Scott Doesn't Get this NIL Lawsuit

In today's edition of "Scotty Doesn't Know," we also cover the President's 180 on the oil reserves, a guest joining us live from Israel, Omaha falling out of love with a parade, baseball cards, rap battles in the Raising Cane's drive-thru, and more.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm Scott Voorhees here with Jim Rose, Lucy Chabin, Craig
Evan's glad to have you with us here as well. Jim,
I listened to your Rosie did you KNOWOZI yesterday as
well as news reports throughout the day. You and Sean
Callahan talked about it in the Husker Buzz yesterday, and
I'm afraid I still don't understand this. Eighteen Nebraska football players,

(00:24):
former Nebraska football players, current Nebraska football players suing this
thing called the College Sports Commission. Help me understand this.
These guys were promised like, if you come here and
play in Nebraska, we're gonna get you this much money,
nil deals. Yes, did they sign anything or did someone
just say, yeah, this is probably gonna work out for you, Hey,

(00:46):
come on up here, it'll be fine. Who promised them
the money? Okay?

Speaker 2 (00:50):
So again, let's just sort of recap how this happened,
and then we'll talk about that specifically because the contexts may.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
So you don't know either. I do know, Okay, when the.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
Supreme Court decided that you, the college athlete, this was
five years ago, can go out and get all the
money you want. Okay, whatever you can get go, get it.
Until then they couldn't do that without losing their eligibility
in the school get putting on, put on probation. That
gave rise to the NIL collectives.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
These are these.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
Third party groups with each school Nebraska's got one, Creighton's
got one, You and O's got one. These were boosters
who pulled their money together, created these ideas where athletes
could go make a phone call to a booster's grandson
and get five thousand dollars. So Matt Davison promised these guys. Well,
Matt Davison was involved in the Nebraska Collective along with

(01:37):
Joe Sealing and the Peede family out of Lincoln. They
organized the eighteen ninety collective that was the NIL group. Okay, well,
then there was a lawsuit by a diver at Arizona
State named House who sued it sued the NCBLE last name.
He sued the NCAA and said, wait a minute, all

(01:58):
of us deserve something. And this was a prelude to
the schools agreeing to pay the athletes on a regular
basis what they call a revenue share of all the
moneies that come into the athletic department, a percentage of
that money goes to the athlete as pure cash.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
Everybody.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
Yeah right, well, not necessarily everybody. Most of them went
to football players, some of them went to his basketball players,
and then a stare step down to tennis players.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
All right, so someone is recruited by a school. Let's
say here in Nebraska. Someone is recruited to come to
Nebraska and be potentially our starting quarterback for this upcoming
football season. He is a very talented, highly recruited player.
Everyone wants him, and Nebraska gets him. Oh boy, this
is exciting. And anywhere he goes, he's going to have

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kids and adults and everyone following around going hey, I
want my patient and all this. So he's worth a
lot of money. He's going to have people saying, hey,
endorse this product, come sign autographs over here. That guy
could get a bunch of money. And then some diver
that no one cares about, not even his own mother
is aware that he's on the divers team, says well,

(03:05):
I deserve some of that money too. That's not what happened.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
The diver sued the NCAA over compensation for athletes, which
gave rise to a new structure, and the new structure
is the College Sports Commission that, aside from the revenue
share money that I just spoke of, will monitor these
nil deals to ensure that they are legitimate. So Scott

(03:29):
Vorhees is recruited at Creighton basketball, they say we can
get you one hundred and fifty thousand dollars in NIL
deals long overdue, right, And they you would say, well
from who, well, Raising Canes or wood House for it
or what? These people will use you in their commercials.
They'll make have you do personal appearances. They'll have you
sign autographs of the dealership or whatever, and for that

(03:50):
you get one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
I already do endoor. I I already do appearances at
Raising Canes.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
No one here. I show up there all the time.
And I don't get it. But the CSC, the commission,
is responsible for monitoring these deals to ensure they are legitimate.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
Who cares about legitimate anymore? That's all way out the window.
I still don't get this. You're asking questions that are
very legitimate but are not germane to the issue. Are
these guys getting paid or what these guys are getting
getting paid but they're not getting they're getting paid to
do nothing.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
Who told them you're gonna make this money schools, then
the schools should pay them money. The schools have a
separate fund, and this is where the Husker thing is
coming into collision, called a warehouse fund, where essentially the
money is put in a warehouse, the kids get it,
and then down the road, if there is an endorsement deal,
they'll be able to perform and participate. But when an

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offensive lineman from LSU is transferred to Nebraska, he gets
paid because he was a free agent. But nobody in
Nebraska wants to pay this guy to endorse their protest
because nobody knows who it is. And if you look
at the number of athletes over the last thirty years
who were really truly marquee names, there aren't many of them. Okay,
Eric Crouch would be one, Rex Birkehead might be one.

(05:06):
A couple of volleyball players, maybe Sam Heiberg. Okay, these
are the kinds of guys that can go into the
marketplace as an athlete and drive business because of their name,
image and likeness. However, you still have to pay for
him to get them here. That's the system under the
transfer portal.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
I feel like I could have gotten closer to this
answer had I asked Lucy Chapman, and I guarantee she
doesn't know anything more about this than I do.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
I'm not gonna buy something, just explained it to you
and playing it and a second grader at Alice Buffett
middle of the grade school would understand it, but not you.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
Let me come at it from a different angle here
after an involved Yes, we all agree that the Raising
Kanes do an appearance at Raisin Kanes, but we're just
there to eat lunch. Here's the one thing, though, that
I don't necessarily get, and I'm not always in the
mood for when I go to Raisin Knes. As you
go through the drive through, and you know where, you

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go to the drive through, and usually the person on
the box says, hey, thanks a lot for stopping bye,
welcome to our place. What would you like to eat?
You know that's and then you tell them what you
want to eat and they say, please pull forward and
it'll be this amount of money. This is not how
it works at Raising Canes. You go in there to
order chicken and next thing you know, you're in a
rap battle because they the people working at the drive

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through have to have a certain amount of personality, and
it's always like, hey, hey, hey, I bought some chicken today,
what do you want? And suddenly I'm like, yo, yo, yo,
I want some chicken to go. And next thing, you know, no, no, no, no,
you know you just you don't say that you're in
a rap battle. But I don't want that, slaw. So
let that mofo fall whoa, I don't know. Just look,

(06:47):
you just say you're in a rap battle. I got
in a rap battle. Every time you go there and
I'm raising canes? Are you going to go up there?
I would go to is P Diddy in the drive through?
I want some chicken, but first we're gonna do some
that's smitten. Come on, let's go Yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
Did you just say mofo? On kfab no go No.
I can't take this anymore. I'm gonna have to leave.

