial means, and
we the consumers, are the ones who take it directly
in the tailpipe.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Traffic.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
You'd rather have a banana.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
I'm not going to fall for the banana and the
tailpipe Beverly Hills cop here in Omaha. They have named
the future Omaha North High School stadium after the long
time principle and teacher who spent more than fifty years
with the Vikings, Principal Hanes, Jean Hanes. And he was
(27:08):
there for the dedication ceremony yesterday. And let's see he says, quote,
he said, quote, this is quite an honor. And I
will continue to cherish the moments of the Omaha public schools.
And I feel no ways tired. He quoted Hillary Clinton
on that one.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
I don't feel no ways tired. Oh boy, I come
too far, Oh my god. Where I started from.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Nobody told me that the road would be easy.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Oh my god, he quoted Hillary Clinton.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Hillary Clinton from the Tony suburbs of Chicago through the
Jim Crow South, all the way to a second place
finish in the presidential race. Jean's a great guy and
a dedicated North Omaha dude.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
This is richly deserved. In my view.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
It's taken way, way too long for North to get
their own stadium. They've had to play in other people's
parks for a long time. And that school has been
around since the twenties but not to have their own
facility is really hard to believe. Where are they going
to put it there? I'm not sure where it is,
but they've got the land for the next something to
get it.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Yeah, I cauess, Yeah, but they build it on top
of the school. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
North North has a rich sports tradition. They really have
had some great, great athletes down to.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
The beautiful school. It's a great gym.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Yeah, you know, and Mike McGee is the most prolific
scorer of basketball in the last fifty sixty years.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
But are we just going to gloss over the fact
that it I might be speaking out of turn, but
Principal Haynes didn't retire from Omaha North High School because
he thought, oh, fifty years, that's enough, like some people do.
Gary Saddlemeyer, he got tired of doctor Cheryl Logan's stuff
and didn't want to deal with her anymore. It's fine,
(28:58):
I'll leave. And that's what I heard. Well, I might
I might be wrong.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
I'm not I'm familiar with that scenario, but I can
imagine it knowing Cheryl Logan as I do.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Among those paying tribute to Senator Lindsey Graham on the
Senate floor, yesterday was Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
I was no stranger to being the butt of his jokes.
Senator Graham loved to tell people how frugal I was,
and if I were ever to open my billfold, dust's
dust and moss would come out of it. I don't
know how many times I've heard that. Senator Graham always
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brought a smile to your face and levity to the
halls of Congress. Senator Graham was no stranger to my
home state of Iowa, as it's first in the nation
for presidential elections. In the year twenty sixteen when he
and anounced he was going to run for president, I
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had the privilege of showing him around a time or
two during his campaign for president. And he was a
fan of the good people of my state of Iowa,
identifying with our shared values of hard work, of faith,
and genuine care for one another.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
That is Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley. They served together in
the United States. Senate Graham with their twenty five years
twenty four years, yeah, and Grassley was there a few
years beyond that. But then you know longtime cohorts there.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Hey, what up to his? Hey kid? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (30:44):
You think you're old, But yeah, Chuck Grassley is an
American treasurer. You you people in Iowa got a great one,
and you've held onto him for a long time, and
you know, he's just the kind of common sense, you
know politician we really don't have any more.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
He's not a publicity hound.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
He's not trying to make you know, headlines, or raise
money or get clicks on his social media page. He
just goes out there and does the people's business, follows
the rules, tries to get along with people.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
And I imagine they equipped there about. You know, if
I ever opened my wallet, dust would come out. I
don't see Senator Chuck Grassley as being the person going
all right, beer on me, I'll take the bill, Okay,
give me the bill. Yeah, yeah, you don't hear that.
We're staying in the best hotel.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
You know, who knows how much longer he can go.
It seems inconceivable, even though even though he declared on
election day last year that I'm running for reelection. Yeah
in six years, that's probably not actually gonna happen. Nevertheless,
I think a lot of a lot of members of Congress,
and this is frustrating to American people because they see
these guys say really mean things about each other all
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the time on television. But then when you ask him, hey,
what's it like, you know, Oh, he's a great guy.
We get along all the time. We have to Well,
then why would he say those things about you publicly?
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Why would you?
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Why would you say things about him or her publicly
when you you know, when the lights are off, you
guys sit, sit around, crack jokes, go to each other's
kids functions, and act like real friends. Well, why don't
you do that for the people and get the business
done so that we don't have these constant fights.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Now you're over there watching an AI video of a
buffalo at Yellowstone flipping Mitch McConnell high.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Into the air.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
This is Elaine Chowher his wife is wearing New York
Jets jersey. He's chasing out around getting chased around by
a buffalo. He's wearing jeans and suspenders. Buffalo grabs him
and flings Mitch McConnell in the air. Like the video
we saw the other.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Day, This is a video that I think a lot
of people have seen. Lucy, have you seen the video
yet of this. Technically, it's a bison flipping this grandfather
through the air.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
I have seen.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Yeah, So here's what we're learning about this. It's a
guy who was watching an agitated bison from a safe distance.
He was more than one hundred yards away. There was
a car, though, that had paused to take pictures of
the bison, and then the bison got all upset about.
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There was a pickup that seemed to set the animal off.
And so these guys are about one hundred yards away,
which Yellowstone in the Parks district out there says it's
a safe distance. And this bison turns around, sees them,
and they're fast. They can run about thirty five miles
per hour, and this grandfather could not. So this bison
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goes over there. He's going nuts on this tree. The
grandfather's hiding on the other side, and then here it
comes around. It hooks grandpa and throws him through the air.
He goes flipping helplessly through the air. They figure he
was probably.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
I mean he was.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
This story says eight feet. There's no way that he
was only eight feet. He was eight feet above the buffalo,
and the buffalo is pretty big. So I'm saying it's
probably fifteen feet through the air, but he fell down
and had multiple broken bones and other significant injuries. And
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this is concerning to me because I'm going to be
in Yellowstone here in about a week from now. I'm
taking my family on the Great American road Trip. I
will be gone next week. Gary Sadelmeyer will be here
Monday through Wednesday, Jim and Lucy next Thursday and Friday,
and I'm gonna try not to get stampeded by various
buffalo bison thank you or Colorado fans.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Because that just means more work for us. Yeah, if
you get gored by a buffalo, that just means a
lot more work for us. But that is my first thought.
And the other thing is when they're making love, leave
him alone, because apparently that's what was happening.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Oh wait, wait, wait, let me write this down. Now.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
This guy, this guy went up there with his camera,
was a voyeur and was looking at buffalo love and
that's when the male says, get get out of here,
you know, get out of my kitchen, and then he
chased him and threw him in the air fifteen twenty feet.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
I think the description you'd use there is hardly what
the female bison would describe it as buty good morning.
Speaker 5 (35:23):
Guys wanted to comment about the guy that got hit
by the bison. When we took a bison tour in
South Dakota, they said not to get out of the
vehicle because if you're in a vehicle, you appear to
be a bison. When you're walking around, you appear to
be a target. Have a good morning.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
Yeah, we're driving around in the Black Hills up around
Mount Rushmore. Kids are little and there's a bison on
the side of the road. I admit I did not
know that much about the bison at that time, so
when my wife said, pull up alongside it. I want
to get a picture, I thought, well, that's kind of.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
Like a cow.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
So we pulled up alongside it. My wife hangs out
the passenger window a little bit to get a picture
of this bison, and I'm watching just closely enough as
the driver, just in case something gets stupid. This bison
swung its head at our car. I saw it coming,
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took evasive maneuvers, threw the wheel over to the left,
almost spilling my wife out the window to the right,
and then gunned it. My wife was still in the
car so I gun it down this dirt road. I
look in the rear view, this bison is chasing after us,
and fast turns out our vehicle is faster. We got
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out of there, and that's how I learned, Oh, these
aren't cows. These are angry, hairy beasts, and they're dangerous.
You don't think about things like that. I didn't, but
I will now. Like I said, we're going up. We're
doing the Great American family road trip. We're going to
go to Mount Rushmore and then on to Yellowstone and
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then down through Grand Teeton National Park and it's gonna
be a heck of a day. We're going to drive
really fast. Can we stop and look? Nope, gotta go.
Scott at kfab dot com and these Zonkers custom woulds inbox.
