July 16, 2026 • 48 mins
From Buffett to Lucy's leeriness of buffets, and from a group fighting for the Center Mall to the Democrats fighting FOR Brett Lindstrom, we cover it all today (as we do EVERYDAY)!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, and thank you so much for being here
with us on Nebraska's morning news right here on news
Radio eleven ten kfab Chris Turner in for Craig Evans
for a couple more days. He is back on Monday.
Lucy Chapman's right there. There's Jim Rose here for one
more day and he's off tomorrow. I'm Scott Vorhees, I'll
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be gone all next week.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
There.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Now you got everyone's summer vacation schedule, and now let's
proceed with this program. But what in the world is
the president going to say tonight? Yesterday he said I'm
going to address the nation Thursday night, and everyone pretty
much said, mister president, is this going to be a
news conference or you just want the time? It's like,
oh big, it's gonna be huge, roads and bridges, power plants,
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iran straight to horror moves like, mister President, we don't
think you're gonna say anything. We'll give you the time.
I guess the new works will be given him the time.
There's there's no World Cup on tonight. There's this is
gonna be just after eight o'clock Omaha Council Bluff's time.
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We will bring it to you live here on news
Radio eleven ten kfab not quite sure what he is
going to say. We think the topic is Iran, though
he could swerve into ice or any number of the
reflecting He could talk for thirty minutes about the reflecting pool.
You don't really know. Now.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
My suspicion is he won't drift off script too far,
probably because there may not be very many other people
in the room, so he doesn't get applause, laugh lines,
all the stuff that he really enjoys, getting all of
the adulation that comes from a big crowd. I don't
know if he's gonna speak from the East room or
if he's gonna speak from the Oval office, but this
is gonna be about why we're in Iran. He's he's
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gonna come right out with it. And you just explained
to the whole country. And I don't know if all
the networks are going to carry it. Yeah, Fox will
carry it. I hope they do. I don't know that
CNN or MSNBC will, but nobody watches them anyway. So
this is his chance to lay it out and say,
I know gas prices are up, they're up forty cents.
It just won gas station in the last ten days
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here in Omaha. Because it's a future. They're thinking it's
going to be more expensive in the future. It's not
about right now. He's going to lay it out and
say this is why we're doing it. And I know
it hurts, and I know that I promised that gas
prices would be under twenty five cents by this time
when I ran for office a couple of years ago.
But we have to make sure that these people don't
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have a nuclear weapon, and that means we got to
fight them. That means we got to shoot at them.
We've got to drop bombs, make some people bleed.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Oil is still under eighty dollars a barrel at one
point during this conflict was up over one hundred and tens.
There's no excuse for the gas prices being where they are.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
This future. They're paying for the futures.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Yeah, and we've seen this ping pong battle go on
the straight of horror moves between Iran and some cargo
ships in America comes in here and would blow up
some of their installations to Kingdom come. I don't know
how they still have missile or radar sites or drone warehouses.
How do they still have this stuff. Well, they had
a lot of blowing. I guess anything else in Iran.
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They've got a spaghetti works over there, is that just like, hey,
we got parcel land, what should we put on here?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Que's chicken?
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah, we could do raisin canes or you know what,
drones and radar missiles.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Well it's it's a country that's twice the size of Texas,
so there's a lot of space there and we have
to sort of figure out where the stuff is. Or
we send the Israelis over there dressed up black Iranians
and they say it's right there, and then they report
back to the Home Office.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Well it's you know.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
It's not like we walk the street and say, oh,
that looks like a drone manufacturing plant, let's blow that up.
There's a lot of a high level intelligence involved. But
the other thing that press and it has been committed
to doing. And I'm not sure I agree with this
from the standpoint of war. I agree with it morally
and ethically and as a human being, But from the
standpoint of war, you win a war by killing more
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of those people than they kill of yours. He's been
very careful to try and not be around any kind
of civilian areas. And that's why I probably haven't shot
out any power plants yet, and we haven't blown up
any infrastructure yet, because that makes the Iranians unhappy. And
if the Iranians are unhappy, nobody's happy.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Well are they happy now? Are they doing anything? Now?
Are they able to do anything?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
They say anything about the government, they get hauled off
into a darkened room, never to be seen or heard
from again by who.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
I imagine that the same people we are trying to
negotiate with over there would be the same ones who
would be killing their citizens. We don't know with whom
we're negotiating over there. So who's available to try and
kill their citizens? Are the citizens doing anything? Are they
just waiting? They're waiting, very very frustrating. The President is
a lot more frustrated than we are about it. But
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he did say that Iran has provided a gesture of goodwill.
This is an American who was held in Iran since
late twenty twenty four and they just released her. A woman.
I'm not sure what she was doing over there, but
she suffered a heart attack last week. She was still
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in an Iranian jail and or no she wasn't in jail,
never in jail. She just wouldn't let her leave, right.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
This was a gal who had her passport seized by
Iranian authorities. She was never thrown in jail, She was
never treated like a prisoner, but she was essentially not
allowed to leave, kind of locked her up in her
hotel room or had her under guard in her hotel room.
And this was she should never have been seized. This
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was a I'm not sure why she was over there.
Why these people are over there makes no sense to me.
Americans have been told these are countries you do not visit.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Well, okay, this was some sort of humanitarian mission for
then you know that no good deed goes unpunished in Iran,
So until things are better, you need to stay away
from there or you risk this. But supposedly, and we're
not going to know more until she's home, she was
treated pretty well, pretty quote unquote well, and what they
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did to her we won't know for sure until after
she returns. But she was never thrown in one of
those jails. No, But if you're not allowed to leave Iran,
it's like being in jail. They've got more drone installations
than Chick fil A's. So that's like, well, we all
need a little we all need another raising canes now
the eleven kfab certified Transmission Sports bree Here's Jim Roskay Scott.
(06:55):
Good morning everybody from the whole world to just Twottinas. Stop.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Pitch time gone gone foraino.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Oh boy.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Eighty fifth minute of the World Cup semifinal last night
from Atlanta and Argentina. The champs take the lead on
England and win it two to one. Rips my heart out,
says England's Harry Kane.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Just gut it, died for the boys, tied for everyone,
the team, to staff, the fans. Yeah, we played a
good game for the large, large majority of it. Once
we went one new what we seem to Yeah, just
try and hold on with you know, at this level
it is not enough. So just got it, got it
because we we've worked so hard to be here and
the latter give him every last bit of running, sweat,
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blood tears, whatever it is. Such a food shot out
with you today is just kind.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Yea, this was intense. These two hate each other dates
to the Falklands War in nineteen eighty two, but Argentina
has a Lionel Missi, the greatest of all time, and
he assisted on both goals. So it's Spain and Argentina
on Sunday for Numero Uno bradish Open, the last major
of the years, going on from Royal Birkdale Golf Course
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on the west coast of England. Right now round one,
Daniel Brown, the Englishman, is at four under par. He
is on the eighteenth hole, and the sun Jay em
is four under par, also on the eighteenth hole, and
then a whole bunch of guys at three under, including
scottis Scheffler of the United States, who is playing the
ninth hole. This is a very difficult golf course. This
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is a golf course where you have to put the
driver in the bag a lot, and that affects these guys.
Most of them love to rip it off the tee,
but not here or you wind up in the gorst. Smiling,
Tim Miles of Dolan, South Dakota was back in the
neighborhood this week. His past key still worked at the
Hendrance Training Center, home of Husker basketball, so he plopped
down right there in the chair for the head coach.
(08:55):
No it didn't and no he didn't. He had an
appointment seven years after he was kicked to the curb
as coach of the Huskers. Miles, still quite popular among
Husker fans, had a meeting. He asked Fred if he
could interview Nate Lenzer, Fred's assistant coach, about defensive principles
and then take them back to San Jose State where
Miles as coaching. You saw how good Nebraska was on
(09:15):
defense this year. Miles enjoyed the visit, did some interviews,
says he choked up watching Nebraska win its first ever
NCAA tournament game. Aflon magazine, one of the college football biggies,
has its preseason prediction for this season Nebraska tenth Sports
his news on Nebraska's news, weather and traffic station.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Lucy and I were just joking around yesterday. I think
it was that Chipotle was saying we're going to open
the Chipotle Mexican grill in Mexico. There have been several
businesses who have decided to put a foreign flare on
their food here in America that the people from that
home country think is hot garbage. So we'll see what
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Mexico thinks of Chipotle. Taco Bell tried to open up
some Taco Bell low Asians in Mexico. That didn't go well,
And then I joked about how when I went over
to Italy, I really enjoyed eating the local flavor there
at Olive Garden. That was a joke. But now, Lucy,
today's the day Olive Garden is bringing back what many
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observers say is the greatest deal in restaurant history. And
it's only available guys for just a few seconds, probably
at one o'clock Omaha Council Bluff's time.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Is this the soup and salad lunch?
Speaker 1 (10:33):
New This is the never Ending Pasta Pass. For one
hundred dollars, You've got thirteen weeks for unlimited build your
own pasta meals plus soup, salad, breadsticks. And they did
this the last time was six years ago. And let's
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see how many passes are available. Not very many. I
was twenty four thousand passes and they sold out in milliseconds.
That was six years ago. So here's how it works.
For one hundred dollars plus tax, the pass grants unlimited
access to the never Ending Pasta Bowl for thirteen weeks.
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That includes the entire duration of the promotion, along with
a full week of early access before it opens up
to the non pass holding public. You have three months
to enjoy up to one hundred and twenty possible combinations
of pasta, sauces, proteins, soup, salad, and breadsticks. If you
take full advantage of the pasta pass and eat at
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Olive Garden for all ninety days of the promotion, that
breaks down to about a dollar per meal. And just
think of the weight that you can pack on.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Well, just because it's never ending doesn't mean you have
to sit there and eat until your gut busts open.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Have you ever been to a buffet?
