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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, and thank you very much for starting off
your April with us, especially if your name is April.
I'm Scott Vorhees. There's Lucy Chapman, Craig Evans off. Today,
we got Chris Turner in. Jim Rose is right there,
and this is Nebraska's morning news News Radio eleven ten kfab.
As the President of the United States is heading to
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the US Supreme Court today to observe is he going
to be able to restrain himself from standing up there
during the proceedings at the Supreme Court and say, look,
I put you on this court. I put you on
this court. All you gotta do is exactly what I say.
How hard is that? You don't have to guess? All
you gotta do is exactly what I'm telling you to do.
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The argument has to do with birthright citizenship. Great topic
of conversation during the Fox News rundown over the five
o'clock hour this morning here on eleven ten kfab Jim Rose,
where do you fall on birth right citizenship? If you
come into a country illegally, you have no status in
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that country, and you have a baby. Because it's twenty
twenty six, and that kind of thing can happen. Is
that child a citizen of that country? Is that fair?
Is that right?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
He's right about the history of the law. The law
was created to protect babies of slaves if they were
brought over to this country against their will. So this
law dates back over one hundred years, almost two hundreds
plus years. Yeah, and what we have today is a
hijacking of that system. It allows four people to be
here voluntarily, illegally and get their kids legal status. So
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he's actually historically correct about the origin of the law,
what its intention was, and how that has been hijacked
by immigration systems that have become political. So we'll see
how it goes. The Supreme Court is uniquely independent. They
have lifetime appointments. The President doesn't get to Chack's mind
once a judge is confirmed by the United States Senate.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
And it's a crapshoot.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
You know, you interview these people, you look at their
judicial record, and you say, Okay, Amy Cony Barrett is
ex y and Z based on everything she has said
in interviews and based on everything she has done on
the bench. But once she puts that RoboN, all bets
are off. And I just use her as an example
I think she's actually one of the better jurists on
the Supreme Court. But you know, the President can whine
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and complain and moan all he wants, but he can't
control what they do. It's an independent third branch of
the government that is designed to interpret the laws that
the Congress passes and say, according to the Constitution, you
can do that or not.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
I think it's quite fair to have a hearing on
this rule, especially since America is not unique in that
it gives birthright citizenship to children born in that country.
There are something like three dozen countries around the world
that do allow that, but there are some who used
to allow it and have now abolished. In Australia, for example,
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India is another one. New Zealand, they in recent memory
have said all right, this is we can't do this.
You can't have people doing baby tourism in our country
and saying, yep, but now my child is a citizen
of your country, and look at all the nice things
that they are now entitled to. Because it's fine for
this to have a hearing before the US Supreme Court,
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because it never has. And then the argument is, well,
the founders who developed this allowance because of slavery, and
they wouldn't have been our founding fathers. But the founders
of this law, who set this up because of slavery,
could not have predicted what illegal immigration would look like
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in this country because at that time we didn't have
immigration laws like we do now. Things have changed. Is
the Constantution willing to take a look at this and
maybe have a Supreme Court have a different interpretation of it.
I think this is a fair thing. Is it weird
for the president to be there staring at them, Yes,
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it is. It's quite a president has done it. Yeah,
no president has done it. But no president has built
a hotel out of their library either. This is skyscraper. Yeah,
this is a very unique.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
This is a very unique experience for the American body politic,
and I'll be anxious to see how it goes. Donald
Trump is going rogue as the president of the United
States and virtually every area. He threatened to pull us
out of NATO yesterday. Now, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
was a treaty that was signed by the president by
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President Harry Truman. It was passed into law by the Congress.
He can't just pull us out of there without congressional approval,
which would require a majority in the House and sixty
votes of two thirds majority in the United States Senate.
So that's not going to happen. You folks over in France,
don't worry. We're still there. But he can make life
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miserable for him. And his attitude is if we're there
for you, you need to be there for us. We're
not asking you to commit anything other than let us
land our planes on your soil on basis that we
largely paid for on your soil. And they won't let
them do it because they don't think what we're doing
in Iran is justifiable, many of them. Italy is probably
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the worst of all of the NATO countries. But this
is a president who makes threats like that, and people
wonder is he a paper tiger?
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Is it true?
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Is it really going to happen? And the answer is no. Legally,
he can't do it. He had another defeat yesterday when
a federal judge said that him taking money away from
public broadcasting is also illegal. Give it back to him.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Yeah, And there was a judge that said you got
to stop the construction of that ballroom and a few
other things.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
It was a very busy day for the president. It
was not a good and he was in a bad mood.
At the end of the day, he saw that news conference.
He was in such a bad mood scot for he
didn't even put makeup on. And my wife and I
are watching this and I said, I think this is
the first time I've ever seen Donald Trump in front
of television cameras without makeup.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
He was having a very bad day. It was a
billion things happening at once yesterday out of the Oval
Office and the presidency, or as we know it in
these days, just another Tuesday. Jim noted that a judge
said that the president can't end funding for public radio
and public broadcasting NPR and PBS. Another judge said that
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the construction on the White House ballroom that the president's
doing there has to stop. But how, why, how does
a judge get to jump in on something like that
and say, all right, the construction there at your house,
that needs to stop. But that's what a judge did.
Just any judge anywhere tries to throw roadblocking up for
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any single thing under the sun. As the President is
heading to the Supreme Court, as we talked about a
moment ago, to attend the hearing on birthright citizenship. He
also signed an executive order yesterday. This has to do
with how Americans vote by mail, or whether Americans can
vote by mail. He signed an executive order aimed at
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limiting who can receive mail in ballots. Says it occur
what he calls legendary cheating in absentee voting. He wants
this set up ahead of the November election, he said
in the signing ceremony at the Oval Office yesterday. Quote
the cheating on mail in voting is legendary. It's horrible.