A few emails that came in today, This one from
Chris Say Scott, I get tired of listening to those
Democrat ads against Pete Ricketts. They are so full of
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can't use that word. They didn't seem to care. When
prices were high under Joe Biden, that was fine, but
when it's Trump, God help us. Anybody who thinks the
Democrats would do a better job and make prices come down,
are a fool That's the assessment from Chris. And then
this one from Joe, also a political email, says, assuming
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Brett Linstrom gets four thousand signatures to be on a
ballot for governor and ends up being on the ballot
here in the November general election, from whom does he
take votes Walls, Pillin or Beard Discuss amongst yourselves. Thanks, Joe, Yeah,
we talked about that a couple of hours ago. Let's
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reset that right now in case you're just like, wait,
why Linstrom decided yesterday that he was looking to get
signatures together to put him on the ballot as a
nonpartisan candidate for governor in the state of Nebraska. He
needs to get so many signatures, he needs to get
them fast if he is motivated, and I don't think
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he would make the statement yesterday that he did if
he weren't serious and motivated. I think he wants the
signatures to give him the option to run for governor
should something happen to Jim Pillen that derails his chances
or knocks him off the ballot. I think that's the
calculation here. But to answer Joe's question, he takes votes
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away from Jim pillis he does not take votes from
Lynn Walla's This would be the greatest thing to happen
to the Walls campaign to make people forget that. Tim
in Minnesota is also cuzzles. Yeah, it's a suretailed cousin
of Lynn Walls, but Lynn Wall's husband.
Speaker 3 (39:16):
Yeah, there's a couple of pitfalls in your analogy there, Scott.
The first one is it's not going to be cheap
to collect four thousand signatures.
Speaker 2 (39:28):
Not his money.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
Well, this is the point if you go out of
asking people for money, all right.
Speaker 2 (39:33):
Now.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
Dan Howden, who found a builder trand was a big
supporter of Brett Linstrom the first time around. He wrote
a large check for Lindstrom to run for governor back
in twenty twenty two. If you start going back to
those guys and say I need money to run for
governor and they give it to you and you launch
a campaign, and he just said, no, I don't think
so that doesn't sound like Brett Linstrom to me. If
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he gets into this, he'll be in it to win it,
and he'll be in it till the finish. I belie
leave that to be the case. Otherwise you're dealing with
somebody who has integrity problems. And once you get branded
as somebody that is that acts one way and talks another,
you're finished politically.
Speaker 4 (40:10):
Now.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
I don't know what his future politically is anyway, but
who can predict the future. I can say this, if
he does something like that, or he launches it, gets
on the ball and says, eh, you know, thought about
it over the weekend, decide now I'm out. That's the
kind of thing that buries you politically in all circles
of fact. That can hurt you personally and professionally in
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whatever line of work you're in. So I don't think
that will happen with this guy.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
How does he endear himself to what you would think
would have to be his political base, whether he identifies
as somewhat conservative or not. He was a Republican. He
switched a nonpartisan after dropping out a congressional race this spring.
But if you're going to win statewide Nebraska, you gotta
be Republican. Well, you have to be conservative. Now you
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come out there and you knock. I mean, if you
and Pillin are on the ballot at the same time,
as I said, Lynn Walls becomes governor, how does that
endear yourself to a base to do anything politically in
the future.
Speaker 3 (41:09):
Well, he may believe this, and I think there is
a trend in this direction when you look at how
elections are beginning to turn out, not just in Nebraska
but around the country. There is a movement to a
greater independent class of voters. Those who don't register as Republicans,
don't register as Democrats. They believe in some things of
each party, but they don't believe dogmatically in either one.
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He may believe that there is a growing population of
independence who don't want to vote for a Republican for
whatever reason, and don't want to vote for a Democrat
because they think this is the second coming of Vladimir Lenin.
The truth is, I don't know that that's enough of
a base to win unless there is something that really
bad happens to the pill in campaign. And you articulated
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last hour that he does have some headwinds. There are
some things brewing about his time as governor that might
cause people to say ah ah, specifically the suspension of
some laws involving no bid contracts that have not gone away.
And what that does is sow seeds of doubt and
a little bit of frustration in the minds of some voters.
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The other thing is, Scott, these midterm elections are depressed turnouts,
and I don't know how the Republicans can do it,
but they have got to convince their people to come
out and vote even though Trump isn't on the ballot
and they think, ah, the Democrat isn't gonna win. All
you need to do is ask Jean Stothard about that.
Jean's doth should not have lost, but she lost because
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Jane Kleb, the director of the state Democrat Party, very
wisely kept any Democrat from running against don Roe and
Brinker Harding in those key western Omaha City council districts
which depressed turnout. They didn't have an opponent and number
two the street car okay, well that they didn't come
vote for John Ewing. They just stayed home. Same thing
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happened to Hal Dobb when Jim Suttle beat him. So
you've got somehow Republicans have got to motivate their base
to look, you got to come out and vote for me.
I know you're not happy with things. I know that
you know we made promises. We haven't captain all that jazz,
but it's this. If not me, it's this, and do
you really want that? That has to be a lot
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of their motivation.
Speaker 1 (43:24):
I know people say I want someone who can go
across both sides of the island, work and around people
together and build bridges and all that. The people who
are motivated to go vote in this midterm election in
this political climate, they're not that voter. And that's not
what Linstrom needs. If he ends up being on the
ballot in November. I think the calculation is is that
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Pillin will have some mud on him and maybe would
drop out of the race. That's got to be the calculation.
Or you just really want Lynn Wallace to win, because
that's what happens if Lenstrom is on this ballot.
Speaker 3 (44:00):
I will say this one more thing before we move
on to the next break. The last two three weeks
of that campaign for governor in the Republican primary in
twenty twenty two, you saw a lot of negative ads
against Brett Linstrom in support of Jim Pillen. They came
from Pete Ricketts, who at the time was the governor.
And Pete came on this show and said, I'm exercising
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my right to free speech I'm just like anybody. I
can say this, and I can say that he's right
about that. It's a little untoward, but he's right about it.
This may be a little payback, he might say, you
know what, I really don't want to be an elected official,
but I'm gonna mess this up for this guy.
Speaker 1 (44:38):
Well, you're wrong about one thing. We don't break well,
only that's right. We only lie in wait until the
next second. In the inbox here the Zonker's custom was inbox.
This one sent to Scott at kfab dot com from Chris.
It says, I can tell you the reason I've considered
not voting and elections as a Republican, and I feel
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the sentiment how a lot of Republican voters feel. We
vote these people into office and they don't do a
damn thing to actually fight the other side. I'm looking
at you, Don Bacon. You said that I represent all
the people. Well, until these squishy Republican politicians realize that
the other side has no interest in working with us,
we might as well get more motivated to come out
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and vote for you. All right, that's from Chris. Well,
I don't know that that's true. That's the perception Don
Bacon did a lot for off an Air Force base
and Sack and all these other places. So I mean,
it's not like he didn't do anything, and he did
stand up in fight Democrats. But the perception, the purple dition,
what it is, Yeah, that's his perception. Reality is reality.
(45:43):
Perception is this time for the eleven to ten KFAB
certified transmission sports Breef. I don't know the answers to
these questions. I still don't know what I think about
data centers now. The accusation is that data centers are
using too much water. Are we going to run out
of water because of data centers? The water that data
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centers uses, which I presume is the cooling the big
computer equipment that they used for the data centers, you
get to run the water through. There is that not recyclable.
It is in some cases and not all cases. They
do use a lot of water.
Speaker 3 (46:24):
They capture a lot of water, and yeah, in many
cases some of that water is recycled. There are two
real issues with the data centers, Scott. The first one
is the water issue. The second one is energy. What
are they using to power the dog on things? And
it is really not healthy for OPBD to have data
centers because OPBD needs to power houses and businesses and
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street lights and ball fields.
Speaker 1 (46:50):
But President Trump said he wants any new data centers
to have their own energy source. The latest one here
is in cast County where Tenaska, which is an energy company,
wants to put a data center and use more than
thirteen hundred acres of Cass County farmland along Highway seventy five.
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I'm not sure where down there along Highway seventy five,
but there's you got the room, probably not far from
Platsmus if you don't want to farm it, and someone
apparently who is more than happy to say, yeah, you
want to pay me for this land, this amount of money,
you can have it. Put whatever you want on there.
