August 5, 2026 • 29 mins
Ben Sasse crashes the party this morning, a socialist wins Michigan, leg traps are being banned in Papillion, and more -- quite a morning!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Got Nebraska's morning news right here, News Radio eleven to
ten KFA, b Lucy Chapman, Courtney Donaho, Craig Evans. All
right there, there's Jim Rose. I am Scott Vorhees, and
I can't tell you what an honor and privilege it
is to welcome back to the studio. From via Midlands
College to the United States Senate, to the University of
(00:22):
Florida to some really tragic headlines recently, it is great
to see our good friend Ben says for having me
welcome back.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Usually when somebody coat to the back door and they
are in your physical condition, we just give him a
brown paper bag filled with little green ones and then
off they go.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
There are a lot of euphemisms in there. I've been
getting drugs every day for seven months, eight months, lots
of drugs, but never hit the back door in your alley.
So thank you for underwood invitation.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
In case you hadn't heard the news, Ben sas got
a really bad case of cyclosporas that it.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Used to be.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Obviously, everyone wants to know how you're doing.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
God be praised.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
I I think next week will be eight months since
I was told I was dead.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
In three months a bonus. Time's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Yeah, how does overtime feel? Right now?
Speaker 4 (01:15):
I think my kids are tired of me.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Frankly, there's the Kevin Neeland joke about the buddy who
gets the diagnosis and so they decide to spend a
lot of money before the funeral, and then he lives
and he keeps eating the organic stuff.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
He's way too expensive at parties.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
I'm grateful to God and we should all live life
backwards and number our days, and so I'm wondering how.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
To do that, and you certainly have. Your schedule has
been packed, in addition to going to this Husker game
or this College World Series game, or this March Madness game,
or doing this podcast Not Dead Yet with Ben Sass,
which is great, talking to Conan O'Brien, l Michael's Chris Pratt,
and you even scored Nebraska's astronaut Klay Anderson for that
(01:56):
Mike Rowe ken Burns. It's been incredible. It sounds exhausting, though, Oh.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Dude, all I do is sleep. I sleep like fifteen
hours a day.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
The podcast is about an hour and a half a week,
and then I do maybe I do a public day
every couple of weeks. But officially I'm hospitalized in Houston
two days a week. But my drug is kind of
kicking butt right now, so I get out of it
a lot.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
I'm flying.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
I've been home for a number of days here, and
I'm flying to Houston now to let a bunch of
people poke in broad me and take all my blood.
But it's pretty good. But I'm embarrassed about how much
I sleep.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
And you're looking good, man.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
If you beat this, this will be the best upset
since Maryland Baltimore County over Virginia.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Nice. Nice.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
There's no Ralph Sampson in my game. But I don't
look good, so thank you for lying on my nah.
I'm cutting that clip for my wife. But I look
pretty hideous. But I've been able to regrow all the
skin on my face, which is crazy.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
When you're on a clinical.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Trial, there's some weird ass side effects, so I have
what's called nuclear rash, but right now it's mostly on
my sky on my face anymore.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
No, you you look great and on TV here, even
just a few weeks ago, saw you on Fox and
so forth, you had somewhere of that that ruddy feature
on your face. Here, I'm guessing though. When you're going
through what you're going through, the ego and the pride
kind of takes a backseat. Or are you are you?
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Are you?
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Let's talk sports highlights nineteen eighty nine and I kicked
gaste this summer. Yeah, I mean, it's pretty good to
have to stand before God and admit that we came
into the world as desperate, you know, dependent, insufficient little babies, and.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
That's how we'll go out too.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
But I uh, I have an unbelievable team at MD
Anderson Hospital in Houston, and I like all of them
except the dermatology. I have an opthum on oncology dermatology
team that try to help figure out from all the
side effects for my chemo. You know, how do you
regrow skin in this part of your body? How do
you regrow skin in that part of your body? I
(04:00):
have If you're if you're if you're in your eighties,
pancreatic cancer is potentially environmental. If you're in your fifties,
it's almost surely a genetic mutation. So I have this
genetic mutation. So my tumors are ninety seven percent ben
three percent other. So we delivered this massive dose of
chemo every day by binding a protein to the three percent.
So most of my supernose of chemo doesn't hit me.
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It hits, just beats the hell out of the tumors.
But skin and hair, sock and so. I have this
dermatology team that they're awesome, except every day I get
in there and a lot of them are, you know,
vibrant and alive and cute, and They're like, yeah, take
all your clothes off, and I'm like, I look so hidious,
I've got a rash.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
He everywhere.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
You're welcome everybody. There was a time, it's not right now. Yeah,
I used to have pecs. I just want to need
a bra. I love the fact that you're standing here.
I love the fact that, as your podcast says, you're
not dead yet. And we've had a number of conversations
over the years about everything from Huscar football to politics.
On the political front, do you being in the fray
(05:01):
in the United States set it on some level or
are you like, I can't believe I wasted so much
of my life on that.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
I mean, I have lots of stuff to say on
both sides, and I know your segment is short, so
I won't but I mean, getting to represent Nebraskans is
just one of the privileges of a lifetime. So I
don't ever want to say it in a way that's
disdainful of the political sphere, because it's important way to
love your neighbor, it's important service. I've always had a
one cheer for politics view. I miss the intelligence community.
(05:28):
I miss getting to go in the middle of the
night to the edge of a warzone and thank troops
or intel folks for fighting to defend our freedom. But
I don't miss the theater of stupid. I mean, there's
just so little serious activity that goes on in the
Congress right now, and so you know, we've got a
massive entitlement crisis and it just continues to grow, and
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nobody even bothers to talk about it because everybody just
wants reelection rather than saying hard stuff. So I definitely
don't miss the day to day pieces of it. You know,
I miss some friends, and I miss representing Nebraska, and
I miss saying thank you to a lot of folks.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Who fight for If you recall I dropped you a
text after the Amy Cony Barrett confirmation hearing saying how
you refrain from grabbing Mazie Herono around the neck. Will
will long show me your self discipline. But uh, we
don't want to name particular members. But there is a
senator who I watched read talking points and the pages
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got out of order and they just kept reading right
even though it made no sense. They didn't even they
weren't even aware that they're talking points made.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
She's dumb enough to be twins.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
But we do need at some point, we need to
have you come back because our gal Amy Cony Barrett
hopped the corral a couple of times, but because she
is so in command of the constitution, it'd be nice
to hear the other side of the story. But you
have to come back for a longer period of time,
so you may be dying but not yet.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Amen, Hat tip money Python that thanks.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
It is a pleasure to see you. Thank you so
much for stabbing Bay. You know you're always welcome here
in any capacity. Anytime.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Go beg grad and vote the over on the win loss.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Now. I think when I start the podcast later today,
the Nebraska's Morning News podcast at kfab dot com, I'll
probably start with the ben sas coms hope so because
frankly Jim before that you were pretty sluggish. So I
think they will just skip all that. I usually don't,
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but we were talking about the race that had been
too close to Colin. Now the Socialist in Michigan says,
I won. I want thanks everyone.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
I won.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
I don't know if that's official yet. He's saying he won. Now.