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What's going on now? Of course, the other side comes
out and says, we have seen no evidence of cheating
in voting. The Associated Press says a Brookings Institute report
found that voting fraud occurred in only about four cases
per ten million mail in ballots, a point zero zero
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zero zero four to three percent error rate of total
mail ballots cast. Of course, that has to do with
whether anyone's checking to see if any of this is
going on inappropriately, and they don't, and then you ask them, well,
why don't you check, and they say, because there's no problem.
The President says, how about you check. Here's what else
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the President did yesterday they exempted oil and gas drilling
in the Gulf of America from the Endangered Species Act
after Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said environmentalist lawsuits threatened
domestic energy supplies, and they said, we get a chance
to decide what is happening here with some of the
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oil and gas drilling here in our waters. They refer
to this group as the Gods squad. They who can't
stand the president or his administration, saying they're playing the
role of God deciding which, see marine life gets a
chance to live or gets a chance to die, the
God Squad in the Gulf of America. By the way,
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the story I'm reading here from the Associated Press still
refers to as the Gulf of Mexico and Pete Hegseth
as the Defense Secretary. But the media doesn't have a
bias or anything. All Right, I'll probably go back to
that after Trump's gone. Oh, of course, that was day one.
Now the eleven to ten KFAB Certified Transmission Sports Brief.
Here's Jim Roase.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Okay, Scott, good morning, everybody. Nebraska and Creighton played a
good one. Husker's got a big lead. Jay's rally and
have a chance to win, but no. Creighton six Jays five.
Creighton coach Mark Kingston, I thought that was.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
A really good college baseball game for the state of Nebraska.
Disappointed we lost, obviously, but I thought the difference was
the athletically. They made some really nice plays on defense
tonight that saved them a couple of runs too.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
So Husker's were up four nothing in the fifth. But
keeping fans around has become habit forming for us, as
Huskers coach Will Bolt.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
We get the big lead and you know, let them,
let them crawl back in and with a big number,
and uh, you know, but Jay Shawn's been in that
position before. Defensively, we've been in that position before. You know,
we had all the confidence that we're gonna fish at all.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
He has an athletic team and this young reliever, Jay
Shaan Unger, the sophomore right hander from Blair, could be
really good. He got his fourth safe, but check him
out six five, two ten throws, four pitches really well.
Was no sleeper out of high school. He was a
three sports star for the Bears and he was a
really good football player. That is eighteen wins in nineteen games,
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for Nebraska. They are good Big League Baseball yesterday afternoon
and last night Texas eight, Baltimore five, Houston nine, Boston two,
the Yankees five. So he got on nothing in America
League play. In the National League Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, the Cardinals
and Giants won games. Italy played the Dodgers for Cleveland one,
Arizona seven, Detroit five, Milwaukee, Hampa Bay two, the Angels two,
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the Cubs nothing, A's five, Braves two, Jay's five, Rockies won,
Miami nine, White Sox two. The Royals are playing Game
two against Minnesota today in Kansas City. Buffalo's six, Omaha four.
The Stormchasers are off to an zero to four start.
They're really promising. Creighton basketball recruit Jayden Kuhn, mister basketball
in the state of Iowa this year from Storm Lake,
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who decommitted from Creighton last week, has reopened the store.
He will take visits to other schools, first up Iowa.
He's right there now. If Creighton's going to keep him,
get out the checkbook. Tiger Woods says, I need rehab,
not the Masters. After the DUI charge driving while on
thick pain killers, Woods announced yesterday he is stepping away
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from golf to get well. He has had lots of surgeries.
This is gonna be hard getting off pain killers because
that's really the only thing that's kept him walking upright
since the major traffic accident. But he's had an achilles
ten and ruptures vents sports his news on Nebraska's news
weather in traffic station.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Who wants to talk baseball? For a second? Lucy Jim?
Who's in for a baseball conversation? All right, we'll go
to Jim on this one. That seems to be his
strike zone on this A couple of baseball things for you.
Number One, My son and I went out for taco
Tuesday last night, good local sports bar, watched a little
bit of Nebraska Creighton baseball, and it didn't take long
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to note that there was nobody there at the game,
not one single person anywhere near the outfield. I guess
they felt that with the wind and the conditions of
that ball field, it's tough to get a ball out
in right center anyway, So why sit out there if
you're not going to see any action? And just a
few people's kind of scattered behind home plate and the dugouts,
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no one went to take in a baseball game last
night between the Huskers and the Blue Jays.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Well, it was it's big ballpark, twenty six thousand seats,
that's that's large. I can't explain why they weren't there
last night, Scott, except that it's early in the year,
the weather forecast wasn't horrible, wasn't great, wasn't horrible, and
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Jays have had an average year. Nebraska's playing well, but
I think the Husker nation is still sort of coming
down off of the basketball season a little bit. Possibly,
there was a softball game between Nebraska and Creighton just
up the street in Creighton's new softball stadium.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
I had something to do with it. I heard that
was pretty red. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Maybe the deal was that if you went to the
spring football game, you got to go to the Nebraska
Creighton baseball game. And since hardly anybody went to the
Nebraska spring football game, they just figured, what's the big deal.
The other issue, and I mean this is real to me.
The ballpark being where it is, which is on tenth
in Capital or tenth and coming, I should say, is
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that Faye Drive on the south and coming on the north,
that is a very difficult place to just if I
going to on a weeknight.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Especially with all the construction down.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
If you live on you know, you live west of
one hundred and forty fourth Street, that's an inconvenience.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
If I were to ask Lucy Chapman, Lucy, tell me
about every street under construction in Omaha, we could take
our headphones off, turn the mics off, and just go
home for the rest of the week. So if people
need to go downtown, navigate the construction, try and find
a place to park, walk in the street, pay for parking, yeah,
pay for parking, walk in the street because the sidewalks
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are closed as part of that construction. Sure, and then
try and find someplace that is open for you to eat.