And the concern lately has been, well, they're going to
use all the water. Are we going to run out
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of water because of data centers?
Speaker 3 (47:35):
Well, I don't know, probably not, but it stresses the
water table, especially during high drought areas and eras. Right now,
we're a little bit low on water around here, and
they're really low on water in other parts of the state.
And that's one of the reasons that they're talking about
halting a data center build out there in the sandhills
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because that aquifer is responsible for water and a lot
of crops. And if we start draining the aquifer to
handle data centers, what's gonna water crops. I think these
are all important questions. This is the one thing you
need to remember. Data centers are not good for economic development.
They don't employ a very many people. Now, they're really
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good for the Trenton Maggot who sells the land. They're
really good for the guy who owned the land. Grow
Omaha host Trenton Maggot under the buck he sold some
property for data centers. It has in the past. It's
really good for him. It's really good for the guy
who owned the land. And it's really good for the
energy company because they sell a lot of energy.
Speaker 2 (48:40):
Well hold on.
Speaker 3 (48:41):
But it's not great and they do pay taxes. I
don't know if they qualify under some you know, tax
incentive things in Nebraska for building something that large. But
they don't employ very many people. And that's what you
need to focus on when you start talking economic development.
How many people are gonna need jobs here? Did you
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bring your horses with you into the studio? As I'm
going to ask you to hold them not yet the
right outside.
Speaker 1 (49:10):
Back up to the reasons why so many data centers
are being built or proposed, and that is apparently we
have demanded that we need to house all of this data,
and we need to have all these computations and all
the AI, and we need to have all the storage,
and we need to have all this power. And that's
why they're doing data centers. It's not like you set
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up a data center and then you know, Joe consumer
goes by there and goes, yes, I'd like to buy
some data.
Speaker 2 (49:37):
What do you got on.
Speaker 1 (49:38):
No, it's not that this is because of us. This
is our needs. This is what we say that we
want and we need. Well, so they're not gonna build
these things and then we're not gonna have the storage
for this, We're not gonna have the speed for that,
we're not gonna have the capability for that. Who would
be the first people complaining we will. Well, But here's
the thing, Scott. One of the reasons you've seen this big,
big push in the last year is because Wall Street
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has sold a ton of this future AI infrastructure. There
are at last checked, three hundred billion dollars has been
invested in AI buildouts and infrastructure. Now, if you talk
to really smart financial people, they'll say, when somebody offers
you a bunch of money to invest, you've got to
run it out the door.
Speaker 3 (50:21):
Now, there is a huge question. I think this is
one of the reasons. You can talk to a financial planner.
They'll tell you for certain that we've seen a drop
in the Nasdaq. Is that now people go, well, well,
what's the ROI on the three hundred billion? Okay, all
of these AI companies, the big ones, the big publicly
traded on the Nasdaq, have have put out opportunities for
people to invest in AI. So this is the AI buildout.
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But we still don't have a definitive answer on OURI.
And this is when people get into trouble because they
want to be a part of this big AI revolution.
They want to get in on the ground floor, so
they invest a ton of money in AI buildout. We
need the capacity right now, I don't know, maybe, but
we may not need.
Speaker 2 (51:04):
It for a while. That's the issue.
Speaker 3 (51:06):
But when you have all of this investment capital going
to AI buildouts, that's where you're getting these overnight data
centers built.
Speaker 1 (51:15):
They got to do something with the money. By the way,
the Nasdaq is fine. It's up almost seven thousand points
in the last year.
Speaker 3 (51:21):
Well but if you've seen it drop in the last
three months because it was the first quarter was huge.
People got crazy on AI buildouts, and maybe it's a
good investment. I'm not an investment counselor called your favorite one,
but that's a big part of why we're seeing overnight.
Data center people have to do something with this money.
Speaker 2 (51:41):
Nasdaq's just fine.
Speaker 1 (51:43):
It's actually in the last three months, it's been climbing steadily.
Speaker 3 (51:47):
So took a big dump in January February March. But yeah,
well but that's not the last three months.
Speaker 1 (51:54):
Here's what's coming on you here, you bet, just in
case anyone gets the point, you'll buy sell by Look,
I'll tell you what's happened in the last three months.
Is this this concerted effort by these consumer outlook, you know,
protection groups to oppose data centers. I don't even know
if they know what they're talking about. Probably not, And
I'm the first one to admit I don't think that
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I know what I'm talking about. I'm just trying to
ask the questions and trying to feel my way through
this because we're they're apparently building data centers for some reason,
and that's because we and our uses, our needs have
demanded as much. So we'll we also have water. We
have water, and we're not going to run out of water.
It's like, don't build that water park, We're going to
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run out of water. It's recycles. Don't turn your sprinklers
on and it recycles.
Speaker 6 (52:42):
Good morning, guys. With the data centers, you know in
Cass County, Odell County, they're talking about, we just don't
want them in the country. The country is the country,
you know, farm grounds, fields, pastures, that's where our food
is made, cattle, hogs, there's a place for everything. Data
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centers are not for us.
Speaker 2 (53:07):
All right.
Speaker 1 (53:08):
So the anti data center movement seems to be like
the anti pipeline movement. We just don't want them here
in this area. Well, you barely even know that they
exist except for the water and the electricity right now,
unless they use their own electricity, they create their own energy,
and the water is recyclable. I got a lot of
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people emailing and going, yeah, it's essentially it's a recyclable
water feature that they have in these data centers now
here's another assessment. It comes from Kathleen says China. China
is actively investing in anti data center movements here in
the US while they build them like crazy. They know
that the success of AI is dependent on data centers.
(53:52):
So China is that that That guy who just sent
that message there via the talkback mic didn't sound like jimpig,
but he might be masking his voice. It's probably AI,
so there might be something to that too. Just a
lot of food for thought. Never now, breakfast time after all,
Who wants to take the first shot at trying to
figure out what Brett Linstrom is up to.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Now.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
This is the guy who served Northwest Omaha and the
Nebraska Unicameral over a couple of terms, decided he wanted
to run for governor, didn't make it out of that primary.
Jim Pillen did, he is our governor, and then Brett
Linstrom said, you know, I think I'd like to run
for Congress. And after Don Bacon said he wasn't running
for reelection, Brett Linstrom said, I'm in, Bringer Harding said
(00:27):
I'm in. Leinstrom dropped out and changed his designation from
Republican to independent and is now starting a petition drive
to potentially get on the ballot to be governor in November.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Jim, your analysis.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
With one hundred and sixteen days before the election, this
one makes no sense to me. You've forgot to remember
he challenged Lee Terry back at twenty thirteen and did
not do well in that primary against Lee Terry, who
ultimately lost to Brad Ashford.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
But that's what.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Happened in Brett Linstrom's political opus. This one is a
bit puzzling, Scott. If the objective is to win, and
maybe that's not his objective. It might be you know what,
I'm going to change the conversation away from a high
partisanship to inclusion. You're right, he gave up his Republican designation,
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but he went to non partisan, not officially independent. There's
a little bit of a distinction there. But he's not
technically an independent because that's a voter designation. He's nonpartisan
and this will be a monumental challenge. He doesn't have
any of the things that you need to win a
statewide election in place. He doesn't have a structure, he
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doesn't have a base of political support. There must be
money behind him in some degree. He doesn't even have
a spot on the ballot yet, which makes Rick Beard
the cannabis candidate, a better shot to win than Brett
Lindstrom today. Legal marijuana is the name of that party.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
And at least he's on the ballot, but Brett's not
on the ballot. He needs four thousand signatures by the
third of August, and seven hundred and fifty of them
have to be from each of the congressional districts. Can
he get the four thousand? Probably if he's got one
hundred people out there standing in the Walmart parking lot
in Thedford, then he'll probably be able to get seven
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to fifty from out there.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Is there a Walmart in Thedford, something like that.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
But you know Brett's Brett's got will you never say
no chance. But typically third party candidates and we've only
had seven of them win of statewide election in this
country since World War Two. Usually when a third party
candidate emerges, it's because the other two are as Alvas
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used to say, rumdums. They either have a major legal issue,
a major scandal, or some sort of major you know,
f up during the time they were in office that
have caused people to say no way, no way, no
how so he doesn't have that for this That's how
they get elected. Now, if he just wants to enter
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this race because he wants to demonstrate that a former
Republican can be not so stridently one way or the
other in a divisive political climate, which is what we
have today, then okay, then that's an objective and God
bless him for that. But I did the numbers last night,
and if he gets eighteen percent of the vote, given
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that Ms Carrol Blood got thirty five percent, which to me,
says Lynn Walls, who's running for governor this year, could
get forty one percent. If Brett Linstrom gets eighteen percent
and mister Beard gets three percent, then Lynn Walls's governor
of Nebraska. I see this as one of three different paths.
