More Snow Coming / Iran Issues Mount

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Friday the thirteenth edition of Nebraska's Morning News. Thanks for
spending Friday the thirteenth with avarheez, I am Scott Warhe's
Lucy Chapman's right there, Craig Eavans, Jim Roses Here and
Jim Flowers meteorologists social media keyboard Doppler Warrior joins us
here for a look. Anytime we introduce you on the program, Jim,

(00:21):
your resume is going to slightly change. But that's what
the weather's doing. It's slightly changing.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Yeah, you know what happens. Every time somebody hears my
name or I'm going to be on, they turn the
radio off. He's got nothing but bad news. Okay, Hey,
every time you bring the gun on, he's talking something
loud to the weather.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
We can talk about Wednesday.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
Wednesday looks great, but let's at least gloss over the
conditions we're looking at for Sunday.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Right just be we're we're in the eyes of March.
I've always said that there's always this storm somewhere on
March fifteenth, and we're looking at one this Sunday. The
way it looks now. Scott, the latest US model that
just came in a few hours ago has us with
blizzard conditions here by about four o'clock. Now it is
the only model that has that. All the others ensembles,

(01:10):
all the other stuff we look at doesn't have it.
But it maybe it may have caught onto something overnight
in terms of initialization, and it's jumping all over it
and says that by about four o'clock on Sunday, we
could have winds when GUS here close to Cat one
hurricane force. That's seventy four miles an hour with heavy snow.

(01:33):
But that gives you an idea of the worst case scenario.
But that's what it's the model is saying at this point.
Now does the snow for very longest those for about
six hours? You know, we can see in excess of
three inches, maybe as much as six but that'd be
on the outside. But during that time it's gonna blow
like a son of a gun. A minimum win GUS

(01:55):
of sixty could go as high as seventy to seventy five.
Things work out by late Sunday.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
This is one of those days where the temperature just
drops throughout the day and by that time on Sunday afternoon,
if you might look at your phone or whatever little
weather bug you have. You see, Oh, a high on
Sunday of forty one. That's first thing in the morning,
right right.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
Exactly exactly. By noon, we're like in the lower to
mid thirties for maybe a few sprinkles around. Then it
starts falling late in the afternoon, probably into the mid
twenties by evening, and again the snow picks up. The
winds are just crazy off the model. In terms of
wind gus. Seventy is conservative for a wind gus by

(02:37):
late in the day on Sunday with heavy snow for
maybe a few hours, three or four hours.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
A Category one hurricane is a conservative estimate for a
Sunday afternoon.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
Seventy four miles hour. If we hit that for a
wind gus, that's a Cat one.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
So for those in the area, say, where's this coming
in from? Is this coming in from northeast of Omaha
and heading down?

Speaker 3 (03:01):
Is it coming up from the south?

Speaker 2 (03:04):
No? Actually, what happens, Scott, is it actually develops right
over us. Things have been kind of pointing to maybe
eastern Iowa for the last day or two, and now
it's saying no, things are going to begin to take
shape literally over about the eastern quarter of Nebraska and
then get worse as you go east. So from here

(03:25):
across Iowa up into Wisconsin, Green Bay, Minneapolis will be impacted,
and then maybe Chicago, though the low may track right
over so they may not get as much snow as
they do further west.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
And then we're looking at cold temperatures and chances of
snow as we get into Monday and Tuesday before we
start warming up on Wednesday, where we're back into the
lower to mid sixties. Right, you're thinking three to six
inches or more of snow here for Omaha.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
Picks would be on the out. I think three looks
is probably a pretty good bet. But if this thing
the trends continue, I could see someone specially your coverage, right,
but even closer than that, very close to the metro.
But good luck measuring. I showed how to do that
last year. I you measure snow in a blizzard. You
take a carpenter square and you shove it up against

(04:18):
the siding on your house and measure it horizontally. That's
how you measure it in a blizzard.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
Yeah, I'll just be fine when it melts off after
a few days. Here Jim all right, thank you, Beware
the IDEs of March and always rely on Jim Flowers.
We appreciate your time this morning.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
Hey, Well see Scott.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
You can find Jim Flowers all over social media as
he is covering conditions like this and joining us whenever
we can convince him to here on news Radio eleven
ten KFAB. One of the things we have to detail
later this morning here when Jeans dooth rejoins us for
the KFAB comment line at ten am. Brand new show here,

(05:00):
which is also a throwback if you if you remember
this radio station's programming from decades ago, the old KFAB
comment line, new host, familiar name, Jean Stothard. One of
the things we have to deal with though, is yesterday
afternoon here Chris Baker revealed, and I have to talk
to Chris about this. Some things that happened off the

(05:23):
microphone should probably stay off the microphone. But Chris went
on the air and said, stother came in here and
threw a big showbiz tantrum, just came through the door.
Where's my office? Put her finger in my face. I
need a computer and I need an office, and I
don't like this chair, like throwing chairs around the Do
you give her one the room?

Speaker 4 (05:44):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (05:45):
Yeah, we gave her everything she needed. And you know what,
sure it wasn't good enough, but you know, Chris didn't
need to bring all that up on the air. And uh,
even though none of it's true, Jean Stouth is looking
for a chance to respond to that later this morning
and whatever it is that you've got that's coming up

(06:07):
at ten the KFAB comment line. Yesterday afternoon. We had
a lot to deal with responding in the news. How
we have a guy who was in jail, eight years
in prison and his crime was, you know those guys
over there in the Middle East, isis good guys. I

(06:31):
want to try and help them any way possible. He
was spent eight years in jail for attempting to aid
terrorists and then managed to end up in a classroom
at Old Dominion University in Virginia and started shooting former

(06:51):
Army National Guard member and one person was dead two
wounded before the ROTC. Students there at Old Dominion were
able to use extreme bravery and courage, according to the
FBI's Norfolk, Virginia Field Office, to prevent further loss of

(07:12):
life by stopping the gunman who subdued him. And according
to the FBI director in that case, the special agent
in charge, they said, he said they subdued him and
quote rendered him no longer alive unquote. That's some solid
government speak right there. What happened to the gunman? Well,

(07:35):
the the ROSSI students stepped in and they quote rendered
him no longer alive. In other words, they beat the
hell out of him. Well, they they shot the hell
out of him, as what they did.