And but I mean, I love the idea of sitting
there watching Oh yeah, no, look if he was happy
to watch it on TV, which is maybe another reason
that's a factor.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
I would also tell you that there was a time
when this was kind of an avant garde entertainment form
of entertainment for Omahan's because Nebraska and Creighton, you go
back to the early two thousands, they started playing. Both
teams very competitive. Both teams had big league future big
league players on them, all Americans. They were both very
much contenders for the conference championship, and it became sort
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of a fun thing to do in the springtime to
go to that game because they played two of them
at Rosenblatt and one of them at Hawksfield at Haymarket
Park home with a big grit, and then they moved
to Schwab Field. Creighton sort of dropped off a little bit,
as did Nebraska, but there were times I was broadcasting
them at the time, those early two thousand games, the one,
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two thousand and two, two thousand and three, four to five,
you would see twenty to twenty two thousand for the
Nebraska Creighton game at Rosenblatt because it was just really
a fun thing to do. There was a lot of hype,
and again both teams were good. Nebraska was in the
top ten at the time. I think this Nebraska team
has a chance to be really good. The problem is
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the Big Ten Conference, it's not very good. The Husker
strength to schedule is one hundred and seventeenth coming into
last night, means they haven't.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Played anybody good. Like you said, the season is young.
The season is.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Still fairly young, and they are going to have a
chance to play better teams but I can't explain why
they didn't go last night other than it's a hassle
to get down there. And this is putting one of
the points that I've made about this soccer stadium. You
are asking people to change a lot about their evening
routine to take in a sporting event by the river.
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And this is why it was pure genius for the
storm Chasers to move to Sarpee County. Those people are
within proximity of that ballpark at their rooftops. You can
almost see them from the ballpark. If the storm Chasers
had moved downtown with the building of the new stadium,
and there was a strong possibility that they were going
to do that, it would have destroyed their fan base
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because their fan base ain't driving downtown to hassle as
you have seen. Have suggested pay for parking, sit in
a stadium with twenty five thousand seats, and try to
make this a fun event for a minor league baseball team.
And I would tell you that this idea. We're going
to build a soccer stadium downtown and a whole bunch
of fans are going to come from all over Omaha
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to watch a soccer match at tenth and Cumming Street
on a weeknight is asking a lot.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Yes, but you're looking at the past several years and
how things have looked down there, and look ahead here
streetcar businesses, a grocery store, apartment living they build up there,
and maybe it could be more like a bricktne bricktown
atmosphere in Oklahoma City. So I don't know, I just
I want. I don't know about that.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
I've been I wanted to work out really better, a
different deal, but I wanted to work out too. I
think the College World Series is in the right place.
The College World Series is not a sporting event. This
is a social cultural event. That's why we pack them
in for those games, and the fact that they're in June.
But that may have been a factor last night. I
have another baseball question for you. Maybe we'll get to
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in about an hour, I know, dealing with I'll be
here the abs. I don't like it major League baseball, right, Well,
do I eat. We'll have the conversation a little bit later.
Got this in the talkback MIC.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
I'm not sure what it looked like on TV because
I was at the Creighton Nebraska baseball game last night,
but it was packed, and it was loud, and it
was oysterous and it was fun. Yeah, it's hard to
get down there. The construction's terrible. The parking you have
to pay. Yeah, so that might be part of the reason.
But it was a fun time. Sorry you missed it.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
I didn't miss it. I've watched it on TV for
a little bit, but no, I didn't didn't head down there.
Glad that you did. Glad you had a good time.
It did not look packed and boisterous on TV where
you saw nothing but empty seats. But you know, camera
angles they add ten pounds, so indeeded add ten people.
I don't know. Yeah, we also have this in the
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Speaker 6 (19:25):
With it being Easter season, I have to bring up
the annual question that Gary and Jim used to talk
about the movie The Passion of the Christ. Has Rosie
taken the plunge and watched it yet?
Speaker 3 (19:37):
No?
Speaker 7 (19:37):
I know.
Speaker 6 (19:38):
His argument has been he doesn't need to see an
adaptation of the Crucifixion and the torturous nature of Jesus.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
But that movie.
Speaker 6 (19:47):
I'll tell you what for own movie I've ever seen
by myself. After the movie, nobody moved for twenty minutes.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
God, bless, God bless. Thank you very much for that message.
The torturous nature of Jesus is an interesting way of
putting it. I think a review of those words would
probably have it come out differently. But I get what
you're saying. I don't need to see that, you know
what I am. I'm in team Rosie on this one.
I don't need to see that. I feel like I
should see it, and it would definitely be one of
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those films that, should I watch it, I will only
watch it once, just because I mean, I wouldn't want
to see all right, look at it this way, a
very very different scenario, but I think it's kind of
along the same lines. There's a woman who's fifth or
sixth grade daughter, twelve year old kid, just got whooped
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on the school bus here in Omaha, and she had
to go down there and talk with the people at
her Omaha Public school and talk with the people at
the bus company, and they said, all right, well we
have video footage from inside the bus. And she had
to watch her daughter get beaten to the ground, stomped
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on the floor, two girls ganging up on her daughter,
punching and kicking her in the face. That's tough to watch,
whether it's your daughter or your savior. And sometimes you
feel like, all right, I need to see this. But
I don't blame anyone if they say, you know what,
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I don't. I get it. I certainly appreciate it. I
don't know that I need to see that. So I'm
on team Rosie on this one. Same with Saving Private Ryan. See,
I don't know that I can ever watch that movie again,
but I'm so glad I watched it.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Yeah, and it was a that's fiction. Now, Hacksaw Ridge
was real. That's actually a movie about something that happened
and people who did what they did. But if you
are a Christian this time of year. You are very
much in touch with the three day experience that Christ
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went through.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
And I don't know that you need to see that.
For all I know.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
It was a great movie. It was very well done, classy.
Jim Cavisil played Christ, very good actor. Love watching his stuff.
He also played Bobby Jones, if you remember in a
movie that got me got a fired about Jim Caviezel.
