April 23, 2026 • 46 mins
Today, we talk about the accusations against the Southern Poverty Law Center, Nebraska seniors leading the nation in getting scammed, "Trump Time" in Iran, in-state tuition for illegal immigrants, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Nebraska's morning news. Thank you very much for
being here with us. Jim Rose has sports brief in
just a few minutes. Craig Evans with updates four times
an hour. Lucy Chapman, who is, by the way, the
namesake of this song which is called A Girl Like
You by the smithereens the Timesaver, traffic and whatever she
wants to do. I'm Scott Vorhees and I just get
(00:21):
a chance to bask in the glory of all this
here on news radio eleven ten kfab Lucy, Can you
take all this glory? How is it? It's pretty good
from this side of the glass?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Ye?
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Good? You know I'll take it. Yeah, take you where
I can get it. Did you know that this country
had so many horrible racists? Yes, well tell somebody about it.
We don't need them. Are you familiar with these Sadistic
Souls motorcycle club? Are they causing traffic problems in Omaha? No?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
But it's my favorite motorcycle.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Club, the Sadistic Soul's motor Wasn't that the club that
Pee Wee Herman infiltrate rated in Heey's Big Adventure? I
think so?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Wait, are you talking about I don't know other sadistic
there's like a club.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
No, I don't like those guys.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
There might be more than one. Well, according to the
Department of Justice, the Southern Poverty Law Center was making
payments and over the last decade. These decades, these payments
totaled about three million dollars to several members of groups
that they had labeled as far right groups. The accusation
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essentially is that the Southern Poverty Law Center that the
media goes running to whenever they want to find out
whether some group is a hate group, the Southern Poverty
Law Center says, this group's a hate group. Because you know,
the CBS News for example, ABC can't come out and
say this group which is a hate group. They can't
say that, So they have the Southern Poverty Law Center
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say that, and they're all too happy to do so. Well,
they were paying these groups to continue to be hate group,
whether they were or they weren't, They would pay them.
They propped them up, like, hey, how's everything going. You
guys need anything, because for example, after Charlottesville that twenty
seventeen Unite the Right protest, where one leader received about
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two hundred and seventy thousand dollars from the Southern Poverty
Law Center to go be a part of the hate
group side of that mess in Charlottesville, Virginia. After that
moment where the media says, oh my gosh, look at
all these hate groups, the Southern Poverty Law Center said,
we are dedicated as we've always been to fighting these groups.
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Donate here, And they received one of their biggest paydays
in the few days after that event. And they thought,
you know, the more that the American people think that
they are horrible, racist hate groups out there, the better
it is for us. Let's make sure that these groups
have everything they need to have protests and clean up
roadways and try and recruit people whatever. And so they
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were paying the groups because the more the people think, why,
oh my gosh, the KKK they're everywhere, the more money
would come into the Southern Poverty Law Center. And then
you have to wonder, well, how much of this is real,
how much of it is genuine, or how much of
it is like right here in Omaha. Every once in
a while, you know these little free library kiosks you'll
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see in some neighborhoods, Well, every once in a while,
the media will come out there and say someone had
a copy of Hitler's book Mind comp in one of
these free libraries for kids. First of all, the kids
don't give a rip about your free libraries. They're not.
They don't care as like I, Hey mom, I'm gonna
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go out and find a book to read at the fruit.
They they don't do that. Yes, they do know they don't.
And so someone planted that book in there to make
people in the neighborhood think, oh, there's a racist in
this neighborhood. You've got to wonder how much of this
stuff is genuine wind and how much of it is
Jesse Smollett, how much of it is a total hoax,
(04:04):
how much of it is bought and paid for by
this group that the media always turns to to find
out who the hate groups are. Well, it turns out
you want to find out who the hate groups are,
find out who The Southern Poverty Law Center is right
in checks to that's negative, it's non negative. It's alleged
by the Department of Justice.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Actually they have a lot of evidence.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Yes they do it. Now. The eleven to ten kfab
Certified Transmission Sports Brief. Here's Jim Row.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Very good Sky Good morning, everybody. Big day for college
football players. No, the transfer portal is not open again.
