May the Trump Be With You

Today, it's gas prices, drought, a giant Golden Trump statue, Star Wars Day, and so much more!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Holy smokes this Monday. Good morning, and thank you very
much for spending this day with us. I am Scott
Vorhees here with Lucy Chapman, Craig Evans, Courtney Donahoe, Jim
Rose is here and this is Nebraska's morning News News
Radio eleven ten kfab all right, I went on a
little road trip this past week. Great time to do it.

(00:21):
Four dollars a gallon gasoline. The President said, we had
to stop Aron from getting nukes. We blew all their
nuclear capabilities to Kingdom Come, which is very close to
where they are over there in Persia. So we did that.
We blew up all the people in charge of building
the nukes. They're all gone. We have no idea with
whom we are negotiating to stop them from getting more nukes.

(00:45):
I wouldn't be surprised if we find out at the
end of this thing we've just been negotiating with a
wacky FM morning radio show. You know, one of these
guys that go like calls of Vladimir Putin and says, yes,
this is toon, John, we want to talk to Putin,
you know, like some sort of wacky slappy in the

(01:05):
Commandant morning show that's just been messing with the Trump administration,
or maybe it's AI We've been negotiating with the AI
A Tola in Iran. We've killed all the people, We've
stopped them from making the nukes. We can't get boats
through the straight of horror moves because apparently there are
mines everywhere. How's that? Because the first thing we did

(01:28):
well one A, we blew up all the nuclear capabilities.
Then we blew up we sunk all their ships? Who
put all the mines in the straight of horror moves?
I would assume that they were there to begin with.
Tankers were getting through, cargo ships were getting through the
strait before we did all this. Why was it not
a problem before? And why am I especially crabby about this?

(01:52):
Because I just went on a road trip with four
dollars gallon gasoline and there's no end insight to what
the heck we're doing over there. Good morning, Jim Rose,
Lucy Chapman. How long are the American people going to
have patients for what's going on in Iran with these conditions?

Speaker 2 (02:09):
First thing is you need to calm down. Nope, calm down.
I'm coming in hot I don't know that's a good question.
You know, I don't think we can get straight talk
from anybody. I don't think we can get straight talk
from the White House. We're certainly not going to get
it from Iran. You're not going to get it from
the national news media because they hate Donald Trump and
they're actually probably implying they prefer Iran win this.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
So how close are we? Good question?

Speaker 2 (02:34):
And the only way we're going to know is if
somebody in a position of authority over there says, Okay,
here's the yellow cake, take it and we're done. Just
make sure we've got plenty to run the power plants
around here because it gets hot in the summertime. Otherwise,
we don't know how close we are. We don't know
how close we are to owning this thing. We don't

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know how serious the threat from Iran is. Do they
have enough stuff to create a nuclear weapon yet? Do
they have the possibility of being able to attack Europe
or other countries in the Middle East? They've not been
able to do it lately. But how can we stay

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there forever? We don't need the oil. We can produce
our own oil, but we're shipping a lot of our
oil to other places now. You're seeing tankers pulled into Houston.
There's a traffic jam down at the Port of Houston
because these are tankers that usually come from the Strait
of Hormuz. Now they're coming from the Strait of Galveston. Yeah,

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in the Gulf of America. In the Gulf of America.
So and they're going to places like Europe where they
need it because they have energy problems there that are
fairly dramatic.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
I'm fine with what the President did to stop Iran
from getting nukes. It seems like a nuclear annihilation would
ruin our day. That's true, whether you're here in Nebraska
or Iowa, or you're in Israel, or you're at Vatican City,
or if you're if you're here Stormer in the United Kingdom, Germany,

(04:13):
all of you would be wiped out in nuclear annihilation,
which was the stated goal of our good friends in Iran.
So for the President to have stopped them from doing that,
thank you, mister President. Appreciate that. But as far as
whatever we're doing now, this uncertainty is hurting the markets.
It's it's jacking up the cost of oil, which is

(04:35):
jacking up the cost of gas, and Americans are now
paying about four dollars a gallon for unleaded gasoline across
this country. How long will our patients last? How's your
patients doing? Scottikfab dot com, Zonker's custom what's in boxing?
And as Courtney Donahoe mentioned earlier this hour in Nebraska's
morning news news radio eleven ten KFAB, we just had

(04:58):
the as you know, the Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting weekend.
This was the first weekend when greg Abel was at
the reins of the big weekend. He of course stepped
in as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway after Gary Sadelmeyer stepped down,
and so greg Abel went in there and.

Speaker 3 (05:18):
Nothing, okay, I no, I was just thinking, I'm so
glad it's over because proof now I can go back
to Borsheims.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
Yeah, Nebraska Furniture mark there. We had two fantastic zoos
in Omaha this weekend. As I understand it, you got
the Henry Dorley and you got the Nebraska Furniture. You
got both zoos. It was. It was quite quite the
scene throughout Omaha. It's good to see so many people

(05:46):
here in town. I understand that Bill Murray was here,
was he now always good to have Bill Murray here
in town.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
And he didn't stop buying say hello, he did.

Speaker 1 (05:54):
No one answered the door. Someone's gotta let you in,
and he stood there for a while. I guess it
didn't happen, but yeah, I was. I was out of
town this weekend, so I missed all the additional traffic,
but it was it was quite the zoo around the
Furniture Mark, as I understand, God bless them, got God

(06:17):
bless who Chi ching chi ching chi ching. Well that's great.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
See they dropped that black card, and that's good for us.
Are we not allowed to say Nebraska Furniture Mark anymore?
You got to say NFM. You can't say Kentucky Fried
Chicken KFC.

Speaker 3 (06:30):
No.