But the truth is that same care. All you have
to do is yeah, all you have to do is
close your eyes and imagine the greatest degradation of a
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human being, and you got it.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Lucy. We got an update on the sinkhole yesterday from
the city of Omaha. They're still saying, think well, the
one that made international news near York Sarmon Village at
sixty seventh and Pacific. Now the city still was saying, no, no,
we still feel this is MUD's fault. Mud says, oh no, no,
no no. What we heard yesterday is that it's the
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city's fault. So let me tell you how it's reported
in the Omaha World Herald and we'll let someone else
decide who's going to pay to fix up those two
cars that were suddenly swallowed by the earth near Elmwood
Park in November of last year, which is four ish
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months before the sinkhole did its thing. November twenty twenty five,
Omaha Public Works received reports of cracked and settling pavement
along that lane in on Pacific Street. That's exactly where
the sink hole opened up. So it's last November. They said, yeah,
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we got someone said cracked and settling pavement. So they
went out there and took a look at it, and
they injected die into the settled area to test for
underground sewer lake leaks and found no evidence of sewer problems.
Mud is like, uh huh, yep, see, we didn't have
a water main break, We didn't have sewer problems over there.
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That's what they did there. But Austin Rousser Omaha Public
Works says, I think that the sewer that the void
there had already begun forming by that time. But we
reset the grades, replaced the pavement panel, and closed that
work order on December sixth, which goes back to something
that we found. We did a Google Earth search for
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that street and I don't remember when that picture was
taken of that road, but it looked like in that
same exact area where the cars were swallowed up. It
looked like there had been some recent road work done there.
This would explain that. So that was this past November
into early December. Two days later they resealed the cracks
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and the pavement separate work order and they said, yeah,
pavement settling is common. It's Omaha, Nebraska. Occurs for a
variety of reasons. So basically these reports were unremarkable at
the time. February t twenty four, that's when the two
passenger vehicles fell into the sinkhole when the pavement gave way.
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But according to the Omaha World Herald, hours before the
collapse that day, so that day, three city workers observed
muddy water pouring from a storm sewer outlet nearby into
the Little Papillion Creek. They documented the discharge. This is
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a retired sewer's superintendent who still works for the city
under contract. Guy named Mike says, yeah, I took a
picture of it, called a city official around ten forty
five am. That was just hours before suddenly the street
gave way. But two other public works employees were crossing
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that bridge sixty seventh Street when they said brown water
was flowing into the little Papellion Creek. This was just afternoon,
and they emailed the statement to public works officials. Now,
Austin Rouser City public Works Department says, well, we learned
about the muddy water reports after the collapse that day,
and no one thought that this was an emergency. We
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needed to get out there and shut the street down
at that moment. They emailed me, and the standard response
to something like this would have been to investigate the source.
But we weren't going to shut down the streets and
tell all right, everyone drive around this careful, the earth
is about to open up. There was. There would not
have been time to even fill out the necessary paperwork
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to begin an investigation before the sinkhole revealed itself. Now,
I'm sure mud, because the city came out and said, oh, yeah,
we think that the we had a main water main
break here. That's probably mud. They should have known and
I should have let us know. Mud says, no, No,
you guys knew for months and even hours before this
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happened that there was a problem, and you didn't do
anything about it. So we don't have a definitive answer
as to why the heck this happened, nor do we
have any idea whether this is if any of these
things happen again. And here's the part of the story
that is a little concerning all of these things will
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happen again. Like I said, it's Omaha, Nebraska. Pavement settles,
we get potholes, We occasionally get a sinkhole that's big
enough to swallow a street car. But when we have
these same conditions transpire in the same way, will the
city react differently? And should they? I mean, worst case
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scenario is probably what we saw at at Sarbon Village
just over a month ago, and that is a couple
of cars. Like You're sitting there at a red light
and suddenly you're looking at the sky and you're like,
am I on the Artemis Mission? Am I supposed to launch?
At this point? I was this way and now I'm
facing and at a forty five degree angle? That's not right?
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Will the city do anything different next time? And who's
going to have to pay for the fixing up of
those cars and roadways? At the city is at mud
that's still probably months down the line. Let's start reading
some truth social posts from the only person I've ever
heard of who's actually on truth social and that is
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Jnald J. Trump, who is heading to the Supreme Court
today to listen to the arguments on birthright citizenship. The
President turns out he's already made a ruling. He's already
decided the case. He says in a truth social post
last night. Birthright citizenship has to do with the babies
of slaves, not Chinese billionaires who have fifty six kids,
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all of whom quote become unquote American citizens. One of
the many great scams of our time, Resident Donald J. Trump.
He also is fired back at the judge who said,
now you can't do your ballroom there at the White House.
Trump says, in the ballroom case, the judge said we
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have to get congressional approval. He is wrong. That's in
all caps. I have to yell it. Congressional approval has
never been given on anything in these circumstances, big or small,
having to do with construction at the White House. In
this case, even less so, because the ballroom is being
built with private donations, no federal taxpayer money.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Well, what about the basement under the ballroom that is
like the new situation room.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
I imagine there's probably some reason other than ah, this
place is a dump. We need a better ballroom here.
You don't probably spend two hundred million on a ballroom.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
You spend two hundred You spent about five million on
the ballroom and one hundred and ninety five million on
the Special Defense Situation room underneath the.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Ball There's always something else going on with the other hand,
isn't there? Like jud Hurst said an Independence Day, what
do you think that they do they spend You know,
one thousand dollars on a pencil.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Hammers are not fifteen hundred dollars unless there's something that
goes with the hammer.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Now, on your assertion that Trump essentially got us out
of NATO yesterday, he died, Well, he didn't imply I
might do it. Yeah, he can't. But here's what he
said specifically against France. He said, the country of France
wouldn't let planes headed to Israel loaded up with military
supplies fly over French territory. France has been very unhelpful
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with respect to the butcher of Iran, who has been
successfully eliminated. The USA will remember President is going to
address the nation tonight on Iran. Will have updates if
not that address tonight after eight o'clock here on news
radio eleven ten kfab Jim Rose is right here drinking
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out of the most appropriately titled the coffee mug. Ever,
it says grumpies on It's a it's a great logo.
