August 13, 2026 • 44 mins
During this "horse and a flat rock" deluge, we try to keep you safe in the storm, address traffic signals "acting up," reveal this MAJOR controversy with the Douglas County Treasurer's office, talk with Sen. Ricketts about bluegrass music, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I'm Scott Forhees here with Jim Rose, Craig Evans, Gortney Donahoe,
and Lucy Chapman. Has even more free rain than ever before.
To just jump in and say everything's closed over here,
cars are underwater, if people are floating away. I saw
one of the orange barrels floating today. Now, Lucy, you
(00:20):
follow some of the construction around town. Are there any
orange barrels marking any road closures, lane restrictions? Are there
any of those around town? One or two spots.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Right, I think I've got about four.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Four per block around town, and I saw one of
them floating.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Those things aren't supposed to float.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
That's how strong some of the rain showers have created
rivers across some of the roads in our community and area.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Take it easy out there. Good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
This is Nebraska's More News here on news Radio eleven
ten KFAB. It sounds like the most important area is
this section of I eighty.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Yeah, I eighty eastbound is closed at twenty fourth Street.
That is due to an overturned semi at thirteenth. You're
being diverted onto twenty four streets twenty fourth Street exit,
and that has that's a complete standstill, and once you
get on twenty four Street, that's a lot of traffic
all at the same time. So if you can avoid
I eighty eastbound all together before you hit that twenty
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fourth Street exit, that's definitely going to help you out
quite a bit. Looks like you can get on at thirteen,
so maybe if you weave around, get off at forty
seconds and.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Whatever you do, do it slowly. We do it slowly.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
It is it's it's really dangerous. Visibility is awful. And
I say this too, probably too often, but when you
get conditions like this where it's dark and it's rainy,
and you've got the street lights and then the signals
from the intersections and all that glare from opposing vehicles,
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you can't see the lanes on so many of Omaha streets.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
So it's just kind of like.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Well, I'm just gonna go this way and good luck
everybody else. We have some we have some of the
worst mark streets anywhere in the universe in this town
in these conditions. Yeah, and even in daytime, right sunny conditions,
there are some that are stupid.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
You know which one's really stupid.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
It's hard to narrow it but I'm gonna narrow it.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Okay, westbound casts at the Peeneie Park, I V. You're
crossing that seventy eighth street, and it used to be
that the lanes were marked this way. Well, they decided,
I guess, to remark some of the center line on
the westbound traffic of CASS. So they took the old strips,
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you know, the divided white line that goes down there
that delineates the two lanes going the same direction. They
took those off the street. But you can still see
the old marks on the street. So people I see
this all the time. People go across their westbound of
seventy eighth and cast the high V. Peenie Park there
is on your right, and now you've got what appears
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to be two divided lanes in front of you. And
some people kind of keep going straight. Some people start
moving over to the right. And if you do that,
you better take a right and go play some big
red kino because you're going to run into a curb
after about a half a block. Because the whole thing
is stupid. No one's gonna do anything about that.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
I don't know, see I go so fast through there,
I don't even notice I'm just speeding. I'm doing ninety
five miles an hour through there. I don't even notice
the lines are lines.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Once in a while you should look up from texting
and see what's going on around you out there.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Then you got this guy out there taking.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
He's the he's got a little auto sales shop there
and thear forty second in queue. There's a roundabout there,
fairly new roundabout there, and he's got video these guys
coming around the roundabout and then accelerating through the roundabout,
but they don't know there's one little extra narrow kind
of turn there and they're plowing into the light pole
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and the fence and off the road. And he says
this is dangerous, and the city works looked at it
and said people need to slow down, you know, And
they're both right. And I'm guessing that that area is
probably like a lot of other parts of town. Here
a little swimming pool.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Today, I think somebody did actually say the words it's
it's fine, it's fine, It's it's.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Fine if you slow down and take it easy, it's fine. Well, yeah,
but no one's doing that.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Back to Lucy for Timesaver traffic in just a moment,
we've got the forecast which is drying out. Today News
update and Jim Rose is award winning Sports Update Dan,
I'll highlight that in a moment. Now, this one is
an award winner. But hey, this one's apparently have been
optimism of bounds. Good morning, Jim Rose. Let's pump on
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the chest here, folks looking here at some girl and
her mom are in the daughter's dorm room. I don't
know where this college is, and says they hired a
designer who did twenty thousand dollars in renovations to the
dorm door.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Make it really sweet. She doesn't own.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Yeah, the last time I saw someone do something like
that was Thornton Mellon did that for his son and
a son's roommate who looked a lot like Robert Danner junior. Oh,
that was Robert Downey junior. That was the film Back
to School with Rodney Dangerfield.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
That looks like an SEC dorm to me, that that
is remarkably similar to the dorm that my didn't night
daughter moved into at Ole miss And we spent about
twenty nine ninety five on her.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Dorm twety five dollars, No, twenty nine point ninety five.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Yeah, that's about what we did. We were moving our
daughter into her dorm last year at Case State, and
I said, what do you need?
Speaker 1 (06:13):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
I'm looking around and said, you know what you guys
need in here? Trash can and some trash can liners.
So I went over to Walmart and I got a
trash can some trash can line.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Now what we got.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
It cost about twenty thousand dollars. That's fair. She got some.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
She got some Christmas It would look like Christmas lights
that we hung up around, you know, the window and
that sort of thing. But I'm trying to think of
everything we got. I think we got her maybe some
new bedding, but not much because we brought some with her.
And I'm thinking, okay, but there was quite a bit
of activity, higher priced activity in adjacent dorm rooms.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
I'm sure there was, And I think, what are you
talking about.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
I'm thinking to myself, Okay, why are they spending this
kind of money on a room that she'll be out
of in less than a year.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
I forgot there was one other price tag there. I
asked my daughter, I said, do you need anything, like,
you know, for towels or anything.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
She goes no, No, I'm good, like okay.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I didn't think anything of it until I got back
home and opened up the linen clauset.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Hey, where are my towels? Where are my towels? Congratulations?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Last night Nebraska Broadcasters Association Pinnacle Awards in Lincoln, news
Radio eleven ten Kfab was honored with six Pinnacle Awards.
One of those was the Gold Award Best Sports Cast
for this guy, the eleven to ten Kfab Certified Transmission
Sports Free with Pinnacle Award winner. This is two years
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in a row here for this award, Jim Row six
of them.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Now, yeah, well you've been here long enough. Things like
that happened. Helmut's had a practice yesterday, Scott ramping up
for the opener, which is three weeks some Saturday. Among
the new guys is Dexter Foster, linebacker, transfer from Oregon State,
where he made eleven starts last season. He came here
for the money, but that ain't all and.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
I feel like me coming here, I was gonna be
able to develop as a player and as a leader too.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
So I seen I've seen the vision and I just
basically see myself, you know, playing.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Here ninety five tackles last season. It would be nice
if he'd make a few this season. JaMarcus Lawrence, a
big part of the reason Nebraska basketball made it to
the second weekend of the NCAA Tournament this past spring,
took the first step towards staying with the team. He
joined a lawsuit of players denied a fifty year of
eligibility under the new NCAA rules. Prior to he was
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looking at the G League. Now he has to win
an injunction of the NCAA rule to be eligible, but
he's planning on it now.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
He has no leverage. He can't added the.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Transfer portal and play for somebody else, so it's either
Nebraska or nobody. Fred will undoubtedly welcome him back, and
there is a roster spot, but the dollars ain't going
to be tall because they weren't planning on him. Baseball
games the Big Dog eight in the Royals Dodgers game.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
These swings hits a.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
High drive I failed way in dun Oh, Turney.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
With an opposite field blast hell.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
The Dodgers lead at three to two.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Twenty seventh home run for Shohey alternate. He's really good
en route to a forty two Dodgers win in a
series sweep. But there was a scary moment for Freddie Freeman,
LA's All Star first basement, top of the eighth. He
went headlong into the Royals dugout trying to track down
a foul ball. Amazingly, he was not seriously hurt. Twenty
(09:28):
seven million a year for the guy, and he's diving
into dugouts. Team owner Mark Walter, Creighton University graduate of
nineteen eighty two, was so upset by that he decided
to sell the team. Okay, that's not why he's selling
the team, but he is. He bought controlling interest two
years ago for ten billion. He is selling to a
group led by Ivanka Trump's brother in law Josh Kushner
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and Disney CEO Robert Eiger for twelve billion. Mickey Mouse
ears for everybody, it's a goodbye. The Lakers generate more
revenue than any franchise in American sport Baseball games around
the Horn last night it was Houston two to one
over the Giants in Inner League play. In the National League,
the Braves, Cubs, Marlins, Padres, Rockies, and Cards all got
wins late games. In the American League, the Angels five,
(10:12):
Texas to Tampa Bay eight, the A's four. The Pale
Hose defeated Cincinnati five to nothing. Toronto, The Yankees, Cleveland,
and Minnesota also got wins. Chuck Love, former Nebraska women's
basketball assistant coach who did the nasty with a player,
wants his name off the lawsuit the player has filed
against Chuck, head coach Amy Williams, former athletics director Trev Roberts,
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and the entire university. Ashley Skagin, the player who texted
nude photos of herself to Love when both of them
were on the team and who drove to a parking
lot one night to have sex with him in a car,
wants big money. Says her civil rights were violated because
he was her coach. His lawyer filed a brief and
US District Court in Lincoln, admitting he may be a schmuck,
(10:56):
but the sex was consensual. Another high profile fire bring
at ESPN gone his NFL commentator Damian Woody. He'd been
there fifteen years. All of these body parts on the
floor there is the result of their acquisition of the
NFL network. They've had to integrate staffs, and there isn't
room for everybody sports his news on Nebraska's News Weather
in Traffic station.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Nebraska's Morning News here. Thank you so much for being
with us on news radio eleven ten KFAB with Jim Rows,
Craig Evans, Courtney Donaho. I'm Scott Vorhees. Lucy Chapman is
especially busy, and it's not like you don't have enough
to do in terms of the metro roads. I just
got this email via the Zonker's custom was inbox Scott
atkfab dot com from Sparky. Sparky says, please tell Lucy
(11:41):
westbound I eighty is closed at Sutherland. That's a wreck
just east of Paxton, and traffic is being diverted onto
Highway thirty. If you're not familiar, that's about three and
a half hours from here. It's closer to four and
a half hours from here.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Well, to be fair, I do talk about for travelers.