You had said that he'll probably start to go pretty center.
Should he emerge victorious before the general in November, And
I said, I don't think so, because I think that this,
especially the Medicare for All, part of his campaign, part
of the Democratic Socialist of America's campaign. I think it's
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a winner with a larger number of people. So here's
my question for you. If I'm one of these people
who's like, hey, I can't afford this. I can't afford
that it's getting more expensive. I don't feel good about
my job. And here's someone says, you vote for me,
and one of these biggest healthcare, one of these biggest
costs you have in healthcare, that's all gone. We're gonna
take care of you on that. Why shouldn't I vote
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for that?
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Well, I think you have to look at the broader picture.
And that's asking a lot for folks to look at
the broader picture, because most of us live in the
here now. And if you look at Ben Sass, for example,
Ben SaaS is living the lyrics of the Tim mcgrass song.
He's living like he's dying, and a lot of people
are starting to do that. They're saying, don't I can't
worry about tomorrow. I gotta worry about today. I'm gonna
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make today what I need. Whereas this country you used
to really think about tomorrow. What am I going to
do tomorrow? How am I going to get to tomorrow?
How do I make tomorrow better than today? And socialism
is about I'll take care of you today. I'll make
you feel better today, Okay, tomorrow. He don't worry about tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
We may be living in a crap sandwich, but I'll
make today best.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Somebody else worry about it.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Yeah, I really believe that's critically important. But there's also
a messaging problem from the White House and from the
Republicans this term Scott and that is they have not
done a very good job of going out into the
countryside and explaining to people this is what the Big
Beautiful Bill did for you and one of the things
it did was lower prescription drug prices. Now, a lot
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of healthcare costs on an ongoing basis are tied to
prescription medication, especially people with chronic illnesses, and some of
those pills are very, very expensive to try and get
you through the day. Long term health expenses are a
separate conversation, although it somewhat tied to this name. But
the truth is the Trump administration has negotiated significant reductions
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in the cost of prescription drugs. So as it relates
to healthcare, that's something that Republicans need to say, Hey,
ask are you spending less for this? If you're not,
then call us because you're buying from the wrong place.
I have noticed I have not a lot of prescription medication,
but my prescription medication is down significantly that I have
to go on a regular basis to get.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Do you go through the Trump OURX website and get
all that time?
Speaker 4 (10:17):
I don't, but we have.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
I've seen the Trump our X website and I've looked
and said, you know, that is a lot less than
what they were paying one or two years ago. But yeah,
I would think to a broader point relative to the election,
the Republicans just can't run across the country and say commie, commie, commie,
you know, pink O Russia, you know Cuba.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Can't do that.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
You've got to go out and say, here's what we've done,
here's what we're doing, and here's what's going to happen
if you keep us in office. They need to sell
them on policies, on changes. We're a little bit distracted
because of the Iran war. But if you've seen the
corporate earnings report from this past week, massive, massive corporate earnings,
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which means the economy is doing very, very well. The
stock market just hit a record high for the twenty
third time this year, so the economy is good. The
question is, can the Republicans explain to the average American
this is what we're doing and this is what will
happen if you keep us an office. Can they do
it to a catchy bluegrass song that might make people remember.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
It more He's a Democrat.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
That one's not coming up in this words from our sponsor,
and I'm sure it'll be on sur the Ricketts fake
Dan Osborne song coming up a little later. That's in
my head. Now on to all it that you just
said there Jim. President Trump said something that sounded a
little bit socialistic this week. He said the oil companies
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are making too much money and they ought to give
it back to the people. Anyone else feel a little
uncomfortable with that. I know why he's saying it. He
says that they're they're making too much money based on
what they're trying to promote as a shortage of oil,
which is not true. And he says, I don't like it.
(12:12):
They're making too much money. It's not right. They're gouging
the people. The Department of Justice should look into price
gudget gouging by these oil companies when it comes to
gas prices, and he says those companies will give some
of that back to the public. How does that work.
The federal government and the president of the United States
can't tell private businesses you're making too much money, give
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it back.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
You can't do that, nor should it. That's government overreach
and nobody wants that. There is an argument, and to
be fair intellectually about this, there is an argument Scott
that the far left is making. They're not making it well,
but they have a point, and that is during the
Carter administration, I should say, when Ronald Reagan was elected president,
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they began to deregulate business mergers, corporate growth, and they're
there's no better example of that than this industry, the
radio business. Nineteen ninety six, the Telco Bill came about,
which allowed for much wider ownership rules for radio stations
and television stations, and so a few companies bought up
all of them.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
I'm a big fan of that, by the way, in
case our bosses at the big right in the.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Case they're listening.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
But what it did was wipe out a lot of
local ownership of radio stations who employed more people and
competed for more people, whether they were disc jockeys, newspeople,
or salespeople. Well that's disappeared now because very few companies
own the stations. The point made is this corporate America
has grown too large at the expense of the worker.
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So what should the government do. The government shouldn't say, well,
that's too bad, but the government should do is create
incentives for growth and entrepreneurship. In other words, allow for
deregulation of startups, make financing for startups better easier, and
expand the small business administration, and then educate the community
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on how our capitalist economy works through entrepreneurship. Rather than
say you're making too much money oil companies, give it back.
How about let's find new ways to power our cars.
The government shouldn't have anything to do with any of that.
This should be consumer driven because people look at like
Amazon and Walmart and say they're too big, way out
to do something. But then when they need something, where
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do they go to Amazon? Go to Amazon and Walmart.
The government can be the playground proctor. I don't mind
a proctor, You just don't want them in the game.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
No, I got eleven to ten KFAB Certified Transmission SPORTSPROEF.
Now here is Proctor Jim Row.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
That's the kind of piercing insight that you don't get
from any of the radio station or television station, or
about anywhere else. Things are relaxed to doubt at Husker football,
my friends, seems the only people who are anxious about
this season are the ones who pay to get in.
The players are referring to their coach by his first name.
Transfer linebacker Own shamblets.
Speaker 6 (14:55):
We'll be at practice and then I'll come off the field,
not as Matt'll come up to me. I'll come up
to Matt. You'll be like, what are you looking at that?
Or what should you be looking at? Or what was
I looking at? We'll just talk through my mental process
for each play, getting guys lined up and stuff like
that and understanding the game. And I think it makes
more comfortab because I can just be like, hey, Matt,
real quick, I saw blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
What about this?
