Put Your Shirt Back On

On today's show: MAHA vs Maha, Costas supports Olympic trans-ban, Ohio battles data centers, a steakhouse enforces a dress code, and more.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning. This is Nebraska's morning news news Radio eleven
ten KFAB. We got Craig Evans, Lucy Chapman here, I
am Scott Voorhe's there's Jim Rose right there. And we
are all pretty darn excited. I know that it was
pins and needles, a lot of anxious moments yesterday waiting

(00:21):
for the announcement for the twenty twenty six Maha Music
Festival lineup, and yesterday the headliner was announced. Lucy, you
got what you wanted. The headliner was and will be
wet Leg.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Oh, I know that is super exciting. I know wet
Leg is it probably one of the best what kind
of music?

Speaker 1 (00:46):
I don't know. Wet Leg is the name of the
band artist collective that will be headlined. I bring this
up for two reasons. Number one, I love a great
band name. Wet Leg is a great band name. I
don't know if they are a great band, but wet Leg.

(01:08):
And they they said, well, this is after last year's
Maha Music Festival, this is what the fans wanted. They
wanted wet Leg.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
Did they travel with dogs?

Speaker 1 (01:17):
I don't Well, it could answer a lot of questions
they didn't used to then they did, and then they
changed their band name.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
The other funny thing, this doesn't make America healthy again?

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Right, Well, to see, that's the other funny thing. It
says specifically in the press release yesterday, quote the Maha Board,
well you've already messed it up.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
No no you didn't. No, no, no, no you didn't.
They messed it up, they said. The Maha Board would
also like to bring special attention to an item on
brand language. Please use Maha Festival, not Maha m a
ha especial in all upper case. For clarity and brand consistency.

(02:04):
All media are asked to refer to the event as
the Maha Festival, and if you have to, then Maha.
But it's only the capital m then Aha, not all uppercase.
And it doesn't specifically say so as not to make
people think, like, hey, all right, the Trump thing going
on at Heartland of America Park Saturday, August eighth.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
It could be a problem.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
I think it'd be funny if people did like it.
We gotta we gotta get RFK Junior to town and
do something right. Across the way from Heartland of America
Park on Saturday, August eighth.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
Maha versus Maha.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Yeah, where there. They've got wet Leg over there, and
we're over here talking about the new food pyramid and
maybe a few more questions about vaccines than previously seen
in other administrations. Come on down here, bring the kids.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
I feel bad for I mean, that's that's unfortunate that
they had the name first.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
That's true. I think it's funny. Yeah, they're like, please
do not call us MAA. We don't need a bunch
of Trump people coming down there, going what is this
wet Leg? Well, pretty cool band. But and then Omaha's
bright eyes. And then someone named Killer Mike Killer. Oh good.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
I was hoping it wasn't, you know, lover mic or
you know something like that.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
No, Lover Mike is Mike Reno from Lover Boy. Okay,
this is Killer Mike. We have an issue in the
NBA involving a member of the Chicago Bulls. Quick name
a member at Chicago Bowls since Michael Jordan retired? Anyone?
No one got it, all right, So we got a
guy who is no longer a member of this team,

(03:49):
Doug McDermott. And yeah, there's a good one. I figured
Jim Rose might be able to come up with trying
to save the show.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
Yes, where did that one guy play that wears dresses?

Speaker 1 (03:58):
Where did that one guy play that wears Yeah, he
did some time with Chicago, but Jordan was there for
a lot.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
Last time we saw Rodman the Worm, he was trying
to fish some of our detainees out of North Korea.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
Yeah. Yeah, he was the ambassador to North Korea ambassador.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
I'm not saying wearing dresses is a bad thing. I'm
just saying that's how people would well recognize who I
was talking about.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
Funny how you phrase it that way, because this now
former member of the Chicago Bulls might have an issue
with that. This guy's name is Jaden Ivy. I have
not heard of Jaden Ivy. I I really kind of
followed the big Tende choice. Really.

Speaker 3 (04:40):
Yeah, he was fifth, He was a fifth overall pick.
He was a lottery pick by the Pistons twenty four.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
I would say that I don't pay as much attention
to the NBA as I used to, and that's either
used to is when I was a kid, when the
NBA and the NFL were maybe the two biggest things
in my life, and then since then then my son
kind of got into the NBA, and he would say, Dad,

(05:07):
you see what so and so did last night, and
then shove a video on my face and I'd have
to take his hand and move it about two feet
from my face, like I can't see the video on
your phone if it's in my retina back. And so
I have a love hate relationship with your kid.

Speaker 4 (05:21):
I h.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
That's a struggle, isn't it. I love him dearly well,
even though he's dumber than a bag of ham. You
just don't like it. But I say that out of love.
I don't remember this guy Jade and Ivy. Now, he
was a very very good player in college. Yeah, Humperdue
and the Pistons, like I said, made him their first
round pick back in twenty twenty two. But he's got

(05:46):
kind of a mouth on him. Well, he's an interesting guy.
Apparently he likes to drive around and do videos and
this is one of those that apparently his bosses in
the NBA didn't like.

Speaker 5 (06:00):
Claim Pride Month and the NBA, they proclaim it. They
show it to the world. They say, come, come, come
join us for Pride. For Pride Month, to celebrate unrighteousness.

(06:22):
They proclaim it. They proclaim it on the billboards. They
proclaim it in the streets unrighteousness.

Speaker 1 (06:34):
That's Jade and Ivy driving around musing on Pride Month
in the NBA, which is it's it that's interesting to
me on several levels. I'll tell you what has happened
in the wake of some of these videos. He has
posted various rants, uh some against LGBTQ stuff, Pride Month

(06:57):
and all that. He a different video said Catholicism was
a false religion, which is a little interesting because his
mom is head women's basketball coach at Notre Dame Notre Dame,
so that's a little odd. But he's now no longer

(07:18):
playing with Chicago Bulls, which is he's only played four games.
He was injured. He's been injured. He was traded.

Speaker 3 (07:29):
He was traded by the Pistons to the Bulls. Billy Donovan,
who might be the next coach at North Carolina currently
the coach of the Bulls, thought that this guy could
be a big factor in their future, but the organization
waived him yesterday under quote actions detrimental to the team
because he goes on these social media rants Scott and
some of some of them go thirty forty minutes. He

(07:49):
just launches. He's a fundamentalist. He's he's almost a calvinist
and hates gays. He's I don't know that hate hates
a strong yeah, but he makes these subtle jabs at
the LGBTQ community.