Speaker 1 (07:11):
So if Lucy Chapman, I'm gonna try. And I got
thirty seconds to try and understand why these football players
felt like they were getting money and then they didn't
get the money and now they're suing to get the money.
That's essentially what we're talking about, right, So Lucy Chapman,
highly sought after voice. Here on this radio station and
on KGr, a lot of people are lining up money

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in hand, saying, please have Lucy talk about my business.
So that business comes to let's say it's seven days
cash as Lucy does great ads for them. So they
come to the radio station and say we want Lucy.
We'll pay her anything, and then they pay the radio
station that takes their undeserved cut of it, and then
they give the money to Lucy. So where how come

(07:59):
that same thing saying has not worked out here? Jim
in this the same thing. So a business says, yeah,
we'll pay this player this amount of money to do this.
Nebraska takes their cut that goes into the collective, I guess,
and then the player gets the rest of that money.
You only get paid if someone wants to pay you.
Why did these guys feel like they should get paid?

(08:20):
And who's responsible for paying them? Because you got to
pay them to get them here. This is the notion
of the transfer portal and the free agency. You're in
a competition for players. These are established players who have
proven they can they can do it at this level,
and so they go into the transfer portal and it's
to the highest bidder. In most cases, they just go

(08:41):
where the most money is. So in the recruiting process
you say we will get you nil money, and we
promise this. I'm sure there's some paperwork somewhere. Then then
they should get paid this shouldn't.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
They're not doing anything for it. That's what CSC is saying.
If I have a piece of paper, they're not doing it.
It says you would pay me this mont of money
to whoever who signed that piece of paper owes me money.
The problem is that the money is there, but the
nil activity isn't.

Speaker 1 (09:10):
Here's a bad idea. How about you get paid this
much if we win this many game? I like that.
Has that ever come into an idea that? Or how
about why don't you get paid this money if you
get your degree? I got a lot of ideas. Eleven
KFAB Certified Transmission Sports Brief please Jim Rose.

Speaker 2 (09:26):
Okay sky, good morning. Everybody is raining basketballs from here
to New York City. Turning time. The Jay's opened the
postseason in Midtown Manhattan the Big Apple Madison Square Garden
in the Big East Tournament this afternoon. Seeden Hall Pirates
are up first. These two teams split during the regular season,
each one on a last second shot.

Speaker 3 (09:44):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (09:45):
Creighton coach Greg mac knows these guys. He says, his
Jays need to hit the gas pedal.

Speaker 4 (09:49):
Yeah, Pace, you know, Pace, don't don't mess with the ball,
just just get it and go. And it's heart easier
said than done against Bud Clark because he's such an
elite one on one defender. But you know, can't be
taking it out of the net all the time and
playing against their full core pressure. So it comes down to,
you know, getting stops and getting a defensive rebound.

Speaker 3 (10:08):
To go with it.

Speaker 1 (10:09):
Quarterfinal game one thirty Omaha time on the Peacock Network,
Big East.

Speaker 4 (10:13):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (10:13):
Today, Providence beat Butler, Xavier beat Marquette, Georgetown over Deep Paul.
Today it's Providence Saint John's, then the Creton game, followed
by Xavier Yukon, Georgetown Villanova. Creighton wins, they likely get
Saint John's in the semifinals Big Ten Tournament. Iowa seventy five,
Maryland sixty four. The Hawkeyes went on a twenty to
nothing run in the second half. They play Ohio State

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at eleven o'clock.

Speaker 1 (10:36):
Today.

Speaker 2 (10:36):
Washington beat USC Northwestern over Indiana. That's probably it for
Indiana and their hopes for an NCAA tournament at large
Berth For coach Devrees, he's looking at that Crown tournament
or the nit Rutgers seventy two, Minnesota sixty seven. Today
it's Washington, Wisconsin, Northwestern, Purdue, Rutgers UCLA. Down in Lincoln,
they were jamming the streets, hanging from raptors and chimney potts.

(11:00):
Day one State tournament, Lincoln High scared the hell out
of west Side, led by eighteen, but the top seed
Warriors rallied down one in the last few seconds, got
a very questionable foul call, hit the free throws got
the lead held on London Data.

Speaker 1 (11:15):
West Side's all Stater had eighteen twelve in the second half.
He's the best player in the state.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
Other Class A scorers Bellevue, west Over, Papio seventy nine,
sixty eight, Papio South Beat Prep fifty seven, forty eight
in Lincoln Southwest eighty one, Millard North seventy one.

Speaker 1 (11:31):
Class B.

Speaker 2 (11:32):
Today teams of local interest Bennington versus Norris, while who
takes on Elcorn North Scott's Bluff's Bearcats come all the
way into Lincoln to play Gretna East and then its
pious scut in Class BC one games involving teams of
local interest DC West Falcons. They have a little thing
called Heart my friends up against GICC and Class C

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one Lincoln Christian against Ashland Greenwood and Mead against Lincoln
Lutheran in Class C one AP action. Today, basketball firings
has expected. Danny Hurley is out at Arizona State eleven years,
just three NCAA tournament births, no tournament wins. The Hurley
family is a fascinating construct. Bobby was the better player,

(12:14):
brother Danny is the better coach. Adrian Atry has gone
at Syracuse after three years, just forty nine wins. That
program has not been to the NCAA tournament since twenty
twenty one. We're talking Syracuse Sports is News on Nebraska's
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Speaker 1 (12:31):
I'm already getting emails from people say, yesterday you guys
are telling you the about how bad it was that
Biden went to the strategic oil Reserve and doing that.
We're gonna get there calmed down. We got miles to
go before we sleep. But let me try one more
couple of questions here on the eighteen Nebraska football players

(12:54):
taking legal action over NILB. How many times do I
need to explain this now? No, No, I have a couple.
These are new questions, right, Okay, Every time you try
and give me an answer, I have eighteen more questions
to go along with the eighteen players to say, we
were told we get this much money, we didn't get
this much money, and now we're suing the College Sports
Commission the CSC. It's the organization in charge of approving

(13:19):
some of these third party NIL deals. So question number one,
Jim rows, is it only Nebraska players that are suing
this organization? Are we the only team in the entire
country to jack all this up?