Speaker 2 (06:30):
I called it Nebraska Furniture Mark, and we'll continue to
for the rest of my life because that's what I know.
And maybe for a twelve year old it'll be NFM,
but for this one, it's Nebraska Furniture Mark. I think
First National Bank, First National Bank is going to always
be First National God bless them for FNB Oh, but
I don't know what that means, right. I think really

(06:54):
first nationalized body owder I.

Speaker 1 (06:56):
Think reluctance to change is always a good trade and
you should hold on to that. I'm into it, baby,
speaking of reluctance to change. But I moved on to saturmit. Hey,
I was gonna say how to go in here? It
was so weird. I'm I'm driving out of town Wednesday
morning and I'm hearing you and Gary and Lucy battling,
you know, banning back and forth on the radio. And
for a moment there, I forgot that Gary had retired

(07:18):
this past December and that things had changed. And I
kind of forgot that until Saturday, when suddenly I started
thinking about the week ahead and I was like, oh, yeah,
Gary's not here, and I got to step in and
hang out with you guys. I honestly really yeah, I was.
I's like I got sucked into a black hole, and
you know what, it was great. I enjoyed hearing Gary

(07:39):
back on here. So I'm going to make this pledge
to you because this past Wednesday through Friday, these were
the first vacation days I had since Gary retired in
early December, first time I'd taken off. I'm gonna make
a pledge to you, U kf aby Nation. I will
take more days off when Gary can come in and

(07:59):
do the show, because I enjoyed that too. It was
really fun, and he enjoyed it. He loved being a
part of this and saying things like now the eleven
ten KFAB Certified Transmission Sports brief, here's Jim Rose.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
Okay, Scotty, good morning, everybody. Husker baseball soiled the sheets
over the weekend. There is a more crude metaphor that
I'll allow you to conjure up on your own. Played
the number ninety two ranked team in the country and
lost all three of them. The Ohio State Buckeyes good
and about every sport except baseball treated us like Michigan
swept the series one yesterday ten to one. Bucks hit

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seven home runs on the weekend, while Nebraska continued an
irritating trend of leaving runners in scoring position. Iowa comes
to town next week, actually this weekend. Hawkeyes are pretty
average this season. Two and then one more against Creighton
before a season ending series of dinky Town and mediocre Minnesota.

Speaker 1 (08:51):
And that is the problem.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
Regional hosts will be declared before the end of the
conference tournament. Nebraska won't be playing anybody good until then.
Trying to improve on their RPI, which took a seven
step drop over the weekend, could be a challenge. That's
what the committee looks at. Further, the Big Ten, even
with UCLA, is still not respected in college baseball circles,

(09:14):
so Nebraska has virtually no margin for error the rest
of the way. Creighton is back in first place. Beat
Saint john six to five to salvage one of the three.
The Jays and Saint Jays are tied for the lead
in the Big East. Both will have to win the
league tournament to get into the NCAA's. We might get
in at large Berth. Anyway, it'll be tough. RPIs aren't
that good. Big leagues. Yesterday afternoon and last night the

(09:36):
Royals sweep Seattle.

Speaker 1 (09:37):
They won yesterday four to one.

Speaker 2 (09:39):
So after that average performance against the A's, the Royals
came roaring back and they take the series against the
Mariners Detroit and the A's also Houston. The Yankees and
Twins win games in the American League National League Atlanta eleven, Colorado,
six Cubs, eight d Backs four Dodgers four to one.

Speaker 1 (09:56):
Of are the cards.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
It was Philadelphia over Miami Washington, and it was Pittsburgh
won Cincinnati nothing. Interleague scores raised two Giants one, Mets five,
Angels won, Padres four, White Sox three. Omaha defeated Louisville
fourteen to eight. NBA Playoffs first round is over. The
Pistons rallied. They were down three to one, but they

(10:18):
rallied and won the series against the Magic in seven games,
winning game seven. Yesterday won sixteen ninety four. Cleveland won
fourteen Toronto one to oh two. Cabs win that best
of seven East first round series four to three. Hockey
series we are done between Montreal and Tampa Bay. The
Abs win the best of seven East first round four
to three, winning Game seven two to one. But in

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Game one of the second round out West Colorado nine,
Minnesota six from the Derby Big TV ratings nineteen point
seven million, biggest audience in thirty six years. Next time
you get a phone call from a Husker sports asking
for money, you might show them this. The Big Ten
Conference distributed a record one point three billion dollars to

(11:01):
the schools for fiscal twenty four to twenty five. That
comes to about seventy nine million for Nebraska just from
the Big Ten. It'll be closer to one hundred million
for fiscal twenty five twenty six, which ends on June thirty.
That is how you pay for six hundred million in
upgrades to Grandma. We know the horse gets nothing but
a blanket of roses. For winning the Kentucky Derby. The

(11:24):
owner gets two point eight million dollars. How much for
the jockey, Jose Ortiz wrote him he gets ten percent
minus twenty five percent for his agent, five percent for
the paddock valet, four percent state income tax in Kentucky,
and depending on if he has an LLC or an escorp,
would pay up to thirty five percent in federal. It's

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the most dangerous job in sports, and that's what he gets.
One hundred and two thousand, one hundred and two thousand
attendants for the baseball game at Texas A and M's
Kyle Field the football stadium to watch the Savannah Bananas
over the weekend, and they are coming to Lincoln. They'll
play at Hawksfield on the eleventh of June and then

(12:06):
in Memorial Stadium on the thirteenth, and they expect over
ninety thousand for that one. The Savannah Bananas. Have you
ever seen these guys play? They're pretty fun to watch.
You know, they dance around and then they do backflips
and all that jazz. Okay, now that you know about
the Savannah bananas. Sports is News on Nebraska's News Weather
in traffic station.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
We're all here with you on Nebraska's morning News on
this Monday, May the fourth, be with you at Star
Wars Day. And here she comes. It's Denise Powell. Why
is she so angry? I don't know she I see
these ads and I I'm scared. I hide behind my

(12:48):
recliner until these commercials are done, these political ads ahead
of the primary next week. Keep sharp objects. Oh my gosh,
how many people is she murdered? She just she is
just she looks dangerous and angry and I'm gonna fight Trump,
and I'm gonna fight anyone to vote for Trump, and
We're gonna save our democracy. But beat you up, ruin

(13:10):
it and not ticked off like and she uses the
bad language like Denise, stop it please.