Speaker 1 (08:05):
He calls it unrighteousness.

Speaker 3 (08:07):
Y uses that a lot, and that's that's sort of
a sort of a sanitized version of you know what
these people and I don't think so. And you know,
the NBA is very, very very conscientious about the public
political behavior of its players. They don't like players talking
about God, they don't like players talking about gays. They

(08:27):
don't like players talking about guns. The three things that
got George W. Bush elected governor of Texas. So when
you pop out about stuff like that, you better be
good or you're going to have an issue. Now, this
guy averages fifteen points a game. He did last year,
so he's he's really actually a very very good player,
and somebody's going to pick him up. But his agent

(08:49):
needs to say, dude, you need to lay off the
gay stuff, and you need to lay off the God stuff.
You need to focus on basketball. Let's review all the
cliches that we have you guys to say in the.

Speaker 1 (09:01):
Locker room after games.

Speaker 3 (09:03):
Well, man, we played really good and we they a
good team and we got it done. Okay, that's it.
All you need to say is are we gotta do
better next time? That's it and move on. But let
me ask you this.

Speaker 1 (09:13):
If he'd done a video and he said, I am
so glad that the NBA wraps its arms around Pride
Month because when I look at the in the stands
here in the National Basketball Association, I see lots of
happy homosexuals at all of our games. They can't get
enough of the NBA. They love sports, and they love
packing the stands here and and uh and and cheering

(09:36):
for the Chicago Bulls. If he had said that, first
of all, I don't know how true that is. Secondly,
Pride Month is in June. Chicago Bulls haven't played in
June and five years Grant Tea. So if he said
any of that, what does he get bounced off team?

Speaker 3 (09:56):
Because cors is a double. Of course, it's let's pick
it up there. Standard is in full bloom in the NBA.

Speaker 1 (10:02):
Let's pick it up there and we'll mix in what
Bob Costas said the other day about the Olympic crew. Yeah,
that's all coming up here right now. It's the eleven
to ten KFAB Certified Transmission Sports Free with Jim Rose.

Speaker 3 (10:15):
Okay, Scott, Good morning, everybody, quality baseball game downtown tonight,
creating on the Huskers at schwab Field. Nebraska doing good
twenty two and six, up to twenty fourth in the RPI,
but the strength schedule is the issue one hundred and
seventeenth so far and it may not go up much
with a big ten. So Nebraska needs to win these games.
Jay's are right around five hundred for the season, but

(10:35):
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in the last eight years against Husker Baseball telecast live
tonight on ETV Big Leagues home opener forth of Kansas
City Royals, Happy ending three to one over the Twins.
Kyle Lisbel led the way two for three with a homer.
Loves playing in the Magic Kingdom.

Speaker 6 (10:55):
Yea, it's huge. I mean you hear him NonStop.

Speaker 5 (10:57):
Is a big buzz in the stadium the whole entire game,
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Speaker 6 (11:01):
We're excited to come home.

Speaker 3 (11:03):
Collins hit one two on the scoreboard. American League Texas
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IT League scores Chicago's White Sox nine to four over
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ZIP Cubs seven, Angels two, Tampa Bay three, Milwaukee two,

(11:25):
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Before the game of Kansas City Royal's owner. Royal's owner
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(11:47):
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(12:10):
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(12:32):
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Speaker 1 (12:52):
It was great to see em at Johnson hanging out
at the spring game on Saturday. Too, very cool like
to see him in uniform. Oh, I know Scott at
kfab dot com among the emails that have popped in
here to the Zonker's custom woods inbox. And I knew
this would happen as soon as Jim Rose a moment
ago said why don't these players just talk about basketball?

(13:13):
Chris says, Is this young man talking about Jaden Ivy
has just been dismissed from the Chicago Bulls by going
along a lot of long religious anti LGBTQ riams. Chris says,
is this young man just supposed to shut up? Isn't
that what Christians are supposed to do is proclaim the Gospel,

(13:33):
share what they think about their faith. Jim, No, I'm not.

Speaker 3 (13:36):
I don't advocate that he shut up. I'm a right
to free speech guy, but I'm saying this is the
policy of the NBA. The NBA frowns on their players
popping off about politics or as I see him, gay's
guns and God. I don't think I'm fine with it
because I don't care what their political beliefs are. I'll
go to a Barber Streisand concert even though I can't

(13:57):
stand her political beliefs and the way she pops up off.
But I think she's one of the best singers in
the history of the human race. So I'll go to
one of her concerts to listen to her sing and
put up with the rest of it.

Speaker 1 (14:07):
I'm gonna say a couple of things that are probably
in opposition to each other one. I don't think that
Jaden Ivy was dismissed because of anything he said. I
think the guy needs a little bit of help. He's
mumbling after games, telling reporters I'm not the Ji I
used to be. The old Ji is dead. He goes

(14:28):
on these hour long, yeah, very long social on social media.
In the locker room, he's just been talking to his teammates,
described as being really preachy and weird around the locker room. Look,
the content of what he's saying, where he's standing up
for Christ, is great, but he's bad mouthing Catholicism. He

(14:50):
went on one long rant about his love for apple pie. Okay,
that's great, But if you're trying to get together and go, okay,
we've got the Oklahoma City thunder in town, here's what
we're gonna do. Hey, first, I got to tell you
guys what I think about about religion and my own
struggle with depression, and go, all right, that's great, Jayden.
We got a game to play. Yeah, well, I want

(15:11):
to tell you about I don't know that this guy
is helping the team, not by what he's saying, but
how he's doing all this stuff. Still, here's the part
that's an opposition. If he was going on long rants
against Trump, for example, would he be dismissed from the team.

(15:34):
What does coach say that he's been dismissed for what
was the phrase here? Conduct detrimental to the team? What
does coach say? And here's what Billy Donovan said at
the Chicago Bulls. There's a certain level of expectation and
standards here. Everybody comes with their own personal experiences, right,
but we all have to be professional. There has to

(15:55):
be a high level of respect for one another. We've
got to help each other and be accountable those standards.
That's the straight down the middle shot there by the
coach of the Chicago Bulls. So would he be dismissed
if he was saying stuff that didn't disrupt the NBA
party line. Here's what Bob Costas did. He was on

(16:18):
CNN after the Olympics decided that men should not compete
against women in Olympic sports. So CNN brings in Bob Costas, you.