Speaker 5 (11:57):
I try to avoid them, but I have been.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Yes, Oh you're one of those. You're too good for.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
The public food.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
I don't mind it one bit.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
All I know is that the Valentino's Buffet, the famous
Valentino's Grand Grand Italian that personally, that that one institution
alone was the impetus for expanding Memorial Stadium seats. Because before,
before the Valentino's Grand Italian Buffet, and my good friend
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the late Tony Massino Tony before and which is a
reason he became Big Tony. The reason was that you know,
we could comfortably fit Nebraskans into the seats of Memorial
Stadium because they were fifteen inches wide. But then when
we all became nineteen inches wide following a trip to
the Valentino's Grand Italian Buffet, they had to they had
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to change the whole seating arrangement to the Memorial Stadium.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
And my wife is like Lucy, she does not like
the buffet.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
I like the way liked the buffet.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Lucy said, I don't like public food, oh, because there's
there's always some dirty kids running around touching everything. And
my wife is, ah, you know, she'll look at some
of the clientele there at the buffet and go, I
don't want them touching.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Almost. Well, maybe if you wouldn't go to a buffet
at a soup kitchen, you might find the conditions a
little more favorable.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
I for me, I just go in there, and I
see it as a personal challenge I have to win.
Say I go to a Chinese buffet or something like that,
seventeen bucks, all right, I can, I can. I can
eat seventeen dollars full of crab rangoon. I'm gonna be
here a while and I'm just gonna go back to
that Mongolian barbecue thing. Said more of this more of that.
(13:40):
Now you're talking who Hot. Yeah, well, I mean it's
a or who Hot style. There's another who Hots not
a buffet.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Because they cook it. It's fun too. I mean you
just get to see it there they are.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Yeah. I like that.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
And you know you you pick all the stuff, you
PLoP it down, then watch it, you follow it around.
It's it's more than. It's more than it's a restaurant.
It's an experience. Right.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
And you go to some of those like Haibachi girls
and all that, they start throwing food at you. You
got to try and catch it in your mouth. I
like that, just like a fish. Every restaurant should do that.
I want to go into Long John Silvers. I have
them start throwing fish at me, right, No, I want
to go to Taco to go to Taco Bell. They
start throwing bits of encelada at right.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
And the problem is if you don't do it, then
you look like, oh, she's a snob because she doesn't.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
Because I don't want to catch food in my mouth.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
I want to see you. I want to see you
act like a seal at a Long John Silvers. Sit
up in your chair. They throw a fish in your direction.
Then you leap to grab it. I'll do that all day.
That's a pretty good impression of a seal. And yeah,
all right, let's go. We'll do the buffet.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
I'll go in there and I eat everything I possibly can,
and then I go up for one more plate. And
then at the Chinese buffet, ice cream, that great Chinese
delicacy of chocolate and vanilla twists, soft serve ice cream.
It's big in Beijing. So I'm excited about the pasta
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pass and it goes on sale one o'clock to day
at pastapass dot com. Oh man, that dollar a day.
I can get that down to eighty three cents. Good day.
Just how many breadsticks you eat? This will be fun,
all right? Good luck. You have a better chance of
not only getting tickets to a Taylor Swift concert. I
think you have a better chance of marrying Taylor Swift
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than getting one o the anymore Olive Garden passes. Well
you never know. Mury, Scott and Gang, good morning.
Speaker 6 (15:41):
Hey, that reminds me of a restaurant they head down
to Saint Louis. I can't remember the name of it,
but it was called Home of the Throat Rolls. You
sat there and ordered your meal. And every time you
want to roll or you just push your arm in
the air and they bomb one at you. You miss it,
they'll bomb on another one. Great show, guys, have a
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good day.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
I guess chuckling making himself chuckle. Yeah, that's in Springfield. Yeah,
home of the Throwed Rolls. So they just tossed the
role at you. Now do you have to catch you
with your teeth? Lambert's Cafe it's around Springfield and I've
never eaten there. But once you start heading down to
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the Ozarks, about every thirteen feet you see a billboard
for Lambert's Cafe, Home of the Throwed Rolls, with some
little chef guy just chucking dinner rolls across the restaurant.
That's what I like. I want a little bit of food,
a little bit of danger. I want a food fight.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Interesting. I don't remember seeing any of those signs, and
we drove through Springfield all those years taking my daughter
to college at all miss so I don't know how
I missed the signs. That's possible. This is disappointing because
I don't get down to Springfield nearly as often now
she's graduated.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
It's good they're still open. Okay, you know Springfield is
Can you use a net?
Speaker 2 (17:05):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
How about a catcher's mitt. Do you think your kids
ever got into a food fight at school? I hope,
so it's part of a rite of passage. I don't
think my kids ever did you did? Right?
Speaker 2 (17:16):
No, not in school. I did my fraternity house one time. Okay,
yeah we did.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Yeah, but that's yeah, you guys have to clean up after, right,
That's that's stupid to do it at the fraternity. Well,
you're the ones that have to clean up after it.
And it was it was it was a tinder box.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
It was. It was a January, and of course it
was cold outside and so there wasn't a lot we
could do. So the whole conditions that night were kind
of a tinder box. And all it took was one spark.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
And I forget which year at Ralston.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
It was actually pretty funny, and I look back and
I remember that we that was a tension breaker in
the house.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
It was one of my seven or eight years I
spent at Ralston High School. I left with the doctorate.
But it was we we've been talking about it for
a week or two. We got it guys, guys, what
do we do? We got to have a food fight.
We were waiting for the right opportunity. What's it going
to be? Tater I mean, you get pizza day, you're
not gonna throw that. You want to eat that burgers Really,
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tater tots are fun. But then suddenly we realize, oh,
this today's the day. It was corn dog day. Turns
out you could wing one of those things across the
room like Peyton Manning's the projectiles. You send some guy
in a fly pattern and you just started showing. So
we're throwing corn dogs around the Ralston High School cafeteria.
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And what's really fun about throwing corn dogs is first
you dip the end of it in a big blab
a ketchup and now you've got an extra little poisoned
dart on the end of the corn dog. So great
to have you with us here. Thank you very much
for hanging out with Nebraska's Morning Noos. This is the
place where we come to laugh, cry and get through
the day together. Lucy Chapman is part of together. Craig
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Evans generally is he's gone this week back on Monday.
Chris Turner jumping in there, Courtney Donaho here too, and
Jim Rose. I am Scott Voorhees. And we have another
name to add to the list here, Warren Buffett. Though
he's not on the program. I guess he used to
come by the radio station. He just lives down the street.
(19:20):
He used to pop in here and bring donuts. How's
everyone doing? And yeah, sadle Meyer said, he used to
do that. We're going back in the eighties. Doesn't come
and maybe early nineties. Yeah, Warren would come in here,
bring donuts. How's everyone doing? Don't forget they got dilli
bars down there at Dry Queen. It was out of
his way.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
I mean he lives on Farnham and he'd have to
literally go north not too far.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Now, yeah, I forgot an extra couple of blocks. He
would never stop buy.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
He was always a sort of a creature of habit
and since Farnham is a balanced pair, going east in
the morning, it would take him literally right to his building.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
All right, Well, Warren pop by CNBC the other day,
and that's not real cool.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
I think he fell out of love with kimf and B.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
When we put Limbaugh on, that was exactly what that's
that's as I understand it now, the ninety five year
old ninety five, I thought he was older. The ninety
five year old Warren Buffett isn't old enough. No, not
for Warren. I guess Bill Gates came to town a
few weeks ago and they spent a lot of time together,
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and turns out that Warren could not be persuaded otherwise.
He has stopped giving money to the Gates Foundation, while
at the same time he says, look, Bill gates association
with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was distasteful, But he's
not suggesting that Gates did anything wrong. He says, look,
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you people make mistakes, you hire the wrong person, you
choose the wrong friends. No one bats a thousand in
the business of choosing people. So Buffett's not saying I
think Gates was doing some horrible stuff. But Buffett is
saying that he should have known at the time that
you were working with this guy that he was a
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convicted sex offender. And so therefore he's not giving the
Gates Foundation like that any more money. So where is
that additional one hundred and forty billion dollars of Berkshire
Hathaway stock to foundations Kids going, it's going to his kids,
going to Howard's going to Peter. He's going to Susie
Buffett and the Sherwood Foundation, and if anyone's listening and wondering.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
And his late wife's foundation, the Susan A. Buffett Foundation,
if anyone of the Buffets are listening and curious as
to how to go about distributing that money, got some
ideas here?
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Oh Warren, won't you buy me a brand new four truck?
Speaker 2 (21:49):
My friends all drive Chevings.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
My old car just sucks, worked hard all my lifetime,
just can't make a book.
Speaker 7 (22:00):
So, oh Warren, won't you.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Buy me a brand new Ford truck? Oh Warren? Won't
you buy me a plasma TV?
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Deal or no deal.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Is trying to find me. I want to watch Oprah
and Grays and that on me, So, oh Warren, won't
you buy me a plasma TV? Oh Warren, won't you
buy me a steak Cad gold?
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Rats?
Speaker 1 (22:32):
My stomach is empty, your wallet is fat. Prove that
you love me and pick up the check. So, oh Warren,
won't you buy me a steak Cad Gold?
Speaker 6 (22:48):
Rats?
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Everybody?
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Oh Warren, won't you buy me a brand new Ford truck?
My friends all drive chefies. My old card ess sucks,
worked hard all my lifetime, just can't make a buck.
So oh, Warren, won't your.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Body a brand new forward? Well that's it.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
There you go, Okay. In case they're wondering how to
distribute those funds, we have some ideas.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
I don't think gear qualifies as a five oh one
seed three charity, so I don't. Now, you may have
financial problems, but that doesn't qualify you for charitable contribution.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Jim, I think it's clear I have a lot of problems.
I'm happy to share them with you here on Nebraska's
Morning News on news radio eleven ten kfab On a
personal note, I'm taking my first week off since sitting
here in Gary Sandelmeyer's chair.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Again.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
I wish that he would have left the chair, been
sitting in his lap like a little kid, you know. Yeah, Okay,
now you get to steer the car, you know, But
I but my feet don't reach the pedals. That's okay.
Gary's been doing this for me, he says, We're just
gonna I'm just gonna sit here and just guide you
through it till you get it right. But next week
I'm gonna leave, and he's gonna come in here Monday
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through Wednesday next week. And I'm sad because I love
coming in here and doing this hanging out with you guys.
And I'm also sad because I'm gonna be out of town.
I'm not gonna be able to listen to him on
my regular drive into work every day like I used to,
so that kind of makes me a little sad.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
You should download the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Yeah, Like I said, like when your regular, you know,
you make it part of your morning schedule. Like I
wake up, I brush my teeth and then I jump
back in bed and my wife says no, and then
I'm like all right, And then I go to work.