Speaker 2 (15:13):
So can you imagine some guy hitting the practice field
with Hey, Tom a man? Fall camp opens today? That right,
there is a symptom of the problem. These are teenagers. Okay,
authority matters to teenagers.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
But if the.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Authority figure is your best buddy, we got a problem.
Yesterday it was Oregon's media day, sizeably fewer crowded around
the backup quarterback Dylan Ryola. First time in his football life,
he isn't the man. What's that like?
Speaker 7 (15:46):
I don't want to Yeah, I don't think. I don't
think it's ever happened, so something new. But I know
change is good, and especially at a place like this,
I'm more than willing to sacrifice for.
Speaker 8 (16:00):
The greater game.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Okay, couldn't help himself though, took a shot at Nebraska,
which made him rich. Says they don't have the talent
that we do. Also made fun of the corn crop,
but he did say he appreciated the coaches and players
around him here. Baseball scores Bobby wit Casey, Royal's All Star,
did his job two rbi, two run scored.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Casey beats Minnesota eight to two.
Speaker 8 (16:20):
Just making sure that I'm doing more than I should
be doing, just to make sure that I'm ready for
when I come back, and just making it harder here
on myself, just so I know whenever how I use
my body, that I'm going to be all right when
I'm out there on the field.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
It had been on the DL for a week or two.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Baseball scores Baltimore three to one over the Angels, Boston
fourteen to two over the White Sox. It was Houston
over Toronto, Detroit beat Seattle, National League League Game Lake Games,
San Diego nine to one over the d Backs, and
the Cubs beat the Dodgers five to one. Lake Games
in inter league play, Rangers five to four over the Giants,
Tampa Bay nine to seven over the Rockies, Toledo beat
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Omaha four to three. Sports his News on Nebraska's News
weathern Traffic Station, Bloomberg Money Minute.
Speaker 9 (17:01):
Artificial intelligence is seen as more trustworthy than politicians. According
to a survey from the Collective Intelligence Project, fifty six
percent of respondents around the world would trust AI chatbots
to act in their best interest above elected representatives and corporations.
Trusting government has been low for decades. The Pew Research
Center finds only seventeen percent of Americans trust the government
(17:24):
to do what's right. Courtney Donahoe, Bloomberg Radio and.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
The Zonker's Custom Woods in Box Scott a kfab dot com.
This is still the number one repeat question we get.
Speaker 10 (17:33):
Why did they.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Take Courtney Dunaho off the year air Live?
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Well, thank you very much for that via the talkback. Yeah,
I've wondered that myself. The truth is that she's still
here live. She comes into the studio here in Omaha
every single day and sits there at that microphone, and
I just don't want to talk to her. No, these
are longtime listeners the program. No that Courtney used to
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be a bigger conversation part of the program here, but
this actually started last fall during the last couple of
months that Gary was here. They had some shifting of
responsibilities at Bloomberg, and that's the nice way of saying
there were fewer people to do more things, and Courtney
suddenly had to do more things. And it was Courtney
(18:20):
doesn't have time to be talking about movies, music and
underwear with you guys. She's busy. So it's either going
to be no Courtney at all, or Courtney provides you
a recorded report twice an hour. I don't like you
got to have some Courtney. Well, none of it's likes it.
Courtney doesn't like it. I don't like it. Listeners don't
like it.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
I sent a sternly worded letter to Michael Bloomberg myself,
and I'm still waiting on the reply.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
I'm sure that he's just tossing and turning, wondering how
to craft back, saying, who is this, Dear Mike, Dear Mike,
r E Courtney, WTF question Mark Rosie Hey, this landscape
is always shifting. I fully anticipate that Courtney will be
a part of the programmed the way she used to be.
I just hope that's sooner rather than later. But in
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the meantime, we'd rather have some Courtney than no Courtney.
So there's your courtney. It's the number one question we get.
It doesn't matter how many times I answer it, people
still ask it. And so I'm happy to do that.
Here's the question I have this morning. Yeah, for once,
iheart's not responsible for this one. Yeah, this one wasn't us,
no question. I have this morning for you people and Papillion.
You people, And I can say that being a Ralston kid.
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You people and Papillion. What is the matter with you people?
They're talking about changing the city code in Papillion to
end leg traps. They want to ban the use of
leg traps within the municipality of Papilion, USA. How many
leg traps are being set in Papillion? What are we
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trying to trap? What are we trying to ensnare in
a leg trap? And exactly what is a leg trap?
I'm thinking about a bear trap? Is it a bear trap?
Beaver trap? Is it?
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (20:03):
But what a leg trap for? What is that? It's
like it's a little I've never the lasso that suddenly
grabs them. It's either a bear trap kind of a
thing or I don't know. But they said, well, they
previously had been allowing leg traps within Papillion for wild animals,
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but the city now deems them to be inhumane. So
what are you supposed to do about all your wild
animals roaming the streets of Papillion. By the way, how
many wild animals are roaming the streets of Papillion? Is
this a big problem there in Papillion. They had that
mountain lion around town that wasn't far from Papillion a
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few years ago. And you never know, maybe a bear.
They found three black bears in Iowa last year. Maybe
one of them comes over and says, look, I like Rolston,
I like Bellevue, I like La Vista, I like Springfield,
but I want to make my home in Papillion, charming
downtown area. You got that park there, some fun little shops.
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The Papillion Fun Park is right there. It's called the
Fun Park. Who wouldn't find that fun?
Speaker 2 (21:16):
So well, apparently they have an animal problem in Papillion,
because that's what these are. They're designed to snare an
animal by its leg, not injure it, not kill it,
detain it.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Then the animal had to choose its own leg off
or whatever to try.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Does that happen a lot?
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Well, some of us have had to do that with
our arms in the morning after.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
A night of making poor choices, something like that. The
phrase that's where that comes from. Come on, now, we're
trying to elevate the conversation around here. But yeah, So
these traps are often used for wildlife management, I guess,
but for what animals? Maybe raccoons, badgers, wolverines that get
I think there's wolverines since somebody left the gate open
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at the Henry Doorley Zoo and goodness knows what got out,
and now they're roaming the streets and running amuck on
Terry Hills golf course.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
I don't know that's in le Vista.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Uh be, because it doesn't know where the difference between
Leavista and Papillion. They they think that Terry Hills is
in Papillion. So these animals are squatting on Terry Hills
thinking this is Papillion. But now that they know the
traps are being set in Papillion, they'll stay in La Vista.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Leg traps or wild animals in Papillion. I wonder. I
want to see who's gonna go down in the buffalo,
Who's gonna go to the Papillion City Council meeting, he
goes my ride as a trapper. I'm a fur trapper.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
We haven't had trappers here since the eighteen forties. You
have no idea.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
I mean people are saved here near six to Washington.