Speaker 7 (16:28):
Were the face of the Olympics for so many years.
This news today about the IOC basically banning trans athletes,
that there's going to be a genetic test. Yeah, your
reaction to that and this very complicated issue.

Speaker 4 (16:43):
Give me enough time to address this, so I'm not misunderstood.
There are people who use this issue cynically for political purposes,
and they're demonizing people who happen to be trans who
should be treated with respect and dignity and understanding. However,
common sense is not transphobic. There's a reason why the

(17:04):
high school champions don't compete with the college champions. There
is a reason why no transman who was once a
woman and has become a man has ever competed successfully
with men in the Olympics. If Caitlin Clark could play
in the NBA, everybody would applaud it.

Speaker 1 (17:22):
That'd be an incredible thing.

Speaker 4 (17:24):
But if the last guy on the bench of an
NBA team went to the WNBA and started averaging forty
points a game, everyone.

Speaker 1 (17:30):
Would know that is bs.

Speaker 4 (17:32):
There's a reason why Sugar Ray Leonard, who was a
contemporary of Mike Tyson, didn't fight Mike Tyson. They were
in different weight classes. There is a reason why there
are men's and women's sports, and why Title nine was
one of the truly progressive pieces of legislation in the
best sense of the word progressive. Under the Nixon administration,

(17:52):
it changed everything. I had a sister who never played
a single organized sport. One generation later, two children of
my own, my daughter played just about as many organized
sports as my son.

Speaker 1 (18:04):
That's a great thing.

Speaker 4 (18:05):
It doesn't make any sense to have a swimmer who
was the four hundred and seventy second ranked swimmer when
he was a man at Penn either winning or coming
close to winning against women a year and a half
after transitioning. If that's what the person wants to do,
that person should be treated with dignity and respect. But
there ought to be common sense. And common sense is

(18:26):
not transphobic.

Speaker 1 (18:28):
That is Bob Costs right.

Speaker 3 (18:30):
That's one of the better explanations of this issue that
I've heard. And he's right, and that is common sense
is not transphobic. But they have used both sides have
used this issue as a wedge, as a club, as
a weapon against the other side.

Speaker 1 (18:46):
Politically.

Speaker 3 (18:47):
The right has done it and the left has done it.
The left has said, accept me as I am. I
have a right to do it. Now you don't. You
have a right to compete in what I would consider
and certainly paraphrasing, Bob cost is the right lane. The
right lane is Sugar Ray Leonard didn't box Mike Tyson.

Speaker 1 (19:06):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (19:06):
The right lane is that Caitlin Collins would not beat
out any guy on an NBA roster, Caitland Clark. I'm sorry,
Kaitlin Clark. Let' I'm thinking Kaitlyn Collins because of CNN.
Ok Kaylan Clark would never be able to beat out
a guy on an NBA ross. Bob Costas is a
big liberal guy, right. He's the one who went out
on one of the on a Sunday or Monday night

(19:28):
football and decided to use halftime as a platform for
trying to take guns away from people. He was also
very critical of the NFL because of concussions, and he
hates Trump.

Speaker 1 (19:38):
So for him to go out on CNN and speak
in defense of the Olympic decision to bar men from
competing against women, that's what this is about in Olympic
competition is one that you could tell CNN maybe he
didn't see coming when they invited Bob Costas on there
and say, hey, you're the efface of the Olympics. What
do you think about this? And then they just waited

(19:59):
for to say I think this is an outrage and
people or people and which should be But you know,
then he went ahead and said this.

Speaker 4 (20:06):
It doesn't make any sense to have a swimmer who
was the four hundred and seventy second ranked swimmer when
he was a man at Penn either winning or coming
close to winning against women a year and a half
after transitioning. If that's what the person wants to do,
that person should be treated with dignity and respect. But
there ought to be common sense, and common sense is

(20:27):
not transphobic.

Speaker 1 (20:29):
That is Bob Costas. Now what he said there at
the last part of that, I one hundred percent agree
everybody does. But if an adult wants to make that
decision and go that route, they ought to be treated
with dignity and respect. That's the golden rule. Do unto
others as you would have others do unto you. One percent.
But there ought to be common sense. The only thing
I disagree with him is he does use that phrasing.

(20:52):
He says now, but if it doesn't make sense for
a guy a Penn to Leah Thomas, right, this was
the Leah Thomas thing that out Riley gains into the
National Spotlight. If he's the four hundred and seventy fourth
rank swimmer when he was a man, he's still a man. Well,
he dresses as a woman and has changed his name. Well,

(21:12):
but he's transitioned. He transitioned, he was in the process
of transitioning his sex. Yes, with you to me is
all right? Well, no, he's he's still a man. And
when biologically, yes, of aka still a man. But as
far as when these people say, oh, yeah, you can
change your gender, when they say and you can change

(21:33):
your race too, then they're nuts. No, they're not or that,
or that men can get pregnant.

Speaker 3 (21:40):
You know, how about the one that's sad before Congress
and said men can get pregnant. Sure, at last check,
we don't have a uterus, okay, And that's sort of
important in the projects.

Speaker 1 (21:49):
It's just the phrasing on that one. You didn't like that. Well,
I everyone's trying to be very careful about this. What
he says that treat people as you want to be
treated one hundred percent. But let's also be clear about
about what the terms are here. And a guy can
has changed his clothes and change his name and live
his life in a certain way, that's fine. I don't care.

(22:11):
If you're you're a decent person and this is how
you want to live your life. Great, you know, have
a beer and talk about what's going on in with
the weather. I don't I don't care, or.

Speaker 3 (22:24):
As Vito Corleone said in the First Godfathers, such that
your interest don't conflict with mine. Sure, that's the one
gray area that gets people into trouble over the transition.

Speaker 1 (22:33):
Well, when you add when people say yes, a man
who decides to be a woman is a woman, Like
can a white person decide to be black?

Speaker 4 (22:40):
Well?