Speaker 2 (13:18):
Well, as Jim Rose predicted a year ago, she's surging
in the prose. Yeah, and I sat there, you know,
all these Republicans are rolling around.

Speaker 1 (13:26):
I said, you need to worry about Denise Powell. No,
she's not well.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
As I was talking to political people over the weekend
when Rosie you were right about that one. She is
surging in the polls. She's effectively made people afraid of
losing John Cavanoff in the Nebraska unicamra.

Speaker 1 (13:43):
Oh what a loss that would be.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
And I listened to John on a podcast the other day,
and I didn't know his father, and I wasn't paying
close attention to politics when his father was in the
United States Congress back in the nineteen seventies. But quite candidly,
he's just not that impressive and individual.

Speaker 1 (14:00):
Now.

Speaker 2 (14:01):
He may have a real command of the language of
the material. He may understand how laws get made and
all that jazz, but he's not very inspiring and he's
not a kind of guy that people go, WHOA. You know,
I got to pay attention to this dude. There have
been other candidates running for office that exceed him in
the wow factor and in the stagecraft factor.

Speaker 1 (14:23):
But you're still talking about a Democratic primary, And from
what I see from now, I'm talking about the base
of today's Omaha Democratic Party. The No Kings protests that
going up there with megaphones and yelling obscenities and blocking
traffic and and all that stuff pretty far to the left.
I don't see where a straight white guy gets I

(14:47):
don't I don't see where that guy gets that base
energized enough to go out and vote, especially when you've
got people saying, yeah, if he ends up leaving the Unicamral,
Governor Pillen can put you know, Donald Trum Junior in
there to be part of his district here in Nebraska.
I don't see where he really energizes that group.

Speaker 2 (15:08):
It's hard. It's hard for me to see it too.
But again, a state senator in Nebraska, unless you're unhinged
like his sister, who gets a lot of really crazy
headlines because of her behavior down there.

Speaker 1 (15:19):
He says, his sister, or it's his sister. There's so
many kavan ons.

Speaker 2 (15:23):
Yeah, and there's a can't swing a dead cab with
that in a kabin. That's his sister. You know she's crazy,
at least she acts like she's crazy. Maybe she's not crazy,
but she's sure leads you to believe she is. If
you're a state senator, unless you behave like that or
like Ernie Chambers, you're just not going to get a
lot of attention because you represent a fairly small slice
of the electorate, I think, but twenty thousand folks something

(15:46):
like that.

Speaker 1 (15:46):
I don't know what the number is.

Speaker 2 (15:48):
The truth is that this is a competitive district, in
a fifty one forty nine fifty and a half forty
nine and a half district that will allow for real
personality to to elevate. I think, if you've got a
real story to tell, and you're compelling, and you look good,

(16:11):
and you've got, you know, kind of a sharp wit,
and you know you you kind of light up a room,
you can rise above that and get I think independence
on your side, maybe some left leaning Republicans.

Speaker 1 (16:23):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (16:23):
The Brinker is that, I don't know the Brett Linstrom's
that he's not in the race anymore.

Speaker 1 (16:27):
What race is bred in j Yeah, he might run
for governor. I don't know. On the marijuana Party, I
don't know what he's not the marijuana not the marijuana Party.

Speaker 2 (16:35):
But this guy who was considered the front runner, I
don't know how uh yeah, and I can I can
understand now why Denise Powell is surging. I predicted and
Brinker was sitting right here when he announced his candidacy
seven months ago. Whenever it was. He said, you need
to worry about Denise Powell. Oh no, I said, no,

(16:57):
you need to worry about Denise Poal because she doesn't
have a record. She also knows where all the bodies
are buried. She has a stack of io us from
all of these female candidates that she got elected over
the last.

Speaker 1 (17:07):
Ten years, and she can raise a lot of money.
But you've got Crystal Roads in this primary election a
week from tomorrow as well, and that vote between Rhoads
and Powell might split, and you still might get primary
challenger John Cavanaugh coming through to the November general election.
And all I know is your predictions are spot on,

(17:28):
as I understand it. Over the week on Friday before
the weekend, you said Nebraska to have no problem with
baseball at Ohio State, right, and I'm wrong on sports? Okay, Well,
what have you do that.

Speaker 2 (17:38):
I do believe the Crystal Roads. I think she will
take votes from John Kavanaugh. I don't think she'll take
votes from Denise Powell. The story Crystal is a is
a hard left, She is a she is an avowed liberal. Well,
I guess she's a little more transparent about it, all right,
She really is and I think that's the one that could.

(17:59):
And she's I've been elected to a lot of offices,
but she hasn't doesn't have the money.