It's draft Day, actually, the first of three days of
drafting guys by your favorite team. Number one pick belongs
to the Las Vegas Raiders. Everybody needs quarterback and the
Raiders are no different. So Fernando Mendoza, the national title winning,
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loves his mom, Heisman Trophy winning quarterback at Indiana is
the man, but as of last week, he wasn't even
sure if he'd be in Pittsburgh for the draft to
hear his name called.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Itit'sburg is a a great opportunity, and it's a great venue,
and I'm really excited to see all the guys. Are
most of the guys walk across the stage on Thursday
night to be a dream for a lot of guys. However,
my mom really wanted to do it at home instead
of my parents. It's a lot easier for us, especially
with the family situation and have to hop on a
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plane the next morning anyways, and for that travel, it'd
be a lot easier to stay at home.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Who this guy, They don't make him like this anymore.
I'm going to be home with mom, his mom and
his parents are going to be there. He said, I
love that guy, I really do. I hope he's a
genuine I hope he's not a big phony.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
No.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Husker's likely taken until day three, but you Iowa people
might have somebody today. Definitely some of those linemen tomorrow.
Nick Saban, who knows what talent looks like, says the
number one player in this draft, Caleb Downs the safety
of Ohio State Baseball. The Kansas City Royals resumed losing
eight to six. Baltimore takes the series. Alonso and my
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hit home runs off of Royal pitching. In the American League,
Houston two to nothing over the Guardians. It was the
Angels over the Blue Jays seven to three, Seattle five,
Oakland four. Did you see this highlight? Starting pitcher for
the Mariners, Logan Gilbert, catches a line drive in his
jersey in the first inning. Carlos Cortes hit one off
(06:22):
of the bat. It went one hundred and eight miles
an hour, and it lodged in between two of the
buttons on Gilbert's jersey. He ultimately got the out, but
he was visibly shaken when the one hundred and eight
mile an hour liner went into his shirt didn't injure him.
Seattle won the ballgame five fours Detroit over Milwaukee, and
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the Yankees beat Boston. National League winners from Miami and Atlanta,
the Mets, Cubs, Rockies, and Giants in IT League play
Dbacks eleven, White Sox, seven Pirates, eight Texas for Tampa Bay,
six Cincinnati one. The Creighton Uno game at Taal Anderson
Field last night lots of offense fifteen to ten.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
The Jays get the win.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Five home runs hitting this game by Creighton, two each
from deaders in Van Tyker. UNO's team era is six
point one seven. That means the coach, Evan Porter, might
have to make a roster move on his coaching staff
by the end of this season or certainly before next season.
NBA playoff winners in Game two Detroit over Orlando. Oklahoma
(07:24):
City defeated Phoenix in Game two of that series. Galen
de Borr of Millbanks, South Dakota does not have money problems.
The head coach of Alabama football just signed a contract
extension to keep coaching the Tide. The deal for him
is now through twenty thirty three at twelve point five
million dollars a year. But Greg Burn, athletic director, the
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son of former Husker athletic director Bill Burn, restructured his buyout.
He says, we'll pay you to coach, but we're not
paying you to play golf. His buyout is only ten
million dollars, and that shrinks by two million a year
until the end of the contract. Matt rules buyout is
sixty five million, and Deboa has twenty wins over ranked
teams since twenty twenty one. Rule has two wins over
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ranked teams in his entire career sports his news on
Nebraska's News Weather in traffic station. It's called negotiating tactics.
Some are better at it than others. You accuse me
of being negative.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
I have tremendous respect for people who have experiences beyond
my wildest dreams, people who have lived long before I mean,
they had whole lives before I was even born, which
is an increasingly longer time ago. Lucy, did I tell you,
by the way, that I got in with a really
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good group of dudes who were on a golf trip.
There were seven guys, one guy to drop out. I
became the eighth guy in this group, and these guys
were all at the age where their kids were little
to preschoolers and so forth, and my kids are high
school and now in college, and so I kind of
felt like close enough. I was able to hang with
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these guys and it was a good time until one
of them called me, sir, still bugging me, I can
see that. Yeah, that happened on Sunday. Still I stung,
stung a little bit.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
I get mad when somebody says, yes, ma'am, ma'am, ma'am.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Yeah. But ma'am, if it's a high school kid that
says that, says something like that, it's like, all right,
well that's just a measure of respect, and that's fine.
But these guys were They weren't that much younger than me.