If I'm not able to do Lake trapp, what am
I supposed to do?
Speaker 2 (22:46):
This is part of our history trapping. How do you
think Bellview ever came about? We trapped them beavers on
the river, and we build a first National Bank.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Tower from them.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Greg Emails says, wouldn't it be great if the performers
at the Nebraska State Fair included the band singing the
Dan Osborne's a Democrat song. I don't know if that's
going to be the case.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Speaking of the state Fair, Yes, the Great Nebraska get Together,
the one Grand Island, which is a great place for it.
We're gonna have one debate between Dan Osborne and Pete Ricketts.
It'll be for just one hour. It'll be at the
State Fair, which is a good place for it. But
they ought to have more than one. And if I'm Pete,
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given what the general brand is of populism in our
state this election cycle, I'd have much more than one
debate with this guy. Because he's got lots of ammunition
to say yes or no.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Do you believe this? Do you believe this? Do you
believe this? Do you believe this?
Speaker 2 (23:45):
And I don't think Pete Ricketts and his campaign people
are taking full advantage of his ability to create an
image of Dan Osborne that does not exist.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
This is a weird campaign on every level.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
You look to say nothing of the fact that either
you mean nor Chris Baker have been invited to be
on the debate questioning panel, which is Malfeason's given that
more people listen to the radio station than any other
radio station in the state by a mile.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
I like it, but I uh, that's fine. I just
look at the grenades, the political grenades that these two
campaigns are lobbing at each other, and it's weird. Dan
Osborne's problem with Pete Ricketts seems to be that Pete
Ricketts family has a lot of money, and.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
That he makes decisions based on that. He makes decisions
in the United States Senate based on that.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
He's got a lot of money. Don't vote for him.
And then Pete Ricketts through the song is that Dan
Osborne's a Democrat and he won't just admit he's a Democrat.
Dan Osborne's running as an independent in this race, but
the fund support of the Democrat Party of Nebraska so
much so there might be a lawsuit about it.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
And then when you ask, you know, mister Osborne, with
whom will you caucus when you get into the US Senate?
Meaning which political party will you join in? Because you
have to join one. You can't just set up your
lawn chair in the Capitol rotunda and let people walk
by you say, oh, you're the senator from Nebraska. A
few people have Joe Lieberman, did you can just sit
(25:16):
there in the middle, and well, he caucused with the
Democrats and he Angus King. Well, and that was after
Lieberman had been a Democrat. He was defeated in a
primary by a super liberal Democrat and then ran as
an independent won the general.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
Well, Angus King. And Maine is the same way. Now.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Bernie Sanders is supposedly an independent, but really he's a communist.
But he caucuses with the Democrats. So if anybody thinks
that the Dan Osborne is going to caucus with the Republicans,
they're out of their minds. Or he needs to dispel
that and say I'm going to caucus with the Republicans
because they believe more than they believe in more of
what I believe than Democrats or vice versa.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
Just tell us.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
But I think Pete is missing Scott a lot of
opportunity to confront Dan osmyn one on one, and Dan
Osborne is missing an opportunity to confront Pete on this
one on one.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
I got to see it. That's part of the Nebraska
State Fair's.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Going to be on the News Channel Nebraska, which is
an online TV station and they do really good stuff.
But I'm not sure how many Nebraskans have access to
News Channel.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
And at the Iowa State Fair, it's going to be
a debate between Rob Sayd and Rod Stewart. That's gonna
be good. We talked earlier this morning about Medicare for all.
Got this in the talkback, Mike, Hey.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
Good morning, Happy Wednesday.
Speaker 10 (26:32):
Say I might be out of touch because I live
in common sense, honky Land Apparently, what but a normal reporter,
and I know we don't have many of those anymore.
After they say Medicai for all and this and that, yeah, yeah,
we're all wrong, the next question obviously would be, well,
how are you going to pay for it? And of course,
if you're left wing looney to nutcase, you never have
to answer that question. And if you ask them the right,
(26:53):
all of a sudden, it's racist. Thanksgiving as racist?
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (26:58):
That's good, good, good Gravy can weighing in on the
talk back, Well, they do explain that Medicare for All
comes from the insurance companies. They'll pay for it, the
doctors and the big corporate healthcare will pay for it,
and the drug companies.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Will pay for it. That's their explanation. Now they have
no pathway to actually make that happen. But that's when
someone asks them, Okay, you want Medicare for all? That
will cost about a trillion dollars a year, which is
not any exaggeration, that's true. How you get Well, the
drug companies are going to pay for that, and the
doctors' organizations and the big corporate healthcare is you know,
(27:33):
like CHI and Nebraska Medicine All, they're going to pay
and then you know, we'll get those insurance those bad
insurance companies. Well, does anybody understand the most insurance companies
are mutual, which means that they have funds from the
policies that are sold to the people.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
This is not you don't buy insurance at a Walgreen.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
So these people are out there celebrating the guy who
killed the guy in charge of United Healthcare from Iowa
behind a family with two young kids. They don't care
who's paying for it. They just don't want to. They
don't want to pay for anything. They think that the
guy who killed him a should be a saint. And
we don't want to pay for stuff. And there's a
growing amount of sentiment. Who would probably get on board
(28:14):
with the last thing that Ken said there in that
talkback Mike about Thanksgiving being racist. That was the Wisconsin
gubernatorial front runner, the Democrat up there in Wisconsin running
for governors, says that we should ban Thanksgiving. It's racist and.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
It would it foster genocide of indigenous people. In one
more political note for you, this one's blue. This is
the pajamas worn by Mike Lindell in the My Pillow commercials.
He is exiting his post at My Pillow so he
can put all of his time into his bid for
governor of Minnesota. Mike Lindell, Maybe you forgot Mike Lindell
is running for governor of Minnesota. So he's taking off
(28:51):
the pajamas and putting on the suit, and I can't
be in charge of my pillow anymore. I don't know
if that's going to get my pillow back. In some
of the stories, I thought he was bankrupt. They took
that out because well they tried, because he said, I
have questions about the twenty twenty election.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
I think it was rigged. And people are like, well,
we can't buy pillows anymore, but they're comfortable. I don't
care how comfortable they are. I don't want them. No pillows,
no towels, no slippers, none of them my pillows stuff.