I don't know where that's from. I see it lying
all over the place. It's all over the entire building here,
and I always know it's Jim Rose's coffee mug. It
says grumpies on it.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Yeah, it's a It's a breakfast place in Jacksonville, Florida,
when Jackson was pitching for the Triple A team of
the Marlins, Jacksonville.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
That's your boy, It's home of the bad mood, dude, grumpies.
And you bought a coffee mug, packed it up, brought
it home with you because.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
I usually bring one to the radio every morning. Yeah,
not the mug bad mood. Yeah, well you are you
grumpy about abs? I told you an hour ago. We
needed to get into this conversation, I admit, and this
is one of the sadder things that I admit on
the radio, and I probably shouldn't do so. But I'm
not a huge baseball guy. I wouldn't say I'm not
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a baseball fan. The evenings I spent at my kids
little league games or among the happiest evenings of my life.
And I have enjoyed following the Royals when I was
a kid with George Brett bo Jackson that crew to
an adult when they were making World Series runs. But
when it comes to watching baseball games day in and
day out, I don't do it. Watched a little bit
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of the Huskers Blue Jays last night, so, not being
a baseball purist, I happen to think the ABS, the
automated Ball strike it's not the automated break system, the
ABS Automated Ball Strike Challenge system. Not only do I
think it's pretty good, I think it should now be
the only way it's done in baseball. Well, this eliminates
the human component. This eliminates the umpire. It's the first
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step toward eliminating the umpire. The umpires are still there.
But if a batter at the plate believes that that
was a strike call or a ball call, they can
appeal it twice a game and off we go. You know,
they look at it an instant replay decide yeah that
really was a striker, Yeah that really was a ball.
I gotta tell you it does eliminate much of what
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makes baseball special, unique and charming, and that is the
ability to yell at the umpires, which is something that
we've done repeatedly down through the years. I was good
at that when I was a baseball fan, and even
when I was broadcasting them, I'd yell at them from
the booth.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
You know that pitch was as high as your pants,
the matter of you.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
I don't like it because it changes the dynamic of
this game culturally. That said, the technology and the improvements
I think are good for the game. The pitch clock
has been a huge, huge plus. It's made the games
much quicker, but that gets countered somewhat by what has
become an overemphasis on offense in baseball. We've had strike
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zones to shrink and shrink and shrink, just to make
it easier for guys to hit the ball. I don't
believe that that's what makes baseball exciting, but that's just me.
I think a one to nothing game is one of
the most exciting games you can have in sports, because
every pitch matters. This is where we're going. Technology and
AI have made its way into professional sports. Instant replay,
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camera angles now make it easy to capture the whole game.
And if this reverses bad calls, that's probably a good thing.
But bad calls are part of sports, and it's also
a lesson for young athletes. Don't worry about the officiating.
You go do your job, next pitch, next play, whatever
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the case. Don't worry about officiating. What this does is
eliminate what I think is also a great lesson in sports,
especially for young athletes.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Well as I understand it, the ABS challenges are going
very very quickly, and sometimes it's aggravating the results. Last night,
the Toronto Blue Jays challenged a call by a nump
and lost their challenge by less than one tenth of
an inch. So it's very exact, but I don't mind
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it if it's quick like in tennis. That ball was
in and they quickly go and then then you see
the ball go there and it's just outside the sliver
of the white paint. Sorry, that ball's out, and now
we're serving again. We're back in. You're playing it where
I really think we need. And I will tell you
I am a big basketball fan, basketball purist, but there
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is nothing more aggravating. And we saw it this past weekend.
Was it the Purdue game where it seemed like in
the last five minutes of the game, every other dead
ball with the referees going over looking at the monitor,
conferring with each other, who is it out on? How
much times left in the clock? Now quick instant replay says, oh,
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it was out on Purdue. You put three minutes thirty
one seconds back on the clock, and the shot clock
needs to have eighteen seconds bank that quick. But they
got to go over there and they gotta watch it,
and they gotta look at it, and they gotta talk
about it, and then they got to tell the scoring
table what to do about it, like, let's go guys.
That almost ruined that game.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
And in many cases coaches are a whole holding their
challenges to the end. They know this is going to
be a tight game. You'll see them in the last
couple of minutes. The players are involved. Now they'll say, no, man,
that was not off me. Challenges, challenge this, you have
off this, never off them again. It's it's where we
are in sports. My problem with instant replay on football officiating,
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it really does slow down the game. There has to
be a reform of that system. That doesn't just stop
the play. The quarterback's under center, he's into the cadence.
He's about to get to know he Here comes the official,
stop it and look at it again. New York wants
to have a look at this, right, I don't like
mayor Mom Doddie comes out, Yeah, this isn't fair.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
He does. He's saying, wait a minute, how come the
ball is oblong?
Speaker 2 (36:45):
And I thought football was a it's it's very frustrating
for a football fan more than any other sport. To me,
because I agree with you, the baseball replays have been
very fast so far. If we're going to do we'll
continue to do it because technology says he was on
the base, he wasn't. That ball is in the strike
zone or it's not. But the officiating and the interpretation
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of rules in professional college football has begun to really
wear on me because we're sitting there looking at it.
There's no end to them. They can review as many
plays as they want. If there are issues associated with
that play or this play, I say, I say, eliminate
it until the fourth quarter of games. If we want
to speed this up, the replays can only be done
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in the fourth quarter. We're not getting them all game long.
Many of those plays were I think largely immaterial to
the outcome.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Right, you could do that every single play, and football
you can stop it was this guy off size? Was
he you know, holding him on this route? And so
forth every single play. We don't need any of that.