Speaker 1 (18:03):
Well, it's primaries a week from tomorrow. We got a
little drama to watch for as we move into that
next week. News Radio eleven ten kfab thanks again to
that Gary Sadlemeyer kid for filling in for me a
couple of days last week. And Emery Songer made his
Nebraska's morning news show host debut on Friday with you guys,

(18:26):
I understand everyone had a good time. Everything went great,
and my key card still worked when I came to
the building today, so that's always a positive. I had
a lot of time to think driving all across the
Midwest and paying an obscene amount of money for gas,
and I I'm just I continue to wonder how long

(18:47):
American's patients will be for whatever is going on in Iran.
With four dollars a gallon gasoline that will increase. Oil
is up today, stocks are downt now. All of that
could go completely flippity floppity by tomorrow or even later today.
But gas prizes never react quickly to go down. They
always go up here, So I think a lot of

(19:09):
people should be asking the Trump administration by people, I mean, Congress,
you said we needed to stop Iran from getting nukes.
I believe we have done that. What is it that
we are trying to do now? Well, we're trying to
get these ships through the Straight of Horror moves and
we got a blockade and we got Project Freedom underway.
And the bots that are running Iran say that they

(19:35):
think this is an aggressive US military action and they're
not going to back to who's running Iran? And why
is it that the sticking point for whatever in the
negotiation is to do something to move forward in Iran?
Always comes back to Trump telling Iran you will not
have nuclear weapons, and they say, okay, we have a

(19:59):
we have a propos for you. We want to operate
this much of the Straight of Horror moves and we
want your help and rebuilding this, and we also want
nuclear weapons. Like no, no, no, maybe you missed our
first thing. We told you you cannot have nuclear weapons. Okay,
but we can have nuclear weapons though. No, It's like

(20:19):
it's like negotiating with a two year old. I don't
I don't know why we don't just blow up whoever
we're talking to now and see what the next wave
of alleged leaders in that country. You have to say,
we've already taken out so many of them. I am
Scott Vorhees on this Monday, May the fourth be with
you Star Wars Day, which answers the question what is
the greatest movie theme song of all time? It is

(20:45):
John Williams theme to Star Wars. Not even Claire is
not even close. No, okay, I'm I'm willing to listen.
You're gonna be wrong, but I am willing to listen
to you. Jim, I'm not greatest theme song in movie history. Jaws.
That's a good one. John Williams number one. How lucky

(21:09):
are we that we got to watch movies with John
composed by John Williams. I don't even if John Williams
walked down the hallway here at the radio station, I
would not recognize him. Yet he's one of the more
than five now he's one of the most important people
in our lifetimes. With all I mean, he did Jaws,

(21:29):
he did Star Wars, he did Indiana Jones. That's a
fund Encounters of the third kind too, I believe he did.
I think he scored the Harry Potter Movies and had
some solid stuff there as well. Superman. He did Superman
See Jaws.

Speaker 2 (21:45):
The reason that's number one is that movie is defined
by that song.

Speaker 1 (21:51):
There are there are two.

Speaker 2 (21:52):
Components to what was one of the most remarkable motion
picture events of the nineteen seventies, which was Jaws. The
first one is the is the sound? Is the is
the music. The second one is You're gonna need a
bigger boat one line out of an hour and a half,
two hours of movie.

Speaker 1 (22:09):
Yeah, but I for me when I'm sitting there in
the theater and I see the screen with the uh
the galaxy, you know, space, and then it says long
ago in a galaxy far far away, followed by that
crashing sound there. I I'm sorry, shiver is down my

(22:33):
spine with this one. But you know, all right, I
thought you were gonna be completely wrong, right, folks, back
me up on this to show my hands. Yeah, that's
what I thought. I'm also looking here on the Star
Wars day, I think Caddy Shack's theme is right up
to the top ten. Well, there's the top I'm gonna

(22:55):
I'm gonna go difference between pop songs pop rock songs
that were big and movies versus theme songs or are
you talking about what we're talking about in Caddy Shack.
You're talking about it's a popular saw, all right by
Kenny Lodger, Right, And then Loggins also did Top Gun.
But if you look at Top Gun and that soundtrack,
it was so good that they reprised it for the sequel,

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which only happened forty years later. A right, No, Well
the Top Gun anthem, Yeah, that's a good song as well.
And Cherriot's a fire a lot of ways you go.
I'm also looking here on the Star Wars day, I
see a mint condition Princess Leah Rookie card is now
going for thirteen thousand, five hundred dollars. These are the

(23:36):
nineteen seventy seven Star Wars cards that they put out
in connection with that movie I had. I don't know
a million of them. Are they in mint condition? They
are not. They had rubber bands. We used to put
the rubber bands around all of our trading cards, not
just around them like a like a belt, but also

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then you would twist that rubber band and then put
it around the top vertically as well, so you're damaging
the cards both in the top and the sides, which
I think would make my Princess Leiah card worth approximately
three dollars and five cents. But in addition to this
being Star Wars Day, here's a reminder that you might
need as well. This Sunday is Mother's Day. It barely

(24:23):
registered to me over the weekend that it is currently
the month of May. So the thought of things like
Mother's Day, the thought of things like my daughter when
she makes references to when she's back from college, which
to me sounds like, oh, that's something that's probably a
month or two away. And then I found out no, no,

(24:45):
she'll be back at the end of next week, will
she not? That there's a lot I need to do
with that other than this, Lucy, she has asked to
go on a little cross trip of her own with
some of her friends from college, and immediate I mean, like,
who are you going with, what are you doing? Who's

(25:07):
going to be there, what adult's going to be there?
You guys, well, you think you're gonna get hotel rooms?
You're not old enough to get hotel rooms? What are
we talking about? What are we really doing here? And uh?
And then the negotiation between my daughter suggesting something like this,
and my wife immediately saying that's the worst idea I've
ever heard, I don't think she should go, and me

(25:28):
saying I think it sounds like fun. I hope she
has a great time, and then trying to navigate the
waters from there. That's what I was faced with over
the weekend.

Speaker 3 (25:37):
Are you gonna let her go? Oh?

Speaker 1 (25:38):
I don't know. It's kind of hoping you'd break the tie.

Speaker 3 (25:41):
Well, is it with girls or mixed boys?

Speaker 1 (25:45):
What is it? I really don't want to ask a
lot of questions.