Speaker 1 (22:40):
No, why not? Because they're not black? Huh. Chili's is
taking a stab at something you heard Jean Stott talking
about the other day on the kfab comment line. The
policy of national upper class, upper scale steak restaurant Ruth's
Chris Steakhouse. The instituted a dress code policy, and some

(23:03):
people think this is unreasonable. What Ruth Chris said is
its business casual. Proper attire required. Please kindly remove all
hats when entering the restaurant. Guests wearing ball caps are
asked to dine in the bar lounge. The following attire
is not permitted in our dining room, jim ware pool attire,

(23:25):
tank tops, clothing with offensive graphics or language, revealing clothing,
or exposed undergarments. The Chili's responded by saying on social media,
the only dress code at Chili's is that you have
to be dressed. And people are like, Eh, that's great,
I'd rather go to Chili's. Yeah, you know who else

(23:46):
would rather have you go to Chili's Ruth's Chris Steakhouse.

Speaker 3 (23:49):
Yeah, we're appealing to two different socioeconomic groups here, Ruth
Chris Steakhouse. You better bring a cosigner that is not
cheap food, and you're buying the atmosphere and you're buying
the food, and you're buying the elegance of that restaurant.
I've been in a Ruth Chris. It's very nice. On
the other one in Kansas City is probably the closest one.

(24:10):
That's the one that I've been. It was originated in
New Orleans, and Limbaugh used to love Ruth Chris. He'd
talked about Ruth Chris all the time.

Speaker 1 (24:19):
But you know, in.

Speaker 3 (24:20):
Chili's, if you want to wear down a floss, that's fine.
You'll fit in here. And some do if you've been
into one, but it's a casual, comfort food restaurant, and
nobody's going to get worked up if somebody walks in
with a dead Kennedy's T shirt on. Now, if you
walk into a if you walk into a Ruth Chris,
that's going to offend the people who have bought a
better atmosphere and you're paying for it on the menu.

Speaker 1 (24:42):
Yeah. I think a lot of people would be surprised
that people would just go wander in wearing their swim
suits and tank tops into Ruth Chris Steakhouse, thinking well,
why wouldn't you go someplace else? Like, what do you
mean I can't just come in your dress? People are
a little self less self aware than others. All right, Well,
I'm everyone's allowed to have their policy, and Chili's has theirs.

(25:03):
You just have to be dressed.

Speaker 3 (25:04):
You have to have something, and we're not even sure
it needs to cover much.

Speaker 1 (25:08):
You just have to have something. There was a wide
ranging news conference yesterday at the White House, and our
White House correspondent here on eleven ten kfab John Decker
is back here on the program. John. We got some
details yesterday on diesel and the President's assertion in the
Middle Eastern countries to just get their own oil and

(25:29):
we'll just leave you to it, right.

Speaker 8 (25:32):
Well, that's right. You know. Those were both based upon
questions I asked to White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt
at the White House Press briefing. Diesel prices nationally five
fifty eight a gallon, much higher out in California, well
over six dollars a gallon, and that is really hurting
trucking companies. You know, the larger trucking operators they can

(25:55):
have fuel surcharges attached to their loads, but the smaller
operation cannot, and it's killing their profitability. So I asked
Caroline Levitt about what the administration is doing to help
out these truckers. And you know this quite well. They
are so critical to the US economy. Everything that we have,
everything that we get from the grocery store, is because

(26:16):
of truckers. So they're an important part of the US economy.
And what Caroline Levitt told me is that there are
steps that the administration is taking and will be taking
to help mitigate those higher costs. One of which she
mentioned is the release of oil from the SPR the
Strategic Petroleum Reserve, But that really has had only a

(26:37):
minimal effect in terms of the prices that they pay,
the prices that you and I pay at the pump.
The other question I asked Caroline Levitt had to do
with who's paying for this war? You know, back during
the Persian Golf War, it was Arab countries who paid
for that conflict, Faudi Arabia, the UAE who wait, they
paid for the entire operation Desert Storm. And I asked Carolin,

(27:00):
I love it if indeed Arab countries are going to
foot the bill for this conflict, and she said that
the President is looking into doing just that.

Speaker 1 (27:08):
Stocks are way up here and pre trading here about
an hour or so before the market officially opens. But
oil is up as well. And you know, certainly gas
prices do not come down nearly as quickly as they
go up when oil goes up. But you're right, diesel
is its own beast. And when can we start to
see a rapid increase in the price of what we

(27:30):
pay for everything from groceries to that which we would
need to you know, build a new fence or something
like that.

Speaker 8 (27:39):
Yeah, I mean those costs are being passed along because
of what we're seeing and have seen with the closing
of the Straight up Formos, twenty percent of the world's
loil goes through the Strait. That is what has led
to this huge increase in oil prices around the world,
including here in the US, and so you know, as
long as the Straight remains closed to cargo ships, closed

(28:03):
to oil tankers, we're going to see those prices remain
exceedingly high.

Speaker 1 (28:07):
Thank you very much, John Decker. Always a pleasure. Thank
you Eleven kfab White House correspondent John Decker here on
Nebraska's Morning News. You talk about gas prices and the
cost of things going up. The editorial today in the
Omaha World Herald from their editor Ben Duty says, the

(28:29):
fundamentals of our mission haven't changed. We're going to deliver rigorous,
enterprising work that informs entertainers and delights people who care
about our city, state, and region. But today marks a
new chapter in the way we go about delivering that work.
The print newspaper is now printed in Des Moines, then
transported to the Omaha metro and beyond. It was not

(28:52):
uncommon to see people out in Holdridge with the mailbox
out there, and then a little green mailbox with the
Omaha World Herald. When how long is it going to
take them to transport to that transport that to them?
Not to mention here Omaha one hundred and thirty five
mile commute. With rising gas prices and the cost of

(29:12):
the newspaper has been going up, how much is the
cost of your print newspaper going to go up? And
when are you going to get it? And what's going
to be in it? They also mentioned in this news column,
this editorial from their editor that they don't expect much
to change on news and opinion, but sports pages are
a different story. A given day's print edition will be

(29:34):
less likely to include game coverage from the previous night.
Sports coverage is a big reason why a lot of
people get the newspaper. But we have it for you here.
Thank you so much for hanging out here. This is
Nebraska's morning news. My name is Scott Vorhees, and I
get a chance to hang out here with Lucy Chadman,
Jim Rose, Craig Evans. Here we are. Lucy even smiled

(29:57):
at me. It was fake. Yeah, I just reminded of
what they would say when a baby would smile at you,
and they're like, I was probably just gas. Well, it wasn't.
That was not saying that was the case here, but
it wasn't genuine. Whatever was the reason it wasn't.

Speaker 2 (30:15):
If it was, I'd come in there, Lucy, we have a.

