Pillen Calls Out "Libt_rds"

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Nebraska's Morning News. Lucy Chapman right there, Craig
Evans as well. Jim Rose is here. My name is
Scott Borhes. Thank you so much for being with us
here on Nebraska's morning news news radio eleven ten KFAB.
It's always dangerous to ask a question when you know
the answer and you don't want to hear it. The
question is are we all adults here this morning?

Speaker 2 (00:24):
That's a risky poposition.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
I know you have to define okay, all right, So
that's I just wanted to let everyone know what we're
all dealing with here today.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
He's set in the bar.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
Last night, I am finally home after my kids basketball game.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
I'm eating a little food.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
I'm watching an Adam Sandler comedy special on Netflix, just
to kill about fifteen minutes a time. And I was
laughing my full head off, and then my phone goes off,
Like I just said, I finally just sat down. What
and my phone's ranging It's a possible spam call. Nope,
just to dismiss well. After seeing the voicemail later, I

(01:04):
realized that was the call where I was invited, as
many Nebraskans were to join the Governor's Tela Town Hall.
Oh no, I know I missed it that I chose
Adam Sandler over Governor Jim Pillen.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
I chose a crossword puzzle.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
Governor Pillen, friend of the show, was just on this
program last week, and you know, I always enjoy talking
with him, asking him questions, and sometimes he's not real
thrilled about answering. That's how this goes, you know, he's
he understands how this works. So last night was an
opportunity for people to beat pop boop on their phone,

(01:46):
hit a couple of buttons and ask the governor questions. Now,
you didn't get a chance to directly ask the governor questions.
That's not how this teletown Hall works. So, Lucy, if
you're on the call, you hit a button and then
someone says, what do you want to ask the governor about?
And you say, I want to know what he thinks

(02:06):
about cats, you know, or whatever. Well, we've been wondering
for a long time, and frankly, it's disturbing he's not
directly answered that question. He keeps deflecting, talks about dogs
and like governor answer the feline question. So then someone
decides from his staff Governor we had a call from

(02:27):
a constituent named Lucy. She wants to know what you
think about cats. Well, I appreciate the question, you know,
dogs are like. He's not answering it, you know. So
that's that's how this thing works. I don't know what
the questions were, but they had to do with some
sort of opposition to things the governor says or does,
and that's not going to quiet down after these responses.

(02:50):
When I asked the question a moment ago, are we
all adults here? It's because the governor used the term
a childish sophomoric. Frequently use term to describe people on
the other side, the democratic side of the political spectrums,
with whom he disagrees. I see this a lot in

(03:10):
social media. I see it a lot in the inbox.
I see this kind of thing once in a while.
I don't use the term. Frankly, I'm not a fan
of the term. I get it, and it speaks to
another term that I don't use, and we're going to
have to talk about that this morning. Now we're all
adults here, right, I'm saying right now, I don't like

(03:33):
this word. Now, at the end of the day, people
are gonna scream at me for using this word fifty
thousand million times. Governor said it three times. The word
is hm lib tard. You're you laughing at the word.
That's a word you've heard a million times? Are you
laughing that the governor of Nebraska just said it?

Speaker 4 (03:55):
Actually?

Speaker 5 (03:55):
I was kind of trying to get past the whole
saying it three times and wondering if he does heels
together too.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
Yes, if you say that word three times and click
your heels together. Jane Kleb appears. I see she is
among those who are feigning of fence.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
Oh really, I thought she was the one under the house.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
Oh, come on, Jane's our friend. We love James Ahead
of the Nebraska Democratic Party loves I adore her, honest
to goodness. All right, so we'll get the hell out
of here. Okay, See, that's exactly what I was about
to say. Is the language in politics these days, whether
it comes from the president, the mayor of Minneapolis, the
governor of Nebraska. There are a lot of people who said,

(04:37):
you know the language of these politicians, Well, how did
they get there? Was it a bloody coup? Or did
we profane classless society? The people were just out there
wearing pajamas twenty four hours a day and cursing up
a storm in front of someone else's kids at McDonald's
leaking class all over town. Did we put these guys

(04:57):
there so looking the mirror anyway?

Speaker 3 (05:00):
The governor.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
Here are the ways that he used the term. The
first one was quote, Nebraskans are about faith, family, and
hard work. We're about and you're wondering how's he gonna
work this tournament. We're about the American dream. I will
tell you that if you sit and listen to the
ten keyboard warriors that are the lib tards. If you

(05:23):
listen to that, you would think the sky is falling down.

Speaker 4 (05:26):
You alwas only talking about ten people, then.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
Ten people keyboard warriors. That's usage number one. Usage number
two quote, I love the people in Nebraska, and you know,
I don't really give a damn what those lib tards
and these people want to criticize. Quite honestly, the more
they criticize me and our team and my family, we're
doing great work. I'm only your governor by the strength

(05:50):
of prayers.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
Unquote.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
We've worked both faith, prayers and libtards into the same
two quotes.

Speaker 3 (05:58):
Third one quicker.

Speaker 1 (05:59):
He said, quote, we had some demonstrators in one of
our places today that wear the red things whatever. The
libtards have lost their brains unquote the red thing. When
he's talking about the red thing, he's not talking about
Husker fans. Who are these people wearing these red things
like that's a Nebraska basketball game, governor. No, he's talking

(06:19):
about those who wear the handsmade tail costumes. Oh, they
want us to be Puritans and not give us rights
and all this stuff. So he says they've lost their brains. Now,
don't I don't use that term. I don't like that term.

Speaker 3 (06:34):
I get it.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
People toss a lot of terms around there. It's not
exactly my lane to fire that one across, though, I
do understand the Louis c. K way of describing the
people who use then the R word. And he's like,
you know, people aren't calling those who are, you know,
actually in various forms of mental retardation. They're not calling

(06:59):
people that were That would be horrible. No one's doing that.
They're saying it to their buddies. They're saying it to
someone they disagree with. The President says it about the
governor of Minnesota. You know, you're not actually calling someone
who's in that state that word. So there is that
not an excuse, I'm just throwing it out there. And

(07:20):
then you've got this phrase here that is a variation
on that. And the reason why a lot of people
keep saying it is because of a lot of liberal people
hate hearing it, and that's why they keep saying it.
I didn't think the governor was going to say it
three times in Attela town hall.