I do talk about things that are that far out
unless we have everything exploding here.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
But the good news is I'm hearing some talk that
they're getting ready to reopen I eighty eastbound. It's not
open right this second, but they're working on They are
absolutely working on it. Getting close.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Yeah, this is. We have everything here in the inbox today. Here,
let me prove it to you. So we had that
email there about westbound I eighty closed at Sutherland for
a wreck just east of Paxton. If you are right
now driving and listening to us, and you're traveling westbound
and approaching North Platte, this is going to impact your
(12:40):
life now. I also got this email from Chris says,
I hate to be that guy, but I gotta tell
people when it's dark and pouring buckets like this, you
gotta turn your headlights on. I saw two people not
using their headlights during this downpour this morning.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
I can only assume.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
I can only assume that people like turned off the
auto headlights and forgot to turn it back on. That's
my guess. Or or these people are they don't even
know what planet they're on. They're just driving their idiots,
or shouldn't have an operator's license.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
They got rejected by their girlfriend last night and they
want to end their lives. Well, I take out a
few more with them. I don't know that that's darker
than the sky right now.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Well, and then I happens. Yeah, then I got this email.
All the all the things We're talking about all the
work that we're doing here, and I got this email.
It comes from Ken sent to Scott at kfab dot com.
Ken says, is it just me? Or is Ainsley on
Fox and Friends about the hottest woman on TV today?
Did you guys see her at Halloween? She had her
(13:52):
hair all eighties curled, wearing a cheerleading outfit. Now see
an email like that makes me mad. We're in here
working real hard, we're talking about trafficking weather issues, and
I did a search for that picture he's talking about
and I couldn't find it. Everything just ticks me off
about that email. You're gonna send me an email like that,
It's got to come with a picture, right, it's the
(14:13):
matter with you.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
Talking to Ainsley Earhart, the blonde co host of the
Morning Show on She's married to Sean Hannity.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Is that the one he's talking about? That's Ainsley? Is Ainsley?
Is she married to Sean Handy? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Yeah they are, Okay, made kind of a big deal
about it last.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Craig says, she's not married.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Okay, Yeah, well she knows she is married to Sean Hannity.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
All right. It was in the news. I'm gonna let
you had photos and everything.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Craig and this emailer duke it out, and well, look,
I'm too busy focusing on kfab's extraordinarily vast and discriminating audience.
I can't be distracted by mourning co anchors on Fox.
So I don't know much about Ainsley Earhart or other
than the fact that she was married to Sean Hannity
last year, because it made the news and they had
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a big deal about it and it was all over
the papers.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
He have the.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
WNBA story in this sports update. It's not a sports
story task force story. It's an XXX why story.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
My interest in the WNBA has reached an almost undetectable level.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
You've got to find some entertainment value, though, in the
fact that we've got women from a league that was
set up for women to play basketball, who are going
to have a meeting to decide if men can play
in the league that was set up for women to
play against women in a women only basketball league. The
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WNBA task Force made up of team presidents and general managers. Yes,
that's their agenda.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
I like basketball, I like women, I like basketball games
and women in them. But this is taxing my patience
because the WNBA is not about basketball anymore.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
It's about coach?
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Is that pop off and use the word love and
go to hell in the same sentence, Well, who would
do something like that?
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Every day?
Speaker 3 (16:05):
These women put their ass on the line every day
when they go we go high. Love will win, grace
will win, humility will win, and kindness will win.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
I stand by them. I will always stand by them.
Sure everybody else can go to hill right now.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
Look, look, this is the same coach and grace, and
if you don't like it, you can go to hell
and ask Now, this is the same coach who, after
her player was assaulted on the floor said only well
it was a hard foul and yeah, she probably got
what she deserved. If I own the Indiana Fever, she'd
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be gone. She does not. If I were Caitlin Clark
or Sophie Cunningham, I'd go to the owner of the
team and say, I want to be traded. I can't
play for this woman anymore. She's she's bipolar. At least
it would appear so. She may not be clinically bipolar,
but it sure appears so. And here's the deal. If
you can't back up your players. And if you can't
(17:06):
make this more about the sport then the political activism
than the agenda items the LGBTQ curry, then get out
because you're losing fans.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
I don't know. Oh well, two things.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Number One, I think every time one of these women
gets decapitated, it raises their stock, both her, both for
her and the person doing the clotheslining. And then two
that that quote from that coach is so funny. It
reminds me it's like, hey, we want to give love
and grace to everyone, and if you.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Don't like it, you got ahead for yourself.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
It reminds me of a great line from Frasier when
Niall says of his father, he's very judgmental, and I've
always condemned him for that.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Traffic signals are starting to act up.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
What does that mean. I don't need to clean my room.
You're not the boss of me. I didn't ask for
a step dad. What are the traffic signals.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Doing one hundred and sixteenth and Maple. They're flashing red
in all directions, not a major intersection, but if they're
flashing red there, that could be We've got some power
outages in the area.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Traffic signals are acting up. Did you mow the lawn? Yeah?
And you weed whack too? You did the trimmer? Uh? Yeah.
It's funny because as I look along the fence line.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
What do you, dude?
Speaker 1 (18:24):
What the matter or what's your problem? Traffic signals are
acting up.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Well, we're gonna have to take those to the hospital
and drop them off. We're gonna have safe haven those
traffic signals. Yeah, there is about we'll do that.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
There is about seven fifty seven hundred and fifty without
power customers without power, So that could that could mean
you know, it can mean anything.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
And it just takes one idiot.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
You know, a big car going on this fine, I
got four wheel drive, Well that's great. Do you have
a rudder? Do you have a trolling motor? It's great
a four wheel drive and you got some clearance. That
will help. But if you're going too fast and you're
weaving an out of traffic and next thing you know,
you get that water spraying up across your windshield, you're
temporarily blinded and you crash into oncoming traffic. Well, hey,
(19:16):
that's that's great. About your your four wheel drive, Take
it easy.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Good advice.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Dangerous This is usually your department. I've been learning, I've
been listening to you. Usually you're like, hey, you gotta
be really careful out there. I'm like, ah, it's not
that bad today. It is that bad.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
It is that bad. And as you mentioned the standing water,
you've got it at two hundred and sixteenth and Maple
is something that happens a lot. I think that's a
very low that's a very low spot. And because I
kept thinking, oh, that's by the riffor no, no, no, no,
that's just outside of Elcorn, So.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Is two hundred two hundred and sixteenth gotta be where
you would go take a left. Well, if you're heading westbound,
take a left, go over to downtown Elcorn, I believe
to Ajazuka Park.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
I believe that's true. Which is gonna be hopping this weekend?
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Yeah, I hope that any potential thunderstorm and rain activity
doesn't tamp down on the Balloon and Wine Festival. I
think your opportunity to win tickets for that on our
website ended yesterday, so we'll find out. Our promotions director,
Delaney the rather unheralded for the amount of work and
(20:33):
effort she puts in. Delaney our promotions director will be
contacting a winter today and setting someone up with not
only tickets to the Balloon and Wine Festival in Elcorn,
but we also threw in a hot air balloon excursion.
I've been on a hot air balloon. It's fun. It
is super super fun. It is just peaceful and serene,
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kind of like listening to Jim Rose go on a
rant about something. You just feel like I'm in the
pocket of a cloud right now and I've never felt
more peaceful.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Well, that rant pays the bills around here. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
That's why I feel safe and protected when hearing it.
The Rosy Diginozi coming up at eight forty eight this morning, eight.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Forty eight, So I got Did you took two minutes
away from my preparation time?
Speaker 1 (21:19):
I got it? Eight well eight okay, eight forty nine
and a half. We'll give you time.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
I had to go home and finish that last night
after the Pinnacle Awards. I had to drive back from
Lincoln and do that just to demonstrate my dedication to
the craft.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
It is. It is dedicated. It's commitment and I couldn't nail.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
One in because I told everybody I do Part two
of my free capitalism things.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Commitment in the sense that you should be committed, and
all of us for enjoying it. What does that say
about us? I don't miss it. You guys are all
into misery, that's it. Investigators in Washington, d C. Shut
down some streets during morning rush hour the other day.