Speaker 5 (07:47):
And.

Speaker 6 (07:48):
You're not gonna have to worry about that guy anymore.

Speaker 1 (07:50):
Good for them for doing it. We shouldn't have had
to worry about him before. How is this Obama now?
The eleven ten kfab certified transmission sports briefeat during some
basketball at this afternoon, here's Jim row.

Speaker 6 (08:01):
Case got good morning everybody. After a five day break,
the Husker basketball house party continues from Chicago quarterfinal round
with the Big Ten Tournament. Big Red got a double
by so they got to watch all the other guys
for two days. Purdue boiler Makers today at five point thirty,
guard Sam Hoiberg the steady eddies, telling his guys to chill.

Speaker 5 (08:20):
If it doesn't go well, we can't be down and
think we're not going to play well in the Insta
tournament because I looked at my dad's I was state
teams that they won the Big Twelve championship, one year
that made the Sweet sixteen, and one year they lost
in the first round. So you have to kind of
stay level no matter what.

Speaker 6 (08:33):
Nebraska played two different games on the same night against
the Boilers and that overtime loss in Lincoln last month,
got down fourteen to one, trailed by sixteen, but then
launched a massive comeback, tied it, could have won it
with a rink massed free throw, then lost it in overtime.
This tournament will do nothing for Nebraska's seeding unless they
win it. But what would that be worth? Three games

(08:56):
in three days. I say tank this, get back home
and get ready for the Big dam. Iowa got beat
by Ohio State. The Hawkeyes may not have enough gas
to get in a large berth. They need to think
crown or nt. Iowa State got another resume builder win
seventy five to fifty three route of from number fourteen
Texas Tech in the Big twelve Tournament from Kansas City.

(09:16):
They get Arizona tonight at six from down there in
the Mac Tournament, the last unbeaten team in the country.
Miami of Ohio got beat lost to UMass. They are
now thirty one and one. Will they still get into
the NCAA Tournament not necessarily they never played a Power
five team this year. Their schedule is ranked three hundred

(09:38):
and sixty first. If they don't make it, they will
displace the twenty twenty five cal Irvine and Eaters who
were left out of that tournament. That year with twenty
eight wins, the J's were the same long stretches of
no points and they lost a seat in haul in
the Big East Tournament from New York City. They will
get invited to one of these postseason events, likely the

(09:58):
Crown Tournament from Vegas, but the speculation now centers on
coach Greg McDermott. Those close to Mac speculated at the
outset of this season that a long run in the
NCAA Tournament would be it. He'd retire and give the
job to assistant Alan Huss, But with what has been
clearly among the most disappointing seasons in his career, he

(10:18):
may come back for one more and try to go
out a winter next year. Key keeping guys, they lost
that great recruit. They're going to lose some seniors, but
holding on to McAndrew and Greer and getting active in
the free agent market may impact his decision. A Lot
State tournament in Lincoln, Semifinal day starts at nine am
with the plucky DC West Falcons and the Ogolaala Indians

(10:40):
in Class C one at nine am from the Pinnacle
Bank Arena. Scores yesterday at the Class B A bracket
because it was Class B day, actually Class B and
C one and D one yesterday and in action involving
metro teams Scut fifty one to four to one over
Pious Elkcorn North sixty six, Wahou thirty nine, Norris sixty three,

(11:04):
Bennington fifty five, Scotts Bluff seventy six, Gretna East fifty three. A.
Today semifinals one thirty West Side versus Lincoln Southwest, and
at three point fifteen you got Bellevue West versus Papio
South in Class B semis. Today at six it's Scott
and Elkcorn North and at seven forty five Norris against
Scott's Bluff. Round one of the Players Championship Tournament down

(11:26):
at Sawgrass Maverick McNeely, not to be confused with mister
Mcpheeley Lee Hodges, Sepstraca three Gala all five under sixty seven.
Austin Smotherman is also five under, but it got dark
and he's only through seventeen holes. Rory was averaged two
over sports his news on Nebraska's News Weather in Traffic Station.

Speaker 3 (11:46):
It was a late night last night.

Speaker 1 (11:48):
We slammed Omaha Police Chief Todd Schmater's face into the
barroom floor at the Omaha Press Club. That's the honor
that they give. There's no greater honor than the so
called face on the barroom floor.

Speaker 7 (12:03):
One of these days, I'm going to get on that list,
that elite list of being invited to all these wonderful events.

Speaker 1 (12:11):
My face is on the barroom floor. Yeah, well, a
very very small picture of me is in the background
and Gary Sadlemeier's honor. So we're on there.

Speaker 7 (12:23):
That's true. So how come I'm not on the list?

Speaker 1 (12:26):
You're it's you're on the list. But oh yeah, are
you going to be in front of Chief Todd Schmoter.

Speaker 7 (12:32):
I don't think I could stand it.

Speaker 1 (12:37):
I don't think we're talking about the same thing. It
was a really fun night last night, and it featured
roasting by, among others, Mayor John Ewing and Mayor Jim
Subtle was there last night as well, and I was
one of the roasters too. I don't know what's wrong
with me. I can't help it. There's always someone in

(12:59):
the crowd that is just gonna catch just stray references
that they don't deserve. And I decided last night that
person would be former Omaha Mayor Jim Subtle. And I
told him, I said, it's just because I don't see
you anymore. I see Mayor Ewing at a number of
events for several years. Mayor stother who did a very

(13:21):
funny video, and of course I took plenty of shots
at the Chief touch Mater, but uh there, I just
relentlessly went after Jim Subtle. Reason I was, Mayor l
hold up these days. He's doing great and he was
very funny last night.