But if we're going to do replays, make them offer
the important calls and make them fast. Is what's happening
right now in basketball is not fast. Incredibly annoying.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
And if you talk to members of the nineteen eighty
to Nebraska football team, they'll say, where were you in
the Penn State game?
Speaker 1 (38:03):
Right?
Speaker 2 (38:03):
And we had two plays in the last twenty seconds
that were clearly badly officiated, And if we just had replay,
the Huskers would have been thirteen and oh that year.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
I know, anytime I go visit my daughter k State,
I just walk around campus going face mask.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
The Aaron Crouch face mask, Happy April Fool's Day.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
I Got you I Big. That looked so strong. Not
only maybe the greatest difference between fantastic song from a
soundtrack that was maybe maybe the worst movie of all time,
but that track from Caddy Shack two and the King
of the eighties soundtrack Kenny Loggins Nobody's fool it's the
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name of that one except the people who went to
see that movie. That was a brutal movie. It was.
It was just a disgrace. I rented that at Sinclair
gas station had movie rentals back in the day, so
I'd ride my bike over to Sinclair and you spend
like fifty cents you could rent and it wasn't like
good movie rentals. You weren't gonna go in there and
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find The Godfather. But you'd find Caddyshack too.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
You'd find movies that nobody went to the movie theater
to watch, and Caddyshack two was a disgrace.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
You'd find the kind of movies where you'd rent it
and say when does this do back? They're like, don't
even word about keep it. Take it up space. You're
gonna have that one.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
But the decision to make a sequel to Caddyshack was
one of the great cinematic blunders of the last generation. Well,
I don't know that the decision was a bad one.
Somebody needed to say the don't touch this one. Yeah, okay,
it's like a sequel to Blazing Saddles. Leave it alone. Now,
there's no way a movie like that could get made today.
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But if somehow it was able to slip through the
cracks in one of the major studios and then somehow
get into theaters, which would be impot there's no chance,
but you could even come close to the original.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
But the reason I play that is nobody's fool today.
It's April Fool's Where do we fall on April Fool's
Day jokes? I hate them. I think that April Fool's
Day should be completely ignored. And you'll you'll hear evidence
to the contrary in the nine o'clock hour this morning.
But no, I there's a very big difference between an
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April Fool's Day joke, a prank, and something that's just
downright stupid and mean. You know where you call them
up and go, oh hey, your grandma died. Don't do that,
April fools. Don't do that. Yeah, I broke my leg?
What was it? Oh, April Fools?
Speaker 7 (40:34):
Boy?
Speaker 1 (40:34):
You fell for it? Boy? Are you stupid?
Speaker 2 (40:36):
You gotta keep you got if you're gonna do one,
you gotta there's certain boundaries. Stay away from death, stay
away from job, you've been fired, things like that, or oh, man,
you know your boss said this about you.
Speaker 1 (40:50):
Stay You've got to be discriminate.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
In how you pull off a quality April Fool's Day
prank without getting somebody hurt, dead, injured, or fired. That
that will happen today, There'll be someone somewhere.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
Family stay away with their family, either tells a co worker, hey,
you won the power ball, or they put, you know,
some fake thing out says you won the lottery, or
they'll tell them, hey, sorry we had layoffs and you
got cut. Sorry you got fired. And that person who
either thinks that they're done with their job because they
won the lottery or just got fired, will stand up
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and through no April Fool's Day pretense, start telling all
their coworkers and their boss exactly what they think of them.
Make for a very very entertaining and awkward situation you
can't walk back from. And then they'll have to say, oh, sorry,
that was just in April Fool's Day prank and by
the way, you're fired anyway.
Speaker 2 (41:46):
Or they'll go on social media, or they'll drop an
email and then do an all staff email.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
Don't do that.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
Stay away from anything, just being be kind and stay
away from job stay away from family, stay away from health.
Speaker 1 (42:01):
This is something that you should be very leery of
all the time with what you see on social media.
But just a little reminder here, annual reminder. It is
April Fool's Day. And if you see something posted on
social media and go what, I can't believe. It might
be true, but it also might be a joke. So
make sure you have that prism that you're looking through
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everything with that lens today.
Speaker 2 (42:26):
The quality the quality April Fool's Day prank is a
thoughtful b involves many people. And it took me and
the Crazy Looney Tune producers of Sports Nightly in nineteen
ninety nine to pull off a really good one with
Frank Solich on April Fool's Day. Now, he was distracted
because we were in the middle of spring practice at
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the time, so he couldn't really process the fact that
it was April Fool's Day. And I of course involved
Bill Burne, the athletic director and Ed Piquette at the time,
the executive director of the Nebraska Alumni Association, And this
was in on the station and Lincoln that carried the
Husker games, and in the morning we were talking about
how the decision had been made to change the helmet logo,
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and Bill Burne had been accused as the athletic director
of being a guy that wanted to change the whole
culture of Nebraska. All he did was enhance it, but
the word was out that he wanted to change everything
from the logo to the colors, to the nickname and
everything else. So we had Bill on and he was
very coy about it, and then we had Ed piquett On,
who said, well, I've been talking to some alumni in
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California and this is what they've been told, that we're
going to change the helmet away from the helvetica and
to the block end with Husker's script through it. And
I a byt mid morning, got a phone call from
the head coach's office and I was summoned to the
head coach's office. Marylynd Walkington was the secretary. She said,
he's really upset. I said, mary Lynn, look at the
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calendar because Bill was out of town and Ed was
out of town so he couldn't get a hold of him.
And she goes, oh my, he's gonna be mad. So
I walked in. He goes, what's this all about? Who
have you been talking to us, said Frank, look at
the calendar, and that gigantic million dollar smile at his
came over his face.
Speaker 1 (44:10):
He said, that's one for you. Don't You just hate
it with some stupid radio You guys think that they
have to do something really dumb for April Fool's Day.