And while heading to work, I listen to Kfab and
I listened to Gary and Jim Argue like Omaha's favorite
(24:57):
old married couple. And I miss all that me too,
I know. But for next Monday through Wednesday, you.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Get a chance to do that. Yeah, we got a
lot of pent up demand. I know.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
I'm just sorry that I won't be here to experience.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
As Lucy says, the iHeart mobile app will keep you
connected anywhere in the globe.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Yeah, well, probably not where we're going. We're gonna be
in a pretty remote location of Council Bluffs, so I'm
not gonna be able to hear it. Let me tell
you where I'm gonna be today.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Remote location, Council Bluff.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Yeah, they're a broad band over there yet not around
maniwa I don't think yeah really yeah, Okay, you're going
to camp out of lake maniwah good. I'm watching Lucy
Chapman right now in the hallway with some bleach wipes
cleaning up the uh the countertop. Jim, did you just
go get coffee over there and spill coffee everywhere and
(25:46):
not clean it up?
Speaker 8 (25:46):
No?
Speaker 2 (25:47):
This is my first and only cup and it happened
at about five thirty.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Okay, did you spill coffee at five thirty and not
clean it up? Sure? Loose because Lucy just went over
and cleaned.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Always clean up. I the coldest. I'm the coldest, and
I always clean up after my messes I spilled. Some
people have to clean up some of my messes too,
But I'm always there with the mob.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
I'm always The code is thank you you spilled the coffee?
Speaker 4 (26:11):
Lists she did, and I see, I hope it wasn't mine.
I hope it was Gem's. But I see it's got
some yellows staying on and already on the countertop.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
That's not it's one of our brands that that that
countertop there cost us a razor too.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Just so you know, say it. Say it with me.
This is why we can't have nice things.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
It's the coffee machine's fault. It's not ours. We didn't
do it. Yeah, it just kept running.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Did it really? Oh no, it Forrest gumped. Oh let
me look here. I got an email from where wait
where are you going?
Speaker 5 (26:51):
I got stuff to do.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
I'm just looking at this email. Doug has been firing
in a number of emails Scott at KF A B
dot com via the Zonker's custom was inbox and I
could tell through a couple of the emails he's doing
voice to text and then not going back and editing it.
And it's usually a couple of things like oh, I
can see where it he said this, and it heard that.
(27:14):
This one, though, is my favorite. We were talking earlier
about Warren Buffet, so he says, I think it's great
we celebrate the success of warm Muppet and that he
is a true omahan. Warren Buffet in a voice to
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text becomes warm.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
Muppet sitting in the balcony.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
He does kind of resemble I say this with all
due respect, he does kind of look like a warm
muppet and ninety five. That's great, And he's kind of
looked like that for a long time. He's one of
those guys who has not looked fundamentally different in my
entire life. Is when I was a kid, he.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Looked like that.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
You'd see him around town in the eighties up into
the early nineties, and and he just he kind of
looked like this. And now you see him around town
now and he's in his mid nineties and he still
looks exactly the same as he did forty five years ago.
Speaker 5 (28:14):
Can't disagree, right, Yeah, Well.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
He's just one of those guys. It's always kind of
looked like this.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
He came out of the womb looking sixty five, and
he just stayed that way. No, he was a very
good looking guy back in his day, like Morgan Freeman.
How are we going to know when he gets olay, Yeah,
we don't know. He's always looked, always look like that.
Thing about Buffett is he announced some time ago that
he was going to give all of the money to
the three kids. He's given forty seven billion to the
Gates Foundation when he and Melinda Gates were married, and
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he wasn't hopping the corral when Bill wasn't hopping the corral.
That was the other thing that irritated Warren. He didn't
like that and started doing the administrative assistant down the hall.
That's when he said, oh, that's it, I do know
more for you, and he got But that was after
forty seven billion went into the Gates Foundation, which is significant.
But this is this is what he wants to do.
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And he's the guy that invented that giving pledge where
he got like twenty other billionaires to give up half
of their fortunes to charity when they croak.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Can you imagine being disappointed you only got forty seven
billion dollars billion dollars and you have the arrogance to
get on a plane flight Omaha, and Warren, let's sit
down and talk about this. We were hoping for several
dozen billion more dollars. Any chance we can squeeze a
little more blood out of that turnip? How am I
supposed to go through the day to day business operation
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here for out year forty another forty seven billion dollars.
I was about to build my own space station, Warren,
but now I can't because then cut me off.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Then I can conduct an extra marital affair and a
different solar system.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
That was kind of the Bill Gates approach. Hey, it
worked for Shattner now, but it'll be great. Warren and
Bill they would come, they would you'd see him around
town with the playing bridge.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Well they were bridge partners and they were very very good. Actually,
but no, this is really good for Omaha. Suzie Buffett,
his daughter, is a wonderful philanthropist. Now you may differ
with some of her political views, and that's fine, But
the Sherwood Foundation has done a lot for the underserved
community and a lot for public education. Now, her brother's
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foundations are not based here, and so they do more
global stuff. But the Sherwood Foundation is all over this
town and this state, and it's going to have a
ton of money in it when Warren finally goes. It's
true there are some of the directives of the Sherwood Foundation.
I truly believe the reason that Juvenile Justice Detention Center
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downtown is sitting there empty with air conditioning, cooling it
to probably fifty eight degrees and wasting the taxpayer's money
without detaining any of these troubled youth is because of
Suzie Buffett and the Sherwood Foundation, because they don't want
anyone to be locked up in some sort of jail
for thirteen year Old's a little more complicated than that,
a lot of that pressure. But but she's supported through
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her foundation operations in there, so she she wrote a
sizable number to endow operations in there. But it's it
is a bone of contention, but it's also, frankly a
little more complicated than how you just described it. We're
just going very very simple and those kind of thing
easy in other words, TikTok on the community.
Speaker 8 (31:23):
No.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
But I'll also say that I don't know Susie Buffett. Well.
I have a chance to pretty much see her once
a year at an event where I give her a
slightly hard time and she's fun. She takes it and
she gives it back, and I like someone like that.
So personally, I think she's fun and i'd love to
have her in the studio. I've told her, please come here,
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sit down for two hours with me, let's just talk.
And she's like, oh you don't want mate, Yes, yes, Susie.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Well again, it's it's it speaks to their belief that
the conservative talk radio culture really hurt the country. Many
people believe it saved the country. But she comes from
that place. When we were spinning records, when we were
playing Cornelia's Brothers and Sister Rose, that's when Warren came
in with cupcakes. But then when we went to Limbaugh
and Michael Savage and some of the other hard right wingers, Uh, yeah,
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he said, that's it for me. And Alexander Payne has
exactly the same approach. He used to be an intern here.
I lived just down the street and he would show
up here as an intern. Knew Gary Sadimaire. Well, which
thing I know he's not k if he is off
his list? If it helps, hey, Warren will to back.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
I'll go back and play the Cornelius Brothers again on
this radio station. If you come in here and hang
out with us once in a while and be nice
to see you.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
This wasn't one that we played, but yeah it was.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
This is the best song by the Cornelius Like a Lady.
This is one of their best ones. This is the
I'm not even going to have this debate. Yeah, if
you asked a question off the air in the last
hour that I want to present to you on the air.
I just want your take on this. How many signatures
you think Brett Linstrom has so far for his bid
for governor of Nebraska.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
He probably has over a thousand here in District two.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Have they started or have they just?
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Oh? Yeah, I'm floated the idea of doing it. No,
I think he was. I think he was ramped up
and ready to go. I think he put together the
structure to do it, or very close to it. He
needs four thousand, which sounds like a lot, but it
really isn't. If you go to the right places and
you pay people to do this, He'll have paid signature gatherers,
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and they'll be at malls and North Platte and Grand Island,
and they'll be at swimming pools and public pools during
the week and all of that to get registered voters.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
It's true. I went to the Olk Heights swimming pool
the other day, dove into the deep end. Brett was
delaware asking me to sign the poticlo with a waterproof pen. Yeah,
so that's what I mean. But you know he has
thirty two days two days ago, so he's got pretty
much thirty days to do it. H And they he's
gonna need probably five thousand, because you know you need
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four thousand, but one thousand. I will be Mickey Mouse,
Adolf Hitler, and Ava Braun. I've done that before.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
I've signed I've signed petitions with Rudolph hess you know,
Julian Rosenberg. Yeah, so they throw those out and then
you got to have four thousand legitimate registered voters seven
fifty minimum in each district.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Depending on who you talk to. Hitler is running in
Nebraska's second congressional district, and again that's depending on who
you talk to. But I'm I'm just gonna doing a
Google search because if someone says, well, I want Brett
Linstrom to run for governor as an independent and go
out there and take on Jim Pellen and Lynn Wallace
and really shake things up, I want to go sign
the petition. I don't see anything for a website. There's
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no jump in, there's no Brettlinstrom web. So anyway, here
we go. Vote Lenstrom dot Com says coming soon, a
new direction for Nebraska. Brett Linstrom is running for governor.
Our campaign home is on its way check back soon
paid for by Linstrom for governor. That's it. It doesn't
say where to sign a petition. It doesn't say what
he stands for a new direction for Nebraska.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
Well, I mean as a matter of practical politics, there
is very little difference between Jim Pillen and Brett Linstrom politically.
Now there's a lot of difference between Lynn Walls and
Brett Linstrom politically, but other than the death penalty, there
really isn't one.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Lynn Walls should be funding everything about this campaign. That's
no clearious way for Lynn Walls to be the next
governor of Nebraska. To have Lindstrom get in here.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Jane Kleb I would pour some of the fifteen or
twenty dollars left in her checking accounts into this.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Jane Cleb, the head of the Nebraska Democratic Party, is
pushing for the political ambitions of Dan Osborne and bretce Linstrom,
who's not a Democrat, and Brett Linstrom, who is not
a Democrat.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
He's he's a conservative, but he's not a Democrat. But truly,
if Jane really wanted to give Lynn Walls her best chance,
she would be out there herself gathering signatures. She'd go
to all the prisons and the mental hospitals or wherever
else where her friends are, and they would have petitions
in every cell block.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Are you a registered voter in Lancaster County? Aren't you?
Lynn Walls?
Speaker 8 (36:14):
No?
Speaker 1 (36:14):
Sign the same for Brett Linstrom for governor. It really
helped me.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Wait a minute, I want Lynn Wallas win, Then you
need to sign this petition for Brett linstro Just after.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Eight o'clock tonight, Omaha Council Bluff's Time KFAV will be
among those media outlets presenting the President's speech to the nation.