Speaker 3 (25:50):
I would I let a group of girls go on
across country driving trip. Unfortunately, I would not. It's just
far too dangerous with the state of criminals that are
let out that are roaming the streets.

Speaker 1 (26:07):
We see it every day, but they're everywhere, of course
they are. Then they should never be out of the dungeon.
Teach them out to shoot a gun or the tower.
Now here's the part of the show where Lucy says
she's glad she doesn't have kids. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (26:20):
I'm get your daughter over to the bullet hole and
get her trained up.

Speaker 1 (26:24):
Okay, you guys are real big help. My wife would
love My wife would love all this conversation. Here's the reality.
Though doesn't like guns. Here's the reality. My daughter is
an adult. She's gonna make her own decisions. I would
like for her to be on the same page as
the parental units. That's not always going to be the case.

(26:44):
At some point, you raise them, hope that they make
good decisions, and cut the apron strings and let them go.
Your daughter can handle herself. I know your daughter. She
and I talk regularly, and I'm fully confident she can
have Well, I'm gonna remind that this Sunday is Mother's Day. Now,
that's a hard one. Help her cause if she doesn't forget,

(27:06):
we all need to remember our mamas. This is Nebraska's
Morning News on News Radio eleven ten kfab Welcoming from
our partners at Fox News Radio. Jonathan Savage. Back to
the show. Been talking a lot about the impact of
what's been continuing to go on in Iran on gas
prices here in America about four dollars a gallon in
many parts of the country, and now we're underway with

(27:29):
Project Freedom in the strait of horror moves. Jonathan, what
is Project Freedom?

Speaker 4 (27:35):
Yeah, Good morning, Scott. This was announced by President Trump
over the weekends, saying as a humanitarian initiative to help
the ships that have been stranded in the Persian Gulf,
the Arabian Gulf on the west side of the Straight
of Horror moves trying to unblock this blockade. It involves
the US Navy advising commercial ships on how to avoid minds,

(27:58):
creating an enhanced security area, and standing ready to deal forcefully,
in the words of the President, if Iran interferes. There's
no current plan we're told for fully fledged naval escorts,
but this does involve support from over one hundred aircraft
and fifteen thousand troops.

Speaker 1 (28:16):
I don't get it. We immediately sunk their navy. Where
did these mines come from if they weren't already there
when ships were already gone through the Straight of Horror
moves before.

Speaker 4 (28:28):
Yeah, the mines have been laid various points in recent weeks.
There have also been attempts to clear minds, but there's
a lack of confidence that all the minds have been cleared.
It's understood that there are minds still in some areas,
and both Iran initially and now the United States are
offering advice on the routes through the straight up form
moves where mines do not exist. Iran insists that all

(28:51):
passage there has to be done in accordance with its
own military, and this is a way attempts at least
to bypass it. Ran also over the weekend fired on
two separate ships. One was with projectiles, the other was
attacked by multiple small craft. So the reality is that

(29:12):
attacks are continuing even as Project Freedom launches.

Speaker 1 (29:15):
As is the propaganda war. Iran says that they was
shot down an American ship or a plane or something.

Speaker 4 (29:23):
An Iranian semi official news agency claimed that Iran struck
a US vessel near an Iranian port with two missiles
and that the vessel was vessel was forced to turn back.

Speaker 3 (29:36):
Well.

Speaker 4 (29:36):
US Central Command then said on social media, no US
Navy ships have been struck. There was then a further
communication from an Iranian official saying actually a warning shot
was fired towards a US vessel. So there's a bit
of a back and forth, the United States accusing Iran
of making things up of pure propaganda, but that does

(29:57):
sort of tell you just how tense things are in
the region.

Speaker 1 (30:00):
Well, and then the President Trump says, yeah, we're having
good negotiations with them, we got some response. Iran says,
we haven't talked to anybody. We don't know who we're
talking to over in Iran, which I know is a
familiar theme when we talk with you, Jonathan. But where
are we here with where the negotiations are. President Trump
has been clear that Iran can't have nukes. Iran still

(30:21):
seems to think that they can have nukes.

Speaker 4 (30:24):
Yeah, where we are with diplomacy is that it is alive,
but it doesn't appear to be moving forward very quickly.
Iran said the United States a fourteen point piece proposal
and that the United States has responded via Pakistani mediation.
There was talk that President Trump was not impressed with
this proposal, but we don't have an official public response

(30:46):
from the United States. There is also a suggestion that
this proposal does not involve Iran's nuclear program. A Foreign
Ministry official saying, at this stage, we have no nuclear negotiations.
What Iran wants to do is in the conflict and
the economic action that's been taken against his country, but

(31:06):
then pushing nuclear talks further down the road.

Speaker 1 (31:09):
Now the blockade seems to be really bothering them. But
at the same time, I think Iran also realizes that
gas prices and stock market fluctuations are wearing thin on
the American people, and maybe they think they can wait
this out before Trump gets the right amount of pressure
put on him. Here at home, we will see Jonathan

(31:30):
great reporting as always, always appreciate talking to you.

Speaker 4 (31:34):
Thanks, Scott, Take care from Fox News Radio.

Speaker 1 (31:36):
That is Jonathan Savage here on Nebraska's Morning News taking
a look at the president's truth social post today. I'm
seeing something here posted moments ago from the President where
he's firing back at Van Jones of CNN and criminal
justice reform. Not exactly sure what that's all about. Last

(32:00):
night he said that the Republicans need to terminate the
filibuster and win. It's probably never going to happen. And
also some nice things he said about Rudy Giuliani, which
is you've heard in Fox News updates today. He is
said to be in critical but stable condition in a
hospital in Florida. No real other details other than that

(32:22):
about the eighty one year old former mayor of New
York City. We'll get updates throughout the day in the
Zonkers Custom Woods inbox, Scott ATKFAB dot com. We got
this message from Penny says, can I request a rosie?
Did GENOZI? Well, first of all, before we give you
the subjects, she wants to see covered. Our listeners allowed

(32:45):
to request or ros Yeah.