Speaker 3 (07:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:39):
Well it was Michael Savage who first referred to liberalism
as a mental disorder, and that may have planted the seed. Now,
if you're a liberal, you're not retarded, mentally retarded, or
anything like that. You just have a differing view of
how the world should be run. And in most cases
your policies have failed. But that's a separate argument. This
is a governor, much like the president, who is not

(08:01):
a politician, who never wanted to be a politician, who
never was trained in the art of politics. They were
trained in the art of looking at a task, figuring
out how to make it better or fix it, and
then doing it. Yes, but and and we're going to
get back to my he gets slacked. The guy gets slacked. Well, no,
I don't like it. I wish he wouldn't refer to

(08:22):
liberals as lib tardres. There's a yes butt, and we're
going to get to my butt at like six three,
going to get to your butt, yesday, I got a
pig butt on this, and we're going to get to
a seat. I'm right there, classlest as well, and I
want to hear your thoughts. Scott at kfab dot com.
We'll read those emails coming up.

Speaker 1 (08:38):
And yes, this cabal of adults here this morning be
that as it may. Are discussing a term that the
governor of Nebraska used three times in last night's tell
A town hall.

Speaker 3 (08:49):
The term is lib tard.

Speaker 1 (08:56):
Is what the governor said, again the quotes he's says, quote.
I'll tell you that if you sit and listen to
the ten keyboard warriors that are the lib tards, if
you listen to that, you would think the sky is
falling down.

Speaker 3 (09:10):
That's one.

Speaker 1 (09:11):
Number two, I love the people in Nebraska, and you know,
I really don't give a damn what those lib tards
and these people want to criticize. And number three, we
had some demonstrators in one of our places today that
wear the red things whatever. The libtards have lost their
brains unquote. The red things are the handsmade's tales outfit

(09:31):
that whole thing. So we're getting your feedback and it
is exactly as you think. I'll read those emails. In
a moment, I already came out and said, you know,
I'm not a I don't use that term. I get
it because the people who do use that term, they're
not finding people who are mentally retarded and tend to

(09:55):
vote Democrat and referring to them as that term.

Speaker 3 (10:00):
It's the comedian Louis c.

Speaker 1 (10:02):
K is another dangerous person to quote, but he was
talking about the R word and he said, you know,
people aren't out there calling those who are afflicted with
that condition that word.

Speaker 3 (10:13):
That would be terrible.

Speaker 1 (10:15):
So that's I'm not using it as an excuse like
this is no big deal. I think it is below
the class of the governor of the state of Nebraska
to use that term.

Speaker 3 (10:27):
There.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
I said that. Jim Rose said a moment ago that
you disagree with.

Speaker 2 (10:32):
We don't like it. I don't like it. I wish
you wouldn't say that. But we are in an era
now where we are electing people to office who really
don't care what other people think about them personally or professionally.
They look at their job as a chief executive, whether
it's President of the United States or governor of Nebraska,
as the people saying we want you to lead this,

(10:55):
we want you to manage, we want you to run
the office. And Jim Pillan, as we found because he
was on the air with us last week, he has
no future political aspiration. Most do, even Dave Heinemann. When
he left office in twenty fourteen after serving as governor
for ten years, he might have thought, in the back
of his mind, maybe I have one more election in me,

(11:16):
so I'm gonna hedge a little bit. I'm not going
to stick my neck out. This guy does not have
that issue. This guy doesn't care what you think, or
I think, or the media thinks. Remember when he was
running for governor four years ago. He didn't participate in
any of those debates.

Speaker 1 (11:29):
No I know, nor did he come on the radio
station a whole lot a couple of times here on.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
He just this is him. He's a farmer. Farmers approach
life very differently than most people. Yes, but here's my buddy.
You say, I say, you know what I don't like it.
If I were his dad, I would say that demonstrates
to you a lack of intelligence, which is not so.
He's a very very smart guy. But I'm not his dad,
and I'm.

Speaker 1 (11:53):
Not a social worker or his probation off right, that's
the ultimately as a politician. If you don't like it,
then don't vote for so. As a person though, and
you're saying, like, look, this guy's not a politician. He's
not polished. He says some stuff that's on varnished. Here's,
you know, kind of what you can. I consider him
a friend, but you know, he was he was raised
as a kind of person that we'd expect from a

(12:16):
classy Nebraskan not to use great family phrasing like that.
And his mother would say, Jim, Jim, Jim, it's true,
you know, so she probably would look, now, am I am?
I Did I lose any sleep about it last night?
I did not know. So here's here's what we're getting
in the Zonker's custom was inbox Scott at kfab dot com.

(12:39):
Patrick says he's not wrong. Keith says, I use libtard daily.
It's a pretty good description of people on that certain mindset.
Slash political side of the aisle, as Keith tom says,
what else would you refer to them as? I? I
know that you could. I've been I've been shooting off
my big fat mouth for a couple of decades. Now

(13:02):
on this radio station. You're going to find several examples
where I've failed in a standard that I try and
set for myself. Honestly, I don't Lucy, You've been listening
to this for years. I don't use a lot of
name calling, and.

Speaker 4 (13:20):
You always finish it up with sosier faces when you
did it.

Speaker 1 (13:23):
Right, you know, so, I'm not. I'm not a big
blanket statement name caller. I'm sure I can find lots
of examples, and I'll probably come up with another one here.
In response to Kevin's email, says, if you use since
the governor used that term three times in the conference
call last night, says, if you say that three times,
does beetlejuice show up? Kind of it's former Chicago Mayor

(13:48):
Lori Lightfoot. Now see that's just by pointing out that
former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot does resemble beetlejuice, you might think, well,
that's name calling. No, it's it's not Beetlejuice is one
of my very favorite movies. I think that's a badge
of honor on her part. We got CM says the

(14:11):
facts that the leftists throw out there are absolutely mentally
lib tarted. Scott, Yeah, thank you for that email, and
then Terry and Council Bluff says, I don't use the
R word much, but I agree with the point that
banning words is a form of control, and libtart, I mean,
leftist progressives are all about control as they take more

(14:34):
and more power. And he quotes a woman named Amy
Therese on Twitter who said, you ever notice how they
banned us from saying gay and retarded at precisely the
moment that they began ushering in a completely gay and
retarded social order. So there, Like I said, we're adults
this morning. There's some terms phrases out here that I

(14:56):
will not be using over the course of the next
hour and a half or so. When kids are in school,
I'll use more euphemistic phrasing if and probably when we
continue to talk about this story. But those are my sensitivities.
I don't have much of them, but those are a
few of those coming through there but before we get

(15:16):
all bent out of shape and take any kind of
moral high ground. As I mentioned earlier, Jane Kleb, the
head of the Nebraskan Democratic Party, said, this is just
absolutely terrible that the governor called people to remember it
was President Barack Obama who went on one of those
late night shows and referred to I think his bowling
prowess as being like the special Olympics, so, which.