What are we expecting to hear from President Trump tonight?
From Fox News Radio Tanya Jay Powers joined us right now, Tanya,
what do you expect to hear from the President tonight
than good morning?
Speaker 8 (36:41):
Well, it looks like from what we've heard from him.
When a reporter asked him about this earlier in the week,
they asked if it would concern election machines and integrity.
He said it would concern that subject, he said, We'll
also have a couple of other things to say. There
was a statement from the White House yesterday from the
Press Secretary who said you know that the truth is
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nobody knows yet what the President will ultimately say, which
is why everyone should tune in. It is tonight at
nine o'clock Eastern, and we're going to you know, get
the answer to all of these questions. But it looks
like it will include something about elections and voting machines.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
See, you would think that Iran would be not only
the main focus, but perhaps the singular focus, you know,
dubtailing domestic policy related to oil and gas prices. But
you're thinking it's going to go in a different direction
as well as Iran.
Speaker 8 (37:30):
Probably, Yeah, it's not my thinking, it's what he's actually said.
And I'm in agreement with you. I mean, I would
I would hope that one of the other things he
said that he's going to talk about is Iran because
you know, we've wrapped up the air strikes again, we've
still got you know, troops Americans, you know, troops.
Speaker 7 (37:51):
In harm's way.
Speaker 8 (37:52):
I mean, there's still there's still an active war going on.
Even though we've heard, you know, reports of deal making
and what not. That's you know, it's not done until
it's done, and at this point it's not done.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
Jim Rose why do you think he is directing this
to the American people when in reality there are six
senators that are keeping all of this from happening in
the United States Senate because they will not blow up
the filibuster.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
That's a good question.
Speaker 8 (38:21):
I mean, you know that you're right about the fact
that you know it is a lot of that has
to do with, you know, lawmakers in the line that
they have drawn of what they you know, will and
won't do.
Speaker 7 (38:32):
It's.
Speaker 8 (38:33):
Presidential addresses in prime time are usually done, you know,
around major milestones or some big national significant event, like
you know, if we've been attacked or uh in the
hours after we have you know, gone to war. You know,
usually we see that kind of thing pretty quickly to
you know, for the president to either you know, make
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his case for going to war or say, okay, here's
what we expect. These are our objectives, this is what
this is why we're doing this. He did that, and
with the Iran war it took about a month. It
was not in the in the wake of the first
air strikes or something that we would normally see. But
these usually these presidential primetime addresses are usually pretty substantial
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and we normally get ahead of time, you know, an
idea of what he's going like, a better idea of
what he's going to talk about, like an excerpt from
the remarks, or here are the the you know, things
in concrete that we're going to hear. We may hear
other things as well, but these are going to be
the talking point, so to speak. We've not gotten that.
If we've gotten it, I haven't seen a.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
Copy of it.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Love bit that way, and I expect this will be
fairly scripted, keeping to the script, and probably something that
along the lines of fifteen to twenty minutes rather than
an hour's long Maga rally. Tanya Jay Powers, You'll be
watching it with as much interest as the rest of it.
Thank you very much for jumping on here this morning. Sure,
no problem from Fox News Radio. That's Tanya Jay Powers
(39:56):
here on Nebraska's Morning News. How many weeks ago was
that we were talking. We got the news that there
was some developers saying, you know that center mall at
forty second in Center that needs to come down, we
need to do some affordable housing or something there. And
immediately a neighborhood group said, we don't know what you
want to do here. But we automatically don't like it.
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On top of that, you also have another group of
concerned citizens who say, I just don't like what the
city is doing in these so called giveaways when it
comes to Tiff, tax increment financing. To talk more about this,
one of the people who's been leading a coalition around
that Center Mall and beyond who joins us now, Stephen Houston,
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is here on news radio eleven ten kfab Stephen, what
is it that decided that made it for you and
your group to want to get involved in this issue.
Speaker 7 (40:51):
We need today? Right and wrong is obvious. Tiff is wrong.
It's wrong for four reasons, Scott. The data analytics or flawed,
the dollar flows backwards, the distorted real estate market with
government interference is wrong. And the destruction of the Center
Mall has to affect every architect that ever took the
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code of ethics associated with demolishing any kind of any
kind of building. We started with the small group, Scott,
we have become strong. Last Monday, our meeting was so
big it was standing room only. We encourage all people
in the city of Omaha to join us at the
Center Mall five point thirty on Mondays, until we win
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this case to disapprove this ordinance. Scott.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
Now, there'll be people who look at this and go, well,
there really aren't a whole lot of tenants there at
the Center Mall at forty second in Center, and someone's
going to come in there and do some something that
a lot of people think we really need here, affordable housing.
Why is it that you're opposed to something being done
with this space.
Speaker 7 (41:57):
Well, that is flawed thinking. There are hundreds of ys
that are existing there providing health and human services for
all those folks that come to that Center Mall. There
are thousands of people every week that walk in and
out of that building, Jim, I mean Scott. And it
is flawed thinking to think that this is a blighted,
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boarded up area. Forty second in Center is one of
the most important corners in the South Omaha district. We
don't need five hundred units in six acres. We need
the health and human services that are being provided there today.
We need a retrofit, Scott, not a destruction.
Speaker 1 (42:40):
Yeah, that's Stephen, I'm Scott. Here's Jim Okay, Stephen.
Speaker 2 (42:44):
As you know, nobody in the media knows more about
tiff financing than me in this community, and so you're
at the right place to have an intellectual discussion.
Speaker 1 (42:51):
I can't even argue with his assessmight that's true? But
you what are you afraid of?
Speaker 2 (42:55):
Because as you know, tiff financing will generate funds from
the improved piece of real estate to pay for its
bond and then ultimately more property tax. Are you afraid
that what's going in there will deflate the value of
your property and surrounding property? What is your biggest concern?
Speaker 7 (43:16):
My biggest concern is that locally the Center Mall still
provides it is valued at ten million dollars that will
be wiped off the books when it is taken down
to dirt. That two million dollars will not be repaid
for fifteen years. That is offensive. Tip in and of
itself is a flawed program, and the reason is is
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the dreams of the future incremental income doesn't come in.
There's a report from Open Nebraska. It shows the two
hundred and eighty eight projects that have been improved, seven
hundred and forty eight million have flowed to the developers
one hundred and twenty two million dollars back to the city.
Speaker 2 (43:57):
Well, that's okay, understand that you math is sort of
twisted to your narrative because the way tiff financing works
is will the city will continue to receive what it's
been getting, or the tiff financing agency, whether it's the
city or the county or whomever, they'll continue to get
what they've been receiving. And then when the project is
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completed and is revalued, then the increase property tax will
pay off the bond, and then ultimately, after fifteen years,
to your point, the extra money will go to the community.
It'll go into the city property tax coffers. And the
argument is, if we didn't do this, you'd never see
that increase in fifteen years. There are tiff projects that
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have been very, very successful in the community. The first
one is the first National Bank tower. That's one They
even paid off that tiff and it wasn't very big
in less than fifteen years. There are a number of
housing developments in the county that are way ahead of
schedule in repaying its tiff financing. So your real concern
isn't the tiff financing, it's what's going to happen to
what's in the building now? Correct?
Speaker 7 (45:01):
Well, I think it's both. Yeah, I think it's both.
First and foremost is is remember though, when they take
this down to dirt, the value will be only the
layoup that's eight hundred thousand dollars today is valued at
ten million dollars worth of building.
Speaker 2 (45:15):
Understand money, Yes, but Steven, I have to correct you.
The bond, the developer will continue to pay the existing
property tax that the city and the taxing authorities receive
even when they take it down to dirt. Okay, there
is the common the common levey will stay in effect
and the evaluation of the property as it stands today
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will continue to generate the same property tax. You don't
lose any property tax.
Speaker 1 (45:41):
I'm going to jump in here because people's brains are
glazing over, which I imagine happens at the meetings and
the council as well. When you, Steven, talk to your
council member and who is that in that is that hugger?
Is that vaguely there in that area all right? Is
he sympathetic to your cost here or is he giving
you the run around?
Speaker 7 (46:00):
Well, there was a news report when this first hit
in May and he was absolutely for it.
Speaker 1 (46:07):
Okay, So when you talk to people in that neighborhood.
Do you get the sense they're more concerned with some
of the tax issues that you and Jim are going
back and forth on, or what's going to happen with
that space where currently exists the Center Mall.
Speaker 7 (46:22):
It is again, it's both. If I were to address
what is proposed is a five hundred units in six acres,
the congestion at the forty second in Center street area
will be dramatic. It's e fact the comings and going
And what will happen too is our streets were just asphalted.
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The entire Morton Meadows area was just redone. This will
become a raceway down Lollworth through Morton Nab and put
our citizens at risk because of the congestion that will
be caused at forty second in Center, and they'll go
into the neighborhoods at fiftieth and Levenworth. I used to
go that way all the time. When I go to
UNL I don't even go near there because it is
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such a disaster that will last for twelve years.
Speaker 2 (47:08):
Well, you're Stephen, your points are well made, and you've
heard me rail against the abuses of Tiff. But the
math for Tiff financing is fairly consistent, and you're right,
this is not a blighted area. Typically that's the only
thing that qualifies for tiff. But they've tiffed you know,
crossroads and a few other things, and there's a great
argument to that. But yeah, I think your bigger concern
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is what's going in.
Speaker 1 (47:31):
There projects like this is at forty second Center, the
Vinton Silos, which will be apartments or something. This is
a big issue, Steve, and you guys have been holding
meetings about this. What do you want citizens to do
right now? And is there a website or social media
page or someplace they can see what you guys are
up to.
Speaker 7 (47:50):
Well, we are the Center Community Coalition. We meet at
the Willa Chather Library every Monday at five point thirty.
That would be action number one. Please attend, Please vote
with your feet, Come to our meetings. Contact every city
council member, not just the one that's in your district,
and tell them you're opposed to the Center Mall destruction.
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Destruction and demolition is anti ethical to every architect in
the city of Omaha across the nation. They should not
be destroyed, they should be rehabilitating. Right and wrong is
obvious and we ask every citizen to take this very serious,
that this could be the shot across the bow to
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end this tith madness.
Speaker 1 (48:34):
All right, Stephen Houstin, thank you for getting involved. Thank
you very much for your time here this morning with
us on Nebraska's Morning News. Appreciate it.