Speaker 7 (13:39):
Did you know he was going to be there?

Speaker 1 (13:40):
Yes, okay, yeah, that's Scott Mooreh's I thought he'd grown
up a little bit. I was wrong, he was. He
was very funny. He was a great time and I
hope the Chief Smater enjoyed it and doesn't want to
fight his roasters because I was one of them. It
was a really fun time. Last night I got the

(14:01):
inbox open here Dean emails and he's talking about how
he enjoys hearing Chris Baker in the afternoons and Jeane
s dooth now mornings at ten. And he also mentions
in this email many years ago, I was in real
estate for a year and your father fired me. No
hard feelings. I didn't like it anyway, And then he
tells the story. I'm gonna have to look at this

(14:22):
a little bit more.

Speaker 3 (14:23):
So.

Speaker 1 (14:24):
You can email anything to Scott at KFAB dot com. Jim,
did you see the dispatch yesterday? Speaking of emails, the
Nebraska Broadcasters Association sends something out to our journalism and
news partners in radio and television and newspaper across the state.
Do you see that I did not enlighten? Okay, well,

(14:44):
you don't cover the Nebraska unicameral, so maybe you didn't
get it. Well talking about him a lot, Yeah, but
I'm I'm on a list, and so I got this too.
But I have I've never been down there in a
journalistic capacity covering the unicameral. We do that for I'm
afar here. I did it years ago when I was
in school. Yeah, took a legislative reporting class. Did you

(15:05):
ever see this, because here's what this said. That says,
this message was sent to the Nebraska Broadcasters Association and
the Nebraska Press Association by this person and that person,
and the executive director of the NBA. That's the Broadcasters
Association says, I'm asking all NBA members who covered the
legislature from the floor to address their personnel and procedures

(15:28):
and make any and all needed changes immediately. We cannot
allow these actions to result in a loss or restriction
of access for all journalists. I'm like, what the heck
is this? It says there's been an increasing level of
frustration with the press, and the press is at risk
of losing floor privileged privileges if things don't change. The

(15:51):
speaker of the unicameral, John Arch, says, inappropriate attire ranging
from ultra casual to sloppy, roaming the floor and occasionally
interrupting senators while they're having discussions, being loud and disruptive
under the balcony.

Speaker 6 (16:09):
Will somebody wearing a wife beater's T shirt, you know what?
Taking pictures of senators computer screens and reporting on private
conversations they overhear on the floor. So the unicamerle is
not happy. Say, if you guys are going to come
in here dressing awful and acting like a bunch of
babies and all that, that's our job. I would love

(16:32):
And it says we don't know exactly which members of
the press are doing this. I've got to know what
podcast are they part of here? Now there's not a
lot of them left.

Speaker 1 (16:42):
No, but I think a lot of these people are podcasters.
These are just social media, yeah, looking to have some
sort of credential so they can get in there and
cause trouble.

Speaker 6 (16:53):
So do they issue credentials? They never issued credentials. Well again,
I haven't done it for many years. I don't know
if they still issue credentials to media to get into
the Unicmera. They used to have them sort of confined
to a certain space in the chamber, in the legislative chamber.
Maybe those rules have gotten lax. Used to be the

(17:15):
lobbyists had to talk to the senators in the rotunda.
They could not talk to the senators when they were
actually on the floor too. So I don't know what
the rules are, But at some point you do have
to have some kind of I think legitimate, credentialed agency
behind your name before you get in there. First of all,
from a security standpoint. Second of all, just I think

(17:37):
it's critically important that at least the people who are
covering it have some sort of credential that says my
agency is legit. It's not just me and my mom's
basement in Ralston dressing frumpy. Is every journalist right that way.
That's not a change, that's traditional back. You know, if
you're a journalist and you don't have something spilled on

(17:57):
your shirt, then you're just not real. Go in there
looking like a rumpled, wet dish rack every day. It's
part of the joy. It's the charm.

Speaker 1 (18:05):
Chief Smatter said something last night that really got my attention.
He said, so you hired Jeene Stothard as host of
the KFAB Comment Line. Remember they worked together for twelve years.
He said, does she know it's a live radio show.
She has to be on time every day? And I thought, uh, oh,
that could be an issue. I saw her at lunch.

Speaker 6 (18:28):
I didn't realize that she and I were in the
same place for lunch yesterday, and I said, if I'd
known you were coming here out, did we get a carpool,
taco bell or no exclusive country club? The likes of
you would not be allowed in. I've only heard tales,
And I said, you did a great job. And she's,
you know, she's very competitive and she wants to be
the best, and she recognizes it's a little harder than

(18:49):
it looks. But I told her you did a great job.
And I said, I'm glad you're there, and I think
that if you keep working at this, you got a chance.
Just remember to bring your own money.

Speaker 1 (19:00):
We're looking for strong opinions here. Let's check the Zonkers
custom withs inbox and see if we find any. This
email from Brett sent to Scott at kfab dot com
and says there should be zero confusion as to why
these attacks at a college in Virginia or a synagogue
in Michigan are happening. What kind of a country allows

(19:21):
its border for four years or opens its border for
four years and allows millions of non vetted persons in
this country under democrats? What kind of nation wants to
defund and destroy the law enforcement agency responsible for tracking
these kinds of individuals down and deporting them. This nation
under Democrats, TSA agents are not getting paid, Coast Guard,

(19:45):
part of the Navy not funded, among others. Very troublesome,
let alone in a very volatile time like the current time,
and it's all because of Democrats. Seven out of ten
hate crimes are against Jews in this country. It is
obvious what a going on with the fusion of the
left and Islamis, and sadly it's only going to get worse.