As it turns out, when they investigated what it was
that was causing such a ruckus there in a trash
(21:59):
can in the area. Uh, investigators say the package contained
a quote electronic portable sex pump device unquote. Investigators right
now or they have a man for questioning.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
One Swedish made penis in larger pump.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
That's not mine.
Speaker 6 (22:23):
One credit card receipt for Swedish made penis in larger
signed by Austin Powers.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
I'm telling your baby, that's not mine.
Speaker 6 (22:33):
One warranty card for Swedish made penis in larger pump
filled out by Austin Power.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
I wantn't even know what this is. This sort of
thing ain't my bag baby.
Speaker 6 (22:43):
One book Swedish made penis in Larger pumps and me
this sort of thing is my bag baby, by Austin
pus Scott.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
If you could make the announcement that the Omaha Whitewater
Rafting Team will be assembling at Saddle Creek and Dodge
for their latest whitewater adventure.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Appreciate that message there via the talkback mic on our
free iHeartRadio app into the Zonker's custom was inbox, so
per request, the Omaha Whitewater Rafting Team will be assembling
at Saddle Creek and Dodge for their latest whitewater adventure.
I'm Scott Vorhees. There's Lucy Chapman. We have dumpsters going
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down Saddle Creek.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Well there were earlier, but they were very small dumpsters.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Is that last year or the year before we had
the infamous dumpster heading down Saddle Creek. This seems like
a dumpster day.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
It would feel that way. It does, it doesnt Elkhorn.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
It feels like a dumpster adventure down a brand new
river where they put a street where the creek was
and didn't think like, well, in heavy rains, this seems
to be where the water wants to go, so the
water might go, so the aptly named Saddle Creek Road
becomes Saddle Creek again in conditions like this, Lucy's paying
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attention to all of it.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
The trash Panda's love love it. When the dumpsters go
for a sale. We got to see the world.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Yeah, but if they're already, they better be in the dumpsters,
because if they're in the sewers, it's like, oh, I
think it's starting to rain next thing, you know, It's
like someone turned the fire hose on them.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Not if the top is closed, if the lids closed.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
No, I'm saying if they're in the sewers, Oh yeah,
they seem to be Okay, they nature finds a way.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Who said that?
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Jeff Goldblum, Oh, Craig Evans, Jim Rose, Corney, Donahoe, I'm
Scott Vorhees, There's Lucy Chapman. This is Nebraska's morning news
news radio eleven ten kfab. Here's maybe the dumbest news
story of the morning, and it's one of the top
stories from the Omaha World Herald. I'm not saying it's
(25:03):
not a story. It is maybe the dumbest local story though,
of the morning.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
It has to do with.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
A photo that was shown on the Douglas County Treasurer's
website and social media. The photo is of the Omaha
skyline at dusk with three skyscrapers. Okay, well, you got
the first National Tower and Woodman Life and then the
new Mutual Tower.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Well, the one of the skyscrapers looks a lot like
the first National Tower, but so did the other two.
And people looked at this and said, this isn't Omaha.
I don't know where this is. It looks like it
wants to be Omaha. It looks like an AI driven
picture of Omaha skyline at dusk. So here goes the
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got posted online and people are making fun of it.
One person said, oh, this is a good picture of
fau Maha, fake Omaha, fau Maha. That's funny, very well done.
Not as not as good as faux Paulini. That Twitter
account is still going on, by the way, if you've
watched that on game Day. But a that's right, yes,
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fau Maha.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
I like it.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
So several online commenters, according to the Omaha World Harold
said this looks fake. So The World Herald reached out
to Douglas County Treasurer Tim Cavanaugh. Now Douglas County Treasurer
Tim Kavanaugh. He he was appointed by the county board
to step in there and fulfill the rest of the
term by the former Douglas County Treasurer who is now
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the mayor of Omaha, John Superman, Joe l Ewing and
so and Kavanaugh is not running for election in this spot.
He doesn't want to be the Douglas County treasure anymore.
So he said, I don't know. I'm busy being Douglas
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County Treasurer. By the way, did I miss the part
where you guys at the Omaha World Harold reported on
some of the over one hundred thousand dollars in wasteful
spending that used to happen in this office that we
have cleaned up during my time as my interim time
as County Treasurer. No any of that, so he goes,
I don't know. That picture has been up there for
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years and the world Harold's like, we dug into it.
A Facebook timestamp showed that the daytime photo was uploaded
at the Treasurer's office cover photo on February twenty third.
Why that's not years, that's just months. He's lying or
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he doesn't know and he doesn't care. So now he
looked into it and they replaced The County Treasurer is
off has replaced the skyline photos with a photo of
the former Thomas Fitzgerald Home. Now, here's why that's hilarious.
Do you know why that's funny.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
I don't know why it's funny, but it's not even
op well, I mean it's operable for other things.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Yeah, here's why that's funny. The former Thomas Fitzgerald Home
is part of a series of really nice historic buildings
near one hundred and fifty six and West Maple Road. Oh,
that's where the Oh wait, that's where the Douglas County
Treasurer's office is. In other words, someone said this picture
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online's fake Tim Kavanaugh. Tim Kavanaugh says, who cares? And
they say, well, a lot of people care. He's all right,
we gotta get another picture.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Well you have.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
You can't just use someone's picture. You had to get
all right, fine, where's my phone? He or someone went
outside took a picture of the building. Sit here, here
it is. Post this and that's what's up there right
now on their social chest.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
I know it's so good.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Now, who in the world would ever use an AI
generated photo of al Maha skyline that if anyone took
a real close look at it would realize, oh, that's fake.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Who would do that.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
I'm still waiting for someone to find something in the
kfab artwork sphere and point out I don't think that
that's a real picture. I've been waiting for nine months
for someone to point this out. No one's done it yet,
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but it's it's out there. If someone wants to sleuth
it out. You would have my undying appreciation for being
so nitpicky as to say, wait a second, I don't
think that's real.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
It exists.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Have fun kfab dot com. It's I'm not giving you
any more hints. I've already given you the website address.
But I can I can sympathize with the County Treasurer's
office because it's it's either you pay someone to go
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out and do all this stuff and make sure we
got the right thing and all this stuff, or it's
just like, okay, uh hey, give me a picture of
the Omaha skyline. How's this fine? And there it is.
I got an email here from Douglas County Treasurer Tim Kavanaugh.
He said, Scott, I want to correct something that was said.
I did not say that the picture on the website
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has been there for years. It has not the picture
on our Facebook page has been there for years. It
was placed there by a previous social media contractor who
I eliminated to save money. The picture is a stock photo.
No lies, Frankly, I care more about great service, fiscal accountability,
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and saving taxpayer money. Thanks for correcting, Signed Tim Kavanaugh,
Douglas County Treasurer.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Is that for real?
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Is what? For real? The email? AI? No, it's a
real email from Tim Kavanaugh.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Okay, that's a lovely response.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Now why would the Omaha World Herald say no, no,
we showed it was uploaded on February twenty third. If
you've ever had to, and now I'm realizing I don't.
I have neglected Kfab's Facebook page. Full disclosure. I every
once in a while I'm like, oh yeah, and I'll
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go in there and I'll respond to messages and say
what picture is up here now? And we have our
cover art there that we can swap in and out
based on the season. I have neglected it. I'm not
even busy. I just forget, just forget. So when you
swap out like the cover art, which I imagine is
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what they're talking about, it's either the profile pick or
the cover pick. When you swap it out or re
upload something that has existed before. It could say, oh,
this was uploaded on in February, and Tim Kavanaugh says,
that picture's been in our system for years. Yeah, but
it might have been swapped out with something else. Maybe
the previous county treasurer had a picture of him wearing
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a Superman costume or something, and then they decided to
swap out this one. And then later you could do
a picture of Tim Cavanaugh dressed as Superman. I mean,
there's all sorts of options there, but both of the
all of these things can be true. It can be
true that it's been there for years, it was re
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uploaded this past February. It's fake, and that Douglas County
Treasurer Tim Kavanaugh like me, I'm the program director for
this radio station.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
The buck stops here.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
We don't have enough money for a buck, so it's
like the half dollar piece stops here. It is my responsibility.
What's on our Facebook stuff?
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Past you?
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Ultimately, no, no one has the wrests up and I
get busy and I don't think about that stuff. Tim Cavanaugh,
he's the county treasurer. The buck stops there, but he's
probably also a little busy, and it hasn't you know,
I'm sure he doesn't pull the team together going all right?
Yesterday the waiting times was a little bit longer than
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we wanted here, what if we wrap people around here?
Are we maximizing our parking opportunities out here? Is you
know who's mowing the lawn between our property and the
Douglas County Sheriff's office here at one hundred and fifty
six in Maple And oh yeah, what's going on with
our Facebook page picture? I don't think that probably comes up.