Speaker 7 (48:41):
Thank you, gentlemen,
Good morning, and thank you so much for being here
with us on Nebraska's morning news right here on news
Radio eleven ten kfab Chris Turner in for Craig Evans
for a couple more days. He is back on Monday.
Lucy Chapman's right there. There's Jim Rose here for one
more day and he's off tomorrow. I'm Scott Vorhees, I'll
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be gone all next week.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
There.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Now you got everyone's summer vacation schedule, and now let's
proceed with this program. But what in the world is
the president going to say tonight? Yesterday he said I'm
going to address the nation Thursday night, and everyone pretty
much said, mister president, is this going to be a
news conference or you just want the time? It's like,
oh big, it's gonna be huge, roads and bridges, power plants,
(00:50):
iran straight to horror moves like, mister President, we don't
think you're gonna say anything. We'll give you the time.
I guess the new works will be given him the time.
There's there's no World Cup on tonight. There's this is
gonna be just after eight o'clock Omaha Council Bluff's time.
(01:12):
We will bring it to you live here on news
Radio eleven ten kfab not quite sure what he is
going to say. We think the topic is Iran, though
he could swerve into ice or any number of the
reflecting He could talk for thirty minutes about the reflecting pool.
You don't really know. Now.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
My suspicion is he won't drift off script too far,
probably because there may not be very many other people
in the room, so he doesn't get applause, laugh lines,
all the stuff that he really enjoys, getting all of
the adulation that comes from a big crowd. I don't
know if he's gonna speak from the East room or
if he's gonna speak from the Oval office, but this
is gonna be about why we're in Iran. He's he's
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gonna come right out with it. And you just explained
to the whole country. And I don't know if all
the networks are going to carry it. Yeah, Fox will
carry it. I hope they do. I don't know that
CNN or MSNBC will, but nobody watches them anyway. So
this is his chance to lay it out and say,
I know gas prices are up, they're up forty cents.
It just won gas station in the last ten days
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here in Omaha. Because it's a future. They're thinking it's
going to be more expensive in the future. It's not
about right now. He's going to lay it out and
say this is why we're doing it. And I know
it hurts, and I know that I promised that gas
prices would be under twenty five cents by this time
when I ran for office a couple of years ago.
But we have to make sure that these people don't
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have a nuclear weapon, and that means we got to
fight them. That means we got to shoot at them.
We've got to drop bombs, make some people bleed.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Oil is still under eighty dollars a barrel at one
point during this conflict was up over one hundred and tens.
There's no excuse for the gas prices being where they are.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
This future. They're paying for the futures.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Yeah, and we've seen this ping pong battle go on
the straight of horror moves between Iran and some cargo
ships in America comes in here and would blow up
some of their installations to Kingdom come. I don't know
how they still have missile or radar sites or drone warehouses.
How do they still have this stuff. Well, they had
a lot of blowing. I guess anything else in Iran.
(03:22):
They've got a spaghetti works over there, is that just like, hey,
we got parcel land, what should we put on here?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Que's chicken?
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah, we could do raisin canes or you know what,
drones and radar missiles.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Well it's it's a country that's twice the size of Texas,
so there's a lot of space there and we have
to sort of figure out where the stuff is. Or
we send the Israelis over there dressed up black Iranians
and they say it's right there, and then they report
back to the Home Office.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Well it's you know.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
It's not like we walk the street and say, oh,
that looks like a drone manufacturing plant, let's blow that up.
There's a lot of a high level intelligence involved. But
the other thing that press and it has been committed
to doing. And I'm not sure I agree with this
from the standpoint of war. I agree with it morally
and ethically and as a human being, But from the
standpoint of war, you win a war by killing more
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of those people than they kill of yours. He's been
very careful to try and not be around any kind
of civilian areas. And that's why I probably haven't shot
out any power plants yet, and we haven't blown up
any infrastructure yet, because that makes the Iranians unhappy. And
if the Iranians are unhappy, nobody's happy.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Well are they happy now? Are they doing anything? Now?
Are they able to do anything?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
They say anything about the government, they get hauled off
into a darkened room, never to be seen or heard
from again by who.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
I imagine that the same people we are trying to
negotiate with over there would be the same ones who
would be killing their citizens. We don't know with whom
we're negotiating over there. So who's available to try and
kill their citizens? Are the citizens doing anything? Are they
just waiting? They're waiting, very very frustrating. The President is
a lot more frustrated than we are about it. But
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he did say that Iran has provided a gesture of goodwill.
This is an American who was held in Iran since
late twenty twenty four and they just released her. A woman.
I'm not sure what she was doing over there, but
she suffered a heart attack last week. She was still
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in an Iranian jail and or no she wasn't in jail,
never in jail. She just wouldn't let her leave, right.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
This was a gal who had her passport seized by
Iranian authorities. She was never thrown in jail, She was
never treated like a prisoner, but she was essentially not
allowed to leave, kind of locked her up in her
hotel room or had her under guard in her hotel room.
And this was she should never have been seized. This
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was a I'm not sure why she was over there.
Why these people are over there makes no sense to me.
Americans have been told these are countries you do not visit.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Well, okay, this was some sort of humanitarian mission for
then you know that no good deed goes unpunished in Iran,
So until things are better, you need to stay away
from there or you risk this. But supposedly, and we're
not going to know more until she's home, she was
treated pretty well, pretty quote unquote well, and what they
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did to her we won't know for sure until after
she returns. But she was never thrown in one of
those jails. No, But if you're not allowed to leave Iran,
it's like being in jail. They've got more drone installations
than Chick fil A's. So that's like, well, we all
need a little we all need another raising canes now
the eleven kfab certified Transmission Sports bree Here's Jim Roskay Scott.
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Good morning everybody from the whole world to just Twottinas. Stop.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Pitch time gone gone foraino.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Oh boy.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Eighty fifth minute of the World Cup semifinal last night
from Atlanta and Argentina. The champs take the lead on
England and win it two to one. Rips my heart out,
says England's Harry Kane.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Just gut it, died for the boys, tied for everyone,
the team, to staff, the fans. Yeah, we played a
good game for the large, large majority of it. Once
we went one new what we seem to Yeah, just
try and hold on with you know, at this level
it is not enough. So just got it, got it
because we we've worked so hard to be here and
the latter give him every last bit of running, sweat,
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blood tears, whatever it is. Such a food shot out
with you today is just kind.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Yea, this was intense. These two hate each other dates
to the Falklands War in nineteen eighty two, but Argentina
has a Lionel Missi, the greatest of all time, and
he assisted on both goals. So it's Spain and Argentina
on Sunday for Numero Uno bradish Open, the last major
of the years, going on from Royal Birkdale Golf Course
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on the west coast of England. Right now round one,
Daniel Brown, the Englishman, is at four under par. He
is on the eighteenth hole, and the sun Jay em
is four under par, also on the eighteenth hole, and
then a whole bunch of guys at three under, including
scottis Scheffler of the United States, who is playing the
ninth hole. This is a very difficult golf course. This
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is a golf course where you have to put the
driver in the bag a lot, and that affects these guys.
Most of them love to rip it off the tee,
but not here or you wind up in the gorst. Smiling,
Tim Miles of Dolan, South Dakota was back in the
neighborhood this week. His past key still worked at the
Hendrance Training Center, home of Husker basketball, so he plopped
down right there in the chair for the head coach.
(08:55):
No it didn't and no he didn't. He had an
appointment seven years after he was kicked to the curb
as coach of the Huskers. Miles, still quite popular among
Husker fans, had a meeting. He asked Fred if he
could interview Nate Lenzer, Fred's assistant coach, about defensive principles
and then take them back to San Jose State where
Miles as coaching. You saw how good Nebraska was on
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defense this year. Miles enjoyed the visit, did some interviews,
says he choked up watching Nebraska win its first ever
NCAA tournament game. Aflon magazine, one of the college football biggies,
has its preseason prediction for this season Nebraska tenth Sports
his news on Nebraska's news, weather and traffic station.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Lucy and I were just joking around yesterday. I think
it was that Chipotle was saying we're going to open
the Chipotle Mexican grill in Mexico. There have been several
businesses who have decided to put a foreign flare on
their food here in America that the people from that
home country think is hot garbage. So we'll see what
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Mexico thinks of Chipotle. Taco Bell tried to open up
some Taco Bell low Asians in Mexico. That didn't go well,
And then I joked about how when I went over
to Italy, I really enjoyed eating the local flavor there
at Olive Garden. That was a joke. But now, Lucy,
today's the day Olive Garden is bringing back what many
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observers say is the greatest deal in restaurant history. And
it's only available guys for just a few seconds, probably
at one o'clock Omaha Council Bluff's time.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Is this the soup and salad lunch?
Speaker 1 (10:33):
New This is the never Ending Pasta Pass. For one
hundred dollars, You've got thirteen weeks for unlimited build your
own pasta meals plus soup, salad, breadsticks. And they did
this the last time was six years ago. And let's
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see how many passes are available. Not very many. I
was twenty four thousand passes and they sold out in milliseconds.
That was six years ago. So here's how it works.
For one hundred dollars plus tax, the pass grants unlimited
access to the never Ending Pasta Bowl for thirteen weeks.
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That includes the entire duration of the promotion, along with
a full week of early access before it opens up
to the non pass holding public. You have three months
to enjoy up to one hundred and twenty possible combinations
of pasta, sauces, proteins, soup, salad, and breadsticks. If you
take full advantage of the pasta pass and eat at
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Olive Garden for all ninety days of the promotion, that
breaks down to about a dollar per meal. And just
think of the weight that you can pack on.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Well, just because it's never ending doesn't mean you have
to sit there and eat until your gut busts open.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Have you ever been to a buffet?
Speaker 5 (11:57):
I try to avoid them, but I have been.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Yes, Oh you're one of those. You're too good for.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
The public food.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
I don't mind it one bit.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
All I know is that the Valentino's Buffet, the famous
Valentino's Grand Grand Italian that personally, that that one institution
alone was the impetus for expanding Memorial Stadium seats. Because before,
before the Valentino's Grand Italian Buffet, and my good friend
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the late Tony Massino Tony before and which is a
reason he became Big Tony. The reason was that you know,
we could comfortably fit Nebraskans into the seats of Memorial
Stadium because they were fifteen inches wide. But then when
we all became nineteen inches wide following a trip to
the Valentino's Grand Italian Buffet, they had to they had
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to change the whole seating arrangement to the Memorial Stadium.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
And my wife is like Lucy, she does not like
the buffet.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
I like the way liked the buffet.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Lucy said, I don't like public food, oh, because there's
there's always some dirty kids running around touching everything. And
my wife is, ah, you know, she'll look at some
of the clientele there at the buffet and go, I
don't want them touching.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Almost. Well, maybe if you wouldn't go to a buffet
at a soup kitchen, you might find the conditions a
little more favorable.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
I for me, I just go in there, and I
see it as a personal challenge I have to win.