Speaker 2 (13:34):
No, we're just the first one, and a whole bunch
of them are watching this case because if Nebraska wins
this case and the CSC is essentially neutered, then the
whole structure of controls and regulations on NIL comes crashing
down and it'll be the wild wild West all over again.
That said, if the CSC invalidates these deals, now we

(13:56):
have a second round of litigation because the state of
as you heard on the Rosie to Genozi yesterday passed
a law revised statute last year that says, oh, no, no, no,
our athletes in the state of Nebraska are immune from
any penalties from them. These guys, those guys, there are
no penalties against Nebraska athletes, and that, of course, will

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trigger a massive litigation. We also have another little sidebar
that people don't know much about, and that's because it
has been underreported, and that is none of these schools
actually signed off on the agreement that I referred to
a half hour ago, the House settlement, from the from
the courts. No one's actually signed onto it. And you
know why because by signing onto it, you implicitly agree

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with all of the terms.

Speaker 1 (14:44):
That has to be the case. If someone signs this
and says I will pay you this amount of money.
If you do this and you say sounds good, and
they sign it and you sign it, this is an
easy one. This is something we can figure out by
eight am. Oh yeah, you signed this that. But apparently
none of that happened. And so now you got these
people without a signed document that have to justify what

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happened with Nebraska football last year their role in it.
The highly underperforming twenty twenty five Nebraska football program and
then have to go back to someone and go, hey,
where's my money? Look what I did. We limped into
a ball game. Where's my money? Where are their fathers? Well,
my dad would have come in and said, what makes

(15:26):
you think that you're owed this amount of money? You
have nothing that says you get paid this amount of money.
The football team vastly underperformed this last season. What makes
you think you're entitled this money. It's this kind of
entitlement that made it to where you guys barely got
as many wins as you got last year.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
Well, it's I think a factor because if you're paying
somebody just to be here and they don't technically have
to earn it, they don't even have to earn the
starting role. We were handing free agents starting jobs on
the football team before they ever showed up for a practice,
which is not how you build a college sports program

(16:03):
in my view. You look at Indiana, you look at Iowa,
you look at some of the other teams that performed
they had veteran players. Look at the Nebraska basketball team
this year. They had one major addition that was JaMarcus Lawrence.
In the offseason who actually played here two years ago.
But otherwise those guys, now you could say, well, Sandford
was a free agent. That's true, but he's from the

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Big Ten Conference, he was familiar with Nebraska and he
fit a role. But the truth is that if you
build organically, you're still going to win. If you go
back two years ago to Nebraska football, those two big
kids in the middle, Robinson and Hudmacker, they were fifth
year seniors here.

Speaker 1 (16:41):
That's a whole different argument and one that I think
everyone agrees with, that we can't run these college programs
that we lose fan affinity for the brand, and we
don't know who the players are, and we don't have
something like what we saw with Nebraska basketball this year
that we can really link arms around. We're going to
lose all of this, and of course we hate it,
but that train's left. It's so far down the tracks

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that's gone. Now, as long as the uniforms remain the
same for most of the games, I can look at
the team and go I recognize this Nebraska football team.
Go big red. Last question I have here, some of
these players apparently got paid and maybe they are not
owed it. So if the arbitrator sides with the CSC,
the College Sports Commission, the players would have to give

(17:27):
the money back. So you got paid a million dollars
last ball as a twenty and this.

Speaker 2 (17:32):
Is for money coming. This is for the incoming trans
So if they've already received it, though, they would. So
let's say you're twenty one years old. A percentage of
someone gave you a million dollars last August. Does that
kid still have that money?

Speaker 1 (17:44):
The answer is no.

Speaker 2 (17:46):
It depends on the I don't know which kids are
the ones filing this arbitration.

Speaker 1 (17:50):
They don't have it petition. You can't go back to
those strippers and go, I need that money back. I
gotta pay back the collective. That's what they're doing with
the money. Well, that's what it is. Twenty one year
old guy would do it. The twenty one year old's
going to the strip clouds. You can't go back to
McDonald's and go, hey, I have the receipts here it is,
I need the money back. They don't have that money.

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We don't know exactly which eighteen players. We may know soon.

Speaker 2 (18:16):
I my suspicion is they are the transfers that came
in in the off season in the month of December,
they were promised nil money for illegitimate deals or deals
down the road, and that's what raised the red flag
of the CSC. But if they already got it and
they have to turn it back, and to turn it back.

Speaker 1 (18:36):
I'm telling you that money is gone. And these kids
probably didn't go to a single classroom. So therefore the
just started their job. Prospect was I got this money,
and then they got the money. It's gone. You have
just had the college spates environment. They have no prospects
for future employment other than being a college football player

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issue who underperforms and barely plays. Where are they gonna
get the money and pay this back? This whole thing. See,
now I've got a thousand more quests. You're all worked up.
We'll move We'll move on and answer some of these
pithyes emails in just a moment. I'm worry.

Speaker 2 (19:11):
The President sat down for five minutes with all these
guys the other day and said, I'll fix it in
a week.

Speaker 1 (19:16):
All I have to do is try not to worry
as we get into college football season, and I can
just try and ignore all this stuff and just enjoy it.
And that's what I'm looking forward to doing right now.
We got to get through basketball season first. Both Greg
and Eric have various levels of snarkiness to their email. Basically,
the theme is as follows. Yesterday, the President and you

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guys on KFAB, we're saying that going into these strategic
oil reserve, the strategic petroleum reserve, as President Biden did,
and he was criticized by you guys as well as
Donald Trump, was a horrible idea. And then yesterday Resident

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Trump said, and we're going into the reserves where the
President did crack open our our oil piggybank, releasing one
hundred and seventy two million barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
This is after he got a broader effort of thirty
two International Energy Agency members to collectively inject four hundred

(20:25):
million barrels into the market. So this was a little
different than what President Biden did. Trump said, it's not
just gonna be us depleting it, because obviously you have
this strategic reserve, not to try and bring down gas prices,
even though potentially the argument could be made, we're trying
to influence the price of oil and then therefore bring

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down gas prices. But you have it because if we
need to go to war, we need this oil and
most of it is in pete hagsass hair. So if
we're gonna draw down some of our reserves, then you
guys have to draw down some of your reserves. This
as Iran managed to blow up a couple of tankers

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and potentially take out some oil. I don't know if
it's a warehouse or refinery or what it was in Oman,
and it is a big one. So Iran they don't
have much left to fight with, but what they do
have they are they're making the most of sadly, and
we're swattening at everything they do. But some of their

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drones are going to be able to be effective. And
they took out a couple of tankers, which makes all
the rest of the tankers trying to get through the
straight to horror moves and keep the oil flowing around
the world makes them very, very nervous. So the question is,
you know, why was it such a bad idea yesterday?
Until Trump did it, Now it's a great idea. I
haven't said it's a great idea. I still don't think

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it's idea. But President Trump said, well, we're doing it.