I checked. He was down to his last dime. Well
he might be the next governor of Minnesota. In Minnesota,
governor of Minnesota could look like Jesse Ventura, so Mike Lindell,
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he'd fit right in
Got Nebraska's morning news right here, News Radio eleven to
ten KFA, b Lucy Chapman, Courtney Donaho, Craig Evans. All
right there, there's Jim Rose. I am Scott Vorhees, and
I can't tell you what an honor and privilege it
is to welcome back to the studio. From via Midlands
College to the United States Senate, to the University of
(00:22):
Florida to some really tragic headlines recently, it is great
to see our good friend Ben says for having me
welcome back.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Usually when somebody coat to the back door and they
are in your physical condition, we just give him a
brown paper bag filled with little green ones and then
off they go.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
There are a lot of euphemisms in there. I've been
getting drugs every day for seven months, eight months, lots
of drugs, but never hit the back door in your alley.
So thank you for underwood invitation.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
In case you hadn't heard the news, Ben sas got
a really bad case of cyclosporas that it.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Used to be.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Obviously, everyone wants to know how you're doing.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
God be praised.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
I I think next week will be eight months since
I was told I was dead.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
In three months a bonus. Time's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Yeah, how does overtime feel? Right now?
Speaker 4 (01:15):
I think my kids are tired of me.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Frankly, there's the Kevin Neeland joke about the buddy who
gets the diagnosis and so they decide to spend a
lot of money before the funeral, and then he lives
and he keeps eating the organic stuff.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
He's way too expensive at parties.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
I'm grateful to God and we should all live life
backwards and number our days, and so I'm wondering how.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
To do that, and you certainly have. Your schedule has
been packed, in addition to going to this Husker game
or this College World Series game, or this March Madness game,
or doing this podcast Not Dead Yet with Ben Sass,
which is great, talking to Conan O'Brien, l Michael's Chris Pratt,
and you even scored Nebraska's astronaut Klay Anderson for that
(01:56):
Mike Rowe ken Burns. It's been incredible. It sounds exhausting, though, Oh.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Dude, all I do is sleep. I sleep like fifteen
hours a day.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
The podcast is about an hour and a half a week,
and then I do maybe I do a public day
every couple of weeks. But officially I'm hospitalized in Houston
two days a week. But my drug is kind of
kicking butt right now, so I get out of it
a lot.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
I'm flying.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
I've been home for a number of days here, and
I'm flying to Houston now to let a bunch of
people poke in broad me and take all my blood.
But it's pretty good. But I'm embarrassed about how much
I sleep.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
And you're looking good, man.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
If you beat this, this will be the best upset
since Maryland Baltimore County over Virginia.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Nice. Nice.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
There's no Ralph Sampson in my game. But I don't
look good, so thank you for lying on my nah.
I'm cutting that clip for my wife. But I look
pretty hideous. But I've been able to regrow all the
skin on my face, which is crazy.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
When you're on a clinical.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Trial, there's some weird ass side effects, so I have
what's called nuclear rash, but right now it's mostly on
my sky on my face anymore.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
No, you you look great and on TV here, even
just a few weeks ago, saw you on Fox and
so forth, you had somewhere of that that ruddy feature
on your face. Here, I'm guessing though. When you're going
through what you're going through, the ego and the pride
kind of takes a backseat. Or are you are you?
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Are you?
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Let's talk sports highlights nineteen eighty nine and I kicked
gaste this summer. Yeah, I mean, it's pretty good to
have to stand before God and admit that we came
into the world as desperate, you know, dependent, insufficient little babies, and.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
That's how we'll go out too.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
But I uh, I have an unbelievable team at MD
Anderson Hospital in Houston, and I like all of them
except the dermatology. I have an opthum on oncology dermatology
team that try to help figure out from all the
side effects for my chemo. You know, how do you
regrow skin in this part of your body? How do
you regrow skin in that part of your body? I
(04:00):
have If you're if you're if you're in your eighties,
pancreatic cancer is potentially environmental. If you're in your fifties,
it's almost surely a genetic mutation. So I have this
genetic mutation. So my tumors are ninety seven percent ben
three percent other. So we delivered this massive dose of
chemo every day by binding a protein to the three percent.
So most of my supernose of chemo doesn't hit me.
(04:22):
It hits, just beats the hell out of the tumors.
But skin and hair, sock and so. I have this
dermatology team that they're awesome, except every day I get
in there and a lot of them are, you know,
vibrant and alive and cute, and They're like, yeah, take
all your clothes off, and I'm like, I look so hidious,
I've got a rash.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
He everywhere.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
You're welcome everybody. There was a time, it's not right now. Yeah,
I used to have pecs. I just want to need
a bra. I love the fact that you're standing here.
I love the fact that, as your podcast says, you're
not dead yet. And we've had a number of conversations
over the years about everything from Huscar football to politics.
On the political front, do you being in the fray
(05:01):
in the United States set it on some level or
are you like, I can't believe I wasted so much
of my life on that.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
I mean, I have lots of stuff to say on
both sides, and I know your segment is short, so
I won't but I mean, getting to represent Nebraskans is
just one of the privileges of a lifetime. So I
don't ever want to say it in a way that's
disdainful of the political sphere, because it's important way to
love your neighbor, it's important service. I've always had a
one cheer for politics view. I miss the intelligence community.
(05:28):
I miss getting to go in the middle of the
night to the edge of a warzone and thank troops
or intel folks for fighting to defend our freedom. But
I don't miss the theater of stupid. I mean, there's
just so little serious activity that goes on in the
Congress right now, and so you know, we've got a
massive entitlement crisis and it just continues to grow, and
(05:50):
nobody even bothers to talk about it because everybody just
wants reelection rather than saying hard stuff. So I definitely
don't miss the day to day pieces of it. You know,
I miss some friends, and I miss representing Nebraska, and
I miss saying thank you to a lot of folks.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Who fight for If you recall I dropped you a
text after the Amy Cony Barrett confirmation hearing saying how
you refrain from grabbing Mazie Herono around the neck. Will
will long show me your self discipline. But uh, we
don't want to name particular members. But there is a
senator who I watched read talking points and the pages
(06:26):
got out of order and they just kept reading right
even though it made no sense. They didn't even they
weren't even aware that they're talking points made.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
She's dumb enough to be twins.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
But we do need at some point, we need to
have you come back because our gal Amy Cony Barrett
hopped the corral a couple of times, but because she
is so in command of the constitution, it'd be nice
to hear the other side of the story. But you
have to come back for a longer period of time,
so you may be dying but not yet.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Amen, Hat tip money Python that thanks.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
It is a pleasure to see you. Thank you so
much for stabbing Bay. You know you're always welcome here
in any capacity. Anytime.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Go beg grad and vote the over on the win loss.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Now. I think when I start the podcast later today,
the Nebraska's Morning News podcast at kfab dot com, I'll
probably start with the ben sas coms hope so because
frankly Jim before that you were pretty sluggish. So I
think they will just skip all that. I usually don't,
(07:31):
but we were talking about the race that had been
too close to Colin. Now the Socialist in Michigan says,
I won. I want thanks everyone.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
I won.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
I don't know if that's official yet. He's saying he won. Now.