Either you do this because you feel like you can
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draw You're just liberal enough, you can draw enough Democrats
to come over to your side. You're just conservative enough,
you can draw enough Republicans to come over to your side.
And this is the kind of candidate who can be
bipartisan and lead the people that we've been crying for
for years. People always always say that, how did that
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work out for Mike McDonald? People always say that, But
the reality is, I don't think that's what voters are
really thinking when they go to the polls, especially in
today's political climate. So it's a great idea. I don't
think that that's what we're doing here, And that's all
that want Path one. Path two.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Path two is I want Lynn Wallas to be governor,
and I want to siphon away enough votes from Jim
Pillen to allow the Democrat Lynn Wallace to become the
next governor of Nebraska. That's path two, Path three, And
this is what I think is what they're thinking is
the most likely path. This is not the Scott Vorhees
a prediction of what's happening.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
This is what we do. This is speculate wildly.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Here's my wild speculation as to why they think that
they need to do this. I believe there are people
out there who think that there's something going on with
Jim Pillen that's going to have him either be politically
handicapped or off the ballot by November, and you want
to have someone there to catch those votes.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Oh, I don't think that will happen, meaning I don't
think he'll leave the race, and I don't imagine that
there's enough nuclear energy inside of a bombshell.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
To do that.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
But I do believe that he has some headwinds ahead
of this election. There is a general disappointment in some
circles around the state about the governor. It might be
his personality, it might be his I'm in charge kind
of guy. He's twisted a lot of arms over the
last four years. There is a business community reluctance to
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wrap their arms around him. And I don't know why
that is because he shepherded a lowering of the income tax,
which is something the Nebraska State Chamber is championed for
a long time, and that's something certainly that the Omaha
business community is champion. The property tax promise is going
to come back and bite him. He's blown through a
lot of money that was left over from the previous
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administration thanks to COVID, and we still don't have property
tax relief.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
In fact, it's gotten worse.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
So there is a pothole or two that the gym
buss can hit between here in November. The other thing
that I think that Brett Linstrom may be banking on Scott,
which dovetails a little bit to your doors Number one,
two and three, is that there's just a general disappointment
with the current political system in our country, and Donald
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Trump has something to do with that. There's just a
lot of political fatigue and so that may really hold
down turnout. It's not going to be I'm gonna vote
for the other guy. It's you know what if I
miss election day this year? So what I'm just not
into it. That said, I think there is energy on
the Democrat side because they got lapped pretty well in
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the last presidential election, and that might bring out more
folks who typically wouldn't vote. I also will not. And
I know this is gonna sound strange and some people.
I want you to process this. Rick Beard is gonna
get votes, Okay, now, not a lot. He's not gonna
win this election, no, but he could be the ralph
Nator to Jim Pillen. What he could be the Ralph
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Nader what he was to Al Gore in two thousand. Say,
he would draw more from those you were probably inclined
to vote Democrat. He's a the Legal Marijuana Now Party potentially,
But what he's liable to do is just get a
percentage of the electorate, and the electorate may be down
because it's an off year election. I think the most
likely path is that third one, which has an offshore
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where Lindstrom gets the signatures to be on the ballot.
But if Pilling is not somehow derailed between now and
the point where Brett could hop off this train, Brett
does not end up on the petition. He decides, yeah,
I put this, I got the signatures, but I don't
want to be on the petition, which is a likely path.
We got a lot to talk about throughout the morning.
Let's get to the eleven ten KFAB Certified Transmission Sports brief.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Now here's Jim Rose.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Okay, Scott, good morning everybody. If you weren't sure we
were in Philadelphia last night, check this out.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Day short compacts trying to keep his hands above the ball,
really really good. I think that's the first time he
kind of like it was just labor. It wasn't so
much he overswung. He was just a little bit late.
But he's keeping the barrel above the ball. He's doing
he's calm.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
What you missed there is that a kid dropped a
ball and the fans in the stadium booed the kid
for missing the ball. During the home run Derby, Welcome
to the City of Brotherly Love. To make it even
more fun for the fans, Jordan Walker the same look
his Cardinals won the thing.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Listen to the boost.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
The guy hit homers in each of his last six
final swings, and he takes us into Tonight's All Star Game.
Is the home run Derby Champ topped Phillies All Star
Kyle Schwarber by one home run. See how it goes
tonight For the game, the Stars will be out Christopher
Sanchez of the Phillies will start for the National League
against the American Leagues Dylan Cease of the Toronto Blue Jays.
The Royals have a starter shortstop, Bobby Whitt. Dylan Carry
(09:38):
the Husker Baseball all Americans snubbed in the MLB Draft
is getting a shot. He signed as an undrafted free
agent with the New York Mets yesterday. The game is humbling.
He may have heard the cheers and Lincoln, but he
is starting at the bottom all over again. Are the
odds that stacked against him? Sure, but he's used to it.
Husker football gets another five star quarterback. Rivals dot Com
(09:59):
gave verbal commit Trey Taylor. The fifth star makes Taylor,
who is playing for Millard South this season after transferring
from a high school in Chicago, the consensus top quarterback
in the high school class of twenty twenty seven. That's
a lot of pressure on a kid who has yet
to take a snap in a Husker football practice. Dylan
Royola was a five star two Spain, France, England, Argentina.
(10:22):
They are your semifinalists in the World Cup Final four.
Match number one is tonight. The French and the Spaniards
from Arlington, Texas. This is a rematch of the Semis
two years ago, won by Spain two to one. These
are the top four teams in World Cup Soccer. Cinderellas
are all gone from the alumni. Dishonor role Le gerald Vick,
who played a lot on KU's twenty eighteen Final four
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basketball team, was arrested in Memphis. He's accused of shooting
a man in the back after an argument July fourth.
This on top of another felony charge of breaking into
the apartment of a former girlfriend. Sports his news on
Nebraska's news weather station. I think we're learning a lot
about Jim Rose this morning. He is the only person
in Nebraska media who has twice in the same hour
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mentioned the political ambitions of Rick Beard of the Legal
Marijuana Now Party. He does have some cute signs.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
He's very cute, So you've got some political signs out there.
He had him out last time, and what did he
get anywhere approaching two percent of the vote last time
three percent of the vote.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Let but see this is after that was before we
the people voted for legal medicio marijuana.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
In this state.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
That has been foot dragged by the administration.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Right, But if you.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Vote for governor the head of the Legal Marijuana Now party,
does that make marijuana legal in Nebraska.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
No?
Speaker 3 (11:46):
No, it has a very powerful advocate. Look that medical
marijuana is legal in Nebraska, just hasn't been implemented yet.
But if you go on his website, now, Rick's a
wine bar operator here in all and like this is
not a serious candidate for office, but he believes in
a lot of He's a libertarian by nature, I think,
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and he believes that medical cannabis and cannabis crop, the
cannabis crop will address a lot of our economic issues.
And he's right about that. It could generate massive, massive amounts. Now,
he doesn't address some of the negative things that come
from people basically getting stoned.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
All the time.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
But there is a growing population of people in the
country that believe in this.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
But more importantly than that's good, I just think there
is a cadre of people who say, look, I've voted
for this, I want this, and this guy is on
my side, and I don't like any of these other candidates.
And in in a mid term election, you tend to
get the activists out, the ones who just say I'm
going to make a statement. I'm going to vote for
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Rick Beard. Not because I think he'd make a great governor,
but because I don't like these other people. Number one
and number two, I've voted for medical marijuana in this
state and it hasn't happened yet. Now it's on the
road to happening, but it's taken a while. Yeah, And
that's why I think it's possible he could get two
two and a half three percent.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
There are a lot of people who love to sit
around and smoke weed and make their problems go away
and just kind of live that lifestyle. And if you
ask him when election day is, they would say Buffalo.