Cass County commissioners voted on a one year pause of
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new data centers in Cass County. Were they, I imagine
they were going to put some data centers somewhere in
Cass County. Cass County is a big attractive place to
put businesses data centers. Or was this something where people
went in there and said, we don't want data centers
and we don't want flock cameras and I don't know
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about that TikTok it's Chinese, And the Cas County commission said,
we don't, we don't have any plans to do well good,
all right, But now I imagine there was Well, the
story here from KMTV three says that there was a
family farm here. This woman Lisa went in there and
(34:34):
said that the land across from our family farm was
optioned by a group as a possible data center. Well,
if this happens with people, and I'm I'm sympathetic to
a point. If you live someplace, or you move someplace
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and the land across from you you was zoned to
be able to accommodate a certain business or ag or whatever,
and then they end up using it for that purpose.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
What do you.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
Anyway, Cass County said, all right, a twelve month pause
on new data centers. And then I wonder when people
here in six months go back to the Cast County
Commission and say there's no more room in.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
The cloud or whatever. I don't really know how any
of the stuff works.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Sing along, Jim. It's just I wake up one o'clock
in the morning. Look, I have one eye on the clock,
and I think, oh good, I can go back to sleep.
And then he's a fake, and I'm like, oh, come on.
So this is from the Pete Rickets for Senate campaign.
(35:51):
We're now joined here on news radio eleven ten kfab
By Senator Pete Ricketts. Is that you on the banjo
on that track or what.
Speaker 5 (36:00):
No, No, sadly, I have almost no musical talent whatsoever.
So we actually, again technology, we create that with the computer.
Speaker 4 (36:10):
So that's not real people singing told you.
Speaker 5 (36:14):
No, no, no, that's all computer.
Speaker 4 (36:16):
That's sad because I was hoping those guys could appeared,
you know, well, someone to learn it, yeah, someone to
learn it and do something. I was thinking maybe it
was your dad on the banjo, your brother on the drums,
you know, you over there on the washboard.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
Well, let's talk about the campaign for a second. Your
opponent in this race is an independent candidate, officially Dan Osborne,
who was supported by the Nebraska Democrat Party. He is
accusing you of not holding any town halls for quite
some time. Others like Mike Flood has been doing that
has not been going well, but he does it. And
he's also accusing you of not getting a farm bill passed.
(36:52):
Your response to some of these accusations from the Osborne campaign.
Speaker 5 (36:56):
Well, let's start with the last one. It was all
Democrats who voted against the arm bill. It was in
committee and every single Democrat, every single one, the same
party Dan really belongs to voting against it. The Bublicans
voted for it, Democrats voted against it, and we were
missing a couple of Republicans because Ms McConnell was still
in rehab. So that's why that build didn't proceed on
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to the Center for And you know Dan again, just
just hear what kind of fake Dan is? Dan is
what he's doing when he says the talent halls, then
he kicks press out of them. When I have my
campaign events, we invite press in. It's all recorded. So
Dan's really again just being another fake here.
Speaker 4 (37:36):
In particular, the Great Plaine Sentinel online newspaper has been
they've been after Dan Osborne and they've been pretty much
told you're not welcome at any of our events. Is
it because the Democrats didn't vote for the farm bill
because they oppose the reforms to the SNAP program?
Speaker 1 (37:51):
Is that it?
Speaker 5 (37:52):
That's it? That's primarily the big sticking point, because what
we said is, look, you've got states blue states primarily,
that have high errors. When we say higher rates, what
we mean is they are giving food stamp benefits to
people who don't qualify, who don't deserve it. Sometimes there's
people with too high income. Sometimes it's people who are
here illegally, and the Democrats don't want to see that reform.
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They want to continue to give these benefits out to
the legal immigrants, and that's what we're trying to reform.
That's what the Democrats they want. Basically, they want to
push all the reforms off till after President Trump Lee's office,
hoping that they can change that completely and never have
to have the States put up more money for the
benefits they are giving out to people who don't deserve them.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
Of course, any Republican in any campaign this year is
going to be tied to the president. The President's being
tied to higher gas prices. How do you feel everything
is going in the Middle East?
Speaker 5 (38:46):
Certainly, the conflict in Middle East puts a lot of
pressure on our families, the military, families who have loved
ones overseas, and every Nebraska family goes to the pumping
and paying a higher prices. We can't let a country
that chance death to America and has killed tens of
thousands of their own people have a nuclear weapon because
they would kill one hundred thousand or more of ours
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in a heartbeat. And we need to continue to keep
the pressure on Iran. You know, the Islamic Republican Guard
Corps are the ones who are driving this. We got
a blockade, reports got to continue to strike the militarily.
We're getting about eight million barrels of oil out through
the Straits Bomboos, and we got to find other ways
to get more oil out to mitigate what Iran's doing.
(39:27):
And then of course we've got home grown solution tier
like our biofuels. Last time I filled up at IV,
I say fifty five cent a gallon using an E
ten And so the more we can do that, we
kind of mitigate our dependence on what happens in foreign markets.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
Did you use your high V plus four past rewards card?
You could probably see it extra eight cents or more.
Speaker 5 (39:47):
You know, I need to sign up for one of those.
I actually don't have one of those.
Speaker 4 (39:51):
Ash I'll see you're detached from the rest of us.
See that's one of the lombs against you from the left.
You know you didn't have all this money.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
Oh did you did you vote to lower your own
TAXI one bill that I want to vote to lower
Pete Ricketts taxes?
Speaker 5 (40:06):
You know, we actually gave tax relief to all Americans.
Most of the benefits went to middle income folks or
low income folks. But there was things like no tax
on tips, no tax on overtime, and actually had no
tax on overtime has been uced by thirty million people,
I think, no tax on social Security benefits for eighty
eight percent of seniors, so lots of Tactually. So we
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voted on last year's that working family tax cuts and
it avoided a twenty tax increase. And by the way,
Democrat Dan would have voted against those tax cuts. He
wanted to vote to raise your solid security taxes and
he wants to give him to legal immigrants. On top
of that, Remember he did the whole video of him saying,
just give a damn sold security card. Right, that's sip.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
Word's not mine, Pete. What's the message here?
Speaker 4 (40:51):
The easy target is the DSSAY is filled with a
bunch of communists, and everybody who's a Democrat is a
DSAY even if they aren't saying so that, you know,
if they get a hold of the government, outgoes the Senate,
out goes the Supreme Court, outgoes the presidency. Open borders
girls teams overrun with males that can't be the message
(41:12):
for you, guys, What is the solution message for the
Republicans with ninety days to go?
Speaker 5 (41:18):
Well, Well, first of all, Jim Frankly, one in three
Democrats actually identify as Democrats socialists, and if you've been
to read your platform, it's pretty crazy, right. They want
to get rid of the presidency, they want to get
rid of the Senate, right, they want the Supreme Court
report to the House of Representatives. They want to defund
the Department of War, they want to abolish prisons, they
want to open borders. So the DSA people are pretty creaty.
(41:41):
And by the way, it was DSA operatives who recruited
my opponent, Democrat Daan, So this is the threat of
socialism here is very real. But again, what I would
say is you want to talk about what we're doing,
is we're putting more money back in people's pockets, whether
it was through the working family tax cuts that we
passed last year or things like the Housing Road to
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twenty first century housing build that we just passed this year.
And by the way, these are things very similar to
what I did when I was a governor. May recall
that we had some of the largest task cuts in
Nebraska history. When I was a governor, we were able
to get rid of the tax on the state income
tax on social security here in our state, we got
rid of the tax on military retirement benefits. We lowered
everybody's income tax rates, who put ten billion dollars in
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property tax relief. And then we also worked on housing
through things like the Ural Workforce Housing Fund and Middle
Income Housing Fund to create more housing stocks. So a
lot of things that I did here as governor is
what I'm taking to Washington, DC to do there.
Speaker 2 (42:34):
The Senator, we got to run here, but I want
to give you a moment on the Carly Rain would
act talked with Carly Rain's mother, Amber several times, and
I know you have as well. This was a young
woman who a few years ago was shot eight times
at a party there. She was only there for a
few minutes and her killer was previously convicted of four
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different felonies. He never should have been released. There are
a number of stories like this across the country. Your
bill is looking to do something about that kind of thing, right.
Speaker 3 (43:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (43:05):
Amber approached me and said, hey, we need to take more,
do more steps to make sure people know whether there's
violent repeat offenders that are released to the public. And
so from that those conversations, we came up with the
idea that Carli Rain would act, which would create a
violent offender registry that would be similar to the sex
offender Registry. So after you've had a couple of violent offenses,
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you would have to once you're being released, or if
a judge didn't give you a prins and sense from
the judge let you go, then you would have to register.
And then that would be very similar to the sex
offender Registry, where you have to say, hey, here's where
I live, here's where I work, here's my license plate.
Turn that all over to local law enforcement officials, and
there would be a national registry website as well as
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local officials would have that information as well to publish
so that people could see if there was a violent
offender that was working in their say, strip mall, or
living in their neighborhood or whatever it is, so that
people would know who is in the neighborhood and be
able to take precautions, and frankly, to really raise the
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price for these violent for pe defenders.
Speaker 1 (44:12):
It'd be better to keep them behind bars.
Speaker 2 (44:14):
But this is certainly better than Nothing'd be very curious
to see who votes against this. Senator, thank you for
sponsoring it, and thank you for.
Speaker 5 (44:21):
The time this morning for us great Thanks a lot
for having me on
Speaker 2 (44:24):
Nebraska Senator Pete Ricketts here on news radio eleven to
ten kfab
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I'm Scott Forhees here with Jim Rose, Craig Evans, Gortney Donahoe,
and Lucy Chapman. Has even more free rain than ever before.