Say I go to a Chinese buffet or something like that,
seventeen bucks, all right, I can, I can. I can
eat seventeen dollars full of crab rangoon. I'm gonna be
here a while and I'm just gonna go back to
that Mongolian barbecue thing. Said more of this more of that.
(13:40):
Now you're talking who Hot. Yeah, well, I mean it's
a or who Hot style. There's another who Hots not
a buffet.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Because they cook it. It's fun too. I mean you
just get to see it there they are.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Yeah. I like that.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
And you know you you pick all the stuff, you
PLoP it down, then watch it, you follow it around.
It's it's more than. It's more than it's a restaurant.
It's an experience. Right.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
And you go to some of those like Haibachi girls
and all that, they start throwing food at you. You
got to try and catch it in your mouth. I
like that, just like a fish. Every restaurant should do that.
I want to go into Long John Silvers. I have
them start throwing fish at me, right, No, I want
to go to Taco to go to Taco Bell. They
start throwing bits of encelada at right.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
And the problem is if you don't do it, then
you look like, oh, she's a snob because she doesn't.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
Because I don't want to catch food in my mouth.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
I want to see you. I want to see you
act like a seal at a Long John Silvers. Sit
up in your chair. They throw a fish in your direction.
Then you leap to grab it. I'll do that all day.
That's a pretty good impression of a seal. And yeah,
all right, let's go. We'll do the buffet.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
I'll go in there and I eat everything I possibly can,
and then I go up for one more plate. And
then at the Chinese buffet, ice cream, that great Chinese
delicacy of chocolate and vanilla twists, soft serve ice cream.
It's big in Beijing. So I'm excited about the pasta
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pass and it goes on sale one o'clock to day
at pastapass dot com. Oh man, that dollar a day.
I can get that down to eighty three cents. Good day.
Just how many breadsticks you eat? This will be fun,
all right? Good luck. You have a better chance of
not only getting tickets to a Taylor Swift concert. I
think you have a better chance of marrying Taylor Swift
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than getting one o the anymore Olive Garden passes. Well
you never know. Mury, Scott and Gang, good morning.
Speaker 6 (15:41):
Hey, that reminds me of a restaurant they head down
to Saint Louis. I can't remember the name of it,
but it was called Home of the Throat Rolls. You
sat there and ordered your meal. And every time you
want to roll or you just push your arm in
the air and they bomb one at you. You miss it,
they'll bomb on another one. Great show, guys, have a
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good day.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
I guess chuckling making himself chuckle. Yeah, that's in Springfield. Yeah,
home of the Throwed Rolls. So they just tossed the
role at you. Now do you have to catch you
with your teeth? Lambert's Cafe it's around Springfield and I've
never eaten there. But once you start heading down to
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the Ozarks, about every thirteen feet you see a billboard
for Lambert's Cafe, Home of the Throwed Rolls, with some
little chef guy just chucking dinner rolls across the restaurant.
That's what I like. I want a little bit of food,
a little bit of danger. I want a food fight.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Interesting. I don't remember seeing any of those signs, and
we drove through Springfield all those years taking my daughter
to college at all miss so I don't know how
I missed the signs. That's possible. This is disappointing because
I don't get down to Springfield nearly as often now
she's graduated.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
It's good they're still open. Okay, you know Springfield is
Can you use a net?
Speaker 2 (17:05):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
How about a catcher's mitt. Do you think your kids
ever got into a food fight at school? I hope,
so it's part of a rite of passage. I don't
think my kids ever did you did? Right?
Speaker 2 (17:16):
No, not in school. I did my fraternity house one time. Okay,
yeah we did.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Yeah, but that's yeah, you guys have to clean up after, right,
That's that's stupid to do it at the fraternity. Well,
you're the ones that have to clean up after it.
And it was it was it was a tinder box.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
It was. It was a January, and of course it
was cold outside and so there wasn't a lot we
could do. So the whole conditions that night were kind
of a tinder box. And all it took was one spark.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
And I forget which year at Ralston.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
It was actually pretty funny, and I look back and
I remember that we that was a tension breaker in
the house.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
It was one of my seven or eight years I
spent at Ralston High School. I left with the doctorate.
But it was we we've been talking about it for
a week or two. We got it guys, guys, what
do we do? We got to have a food fight.
We were waiting for the right opportunity. What's it going
to be? Tater I mean, you get pizza day, you're
not gonna throw that. You want to eat that burgers Really,
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tater tots are fun. But then suddenly we realize, oh,
this today's the day. It was corn dog day. Turns
out you could wing one of those things across the
room like Peyton Manning's the projectiles. You send some guy
in a fly pattern and you just started showing. So
we're throwing corn dogs around the Ralston High School cafeteria.
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And what's really fun about throwing corn dogs is first
you dip the end of it in a big blab
a ketchup and now you've got an extra little poisoned
dart on the end of the corn dog. So great
to have you with us here. Thank you very much
for hanging out with Nebraska's Morning Noos. This is the
place where we come to laugh, cry and get through
the day together. Lucy Chapman is part of together. Craig
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Evans generally is he's gone this week back on Monday.
Chris Turner jumping in there, Courtney Donaho here too, and
Jim Rose. I am Scott Voorhees. And we have another
name to add to the list here, Warren Buffett. Though
he's not on the program. I guess he used to
come by the radio station. He just lives down the street.
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He used to pop in here and bring donuts. How's
everyone doing? And yeah, sadle Meyer said, he used to
do that. We're going back in the eighties. Doesn't come
and maybe early nineties. Yeah, Warren would come in here,
bring donuts. How's everyone doing? Don't forget they got dilli
bars down there at Dry Queen. It was out of
his way.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
I mean he lives on Farnham and he'd have to
literally go north not too far.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Now, yeah, I forgot an extra couple of blocks. He
would never stop buy.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
He was always a sort of a creature of habit
and since Farnham is a balanced pair, going east in
the morning, it would take him literally right to his building.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
All right, Well, Warren pop by CNBC the other day,
and that's not real cool.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
I think he fell out of love with kimf and B.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
When we put Limbaugh on, that was exactly what that's
that's as I understand it now, the ninety five year
old ninety five, I thought he was older. The ninety
five year old Warren Buffett isn't old enough. No, not
for Warren. I guess Bill Gates came to town a
few weeks ago and they spent a lot of time together,
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and turns out that Warren could not be persuaded otherwise.
He has stopped giving money to the Gates Foundation, while
at the same time he says, look, Bill gates association
with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was distasteful, But he's
not suggesting that Gates did anything wrong. He says, look,
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you people make mistakes, you hire the wrong person, you
choose the wrong friends. No one bats a thousand in
the business of choosing people. So Buffett's not saying I
think Gates was doing some horrible stuff. But Buffett is
saying that he should have known at the time that
you were working with this guy that he was a
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convicted sex offender. And so therefore he's not giving the
Gates Foundation like that any more money. So where is
that additional one hundred and forty billion dollars of Berkshire
Hathaway stock to foundations Kids going, it's going to his kids,
going to Howard's going to Peter. He's going to Susie
Buffett and the Sherwood Foundation, and if anyone's listening and wondering.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
And his late wife's foundation, the Susan A. Buffett Foundation,
if anyone of the Buffets are listening and curious as
to how to go about distributing that money, got some
ideas here?
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Oh Warren, won't you buy me a brand new four truck?
Speaker 2 (21:49):
My friends all drive Chevings.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
My old car just sucks, worked hard all my lifetime,
just can't make a book.
Speaker 7 (22:00):
So, oh Warren, won't you.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Buy me a brand new Ford truck? Oh Warren? Won't
you buy me a plasma TV?
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Deal or no deal.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Is trying to find me. I want to watch Oprah
and Grays and that on me, So, oh Warren, won't
you buy me a plasma TV? Oh Warren, won't you
buy me a steak Cad gold?
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Rats?
Speaker 1 (22:32):
My stomach is empty, your wallet is fat. Prove that
you love me and pick up the check. So, oh Warren,
won't you buy me a steak Cad Gold?
Speaker 6 (22:48):
Rats?
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Everybody?
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Oh Warren, won't you buy me a brand new Ford truck?
My friends all drive chefies. My old card ess sucks,
worked hard all my lifetime, just can't make a buck.
So oh, Warren, won't your.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Body a brand new forward? Well that's it.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
There you go, Okay. In case they're wondering how to
distribute those funds, we have some ideas.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
I don't think gear qualifies as a five oh one
seed three charity, so I don't. Now, you may have
financial problems, but that doesn't qualify you for charitable contribution.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Jim, I think it's clear I have a lot of problems.
I'm happy to share them with you here on Nebraska's
Morning News on news radio eleven ten kfab On a
personal note, I'm taking my first week off since sitting
here in Gary Sandelmeyer's chair.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Again.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
I wish that he would have left the chair, been
sitting in his lap like a little kid, you know. Yeah, Okay,
now you get to steer the car, you know, But
I but my feet don't reach the pedals. That's okay.
Gary's been doing this for me, he says, We're just
gonna I'm just gonna sit here and just guide you
through it till you get it right. But next week
I'm gonna leave, and he's gonna come in here Monday
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through Wednesday next week. And I'm sad because I love
coming in here and doing this hanging out with you guys.
And I'm also sad because I'm gonna be out of town.
I'm not gonna be able to listen to him on
my regular drive into work every day like I used to,
so that kind of makes me a little sad.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
You should download the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Yeah, Like I said, like when your regular, you know,
you make it part of your morning schedule. Like I
wake up, I brush my teeth and then I jump
back in bed and my wife says no, and then
I'm like all right, And then I go to work.