So good luck getting them out to vote. By the way,
don't knock it till you try it.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
I've tried it.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Not today, not in this decade, not in the last decade.
What decade do we We're in the twenty twenty, maybe
the previous day. Okay, in the nineties, I was a teenager,
my mom said try everything. I think she was talking
about Brussels. Frutz got this message via the Zonker's custom
was inbox from Dave says Brett Linstrom. The Gavin Newsom
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of Nebraska Politics's not.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
The Gavin Newsom of Nebraska politics, but he does have
a brand issue. Not sure exactly what he is. I
think he's conservative. I think he's baseline a conservative Republican.
He's not a libertarian, he's not a freeman. But I
think he's a precret club Republicans. He's much like brinker Harding.
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He's a traditional Republican who just believes in some of
the bedrock conservative Republican principles of the last seventy five years.
And that's fine, okay, but his voting record would be
of some concern to those who you'd have to convince
as much. The death penalty vote, that's a big, big one.
(14:37):
And it wasn't the death penalty vote because you can
give him slack on religious grounds, but when he voted
to override the veto, that it's political and I don't
think that was helpful. The other issue with Brett is
he's not been very successful in elections. Like I said,
he challenged Lee Terry, that didn't go well. He did
win those two legislative races. You know, that's that's swimming
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in the shallow end political in our state. He spent
a lot of money and a lot of time and
finished third in the race for the GOP nomination for
governor in twenty twenty two, and then this business with
the House race. Got twenty six percent of that Republican
primary vote and pilling one with thirty three percent. So
it's not like he lapped the field with And if
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anyone's like who was second, carls Herbster was. Herbster won
on a lot more counties. But the issue involves, in
my view, the issue involves I don't know what this
guy is. I don't know who this guy is. I
don't know what I can count on with this guy.
And the dally outs with the run for Congress was misguided.
I don't know why anybody with young kids would want
to be a member of the United States Congress. It's
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a horrible job. It's sixty hours a week, The travel
back and forth from the district to d C is draconian,
and you're raising money seven hours a day. I'll let him,
you know, deal with his family dynamic. I think Brett
Linstrom is a guy who everybody likes.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Well, if you've met him, you do.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
He's a smart, measured guy, and everybody likes him, I
like him this, maybe I'll go this way, maybe I'll
do this, and all that. It raises questions as to
exactly who he is politically. Now here's the assessment of
Lynn Walls, who would stand to gain the most if
so if he got into this race. A senior advisor,
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we don't even have a statement from the candidate herself,
who's running her campaign. A senior advisor to Lynn Wallas,
in a statement to the Nebraska Examiner, says Brett Linstrom
is a lifelong conservative Republican whose record speaks for itself.
He is no moderate. Lynn Walls is the only candidate
with the viable path of de beat Jim Pillen.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
That's the dumbest thing. They should be funding Brett.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Linstrom's campaign because if he gets in, he's going to
siphon votes away from Pilling more than he would from Walls.
And Lynn Walls is the next governor of Nebraska. People
are idiots.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Like I said, I ran the numbers if Carol Blood,
who ran virtually a stealth campaign against Jim Pillon, and
that's when people didn't really know Jim except other than
he was number twenty nine who saved the Oklahoma and
Alabama games back in seventy eight and seventy seven, she
got thirty almost thirty six percent of the vote, And
if she gets thirty six percent in that election, then
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Lynn Walls can get forty one or forty two percent
this time around, unless she just falls off the truck.
She gets forty one to forty two percent. So if
Lindstrom gets fifteen to eighteen percent and mister Beard gets
two percent, then Lynn Walls may be taking the oath
of office in January. Rick Beard is not a factor
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in this election. Okay, Well, they said the same thing
about Ralph. I like his son, I like his science.
They're very cute.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
We learned yesterday we were enlightened by the Governor of
South Carolina that the individual tapped to fill out the
rest of Senator Lindsey Graham's term after he died over
the weekend will be his sister. This is a nice note.
I didn't think that they would go this route because
they want, obviously a Republican to fill that seat. So
the Republican governor of South Carolina in pushing for someone
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to win the Republican primary and then the vote as
a Republican in November. I would think would put someone
in there who would have a leg up on the
job by already serving in the job. But this is
a it's a really nice thing to do for the
Graham family. If people aren't aware, Lindsey Graham raised his
little sister. Their parents died when they were very young. Well,
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she was thirteen, he was seventeen, and he actually became
her legal guardians so that he could have or that
she could receive his military benefits. Correct, that's an amazing
thing that how many of today's kids would do something
like that, would be in a situation where they would
do something like that.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Well, it wasn't just after her parents died. Their parents died.
He really kind of raised her too, because they were
both hardworking folks and they ran a pool haul in
a bar, and they lived in a one bedroom apartment
behind the pool hall. So as you listen to her,
she would say, this guy taught me to ride a bike.
This guy taught me to time my shoes. This guy
was really like my dad. So to that extent, these
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two were extraordinarily tight. Now, he did finish high school
and he went to college and joined the Air Force
the ROTC program. At the time, he arranged for her
to live with an aunt until he could take over
her needs as she grew up, so they did have
other family. But I think this is really cool. I
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think it's really special. And here's the thing about South Carolina, Scott.
It's rather than the South Stadium on fall Saturdays, you're
going to have to have a real dummy below that
race if you're a Republican. And if you look at
the well, it's happened. But if you look at those
who are vying for the primary, and I think the
primaries in a couple of weeks or they're going to
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specially to have the special election to find a replacement
because he won the primary last spring, you know you're
going to get somebody who's not going to have a
problem holding on to that seat.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Yeah, And as far as what she brings to the table,
it's not just that she is Lindsey Graham's sister. She
has worked with people with disabilities. The last several years,
she's been the commissioner of the South Carolina Commission for
the Blind. She has, you know, some idea what it
takes to lead groups and to serve in government. And
so I don't think she's I mean she's there as
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a placeholder. I don't think that she's like I kind
of like this. I like the taste of this us
N it's see, I'm going to do that. I want
to stick around. I don't think that's the case with her.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Well, and this also gives some stability to his staff.
This means they have six months to find another job
or warm up to whoever wins the primary, to keep
their gigs in DC. So that's nice for them. She
will do exactly what the White House tells her to do,
or exactly what the staff there for Senator Graham will do.
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She will not be the power broker that he was.
She will vote yes on issues that matter to Republicans.
I'm sure John Thune, the Senate Majority Leader, is going
to be very very advisory to Lindsey's sister.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
And yet it.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Also speaks to I think a lot of respect for
him and what he meant to Republicans and to the President.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
It's a nice celebration Henry McMaster.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Who is the governor of South Carolina, who is also
very close to Lindsay.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Graham, and ladies and gentlemen, it is now time here
on eleven ten kfab for a Straight of Horror Muz update.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
In the straight of Horn.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Here's your Strait of Hormuz update. Who is that bono?
I think that is not it's either or Chasity bono.
I forgot who's saying that one the Straight of Horror
Moves update, that's you and the shower isn't. And I
don't think so.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
A horrible singing, but it's.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
The most beautiful thing I've ever heard. President Trump has
been floating the idea of charging a twenty percent toll
on cargo shipped through the Strait of Horror Moves, the
most famous strait of all time, perhaps, and he says
he's not joking. He says he's very serious about implementing it.
A White House official tells the news outlet Semaphore. The
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report adds that Trump has been musing about the idea
since April, although he was apparently talked out of it.
But I think that President Trump is out on some
of these people who are negotiating on his behalf. And
I don't know that he completely blames the US negotiator,
including the Vice President. I think he's just tired of
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the Iranians, who are we talking to what is the
matter with these people? We're giving them everything they could
ever possibly want, and they continue to start blowing up
cruise ships and sending out drones and striking some of
these not cruise ships but cargo ships through the strait.
And I'm just tired. And who's stopping me from blowing
the entire place up?
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Yeah, we see.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
We don't usually see a Princess of the Sea cruise
liner in the Straits of Horror.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Moves now, probably not for a while anyway. Secretary of
State Rubio last month said no country is allowed to
charge tolls or fees on an international waterway that is
existing international law. Now, Iran said, yeah, well we're gonna
do it, then, President Trump, saiover you do it, We're
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gonna do it. We'll charge a twenty percent toll on cargo.