(20:06):
That's from Brett, sent to Scott at kfab dot com.
Like I said, we're looking for strong opinions here in
the inbox. Now Brett didn't have any, but that was
heavy sarcasm. I do know this as obviously there are
some members of the media taking a look at things
and maybe some people will say unfairly so. We've had

(20:29):
here recently a rifle arms suspect ramming his vehicle into
that synagogue in the Detroit area. And this is someone
who was said to have lost family in a recent
airstrike in Lebanon. I guarantee the kids in the synagogue

(20:50):
school there in a suburban Detroit community had nothing to
do with it. But this coward was looking for soft targets.
We had the ROTC members attacked and a shooting investigated
as a terror plot at Old DOMINIONI. The shooter went
in there yelling Alu at bar. And then we had

(21:11):
the guy in Texas who went after people at a
bar in Austin wearing a shirt that said property of Allah.
We had the Isis inspired suspects detained in New York
City after they tried to blow up an area of
protest near the mayor's house. And this is people protesting

(21:32):
Islamo fascism in terms of more government intrusion in this country. Now,
you can find as many news stories as you want
of people not associated with Islamo fascism out there committing crimes.
I have a story here about a couple of teenage
girls who wanted to kill a classmate and drink his blood.
And you're thinking, what part of Florida was that in.

(21:55):
It's just northeast of Orlando, but that's not important. So
you can find and then certainly that there are people
out there doing horrible things. But when the media like
CNN takes a look at these teenagers and frames them
as a couple of kids were enjoying a seasonably warm day.

(22:16):
They came over from Pennsylvania and to New York City
for what should have been just a beautiful spring afternoon
spent in the city. But next thing you know, they
just found themselves chucking the homemade bombs that they brought
with them at members of law enforcement and protesters. And
you know, boys will be boys. And that's literally how
CNN phrased that. Whereas if you had all the stories

(22:39):
I just referenced here and they were all carried out
by guys wearing MAGA hats and big Trump supporters while
blasting kid rock music, the media and everyone would be
having this national referendum on what these domestic terrorists? Why
is Trump telling these people to do these things? And
they don't do that if it's not fitting narrative. So

(23:01):
these are my thoughts. Like I said, we look for
strong opinions here. You can either send them to Scott
at kfab dot com or you can sit right here
in the studio and you can share them yourself.

Speaker 3 (23:11):
Anyone, anyone.

Speaker 6 (23:13):
Well, you look at these guys, especially the guy that
shot up or tried to shoot up Old Dominion, and
you go, how were they were they vetted before they
got into this country. How did they become naturalized citizens?
What is our process for allowing for this?

Speaker 1 (23:30):
This guy came in twenty eleven on a sponsorship from
his spouse who is American, became a citizen in twenty sixteen.
He spent years with the Army National Guard I believe
it was, but became radicalized here and spent time in
jail for rendering aid to ISIS. And they let the

(23:51):
guy out. How did he get out eight years in jail?
Why was he not deported when he got out of
our American jail? Why wasn't he deported because he was
a citizen. He became a citizen.

Speaker 6 (24:05):
When you ate in a bet a terrorist organization.

Speaker 3 (24:08):
I know this is why.

Speaker 6 (24:10):
And you know, people talk about people talk about the
problems we've had in this country with leadership, and you know,
you wonder go back to the Obama administration. He was
so cozy with the Iranians. He not only gave him
five hundred billion dollars with a hope that okay, now
you behave, If you behave, little guy, you can have
your five hundred billion in cash. But I'm convinced that

(24:33):
Valerie Jarrett, who was probably as close to the Obamas
as any other person in the world close to Michelle,
close to Barack. She went back with him all the
way to when he was a state senator in Illinois.
She had Iranian connection. She was from her family. I
don't know that she was directly from Iran, but she
had very close family that was from Iran, and I

(24:53):
just wonder if she wasn't running that policy.

Speaker 1 (24:56):
I asked for strong opinions Jim Rose provided. Thank you
very much. Special good morning to all of you teachers,
either spending one more day in the classroom before potential
spring break for some of the area districts, or maybe
you're already on it parent teacher conferences today in OPS.

Speaker 3 (25:12):
This story is for you.

Speaker 1 (25:14):
It comes from BuzzFeed where they talk to a lot
of teachers of young kids and they said, what are
some things that you would expect that these students would
be able to do with the age they are that
that none of them can do?

Speaker 3 (25:26):
And it's they said.

Speaker 1 (25:28):
All right, pre K three and four year olds, most
of the kids can't put a jacket on. And not
only will that can they not put a jacket on?
They won't try, and they start throwing temper tantrums. Before
even attempting, saying I can't do it, it's too hard.
Another teacher says a majority of students in elementary school

(25:48):
struggle to read a clock unless it's digital. Others say
that the kids know, and this is for older kids.
They know they'll pass no matter how unqualified, ill equipped,
or unprepared they are. They come to school with an
attitude of I'm not going to do the work and
you can't make me. And the teachers admit, sorry to

(26:09):
say we can't. And then the teacher says the number
of second and third graders who can't tie their shoes,
fourth graders who can't write their own names, and they say,
it's scary to think a kid can get to fourth
grade without anyone having an expectation that he's able to
write his own name.

Speaker 7 (26:30):
You know, I wonder about this when I hear statistics
like this, Why aren't there teachers that are out there
that are listening, whether it's here in Omaha anywhere across
the country. Why aren't their teachers to say are saying, no,
this isn't true, this isn't as prolific as you are
making it, or the stories are making it sound.

Speaker 6 (26:48):
Probably because they can do it anonymously.

Speaker 7 (26:52):
But you know what, why would you even want to
do that anonymously.

Speaker 1 (26:55):
I know I get emails from teachers all the time.
And the first thing, the reason I know is from
a teacher because it starts off with please do not
say my name on the radio, and it's gonna take
more teachers coming through.

Speaker 7 (27:08):
And yes, he's gonna deny it. Then I guess it's true.

Speaker 8 (27:12):
Right.

Speaker 3 (27:12):
But at the same time, they did the same thing.