And while heading to work, I listen to Kfab and
I listened to Gary and Jim Argue like Omaha's favorite
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old married couple. And I miss all that me too,
I know. But for next Monday through Wednesday, you.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Get a chance to do that. Yeah, we got a
lot of pent up demand. I know.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
I'm just sorry that I won't be here to experience.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
As Lucy says, the iHeart mobile app will keep you
connected anywhere in the globe.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Yeah, well, probably not where we're going. We're gonna be
in a pretty remote location of Council Bluffs, so I'm
not gonna be able to hear it. Let me tell
you where I'm gonna be today.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Remote location, Council Bluff.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Yeah, they're a broad band over there yet not around
maniwa I don't think yeah really yeah, Okay, you're going
to camp out of lake maniwah good. I'm watching Lucy
Chapman right now in the hallway with some bleach wipes
cleaning up the uh the countertop. Jim, did you just
go get coffee over there and spill coffee everywhere and
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not clean it up?
Speaker 8 (25:46):
No?
Speaker 2 (25:47):
This is my first and only cup and it happened
at about five thirty.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Okay, did you spill coffee at five thirty and not
clean it up? Sure? Loose because Lucy just went over
and cleaned.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Always clean up. I the coldest. I'm the coldest, and
I always clean up after my messes I spilled. Some
people have to clean up some of my messes too,
But I'm always there with the mob.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
I'm always The code is thank you you spilled the coffee?
Speaker 4 (26:11):
Lists she did, and I see, I hope it wasn't mine.
I hope it was Gem's. But I see it's got
some yellows staying on and already on the countertop.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
That's not it's one of our brands that that that
countertop there cost us a razor too.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Just so you know, say it. Say it with me.
This is why we can't have nice things.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
It's the coffee machine's fault. It's not ours. We didn't
do it. Yeah, it just kept running.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Did it really? Oh no, it Forrest gumped. Oh let
me look here. I got an email from where wait
where are you going?
Speaker 5 (26:51):
I got stuff to do.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
I'm just looking at this email. Doug has been firing
in a number of emails Scott at KF A B
dot com via the Zonker's custom was inbox and I
could tell through a couple of the emails he's doing
voice to text and then not going back and editing it.
And it's usually a couple of things like oh, I
can see where it he said this, and it heard that.
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This one, though, is my favorite. We were talking earlier
about Warren Buffet, so he says, I think it's great
we celebrate the success of warm Muppet and that he
is a true omahan. Warren Buffet in a voice to
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text becomes warm.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
Muppet sitting in the balcony.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
He does kind of resemble I say this with all
due respect, he does kind of look like a warm
muppet and ninety five. That's great, And he's kind of
looked like that for a long time. He's one of
those guys who has not looked fundamentally different in my
entire life. Is when I was a kid, he.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Looked like that.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
You'd see him around town in the eighties up into
the early nineties, and and he just he kind of
looked like this. And now you see him around town
now and he's in his mid nineties and he still
looks exactly the same as he did forty five years ago.
Speaker 5 (28:14):
Can't disagree, right, Yeah, Well.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
He's just one of those guys. It's always kind of
looked like this.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
He came out of the womb looking sixty five, and
he just stayed that way. No, he was a very
good looking guy back in his day, like Morgan Freeman.
How are we going to know when he gets olay, Yeah,
we don't know. He's always looked, always look like that.
Thing about Buffett is he announced some time ago that
he was going to give all of the money to
the three kids. He's given forty seven billion to the
Gates Foundation when he and Melinda Gates were married, and
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he wasn't hopping the corral when Bill wasn't hopping the corral.
That was the other thing that irritated Warren. He didn't
like that and started doing the administrative assistant down the hall.
That's when he said, oh, that's it, I do know
more for you, and he got But that was after
forty seven billion went into the Gates Foundation, which is significant.
But this is this is what he wants to do.
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And he's the guy that invented that giving pledge where
he got like twenty other billionaires to give up half
of their fortunes to charity when they croak.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Can you imagine being disappointed you only got forty seven
billion dollars billion dollars and you have the arrogance to
get on a plane flight Omaha, and Warren, let's sit
down and talk about this. We were hoping for several
dozen billion more dollars. Any chance we can squeeze a
little more blood out of that turnip? How am I
supposed to go through the day to day business operation
(29:32):
here for out year forty another forty seven billion dollars.
I was about to build my own space station, Warren,
but now I can't because then cut me off.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Then I can conduct an extra marital affair and a
different solar system.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
That was kind of the Bill Gates approach. Hey, it
worked for Shattner now, but it'll be great. Warren and
Bill they would come, they would you'd see him around
town with the playing bridge.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Well they were bridge partners and they were very very good. Actually,
but no, this is really good for Omaha. Suzie Buffett,
his daughter, is a wonderful philanthropist. Now you may differ
with some of her political views, and that's fine, But
the Sherwood Foundation has done a lot for the underserved
community and a lot for public education. Now, her brother's
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foundations are not based here, and so they do more
global stuff. But the Sherwood Foundation is all over this
town and this state, and it's going to have a
ton of money in it when Warren finally goes. It's
true there are some of the directives of the Sherwood Foundation.
I truly believe the reason that Juvenile Justice Detention Center
(30:39):
downtown is sitting there empty with air conditioning, cooling it
to probably fifty eight degrees and wasting the taxpayer's money
without detaining any of these troubled youth is because of
Suzie Buffett and the Sherwood Foundation, because they don't want
anyone to be locked up in some sort of jail
for thirteen year Old's a little more complicated than that,
a lot of that pressure. But but she's supported through
(31:02):
her foundation operations in there, so she she wrote a
sizable number to endow operations in there. But it's it
is a bone of contention, but it's also, frankly a
little more complicated than how you just described it. We're
just going very very simple and those kind of thing
easy in other words, TikTok on the community.
Speaker 8 (31:23):
No.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
But I'll also say that I don't know Susie Buffett. Well.
I have a chance to pretty much see her once
a year at an event where I give her a
slightly hard time and she's fun. She takes it and
she gives it back, and I like someone like that.
So personally, I think she's fun and i'd love to
have her in the studio. I've told her, please come here,
(31:45):
sit down for two hours with me, let's just talk.
And she's like, oh you don't want mate, Yes, yes, Susie.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Well again, it's it's it speaks to their belief that
the conservative talk radio culture really hurt the country. Many
people believe it saved the country. But she comes from
that place. When we were spinning records, when we were
playing Cornelia's Brothers and Sister Rose, that's when Warren came
in with cupcakes. But then when we went to Limbaugh
and Michael Savage and some of the other hard right wingers, Uh, yeah,
(32:19):
he said, that's it for me. And Alexander Payne has
exactly the same approach. He used to be an intern here.
I lived just down the street and he would show
up here as an intern. Knew Gary Sadimaire. Well, which
thing I know he's not k if he is off
his list? If it helps, hey, Warren will to back.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
I'll go back and play the Cornelius Brothers again on
this radio station. If you come in here and hang
out with us once in a while and be nice
to see you.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
This wasn't one that we played, but yeah it was.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
This is the best song by the Cornelius Like a Lady.
This is one of their best ones. This is the
I'm not even going to have this debate. Yeah, if
you asked a question off the air in the last
hour that I want to present to you on the air.
I just want your take on this. How many signatures
you think Brett Linstrom has so far for his bid
for governor of Nebraska.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
He probably has over a thousand here in District two.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Have they started or have they just?
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Oh? Yeah, I'm floated the idea of doing it. No,
I think he was. I think he was ramped up
and ready to go. I think he put together the
structure to do it, or very close to it. He
needs four thousand, which sounds like a lot, but it
really isn't. If you go to the right places and
you pay people to do this, He'll have paid signature gatherers,
(33:39):
and they'll be at malls and North Platte and Grand Island,
and they'll be at swimming pools and public pools during
the week and all of that to get registered voters.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
It's true. I went to the Olk Heights swimming pool
the other day, dove into the deep end. Brett was
delaware asking me to sign the poticlo with a waterproof pen. Yeah,
so that's what I mean. But you know he has
thirty two days two days ago, so he's got pretty
much thirty days to do it. H And they he's
gonna need probably five thousand, because you know you need
(34:08):
four thousand, but one thousand. I will be Mickey Mouse,
Adolf Hitler, and Ava Braun. I've done that before.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
I've signed I've signed petitions with Rudolph hess you know,
Julian Rosenberg. Yeah, so they throw those out and then
you got to have four thousand legitimate registered voters seven
fifty minimum in each district.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Depending on who you talk to. Hitler is running in
Nebraska's second congressional district, and again that's depending on who
you talk to. But I'm I'm just gonna doing a
Google search because if someone says, well, I want Brett
Linstrom to run for governor as an independent and go
out there and take on Jim Pellen and Lynn Wallace
and really shake things up, I want to go sign
the petition. I don't see anything for a website. There's
(34:50):
no jump in, there's no Brettlinstrom web. So anyway, here
we go. Vote Lenstrom dot Com says coming soon, a
new direction for Nebraska. Brett Linstrom is running for governor.
Our campaign home is on its way check back soon
paid for by Linstrom for governor. That's it. It doesn't
say where to sign a petition. It doesn't say what
he stands for a new direction for Nebraska.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
Well, I mean as a matter of practical politics, there
is very little difference between Jim Pillen and Brett Linstrom politically.
Now there's a lot of difference between Lynn Walls and
Brett Linstrom politically, but other than the death penalty, there
really isn't one.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Lynn Walls should be funding everything about this campaign. That's
no clearious way for Lynn Walls to be the next
governor of Nebraska. To have Lindstrom get in here.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Jane Kleb I would pour some of the fifteen or
twenty dollars left in her checking accounts into this.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Jane Cleb, the head of the Nebraska Democratic Party, is
pushing for the political ambitions of Dan Osborne and bretce Linstrom,
who's not a Democrat, and Brett Linstrom, who is not
a Democrat.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
He's he's a conservative, but he's not a Democrat. But truly,
if Jane really wanted to give Lynn Walls her best chance,
she would be out there herself gathering signatures. She'd go
to all the prisons and the mental hospitals or wherever
else where her friends are, and they would have petitions
in every cell block.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Are you a registered voter in Lancaster County? Aren't you?
Lynn Walls?
Speaker 8 (36:14):
No?
Speaker 1 (36:14):
Sign the same for Brett Linstrom for governor. It really
helped me.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Wait a minute, I want Lynn Wallas win, Then you
need to sign this petition for Brett linstro Just after.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Eight o'clock tonight, Omaha Council Bluff's Time KFAV will be
among those media outlets presenting the President's speech to the nation.
What are we expecting to hear from President Trump tonight?
From Fox News Radio Tanya Jay Powers joined us right now, Tanya,
what do you expect to hear from the President tonight
than good morning?