Speaker 2 (15:41):
Was sounded by Kennedy interestingly.

Speaker 3 (15:43):
Enough, Well it's interesting.

Speaker 1 (15:45):
So I just before we all start saying, well, I look,
people look at things the President Trump says, and they're like,
I don't know why he says things like that, because
this is a filthy job out what we're doing here
this morning politics. It's a filthy job. And with the

(16:08):
advent of social media, these guys are getting the ugliest
and sometimes violent, threatening things thrown at them all the time.
If they fire back a few times and say some
things that we might say, I don't know that you know,
a reasonable person would sit down, think that through and
say that I'm I tend to provide grace and be

(16:29):
able to forgive a few things like that. This is
News Radio eleven ten kfab Scott at kfab dot com.
Goupnor Pillen used a phrase in the Teletown Hall last
night that has got people talking, and here are some responses.
More In the Zonker's custom what was Inbox, Chris says,
I love pillings blunt talk. You're not guessing where he's

(16:52):
coming from or what he means. And if you're just
joining us going what he's saying, you know the R word.
It's a version of that where he's talking about liberals,
takes the first part of liberal the last part of
the R word. You've heard it. That's what he said
three times. So we've now reached the point of the
program where I've determined that kids might be up listening,

(17:14):
and I Am not going to use that phrase for
the next hour and a half or so, but after that,
I'm going to use it a bunch, Adam said. Adam says,
good morning. I get it these lts, so we'll use
that term can call yeah, And I love this. I

(17:36):
love this response from Adam though he says these LT's
can call Republicans, Nazis and gestapo's, but a humorous American
slag term like is off limits.

Speaker 3 (17:48):
Lol.

Speaker 1 (17:49):
The governor might have just earned my vote. If he
doesn't apologize, that's from Adam does not want an apology.
Now that point I get. We're forcing the issue and saying,
all right, why do you get to say all of
these hateful things. You're racist, you're sexist, you're jingoistic, you
are a Nazi year jingoistic that you make America great again?

(18:14):
Is America and only America. We don't care about anybody else,
say the world and all that, because I learned a
term once and I want to use.

Speaker 3 (18:21):
It once in a while in my life. Yeah, jingoism.
Never heard that? No, all right?

Speaker 1 (18:27):
And then Richard emails and says it just proves what
Pillin said there, just proves once again, the crooked businessman
type is not the answer. We need the working men
and women to save us. Give me someone who's actually
paid taxes and listening to you guys just proves how
stupid America is right now, Thank you, Richard. He listens

(18:49):
every day. Governor Pillen, not the working man out there
slopping hogs for the better part of the list.

Speaker 2 (18:55):
Jim Pillen's ever gotten his hands dirty? Yeah you don't know,
Jim Pillen. This guy's dad was a share Cropper, So
trust me, he knows what hard work looks like.

Speaker 1 (19:03):
Where do you think Governor Pillen would rather be knee
deep in pig slop or hanging out with some of
the Democrats in the Nebraska? You waist deep in distinction
without a difference. Some days I got Lucy Chapman keeping
an eye on traffic, which is tough to do when
it's still dark after seven o'clock.

Speaker 3 (19:21):
But Lucy is very, very good.

Speaker 1 (19:22):
She has a night vision like one of them cats.

Speaker 4 (19:27):
One of them cats.

Speaker 3 (19:29):
Sorry, it's can you'd be more specific.

Speaker 1 (19:31):
It's phrasing from I think that's that's from Cranky Anchors.
That's Adam Carolla's Bircham. I'm hairless like one of them cats.
So that's just phrasing in my buddies, and I use.

Speaker 4 (19:45):
To be fair.

Speaker 5 (19:46):
I do have that kind of vision, but I don't
use it here. Don't use it for evil, only for good.

Speaker 1 (19:54):
That's that is powerful, and I thank you very much
for taking that stand. Can you tell me whether is
building up on West Maple near about one hundred and
eightieth where people have apparently been coming from hours around
to get a cup of coffee from a new We
got a new coffee show.

Speaker 2 (20:12):
What's in this coffee?

Speaker 1 (20:14):
Yeah, well, I don't know the best way to get
them to advertise here is that suggestion? But apparently it's
really good coffee. It's It's seven Brew Coffee. This is
a place that just opened up their first location in
the Omaha area. I guess there's one in Fremont. But
there have been lines wrapping around the what's the kind

(20:38):
of the new business district out on West Maple near
one hundred and eightieth. Cars are lined up all over
the place and the drive through to get a cup
of coffee. And the story here from KMTV three news
now is talking to a guy because they're just waiting
there in line, talking to a guy named Christian who
says he drove there from Carter Lake and says, what
I just ordered is cheaper than star Bucks.

Speaker 3 (21:02):
Did you factor in? I know where this is going
the gas from.

Speaker 1 (21:07):
Carter Lake to one hundred and eightieth in Maple. Not
to mention, what is your time worth? But then again,
I'm not a coffee drinker. Maybe the coffee is that
good that people are coming. Here's a family from Gretna said,
oh yeah, we used to go to Fremont to get
their coffee. One cup of coffee. I don't get it.

(21:27):
But they showed an aerial photo of lines of cars
wrapped around the building, extending well beyond the drive through
lane down the block over close to that Costco out there.

Speaker 4 (21:41):
Were they ready for it?

Speaker 3 (21:43):
That's what it was.