Speaker 1 (30:19):
Wow. I wasn't wasn't expecting that. We have a story
here that is absolutely terrible and there's something about it
that inappropriately makes me laugh. And since you started the
inappropriate behavior, let's continue it here, my beloved Ralston Public Schools.
Proud Ralston graduate. I graduated from that school.

Speaker 2 (30:43):
You graduate.

Speaker 1 (30:44):
I graduated from Ralston many many moons ago. Well, this
story here from KMTV three News. Now, a registered sex
offender has been banned from multiple Omaha metro school districts,
apparently been approaching female students trespassing on school properties. The

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latest one here was Ralston High School. He was approaching
several female students as they were being dismissed for the
day from RHS. The He was asking these girls for
their social media information. They'd just show up there in
the parking lot. How's it going you on Instagram? You
on TikTok? Hey can I get your snapchat? You know

(31:27):
all the rest of this stuff. School asking him to
leave the property banned him from returning, not the first
time he's gone to a school since having to register
as a sex offender.

Speaker 2 (31:37):
Wait a minute, yes, now, maybe you're going to get
to it, but this is this is making me crazy.
He is a convicted sex offender, which means that he
can't live near school, right.

Speaker 1 (31:49):
I mean you just walk over there?

Speaker 2 (31:51):
That okay, So that's that's what I wanted to ask you.
If you're a convicted offender, sex offender, you can still
walk onto the property of a school.

Speaker 1 (31:59):
No, but I mean yes, why.

Speaker 2 (32:02):
Did the school ask him to leave? Why were they
not calling the boy?

Speaker 1 (32:05):
Why weren't they calling them? Well, they probably didn't know,
okay that he wasn't wearing a T shirt that said
I am a ret I'm not going to say that
whole phrase. Chris Baker will take me saying that whole
phrase and then play it incessantly on his program, and
I'm not going to give them that satisfaction. He's also
been dismissed. Let's see here, he's banned from Papillion, Bellevue

(32:29):
ops and Ralston's school grounds. He's this man is he
certainly does get around and what the price of gas
right now? Now I'm going to joke about this for
a couple of reasons. Number one, while I certainly don't
want some weird guy approaching my kid on school grounds, thankfully,

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it doesn't sound like he's doing anything other than just
being creepy and asking people for their social media. I
don't know what happened with him that. Let's see here.
I think one of the things that had happened is
he was recording girls as they walked out of middle school.
That was last year sometime, So just general creepy behavior,

(33:16):
trespassing behavior. The guy's name and I don't know if
I'm pronouncing it correctly. The guy's name. His first name
is n y o a K and his last name
is spelled And I follow along here, n y o

(33:39):
a K Is this man's name yu yuck?

Speaker 2 (33:43):
No, it's not not.

Speaker 1 (33:47):
Is he named after the three stooges been nuck nuk?
His brother's name is. This is the kind of intellectual
exercise that separates the rest of us. See, I hope.

Speaker 3 (34:05):
I don't want him listening to this and going, oh,
wise guy. So he comes out of the womb and
the parent says, you know what that kid is.

Speaker 2 (34:12):
But that but that's not right, because it wouldn't it
be knockduck.

Speaker 1 (34:17):
Middle and unfortunately his middle initials K. But it might
be silent. Oh, it's got to be silent. Well, either
his name is a tribute to the stooges, or his
name is the start of a joke. Knock knock, what's
your name? Knock knock? Who's there? My name? My name?

(34:39):
Who knock knock?

Speaker 6 (34:41):
Let me?

Speaker 2 (34:42):
Are you done being silly yet? Because I got a
question that's not keep going if you.

Speaker 1 (34:46):
Are, Yeah, I guess I'm done.

Speaker 2 (34:53):
This started last year, you said last year he was
at a middle school, Yeah, and then at Bellevue and
Opius and a vast number of other school districts within the.

Speaker 1 (35:05):
Area, driving all over the place. Hey, how's everyone here,
and nobody.

Speaker 2 (35:09):
Alerted another school, Hey, this guy's hanging around. If you
see him, call the police.

Speaker 1 (35:13):
I haven't seen this name pop up because I think
I would probably would have remembered I would not remembered,
which they would have had two of yuck nuck and
yuck so nice they named him twice. I would have
remembered him in the news over the winter. But now
Ralston is like, all right, enough of yuck, yuck.

Speaker 2 (35:36):
I'm very mad. I'm really angry about this.

Speaker 1 (35:41):
If you're going off the same thing that normal people
would say, and that is, if this guy is dangerous,
he should be someplace where he can be alone with
his thoughts and not bother other people. But since no
one does that to anyone anymore, I guess you just
have now. Again, Thankfully, I don't see anything in these

(36:05):
stories that says that he is touching or attacking anyone.

Speaker 2 (36:10):
He was videotaping them.

Speaker 1 (36:12):
Yeah, I know, but that's not touching or attacking. I'm
not saying, oh, it's fine. I'm not saying that it's
a lot weird. I'm just saying, thankfully, now, I don't
want him to continue to be out until he decides
maybe that's the kind of activity for him. We don't
need that. But I'm just saying, just watch out for
yuk yuk. Knack Nutt, who's there. Nac Nutt mentioned earlier

(36:36):
how Ruth's Chris Steakhouse has instituted a dress code, and
in so doing they said that our restaurant is business casual,
Proper attire required. Please please kindly remove all hats when
entering the restaurant. Guests wearing ball caps will be asked
to dine in the bar. The following attire is not

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permitted in our dining rooms jim ware pool attire, tank tops,
clothing with offensive graphics or language, revealing clothing, or exposed undergarments.
Brian emails scottikfab dot com and the Zonker's custom was
inbox and says, well, Ruth Chris just lost a customer.
No exposed undergarments deal breaker. That's from Brian. Who wants

(37:24):
to see your underwear?

Speaker 2 (37:25):
Well, I just thought he wanted to wear just himself.

Speaker 1 (37:29):
Just can't get hungry for a stake unless I see
someone's belly sticking out. That's uh. Hey, everyone's got their proclivities.
Brian has let us know his, and you can let
us know yours if you'd like. Scottikfab dot com in
the Zonker's custom woods inbox. Yeah, I don't get hung
up on that stuff. You know, live and let live.

Speaker 3 (37:50):
Now, there are some people who don't wear clothes they
should be wearing, and do wear clothes they ought not
be wearing.