Let's see who's in charge of this straight. Tehran has
responded sarcastically to this suggestion by President Trump, says twenty
percent is too much. We will be more fair, will
charge less than twenty percent. Like most things the President does,
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he throws something out there, says, all right, we're going
to negotiate. Here's what I want you to give me.
I want the stars and the moon and the sun. Oh,
mister president, we couldn't possibly, all right, what the president
wants is a couple of those stars. But he's going
to throw out this first negotiating point to try and
get to where he wants to go. So I think
what he wants. I know what he wants. He doesn't
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want any tariffs on any of those ships, especially the
oil tankers going through the Strait of hor moves twenty
percent charge. In case you're thinking, well, how much is that?
A twenty percent charge on a cargo value? If you've
got a large oil tanker, it add over thirty million
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dollars to a large oil tanker's trip. And who's going
to pay that. It's not going to be the oil company.
It's going to be the American people. Speaking of what's
going on with oil, it is up right now in
early trading on this Tuesday, is about a point and
a half sitting though still under eighty dollars for a
(25:24):
barrel of crude oil. Then why did I just pay
four dollars and fifty five cents a gallon for gas yesterday?
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Lucy?
Speaker 1 (25:31):
I completely agree with you. We were up. How much
do you think oil topped out at this year. In
early April, it was one hundred and eleven dollars for
a barrel of oil. Right now it's less than eighty dollars.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Hi buy half that barrel.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Why am I paying about as much in gas now
as I was in early April?
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Right?
Speaker 1 (25:57):
You know my answer on this, it's not this. It's
not the local gas stations. That's the liars and the
thieves and the chiefs and the oil speculation market who say, well,
you know, the president just blew up a couple of
things in Iran and that could cause the entire world
to be swallowed up into World War three and no
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one will have oil.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
And they think that on a Tuesday, and then twenty.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Four hours later they're like, oh, okay, well the world
didn't blow up yesterday. Maybe oil prices can come down
a little bit. What about gas prices, Well, let's hold
off on gas prices. There are a few people who
are pulling the strings on this through artificial means, and
we the consumers, are the ones who take it directly
in the tailpipe.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Traffic.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
You'd rather have a banana.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
I'm not going to fall for the banana and the
tailpipe Beverly Hills cop here in Omaha. They have named
the future Omaha North High School stadium after the long
time principle and teacher who spent more than fifty years
with the Vikings, Principal Hanes, Jean Hanes. And he was
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there for the dedication ceremony yesterday. And let's see he says, quote,
he said, quote, this is quite an honor. And I
will continue to cherish the moments of the Omaha public schools.
And I feel no ways tired. He quoted Hillary Clinton
on that one.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
I don't feel no ways tired. Oh boy, I come
too far, Oh my god. Where I started from.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Nobody told me that the road would be easy.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Oh my god, he quoted Hillary Clinton.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Hillary Clinton from the Tony suburbs of Chicago through the
Jim Crow South, all the way to a second place
finish in the presidential race. Jean's a great guy and
a dedicated North Omaha dude.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
This is richly deserved. In my view.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
It's taken way, way too long for North to get
their own stadium. They've had to play in other people's
parks for a long time. And that school has been
around since the twenties but not to have their own
facility is really hard to believe. Where are they going
to put it there? I'm not sure where it is,
but they've got the land for the next something to
get it.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Yeah, I cauess, Yeah, but they build it on top
of the school. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
North North has a rich sports tradition. They really have
had some great, great athletes down to.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
The beautiful school. It's a great gym.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Yeah, you know, and Mike McGee is the most prolific
scorer of basketball in the last fifty sixty years.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
But are we just going to gloss over the fact
that it I might be speaking out of turn, but
Principal Haynes didn't retire from Omaha North High School because
he thought, oh, fifty years, that's enough, like some people do.
Gary Saddlemeyer, he got tired of doctor Cheryl Logan's stuff
and didn't want to deal with her anymore. It's fine,
(28:58):
I'll leave. And that's what I heard. Well, I might
I might be wrong.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
I'm not I'm familiar with that scenario, but I can
imagine it knowing Cheryl Logan as I do.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Among those paying tribute to Senator Lindsey Graham on the
Senate floor, yesterday was Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
I was no stranger to being the butt of his jokes.
Senator Graham loved to tell people how frugal I was,
and if I were ever to open my billfold, dust's
dust and moss would come out of it. I don't
know how many times I've heard that. Senator Graham always
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brought a smile to your face and levity to the
halls of Congress. Senator Graham was no stranger to my
home state of Iowa, as it's first in the nation
for presidential elections. In the year twenty sixteen when he
and anounced he was going to run for president, I
(30:04):
had the privilege of showing him around a time or
two during his campaign for president. And he was a
fan of the good people of my state of Iowa,
identifying with our shared values of hard work, of faith,
and genuine care for one another.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
That is Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley. They served together in
the United States. Senate Graham with their twenty five years
twenty four years, yeah, and Grassley was there a few
years beyond that. But then you know longtime cohorts there.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Hey, what up to his? Hey kid? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (30:44):
You think you're old, But yeah, Chuck Grassley is an
American treasurer. You you people in Iowa got a great one,
and you've held onto him for a long time, and
you know, he's just the kind of common sense, you
know politician we really don't have any more.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
He's not a publicity hound.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
He's not trying to make you know, headlines, or raise
money or get clicks on his social media page. He
just goes out there and does the people's business, follows
the rules, tries to get along with people.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
And I imagine they equipped there about. You know, if
I ever opened my wallet, dust would come out. I
don't see Senator Chuck Grassley as being the person going
all right, beer on me, I'll take the bill, Okay,
give me the bill. Yeah, yeah, you don't hear that.
We're staying in the best hotel.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
You know, who knows how much longer he can go.
It seems inconceivable, even though even though he declared on
election day last year that I'm running for reelection. Yeah
in six years, that's probably not actually gonna happen. Nevertheless,
I think a lot of a lot of members of Congress,
and this is frustrating to American people because they see
these guys say really mean things about each other all
(31:54):
the time on television. But then when you ask him, hey,
what's it like, you know, Oh, he's a great guy.
We get along all the time. We have to Well,
then why would he say those things about you publicly?
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Why would you?
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Why would you say things about him or her publicly
when you you know, when the lights are off, you
guys sit, sit around, crack jokes, go to each other's
kids functions, and act like real friends. Well, why don't
you do that for the people and get the business
done so that we don't have these constant fights.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Now you're over there watching an AI video of a
buffalo at Yellowstone flipping Mitch McConnell high.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Into the air.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
This is Elaine Chowher his wife is wearing New York
Jets jersey. He's chasing out around getting chased around by
a buffalo. He's wearing jeans and suspenders. Buffalo grabs him
and flings Mitch McConnell in the air. Like the video
we saw the other.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Day, This is a video that I think a lot
of people have seen. Lucy, have you seen the video
yet of this. Technically, it's a bison flipping this grandfather
through the air.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
I have seen.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Yeah, So here's what we're learning about this. It's a
guy who was watching an agitated bison from a safe distance.
He was more than one hundred yards away. There was
a car, though, that had paused to take pictures of
the bison, and then the bison got all upset about.
(33:22):
There was a pickup that seemed to set the animal off.
And so these guys are about one hundred yards away,
which Yellowstone in the Parks district out there says it's
a safe distance. And this bison turns around, sees them,
and they're fast. They can run about thirty five miles
per hour, and this grandfather could not. So this bison
(33:42):
goes over there. He's going nuts on this tree. The
grandfather's hiding on the other side, and then here it
comes around. It hooks grandpa and throws him through the air.
He goes flipping helplessly through the air. They figure he
was probably.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
I mean he was.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
This story says eight feet. There's no way that he
was only eight feet. He was eight feet above the buffalo,
and the buffalo is pretty big. So I'm saying it's
probably fifteen feet through the air, but he fell down
and had multiple broken bones and other significant injuries. And
(34:26):
this is concerning to me because I'm going to be
in Yellowstone here in about a week from now. I'm
taking my family on the Great American road Trip. I
will be gone next week. Gary Sadelmeyer will be here
Monday through Wednesday, Jim and Lucy next Thursday and Friday,
and I'm gonna try not to get stampeded by various
buffalo bison thank you or Colorado fans.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Because that just means more work for us. Yeah, if
you get gored by a buffalo, that just means a
lot more work for us. But that is my first thought.