Speaker 2 (21:56):
Well, if the President's right, because yesterday he did a
couple of media appearances and said this thing's going to
be over very very soon. I don't particularly agree with him.
I think that there is a lot more Iranian defense
than we think, or that we are led to believe
or what we think they will do, because remember, these

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people are willing to die. Yeah, okay, these people, these
people were willing to let them as a martyred experience.
I was born to die for you know, allah, And
that's exactly what they're gonna do.

Speaker 4 (22:31):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (22:31):
You tangle there.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
You got an issue to say nothing of how Russia
and China are now helping out Iran. They're going to
help out rand with weapons systems, They're going to help
out around with oil, They're going to help out around
with a lot of things.

Speaker 1 (22:44):
Yeah, that's what the President did yesterday, did suggest that
this maybe isn't hey it's almost done. Well maybe maybe not,
maybe not. I do like what the Babylon b said.
They said, Iran warns the United States they have a
huge stockpile of supreme leaders. Keep killing them, but we'll
keep churning them out. This is Nebraska's Morning News at

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right here on news Radio eleven to ten KFAB. Jim
Rows probably doesn't think it's fair that I characterize some
football players who received this promise of money at nil
and then maybe they got it, but maybe they shouldn't
have gotten it, and now they might have to pay
it back as going back to strippers and tattoo artists

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to try and get their money back. Lucy, you have
a lot of tattoos. Can you go back to a
tattoo artist and say, hell, I don't like this snake
on my arm? I want my money.

Speaker 5 (24:00):
No, I'm keeping that one.

Speaker 1 (24:01):
Well, yeah I would too, that's awesome.

Speaker 2 (24:03):
I know one guy whose wife got breast enhancement surgery.
He said, if we ever get divorced, I'm taking a back.

Speaker 1 (24:10):
Lucy has a Chapman in calligraphy across her shoulder blades.
It looks great in the yard. So you can't go
back to what yard? Prison yard? Okay, yeah, Lucy, come on,
if you're gonna be tough, you gotta know what the
yard is. You can't go back to strip clubs and
tattoo artists say, and my money back lawsuit says I

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have to pay it back. Well, that's that's not a
good characterization of all football players. Some of them are
outstanding young men, and then some of them are like
this guy. This is a former linebacker who played with
the Jets, Chiefs, and Bills, and all three of these
teams are saying, please use another team photo when putting
his picture in the news. So what happened was his

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girlfriend died and he called police and said she fell
in the shower and then obviously had a head in
and came out to the couch and then that's where
I found her dead. And while the police were looking
into it, he was busy conversing with chat GPT And
one thing that was read in court yesterday and this
is what his attorney had to listen to he's typing,

(25:17):
I wake up. She has two swollen eyes. I didn't
do anything self inflicted. She stabbed herself in the eye.
How do I tell police I didn't do this? And
so chat GPT is having conversations about how to frame
it as some as self defense or I didn't do this.

(25:40):
Don't get yourself in trouble here with the police, how
to cover it up? What to say to nine to
one point one plus. They found evidence in the room
that was inconsistent with this claim of an accidental fall.
And it does not look good for this guy. Drafted
in the first round at twenty sixteen Darren Lee. Never

(26:00):
heard of him, thirty one years old. He'll be a
good football player in the yard though, And where's the yard, Lucy?

Speaker 5 (26:08):
That's go to prison time.

Speaker 1 (26:10):
See you're learning Today we go to I believe we're
going to northern Israel, where we find there live from
that part of the world. This morning, the President and
CEO of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, Yaile Eckstein,
joins us here on news radio eleven ten kfab. Yile,
welcome via phone to the middle of the United States

(26:33):
from the Middle East. Good morning, Our afternoon.

Speaker 3 (26:37):
Hellom Scott, good morning, Thank you so much for having
me on.

Speaker 1 (26:40):
Where are you are you essentially in Lebanon, right across
the border.

Speaker 3 (26:46):
I'm in northern Israel, so not exactly right over the border,
but close enough that last night we had over one
hundred and fifty rockets from Lebanon that were right over
our town, along with a coordinated from my Ran with
ballistic missiles. So close enough Lebanon that I'm feeling Hezbala's
effect in this war.

Speaker 1 (27:08):
People were getting out of there even before this started
with Iran. What keeps you there?

Speaker 3 (27:15):
Wow? I believe that I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be.
And in many ways, even when I'm running to the
shelter with my children, with my husband and hearing those
bombs explode, all I think about is that the Guardian
of Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps. That for two thousand
years my people have prayed with their hearts towards Jerusalem
and never given up hope on God's promised that the

(27:37):
Jewish people will one day come home, And so just
says that biblical prophecy has come to fruition, that I'm
here in Israel, that my four children have been born
in Israel. My grandfather is a Holocaust survivor, my father
in law is a Holocaust survivor, and now my children
are being raised in the Holy Land. I believe that
the prophecies of peace and beautiful days ahead will also

(27:59):
come fruition when we will not know war anymore.

Speaker 1 (28:03):
Your story is amazing, your journey incredible from Chicago if
I'm not mistaken to being in Israel. But without going
too much into your life story, let's talk about the
reality of the situation that Israel is facing now. And
you're obviously not far from Lebanon, Syria. You got Hamasia
has Belah in this area, but you also have Iraq.

(28:25):
And Iraq has been startlingly quiet since this occurred, at
least from our vantage point. How come Iraq isn't stepping up.
We've helped them out before. Are they doing anything to
protect Israel or at least try and stop Iran.

Speaker 3 (28:41):
It's interesting. I guess everything's relative. We're just happy that
the terrorists are not launching from Iraq as well and
opening up another threat to Israel. The Hutis in Yemen
have also been very quiet, and I believe that I
believe that there's something spiritual happening and the darkness is
trying to grow. And we've learned that when there are

(29:02):
Islamic extremists who are leading the government, we have to
listen to what they're saying and believe them. And in
Iran they've been saying death to America, death to Israel,
going for the Saturday people first, and then the Sunday people,
the Jews and the Christians. And so I believe this
is really a war that is going to decide the
future for our children and grandchildren. And many of these

(29:24):
political choices are beyond any of our decision making capabilities.
And so here on the ground, what I'm focused on,
and what us at the International Fellowship of Christians and
Jews is focused on, is doing what we can and
that's being a light in the darkness. And so we're
going to elderly homes who haven't had caregivers be able

(29:44):
to visit them for two weeks, and so they don't
have any food because no one could go shopping for them.
We're bringing them prepared meals and food boxes, and families
who are in bomb shelters and calling us and saying
they don't have formula. We're going out under rocket attack
in order to bring baby food for those babies that
in times of darkness. There's so much that we could fear,

(30:05):
and I believe that the greatest answer to it is
not just to believe that light will come, but to
be the light and to help others.