By the way, listening that was high quality. Listen after
nine o'clock this morning Scott akfab dot com. Zonker's custom
was inbox Jack says, are we having owl for dinner tonight?
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That was another one we did on this radio station,
the KFA B Gourmet Club where we were serving various
owls at the Gourmet Club, barn owl, snowy owl, the
great horned owl, a lot of owls. It was the
Owl Diet because there was a big billboard off the
interstate that talked about the owl diet OWL standing for
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Omaha Weight Loss. We turned it into an actual thing
and that was a really, really funny joke. And then
I gave the phone number out for people to call
and make a reservation for the Gourmet Club at the
Little Santarean was the name of the restaurant, for people
to come to the Gourmet Club and sample various owls
and a stick. And it was really really funny until
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I realized the number I gave out was my desk phone.
And even if you call and don't leave a message,
it still records a just a split second voicemail message,
and you have to go through individually and listen to
and delete every single one, and that takes probably, you know,
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twenty seconds, you know. Next message sent Tuesday at nine
thirty eight am, Click do you want to delete this?
And when you have to do that hundreds of times,
completely blows up your day. So it was a really
funny joke until my day was wasted deleting the message.
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But every once in a while you get one from
some one who I don't know. There was a lot
of people who left messages who knew it was a
joke and was having they were having fun with it.
But there was the every once in a while, like
I want to make a message rather reshing for the
gourmet car, how do I get it here? My name's Edna,
and I want to go in So you can do
some of that all the time. And yeah, it that
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that took me all day to deal with the aftermath
of that one. So no Jack I don't think we're
having owl tonight, but thank you very much for your
callback on that bit. In our radio station's history.
Speaker 2 (46:33):
It can be gamy. You're gonna want to have plenty
of sauce if you eat an owl. Yeah, taste like owl.
People say it tastes like chicken.
Speaker 1 (46:40):
Na Lucy's all bundled up, like she's broadcasting from some
sort of igloo. A little chili there in the Timesaber
traffic center. It feels like I'm in an igloo. It
is really cold out here. Yeah. The the HVAC system
is spotty here. Well I think we're blasting air conditioning
right now. Yeah, well that's good for somebody. Of course,
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you know, I can't explain it anymore. We used to
have a boss that ran a little hot, and he
would come in here and set the thermostat to zero
and everyone else just had to deal with it. But
he gone. So I don't know what's going on there.
Let's welcome here on to Nebraska's morning news our news
radio eleven ten KFAB National correspondent Rory O'Neill joins us
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here on a few different topics. Yesterday, a judge said
that the president has got to stop any construction at
the ballroom at the White House. But things are full
steam ahead for that. How many stories is this Trump
Presidential Library skyscraper in Miami rory, But.
Speaker 7 (47:45):
Yeah, that's a little great by the video that was
released by Eric Trump. It certainly does dwarf the Freedom
Tower which is next to it. You know that Freedom
Tower has it's got historical significance, especially for the Cuban population,
as that tower was sort of the Miami's version of
the Statue of Liberty. The old Freedom Tower was the
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first thing that people would see when they arrived in
South Florida. But this Trump Library building is massive, so
big it fits his seven forty seven in the lobby
off the Librairie. So we've also seen renderings that show
a recreation of the ballroom or recreation of the Oval office,
and even of the rose garden and a giant gold
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statue of President Trump not to be missed in there. Either.
Speaker 1 (48:30):
This is just going to be a target for protests
and hopefully not worse, but you never know. I mean,
I'm sure that there are city planners council members in
Miami who are fighting this tooth and nail. Is there
anything they can do about it. The President says, no,
I've got the land here, and I've got the permit
to build. This is where my Presidential Library is going,
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and it's going to reach up to the moon.
Speaker 7 (48:54):
Well right, and look a lot like the New World
Trade Center in the process. But one of the issues
actually made the height of the building. That's pretty that's
right in the path of the Miami International Airport and
there are pretty strong height restrictions there. But you know,
I think he knows someone at the FAA who might
give him a waiver. We'll see, you know exactly what this.
You know, look, we see this a lot, right. The
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big fancy drawings are one thing, but then what shows
up in reality is quite different. Look at President Obama's library,
you know that that sort of looked good on paper,
but in real life hopefully.
Speaker 1 (49:27):
Yeah, Jim, what did Gettfeld say about the Obama Presidential
Library on Fox yesterday? It looks like an East German
prison and it's not even done. It's billions of dollars.
Speaker 2 (49:37):
Would be the ugliest building that has ever been erected
in the United States. It's sort of like, sort of
like something out of a sci fi movie. You might
see on on a planet far far away.
Speaker 1 (49:49):
Well, Rory speaking of sci fi, and I did reference
the Moon purposefully a moment ago. Artemis too. The deuce
looks like we may be go ahead for launch here
out of the Kennedy Space Center. Tell me about the
significance of this crewed, crewed mission into space.
Speaker 7 (50:12):
Yeah, we use that term now instead of man, because
we've got a woman on this, like Christina Cook, a
veteran astronaut. She is one of the four crew members
launching the board Artemis two. The purpose of this mission
is to test out the Orion crew capsule on board
and the SLS rocket, the Space Launch System rocket. Neither
have flown with people on them before, so this is
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a real test flight. The crew just having breakfast now,
wrapping that up. They'll be heading out to the launch
pad this afternoon. But the weather looks good. We've got
eighty percent go. As I'm sitting here at the Space
Center right near that giant countdown clock, it's a beautiful morning,
a nice light breeze and a few clouds in the sky.
So the weather looks good. Let's just hope it holds
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on for the next eight hours, forty four minutes and
twenty seconds.
Speaker 1 (50:57):
Yeah, and this is a NASA fly. It's not bezos
or you know, William Shatner up there, Oprah Winfrey's buddies
or anything like that. Yes, you're right, They're right. This
is a NASA flight here. What I mean, is there
any significance other than yeah, it's just time to go
and fly out around the moon and see what's going on.