Speaker 8 (36:41):
Well, it looks like from what we've heard from him.
When a reporter asked him about this earlier in the week,
they asked if it would concern election machines and integrity.
He said it would concern that subject, he said, We'll
also have a couple of other things to say. There
was a statement from the White House yesterday from the
Press Secretary who said you know that the truth is
(37:01):
nobody knows yet what the President will ultimately say, which
is why everyone should tune in. It is tonight at
nine o'clock Eastern, and we're going to you know, get
the answer to all of these questions. But it looks
like it will include something about elections and voting machines.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
See, you would think that Iran would be not only
the main focus, but perhaps the singular focus, you know,
dubtailing domestic policy related to oil and gas prices. But
you're thinking it's going to go in a different direction
as well as Iran.
Speaker 8 (37:30):
Probably, Yeah, it's not my thinking, it's what he's actually said.
And I'm in agreement with you. I mean, I would
I would hope that one of the other things he
said that he's going to talk about is Iran because
you know, we've wrapped up the air strikes again, we've
still got you know, troops Americans, you know, troops.
Speaker 7 (37:51):
In harm's way.
Speaker 8 (37:52):
I mean, there's still there's still an active war going on.
Even though we've heard, you know, reports of deal making
and what not. That's you know, it's not done until
it's done, and at this point it's not done.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
Jim Rose why do you think he is directing this
to the American people when in reality there are six
senators that are keeping all of this from happening in
the United States Senate because they will not blow up
the filibuster.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
That's a good question.
Speaker 8 (38:21):
I mean, you know that you're right about the fact
that you know it is a lot of that has
to do with, you know, lawmakers in the line that
they have drawn of what they you know, will and
won't do.
Speaker 7 (38:32):
It's.
Speaker 8 (38:33):
Presidential addresses in prime time are usually done, you know,
around major milestones or some big national significant event, like
you know, if we've been attacked or uh in the
hours after we have you know, gone to war. You know,
usually we see that kind of thing pretty quickly to
you know, for the president to either you know, make
(38:54):
his case for going to war or say, okay, here's
what we expect. These are our objectives, this is what
this is why we're doing this. He did that, and
with the Iran war it took about a month. It
was not in the in the wake of the first
air strikes or something that we would normally see. But
these usually these presidential primetime addresses are usually pretty substantial
(39:14):
and we normally get ahead of time, you know, an
idea of what he's going like, a better idea of
what he's going to talk about, like an excerpt from
the remarks, or here are the the you know, things
in concrete that we're going to hear. We may hear
other things as well, but these are going to be
the talking point, so to speak. We've not gotten that.
If we've gotten it, I haven't seen a.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
Copy of it.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Love bit that way, and I expect this will be
fairly scripted, keeping to the script, and probably something that
along the lines of fifteen to twenty minutes rather than
an hour's long Maga rally. Tanya Jay Powers, You'll be
watching it with as much interest as the rest of it.
Thank you very much for jumping on here this morning. Sure,
no problem from Fox News Radio. That's Tanya Jay Powers
(39:56):
here on Nebraska's Morning News. How many weeks ago was
that we were talking. We got the news that there
was some developers saying, you know that center mall at
forty second in Center that needs to come down, we
need to do some affordable housing or something there. And
immediately a neighborhood group said, we don't know what you
want to do here. But we automatically don't like it.
(40:16):
On top of that, you also have another group of
concerned citizens who say, I just don't like what the
city is doing in these so called giveaways when it
comes to Tiff, tax increment financing. To talk more about this,
one of the people who's been leading a coalition around
that Center Mall and beyond who joins us now, Stephen Houston,
(40:39):
is here on news radio eleven ten kfab Stephen, what
is it that decided that made it for you and
your group to want to get involved in this issue.
Speaker 7 (40:51):
We need today? Right and wrong is obvious. Tiff is wrong.
It's wrong for four reasons, Scott. The data analytics or flawed,
the dollar flows backwards, the distorted real estate market with
government interference is wrong. And the destruction of the Center
Mall has to affect every architect that ever took the
(41:12):
code of ethics associated with demolishing any kind of any
kind of building. We started with the small group, Scott,
we have become strong. Last Monday, our meeting was so
big it was standing room only. We encourage all people
in the city of Omaha to join us at the
Center Mall five point thirty on Mondays, until we win
(41:33):
this case to disapprove this ordinance. Scott.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
Now, there'll be people who look at this and go, well,
there really aren't a whole lot of tenants there at
the Center Mall at forty second in Center, and someone's
going to come in there and do some something that
a lot of people think we really need here, affordable housing.
Why is it that you're opposed to something being done
with this space.
Speaker 7 (41:57):
Well, that is flawed thinking. There are hundreds of ys
that are existing there providing health and human services for
all those folks that come to that Center Mall. There
are thousands of people every week that walk in and
out of that building, Jim, I mean Scott. And it
is flawed thinking to think that this is a blighted,
(42:20):
boarded up area. Forty second in Center is one of
the most important corners in the South Omaha district. We
don't need five hundred units in six acres. We need
the health and human services that are being provided there today.
We need a retrofit, Scott, not a destruction.
Speaker 1 (42:40):
Yeah, that's Stephen, I'm Scott. Here's Jim Okay, Stephen.
Speaker 2 (42:44):
As you know, nobody in the media knows more about
tiff financing than me in this community, and so you're
at the right place to have an intellectual discussion.
Speaker 1 (42:51):
I can't even argue with his assessmight that's true? But
you what are you afraid of?
Speaker 2 (42:55):
Because as you know, tiff financing will generate funds from
the improved piece of real estate to pay for its
bond and then ultimately more property tax. Are you afraid
that what's going in there will deflate the value of
your property and surrounding property? What is your biggest concern?
Speaker 7 (43:16):
My biggest concern is that locally the Center Mall still
provides it is valued at ten million dollars that will
be wiped off the books when it is taken down
to dirt. That two million dollars will not be repaid
for fifteen years. That is offensive. Tip in and of
itself is a flawed program, and the reason is is
(43:40):
the dreams of the future incremental income doesn't come in.
There's a report from Open Nebraska. It shows the two
hundred and eighty eight projects that have been improved, seven
hundred and forty eight million have flowed to the developers
one hundred and twenty two million dollars back to the city.
Speaker 2 (43:57):
Well, that's okay, understand that you math is sort of
twisted to your narrative because the way tiff financing works
is will the city will continue to receive what it's
been getting, or the tiff financing agency, whether it's the
city or the county or whomever, they'll continue to get
what they've been receiving. And then when the project is
(44:17):
completed and is revalued, then the increase property tax will
pay off the bond, and then ultimately, after fifteen years,
to your point, the extra money will go to the community.
It'll go into the city property tax coffers. And the
argument is, if we didn't do this, you'd never see
that increase in fifteen years. There are tiff projects that
(44:38):
have been very, very successful in the community. The first
one is the first National Bank tower. That's one They
even paid off that tiff and it wasn't very big
in less than fifteen years. There are a number of
housing developments in the county that are way ahead of
schedule in repaying its tiff financing. So your real concern
isn't the tiff financing, it's what's going to happen to
what's in the building now? Correct?
Speaker 7 (45:01):
Well, I think it's both. Yeah, I think it's both.
First and foremost is is remember though, when they take
this down to dirt, the value will be only the
layoup that's eight hundred thousand dollars today is valued at
ten million dollars worth of building.
Speaker 2 (45:15):
Understand money, Yes, but Steven, I have to correct you.
The bond, the developer will continue to pay the existing
property tax that the city and the taxing authorities receive
even when they take it down to dirt. Okay, there
is the common the common levey will stay in effect
and the evaluation of the property as it stands today
(45:36):
will continue to generate the same property tax. You don't
lose any property tax.
Speaker 1 (45:41):
I'm going to jump in here because people's brains are
glazing over, which I imagine happens at the meetings and
the council as well. When you, Steven, talk to your
council member and who is that in that is that hugger?
Is that vaguely there in that area all right? Is
he sympathetic to your cost here or is he giving
you the run around?
Speaker 7 (46:00):
Well, there was a news report when this first hit
in May and he was absolutely for it.
Speaker 1 (46:07):
Okay, So when you talk to people in that neighborhood.
Do you get the sense they're more concerned with some
of the tax issues that you and Jim are going
back and forth on, or what's going to happen with
that space where currently exists the Center Mall.
Speaker 7 (46:22):
It is again, it's both. If I were to address
what is proposed is a five hundred units in six acres,
the congestion at the forty second in Center street area
will be dramatic. It's e fact the comings and going
And what will happen too is our streets were just asphalted.
(46:42):
The entire Morton Meadows area was just redone. This will
become a raceway down Lollworth through Morton Nab and put
our citizens at risk because of the congestion that will
be caused at forty second in Center, and they'll go
into the neighborhoods at fiftieth and Levenworth. I used to
go that way all the time. When I go to
UNL I don't even go near there because it is
(47:05):
such a disaster that will last for twelve years.
Speaker 2 (47:08):
Well, you're Stephen, your points are well made, and you've
heard me rail against the abuses of Tiff. But the
math for Tiff financing is fairly consistent, and you're right,
this is not a blighted area. Typically that's the only
thing that qualifies for tiff. But they've tiffed you know,
crossroads and a few other things, and there's a great
argument to that. But yeah, I think your bigger concern
(47:30):
is what's going in.
Speaker 1 (47:31):
There projects like this is at forty second Center, the
Vinton Silos, which will be apartments or something. This is
a big issue, Steve, and you guys have been holding
meetings about this. What do you want citizens to do
right now? And is there a website or social media
page or someplace they can see what you guys are
up to.
Speaker 7 (47:50):
Well, we are the Center Community Coalition. We meet at
the Willa Chather Library every Monday at five point thirty.
That would be action number one. Please attend, Please vote
with your feet, Come to our meetings. Contact every city
council member, not just the one that's in your district,
and tell them you're opposed to the Center Mall destruction.
(48:11):
Destruction and demolition is anti ethical to every architect in
the city of Omaha across the nation. They should not
be destroyed, they should be rehabilitating. Right and wrong is
obvious and we ask every citizen to take this very serious,
that this could be the shot across the bow to
(48:32):
end this tith madness.
Speaker 1 (48:34):
All right, Stephen Houstin, thank you for getting involved. Thank
you very much for your time here this morning with
us on Nebraska's Morning News. Appreciate it.
Speaker 7 (48:41):
Thank you, gentlemen,
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