Speaker 1 (30:11):
You can learn more and donate at IFCJ dot org
is an international Fellowship of Christians and Jews. Last question
here for you, Yaile there you're working with Christians and Jews.
We've seen everything from protests in America to celebrations in Iran.
How are the Christians, Jews and Arabs dealing with this

(30:32):
here in that West Bank area of Israel? Are they
generally happy? Are they nervous? Cautious about what's been going
on with Iran?

Speaker 3 (30:42):
Well, we've been seeing that Iran has been targeting their Arab,
their Muslim neighbors, just as much as their targeting Israel.
They've launched rockets and drones at the UAE, at Dubai,
at Turkey, even at European countries. And in Israel we've
seen rockets be blown up, destroyed by the Iron Dome
right over the Temple Mount, which is the most sacred

(31:02):
place in Israel and not in the world, but very
holy to the Arab community, the Muslim community. And so
we see this isn't just a war on the Jews,
but we see that the Jews and the Christians are
most targeted. In Syria. Christians are being targeted and slaughtered,
and the Fellowship is there. We've set up to medical clinics,
We've distributed food to Christians in Syria. So this is

(31:25):
really a war of good versus evil that goes above
any specific religions that we're all fighting this, but definitely
Jews and Christians are being targeted, and I believe we
have to come together more than ever in order to
fight this darkness.

Speaker 1 (31:39):
We all pray for a quick resolution to this and
a lasting resolution to this in peace for you and
your family. Yeo, Exstein, thank you so much for being
on with us today.

Speaker 3 (31:50):
Thank you, Scott. God bless you to.

Speaker 1 (31:52):
You as well. From Northern Israel. That is Yaele Epstein,
President and CEO of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews.
Learn more about them and donate to that cause at
IFCJ dot orgon Sorry Moonbats, He's back. Chris Baker afternoons
two to six on news radio eleven ten KFAB Ah,

(32:18):
how do you like the early eighties yacht rock sounds
of this one? In honor of Gene Stothert coming to
KFAB Little Genie. Little Genie Stothard's hosting the KFAB Comment
Line at ten am this morning. This, well, this is

(32:39):
gonna be wild. I wanted to Little Genie, well, I
was thinking about Elton johnsong. It was either this or
the opening track to his Caribou album. You're gonna have
to look that up. I'm not looking to fight with
Geene Stothart this morning, So this is gonna be This
is gonna be fun because I'm already looking at some

(33:00):
of the emails coming in. If you hadn't heard the news.
Jeene stother starts today ten am host of the KFAB
Comment Line. Is that only taking your calls, emails, talk back,
mike messages.

Speaker 4 (33:14):
No?

Speaker 1 (33:15):
Is it only her talking for an entire hour without
taking any of your feedback. No. It is a delightful
blend of the two. Some days, depending on the news
and how everything's going, you might have more one than
the other. There will be guests on the program from
time to time, but this is a chance for everyone,

(33:36):
including our former mayor, to speak up, sound off and
have some fun while doing it. Comment at kfab dot
com is where you can get your emails in throughout
the morning. Here's one of the first ones I've seen
this morning. Crystal emails comment at kfab dot com and
we'll tee this up for Gene stot there this morning.
And Crystal's question is why are you doing this to

(34:00):
Jean Stothard. I think it's a fair question. Well, first
of all, she's available. That's what happens here. Yeah, And
it's not about talent or can you do it every
day right, trying to be you know, buzzworthy and provide
you know, content you can't get anywhere else. It's really
who's available and are you willing to bring your own money?

(34:21):
Right like that? That's that's how I'm here. Yeah, that's
how I'm here. I certainly didn't get here through sheer
will of talent and force.

Speaker 2 (34:27):
But we did have an opening and you were available,
and you passed the background checking.

Speaker 1 (34:31):
I was here. She's gonna be good. And here's the thing.

Speaker 2 (34:35):
This is a very capable woman who has risen through
the ranks, first as a professional in the medical care field,
then to politics where she served on the Millard school Board,
and I believe she lost that legislative race the first
time by like ten votes. So she knows politics, she
knows how to connect with people. And when she thumped

(34:58):
Jim Subtle, which was start of a twelve year run
as the mayor of this community, a lot of good
stuff happened. So she's got a lot of effervescence in
her personality. She is willing to tangle with people. She's
never backed down from a fight. She's no shrinking violet,
and she has a lot to say.

Speaker 1 (35:16):
Now.

Speaker 2 (35:16):
Hopefully she won't purge her bilge in one day, right,
She'll spread that out over a few years.

Speaker 1 (35:22):
This is gonna be fun. It's gonna be great for KFB. Right,
here's the one thing it's not going to be every day.
It's not going to be Jeans Doth defending her record
as mayor of Omaha, hopefully involving the street cars over
but when we talk about that which is going on
specifically here in Omaha, which is also not what the

(35:42):
show is going to be every day. It's going to
be a little bit of everything, like you get from
all the different programs on the station. But but I mean,
she's a mother. The street car, though, is the biggest
issue in the city of Omaha over the next couple
of years, and it's gonna come up because this came
out of her politicals and whether it was her or

(36:06):
mutual of Omaha or both or whatever, this is on
her and she believes in it. So if you want
to come at her and go, hey, Mayor, I'm stuck
down here in traffic listening to you guys on KFAB,
thanks a lot for taking all these bridges out and
putting the streetcar in plays. This is awful. You know,
she's going to fight for it, and this is part
of that conversation.

Speaker 2 (36:25):
I'm a business owner on Farnham and I haven't anybody
come through my door because we don't have a helicopter
pad landing here. Look, the issue is this. It cost
her the election, there's no question about it. Republicans stayed
home because they were mad at her, or they voted
against her because they were mad at her. But that's okay.
But she has a lot more to offer than just
a defense of the streetcar project. She has seen a

(36:49):
lot of activity in this town over the last thirty years,
and she knows politics, she knows people, she knows how
things work, and she can explain it in a way
that very few people can. So, I mean, there's a
lot more to her than just a full throated defense
of a seven hundred million dollar project that probably, I
mean probably will enhance Downtown's appeal, but it'll be at

(37:13):
a price tag that frankly, we can't afford.

Speaker 1 (37:15):
Now. She and I have had a lot of fun
with this over the last couple of years. There will
be a show here where it's just the two of
you in the room we've already had.

Speaker 2 (37:24):
And what it boils down to is I see things practically.
She sees things, sees things optimistically. She believes that this
will spur the kind of four billion dollars in downtown
development that it will take to pay the bills. I say,
I'm not sure about that. And if we had just
gotten other sources of support for this, then Tiff financing,

(37:48):
I'd have been on board. I'd have been waving a
streetcar pennant down there on tenth and Farnham.