Speaker 1 (21:44):
I went to Costco the other day and I looked
over and saw what I thought was a new business.
And I couldn't tell what the sign was. I thought
it was Runza. I was like, that's really close to
the other Runza, and I couldn't tell what it was.
And I didn't want to drive over there. But there
were cars everywhere. And it's it's funny anytime a new
business opens, even if there's one just like it just

(22:04):
right down the street. I'll give you an example, same
corridor ish one hundred and sixty eighth in Maple That
Church's Chicken opened there a couple of years ago, and
people were freaking out, Oh my gosh, fried chicken. And
they're waiting in line forever. And now it's kind of
tapered off. There's still pretty busy. But then they just
opened the Popeyes probably five hundred yards away right south

(22:28):
there on the other side of maple, and now the
lines are all like people have They're like they've never
heard of such a thing.

Speaker 3 (22:37):
Hey, hey, guys over here, look fried chicken.

Speaker 1 (22:40):
Yes it's it is a different business that has fried chicken,
and it's just a few yards away.

Speaker 3 (22:47):
But people are like.

Speaker 1 (22:48):
It's new fried chicken. And it's the same thing. I
guess with this coffee, people like, hey, coffee, and look
at it's not a Chick fil a sandwich? What do
you guys doing?

Speaker 5 (22:57):
Calm down, Well, that's what I was thinking. It's got
to be a marketing tactic. And plus, when you see
a big line of traffic, you're gonna do one of
two things. You're gonna run as fast as you can,
or you're going to say, what's going on there?

Speaker 4 (23:11):
Let me go check that out.

Speaker 1 (23:12):
I got to get in there. I heard this is
the best roller coaster ever. Like, not a roller coaster,
it's a cup of coffee. I blame Don Eckles for this. Scooters.

Speaker 2 (23:19):
This is the former KFIB news guy who realized that
radio is great if you bring your own money, but
you can make more by doing something else. So he
invented Scooters coffee right, and he picked this up. We
did a Rosie Diginozi on this when he made the
Hall of Fame. We picked this up when he was
out in California and he saw these people lined up
at this drive through coffee and he figured out, what

(23:42):
are they serving over there? Well, it wasn't just a
cup of joe, right, It was like it was like
an experience, people, And that's what this industry is. This
industry is about branding experience. The coffee isn't that much better,
it's just done differently with all sorts of creative ingredients.
God bless America.

Speaker 3 (24:01):
Man.

Speaker 1 (24:01):
People love their coffee. And there are people who have
an affinity for certain brus they get that costs this
much money at one of those big chains. And then
there are people that say, I just go into this
local gas station where it costs a nickel and it's
the best coffee I ever had. Well, whatever it takes
to get you going in the morning, thanks for making
us part of your routine. Governor Pillen wants Jim Rose

(24:24):
to put Coach Osburn in the Nebraska Hall of Fame,
And you're thinking, how in the world is Tom Osburn
not in the Nebraska State Hall of Fame?

Speaker 3 (24:34):
Now?

Speaker 1 (24:34):
This isn't Is this the sports Hall of Fame or
just the state. This is the State, This Hall of
Fame Hall of Fame right now. The rules are you
can only induct one person every five years, and you
had to have been deceased for at least thirty five.

Speaker 2 (24:52):
Years, and you cannot have been in entertainment or athletics,
which is a bone of contention for me. I'm on
the commission pointed by the governor, and we look through
these lists of important people. The last one we put
in was Malcolm X. This is the greatest collection of
Nebraskan's ever. Now there are some missing because of various

(25:14):
politics or restrictions. And you're right, thirty five years I
think is excessive. I don't necessarily believe you should go
in when you're alive, because I think that your legacy
needs to endure past your life span on Earth. But
thirty five years is too long. So if Rosie was
the emperor, it'd be twenty five years, and we would
also lift restrictions on categories. For example, right now, Johnny

(25:38):
Carson would not be eligible to go into the Hall
of Fame because he was in entertainment, and that is
a restricted category.

Speaker 3 (25:45):
That's ridiculous.

Speaker 1 (25:46):
I agree that Johnny Carson did so much for I
agree Nebraska for the view of Nebraskans. Correct, I mean
he wouldn't can't He wouldn't qualify under current conditions. Really,
so what I'd like to see, and there is a
bill that is wafting its way through the legislature. It
was introduced by Senator Lannigan. I believe from Hastings that

(26:07):
would amend the statute that would allow coach Osborn to
get in while he's alive.

Speaker 2 (26:12):
This is the exemption, not changing the rules everybody. I
think we need to change the statute. The statute's been
around a long time, and some would argue, and they
have fair arguments, but I believe thirty five years is
too long, and I believe you need to lift the
sports and entertainment restriction. Bob Devanny his death, his thirty

(26:36):
year anniversary for death will come up next year. Bob
Devanny is as deserving to get into the Nebraska Hall
of Fame as Tom Osburn. In fact, you could make
the argument more deserving because what he did when he
arrived was revive an entire state. Now, Tom's example and
his not only great success, but his commitment to youth

(26:56):
is unparalleled. But I would hope that we could use
use this this statute exemption amendment to the statute as
an opportunity to do some reforms on the category and
on eligibility standards, because I just think we're restricting people
of great acclaim in Nebraska. Now Buffett will go in

(27:19):
thirty five years after his death, but I would hope
it wouldn't have to be thirty five.

Speaker 3 (27:23):
Well, don't spoil it.

Speaker 2 (27:25):
I don't think I'll be on the Commission in thirty
five years.

Speaker 3 (27:28):
Maybe, but.

Speaker 2 (27:31):
I think this is a wonderful gesture. I think we
need to do it more often than every five years.
I don't know about every year. I'd be okay with
every year, but maybe every two years. We should probably
look at that statute too, But it's in the hands
of the unicmera the Hall of Fame Statutes. That is
the purview of the Unicamera, and I'm sure Governor Pillen
would agree to any changes that would be made.