And the other thing is when they're making love, leave
him alone, because apparently that's what was happening.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Oh wait, wait, wait, let me write this down. Now.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
This guy, this guy went up there with his camera,
was a voyeur and was looking at buffalo love and
that's when the male says, get get out of here,
you know, get out of my kitchen, and then he
chased him and threw him in the air fifteen twenty feet.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
I think the description you'd use there is hardly what
the female bison would describe it as buty good morning.
Speaker 5 (35:23):
Guys wanted to comment about the guy that got hit
by the bison. When we took a bison tour in
South Dakota, they said not to get out of the
vehicle because if you're in a vehicle, you appear to
be a bison. When you're walking around, you appear to
be a target. Have a good morning.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
Yeah, we're driving around in the Black Hills up around
Mount Rushmore. Kids are little and there's a bison on
the side of the road. I admit I did not
know that much about the bison at that time, so
when my wife said, pull up alongside it. I want
to get a picture, I thought, well, that's kind of.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
Like a cow.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
So we pulled up alongside it. My wife hangs out
the passenger window a little bit to get a picture
of this bison, and I'm watching just closely enough as
the driver, just in case something gets stupid. This bison
swung its head at our car. I saw it coming,
(36:23):
took evasive maneuvers, threw the wheel over to the left,
almost spilling my wife out the window to the right,
and then gunned it. My wife was still in the
car so I gun it down this dirt road. I
look in the rear view, this bison is chasing after us,
and fast turns out our vehicle is faster. We got
(36:46):
out of there, and that's how I learned, Oh, these
aren't cows. These are angry, hairy beasts, and they're dangerous.
You don't think about things like that. I didn't, but
I will now. Like I said, we're going up. We're
doing the Great American family road trip. We're going to
go to Mount Rushmore and then on to Yellowstone and
(37:08):
then down through Grand Teeton National Park and it's gonna
be a heck of a day. We're going to drive
really fast. Can we stop and look? Nope, gotta go.
Scott at kfab dot com and these Zonkers custom woulds inbox.
A few emails that came in today, This one from
Chris Say Scott, I get tired of listening to those
Democrat ads against Pete Ricketts. They are so full of
(37:32):
can't use that word. They didn't seem to care. When
prices were high under Joe Biden, that was fine, but
when it's Trump, God help us. Anybody who thinks the
Democrats would do a better job and make prices come down,
are a fool That's the assessment from Chris. And then
this one from Joe, also a political email, says, assuming
(37:53):
Brett Linstrom gets four thousand signatures to be on a
ballot for governor and ends up being on the ballot
here in the November general election, from whom does he
take votes Walls, Pillin or Beard Discuss amongst yourselves. Thanks, Joe, Yeah,
we talked about that a couple of hours ago. Let's
(38:15):
reset that right now in case you're just like, wait,
why Linstrom decided yesterday that he was looking to get
signatures together to put him on the ballot as a
nonpartisan candidate for governor in the state of Nebraska. He
needs to get so many signatures, he needs to get
them fast if he is motivated, and I don't think
(38:36):
he would make the statement yesterday that he did if
he weren't serious and motivated. I think he wants the
signatures to give him the option to run for governor
should something happen to Jim Pillen that derails his chances
or knocks him off the ballot. I think that's the
calculation here. But to answer Joe's question, he takes votes
(38:59):
away from Jim pillis he does not take votes from
Lynn Walla's This would be the greatest thing to happen
to the Walls campaign to make people forget that. Tim
in Minnesota is also cuzzles. Yeah, it's a suretailed cousin
of Lynn Walls, but Lynn Wall's husband.
Speaker 3 (39:16):
Yeah, there's a couple of pitfalls in your analogy there, Scott.
The first one is it's not going to be cheap
to collect four thousand signatures.
Speaker 2 (39:28):
Not his money.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
Well, this is the point if you go out of
asking people for money, all right.
Speaker 2 (39:33):
Now.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
Dan Howden, who found a builder trand was a big
supporter of Brett Linstrom the first time around. He wrote
a large check for Lindstrom to run for governor back
in twenty twenty two. If you start going back to
those guys and say I need money to run for
governor and they give it to you and you launch
a campaign, and he just said, no, I don't think
so that doesn't sound like Brett Linstrom to me. If
(39:54):
he gets into this, he'll be in it to win it,
and he'll be in it till the finish. I belie
leave that to be the case. Otherwise you're dealing with
somebody who has integrity problems. And once you get branded
as somebody that is that acts one way and talks another,
you're finished politically.
Speaker 4 (40:10):
Now.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
I don't know what his future politically is anyway, but
who can predict the future. I can say this, if
he does something like that, or he launches it, gets
on the ball and says, eh, you know, thought about
it over the weekend, decide now I'm out. That's the
kind of thing that buries you politically in all circles
of fact. That can hurt you personally and professionally in
(40:32):
whatever line of work you're in. So I don't think
that will happen with this guy.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
How does he endear himself to what you would think
would have to be his political base, whether he identifies
as somewhat conservative or not. He was a Republican. He
switched a nonpartisan after dropping out a congressional race this spring.
But if you're going to win statewide Nebraska, you gotta
be Republican. Well, you have to be conservative. Now you
(40:58):
come out there and you knock. I mean, if you
and Pillin are on the ballot at the same time,
as I said, Lynn Walls becomes governor, how does that
endear yourself to a base to do anything politically in
the future.
Speaker 3 (41:09):
Well, he may believe this, and I think there is
a trend in this direction when you look at how
elections are beginning to turn out, not just in Nebraska
but around the country. There is a movement to a
greater independent class of voters. Those who don't register as Republicans,
don't register as Democrats. They believe in some things of
each party, but they don't believe dogmatically in either one.
(41:31):
He may believe that there is a growing population of
independence who don't want to vote for a Republican for
whatever reason, and don't want to vote for a Democrat
because they think this is the second coming of Vladimir Lenin.
The truth is, I don't know that that's enough of
a base to win unless there is something that really
bad happens to the pill in campaign. And you articulated
(41:56):
last hour that he does have some headwinds. There are
some things brewing about his time as governor that might
cause people to say ah ah, specifically the suspension of
some laws involving no bid contracts that have not gone away.
And what that does is sow seeds of doubt and
a little bit of frustration in the minds of some voters.
(42:16):
The other thing is, Scott, these midterm elections are depressed turnouts,
and I don't know how the Republicans can do it,
but they have got to convince their people to come
out and vote even though Trump isn't on the ballot
and they think, ah, the Democrat isn't gonna win. All
you need to do is ask Jean Stothard about that.
Jean's doth should not have lost, but she lost because
(42:40):
Jane Kleb, the director of the state Democrat Party, very
wisely kept any Democrat from running against don Roe and
Brinker Harding in those key western Omaha City council districts
which depressed turnout. They didn't have an opponent and number
two the street car okay, well that they didn't come
vote for John Ewing. They just stayed home. Same thing
(43:01):
happened to Hal Dobb when Jim Suttle beat him. So
you've got somehow Republicans have got to motivate their base
to look, you got to come out and vote for me.
I know you're not happy with things. I know that
you know we made promises. We haven't captain all that jazz,
but it's this. If not me, it's this, and do
you really want that? That has to be a lot
(43:23):
of their motivation.
Speaker 1 (43:24):
I know people say I want someone who can go
across both sides of the island, work and around people
together and build bridges and all that. The people who
are motivated to go vote in this midterm election in
this political climate, they're not that voter. And that's not
what Linstrom needs. If he ends up being on the
ballot in November. I think the calculation is is that
(43:46):
Pillin will have some mud on him and maybe would
drop out of the race. That's got to be the calculation.
Or you just really want Lynn Wallace to win, because
that's what happens if Lenstrom is on this ballot.
Speaker 3 (44:00):
I will say this one more thing before we move
on to the next break. The last two three weeks
of that campaign for governor in the Republican primary in
twenty twenty two, you saw a lot of negative ads
against Brett Linstrom in support of Jim Pillen. They came
from Pete Ricketts, who at the time was the governor.
And Pete came on this show and said, I'm exercising
(44:22):
my right to free speech I'm just like anybody. I
can say this, and I can say that he's right
about that. It's a little untoward, but he's right about it.