Speaker 1 (27:14):
They went to the legislature years ago and said you
got to help us here with these kids, and the
unicameral said nah. So they're trying. Some of them are trying. Sadly,
a lot of the teachers just leave at the weekends
staring us right, smacking the puss. We've got some basketball
to watch and some snow and weather we're watching too.
This is not the time, Scott to come on here

(27:37):
and talk about the worst story in the world.

Speaker 3 (27:39):
But I want to. I want to.

Speaker 1 (27:42):
I should be to everybody, and I want I want
to see if we can have an honest assessment of
this story. And it comes courtesy now of the Prime
Minister of Italy, Georgia Maloney, who's saying she's taken.

Speaker 3 (27:59):
The French are out here.

Speaker 1 (28:00):
She's already saying, hey, look, we don't want anything to
do with what's going on in Iran. We surrender, We
don't want anything. The strikes from the United States in
Israel on Iran fall outside the scope of international law.
Says Italy has no plans to join the campaign. Now
she thinks that that means that Islamo fascism Iran and

(28:23):
terrorists and all of that Sharia law stuff won't come
trying to wrap its tentacles around Italy.

Speaker 3 (28:31):
Then hey, good luck with that.

Speaker 1 (28:33):
But one of the big things she's talking about, and
here's the issue I want to discuss, Jim. This is
not a time to run and hide. I wanted a serious,
honest assessment.

Speaker 4 (28:42):
Here.

Speaker 1 (28:43):
She is among those who's looking at the accidental bombing
of a girls school in southern Iran where one hundred
and sixty people, most of them kids, girls, were killed
in that blast. She calls it a massacre. She says
the US must determine who carried out the strike and

(29:05):
responsibility must be ascertained. Now, the president said, Hi, everyone's
got tomahawks. Who knows probably around We don't have any
idea preliminary military inquiry reports that there was outdated targeting
data the school.

Speaker 6 (29:21):
Like a lot of a lot of.

Speaker 1 (29:24):
Military installations, especially secret underground nuclear bunkers, tend to be
around schools and hospitals. They know that because they want
to have the United States in this case or Israel,
think twice before you start lobbing any missiles or bombs
or drones or whatever over there, because you might have
some collateral damage, including kids. They know that. That's why

(29:47):
they do that. But still, we have the strategic targeted
capability to not hit a school. And a school was hit,
we don't know who hit it. Let's say it was us.
What exactly does Prime Minister Maloney of Italy or anyone else,
what do you want to have happened next? Is the
president then jailed for being a war criminal? Are we

(30:10):
looking past the fact that Iran massacred scores tens of
thousands of protesters who their crime was wanting freedom for
their people in their country and they were murdered by
this regime, This regime that's been threatening the United States
and Israel, that's been supporting terrorists, not just from like
Hamas and Hezbollah and the Huthis, but also China and Russia.

(30:33):
We had to take these guys out. They were actively
trying to build a nuclear weapon. And this is a
wartime footing. This is an unfortunate thing that happens in
a situation. What do the people who are looking at
this horrible atrocity at the school, what exactly do you
expect should happen? Now, it's one of the great tragedies

(30:55):
of war. People die, Innocent people die. Do I think
this was an American strike?

Speaker 6 (31:00):
No, because I think American technology makes it far too
precise to do such a thing. It is possible it
was an Israeli strike. They do have a little bit
less concern about the outcome of, you know, war than
the United States, and it's because a lot of their
people have been attacked too. They have a different they
have a different approach to war than we do. I

(31:22):
still don't think that Israel would have targeted the Probably not.
I don't think they've targeted it. But they might have
lost one of them and it wound up there if
we are to believe them. Now, remember what comes out
of Iran state media is not to be taken seriously
most of the time. This is the same organization that
this week announced that the United States Aircraft Care Abram

(31:42):
Lincoln had been sunk. It then resurfaced on its own
and was hit again. Meanwhile, we just released pictures of
the Abraham Lincoln launching jet fighters dropping bombs on Iran.
So if this is coming out of there, you can't
trust any of that information. This is an organization that
says it has killed thousands of American soldiers. This is

(32:04):
what they're telling Iranians. Oh, yeah, we're winning the war.
They're winning. You're pay no attention to all of our
dead soldiers and all of our fires that are going
on right now in our country. We're winning this war.
We are sinking their entire navy. We will begin bombing Washington,
d C. Shortly. This is what they're being told by
Iron State media.

Speaker 1 (32:25):
President Trump is rapidly trying to get the Iatola on
the phone to surrender in unconditional terms immediately. And Iotola,
it may or may not be a lot.

Speaker 6 (32:33):
We're going to give Iran Delaware in exchange for this,
since Joe Biden was such a fan of there.

Speaker 1 (32:39):
Right, we don't know who, and it might have been
Iran that mistakenly or maybe purposefully to try and blame
it on the United States took out a school, I
don't I don't know. But if if it was missiles everywhere,
and you're underground bunkers for your peaceful nuclear reactors that
are hidden underground mountains and next to schools and haspitals,

(33:00):
if a school got accidentally hit in that strike, what
is it that the Prime Minister wants? Does the President
go to the Hague and the United Nations prison somewhere?
Is the a war criminal? What is it that you
want to have happened in this situation? And why are

(33:22):
there so many people here in America rooting for this
to be something that America did that they can hang
on either our military or our commander in chief. Why
are they rooting for it? It's an ugly, ugly time.
It's a horrible situation. Well, I we talked about this
on the air. I believe it's because the country has
a genuine lack of understanding of the world at large.

(33:44):
They've been paying attention to a certain media bent. They
get their news from one source. It's either MSNBC or
the New York Times or Twitter or x and they
really don't have a functioning knowledge.