Speaker 1 (27:53):
A couple of quick things. Number One, you start thinking
about thirty five years down the line, you've see what's
happened with people out there just angrily toppling statues or
saying we need to get white faces off our money.
I don't want to wait thirty five years to see
what the people who are out there protesting in the streets,
kids think and who they think should be in the

(28:15):
State Hall of Fame. I'm not I don't know these people.
I'm already not interested in what they think they do.
The last person who needs this acclaim, you know, for
him to be able to hold his head up high,
as coach Tom Osbury. He's okay, he's okay with this,
all right, Well, he deserves to go in. But if
we're gonna do some changes, let's make them permanent. We

(28:36):
have been talking a lot this morning about a phrase
used by Governor Pillen a few times in last night's
tell atown Hall. We are in that grace period I
instituted about an hour or so ago, where I said, look,
kids are up listening, and some people are incredibly offended
by the term. We're not going to use it, but
I didn't want you to think we were ignoring this

(28:57):
news and social media is exploding about it. Governor Pillin
used the phrase the first part of the word liberal
and the last part of the R word. I'm using
the phrase LT when responding to this, and if your
kids are like, what does LT mean? As a good father?

(29:17):
You tell them Lawrence Taylor. Now Here are some of
the responses here in these Zonkers custom woods inbox. Tim
says Scott at kfab dot com, Good morning. I'm not
thrilled with Governor Pillen's use of that phrase. I expect
a little more decorum from our elected officials, and there's

(29:39):
not much to be found anymore. I believe his use
of this term is to emphasize the lack of growth
and progression by the liberals and the left. They're so
wrapped up in hate for all things Trump and by
default Republicans, they're unable to see logic or common sense
that said, or truman Esque term like dumb or rear

(30:04):
ends would be more acceptable. So there's Tim threading that needle,
and I appreciate the email. Tim Scott at kfab dot com.
City of Omaha is looking at vacant buildings going up
in flames just about every single day. Now, why is that?
What's that going to look like this weekend? When temperatures
overnight are approaching minus twenty and below, windshills out the

(30:29):
unhoused crowd will be looking for indoor housing. Well, if
vacant building's not very warm, how do you warm it up?
Set everything on fire? What happens when that happens, building
goes up in flames. We had another one the other day,
Omaha Fire Department investigating, and you've got the mayor and
the OFD Chief Kathy Bossman saying, look, this is a

(30:52):
dangerous situation as people go inside trying to find a
place to warm up and they're setting stuff on fire
and the building and that creates a problem for businesses,
nearby homeowners and of course the people in the building.
Remember there are lots of not lots, but there are

(31:13):
a good number and enough beds available at some of
the nonprofit organizations in our town as well. The Papillion
has a little different issue. Craig Evans just told you
about this, and a KFAB news update says that there
were apparently really not a lot of opposition to this

(31:34):
in Papillion at the city council meeting yesterday. It's a
proposed ordinance that would allow people in Papillion to keep
up to six chickens on residential properties, but they have
to be female chickens. No roosters. I'm the cock of
the walk baby. No, not in Papillion. No roosters. We
don't need because city people think that the rooster crows

(31:58):
once at sunrise and then just kind of walks around
the rest of the day. No, the rural people know
that the rooster is just crowing. It's cockle doodle doing
its full head off all day and they don't want
that noise. So six female chickens, well, I guess aren't

(32:20):
as noisy. They're cleaner now. They talk a lot of
smack on each other when other female chickens backs are turned.

Speaker 4 (32:30):
We're busy making eggs.

Speaker 3 (32:32):
Yeah, but if there's no rooster around, how are you
making eggs?

Speaker 2 (32:36):
You can still make eggs, can you?

Speaker 4 (32:38):
Yes, you just can't have baby chickens.

Speaker 1 (32:43):
Now we've got transgender chickens and papillion. What's the president
gonna say about that?

Speaker 4 (32:48):
Well, a rooster can't Well.

Speaker 1 (32:51):
Now the chicken can't make their own eggs. They're not asexual.

Speaker 4 (32:57):
You can make eggs even if there's no rooster.

Speaker 3 (33:01):
Is that true? No, it's not. Is someone that's gonna
have to explain the birds and the bees to me.

Speaker 4 (33:08):
You're gonna get lots of emails.

Speaker 3 (33:10):
Wait, what help?

Speaker 4 (33:13):
I can't help you.

Speaker 3 (33:14):
What don't you need?

Speaker 4 (33:17):
Jim help me out here.

Speaker 1 (33:18):
The egg gym's not listening to us that you're just
observing you to wait a sec Yeah, stop everything.

Speaker 3 (33:24):
What are you talking about?

Speaker 4 (33:26):
You can have chicken eggs without a rooster.

Speaker 3 (33:31):
Is that true? I believe so.

Speaker 2 (33:33):
I'm not exactly on top of the biological process for chickens,
but I think I don't think you need a rooster
to have to lay eggs.

Speaker 4 (33:40):
You need a rooster to make gosh, chickens.

Speaker 1 (33:43):
You're right, Hens lay eggs without a rooster. It's a
natural Oh okay, all right, okay rooster. All right, So
I'm thinking about those which hatch into baby chickens, but
the natural ovulation, just like with a human. Yes, they're
constantly making eggs, they're just not fertilized in their age.

Speaker 3 (34:03):
Okay, all right, sorry, I.

Speaker 4 (34:06):
But you need a rooster to have baby chickens.

Speaker 2 (34:08):
Yeah, if you want a baby chicken, you gotta have rooster.
But if you want to have you know, sunnyside up
or poached soft you don't.

Speaker 3 (34:14):
Well, how are babies made then?

Speaker 4 (34:16):
Which kind?

Speaker 2 (34:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (34:18):
Human baby?

Speaker 2 (34:19):
Do we want to really go through eighth grade health
right now, yeah, I want Lucy to explain it. So
here's what happens in the backseat of your brother's cutting up.

Speaker 4 (34:28):
When a mommy loves a daddy.

Speaker 2 (34:30):
Oh my gosh, are you enjoying this?

Speaker 3 (34:34):
I don't. I know a lot of people aren't. Miss
I miss Gary, I miss Gary. There's a lot of
that R I'll do.

Speaker 1 (34:43):
Yeah, okay, well I don't ovulate everyone calmed down. Man,
I'm getting fried like an egg. If the Zauger's custom
was inbox got a kfab dot com, I wasn't thinking
about it in those terms. My favorite though here is
jd saying, you guys in that last segment sounded like Seinfeld, let.

Speaker 3 (35:02):
Me have a stand.