You had said that he'll probably start to go pretty center.
Should he emerge victorious before the general in November, And
I said, I don't think so, because I think that this,
especially the Medicare for All, part of his campaign, part
of the Democratic Socialist of America's campaign. I think it's
(08:03):
a winner with a larger number of people. So here's
my question for you. If I'm one of these people
who's like, hey, I can't afford this. I can't afford
that it's getting more expensive. I don't feel good about
my job. And here's someone says, you vote for me,
and one of these biggest healthcare, one of these biggest
costs you have in healthcare, that's all gone. We're gonna
take care of you on that. Why shouldn't I vote
(08:25):
for that?
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Well, I think you have to look at the broader picture.
And that's asking a lot for folks to look at
the broader picture, because most of us live in the
here now. And if you look at Ben Sass, for example,
Ben SaaS is living the lyrics of the Tim mcgrass song.
He's living like he's dying, and a lot of people
are starting to do that. They're saying, don't I can't
worry about tomorrow. I gotta worry about today. I'm gonna
(08:46):
make today what I need. Whereas this country you used
to really think about tomorrow. What am I going to
do tomorrow? How am I going to get to tomorrow?
How do I make tomorrow better than today? And socialism
is about I'll take care of you today. I'll make
you feel better today, Okay, tomorrow. He don't worry about tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
We may be living in a crap sandwich, but I'll
make today best.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Somebody else worry about it.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Yeah, I really believe that's critically important. But there's also
a messaging problem from the White House and from the
Republicans this term Scott and that is they have not
done a very good job of going out into the
countryside and explaining to people this is what the Big
Beautiful Bill did for you and one of the things
it did was lower prescription drug prices. Now, a lot
(09:31):
of healthcare costs on an ongoing basis are tied to
prescription medication, especially people with chronic illnesses, and some of
those pills are very, very expensive to try and get
you through the day. Long term health expenses are a
separate conversation, although it somewhat tied to this name. But
the truth is the Trump administration has negotiated significant reductions
(09:54):
in the cost of prescription drugs. So as it relates
to healthcare, that's something that Republicans need to say, Hey,
ask are you spending less for this? If you're not,
then call us because you're buying from the wrong place.
I have noticed I have not a lot of prescription medication,
but my prescription medication is down significantly that I have
to go on a regular basis to get.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Do you go through the Trump OURX website and get
all that time?
Speaker 4 (10:17):
I don't, but we have.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
I've seen the Trump our X website and I've looked
and said, you know, that is a lot less than
what they were paying one or two years ago. But yeah,
I would think to a broader point relative to the election,
the Republicans just can't run across the country and say commie, commie, commie,
you know, pink O Russia, you know Cuba.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Can't do that.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
You've got to go out and say, here's what we've done,
here's what we're doing, and here's what's going to happen
if you keep us in office. They need to sell
them on policies, on changes. We're a little bit distracted
because of the Iran war. But if you've seen the
corporate earnings report from this past week, massive, massive corporate earnings,
(11:03):
which means the economy is doing very, very well. The
stock market just hit a record high for the twenty
third time this year, so the economy is good. The
question is, can the Republicans explain to the average American
this is what we're doing and this is what will
happen if you keep us an office. Can they do
it to a catchy bluegrass song that might make people remember.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
It more He's a Democrat.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
That one's not coming up in this words from our sponsor,
and I'm sure it'll be on sur the Ricketts fake
Dan Osborne song coming up a little later. That's in
my head. Now on to all it that you just
said there Jim. President Trump said something that sounded a
little bit socialistic this week. He said the oil companies
(11:50):
are making too much money and they ought to give
it back to the people. Anyone else feel a little
uncomfortable with that. I know why he's saying it. He
says that they're they're making too much money based on
what they're trying to promote as a shortage of oil,
which is not true. And he says, I don't like it.
(12:12):
They're making too much money. It's not right. They're gouging
the people. The Department of Justice should look into price
gudget gouging by these oil companies when it comes to
gas prices, and he says those companies will give some
of that back to the public. How does that work.
The federal government and the president of the United States
can't tell private businesses you're making too much money, give
(12:32):
it back.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
You can't do that, nor should it. That's government overreach
and nobody wants that. There is an argument, and to
be fair intellectually about this, there is an argument Scott
that the far left is making. They're not making it well,
but they have a point, and that is during the
Carter administration, I should say, when Ronald Reagan was elected president,
(12:54):
they began to deregulate business mergers, corporate growth, and they're
there's no better example of that than this industry, the
radio business. Nineteen ninety six, the Telco Bill came about,
which allowed for much wider ownership rules for radio stations
and television stations, and so a few companies bought up
all of them.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
I'm a big fan of that, by the way, in
case our bosses at the big right in the.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Case they're listening.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
But what it did was wipe out a lot of
local ownership of radio stations who employed more people and
competed for more people, whether they were disc jockeys, newspeople,
or salespeople. Well that's disappeared now because very few companies
own the stations. The point made is this corporate America
has grown too large at the expense of the worker.
(13:39):
So what should the government do. The government shouldn't say, well,
that's too bad, but the government should do is create
incentives for growth and entrepreneurship. In other words, allow for
deregulation of startups, make financing for startups better easier, and
expand the small business administration, and then educate the community
(14:00):
on how our capitalist economy works through entrepreneurship. Rather than
say you're making too much money oil companies, give it back.
How about let's find new ways to power our cars.
The government shouldn't have anything to do with any of that.
This should be consumer driven because people look at like
Amazon and Walmart and say they're too big, way out
to do something. But then when they need something, where
(14:20):
do they go to Amazon? Go to Amazon and Walmart.
The government can be the playground proctor. I don't mind
a proctor, You just don't want them in the game.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
No, I got eleven to ten KFAB Certified Transmission SPORTSPROEF.
Now here is Proctor Jim Row.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
That's the kind of piercing insight that you don't get
from any of the radio station or television station, or
about anywhere else. Things are relaxed to doubt at Husker football,
my friends, seems the only people who are anxious about
this season are the ones who pay to get in.
The players are referring to their coach by his first name.
Transfer linebacker Own shamblets.
Speaker 6 (14:55):
We'll be at practice and then I'll come off the field,
not as Matt'll come up to me. I'll come up
to Matt. You'll be like, what are you looking at that?
Or what should you be looking at? Or what was
I looking at? We'll just talk through my mental process
for each play, getting guys lined up and stuff like
that and understanding the game. And I think it makes
more comfortab because I can just be like, hey, Matt,
real quick, I saw blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
What about this?