Speaker 6 (33:57):
Of the world as it is. We used to edge
kids in class about the world. Here are the communists,
this is what they believe. Here are the capitalists and
the democracy lovers over here, this is what they believe.
But now all of that's getting mixed together, and most
of the country under the age of sixty five really
does not understand a nuclear threat. They by their perspective,

(34:21):
and it's not their fault. Is they weren't around for it. Yeah,
and thank goodness if you were around. The greatest generation
was around when we dropped the bombs on Nagasaki, in
Hiroshumida and World War Two. The greatest generation, the Baby
Boom generation, was there when Kennedy and Khrushchef signed the
Nuclear Test Band Treaty. They were there when the I
and F Treaty was signed between President Reagan and General
Secretary Gorbachev. That was nineteen eighty seven, forty years ago.

(34:46):
So they don't understand a nuclear threat. They don't understand
what happens if a suitcase nuke gets into the hands
of a terrorist organization. We all need to watch the
movie A Sum of All Fears Okay, starring Morgan Freeman
and as the President of the United States when one
of those wound up in a coke machine in a
football stadium. Yeah, we don't want people to have to

(35:09):
understand that. And one of the reasons we don't want
that is to stop threats like Iran. Look, hey, thank
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Speaker 8 (35:33):
You hypocrites are hilarious, cool talking about not trusting state
run media and Iran everywhere.

Speaker 2 (35:41):
And.

Speaker 8 (35:43):
Yet you were told that by the person who lied
to you about tariff refunds, doze checks and finding waste,
fraud and abuse. I also think there's the same person
who told you no new wars and is bombed? Was
it nine countries? Good job guys.

Speaker 3 (36:02):
Sorry.

Speaker 1 (36:03):
I was listening to myself in the background to that message,
and then I heard him say good job guys. So
I was just very entertained by the sound of my
own voice in the background. Thank you for that. You're
welcome I was in a rapture. Everyone gets a voice here.
It's news radio eleven ten kfab. We have scary things
afoot here at the Nebraska Legislature. They've got to they

(36:25):
gotta find some money. When is the Mikayla Kavanaugh bikini
car wash? So they can raise some funds down there
and try and plug this budget shortfall. Let's make some
money here. People will pay to not have that happen.
Let's say, hey, someone might put up a lot of
money for that.

Speaker 6 (36:42):
Who someone? Okay, there will not be a MICHAELA. Kavanaugh,
Danielle Conrad, Jane ray Bold bikini car washed in front
of the state Capitol.

Speaker 3 (36:52):
I raise.

Speaker 1 (36:53):
I'm just trying to think of bake sale. I'm garage sale.
And there's gotta be something we can do here. Governor
have a friend that he can get some money from
to try and fill this short f suggesting.

Speaker 6 (37:06):
He go to Julie Bushell and ask for some of
the two point five million back.

Speaker 1 (37:10):
Trying to figure out here, we got one hundred and
twenty five million dollar budget deficit and it looks letter
than forty. But is it well that this story says
one twenty five? But maybe this one hundred and twenty
five left. I don't want my taxes to go up.
My taxes are up enough. Yeah, what are they going
to do here?

Speaker 6 (37:29):
Well, we haven't even gotten to the line item vetos yet,
because in this state, the governor has a line item veto.
Some would argue that's too much power. Maybe, but when
you look at the collective capacity of the state legislature,
it's better to have the red pen in his hand
than theirs. Uh, he'll charge, he'll he'll carve out a
bunch more, and then they'll come back and try to
override the vetos. At the end of the day, Scott,

(37:51):
they'll probably have to go to the emergency fund and
cover the gap. Because Nebraska is a constitutional amendment requiring
a balanced budget, they can't just say, well, we'll get
to it next year like the United States Congress does.
This is an organization that is required to balance the budget.
Now you can do some funny math and get here
to there. The big thing down there that continues to

(38:13):
be off limits is the Perkins County Canal Project. Are
you familiar with that? No, I'm going to need you
to help it goes back. Perkins County is western Nebraska,
Grant is probably the best known community in Perkins County.
Try again, try again, No, I'm right anyway, the Perkins
County Canal Project is something. Grant, Nebraska is not a

(38:36):
real well known community. Bill, Bill Jackman, you know the
great basketball of the nineteen eighties. Okay, you got Madrid?
Where was I?

Speaker 1 (38:46):
Elcrant Brandon, Nebraska is up there. We're talking about just
north of imperiod. This is not about Perkins County. It's
about a project named after Perkins County. It's not far from.

Speaker 6 (38:57):
Colorado, and the idea is that we need to build
a waterway to get water out of the Platte River,
the South Platte River in Colorado to Nebraska because it's
ours and they've been using too much of it. It's
our water, you know, it's in your state. It's God's water.
He's the one that started it by dumping snow on
the rockies, which by the way, has not happened this year.

(39:19):
It's a seven hundred million dollar piece of business that
was actually born when we got all this COVID money
from the federal government and Jim Pillen put that money
and actually Pete Ricketts, I believe Pete Ricketts put that
money in a fund to build this canal because we
need it for Western Nebraska irrigators. Well, they haven't even
started building it yet. There's seven hundred million sitting there.

(39:41):
Some senators say, well, let's take one hundred million out
of it, now, pay it back when we get going.
Western Nebraska senators who have compromised on other bills and
supported them to get this project done, say, are you
out of your minds? You will not take money out
of that project. We've been trying to get this project
I've done for over one hundred years, and it's finally

(40:03):
through the Court's been litigated, and Colorado says, okay, plug
into the South Platte River. If you can get it
to your state, fine, and that's what the canal will do.
But they haven't even started building it yet. It's just
in the design phase. Been sitting there for four years.
I hope they've been getting some interest payments on it.

Speaker 1 (40:20):
They were gonna cut forty million dollars from Nebraska Educational
Television A eteen Nebraska they don't give.

Speaker 6 (40:26):
They don't give ETV forty million they give.

Speaker 1 (40:28):
It and now it's there saying well, maybe give them
thirteen eleven but they give them thirteen million. I'm I'm
just reading the news here from k ETV news Watch
seven says this plan called for forty million dollars to
be taken from an et, but now that's closer to
eleven million. They were able to hold on to millions

(40:49):
of dollars that they may or may not be given.
We've got Bureau of Educational Land funds, the Nebraska Environmental
Trust Fund.