Speaker 2 (35:04):
You got the hen, the chicken, and the rooster. The
rooster goes with the chicken, So who's having sex with them?
Talk about them another time. But you see my point here.
You only hear of a hen, a rooster in the chicken.

Speaker 3 (35:18):
Something's missing, something's missing all the chickens.

Speaker 2 (35:24):
The rooster has sex with all of them. That's vice.
That was one of my favorite Seinfeld scenes. But Jerry
still in there, going you get the chicken.

Speaker 1 (35:36):
Yeah, that's that's what that's what I sounded like a
moment ago.

Speaker 3 (35:40):
All right, if you missed any of that, we know.

Speaker 1 (35:42):
We post most of this program in podcast form on
the Nebraska's Morning News podcast link at kfab dot com.
Listen at your own risk and see what your IQ
is at the start of the show and at the end.

Speaker 3 (35:54):
Of that show.

Speaker 1 (35:54):
It's all posted there on the Morning News link at
kfab dot com. So now you might have to have
your own chickens and papillion, and certainly in Leavenworth and
throughout the Midwest as we have. The Tyson plant did
close in Lexington, Nebraska, and the impact of the community
is such that one pastor of the First United Church

(36:17):
in Lexington says we've lost seventy percent of our congregation.
He said we had sixty five people in worship. Now
we have at most fourteen. I'm going to presume as
math is correct, because I can't and figure out where
babies come from. So now you've got people who either

(36:37):
have left the community, which then has that ripple effect
on places that sell groceries and food and haircuts, new refrigerators, whatever.
And you've got the people who have stayed there who
no longer have a job at the Tyson plant, which
has been a generational employer of some people in that
community who are staying there, and they're getting unemployment and

(36:58):
other forms of assistance. They're saying that town Elevenworth is
really going to change. Well, they still got the building
and the infrastructure there. I don't know. I mean, do
people not eat chickens? Have you not seen people wait
in line in that back area costco They're going to
bring the rotisseries out in like four minutes and people

(37:19):
start flocking around like vultures there to get that. So
I would hope that someone else would use not just
the business infrastructure, but the human capital out there as well.
But I think of Tyson, I think a chicken and bacon.
That's a beef plant out there. Part of the very

(37:40):
historically low head of cattle issue we have in this country,
rising beef prices. Tyson's losing a ton of money on beef.
That's why they shut down that beef plant in Lexington.
Not chicken, my bad, I am checking my facts fool
by doing it.

Speaker 3 (37:58):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (37:58):
Well, Hey, we got a lot of stuff wrong. I'm
gonna include just me in this. I got a lot
of stuff wrong in the last hour of the show.
If you're gonna get everything wrong all day, start early.
That's what we do here on news radio eleven ten kfab.
Let's see how the president is doing. He's speaking to
the world leaders at the World Economic Forum, and like

(38:21):
a lot of people that go on vacation, he's looking
to get a big piece of ice.

Speaker 2 (38:26):
Big beautiful piece of ice. It's hard to call it land.

Speaker 3 (38:29):
It's a big piece of ice. But we saved Greenland
and successfully prevented our enemies from gaining a foothold in
our hemisphere. He's talking about World War II here.

Speaker 2 (38:41):
He did it for ourselves also, and then after the war,
which we won, we won it big. Without us, right now,
you'd all be speaking German and little Japanese.

Speaker 1 (38:53):
Perhaps, as the President of the United States tell me so,
world leaders in Davos.

Speaker 2 (39:02):
Be speaking German and a little Japanese.

Speaker 1 (39:04):
I don't know if you guys know this, but without us,
you'd all be speaking German and a little Now that
includes the leader of Germany.

Speaker 3 (39:13):
They do speak Germany.

Speaker 2 (39:16):
You all be speaking German and a little Japanese. That
guy man. Folks enjoy this while we have it because
when he leaves off us, we'll never see anybody like
him again. That's uh, you'd all be speaking a little Japanese.

Speaker 1 (39:34):
Yeah, he needs to get a little piece of ice
up there Greenland. He talked about how, yeah, Denmark tried,
they got rolled over of our enemies.

Speaker 3 (39:45):
We had to go in there. And two, well, he
is talking about historically.

Speaker 1 (39:50):
It's not like President Trump got some wild hair and
suddenly is like, where else on the map can I
either get or rename something?

Speaker 3 (39:58):
This is historic.

Speaker 1 (39:59):
Go back to World War Two, and you could argue
even before then, with various settlers going and having a
foothold in Greenland. It's all about keeping Russia and China
from getting access to not only the rare earth minerals there,
but also that strategic location in our hemisphere that puts

(40:20):
them even closer to America and Europe. Now, certainly Russia
is there, but China's not.

Speaker 2 (40:26):
Well, we don't teach geography much anymore, but if we did,
you'd see how perilously close those guys are. But there
are a couple of other historical components that is lost
on today's national news media because they're really not qualified
to do the job. The first one is the difference
between the year twenty twenty six and nineteen forty six. Actually,

(40:47):
you can go back to the year twenty twenty six
and the year twenty nineteen twenty one in the wake
of World War One. First let's look at forty six.
The truth is, the American and West approach to Russia
was containment, was datante. Let's just say all right, you
do you will do me, and it'll all be fine. Well,

(41:08):
those days are over. Now you have a global economic
superpower in China that is involved, when back in those days,
China was overrun by Japan during World War two. So
you have an entirely different geopolitical, military, economic construct today
that never existed in nineteen forty six. And if you

(41:29):
look back after the wake of World War One, Europe
was so tired. I mean, that was a rough war.
They said, guys, let's just not have a war anymore.
And so they slept. They slept while Germany rebuilt its military,
while they developed an axis at the time with Russia.
But the continent. You might say, well, why didn't they
see it coming? Well, the only guy who saw it
coming was Winston Churchill, and he would speak on the

(41:51):
floor of Parliament and say, guys, I don't know if
you noticed, but this dude over there in Germany, he's
building tanks, he's violating the Treaty of Versailles, he's doing
everything he's not supposed to to do. But no, well
it'll be okay. He's not going to get into another war.
You can't take that chance in the year twenty twenty six. Now,
is Donald Trump can invade Greenland? No, he's not. But

(42:11):
he uses words as leverage and he's leaving it open
as a possibility so that he can get these people
to act. And no American president has ever done that.
We've had strong, very strong Republican leaders of this country,
but we've never had anybody like this who uses words

(42:31):
as a club.