To just jump in and say everything's closed over here,
cars are underwater, if people are floating away. I saw
one of the orange barrels floating today. Now, Lucy, you
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follow some of the construction around town. Are there any
orange barrels marking any road closures, lane restrictions? Are there
any of those around town? One or two spots.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Right, I think I've got about four.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Four per block around town, and I saw one of
them floating.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Those things aren't supposed to float.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
That's how strong some of the rain showers have created
rivers across some of the roads in our community and area.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Take it easy out there. Good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
This is Nebraska's More News here on news Radio eleven
ten KFAB. It sounds like the most important area is
this section of I eighty.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Yeah, I eighty eastbound is closed at twenty fourth Street.
That is due to an overturned semi at thirteenth. You're
being diverted onto twenty four streets twenty fourth Street exit,
and that has that's a complete standstill, and once you
get on twenty four Street, that's a lot of traffic
all at the same time. So if you can avoid
I eighty eastbound all together before you hit that twenty
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fourth Street exit, that's definitely going to help you out
quite a bit. Looks like you can get on at thirteen,
so maybe if you weave around, get off at forty
seconds and.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Whatever you do, do it slowly. We do it slowly.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
It is it's it's really dangerous. Visibility is awful. And
I say this too, probably too often, but when you
get conditions like this where it's dark and it's rainy,
and you've got the street lights and then the signals
from the intersections and all that glare from opposing vehicles,
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you can't see the lanes on so many of Omaha streets.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
So it's just kind of like.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Well, I'm just gonna go this way and good luck
everybody else. We have some we have some of the
worst mark streets anywhere in the universe in this town
in these conditions. Yeah, and even in daytime, right sunny conditions,
there are some that are stupid.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
You know which one's really stupid.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
It's hard to narrow it but I'm gonna narrow it.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Okay, westbound casts at the Peeneie Park, I V. You're
crossing that seventy eighth street, and it used to be
that the lanes were marked this way. Well, they decided,
I guess, to remark some of the center line on
the westbound traffic of CASS. So they took the old strips,
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you know, the divided white line that goes down there
that delineates the two lanes going the same direction. They
took those off the street. But you can still see
the old marks on the street. So people I see
this all the time. People go across their westbound of
seventy eighth and cast the high V. Peenie Park there
is on your right, and now you've got what appears
(03:18):
to be two divided lanes in front of you. And
some people kind of keep going straight. Some people start
moving over to the right. And if you do that,
you better take a right and go play some big
red kino because you're going to run into a curb
after about a half a block. Because the whole thing
is stupid. No one's gonna do anything about that.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
I don't know, see I go so fast through there,
I don't even notice I'm just speeding. I'm doing ninety
five miles an hour through there. I don't even notice
the lines are lines.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Once in a while you should look up from texting
and see what's going on around you out there.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Then you got this guy out there taking.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
He's the he's got a little auto sales shop there
and thear forty second in queue. There's a roundabout there,
fairly new roundabout there, and he's got video these guys
coming around the roundabout and then accelerating through the roundabout,
but they don't know there's one little extra narrow kind
of turn there and they're plowing into the light pole
(04:24):
and the fence and off the road. And he says
this is dangerous, and the city works looked at it
and said people need to slow down, you know, And
they're both right. And I'm guessing that that area is
probably like a lot of other parts of town. Here
a little swimming pool.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Today, I think somebody did actually say the words it's
it's fine, it's fine, It's it's.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Fine if you slow down and take it easy, it's fine. Well, yeah,
but no one's doing that.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Back to Lucy for Timesaver traffic in just a moment,
we've got the forecast which is drying out. Today News
update and Jim Rose is award winning Sports Update Dan,
I'll highlight that in a moment. Now, this one is
an award winner. But hey, this one's apparently have been
optimism of bounds. Good morning, Jim Rose. Let's pump on
(05:15):
the chest here, folks looking here at some girl and
her mom are in the daughter's dorm room. I don't
know where this college is, and says they hired a
designer who did twenty thousand dollars in renovations to the
dorm door.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Make it really sweet. She doesn't own.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Yeah, the last time I saw someone do something like
that was Thornton Mellon did that for his son and
a son's roommate who looked a lot like Robert Danner junior. Oh,
that was Robert Downey junior. That was the film Back
to School with Rodney Dangerfield.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
That looks like an SEC dorm to me, that that
is remarkably similar to the dorm that my didn't night
daughter moved into at Ole miss And we spent about
twenty nine ninety five on her.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Dorm twety five dollars, No, twenty nine point ninety five.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Yeah, that's about what we did. We were moving our
daughter into her dorm last year at Case State, and
I said, what do you need?
Speaker 1 (06:13):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
I'm looking around and said, you know what you guys
need in here? Trash can and some trash can liners.
So I went over to Walmart and I got a
trash can some trash can line.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Now what we got.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
It cost about twenty thousand dollars. That's fair. She got some.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
She got some Christmas It would look like Christmas lights
that we hung up around, you know, the window and
that sort of thing. But I'm trying to think of
everything we got. I think we got her maybe some
new bedding, but not much because we brought some with her.
And I'm thinking, okay, but there was quite a bit
of activity, higher priced activity in adjacent dorm rooms.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
I'm sure there was, And I think, what are you
talking about.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
I'm thinking to myself, Okay, why are they spending this
kind of money on a room that she'll be out
of in less than a year.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
I forgot there was one other price tag there. I
asked my daughter, I said, do you need anything, like,
you know, for towels or anything.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
She goes no, No, I'm good, like okay.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I didn't think anything of it until I got back
home and opened up the linen clauset.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Hey, where are my towels? Where are my towels? Congratulations?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Last night Nebraska Broadcasters Association Pinnacle Awards in Lincoln, news
Radio eleven ten Kfab was honored with six Pinnacle Awards.
One of those was the Gold Award Best Sports Cast
for this guy, the eleven to ten Kfab Certified Transmission
Sports Free with Pinnacle Award winner. This is two years
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in a row here for this award, Jim Row six
of them.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Now, yeah, well you've been here long enough. Things like
that happened. Helmut's had a practice yesterday, Scott ramping up
for the opener, which is three weeks some Saturday. Among
the new guys is Dexter Foster, linebacker, transfer from Oregon State,
where he made eleven starts last season. He came here
for the money, but that ain't all and.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
I feel like me coming here, I was gonna be
able to develop as a player and as a leader too.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
So I seen I've seen the vision and I just
basically see myself, you know, playing.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Here ninety five tackles last season. It would be nice
if he'd make a few this season. JaMarcus Lawrence, a
big part of the reason Nebraska basketball made it to
the second weekend of the NCAA Tournament this past spring,
took the first step towards staying with the team. He
joined a lawsuit of players denied a fifty year of
eligibility under the new NCAA rules. Prior to he was
(08:32):
looking at the G League. Now he has to win
an injunction of the NCAA rule to be eligible, but
he's planning on it now.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
He has no leverage. He can't added the.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Transfer portal and play for somebody else, so it's either
Nebraska or nobody. Fred will undoubtedly welcome him back, and
there is a roster spot, but the dollars ain't going
to be tall because they weren't planning on him. Baseball
games the Big Dog eight in the Royals Dodgers game.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
These swings hits a.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
High drive I failed way in dun Oh, Turney.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
With an opposite field blast hell.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
The Dodgers lead at three to two.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Twenty seventh home run for Shohey alternate. He's really good
en route to a forty two Dodgers win in a
series sweep. But there was a scary moment for Freddie Freeman,
LA's All Star first basement, top of the eighth. He
went headlong into the Royals dugout trying to track down
a foul ball. Amazingly, he was not seriously hurt. Twenty
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seven million a year for the guy, and he's diving
into dugouts. Team owner Mark Walter, Creighton University graduate of
nineteen eighty two, was so upset by that he decided
to sell the team. Okay, that's not why he's selling
the team, but he is. He bought controlling interest two
years ago for ten billion. He is selling to a
group led by Ivanka Trump's brother in law Josh Kushner
(09:49):
and Disney CEO Robert Eiger for twelve billion. Mickey Mouse
ears for everybody, it's a goodbye. The Lakers generate more
revenue than any franchise in American sport Baseball games around
the Horn last night it was Houston two to one
over the Giants in Inner League play. In the National League,
the Braves, Cubs, Marlins, Padres, Rockies, and Cards all got
wins late games. In the American League, the Angels five,
(10:12):
Texas to Tampa Bay eight, the A's four. The Pale
Hose defeated Cincinnati five to nothing. Toronto, The Yankees, Cleveland,
and Minnesota also got wins. Chuck Love, former Nebraska women's
basketball assistant coach who did the nasty with a player,
wants his name off the lawsuit the player has filed
against Chuck, head coach Amy Williams, former athletics director Trev Roberts,
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and the entire university. Ashley Skagin, the player who texted
nude photos of herself to Love when both of them
were on the team and who drove to a parking
lot one night to have sex with him in a car,
wants big money. Says her civil rights were violated because
he was her coach. His lawyer filed a brief and
US District Court in Lincoln, admitting he may be a schmuck,
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but the sex was consensual. Another high profile fire bring
at ESPN gone his NFL commentator Damian Woody. He'd been
there fifteen years. All of these body parts on the
floor there is the result of their acquisition of the
NFL network. They've had to integrate staffs, and there isn't
room for everybody sports his news on Nebraska's News Weather
in Traffic station.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Nebraska's Morning News here. Thank you so much for being
with us on news radio eleven ten KFAB with Jim Rows,
Craig Evans, Courtney Donaho. I'm Scott Vorhees. Lucy Chapman is
especially busy, and it's not like you don't have enough
to do in terms of the metro roads. I just
got this email via the Zonker's custom was inbox Scott
atkfab dot com from Sparky. Sparky says, please tell Lucy
(11:41):
westbound I eighty is closed at Sutherland. That's a wreck
just east of Paxton, and traffic is being diverted onto
Highway thirty. If you're not familiar, that's about three and
a half hours from here. It's closer to four and
a half hours from here.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Well, to be fair, I do talk about for travelers.