Speaker 7 (51:17):
Well, it's time to start planning how we're going to
be on the Moon permanently. I compare what Neil Armstrong
did to sort of a weekend or trip, right, but
this time we're moving in. So this is the baby
step toward that in order to start the construction of
a lunar base and a permanent human outpost on the Moon. Wells,
you know, we're getting back in a space race again.
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China has certainly been clear about their ambitions to try
to land Chinese astronauts on the Moon. So it's a
it's something that we want to make sure we maintain
the high ground.
Speaker 1 (51:47):
And this is going to be This is a fairly
quick trip. It's a long weekend trip here, what four
days or so? Was it tend to? Okay, So it
takes four out and they in six. Okay, all right,
so that's right.
Speaker 7 (52:03):
So we're right. So we're going to do a day
around the Earth, a day plus a little in a
big elliptical orbit, then start the four day mission out
for the Moon, and then it's going to take you
four days to get back and then splashing down off
the coast of San Diego hopefully on April tenth.
Speaker 1 (52:17):
All right, we've got to slingshot around everything and use
that gravity and and all that stuff. If I'm one
of the.
Speaker 7 (52:23):
Automats, it's all, man, this is why we do our jobs.
Speaker 1 (52:26):
Yes here on on radio. I just need to know
how to tell time occasionally, but exactly if I'm one
of these crew members for Artemis two, I'm not watching
Apollo thirteen tonight.
Speaker 7 (52:38):
They're all very confident, and you know, they say they're
pretty relaxed about it. I don't know if I believe them.
But it's going to be ten days, four people in
a capsule that's about the size of a double mini van.
So it's if they don't like each other, now I'm
going to hate each other.
Speaker 1 (52:58):
That's an amazing thing. And I know that there are
so many Americans who've kind of gotten used to Oh yeah,
we send astronauts up there. We got the space station,
all this stuff this is it's still really really cool, Rory.
Great reporting as always, Thank you very much for checking
in this morning. Thank God In the Zonker's custom woods
inbox Scott atkfab dot com. Adam asks a question that
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I don't know that I have the time here to
get fully into, but we can scratch the surface. Adam says,
good morning, kfab. What is the unicameral doing with this bill?
LB three oh four. Let's not work on property tax relief.
Let's find a way to tax more for Nebraskans. Thank you,
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signed Adam LB three oh four. This is a bill
that would keep current eligibility levels for subsidies from the
taxpayers of Nebraska in place that went up during twenty
twenty one. The idea being like, all right, it's COVID.
People need to know they've lost their opportunity to work
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in some instances, but we're starting to get back open
and childcare since a lot of schools are out all
the time, because if one kid within forty miles of
the school tests kind of positive for a mild case
of COVID, and everyone's got to close down, and suddenly
subsidies for childcare became to the point where we in
(54:30):
Nebraska decided that if you are within one hundred and
eighty five percent of the federal poverty level, that you
would be eligible for so many thousands of dollars a
year in a childcare subsidy. Well, they got it's really
expensive all the way around, because childcare, I don't know
(54:52):
if you've noticed, but childcare, daycare, and all the rest
of that super expensive. And if you think why that
have to be that expensive, all right, try and fight
in childcare for your kid. It's hard to come by,
and so supply and demand being what it is, it
got very, very expensive. I can understand the families that
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say I can't afford to put my kid in childcare. Now,
the counter argument, which your mom would say, is, yeah,
that's why I didn't work when I was raising my kids.
I'm not going to sit here and judge however families
end up making these decisions. I will, though, judge, why
in the world would we have a poverty level if
we're just constantly long jumping past it. We just decided
(55:36):
that a household income eligibility CAB would be at one
hundred and eighty five percent, and then State Senator Kathleen
Kyth of Millers says, all right, well, we can't stay
at one hundred and eighty five percent of If you're
at one hundred and eighty five percent, you're not poor.
This is supposed to help out poor people, those who
are at or below the poverty level. If you're at
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one hundred and eighty five percent, you're not exactly poor.
I'm not saying that you're flushed with cash all the time,
but we have to set a limit somewhere. And I
thought the poverty level was that limit. And she says,
all right, let's go back to how about one hundred
and thirty percent one hundred and sixty something And of course,
you know, but you're going to take childcare away from
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families that need it.
Speaker 2 (56:20):
Well, we have a huge childcare problem in our state.
If you're going to grow the state's economy, there are
two parallel threats that need to be addressed. The first
one is workforce development. On the second one is childcare.
Licensed childcare. There isn't enough of it, and it's not affordable.
And I believe there is a solution to this. It
involves public private partnerships. It involves individuals, families, It also
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involves school systems, and it involves communities, counties and the
rest and the state. So if we look at this
as a one off, well let's just address this problem,
it's a whack them ole problem, Scott, because that means
another problem pops up like this. Okay, where do we
throw the line on who gets a subsidy and who doesn't,
who pays for the subsidy? And are really engaging all
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of the agencies associated with community growth? And in some
cases they are. And I'll give you an example. Gothenburg
has a wonderful childcare center. This is a town of
thirty five hundred. It's the Impact Center, and it's a
combination of state subsidies, it's a combination of family means,
and it's a combination of the school system is supporting
pre K earlier learning. And I can tell you if
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you have your kid in an early learning center, you
have put that young person on a pathway to a
much more successful academic career than not a lot of
people would say. The statistics bearing out a kid could
be home with a parent.
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And that's good too. And look, I understand not being
able to afford everything. But when State Senator Wendy DeBoer
of Omaha says government should bear the cost of this,
government doesn't raise money, it's taxpayer funds. And it is
no different than going to your neighbors who don't have
kids and say I need some of your money so
I can put my kid in childcare. Like I said,
I didn't know we had time to get fully into
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it today. This is a topic. Tomorrow another day, all right,
Jim says, we'll do it tomorrow. We'll pick it up,
we'll pick we'll do it tomorrow,