Speaker 1 (42:32):
Dave says, any president from here on out will be
boring that email to Scott at kfab dot com and
the Zonker's custom Woods Inbox. Students here across Omaha skip
school yesterday for a time because they don't protest after
school or on weekends. Only if you can ditch math
class to go out there and protest. What's going on
in Minneapolis. Well, federal officials are taking a different look

(42:54):
at the state of Minnesota and for more on this,
we welcome back to the program from Fox News. The
Jeff Monasso is here. We've got federal prosecutors issuing subpoenas
when it comes to Minnesota.

Speaker 3 (43:07):
Jeff, what's going on?

Speaker 6 (43:09):
So, the Department of Justice has served grand jury subpoenas
to six Minnesota Democrat controlled government offices, including the offices
of Governor Tim Walls, Attorney General Keith Ellison, and Minneapolis
Mayor Jacob Frye, and others, as part of a federal
investigation into alleged conspiracy to coerce or obstruct federal law

(43:30):
enforcement during ongoing operations ICE operations there in Minnesota. The
FBI serves the subpoenas Tuesday, seeking records and communications Governor
Walls and a statement saying, in part that the federal
government should be directed towards restoring trust, accountability, and real
law and order, not political retaliation. Similar statements from others

(43:52):
subpoena include the mayor Franois and basically said the same thing,
they won't be intimidated. In response to White House spokeswoman
telling Fox News that it's laughable that Tim Walls, who
smeared heroic ICE officers at GESTAPO and declared Minnesota is
a war with the federal government is complaining about division
when he's the one perpetrating it. Tim Walls should stop

(44:15):
defending criminal, illegal aliens and work with the Trump administration
to get these sicicos out of American community. All that,
you know, I'm going to anti ice protests, sittings at
Target stores in the recent disruption of that Christian church
service in Saint Paul, for which Homeland Security Secretary Christino

(44:35):
on x Tuesday night, so that arrests are coming likely today,
she said within hours, and that was last night. So
we assumed today that the First Amendment to protect speech
and peaceful assembly not rioting, that this administration is committed
to upholling federal law and defending the rights of all Americans.
These agitators will be held accountable. That on top of

(44:56):
the multiple ongoing investigations, federal investigation into the billions of
dollars that were stolen from taxpayers in Minnesota. There's a
lot going on there.

Speaker 1 (45:06):
Yeah, And they can call it anything they want and do.
But if Congress issues you a subpoena to come talk
to them, if you'd ignore it, you're in trouble.

Speaker 6 (45:16):
Right, you potentially could be in trouble.

Speaker 1 (45:20):
Yes, all right, well, we'll obviously be watching this. This
is going beyond just words in the media now. Jeff
manaso with the media, Fox News Radio or partner here.
Thanks a lot for the reporting as always, you bet
on news radio eleven ten. AFA be had a few
more names for you out of Minnesota. One ilhan Omar,

(45:40):
the representative their President Trump says, how'd she get so
much money?

Speaker 3 (45:46):
She never had a job.

Speaker 1 (45:48):
Yesterday, the President says, I was just told ilhan Omar
is worth thirty million dollars she never had a job.
Just another crooked politician. Well, she's put forth her her
taxes and some of her personal financial disclosure details.

Speaker 3 (46:06):
So let's see here.

Speaker 2 (46:08):
Well her husband is some sort of financial guy.

Speaker 1 (46:11):
Well yeah, but let's let's take a look at that.
So her husband has a venture capitalist firm. A year
ago it was reported that that company's value and her
financial disclosure form was one thousand dollars. Actually there was
a range between one dollar and one thousand dollars. A

(46:32):
year later, it's suddenly a great year for them, good
for them, between five and twenty five million dollars. Wow,
that's a big year.

Speaker 3 (46:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (46:41):
A winery that he apparently has an ownership stock in
a year ago was valued between fifteen and fifty thousand dollars,
now between one and five million. So you take the
twenty five and the five, you get the thirty. And
that's ilhan Omar's brother, I mean, a husband. And that's
what President Trump and other officials are wondering about in Minnesota.

Speaker 2 (47:03):
Well, the bigger question, in addition to a very shady
financial operation by the ilhan Omar family is really, do
you really believe that Kamala Harris picked Tim Walls because
she found a guy that could really compliment the ticket.
Did she found a guy that could go out there
and get those eighteen to thirty four year old males

(47:24):
peel them away from Donald Trump?

Speaker 3 (47:26):
She must have.

Speaker 1 (47:27):
I mean, after in that twenty four hours after she
put Tim Walls on the ticket, there was thirty six
million dollars that came into the Heros campaign.

Speaker 3 (47:35):
A lot of from new donorship love Tim Walls.

Speaker 2 (47:37):
Do you really think that vetting committee for Kamala Harris
asked about the nine billion dollar fraud issue going on
in the state of Minnesota. Of course, not because they
were afraid to get the answer. So what happened was
they said, this guy can get us thirty million dollars
from the Somali community in the city of Minneapolis, thirty
million dollars. Now, how many VP candidates have ever been

(48:01):
attacked onto a ticket that in twenty four hours can
deliver thirty million dollars in campaigns support for the president?
The answer is never. Why do you walk past Pete Buddhajeedge?
You know you got some sort of kindred relationship with
that guy. It's not because he was gay. He couldn't
get thirty million dollars out of Indianapolis. Why do you

(48:22):
walk past Josh Sapiro? Not because he's a Jew, but
he couldn't get thirty five million dollars out of Pennsylvania
in twenty four hours. If you start connecting the dots here,
it's looking worse and worse and worse for that buffoon
every single day, to say nothing of that mayor who
clearly was dropped on his head as an infant. There

(48:44):
can be no better explanation for Jacob Fry's behavior than that.
And now we know about Keith Ellison. We've had whispers
about Keith Ellison and just how corrupt that guy is
as the attorney general in the state of Minnesota. It's
all happening. But until Scott people are put in orange
jumpsuits and cuffed, we will never have change in this country.