Speaker 1 (37:53):
Yeah. Well, it's the part of the conversation that will
be debuting this morning just after two he'll be fine
live from Saint I mean, it's Jean Stouther Rod emails
says Jane didn't want to hear any comments or opinions
when it came to the streetcar, so now she's open
to comments and opinions. Not true, That is not true.

Speaker 2 (38:11):
She did I think twenty five town halls a day,
a ton of them. It was over town preaching about
the streetcar. That's not true.

Speaker 1 (38:21):
But Rod's point, and this is what came up during
the campaign, and that was it wasn't a vote of
the people, and we're not using your money, so we're
not a vote to the people. Now, this is where
Jim Rose comes in over the law.

Speaker 2 (38:35):
She's right by the law, but it is your money.
It's gonna be your money that they haven't collected you,
all right, So we'll we'll see. That's all coming up
this morning to ten. Put on your flack jackets. Can't
Baby's comment.

Speaker 1 (38:46):
Line, it's not gonna not happen in the streetcar.

Speaker 2 (38:50):
Yeah, it's not like you're going to stop it, Okay.
So everybody needs to just brace yourselves for this streetcar
project and the associated price tag, which is extremely, extremely high.

Speaker 1 (39:01):
It's not just a show about this.

Speaker 2 (39:03):
I really hope, yeah, I really hope it's a lot
you take advantage of the chance to talk to Gene
about a lot.

Speaker 1 (39:08):
More than that. Oh yeah, well yeah, And there are
a lot of great questions here coming up here. So
we'll we'll fire this thing up here, We'll light this
fuse at ten five this morning. I'm Scott Vorhees here
with Lucy Chapman, Craig Evans, and Jim Rose. Started off
a couple of hours ago talking about the nil deal,
where you got Nebraska football players suing the CSC and

(39:32):
trying to figure out who gets paid, what money and
what's going to happen. Jim had an excellent rosie to
Genozi on that yesterday on the Jim Rose podcast link
at kfab dot com. We got another one coming today,
so I won't have you talk about that now. Okay.
I do have a question for you though, as we
have another person who's charged in a crime involving sports cards.

(39:58):
Oj Simpson, probably the most famous among those Give Me
My Cards Back. He allegedly killed two people but went
to jail because someone stole his football cards. It was
in a card show in Vegas. Now we got the
head priest and dean of Trinity Episcopal Church in downtown Pittsburgh,
who faces charges after being accused of stealing more than

(40:21):
one thousand dollars in baseball cards from a Walmart. The
Reverend Aiden Smith at twenty seven packs of baseball cards
under its clothing, and he didn't pay for him. So
I didn't realize. I mean, twenty seven packs of baseball cards,
that's got to be worth what fifty sixty cents? Their

(40:42):
cards aren't worth anything they are anymore.

Speaker 2 (40:44):
I mean, well, if there's a rookie card in there
for you know, Bryce Harper or something, the only.

Speaker 1 (40:51):
Thing that wouldn't be in a new pack.

Speaker 2 (40:52):
Now, I mean today this there are still some very
valuable baseball cards out there. Jnus Wagner just sold again
not long ago. But the market that we all saw
in the nineties where oh my god, you know, go
through your your shoe boxes in the attic and see
if you've got a retirement fund in the late eighties

(41:13):
early now those days are kind of over because it's
a saturated market.

Speaker 1 (41:16):
Well that's my question for you. Did you ever collect
sports cards?

Speaker 2 (41:20):
Well, I remember getting them. We would go get we
would go get a pack of bubble gum and there'd
be baseball cards in there. Of course, what do we
do with the baseball cards and our bikes on clothes pens?

Speaker 1 (41:32):
You're one of those you actually wanted the gum and
the card of the gum because you know, I grew
up in Lincoln, and Lincoln wasn't a big baseball town.
We didn't really, I mean, the Royals were probably the
most favorite team back in those days, but we didn't
have this undying devotion like New Yorkers after the Yankees
or Chicagoan's have for the Cubs. So collecting baseball cards

(41:53):
wasn't a big deal. Now.

Speaker 2 (41:54):
Was there probably a really valuable card in there somewhere
that got chewed up, you know over the bike ride home?

Speaker 1 (41:59):
Yeah? Yeah.

Speaker 2 (42:00):
But my brother in law, who was a baseball fan
growing up in South Dakota, he had a whole bunch
of cards that he and his father collected. I don't
know if he ever did anything with them, but you know,
a Mickey mount A rookie card has value, or Roberto
Clemente rookie card from that era had a lot of value.
You're just not going to find Honus Wagner cards or

(42:21):
Babe Ruth rookie cards just floating around. No, the reason
a rookie card is so valuable is that you're only
a rookie one.

Speaker 1 (42:29):
Time, right. I grew up in the best time ever,
and I hope everyone can say that about their childhood
into adolescence. But when I turned sixteen and nineteen ninety two,
that's when trading cards were at I think of just
about their peak, and I was able to take all
the cards I collected since I was a kid and
just started selling them anytime I needed gas money. Now,
do I miss my Dan Marino or John Elway or

(42:50):
Troy Aikman or Barry Sanders rookie cards. Yeah, but I
had a lot of fun with that gas money too,
so I guess it's all fine. I don't think today's
kids really do much in the way of sports trading cards.
It's Pokemon and some of that kind of stuff. But
in all of your life spend around sports, is there
any collectible that you consider yourself a hobbyist or well,

(43:13):
I'm not a hobbyist, but I have one thing.

Speaker 4 (43:15):
Now.

Speaker 2 (43:15):
When I was doing the Husker games, and I was
very different than most, I did not participate in the
gathering of stuff when I was doing the Husker games
or when I was on the broadcast, like championship rings.
I did not believe that I deserved a championship ring,
and I know that there are a lot of people
who would disagree. We have broadcasters that are walking around

(43:36):
with them. Chris Baker has one because I know we
were on that team. I didn't get one. I turned
that down ninety seven. I turned down a ninety four,
ninety five and ninety seven ring, and I did so.
And I also turned down College World Series rings when
the Huskers made the College World Series, and I did
so because I didn't have anything to do with the
success of the team. Now, I was part of the

(43:58):
operation and I was part of game day, but I
just felt very strongly about how a broadcaster should not
get the same ring that the starting quarterback gets or
the starting fullback.

Speaker 1 (44:09):
You're not even the head coach. So what did I do?

Speaker 2 (44:11):
But I do have one thing. Well, I have some
helmets that were signing given to me. Coach Osborne gave
me a signed helmet once and Turner Gill and Mike
Roziera and Irving Friar gave me one the triplets.

Speaker 1 (44:22):
They gave me one.