Speaker 1 (37:58):
Yeah, I just look the other way. Yeah, uh no,
you don't. You're the most not look the other way
person I know. You're gonna make a big deal about it.

Speaker 3 (38:07):
I say, whatever makes you feel good, you know, as
long as your interest don't conflict with mine, be you
do do you leave me alone?

Speaker 1 (38:16):
The only thing that I have. And now we're talking
about a state restaurant that doesn't exist within three hours
of almost the one's coming? Are we? Are we getting
on getting? Oh, I've heard everything. We've heard this from
everything under the sun is coming to the Crossroads District.
We're getting Rus Chris, We're getting north Stroums. We're getting
a Mazy I heard, We're getting a Creighton Barrel. We're

(38:38):
getting in Nikea. It's all going to be their place.
It's going to be amazing.

Speaker 3 (38:41):
We're getting in a new airport. We're getting a new
NHL team, you name it. Oh, the NHL team is
going to be at Crossing Greta. Uh well, uh, I
heard that it was a Sarbone village. But you know,
maybe not the only thing I ever had.

Speaker 1 (38:57):
We have heard about this for most of the last
thirty years. The only thing I've heard. The only problem
I have with that restaurant is the name. What the
heck is Chris Ruth's Chris Sta Chris so possessive. Ruth
has a Chris, and this is Ruth's Chris steakhouse. The
last thing we need right now is a grammar cop
what does that mean? I'm not it's Ruth. I think

(39:17):
grammatically it makes sense if this is her Chris, this
is Chris. Why wouldn't it be Ruth's. I mean, let's
say this is her son Chris.

Speaker 3 (39:26):
Maybe they struggle with subject predict agreement in the South,
then it should be Ruth's Chris's steakhouse.

Speaker 1 (39:33):
These are the things that keep me up at night.
That says a lot now, That answers many questions. A
twenty three year old marine ammunition specialist is in federal custody.
He was put in charge of all the AMMO at
Camp Pendleton, this is near San Diego. And then they
came around and said, uh, corporal, where is all the ammo.

(39:56):
He's like, oh h well, there's some of it over there,
and there's some over there. It's all accounted for. And
then they took a look and said, Corporal, much of
it is not accounted for. Again, where is all the ammo?
Stolen ammunition? And I'm not just talking about bullets. The
indictment here against this guy whose first name is Andy,

(40:20):
and that does come back later in the story, alleges
that he stole many different missile launchers, including a javelin
missile system that's the shoulder fired anti tank weapon. The
bigger question here is who was it that was contacting

(40:41):
this guy who felt that they needed a shoulder fired
anti anti tank weapon. And the question on top of
that is how many guys do you know who if
they could get their hands on a javelin shoulder fired
anti tank weapon and would buy it? And then are

(41:03):
you a good enough friend who would be invited to
go hang out with them when they head down towards
you know, Platte River somewhere and say, all right, we're
going to try this sucker out. I know seventeen guys
who would be in line to buy one of those things,
and I would hope that I would be invited to
be a part, like, hey, can I try it? I

(41:27):
don't mean to be flip about this. Thankfully, all the
weapons are now in federal custody to launchers thirty thousand
rounds of ammunition. He would just sign them out and
then sell them to people the military. Did they do
check their inventory, and then they found the.

Speaker 3 (41:48):
People through the room. Hold on, I thought there was
a javelin here yesterday. What happened to that?

Speaker 1 (41:55):
Yeah, they found the people who were trying to buy
this stuff. One of them had him in his phone.
His name is Corporal Andrew Amarillis. Someone had him in
their phone as let's see here AMMO Andy. That's how
he was known. Oh I need some I need a

(42:18):
shoulder fired tank missile. Oh contact AMMO Andy. Hey, can
you share that contact with me? If if the guy
in charge of the javelin missile system can't succumb to
the the temptation of getting a couple of bucks, that's
a very very dangerous thing. He was selling them in

(42:40):
his home state of Arizona. Who was We don't have
any details about who was trying to buy this stuff,
but he's in custody. All the weapons, well, the missiles
are now accounted for. I don't know about the several
thousand rounds of AMMO. We got some details here on
the war in Iran from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth

(43:04):
this morning. The Pentagon has denied a report about the
finances tied into the Secretary of War. This was a
report yesterday from the Financial Times said that a broker
for Pete Hegseth tried to make a multi million dollar
investment in major defense companies just ahead of the Iran war. So,

(43:27):
in other words, who might know, and we're about to
start blowing stuff up in Iran, let's make an investment
in the defense industrials active ETF in the weeks leading
up to the war. The investment never went through because
it wasn't available to customers of Morgan Stanley and the
request was flagged at Blackrock. Pentagon spokesperson called the report

(43:51):
entirely false and fabricated and demanded our retraction. Obviously that
would be an ethics nightmare for the Secretary of War
as well as the department. But right now it's just
a report denied by the Pentagon. Secretary. Hegseth spoke this morning.

(44:13):
I don't know that he said anything about this particular thing,
but said all the stuff we've been hearing from the
commander in chief over the last several days, and that
is the war's going great, It's almost wrapped up anytime now.
It is all be done. And as is the case
every single day, the stock market here is exactly the
same thing from whether it's the president or whether it's

(44:33):
Pete Hegseth, and they have wildly different returns on what
they hear. It's the exact same thing every day. It's
going great, almost done. Don't worry about a thing. And
some days the investors hear that and go, I believe him,
this sounds great. And some days they hear him and say,
this is all lie. Sell. Everything today is on the
green great side as the right now in the pre

(44:57):
trading here about fifteen minutes before the market open, everything
is up a full percentage point or more. I have
with the numbers for you right after the start of
trading after eight thirty. Here on Nebraska's morning News, a driver.

Speaker 9 (45:11):
In Georgia is behind Barnes after his car ran out
of gas while authorities were chasing him. Police say the
charger had been street racing and driving on the wrong
side of the road without headlights. Police also say the
driver was under the influence of drugs. I'm Craig Evans
Morning News at the bottom of the hour at news
Radio eleven.