I do talk about things that are that far out
unless we have everything exploding here.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
But the good news is I'm hearing some talk that
they're getting ready to reopen I eighty eastbound. It's not
open right this second, but they're working on They are
absolutely working on it. Getting close.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Yeah, this is. We have everything here in the inbox today. Here,
let me prove it to you. So we had that
email there about westbound I eighty closed at Sutherland for
a wreck just east of Paxton. If you are right
now driving and listening to us, and you're traveling westbound
and approaching North Platte, this is going to impact your
(12:40):
life now. I also got this email from Chris says,
I hate to be that guy, but I gotta tell
people when it's dark and pouring buckets like this, you
gotta turn your headlights on. I saw two people not
using their headlights during this downpour this morning.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
I can only assume.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
I can only assume that people like turned off the
auto headlights and forgot to turn it back on. That's
my guess. Or or these people are they don't even
know what planet they're on. They're just driving their idiots,
or shouldn't have an operator's license.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
They got rejected by their girlfriend last night and they
want to end their lives. Well, I take out a
few more with them. I don't know that that's darker
than the sky right now.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Well, and then I happens. Yeah, then I got this email.
All the all the things We're talking about all the
work that we're doing here, and I got this email.
It comes from Ken sent to Scott at kfab dot com.
Ken says, is it just me? Or is Ainsley on
Fox and Friends about the hottest woman on TV today?
Did you guys see her at Halloween? She had her
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hair all eighties curled, wearing a cheerleading outfit. Now see
an email like that makes me mad. We're in here
working real hard, we're talking about trafficking weather issues, and
I did a search for that picture he's talking about
and I couldn't find it. Everything just ticks me off
about that email. You're gonna send me an email like that,
It's got to come with a picture, right, it's the
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matter with you.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
Talking to Ainsley Earhart, the blonde co host of the
Morning Show on She's married to Sean Hannity.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Is that the one he's talking about? That's Ainsley? Is Ainsley?
Is she married to Sean Handy? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Yeah they are, Okay, made kind of a big deal
about it last.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Craig says, she's not married.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Okay, Yeah, well she knows she is married to Sean Hannity.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
All right. It was in the news. I'm gonna let
you had photos and everything.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Craig and this emailer duke it out, and well, look,
I'm too busy focusing on kfab's extraordinarily vast and discriminating audience.
I can't be distracted by mourning co anchors on Fox.
So I don't know much about Ainsley Earhart or other
than the fact that she was married to Sean Hannity
last year, because it made the news and they had
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a big deal about it and it was all over
the papers.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
He have the.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
WNBA story in this sports update. It's not a sports
story task force story. It's an XXX why story.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
My interest in the WNBA has reached an almost undetectable level.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
You've got to find some entertainment value, though, in the
fact that we've got women from a league that was
set up for women to play basketball, who are going
to have a meeting to decide if men can play
in the league that was set up for women to
play against women in a women only basketball league. The
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WNBA task Force made up of team presidents and general managers. Yes,
that's their agenda.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
I like basketball, I like women, I like basketball games
and women in them. But this is taxing my patience
because the WNBA is not about basketball anymore.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
It's about coach?
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Is that pop off and use the word love and
go to hell in the same sentence, Well, who would
do something like that?
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Every day?
Speaker 3 (16:05):
These women put their ass on the line every day
when they go we go high. Love will win, grace
will win, humility will win, and kindness will win.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
I stand by them. I will always stand by them.
Sure everybody else can go to hill right now.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
Look, look, this is the same coach and grace, and
if you don't like it, you can go to hell
and ask Now, this is the same coach who, after
her player was assaulted on the floor said only well
it was a hard foul and yeah, she probably got
what she deserved. If I own the Indiana Fever, she'd
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be gone. She does not. If I were Caitlin Clark
or Sophie Cunningham, I'd go to the owner of the
team and say, I want to be traded. I can't
play for this woman anymore. She's she's bipolar. At least
it would appear so. She may not be clinically bipolar,
but it sure appears so. And here's the deal. If
you can't back up your players. And if you can't
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make this more about the sport then the political activism
than the agenda items the LGBTQ curry, then get out
because you're losing fans.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
I don't know. Oh well, two things.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Number One, I think every time one of these women
gets decapitated, it raises their stock, both her, both for
her and the person doing the clotheslining. And then two
that that quote from that coach is so funny. It
reminds me it's like, hey, we want to give love
and grace to everyone, and if you.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Don't like it, you got ahead for yourself.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
It reminds me of a great line from Frasier when
Niall says of his father, he's very judgmental, and I've
always condemned him for that.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Traffic signals are starting to act up.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
What does that mean. I don't need to clean my room.
You're not the boss of me. I didn't ask for
a step dad. What are the traffic signals.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Doing one hundred and sixteenth and Maple. They're flashing red
in all directions, not a major intersection, but if they're
flashing red there, that could be We've got some power
outages in the area.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Traffic signals are acting up. Did you mow the lawn? Yeah?
And you weed whack too? You did the trimmer? Uh? Yeah.
It's funny because as I look along the fence line.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
What do you, dude?
Speaker 1 (18:24):
What the matter or what's your problem? Traffic signals are
acting up.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Well, we're gonna have to take those to the hospital
and drop them off. We're gonna have safe haven those
traffic signals. Yeah, there is about we'll do that.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
There is about seven fifty seven hundred and fifty without
power customers without power, So that could that could mean
you know, it can mean anything.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
And it just takes one idiot.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
You know, a big car going on this fine, I
got four wheel drive, Well that's great. Do you have
a rudder? Do you have a trolling motor? It's great
a four wheel drive and you got some clearance. That
will help. But if you're going too fast and you're
weaving an out of traffic and next thing you know,
you get that water spraying up across your windshield, you're
temporarily blinded and you crash into oncoming traffic. Well, hey,
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that's that's great. About your your four wheel drive, Take
it easy.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Good advice.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Dangerous This is usually your department. I've been learning, I've
been listening to you. Usually you're like, hey, you gotta
be really careful out there. I'm like, ah, it's not
that bad today. It is that bad.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
It is that bad. And as you mentioned the standing water,
you've got it at two hundred and sixteenth and Maple
is something that happens a lot. I think that's a
very low that's a very low spot. And because I
kept thinking, oh, that's by the riffor no, no, no, no,
that's just outside of Elcorn, So.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Is two hundred two hundred and sixteenth gotta be where
you would go take a left. Well, if you're heading westbound,
take a left, go over to downtown Elcorn, I believe
to Ajazuka Park.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
I believe that's true. Which is gonna be hopping this weekend?
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Yeah, I hope that any potential thunderstorm and rain activity
doesn't tamp down on the Balloon and Wine Festival. I
think your opportunity to win tickets for that on our
website ended yesterday, so we'll find out. Our promotions director,
Delaney the rather unheralded for the amount of work and
(20:33):
effort she puts in. Delaney our promotions director will be
contacting a winter today and setting someone up with not
only tickets to the Balloon and Wine Festival in Elcorn,
but we also threw in a hot air balloon excursion.
I've been on a hot air balloon. It's fun. It
is super super fun. It is just peaceful and serene,
(20:55):
kind of like listening to Jim Rose go on a
rant about something. You just feel like I'm in the
pocket of a cloud right now and I've never felt
more peaceful.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Well, that rant pays the bills around here. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
That's why I feel safe and protected when hearing it.
The Rosy Diginozi coming up at eight forty eight this morning, eight.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Forty eight, So I got Did you took two minutes
away from my preparation time?
Speaker 1 (21:19):
I got it? Eight well eight okay, eight forty nine
and a half. We'll give you time.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
I had to go home and finish that last night
after the Pinnacle Awards. I had to drive back from
Lincoln and do that just to demonstrate my dedication to
the craft.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
It is. It is dedicated. It's commitment and I couldn't nail.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
One in because I told everybody I do Part two
of my free capitalism things.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Commitment in the sense that you should be committed, and
all of us for enjoying it. What does that say
about us? I don't miss it. You guys are all
into misery, that's it. Investigators in Washington, d C. Shut
down some streets during morning rush hour the other day.
As it turns out, when they investigated what it was
that was causing such a ruckus there in a trash
(21:59):
can in the area. Uh, investigators say the package contained
a quote electronic portable sex pump device unquote. Investigators right
now or they have a man for questioning.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
One Swedish made penis in larger pump.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
That's not mine.