(49:06):
And we haven't had people go to jail since Oliver North.
I wonder what Governor Pillen would call them. As we
just heard from Jeffinasa with Fox News here, the Department
of Justice and Congress is issuing subpoenas against some of
these names you just mentioned out of Minnesota. This will
be all part of the conversation.

Speaker 3 (49:25):
Now.

Speaker 1 (49:26):
There were a lot of names thrown out there by
the President and the Trump administration yesterday. And for all
of those who are out there saying well, Ice is
just out there looking for these hardworking people in this
country from Mexico. I'm just going to give country and
also convictions that were provided yesterday. This is out of Minnesota,

(49:47):
largely from that Minneapolis Saint Paul. This is why Ice
is there. We've got a guy from Laos homicide robbery,
another guy from Laos homicide, assault, forgery, obstruction, arrest for
drug possession and theft Guatemala. Let's see sexual assault, Dui
Laos convicted sex offender including the twelve year old another

(50:11):
guy from Laos sex offender, twelve year old Vietnam. Multiple
arrests for dui, larceny, assault, terroristic threats. I mean it
goes on and on Cuba, Laos, Here's Mexico, Ecuador, Laos, Mexico, Mexico.
So they're going after criminals with convictions up there.

Speaker 3 (50:30):
Now that was that's going to be part.

Speaker 1 (50:33):
I think of the ice situation in Minneapolis in just
a moment, particularly that church as part of the Rosie
de GENOZI in a moment yesterday you had some interesting
comments about Nebraska football based on what Indiana has done.
How that looks versus Nebraska. I got this email from
Joel and I said, all right, I'll ask him on
the radio tomorrow. Joel emails via the Zonker's custom woods

(50:56):
inbox Scott atkfab dot com and says, you just tell
Jim Rose to just come out and call from Matt
Rules Firing. He's constantly bagging on him. I'm constantly backing
on him. What am I backing on him? How am
I backing on him? I'm just reporting what's going on.
There will be no firing of Matt Rule. He has
a seventy one million dollar buyout. He'll have a sixty

(51:17):
three million dollar buyout after next season. As I've said,
he may not be the guy, but he's our guy.
But I think it's important for Nebraskans, who have made
this football program worth one point two to three six
billion dollars according to the Wall Street Journal audit of
college football programs, to know where the money's going and
to know how is it that Indiana can spend sixty

(51:37):
one million dollars and win the national championship. We can
spend eighty two million dollars and win seven games and
lose a bowl game by twenty two points. Well, there
are a lot of college football teams that did not
win the national championship.

Speaker 2 (51:49):
Not too many of them spend eighty two million dollars.
But the point is this, at what point do we
are we accountable? At what point is anybody accountable to
the people who are supporting this with their hard earned dollars?
And I just think questions should be asked. My job
on fifty thousand Watson one hundred thousand online listeners is
to ask the questions you guys can answer them. I'm

(52:11):
not answering the questions. I'm asking them. And if we
ever get to a point where we stop asking questions
of people in positions of authority, power and influence, why
are we here.

Speaker 1 (52:20):
I'm frustrated too, but I'm a fan and i wish
coach rule all the best, and I'm hoping for better
things everybody. We're only about nine months from football season.
Go big grid everybody wants. I'm just saying success, Thank goodness,
we got this basketball team back to the inbox. Aaron says.
I cringe every time I hear these guys either get

(52:41):
identified as being from Minnesota or talk about Minnesota values.
And it's a whole list who are not originally from Minnesota,
including Governor Tim Wallas, Jim, Where's where's Governor Walls from?
Don't ask, okay, Nebraska Walls, Mayor Jacob Fry, Minneapolis police
chief up there, the state Attorney General Keith Ellison, Saint

(53:01):
Paul's Mayor Elan, Omar Senator Smith, the state Senator Omar Fate,
and even ice protester Renee Good. None of them are
originally from Minnesota. And I'm not saying that you've got
to be from a place to be able to be
identified with it and be a community leader and so forth.

(53:22):
Gary Satlemyers not originally from Nebraska. It doesn't get much
more Nebraska than Gary Sandelmeyer spent.

Speaker 2 (53:27):
More years in Nebraska than he did in Minnesota.

Speaker 3 (53:29):
Yes he did.

Speaker 1 (53:30):
So it is interesting though, Hey, none of them got
in position thanks to a bloody coup or anything. Most
of these people were talking about are elected officials. Now
to Gretna. Where Minnesota to Gretna, Yes, where we've got
a press release here. We talked about that new coffee
shop out at West Maple one hundred and eighth and

(53:52):
West Maple where you got lines of people from Elkhorn
to Harlan to get a cup of coffee. People are coming,
they're flying into Epley so they can go out to
this place and get a cup of coffee. Well, Gretna
is about to have their own really fantastic place. They're
gonna get the first buck ease. Now we are like, wait,

(54:15):
we've got BUCkies all over the placene.

Speaker 3 (54:18):
That's Bucky.

Speaker 2 (54:19):
Yeah, but that's gone, uh the Caseys.

Speaker 1 (54:22):
Yeah, Casey yeah, But that's that's a different Bucky. That's
b u c k y postrophe s. This is b
U c dash e e postrophe s. A little what
is chipmunk? A woodchuck, gopher? Whatever?

Speaker 3 (54:36):
That is? Uh?

Speaker 1 (54:37):
So, new Graffee Drive in Reretna is getting their first
BUCkies convenience store, the travel center chain renowned for clean bathrooms,
endless snack options. What other snack options besides what every
convenience store has? But do they have fish sticks out
of a vending machine? You guys got a little chocolate donuts. Yeah,
we got a little chocolate donuts.

Speaker 3 (54:58):
Oh man.

Speaker 1 (54:59):
Uh So, this gonna be in the southeast corner of
I eighty and Highway thirty one in that good Life district.
Let's see when does it open up?

Speaker 2 (55:07):
Uh I'm gonna have to check out this seven bruise.

Speaker 1 (55:11):
Yeah, yeah, I know. I don't know when this thing
opens up. But they're very excited, Gretna first Nebraska location
of buck Ease. We get excited about some of the
dumbest stuff around here. That's what happens when your football
team goes seven and ten.

Speaker 3 (55:23):
That's right,