Speaker 2 (15:13):
So can you imagine some guy hitting the practice field
with Hey, Tom a man? Fall camp opens today? That right,
there is a symptom of the problem. These are teenagers. Okay,
authority matters to teenagers.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
But if the.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Authority figure is your best buddy, we got a problem.
Yesterday it was Oregon's media day, sizeably fewer crowded around
the backup quarterback Dylan Ryola. First time in his football life,
he isn't the man. What's that like?
Speaker 7 (15:46):
I don't want to Yeah, I don't think. I don't
think it's ever happened, so something new. But I know
change is good, and especially at a place like this,
I'm more than willing to sacrifice for.
Speaker 8 (16:00):
The greater game.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Okay, couldn't help himself though, took a shot at Nebraska,
which made him rich. Says they don't have the talent
that we do. Also made fun of the corn crop,
but he did say he appreciated the coaches and players
around him here. Baseball scores Bobby wit Casey, Royal's All Star,
did his job two rbi, two run scored.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Casey beats Minnesota eight to two.
Speaker 8 (16:20):
Just making sure that I'm doing more than I should
be doing, just to make sure that I'm ready for
when I come back, and just making it harder here
on myself, just so I know whenever how I use
my body, that I'm going to be all right when
I'm out there on the field.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
It had been on the DL for a week or two.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Baseball scores Baltimore three to one over the Angels, Boston
fourteen to two over the White Sox. It was Houston
over Toronto, Detroit beat Seattle, National League League Game Lake Games,
San Diego nine to one over the d Backs, and
the Cubs beat the Dodgers five to one. Lake Games
in inter league play, Rangers five to four over the Giants,
Tampa Bay nine to seven over the Rockies, Toledo beat
(16:55):
Omaha four to three. Sports his News on Nebraska's News
weathern Traffic Station, Bloomberg Money Minute.
Speaker 9 (17:01):
Artificial intelligence is seen as more trustworthy than politicians. According
to a survey from the Collective Intelligence Project, fifty six
percent of respondents around the world would trust AI chatbots
to act in their best interest above elected representatives and corporations.
Trusting government has been low for decades. The Pew Research
Center finds only seventeen percent of Americans trust the government
(17:24):
to do what's right. Courtney Donahoe, Bloomberg Radio and.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
The Zonker's Custom Woods in Box Scott a kfab dot com.
This is still the number one repeat question we get.
Speaker 10 (17:33):
Why did they.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Take Courtney Dunaho off the year air Live?
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Well, thank you very much for that via the talkback. Yeah,
I've wondered that myself. The truth is that she's still
here live. She comes into the studio here in Omaha
every single day and sits there at that microphone, and
I just don't want to talk to her. No, these
are longtime listeners the program. No that Courtney used to
(17:58):
be a bigger conversation part of the program here, but
this actually started last fall during the last couple of
months that Gary was here. They had some shifting of
responsibilities at Bloomberg, and that's the nice way of saying
there were fewer people to do more things, and Courtney
suddenly had to do more things. And it was Courtney
(18:20):
doesn't have time to be talking about movies, music and
underwear with you guys. She's busy. So it's either going
to be no Courtney at all, or Courtney provides you
a recorded report twice an hour. I don't like you
got to have some Courtney. Well, none of it's likes it.
Courtney doesn't like it. I don't like it. Listeners don't
like it.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
I sent a sternly worded letter to Michael Bloomberg myself,
and I'm still waiting on the reply.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
I'm sure that he's just tossing and turning, wondering how
to craft back, saying, who is this, Dear Mike, Dear Mike,
r E Courtney, WTF question Mark Rosie Hey, this landscape
is always shifting. I fully anticipate that Courtney will be
a part of the programmed the way she used to be.
I just hope that's sooner rather than later. But in
(19:06):
the meantime, we'd rather have some Courtney than no Courtney.
So there's your courtney. It's the number one question we get.
It doesn't matter how many times I answer it, people
still ask it. And so I'm happy to do that.
Here's the question I have this morning. Yeah, for once,
iheart's not responsible for this one. Yeah, this one wasn't us,
no question. I have this morning for you people and Papillion.
You people, And I can say that being a Ralston kid.
(19:29):
You people and Papillion. What is the matter with you people?
They're talking about changing the city code in Papillion to
end leg traps. They want to ban the use of
leg traps within the municipality of Papilion, USA. How many
leg traps are being set in Papillion? What are we
(19:51):
trying to trap? What are we trying to ensnare in
a leg trap? And exactly what is a leg trap?
I'm thinking about a bear trap? Is it a bear trap?
Beaver trap? Is it?
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (20:03):
But what a leg trap for? What is that? It's
like it's a little I've never the lasso that suddenly
grabs them. It's either a bear trap kind of a
thing or I don't know. But they said, well, they
previously had been allowing leg traps within Papillion for wild animals,
(20:26):
but the city now deems them to be inhumane. So
what are you supposed to do about all your wild
animals roaming the streets of Papillion. By the way, how
many wild animals are roaming the streets of Papillion? Is
this a big problem there in Papillion. They had that
mountain lion around town that wasn't far from Papillion a
(20:48):
few years ago. And you never know, maybe a bear.
They found three black bears in Iowa last year. Maybe
one of them comes over and says, look, I like Rolston,
I like Bellevue, I like La Vista, I like Springfield,
but I want to make my home in Papillion, charming
downtown area. You got that park there, some fun little shops.
(21:10):
The Papillion Fun Park is right there. It's called the
Fun Park. Who wouldn't find that fun?
Speaker 2 (21:16):
So well, apparently they have an animal problem in Papillion,
because that's what these are. They're designed to snare an
animal by its leg, not injure it, not kill it,
detain it.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Then the animal had to choose its own leg off
or whatever to try.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Does that happen a lot?
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Well, some of us have had to do that with
our arms in the morning after.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
A night of making poor choices, something like that. The
phrase that's where that comes from. Come on, now, we're
trying to elevate the conversation around here. But yeah, So
these traps are often used for wildlife management, I guess,
but for what animals? Maybe raccoons, badgers, wolverines that get
I think there's wolverines since somebody left the gate open
(22:01):
at the Henry Doorley Zoo and goodness knows what got out,
and now they're roaming the streets and running amuck on
Terry Hills golf course.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
I don't know that's in le Vista.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Uh be, because it doesn't know where the difference between
Leavista and Papillion. They they think that Terry Hills is
in Papillion. So these animals are squatting on Terry Hills
thinking this is Papillion. But now that they know the
traps are being set in Papillion, they'll stay in La Vista.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Leg traps or wild animals in Papillion. I wonder. I
want to see who's gonna go down in the buffalo,
Who's gonna go to the Papillion City Council meeting, he
goes my ride as a trapper. I'm a fur trapper.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
We haven't had trappers here since the eighteen forties. You
have no idea.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
I mean people are saved here near six to Washington.