Speaker 2 (32:47):
I get requests, well, I get tips all the time, okay,
and I welcome them and appreciate them.

Speaker 1 (32:53):
Penny says, I just heard Courtney Donahoe's report cattle herds
are at the lowest, which is true, but cattle are
larger than ever before, and the quality is better than ever.
So the size of the animals now easily makes up
for the lack of numbers. I think there is such
a better way to present on behalf of the beef industry.
Just a request. He does a great job with those bits.

(33:15):
He would tell more of the story. That's from Penny,
sent to scottikfab dot com. Can you do that here
in an hour?

Speaker 2 (33:22):
No, probably have to do a little more digging into
that one. We have a problem, a big problem brewing
in greater Nebraska, and it's not just the fires. It's
the drought. We are already in abnormally dry, but we
are an extreme drought in certain parts of Nebraska, which

(33:43):
could put a tremendous burden on producers this summer to
grow the crops that we need.

Speaker 1 (33:48):
It could be a really rough.

Speaker 2 (33:50):
Year for agriculture in Nebraska unless we start getting a
lot of rain, because not only did we not get
any snow this past winter time, but Colorado didn't either,
And the South Platte River basin is filled by runoff
from the front range of Colorado. So every river is
a little bit lower, and in some cases a lot lower,

(34:12):
and the water tables are pretty scary. And we're not
even into the hot weather yet. Lucy, any idea how
we can get it to rain?

Speaker 1 (34:21):
Prayer is a really good start. Your name is not Lucy,
but I'm just giving her a tip. I'm getting her
the opportunity to say what she usually says here.

Speaker 3 (34:31):
I have nothing to say on that subject, Scott, Yes
you do.

Speaker 1 (34:37):
How can we get it to rain? By the way,
they're doing that in Iowa and not Iowa, Idaho and Utah. Harp.

Speaker 3 (34:50):
I'm aware, I'm familiar with the term harpy the government.

Speaker 1 (34:55):
Lucy usually says, harp. I wanted to give you a
chance to say, harpy, harp, harp, thank you. This is
the cloud seeding they're doing it because Utah are and Idaho.
They they've got the drought out there as well, and
they're paying a startup company called rain Maker millions of

(35:16):
dollars every year, and they say radar and satellite data
shows it's generated one hundred and forty three million dollars
of pardon me, one hundred and forty three million gallons
of fresh water by seeding the clouds with what is
it silver I had died or something like that, and
then and then we get rain. Now we're all going

(35:39):
to be ravaged with cancer, and we're going to be
growing antlers and our umbilical cords will suddenly regrow. But
it might rain.

Speaker 3 (35:48):
Well, I don't think we need to worry about that
as much. I think we would need to worry more
about what else they can do with that weather, or
what else have they done with that weather manipulation?

Speaker 1 (36:00):
Weather manipulation. I just wanted terrain in western Nebraska so
we can get beef prices down. And then they say
that because of what's going on in Iran that beef
prices might go up. Are we getting a lot of
stakes from Tehran? Here? In the Zonker's custom woods inbox
Scott at kfab dot com. Ken says, FYI, we have
farms out near the border by Scott's Bluff, and they've

(36:24):
told us that the Irrigation District reservoirs are empty, no
snow in Wyoming to fill them, no water available, and
that we will have to take prevented planting through crop insurance,
and it's going to be a big mess out there now.
Michael says, now here's a good idea. Why don't these
operations capitalize for just such events? Instead of buying new

(36:48):
f two to fifty lariats every year, buying that condo
and Phoenix to go spend the winter in, they could
go into a drought mitigation fund for their business and
emergency fund, just like any of us need to do
when we run to financial challenges. Maybe if they knew
bailouts weren't waiting in Lincoln and DC, the real prospect
of failing would encourage fiscal discipline. Michael I, it's kind

(37:11):
of a generalization of the day to day fiscal operation
of a Nebraska farm at his point as well. Take
his point is taken on one respect, But if it
doesn't rain, you can store all the money over here
you want but you can't water the crops with it,
so the money doesn't buy the rain. I guess is

(37:34):
what I'm this is a This is a scary time,
and you know, we don't see it necessarily as up
close and personal as those who farm it every day,
because you know, Omaha has a lot of small business
people and they just go over to their favorite grocery
store and get whatever, and then they look at the
price and say, why is this up.

Speaker 2 (37:52):
Must be Trump's fault. No, it may not be Trump's fault.
It may be Mother Nature's fault. So I'm not sure
how to fix it. And there are a lot of
very very smart people on agriculture. A lot of smart
people have managed through these crises in the past, and
we'll probably do it again. But when you tack the
range fires on to this, it's hard for the producers.

(38:16):
It can be very challenging to be a producer. Ranching
and farming is tough anyway. I don't know how many
folks listening to KFEB really understand just how hard it
is to farm and ranch. It's not as hard as
it used to be because of modern technology and some
of the things that farmers and producers have put together

(38:36):
and adopted over the years. But this is a tough
business and it is it's not like any other industry.
And granted there are some backstops that the government has
put in place in the last seventy five years, but
it's still hard.

Speaker 1 (38:50):
Well, we take it for granted. We all take it
for granted. And certainly we look and go, well, there's
not as many mom and pop ranches and farms as
certainly as there used to be, which is true. Also
the fact that gas prices are way up, labor costs
are way.

Speaker 2 (39:03):
Property taxes, well, yeah, property taxes are a way I.