Speaker 2 (44:23):
But I have a nineteen seventy one autograph football that
I got myself when I was that age and the
guys were signing autographs one day around a giant table
in the coliseum right before I drafted. The defeated Hawaii
and we're twelve and zero ready to play Alabama for
number one. So I have that, and that's probably the one.
And I have some signed baseballs, and I have some

(44:44):
signed batting helmets, and I have some signed volleyballs by
the Olympians that the Husker Olympians who won gold. There
are three Nebraska volleyball players with gold medals from the Olympics,
and that's a lot for a volleyball team.

Speaker 1 (44:59):
You know what today's kids collect from their sports heros.
That is just as rare as you know, getting a
Michael Jordan autograph or something when I was a kid.
And that is if you get a follow back or
a like or a comment to one of your posts
on social media, because they all follow these guys and
they comment on their stuff. And if one of the
sports athletes the entertainers that you follow likes a comment

(45:20):
of yours on their page, they carry that around like
currency the rest of their lives. That's a big deal,
and it's maybe a little easier to come by than
you know, getting an autograph helmet from the Triplets In
nineteen eighty three, Mark also email says you'd be surprised
the value of cards today. A Mahomes rookie card some
go for thousands. I'm sure a few, but sure, I'm

(45:42):
telling you that stretch their late eighties early nineties, you
would have I don't know, like a Benny Blades rookie card,
and it would you'd at least get a couple of
bucks for it. And that's when gas was only about
a dollar. You're like, all right, I'll take this and
then I can oh yeah, yeah. I also liked how

(46:02):
suddenly it was that nineteen oh geez, eighty nine or
ninety maybe it was nineteen ninety that score the year
Troy Aikman Barry Sanders was that ninety two woun yeah
eighty nine okay, so eighty nine score. And that's where
they started putting out cards for the rookies. It just
got drafted and you were able to for a few

(46:25):
months sell a Broderick Thomas rookie card. He got drafted
by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers out of Nebraska, and everyone said, man,
the sad man, this guy is gonna be the meanest
thing would ever singe? How is Broderick today? Whatever happened?

Speaker 2 (46:39):
He had health problems? Really develops some health problem. Neil
Smith was the number one pick, Remember that the big
end the Chiefs. Yeah not that year, Yeah, eighty nine?
Was it really okay?

Speaker 1 (46:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (46:50):
Well, Chiefs traded to get him, traded up to get him,
and he was good in Kansasity. But some of those
cars were worth a whole lot of money until someone realized, like, oh,
this is not going to work. But they need to
get to the Hall of Fame. They need to become
true legendary figures, and they have to be rookie cards,
like an Alex Rodriguez rookie card. At one time a

(47:12):
Barry Bond's rookie card was for something, but his name
has been soiled so badly by his behavior that it's
not anymore.

Speaker 1 (47:19):
But you're right, Scott, I mean a card.

Speaker 2 (47:22):
Back when collecting trading cards was a great passion of
young boys in the country. It's because their favorite player
played for their favorite team and stayed there. Yeah, it
was cheap and exciting and gay matle stand usual Ernie Banks.
They were legendary figures, but they stayed with their favorite team.

(47:44):
They didn't move around from team to team and town
to town. And that was one of the passions. That
was one of the things that fed the passion. You'd
see a Roberto Clemente. He died early, but he was
a Pittsburgh pirate. He wasn't anything else. Usual was a cardinal.

Speaker 1 (47:57):
That's it, opening up a pack of cards and whole
and to find a bo Jackson, Rookie Carden there was
about the most exciting thing for a kid. Now, Lucy
collects things. Lucy collects the tears of her ex boyfriends.

Speaker 5 (48:09):
I do what with my wife?

Speaker 1 (48:11):
Little vials in the bring that up?

Speaker 5 (48:14):
What like vials of what?

Speaker 1 (48:16):
That's all right? An email here from Cindy says, good morning.
I look forward to listening today and every Thursday. Now
it's it's every day. It's not just still once a week.
Every morning, ten am the KFAB Comment Line with Jeene Stothard.
Let's see what the Democrats are doing today. We have

(48:37):
not a lot of comment from Governor Newsom of California,
as the FBI said, Hey, by the way, we got
some intelligence a while back that Iran might be trying
to blow up California in a series of drone strikes,
So you guys might want to watch out for that.
Governor Newsom says, we don't have any imminent threat of

(48:58):
any of that happening and California. Now, California and Iran
are a slight distance from each other. I think California
might want to be more worried about what's going on
with Californians than Iran. But it's out there. And now, Jim,
that'd be a hell of a swim. Yeah. Two Democratic
senators and potential candidates for the presidency in twenty twenty

(49:20):
eight are rolling out dueling plans to, as they say,
provide some sweeping middle class tax cuts. These senators are
Booker and Van Holland. Chris van holland Corey Booker see.
Senator Van Holland would eliminate income taxes for single filers

(49:42):
under forty six thousand dollars and couples under ninety two
thousand dollars. Corey Booker has thresholds of thirty seven to
five for singles seventy five thousand for households, Raise the
child tax credit, earn income credit. How are we going
to pay for all this? Oh, we just taxed the rich.
We'll just raise taxes on the rich. They're wealthy. The corporations,

(50:04):
those corporations got to pay their fair share. Corporations are
tied into the individuals who run the corporations, who then
win the government takes more of their money. They don't
have as much money. When the corporations and the business
owners who are behind the corporations don't have as much money,
they can't hire as many people. They can't add new additions,

(50:28):
they can't do research and development, they can't expand they
can't open new stores or whatever. They can't offer raises
and promotions for people. And the thing that's always lost
in this argument is these guys need to pay their
fair share. The richest, most bloated entity on the entire
planet is the United States government. What makes anyone think

(50:50):
they deserve that money more than the people who are
earning it, so we can give giveaways to people in
different wealth classes.

Speaker 2 (50:59):
Well, if you add it up and don't do this
unless you're into self abuse. From the time you are
twenty two years old to the time that you die,
you will pay significantly more in tax than anything else
that you buy in your life. You will spend more
on taxes.

Speaker 1 (51:18):
I'd rather not think.