Speaker 1 (45:28):
Ten kfab excellent, Thank you very much there, Craig Evans.
Find all those loud street racers and just take their
vehicles and put them into a can crusher with the
drivers still in them. I am so tired of these people. Yes,
I am one hundred and eighty four years old, but
I think I'm on the right side of history on

(45:49):
this one. I'm Scott Voorhees here with Lucy Chapman, Jim
Rose here as well Scott atkfab dot com and the
Zuker's custom woods inbox Will emails and says I'm in
for five hiring a javelin. Speaking of military waste and
abuse charges, the Army has launched an investigation after a
couple of Apache helicopters decided to pose near the hillside

(46:13):
home of Kid Rock in California so he could take
a picture with his fist in the air, and a
couple of military Apache had helicopters right over his swimming pool.
They posted that online. Governor Newsom says it's waste, fraud
and abuse. Someone's jealous anyway. I guess that was that

(46:39):
California or in Nashville. I don't know. Seems like I
know Kid Rock and California Governor Gavin Newsom is barred.
I think that was in Nashville when that happened the
other day. Anyway, you probably shouldn't send guys in a
training run to go and pose outside Kid Rock's place.
But if you're going to train and you have to

(46:59):
fly these thing somewhere, why not a kid Rocks house. Now,
speaking of allegations of waste, fraud and abuse when it
comes to aircraft, there was a report out with college
football in Nebraska's name attached to it.

Speaker 3 (47:13):
Jim, Well, this has to do with private aircraft expenses,
and it matters to the fans because the fans are
the ones that pay for tickets and pay donations to
get access to tickets, parking concessions. This is for families
that send their kids to universities. So you might say, well,
what's the big deal, Jim, it's a two hundred million
dollar athletic department, Yes it is. But Nebraska spent one

(47:36):
point three six million dollars on private air travel just
during the football season. Now you're thinking, okay, well that's
two and from game. No, that doesn't include to and
from games for the team. That's more. This is private
use by staff and administrators, and that's a lot of trips.

Speaker 1 (47:55):
Now, Alabama is number.

Speaker 3 (47:56):
One one point twenty five million in private air travel
during the football season of twenty twenty five, Nebraska one
point three to six, Michigan a little over one. But
then you go down the list of ways and you
look at teams that were playing in the playoffs. Indiana
only won the national championship and somehow Kurt Signetti just
wasn't able to get away from Bloomington enough. They only

(48:18):
spent forty two thousand dollars on private aircraft at Indiana.

Speaker 1 (48:21):
Last year.

Speaker 3 (48:22):
Texas Tech only spent ninety one thousand this Iowa only
spent three hundred and twenty two thousand. So what that
says is we have staff and administrators using private aircraft
and charging it to the university's athletic department. This is
how you explain Matt Rule's late night trip to watch
Bud Crawford box.

Speaker 1 (48:44):
And the basketball game in Houston and then come back
for the spring game.

Speaker 3 (48:48):
Yeah, that's a really nice perk. If you've never traveled
on a private aircraft, it's one of life's necessities that
you must do before you freaking take a take a
dirt app. It's a really really related it's a really
really convenient way to go, and it's hard to break
that habit, but that is a really nice perk for

(49:09):
a guy who's nineteen and nineteen after three seasons here
just saying.

Speaker 1 (49:14):
I fly private aircraft. I just let everyone else from
United get on the flight with me. This has been
a subject of considerable debate across Nebraska and Iowa, where
we have well over one hundred data centers, driven by
major investment. But also the accusation is it's taken up
a whole lot of energy, it's raising costs for rate

(49:38):
payers across all the various power districts, and in Ohio
you got voters there saying we've had enough of this.
To assist in the coverage. We welcome back here to
News Radio eleven ten kfab from Fox News Radio. Jeff Minasso,
welcome back. What's going on here in Ohio?

Speaker 6 (49:57):
Hey, friends with Ohio voters might be taking this, this
data center debate into their own hands with a grassroots
effort to get a constitutional amendment on the November ballot
there that would effectively ban the construction of most large
scale data centers in Ohio that's really become a top
five state for data centers. You mentioned about one hundred

(50:19):
facilities in Nebraska. There's two hundred facilities in Ohio with
plans for rapid expansion from major players including Amazon, Aws, Meta, Google,
Microsoft's others. And they're driven by this AI demand. And
so Ohio Attorney General Daveyos yesterday certified the petition language

(50:43):
that would prohibit construction of data centers larger than twenty
five megawatts. Essentially that's most of them. And now organizers
have until July to collect about four hundred and thirteen
thousand signatures from at least half of Ohio's eighty eight
counties to get this measure put up on the November ballot.

Speaker 1 (51:03):
Now, I'm wondering how much of this is really counterproductive
to our own selfish basic interest for being connected. After all,
we're the ones who take up all the data here.
We got to have storage in the cloud. We've got
to make sure our business is humming along. We have
to make sure each of our two year olds has

(51:24):
three or four different Apple devices with lots of storage
and availability at all times. So we're the ones driving this, right.

Speaker 6 (51:35):
Are you telling my twelve year olds she can't have
access to YouTube shorts? Because that is it's just something
I can't.

Speaker 1 (51:41):
It's important you.

Speaker 6 (51:44):
Yeah, I mean, that's exactly right now. I remember Elon
Musk saying not too long ago that, you know, data
centers really are essentially kind of a waste, that it's
going to be like back of the day. Do you
remember what an IBM computer looked like back to say,
in the eighties, just for a small amount of data
was massive. And now we've got that, you know, much

(52:05):
more data, you know in our hands, in our phones
or Apple watches or just small devices. But look these
The pushback here is that these things, they are first
of all, they're enormous, and they use a massive They
use massive amounts of energy, and they strain electrical grids
if grids are even up to speed and up to

(52:27):
power to be able to handle that, remember California's blackouts
and brownouts. They also use a ton of water for cooling.
With worries about community impact, including skyrocketing utility rates, and
arguments are being made that data centers are also being
subsidized by states to convert precious local farmland in forestry forestland,

(52:48):
uh and that data centers are an environmental nuisance. Of course,
supporters do say that data centers create construction and local
jobs and generating billions in tax revenue with all that,
and perhaps are essential to you know, the modern modernization
and long term economic growth in terms of you know,
critical future technology infrastructure. But never mind Ohio. I mean,

(53:14):
you've got lawmakers in eleven states that have introduced legislation
proposing at least bands or or moratorium. So this is
more and more things can be studied. And thirty states
have also created or actively passing laws and regulations that
require data centers to pay for their own energy infrastructure.
We heard President Trump a while back talking about, you

(53:36):
know that data centers need to to produce their own
be self sufficient. But some states are are going to
put that in writing and make sure that happens because
that is a that's also a massive concern that people have,
and you know, they they don't want to have either
their their rates double or triple. And we've seen that
in communities, but locally in Ohio, they've they've also got

(53:59):
some communities that have banned huge data centers on a
local level. You know, they remove data processing services from
zoning regulations to preserve rural character and farmland and others
have also issued temporary bands, so the fight's going to continue.