If I'm not able to do Lake trapp, what am
I supposed to do?
Speaker 2 (22:46):
This is part of our history trapping. How do you
think Bellview ever came about? We trapped them beavers on
the river, and we build a first National Bank.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Tower from them.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Greg Emails says, wouldn't it be great if the performers
at the Nebraska State Fair included the band singing the
Dan Osborne's a Democrat song. I don't know if that's
going to be the case.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Speaking of the state Fair, Yes, the Great Nebraska get Together,
the one Grand Island, which is a great place for it.
We're gonna have one debate between Dan Osborne and Pete Ricketts.
It'll be for just one hour. It'll be at the
State Fair, which is a good place for it. But
they ought to have more than one. And if I'm Pete,
(23:28):
given what the general brand is of populism in our
state this election cycle, I'd have much more than one
debate with this guy. Because he's got lots of ammunition
to say yes or no.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Do you believe this? Do you believe this? Do you
believe this? Do you believe this?
Speaker 2 (23:45):
And I don't think Pete Ricketts and his campaign people
are taking full advantage of his ability to create an
image of Dan Osborne that does not exist.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
This is a weird campaign on every level.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
You look to say nothing of the fact that either
you mean nor Chris Baker have been invited to be
on the debate questioning panel, which is Malfeason's given that
more people listen to the radio station than any other
radio station in the state by a mile.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
I like it, but I uh, that's fine. I just
look at the grenades, the political grenades that these two
campaigns are lobbing at each other, and it's weird. Dan
Osborne's problem with Pete Ricketts seems to be that Pete
Ricketts family has a lot of money, and.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
That he makes decisions based on that. He makes decisions
in the United States Senate based on that.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
He's got a lot of money. Don't vote for him.
And then Pete Ricketts through the song is that Dan
Osborne's a Democrat and he won't just admit he's a Democrat.
Dan Osborne's running as an independent in this race, but
the fund support of the Democrat Party of Nebraska so
much so there might be a lawsuit about it.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
And then when you ask, you know, mister Osborne, with
whom will you caucus when you get into the US Senate?
Meaning which political party will you join in? Because you
have to join one. You can't just set up your
lawn chair in the Capitol rotunda and let people walk
by you say, oh, you're the senator from Nebraska. A
few people have Joe Lieberman, did you can just sit
(25:16):
there in the middle, and well, he caucused with the
Democrats and he Angus King. Well, and that was after
Lieberman had been a Democrat. He was defeated in a
primary by a super liberal Democrat and then ran as
an independent won the general.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
Well, Angus King. And Maine is the same way. Now.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Bernie Sanders is supposedly an independent, but really he's a communist.
But he caucuses with the Democrats. So if anybody thinks
that the Dan Osborne is going to caucus with the Republicans,
they're out of their minds. Or he needs to dispel
that and say I'm going to caucus with the Republicans
because they believe more than they believe in more of
what I believe than Democrats or vice versa.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
Just tell us.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
But I think Pete is missing Scott a lot of
opportunity to confront Dan osmyn one on one, and Dan
Osborne is missing an opportunity to confront Pete on this
one on one.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
I got to see it. That's part of the Nebraska
State Fair's.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Going to be on the News Channel Nebraska, which is
an online TV station and they do really good stuff.
But I'm not sure how many Nebraskans have access to
News Channel.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
And at the Iowa State Fair, it's going to be
a debate between Rob Sayd and Rod Stewart. That's gonna
be good. We talked earlier this morning about Medicare for all.
Got this in the talkback, Mike, Hey.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
Good morning, Happy Wednesday.
Speaker 10 (26:32):
Say I might be out of touch because I live
in common sense, honky Land Apparently, what but a normal reporter,
and I know we don't have many of those anymore.
After they say Medicai for all and this and that, yeah, yeah,
we're all wrong, the next question obviously would be, well,
how are you going to pay for it? And of course,
if you're left wing looney to nutcase, you never have
to answer that question. And if you ask them the right,
(26:53):
all of a sudden, it's racist. Thanksgiving as racist?
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (26:58):
That's good, good, good Gravy can weighing in on the
talk back, Well, they do explain that Medicare for All
comes from the insurance companies. They'll pay for it, the
doctors and the big corporate healthcare will pay for it,
and the drug companies.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Will pay for it. That's their explanation. Now they have
no pathway to actually make that happen. But that's when
someone asks them, Okay, you want Medicare for all? That
will cost about a trillion dollars a year, which is
not any exaggeration, that's true. How you get Well, the
drug companies are going to pay for that, and the
doctors' organizations and the big corporate healthcare is you know,
(27:33):
like CHI and Nebraska Medicine All, they're going to pay
and then you know, we'll get those insurance those bad
insurance companies. Well, does anybody understand the most insurance companies
are mutual, which means that they have funds from the
policies that are sold to the people.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
This is not you don't buy insurance at a Walgreen.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
So these people are out there celebrating the guy who
killed the guy in charge of United Healthcare from Iowa
behind a family with two young kids. They don't care
who's paying for it. They just don't want to. They
don't want to pay for anything. They think that the
guy who killed him a should be a saint. And
we don't want to pay for stuff. And there's a
growing amount of sentiment. Who would probably get on board
(28:14):
with the last thing that Ken said there in that
talkback Mike about Thanksgiving being racist. That was the Wisconsin
gubernatorial front runner, the Democrat up there in Wisconsin running
for governors, says that we should ban Thanksgiving. It's racist and.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
It would it foster genocide of indigenous people. In one
more political note for you, this one's blue. This is
the pajamas worn by Mike Lindell in the My Pillow commercials.
He is exiting his post at My Pillow so he
can put all of his time into his bid for
governor of Minnesota. Mike Lindell, Maybe you forgot Mike Lindell
is running for governor of Minnesota. So he's taking off
(28:51):
the pajamas and putting on the suit, and I can't
be in charge of my pillow anymore. I don't know
if that's going to get my pillow back. In some
of the stories, I thought he was bankrupt. They took
that out because well they tried, because he said, I
have questions about the twenty twenty election.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
I think it was rigged. And people are like, well,
we can't buy pillows anymore, but they're comfortable. I don't
care how comfortable they are. I don't want them. No pillows,
no towels, no slippers, none of them my pillows stuff.
I checked. He was down to his last dime. Well
he might be the next governor of Minnesota. In Minnesota,
governor of Minnesota could look like Jesse Ventura, so Mike Lindell,
(29:29):
he'd fit right in
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