Speaker 1 (39:07):
Don't know if you've heard. Property taxes are a problem
around here, and so very hard on farmers and ranchers.
All of these end up raising the prices. Your point
is well taken. But when it comes to Mother Nature saying, oh,
you guys are having a hard time, well, I'll be
over here not raining for you and not providing that
winter snow that you need to fill the reservoirs. Mother

(39:27):
Nature is undefeated in that regard. Who's running against her
in the primary next week.

Speaker 2 (39:31):
No, and if we think we have it rough, and
we do consider the issue for the western half of
the United States because not only did they not get
any snow on the front range of Colorado and Wyoming,
they didn't get it in the high country either, and
that's what fills the Colorado River every year. Well, they're
trying forty million people use the Colorado River for drinking water.

Speaker 1 (39:53):
They're trying to get people to conserve water out in
western Nebraska. And that'll be the other problem, and that
is the selfishness of people. We are some of the
most generous people. It's like, hey, can you donate a
few bucks. Can you go into your closets, you got
any old coats you can donate to this cause. Can
you volunteer your time? We are great with that when
it comes to conservation, Like, look, I want to help out,

(40:15):
but fine, I'm not going to have my lawn dye
and my pool not gets filled. So I mean, I
want to go out and play this golf course. I
need it to be green and lush. I'm gonna say
that green fee, that tariff there. I want this green
to I had this golf course to be green. I
don't know how much people will will pitch it and
that then it becomes mandatory water restrictions. People get really

(40:39):
bent out of shape about that. Mother Nature can help
things out by you know, doing your job. The same year,
spring may range. You know that kind of thing. April showers,
may shower. We've got to do with this. Maybe Brett
Linstrom can run against Mother Nature at primary and now
Mother Nature party.

Speaker 2 (40:54):
But you know, we've had and I know that history
is boring in today's national news media, it has very
little context of history. But we've gone through really rough
spells of drought in the past. The difference is we
didn't use water from the Colorado River to grow crops
in the desert. See, that's the thing. And you know

(41:17):
we've said, well, we're gonna grow up. I mean, agriculture
is the number one industry in Arizona. Agriculture. You're thinking,
wait a minute, that's a desert. Well, it's got access
to water and so they grow a lot of stuff.
And it's the same way in California, and it's the
same way in Greater Nebraska. Greater Nebraska for decades and
decades was range land. It was for animals. Well, then

(41:39):
we discovered the center pivot irrigation system, and now we're
watering the sandhills to grow crops out there.

Speaker 1 (41:44):
I figured Michael's email would set some people off. Leland says,
here's my response to Michael. He's a dumbass. Thank you
for the email. Leland Scott at kfab dot com in
the Zonker's Custom wo's inbox. And you think about where
we are with technology to be able to potentially make
it rain, not the way you do at the strip club, Jim,
but to actually make it rain at these anyway, when

(42:09):
you think about where we are in technology now, they
just shut down something that almost thirty years ago was
the most advanced thing we'd ever seen. Ask Jeeves, Yes,
ask dot com where you would go on there. This
was before Google. It launched a year before Google, and
it was a search engine where you could type out

(42:29):
full questions and then Jeeves, your internet butler, would issue
a response. Ask Jeeves has been shut down by their
parent company after almost thirty years online born in nineteen
ninety seven, and when that came out, people are like, well,
this is it. We have reached the pinnacle of where

(42:50):
we can advance as a society. We're asking an online
person full questions and getting a full response here. Thanks Jeeves.

Speaker 2 (42:59):
Yeah, and wiped out the Yellow Pages along the way.
You know, that's amazing that it lasted that long. I
figured it had been swallowed up by Google or you know,
Yahoo or any of these other big search engines.

Speaker 1 (43:13):
But it was a standalone huh well, essentially was. But
they that's why they weren't doing so well and why
it was easy to shut it down. Right, turned down
an offer from those guys. Right, So, thirty years ago,
asked Jeeves launch and we were like wow. And today,
according to a federal biosecurity advisor talking to The New

(43:34):
York Times, AI, in a test run for a major
artificial intelligence company, the chat bot not only laid out
and I don't know that they were asking it this question,
but an AI chatbot laid out how to tweak a
dangerous pathogen to resist treatment, but also mapped out how
to disperse it via a vulnerability in our mass transit

(43:57):
system to find as many dead people as possible due
to a pathogen. And AI was like, I can do this.
You want me to do this? They're like, uh no,
please don't. But AI kind of figured it out and
apparently it did it on its own. So you know
what I miss Jeeves. I don't think. I don't think

(44:18):
Jeeves was wanting to kill us all.

Speaker 2 (44:20):
We all needed Jeeves from time to time, although nobody's
actually named Jeeves anymore, probably hasn't been for one hundred years.

Speaker 1 (44:27):
Not a lot of Jeeves in my kids' classes. Wow,
this song's got some action, do it, doesn't it. Let's
slow it down a little bit. Hello friends, As I
promised you about ten minutes ago, i'd give you a
golf update here, a tradition unlike any other on news

(44:49):
radio eleven ten kfab except this golf update has to
do with the President of the United States, So maybe
this music is more appropriate. But Jim's doing the Trump dance?
What aura, Come on, let's get it, Lucy, you're not

(45:14):
doing the dance.

Speaker 2 (45:15):
When you see football players doing this, you see guys
in the NFL doing this, you're thinking Trump really has
one over the country.

Speaker 1 (45:24):
You see football players doing the Trump shuffle. President was
out there one of the college football playoff games. The
guy scores a touchdown, starts doing That's funny.

Speaker 2 (45:34):
Alright, So that that whole that whole use of that song,
given its origins and Trump's political and the Republican party's
political positions is only possible in America.

Speaker 1 (45:47):
Yeah, this just in. He doesn't care that.