Speaker 1 (54:17):
Yeah, and you're right. The President in the State of
the Union address said, hey, let these guys, they've got
enough money, but let them build their own, you know,
power sources here. So we'll see if maybe that could
impact it. I imagine the power companies are going to
keep doing what they've been doing as long as they
can get away with it. We'll see if the voters
in Ohio have any impact, not just there but across

(54:37):
the country. Jeff, always great reporting. Thank you very much
for your time this morning. Thanks my friend from Fox
News Radio. That's Jeff Minasso here on News radio eleven
ten kfab story here in northern Pennsylvania where a guy
had his own paradise there, apple orchards, a barn, meadows,

(54:58):
he had all kinds of land. It was great. And
then a local power utility knocked on his door a
couple of years ago and said, we're going to build
a five hundred kill a vault power line through your property.
Doesn't specifically say this has anything to do with data centers,
but it's kind of the same thing. Two hundred and

(55:19):
forty foot metal towers ten times as high as his
apple trees, and he says this, the hum off of
the transmission lines are just driving him insane. Not only
is it all ugly, but he almost feels like he
can feel the energy coursing through his veins. Hey, maybe

(55:41):
you'll become a superhero. We've got data centers though, all
papillion council bluffs all over the area Lincoln and no
end in sight. And to Jeff's point there there are
a lot of people that say, well, you know they
bring in jobs.

Speaker 3 (55:58):
Well they don't. Practicually, nobody working there. That's the thing. Now,
the jobs come in building them. There are winners and
losers in these deals. The first big winner is obviously
the big high tech company that builds it. They need
it for their servers and to handle the bandwidth. The
other big winner is the guy who sells the property,

(56:20):
the Trenton maggots of the world.

Speaker 1 (56:23):
The guy who owned.

Speaker 3 (56:24):
The property does very very well, and the people who
build it if they use local builders. But once it's done,
it's not generating revenue, it doesn't employ that many people.
They get a lot of tax incentives for building it.

Speaker 1 (56:38):
There.

Speaker 3 (56:39):
Each community offers their own deals on tax incentives, whether
they are income tax incentives or property tax incentives, and
they use a tremendous amount of energy. And here's the
big challenge, Scott. Right now they're using public power. But
if they get to a point where they're using their
own power, that's great, except we just lost the single big,
biggest customer for public power, which means that all the

(57:03):
little rate payers get to pay more because the single
biggest users are gone. Well, the counter argument to that
is exactly opposite what you just said. If they're not
using as much energy, then we don't need to create
as much and then energy usage goes down, as do rates.
But the cash flow that we needed that came from
their rates that they paid is huge. And once again

(57:26):
you can argue that public power in this state, in
some cases, not all, in some cases has been badly mismanaged.
And when the data center people come and say, we
want to put a data center here that will use
as much power as a thousand Walmarts and we're going
to build this massive, massive facility, they go, great, this
is what no hole hold on. What's in it for us?

Speaker 1 (57:49):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (57:50):
Meaning the community? And nobody's ever asked these questions. They say, well, okay, great,
somebody's going to sell the property and we're going to
get a data center there. But there are no jobs
associated with this thing, very few jobs associated. So if
I had been negotiating it, okay, and this doesn't make
me smart, that just makes me somebody that sees the
world as it is. I just said, Okay, how much

(58:11):
money are you going to pour into our community foundation
every year?

Speaker 1 (58:15):
Okay? How much money are you going to pour into
our parks and recreation budget every year? You can't start
holding these businesses somewhere somewhere else. Well, that's part of
the negotiation, isn't it. Most people probably won't vote against
this in Ohio because they don't live right next to it,
so we'll see. These are voters. They are trying to
get this on the ballots. They say the elected representatives

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aren't listening to their wants and.

Speaker 3 (58:39):
Needs on Now, this is not like a smeltering plant.
They are fairly clean energy buildings. They don't kick off
a bunch of pollution, but want't pollute the groundwater.

Speaker 1 (58:51):
Right. But they're there because we need to have all
of our digital storage at our fingertips any time. So
that way, when your aunt Carl wants to post five
thousand pictures from the No Kings rally on Saturday. You
got to make sure they're there, right.

Speaker 3 (59:05):
Or when somebody has somebody's cat is wearing a Halloween
Costa's huge in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.

Speaker 1 (59:10):
That's going to go through the server a huge sarp County.

Speaker 9 (59:13):
The Tiger King is staying behind bars as justices on
the Supreme Court are denying his appeal to throw out
a murder for higher conviction. Joe Exotic real name Joseph
Maldonano Passage is serving a twenty one year prison sentence
after a federal jury found him guilty of paying a
man to kill rival animal rights activist Carol Paskin.

Speaker 1 (59:33):
Craig Evans reporting there on the Tiger King. When I
hear Tiger King, I immediately feel like I'm in that
stretch where it's two weeks to flatten the curve. Great
in basketball got canceled at halftime of the Big East
Tournament at Madison Square Garden. I just immediately feel like
I'm in that zone. Is that's a total COVID thing

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there for me, the Tiger King, and I didn't even
watch it. It seemed like the entire rest of the
world was watching it. Now. I got some emails here,
Sue says, via the Zonker's custom woods inbox Scott at
kfab dot com. I work for a company in York
that manufactures the steel structures in substations that support these

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data centers. There are many local jobs involved, but I think,
to Jim's point, yeah, when building it, yeah, but afterwards,
but that's you know, that's how it works in construction.

Speaker 3 (01:00:27):
Well, yeah, but you hope that it's sustainable economically, No,
there are Hey, it's great for the local economy temporarily,
Gina says.

Speaker 1 (01:00:36):
Tell Jim to back off the data centers. I provide
them with lots and lots of equipment and services for
the HVAC units, and you know, then that's all good,
she says. And thank you for bringing Chris Baker back, Gina,
thank you for so many people work in them. That's
what I did.

Speaker 3 (01:00:51):
How many, how many w two folks do we have
in them? I don't know, very very few. I don't know, Jim,
very very few.

Speaker 1 (01:00:59):
You don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:01:00):
I do