This may be a little payback, he might say, you
know what, I really don't want to be an elected official,
but I'm gonna mess this up for this guy.
Speaker 1 (44:38):
Well, you're wrong about one thing. We don't break well,
only that's right. We only lie in wait until the
next second. In the inbox here the Zonker's custom was inbox.
This one sent to Scott at kfab dot com from Chris.
It says, I can tell you the reason I've considered
not voting and elections as a Republican, and I feel
(44:58):
the sentiment how a lot of Republican voters feel. We
vote these people into office and they don't do a
damn thing to actually fight the other side. I'm looking
at you, Don Bacon. You said that I represent all
the people. Well, until these squishy Republican politicians realize that
the other side has no interest in working with us,
we might as well get more motivated to come out
(45:21):
and vote for you. All right, that's from Chris. Well,
I don't know that that's true. That's the perception Don
Bacon did a lot for off an Air Force base
and Sack and all these other places. So I mean,
it's not like he didn't do anything, and he did
stand up in fight Democrats. But the perception, the purple dition,
what it is, Yeah, that's his perception. Reality is reality.
(45:43):
Perception is this time for the eleven to ten KFAB
certified transmission sports Breef. I don't know the answers to
these questions. I still don't know what I think about
data centers now. The accusation is that data centers are
using too much water. Are we going to run out
of water because of data centers? The water that data
(46:06):
centers uses, which I presume is the cooling the big
computer equipment that they used for the data centers, you
get to run the water through. There is that not recyclable.
It is in some cases and not all cases. They
do use a lot of water.
Speaker 3 (46:24):
They capture a lot of water, and yeah, in many
cases some of that water is recycled. There are two
real issues with the data centers, Scott. The first one
is the water issue. The second one is energy. What
are they using to power the dog on things? And
it is really not healthy for OPBD to have data
centers because OPBD needs to power houses and businesses and
(46:49):
street lights and ball fields.
Speaker 1 (46:50):
But President Trump said he wants any new data centers
to have their own energy source. The latest one here
is in cast County where Tenaska, which is an energy company,
wants to put a data center and use more than
thirteen hundred acres of Cass County farmland along Highway seventy five.
(47:12):
I'm not sure where down there along Highway seventy five,
but there's you got the room, probably not far from
Platsmus if you don't want to farm it, and someone
apparently who is more than happy to say, yeah, you
want to pay me for this land, this amount of money,
you can have it. Put whatever you want on there.
And the concern lately has been, well, they're going to
use all the water. Are we going to run out
(47:33):
of water because of data centers?
Speaker 3 (47:35):
Well, I don't know, probably not, but it stresses the
water table, especially during high drought areas and eras. Right now,
we're a little bit low on water around here, and
they're really low on water in other parts of the state.
And that's one of the reasons that they're talking about
halting a data center build out there in the sandhills
(47:56):
because that aquifer is responsible for water and a lot
of crops. And if we start draining the aquifer to
handle data centers, what's gonna water crops. I think these
are all important questions. This is the one thing you
need to remember. Data centers are not good for economic development.
They don't employ a very many people. Now, they're really
(48:19):
good for the Trenton Maggot who sells the land. They're
really good for the guy who owned the land. Grow
Omaha host Trenton Maggot under the buck he sold some
property for data centers. It has in the past. It's
really good for him. It's really good for the guy
who owned the land. And it's really good for the
energy company because they sell a lot of energy.
Speaker 2 (48:40):
Well hold on.
Speaker 3 (48:41):
But it's not great and they do pay taxes. I
don't know if they qualify under some you know, tax
incentive things in Nebraska for building something that large. But
they don't employ very many people. And that's what you
need to focus on when you start talking economic development.
How many people are gonna need jobs here? Did you
(49:04):
bring your horses with you into the studio? As I'm
going to ask you to hold them not yet the
right outside.
Speaker 1 (49:10):
Back up to the reasons why so many data centers
are being built or proposed, and that is apparently we
have demanded that we need to house all of this data,
and we need to have all these computations and all
the AI, and we need to have all the storage,
and we need to have all this power. And that's
why they're doing data centers. It's not like you set
(49:32):
up a data center and then you know, Joe consumer
goes by there and goes, yes, I'd like to buy
some data.
Speaker 2 (49:37):
What do you got on.
Speaker 1 (49:38):
No, it's not that this is because of us. This
is our needs. This is what we say that we
want and we need. Well, so they're not gonna build
these things and then we're not gonna have the storage
for this, We're not gonna have the speed for that,
we're not gonna have the capability for that. Who would
be the first people complaining we will. Well, But here's
the thing, Scott. One of the reasons you've seen this big,
big push in the last year is because Wall Street
(50:02):
has sold a ton of this future AI infrastructure. There
are at last checked, three hundred billion dollars has been
invested in AI buildouts and infrastructure. Now, if you talk
to really smart financial people, they'll say, when somebody offers
you a bunch of money to invest, you've got to
run it out the door.
Speaker 3 (50:21):
Now, there is a huge question. I think this is
one of the reasons. You can talk to a financial planner.
They'll tell you for certain that we've seen a drop
in the Nasdaq. Is that now people go, well, well,
what's the ROI on the three hundred billion? Okay, all
of these AI companies, the big ones, the big publicly
traded on the Nasdaq, have have put out opportunities for
people to invest in AI. So this is the AI buildout.
(50:44):
But we still don't have a definitive answer on OURI.
And this is when people get into trouble because they
want to be a part of this big AI revolution.
They want to get in on the ground floor, so
they invest a ton of money in AI buildout. We
need the capacity right now, I don't know, maybe, but
we may not need.
Speaker 2 (51:04):
It for a while. That's the issue.
Speaker 3 (51:06):
But when you have all of this investment capital going
to AI buildouts, that's where you're getting these overnight data
centers built.
Speaker 1 (51:15):
They got to do something with the money. By the way,
the Nasdaq is fine. It's up almost seven thousand points
in the last year.
Speaker 3 (51:21):
Well but if you've seen it drop in the last
three months because it was the first quarter was huge.
People got crazy on AI buildouts, and maybe it's a
good investment. I'm not an investment counselor called your favorite one,
but that's a big part of why we're seeing overnight.
Data center people have to do something with this money.
Speaker 2 (51:41):
Nasdaq's just fine.
Speaker 1 (51:43):
It's actually in the last three months, it's been climbing steadily.
Speaker 3 (51:47):
So took a big dump in January February March. But yeah,
well but that's not the last three months.
Speaker 1 (51:54):
Here's what's coming on you here, you bet, just in
case anyone gets the point, you'll buy sell by Look,
I'll tell you what's happened in the last three months.
Is this this concerted effort by these consumer outlook, you know,
protection groups to oppose data centers. I don't even know
if they know what they're talking about. Probably not, And
I'm the first one to admit I don't think that
(52:16):
I know what I'm talking about. I'm just trying to
ask the questions and trying to feel my way through
this because we're they're apparently building data centers for some reason,
and that's because we and our uses, our needs have
demanded as much. So we'll we also have water. We
have water, and we're not going to run out of water.
It's like, don't build that water park, We're going to
(52:37):
run out of water. It's recycles. Don't turn your sprinklers
on and it recycles.
Speaker 6 (52:42):
Good morning, guys. With the data centers, you know in
Cass County, Odell County, they're talking about, we just don't
want them in the country. The country is the country,
you know, farm grounds, fields, pastures, that's where our food
is made, cattle, hogs, there's a place for everything. Data
(53:05):
centers are not for us.
Speaker 2 (53:07):
All right.
Speaker 1 (53:08):
So the anti data center movement seems to be like
the anti pipeline movement. We just don't want them here
in this area. Well, you barely even know that they
exist except for the water and the electricity right now,
unless they use their own electricity, they create their own energy,
and the water is recyclable. I got a lot of
(53:28):
people emailing and going, yeah, it's essentially it's a recyclable
water feature that they have in these data centers now
here's another assessment. It comes from Kathleen says China. China
is actively investing in anti data center movements here in
the US while they build them like crazy. They know
that the success of AI is dependent on data centers.
(53:52):
So China is that that That guy who just sent
that message there via the talkback mic didn't sound like jimpig,
but he might be masking his voice. It's probably AI,
so there might be something to that too. Just a
lot of food for thought. Never now, breakfast time after all,
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