Speaker 6 (40:58):
No one even knows what this money he goes to it.
I think the lottery proceeds support that project.

Speaker 1 (41:04):
So we play more Keno. We might be able to
shore up the budget by and not raise my taxes.
That's good. Boxes and verticals. Pete Hegseth, our secretary of
War is referring to Iran's quote not so supreme leader unquote.
This would be the new Ayatola Komane. And I'm going

(41:25):
to continue to pronounce the name that way because my
entire life, well since I was old enough to remember,
it's been the Iatola Komani, and he died, and then
we had the Iyatola Komane, and then he died, and
now we have the hyatholakh Like. Nope, it's the Iyatola

(41:48):
Komane and heg Seth says, he's the not so Supreme Leader.
He lacks legitimacy. If he's even alive, he's probably probably disfigured.
But wait a second. He released a statement. Yeah, we
got a statement, but we didn't see him. We don't
have any video of him. We don't even have him

(42:10):
doing a selfie and a TikTok video going hey guys,
just wanting to say, hey, if you like the video,
please like, comment, subscribe. HeiG Seth says he's called for unity,
apparently killing ten in his country. He's apparently killing tens
of thousands of protesters in Iran. The Iranian people is

(42:30):
his kind of unity. He got plenty of cameras, plenty
of voice recruiters, recorders. Why is it a written statement?
HeiG Seth says, I think you know why. His dad's dead.
He's scared, he's injured, he's on the run, and he
lacks legitimacy. He's wounded and likely disfigured. The not so

(42:51):
Supreme leader. That's Secretary of War Pete Hegseeth calling out
the new Ayatola Tolmany. Throw another name into the mix,
Joe Rogan, he's not joining us, and he's this is
a regular occurrence by the media. You have someone who's
not exactly your staunch conservative, someone who maybe had some

(43:15):
differing political views, had some disagreements with the president, Trump
himself or the administration, and then he wanders over, dips
a foot into the trumpy maga waters and says, you know,
it's not as bad as people think. And so the media,
if you don't hate Trump, then you you are against us,

(43:36):
say liberals in the media. So Rogan didn't hate Trump,
he made the mistake, according to them, of giving him
a platform to espouse his views, putting him on his
very popular Joe Rogan podcast leading up to the twenty
twenty four election, and now you're hearing again. At the time,

(43:56):
it was, well, it's not really that big a deal.
It's a median on a podcast, not that big a deal.
But now that Rogan is saying stuff against Trump, now
the media is completely shifted around. It was potentially Trump's
appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast that caused many young males
to come around and vote for Trump. Yes, the former

(44:18):
president and one of the biggest names in history, was
nothing until he was on the Joe Rogan podcast. But
now the media is propping it up because Rogan is
saying some well, he's questioning the war on Iran. He
says a lot of Trump supporters feel betrayed. Trump campaigned

(44:41):
on ending foreign wars, and he says this campaign in
Iran seems insane based on what he ran on. A
lot of people are thinking we're going to be in
an endless war in Iran, despite the fact that President
Trump and others in the administration say now, we have
no plans and we don't see and any expectation of

(45:01):
being involved in Iran like we were in Iraq, like
we were in Afghanistan. But there are some people who
may have a microphone in front of their face who
when they hear the President and other members of the
administration say yeah.

Speaker 3 (45:16):
We're beating them good.

Speaker 1 (45:17):
This will be done any minute now, like you've been
saying that for a week. And so, how much patience
should we have, Jim, How much patience do you have
for how long it takes to get this done right?
So we don't have to go back in a couple
of years, We don't have to deal with them hitting
us in the next year. If we don't fully take
out their ability to strike.

Speaker 6 (45:37):
I have a little bit of patience. I don't have
a lot of patients, A meaning I don't think this
can go on and on and on and on. I
would think if we can't take care of this with
the Israelis and our Arab are Arab state allies in
a month, that's an issue. We need to knock out
everything that's going on along the.

Speaker 3 (45:59):
Straits of Hormone.

Speaker 6 (46:00):
We got to knock out all of their docks and
ports along that stretch of territory for them on that
side of the canal and the Straits of Hormus. But
as not only an American, but as a tax payer
American and somebody who needs the economy to do what
the President said it's going to do. This needs to

(46:22):
go on no more than a month, which would be
another two or three weeks. We have issues in our
economy right now fundamentally to worry me. Number one, the
private credit market is getting very jittery because it's spent
a lot of money on AI in twenty twenty five,
and they want an ROI. So the private credit these
are the equity guys they're thinking, hmm, I don't know.

(46:44):
Let's pull back a little, and some of the people
are saying, I want my money back right now. That's
not healthy for the economy. You're yanking money out of
the supply. I'm a little concerned about ten year treasuries
right now. They are up. That's not good because that
drives mortgage rates, and mortgage rates ticked up a little
bit in the last week or so. I think it's
all part of this uncertainty. The market is off roughly

(47:06):
ten percent from the big high of fifty thousand that
the President was chirping about a couple of weeks ago.
So is it a crash? Is it a concern? Is
it a recession?

Speaker 8 (47:16):
No?

Speaker 6 (47:17):
But we elected this guy to do two things, primarily
shut off the border and get the bad guys out
of here and get this economy zooming again. And I
mean the three to four percent GDP growth that's zoom it. Now.
The GDP numbers are going to come out and it's
going to be probably about one point nine percent annualized growth.

(47:38):
That's not good enough. To say nothing of our entitlement
issues that he's not dealing with right now, to say
nothing of student loan debt to say nothing of some
of the other fundamental issues that exist in our country
today that need presidential and congressional attention.