Speaker 6 (22:23):
One credit card receipt for Swedish made penis in larger
signed by Austin Powers.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
I'm telling your baby, that's not mine.
Speaker 6 (22:33):
One warranty card for Swedish made penis in larger pump
filled out by Austin Power.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
I wantn't even know what this is. This sort of
thing ain't my bag baby.
Speaker 6 (22:43):
One book Swedish made penis in Larger pumps and me
this sort of thing is my bag baby, by Austin
pus Scott.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
If you could make the announcement that the Omaha Whitewater
Rafting Team will be assembling at Saddle Creek and Dodge
for their latest whitewater adventure.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Appreciate that message there via the talkback mic on our
free iHeartRadio app into the Zonker's custom was inbox, so
per request, the Omaha Whitewater Rafting Team will be assembling
at Saddle Creek and Dodge for their latest whitewater adventure.
I'm Scott Vorhees. There's Lucy Chapman. We have dumpsters going
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down Saddle Creek.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Well there were earlier, but they were very small dumpsters.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Is that last year or the year before we had
the infamous dumpster heading down Saddle Creek. This seems like
a dumpster day.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
It would feel that way. It does, it doesnt Elkhorn.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
It feels like a dumpster adventure down a brand new
river where they put a street where the creek was
and didn't think like, well, in heavy rains, this seems
to be where the water wants to go, so the
water might go, so the aptly named Saddle Creek Road
becomes Saddle Creek again in conditions like this, Lucy's paying
(24:07):
attention to all of it.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
The trash Panda's love love it. When the dumpsters go
for a sale. We got to see the world.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Yeah, but if they're already, they better be in the dumpsters,
because if they're in the sewers, it's like, oh, I
think it's starting to rain next thing, you know, It's
like someone turned the fire hose on them.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Not if the top is closed, if the lids closed.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
No, I'm saying if they're in the sewers, Oh yeah,
they seem to be Okay, they nature finds a way.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Who said that?
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Jeff Goldblum, Oh, Craig Evans, Jim Rose, Corney, Donahoe, I'm
Scott Vorhees, There's Lucy Chapman. This is Nebraska's morning news
news radio eleven ten kfab. Here's maybe the dumbest news
story of the morning, and it's one of the top
stories from the Omaha World Herald. I'm not saying it's
(25:03):
not a story. It is maybe the dumbest local story though,
of the morning.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
It has to do with.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
A photo that was shown on the Douglas County Treasurer's
website and social media. The photo is of the Omaha
skyline at dusk with three skyscrapers. Okay, well, you got
the first National Tower and Woodman Life and then the
new Mutual Tower.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Well, the one of the skyscrapers looks a lot like
the first National Tower, but so did the other two.
And people looked at this and said, this isn't Omaha.
I don't know where this is. It looks like it
wants to be Omaha. It looks like an AI driven
picture of Omaha skyline at dusk. So here goes the
(26:00):
got posted online and people are making fun of it.
One person said, oh, this is a good picture of
fau Maha, fake Omaha, fau Maha. That's funny, very well done.
Not as not as good as faux Paulini. That Twitter
account is still going on, by the way, if you've
watched that on game Day. But a that's right, yes,
(26:24):
fau Maha.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
I like it.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
So several online commenters, according to the Omaha World Harold
said this looks fake. So The World Herald reached out
to Douglas County Treasurer Tim Cavanaugh. Now Douglas County Treasurer
Tim Kavanaugh. He he was appointed by the county board
to step in there and fulfill the rest of the
term by the former Douglas County Treasurer who is now
(26:46):
the mayor of Omaha, John Superman, Joe l Ewing and
so and Kavanaugh is not running for election in this spot.
He doesn't want to be the Douglas County treasure anymore.
So he said, I don't know. I'm busy being Douglas
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County Treasurer. By the way, did I miss the part
where you guys at the Omaha World Harold reported on
some of the over one hundred thousand dollars in wasteful
spending that used to happen in this office that we
have cleaned up during my time as my interim time
as County Treasurer. No any of that, so he goes,
I don't know. That picture has been up there for
(27:28):
years and the world Harold's like, we dug into it.
A Facebook timestamp showed that the daytime photo was uploaded
at the Treasurer's office cover photo on February twenty third.
Why that's not years, that's just months. He's lying or
(27:49):
he doesn't know and he doesn't care. So now he
looked into it and they replaced The County Treasurer is
off has replaced the skyline photos with a photo of
the former Thomas Fitzgerald Home. Now, here's why that's hilarious.
Do you know why that's funny.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
I don't know why it's funny, but it's not even
op well, I mean it's operable for other things.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Yeah, here's why that's funny. The former Thomas Fitzgerald Home
is part of a series of really nice historic buildings
near one hundred and fifty six and West Maple Road. Oh,
that's where the Oh wait, that's where the Douglas County
Treasurer's office is. In other words, someone said this picture
(28:38):
online's fake Tim Kavanaugh. Tim Kavanaugh says, who cares? And
they say, well, a lot of people care. He's all right,
we gotta get another picture.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Well you have.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
You can't just use someone's picture. You had to get
all right, fine, where's my phone? He or someone went
outside took a picture of the building. Sit here, here
it is. Post this and that's what's up there right
now on their social chest.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
I know it's so good.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Now, who in the world would ever use an AI
generated photo of al Maha skyline that if anyone took
a real close look at it would realize, oh, that's fake.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Who would do that.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
I'm still waiting for someone to find something in the
kfab artwork sphere and point out I don't think that
that's a real picture. I've been waiting for nine months
for someone to point this out. No one's done it yet,
(29:41):
but it's it's out there. If someone wants to sleuth
it out. You would have my undying appreciation for being
so nitpicky as to say, wait a second, I don't
think that's real.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
It exists.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Have fun kfab dot com. It's I'm not giving you
any more hints. I've already given you the website address.
But I can I can sympathize with the County Treasurer's
office because it's it's either you pay someone to go
(30:19):
out and do all this stuff and make sure we
got the right thing and all this stuff, or it's
just like, okay, uh hey, give me a picture of
the Omaha skyline. How's this fine? And there it is.
I got an email here from Douglas County Treasurer Tim Kavanaugh.
He said, Scott, I want to correct something that was said.
I did not say that the picture on the website
(30:39):
has been there for years. It has not the picture
on our Facebook page has been there for years. It
was placed there by a previous social media contractor who
I eliminated to save money. The picture is a stock photo.
No lies, Frankly, I care more about great service, fiscal accountability,
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and saving taxpayer money. Thanks for correcting, Signed Tim Kavanaugh,
Douglas County Treasurer.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Is that for real?
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Is what? For real? The email? AI? No, it's a
real email from Tim Kavanaugh.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Okay, that's a lovely response.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Now why would the Omaha World Herald say no, no,
we showed it was uploaded on February twenty third. If
you've ever had to, and now I'm realizing I don't.
I have neglected Kfab's Facebook page. Full disclosure. I every
once in a while I'm like, oh yeah, and I'll
(31:40):
go in there and I'll respond to messages and say
what picture is up here now? And we have our
cover art there that we can swap in and out
based on the season. I have neglected it. I'm not
even busy. I just forget, just forget. So when you
swap out like the cover art, which I imagine is
(32:01):
what they're talking about, it's either the profile pick or
the cover pick. When you swap it out or re
upload something that has existed before. It could say, oh,
this was uploaded on in February, and Tim Kavanaugh says,
that picture's been in our system for years. Yeah, but
it might have been swapped out with something else. Maybe
the previous county treasurer had a picture of him wearing
(32:23):
a Superman costume or something, and then they decided to
swap out this one. And then later you could do
a picture of Tim Cavanaugh dressed as Superman. I mean,
there's all sorts of options there, but both of the
all of these things can be true. It can be
true that it's been there for years, it was re
(32:43):
uploaded this past February. It's fake, and that Douglas County
Treasurer Tim Kavanaugh like me, I'm the program director for
this radio station.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
The buck stops here.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
We don't have enough money for a buck, so it's
like the half dollar piece stops here. It is my responsibility.
What's on our Facebook stuff?
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Past you?
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Ultimately, no, no one has the wrests up and I
get busy and I don't think about that stuff. Tim Cavanaugh,
he's the county treasurer. The buck stops there, but he's
probably also a little busy, and it hasn't you know,
I'm sure he doesn't pull the team together going all right?
Yesterday the waiting times was a little bit longer than
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we wanted here, what if we wrap people around here?
Are we maximizing our parking opportunities out here? Is you
know who's mowing the lawn between our property and the
Douglas County Sheriff's office here at one hundred and fifty
six in Maple And oh yeah, what's going on with
our Facebook page picture? I don't think that probably comes up.