Speaker 2 (45:51):
He just thought it was a fun tune to climax
all of his political rallies.

Speaker 1 (45:55):
The next thing, you know, it's a cult experience. It's
just fun. Trump doesn't care about any of that, but
he certainly cared ten years ago. Now I mentioned a
moment ago. Did you notice that the PGA Tour and
Trump are kind of getting along tenuously? Perhaps this had
to do with a little golf tournament that had been

(46:17):
held at the Durrell Course in Miami for Trump. Well, no, no, no,
this goes back fo yeah, fifty I think it goes
back fifty years where this golf tournament was held there
in Miami at the Blue Monster at Durrell. Well, it
was going bankrupt in twenty twelve, and that's when Trump

(46:39):
bought the resort. It's a beautiful resort. I don't know
if you ever been down there. I think they have
four golf courses down there at Trump Durell. It is
it's a beautiful piece of land. But when Trump went
down the escalator in twenty fifteen and he started talking about, oh, Mexico,
they're sending us their rim and halls and all these

(47:01):
horrible people. Well, as you might recall, people got really
upset about that, and then Trump had the audacity to
win that election. And that's when the PGA Tour said,
all right, we're getting a lot of pressure here from
sponsors and uh and people online, people who don't watch golf,

(47:22):
who don't care about golf, they hate golf, but they
didn't like that the PGA Tour had a Trump stop
at Trump's golf course in Miami. So the PGA Tour said,
all right, we're going to move this event. We're not
going to have it there at Trump's place, and they
in really sending a message here to Trump. They moved

(47:44):
it to Mexico. They moved it to Mexico City, just
to say, hey, look, you know, we're we're really showing
Trump you can't talk like that.

Speaker 2 (47:51):
And that wasn't the only Trump course that lost an event,
isn't it there was? Wasn't his New Jersey country club
been mister supposed to host something big?

Speaker 1 (47:59):
Well maybe it was supposed to.

Speaker 2 (48:01):
I know the PGA was supposed to be one of
his courses once and it disappeared when he was like.

Speaker 1 (48:06):
Well, he bought Turnberry and that's still on the road
for the British Open. Be that as it may. The
annual trip to Trump durrout ended, but this past weekend
it was back. I didn't hear really any fanfare about it,
any like, oh, where he's letting bygones be bygones or
anything like that. They just put it back on the
schedule and that's where they played this past weekend oft

(48:28):
the PGA Tour. Now, as you mentioned ten minutes ago,
Jim Trump has been really pulling the strings on live golf,
which seems to be falling apart. And maybe that's part
of the reason why. All right, if Trump is trying
to negotiate to try and get Phil Mickelson, some of
these players back to PGA Tour, Champions Tour, whatever the heck,

(48:48):
and you know, and there, of course there are people
saying like, oh, Trump was gonna have problems for the
PGA Tour like he does these broadcast networks. If you
don't get in line and do what Trump wants, We're
gonna send our people out to audit you or shut
you down or anything like that. I don't know that

(49:10):
Trump was gonna do any of that. With the Professional
Golf Tour, he certainly was pulling the strings on live.
They were playing at a lot of his golf courses
around the world, and a lot of Trump's buddies with
whom he golfs, Dustin Johnson, Bryson, d Chambeau, these guys
were all going over to live golf. But PGA Tour
was back at Trump Durell and they didn't really say, like,

(49:32):
all right, well, you know Trump apologized, No, he didn't.
Trump's still saying the same stuff. He's still the same
guy who was ten years ago. But this time the
PGA Tour said, yeah, we're gonna go ahead and put
the event right back there at his golf course. And
no one really lost their minds about it.

Speaker 2 (49:49):
Why not, Well, they found out that most of their
constituents are Trump people, that a big chunk of golf sponsors,
a big chunk of golf's audience, a big chunk of
golf like Donald Trump. Okay, they like his policies, they
like the fact that he loves golf, and they don't
like how the PGA Tour and some of these other

(50:10):
operations have said, well, you're not good enough for us,
you know, sometimes if you wade into those political waters
you're not sure what's under the surface. Well then they
find out in a big hurry. Don't step on mom's
feet when you're at home. That's the deal.

Speaker 4 (50:26):
Here.

Speaker 1 (50:27):
Did you see what I don't know if it was
the president or his kids that run the Trump organization
that looks over the golf tournament. Did you see what
they did for that golf tournament? There was a fifteen
foot gold colored statue in the Trump you know, fist
raised fight fight, Fight salute after one of the assassination

(50:47):
attempts against him. Fifteen foot golden statue. They're at Trump
Drew in addition to Trump branded drinks at the Trump
Vodka bar. Everything's Trump down there. They had the statue. Now,
of course, a lot of the media was trying to
provoke a reaction from players, and the players weren't biting.

(51:08):
Golfers tend to be a little more subdued in their
political response in that they don't have one. It was
really summed up. But one of the golfers was asked, like,
what do you think of the statue of the president,
And he looked at it and said, it's big in gold.
That's it. That's all they were going to get out
of them. But interesting that that which Trump said ten

(51:31):
years ago that caused people to flip out and the
PGA tour to move that stop from his golf course
in Miami now is apparently a thing of the past.
Why is that. I think your assessment all comes down
to the green, not of that on which you put
or the grass of the fairways. Uncle George's money that
comes into that. His people are golf people, and golf

(51:52):
people are his people. So you're crazy if you say,
all right, because of him, we're going to essentially tell
all of our people to pound sand that your viewpoints
are far less important than our personal political agendas. And sure,
there are liberals, there are people at the top of golf,

(52:15):
at all levels of golf who probably don't like Donald
Trump's style and they don't like some of his policies,
you think, But the truth is, yeah, the truth is,
most golf folks are Trump people. So there you have
a golf update that wasn't really a golf update.