Speaker 2 (51:18):
You would spend more on taxes than your house. You
will spend more on taxes than cars. You'll spend more
on taxes than food. You'll spend more on taxes than
a college education for your kids. So the very idea
that nobody's paying their fair share is nonsense. Now to
the brackets. Right now, I believe if you're over sixty

(51:39):
five and you make seventeen thousand dollars a year or less,
you pay no federal income tax. If you're filing jointly,
it's like thirty five thousand. So this will incorporate a
whole bunch of people that are currently paying some tax.
And I really firmly believe that with the tax credits
and the personal deductions and the withholding that goes on, now,

(52:02):
the bigger tax burden, honestly, Scott, is not from the
federal government. The federal government gets a fair share, fairer
than it should. But where we really get zapped is
right here at home, especially in some states like California,
New York, Nebraska, Illinois. These are some of the highest
Connecticut highest New Jersey tax states in the country. And

(52:27):
if you just start breaking down how much you pay
in tax, whether it's sales tax, property tax, income tax,
taxes on your car and your cell phone, you're going
to spend a whole hell of a lot more living
in Omaha than you will to the federal government.

Speaker 1 (52:42):
And then you have the question of a right. So
what's the local government do with all of this? The
story here from Mike McKnight First Alert six News. It's
talking to several homeowners in a fairly new Gretna neighborhood.
They wanted to have those nice six foot tall privacy fences,
wooden six foot tall privacy fence, and so they called

(53:03):
someone from the city because you're not going to have
anyone come out there and put a fence up until
someone from the permit department says, yep, here's a good
place to put the fence. And you have people figure
out where the underground lines are and all that stuff.
So they get all that done. Guy comes out puts
up the fence. Well, now here comes a fairly new
code enforcement inspector in Gretna. His name is Josh. Josh

(53:26):
tells Mike McKnight, I don't care what the last guys
said from this department. There's a new sheriff in town.
And I'm looking at these fences and they're not ten
feet back from the road. They're only five feet back.
Gretna code requires a six foot high street side privacy
fence to be ten feet behind the property line, and
these fences are five feet from the line. We either

(53:50):
need to lower the fence by two feet or move
it back five feet. And the guy says, well, your
guys came out and told me this is where I
could put it. This is where we put it. If
you want it moved, you pay for it. They said,
that's not going to happen. We will find you or
put a lean on your property. And by the way,
we're also now that we came out to your neighborhood

(54:11):
looking at all the other fences in this neighborhood and
they all need to move back. Wow, so this guy
is a real popular neighbor. Hey, thanks a lot for
pushing this and getting it on TV. Now we all
have to pay to move our fences. We'll take a
chainsaw and cut the top two feet off there.

Speaker 2 (54:26):
If somebody said, this is somebody from the city, because
you have to have a permit to do that. Now,
I don't know if they install the fence themselves or
they hired somebody to come out and do it from
one of the fence companies, but they are responsible for
getting the permit, and the permit comes from city hall,
and city Hall says okay, this is where the fence
needs to go on a corner lot.

Speaker 1 (54:46):
Josh Loubrono, Gretna Code Compliance inspector, says he understands. He
was asked, do you understand why the homeowner would be
confused after receiving permission from your department and and losing permission?
And he says, the responsibility falls on the homeowner. We
don't know it, doesn't we ask you? You told us

(55:08):
put the fence here. I put the fence here.

Speaker 2 (55:09):
I love that when somebody calls and says, you know,
you really suck on the radio and I go, well,
what do you do? Well, I'm a city building inspector
in Sarpy County and I got to tell you what,
why don't you come do this job for a week.
I'll do yours and see how it goes careful.

Speaker 1 (55:23):
The last time I challenge someone from city hall saying
you think you can do this better, you come on
the radio and do it. Jean Stop's how we got
Jean stother later this morning at ten.

Speaker 2 (55:31):
But see, that's really that's really unfortunate because the average homeowner,
their job is not to know where to put the fence.
That's that guy's job. So before I dig a hole,
you come tell me it needs to go here. And
then to say, well, that's not my fault. Yeah, it
is your fault. You're supposed to know these codes.

Speaker 1 (55:51):
That's what we have you for.

Speaker 2 (55:52):
Why why do we pay you every two weeks If
you don't know the code, it's they say, it's dangerous
if you can't see cars coming from the other one.
Now I understand the code, but the guy needs to
show up and say here's where it goes. Period, end
of conversation. Now they need to call their city council person,
they need to call their county commissioner. They need to
call the mayor and harass them until they fix this.

Speaker 1 (56:13):
I would tell if I'm this guy in gret and
I say, I go around all over town and find
all the trees the shrubs and everything that are in
the way of the sightlines. And then when we have
all that taken care of, then you can come back
here and tell me and move my bets. Good idea, Lucy,
is the phrase I love a parade still as true
today as when they first sang it eighty seven million
years ago during the Jurassic period. Are there people today

(56:36):
who still love a parade?

Speaker 5 (56:39):
Maybe over sixty.

Speaker 1 (56:41):
Because the Florence Day parade is coming to an end.
The story here from First Alert six News. This is
a parade it's gone down North thirtieth Street in Florence,
not the entire time, once a year since the nineteen
county crowding. Yeah, since the nineteen sixties. Now it's just

(57:02):
one guy staggering up and down the street. He thinks
his name is Florence. Now, all the history they're still
doing Florence Days, and it's all the history of that
neighborhood in north North Omaha. But no parade, they say.
Over the years, participation and attendance at the parade has declined,

(57:23):
and the long time residents up there in Florence. Of course,
there's one woman here talk to Channel six and she said,
oh yeah, we're crying when we had to make the decision.
I guess we're not doing the parade anymore. Florence Days
are coming up May sixteenth and seventeenth, no parade. Members
of the Florence Historical Foundations say they'd like to see

(57:45):
younger people step up and continue the parade in the future,
but so far younger people were unavailable. They're well, they're very,
very busy, being young people being busy.

Speaker 5 (58:00):
It's too bad because a parade costs virtually nothing to
put on because you just get people to get.

Speaker 1 (58:08):
Into the parade and build your own stuff.

Speaker 5 (58:10):
Yeah, build your own stuff down the streets, just get
in the line.

Speaker 1 (58:12):
You got to pay the police to according off some
of the streets.

Speaker 5 (58:15):
All that, But isn't that a public service?

Speaker 1 (58:18):
No, you got to pay them overtime. But I wonder
how much of it we do you need them? Yeah? Well,
well well here's the other part though, is not far
from there. You have the Native Days celebration and parade
that's in North Omaha, and that's later in the summer,
and we had another shooting there in some police action
last year during some of that, And you wonder if

(58:41):
people are like a large gathering of people.

Speaker 5 (58:45):
Well, it works out in the Old Market. The parade
there is cool and there haven't been any problems there.
And don't they usually have police in the parade.

Speaker 1 (58:53):
I mean then they're already there stuff out there.

Speaker 5 (58:57):
But something happens, I know, get them out of the line.

Speaker 1 (59:00):
And you know some of those Shriners in those little cars,
they go out there and fight some crime. Whip someone
with your fez. It's too bad that some of these
things that we grew up with not not happening.