Cass County commissioners voted on a one year pause of
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new data centers in Cass County. Were they, I imagine
they were going to put some data centers somewhere in
Cass County. Cass County is a big attractive place to
put businesses data centers. Or was this something where people
went in there and said, we don't want data centers
and we don't want flock cameras and I don't know
(34:13):
about that TikTok it's Chinese, And the Cas County commission said,
we don't, we don't have any plans to do well good,
all right, But now I imagine there was Well, the
story here from KMTV three says that there was a
family farm here. This woman Lisa went in there and
(34:34):
said that the land across from our family farm was
optioned by a group as a possible data center. Well,
if this happens with people, and I'm I'm sympathetic to
a point. If you live someplace, or you move someplace
(34:57):
and the land across from you you was zoned to
be able to accommodate a certain business or ag or whatever,
and then they end up using it for that purpose.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
What do you.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
Anyway, Cass County said, all right, a twelve month pause
on new data centers. And then I wonder when people
here in six months go back to the Cast County
Commission and say there's no more room in.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
The cloud or whatever. I don't really know how any
of the stuff works.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Sing along, Jim. It's just I wake up one o'clock
in the morning. Look, I have one eye on the clock,
and I think, oh good, I can go back to sleep.
And then he's a fake, and I'm like, oh, come on.
So this is from the Pete Rickets for Senate campaign.
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We're now joined here on news radio eleven ten kfab
By Senator Pete Ricketts. Is that you on the banjo
on that track or what.
Speaker 5 (36:00):
No, No, sadly, I have almost no musical talent whatsoever.
So we actually, again technology, we create that with the computer.
Speaker 4 (36:10):
So that's not real people singing told you.
Speaker 5 (36:14):
No, no, no, that's all computer.
Speaker 4 (36:16):
That's sad because I was hoping those guys could appeared,
you know, well, someone to learn it, yeah, someone to
learn it and do something. I was thinking maybe it
was your dad on the banjo, your brother on the drums,
you know, you over there on the washboard.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
Well, let's talk about the campaign for a second. Your
opponent in this race is an independent candidate, officially Dan Osborne,
who was supported by the Nebraska Democrat Party. He is
accusing you of not holding any town halls for quite
some time. Others like Mike Flood has been doing that
has not been going well, but he does it. And
he's also accusing you of not getting a farm bill passed.
(36:52):
Your response to some of these accusations from the Osborne campaign.
Speaker 5 (36:56):
Well, let's start with the last one. It was all
Democrats who voted against the arm bill. It was in
committee and every single Democrat, every single one, the same
party Dan really belongs to voting against it. The Bublicans
voted for it, Democrats voted against it, and we were
missing a couple of Republicans because Ms McConnell was still
in rehab. So that's why that build didn't proceed on
(37:19):
to the Center for And you know Dan again, just
just hear what kind of fake Dan is? Dan is
what he's doing when he says the talent halls, then
he kicks press out of them. When I have my
campaign events, we invite press in. It's all recorded. So
Dan's really again just being another fake here.
Speaker 4 (37:36):
In particular, the Great Plaine Sentinel online newspaper has been
they've been after Dan Osborne and they've been pretty much
told you're not welcome at any of our events. Is
it because the Democrats didn't vote for the farm bill
because they oppose the reforms to the SNAP program?
Speaker 1 (37:51):
Is that it?
Speaker 5 (37:52):
That's it? That's primarily the big sticking point, because what
we said is, look, you've got states blue states primarily,
that have high errors. When we say higher rates, what
we mean is they are giving food stamp benefits to
people who don't qualify, who don't deserve it. Sometimes there's
people with too high income. Sometimes it's people who are
here illegally, and the Democrats don't want to see that reform.
(38:15):
They want to continue to give these benefits out to
the legal immigrants, and that's what we're trying to reform.
That's what the Democrats they want. Basically, they want to
push all the reforms off till after President Trump Lee's office,
hoping that they can change that completely and never have
to have the States put up more money for the
benefits they are giving out to people who don't deserve them.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
Of course, any Republican in any campaign this year is
going to be tied to the president. The President's being
tied to higher gas prices. How do you feel everything
is going in the Middle East?
Speaker 5 (38:46):
Certainly, the conflict in Middle East puts a lot of
pressure on our families, the military, families who have loved
ones overseas, and every Nebraska family goes to the pumping
and paying a higher prices. We can't let a country
that chance death to America and has killed tens of
thousands of their own people have a nuclear weapon because
they would kill one hundred thousand or more of ours
(39:07):
in a heartbeat. And we need to continue to keep
the pressure on Iran. You know, the Islamic Republican Guard
Corps are the ones who are driving this. We got
a blockade, reports got to continue to strike the militarily.
We're getting about eight million barrels of oil out through
the Straits Bomboos, and we got to find other ways
to get more oil out to mitigate what Iran's doing.
(39:27):
And then of course we've got home grown solution tier
like our biofuels. Last time I filled up at IV,
I say fifty five cent a gallon using an E
ten And so the more we can do that, we
kind of mitigate our dependence on what happens in foreign markets.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
Did you use your high V plus four past rewards card?
You could probably see it extra eight cents or more.
Speaker 5 (39:47):
You know, I need to sign up for one of those.
I actually don't have one of those.
Speaker 4 (39:51):
Ash I'll see you're detached from the rest of us.
See that's one of the lombs against you from the left.
You know you didn't have all this money.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
Oh did you did you vote to lower your own
TAXI one bill that I want to vote to lower
Pete Ricketts taxes?
Speaker 5 (40:06):
You know, we actually gave tax relief to all Americans.
Most of the benefits went to middle income folks or
low income folks. But there was things like no tax
on tips, no tax on overtime, and actually had no
tax on overtime has been uced by thirty million people,
I think, no tax on social Security benefits for eighty
eight percent of seniors, so lots of Tactually. So we
(40:28):
voted on last year's that working family tax cuts and
it avoided a twenty tax increase. And by the way,
Democrat Dan would have voted against those tax cuts. He
wanted to vote to raise your solid security taxes and
he wants to give him to legal immigrants. On top
of that, Remember he did the whole video of him saying,
just give a damn sold security card. Right, that's sip.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
Word's not mine, Pete. What's the message here?
Speaker 4 (40:51):
The easy target is the DSSAY is filled with a
bunch of communists, and everybody who's a Democrat is a
DSAY even if they aren't saying so that, you know,
if they get a hold of the government, outgoes the Senate,
out goes the Supreme Court, outgoes the presidency. Open borders
girls teams overrun with males that can't be the message
(41:12):
for you, guys, What is the solution message for the
Republicans with ninety days to go?
Speaker 5 (41:18):
Well, Well, first of all, Jim Frankly, one in three
Democrats actually identify as Democrats socialists, and if you've been
to read your platform, it's pretty crazy, right. They want
to get rid of the presidency, they want to get
rid of the Senate, right, they want the Supreme Court
report to the House of Representatives. They want to defund
the Department of War, they want to abolish prisons, they
want to open borders. So the DSA people are pretty creaty.
(41:41):
And by the way, it was DSA operatives who recruited
my opponent, Democrat Daan, So this is the threat of
socialism here is very real. But again, what I would
say is you want to talk about what we're doing,
is we're putting more money back in people's pockets, whether
it was through the working family tax cuts that we
passed last year or things like the Housing Road to
(42:01):
twenty first century housing build that we just passed this year.
And by the way, these are things very similar to
what I did when I was a governor. May recall
that we had some of the largest task cuts in
Nebraska history. When I was a governor, we were able
to get rid of the tax on the state income
tax on social security here in our state, we got
rid of the tax on military retirement benefits. We lowered
everybody's income tax rates, who put ten billion dollars in
(42:22):
property tax relief. And then we also worked on housing
through things like the Ural Workforce Housing Fund and Middle
Income Housing Fund to create more housing stocks. So a
lot of things that I did here as governor is
what I'm taking to Washington, DC to do there.
Speaker 2 (42:34):
The Senator, we got to run here, but I want
to give you a moment on the Carly Rain would
act talked with Carly Rain's mother, Amber several times, and
I know you have as well. This was a young
woman who a few years ago was shot eight times
at a party there. She was only there for a
few minutes and her killer was previously convicted of four
(42:55):
different felonies. He never should have been released. There are
a number of stories like this across the country. Your
bill is looking to do something about that kind of thing, right.
Speaker 3 (43:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (43:05):
Amber approached me and said, hey, we need to take more,
do more steps to make sure people know whether there's
violent repeat offenders that are released to the public. And
so from that those conversations, we came up with the
idea that Carli Rain would act, which would create a
violent offender registry that would be similar to the sex
offender Registry. So after you've had a couple of violent offenses,
(43:27):
you would have to once you're being released, or if
a judge didn't give you a prins and sense from
the judge let you go, then you would have to register.
And then that would be very similar to the sex
offender Registry, where you have to say, hey, here's where
I live, here's where I work, here's my license plate.
Turn that all over to local law enforcement officials, and
there would be a national registry website as well as
(43:48):
local officials would have that information as well to publish
so that people could see if there was a violent
offender that was working in their say, strip mall, or
living in their neighborhood or whatever it is, so that
people would know who is in the neighborhood and be
able to take precautions, and frankly, to really raise the
(44:09):
price for these violent for pe defenders.
Speaker 1 (44:12):
It'd be better to keep them behind bars.
Speaker 2 (44:14):
But this is certainly better than Nothing'd be very curious
to see who votes against this. Senator, thank you for
sponsoring it, and thank you for.
Speaker 5 (44:21):
The time this morning for us great Thanks a lot
for having me on
Speaker 2 (44:24):
Nebraska Senator Pete Ricketts here on news radio eleven to
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