Speaker 1 (47:55):
Well, the president, previous president, I support what he's doing.
The President Biden tried to do so something about student
loan debt, which was asinine, and that was to quote
unquote forgive it. And by forgive we mean ask taxpayers
to pay off someone else's loan that they had nothing
to do with. But the stock market is up right
now between a half in a full percent. Oil is

(48:16):
down about two and a half percent. But that's of
right now, as of right at this very second.

Speaker 2 (48:22):
But in this.

Speaker 1 (48:25):
Minute to minute, hour to hour, day to day level
of patients that Americans have, I think a lot of
Americans will probably lose their patients with what's going on
with strikes against Iran. The next time they guess up,
which for me was last night, which was about a
dollar more than I guessed up a week ago, it's
a lot of money and hopefully that at least stabilize

(48:48):
and then all you can ever do with a lot
of these political leaders that say, well, I hope they
know what they're doing, because we're doing it, whether it's
strikes against Iran or street cars. We're just doing it.
President says, this will be over very very soon. We're
knocking out their ability to be able to strike back.
We don't want to have to go back there in

(49:09):
a couple of years because we miss something. We got
to do this right. If we're gonna do it, we
gotta do it right. And we'll have the market stabilize.
The oil tankers be going through the straight over moves,
your gas prices are start going down really quickly. Well,
but and I hope he knows what he's talking about,
because that all sounds fine.

Speaker 6 (49:24):
Yeah, And the thing is, the national political scene is
a little hard for us to touch here Nebraska, but
the forty nine full brights and the governor are not.
And I think it was a real big worry yesterday
when a whole big chunk of midtown Omaha went dark,
including this place. Well, a power pole got snapped in
half by wins. And you know what I say every

(49:46):
time we have really strong wins, and that's we have
branches hanging over power lines on people's property and none
of them did anything about it. They're like, well, I
hope OPPPD comes out sometime to deal with that. I'm
not going to call them, and nor am I going
to pay someone to do it on my dime to
protect the neighborhood. We just sit there and stare at
these things and go, I hope that's okay. It's never okay.

(50:09):
It was a problem here. But we didn't really have
high winds yesterday. Yes, we well not really, not comparison
compared to what Jim Flowers says we're gonna have on Sunday.

Speaker 1 (50:18):
I hope Jim Flowers is wrong. Everybody wants to live,
everybody wants to live in Florida. Well, we're gonna have
hurricane force winds here like they get in Florida on Sunday.
According to Jim Flowers.

Speaker 3 (50:27):
It happens. It's a very windy place.

Speaker 6 (50:28):
And if we think and if we think that power
lines were getting snapped in the little breeze we had yesterday,
wait about Sunday afternoon, throw it another three inches of snow.

Speaker 1 (50:37):
It was not five degrees below zero. It was not
a little breeze yesterday.

Speaker 6 (50:41):
I was out in it. Yeah it was.

Speaker 3 (50:45):
It was a nine club wind.

Speaker 1 (50:47):
Oh, it wasn't a nine club Windoms were from Nebraska
game in Parks today or tomorrow tomorrow, and looked like
a bad day here. Sunday might not be a great
day to be out if if you're a man or beast.
What's going on here with doing some fishing? Oh, the

(51:09):
next couple of days. The big news for tomorrow morning, Yeah,
the Two Rivers Trout Lake opens up. That is so popular,
you guys.

Speaker 9 (51:17):
Yeah, lots of twelve inch rainbow trout we've already stocked
in there. Lake opens up at seven am. We'll have
lines there and then it'll be opened all the way
till sunset, every every single day. But tomorrow looks pretty good.
And trout a cold water fish, so they're not gonna
mind little breezy chili conditions at all. So that's really
the big news and fishing and you know, more kids

(51:40):
and there goes my hand up right there, Yeah, the
kid from Gretna.

Speaker 4 (51:43):
More kids have been hooked on fishing.

Speaker 9 (51:45):
There than any other place because it's just small and
the trout are easily caught.

Speaker 6 (51:49):
Sout crappy you mentioned last week, croppy.

Speaker 9 (51:53):
Crappier biting still biting the marina area of Cunningham Lake,
and then also the box Selled Creek that feeds Zarinsky
Lake in West Omaha. Those two places have been the best.
It's not you know again, it's not a gang musters
bite anything like that, but a few crop you being caught,
water tempsters, still cold.

Speaker 1 (52:14):
What do the sand hill cranes think about this wind?
They're probably saying, what have we done to ourselves? We're
up here early, look at and here comes Sunday, but
a lot of cranes to see. You got viewable numbers
of sand hill cranes. And the migration peak is coming.

Speaker 9 (52:30):
It'll be just after Saint Patrick's Day to about the
first week of April. That's the real big time to
see about six hundred thousand sand hill cranes between Grand
Island and Carney along the Platte River.

Speaker 4 (52:42):
It's a big deal out there. It's a big deal.

Speaker 1 (52:44):
Some outdoor activities over the next couple of days. Might
want to go indoors indoors. State parks on Sunday, Monday
and Tuesday look cold too, Yeah, what do we got
to do?

Speaker 9 (52:52):
Monty State Park great place to be for recreation to
where the kids and the grand kids out if they're
on spring break. And that would be the climbing wall
area of Mahoney in the indoor playground that would be great.

Speaker 4 (53:05):
And then at Tram it's all nature.

Speaker 9 (53:07):
We have a really cool indoor nature facility there, the
Outdoor Education Center, a lot of different things happening.

Speaker 4 (53:13):
They're very interactive, really cool.

Speaker 9 (53:14):
And on the outdoor bulletin board, Greg, don't be a
fire starter, so you in the outdoor crowd, high fire danger.
No parking or driving in the tall grass or crop stubble,
No smoking and no campfires. Heed the burn bands that
are in place. You heard Craig Evans.

Speaker 1 (53:31):
Earlier here all right, Greg Wagner and from the Nebrasky
Game in parks always a pleasure.

Speaker 3 (53:35):
I have a great weekend.