At least that was my assessment. Their assessment was radically different. Sir. Anyway,
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I have respect from my elders, and anytime one of
them says, look look here, son, look here, junior, let
me tell you how it is. You know, I listen,
I am all ears. Why then did you sense that
I was setting up some dominoes here?
Speaker 4 (10:04):
You usually are yes?
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Why then? In Nebraska, our seniors lose more money per
scam than seniors in any other state in America. It
is probably a little bit of Nebraska. Nice mm hm,
whether it's that call at four o'clock in the morning, Grandma,
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what seth? You know, like I need you to go
to the bank and take out all your money and
why are transferred? I'm stuck in a Turkish prison. Okay,
I'm on my way. Even though people have told seniors
and everyone, don't fall for this stuff, don't click on
stuff that you don't know what it is. This story
here from First Alert six News talks about Joyce and Jim.
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They fell victim to a scam about a year ago.
Scammer said that, hey, Joyce, you need to withdraw nine
thousand dollars from your bank because if not, your husband's
going to be arrested. And unless we pay this money.
And apparently, and this doesn't say much for Jim, not
Jim Rose, but the Jim in the story, because Joyce
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gets the call from some scammers says, yeah, your husband's
in big trouble. We're gonna take him away. He'll spend
a lot of time in jail unless you pay me
nine thousand dollars right now. And I don't know what
it says about this guy, Jim but she believed the
scammers probably asked her husband, are you in trouble with
the law? No, I swear I'm not well this guy
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on the phone, and so the scammer gave directions to
a crypto ATM told her to convert the money into crypto,
send it to his digital wallet. They're like, okay, So
Joyce and Jim run down there, follow his instructions, and
then they the money's gone. Yeah, but it's Jim and jail.
Maybe it worked, and they say, look, we didn't know
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what we were doing. He sounded so real, so genuine,
and so far. Look, you can't have it both ways, seniors,
my friends, you can't have it. But you can't say
people need to come to us and learn about what's
really happening in this country. We know more, we've been
more of we've experienced so much. And then the next
time someone sends, you know, one of those Facebook things
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you know, what type of tree are you? And you
start clicking on stuff, and next thing you know, you're
sending crypto to some guy in Guatemala at three o'clock
in the morning, and you say, well, I fell victim
to a scam. I didn't know I thought. You can't
have it both ways. Which is it going to be?
Either you're with it and need to be respected, or
you're old and frail and mentally fragile and no one
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should be able to trust you with money? Which is it?
And I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, I'm fine.
It's the rest of these old people that can't be trusted.
They're the ones throwing off the curb. Well, Nebraska, Nebraska
and ice. Our seniors are getting taken by scammers more
than seniors in any other state. Eight. And I can
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teach you how to overcome that. Just send me money
to the radio station, uh, crypto cash wire transfers, Kate,
Lucy you'll take it. And Cake, I'll teach you how
to overcome this. But you've got to send me a
lot of money to do it. How much it depends
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on you know, Cake money, crypto, Kate, crypto, all of
you do.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
I have to send it to you.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
And Walmart cards, Walmart cards, yes, how about Valentino's cards?
Will you take those? I'll always take pizza from Valentinos,
all right, but you know, just be be careful. And
I don't know how many times people have been told
and it's not obviously just seniors as other people as well.
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But the story here from First Alert six News to
seniors quick clicking and just basically do what my father
in law does. He just doesn't answer the phone.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Yeah, I instructed my late mother to stop answering the phone.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Just stop answering the phone.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
You know, Mom, When you answer the phone, you are vulnerable.
People will say, hey, we've got this for you. Just
ninety nine point nine percent of the time it's BS. Sure,
So unless you know you recognize the person on your phone,
don't answer it. Let it go to voicemail.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Sure. If you don't know who it is, then ignore it,
with the exception being when you play the cash contest
starting at eight oh five this morning and later that hour,
you get a call from a number you don't recognize,
go ahead and answer it. If it's someone from my
Heart Radio one thousand dollars, you can trust them because
they're going to give you money. They're not going to
ask you for money, they're going to give it to you.
You can do that in your first chance to put
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a grand in your hands at eight oh five this morning,
right here on news radio eleven ten KFAB right here
in beautiful Dundee, USA. We're getting a home now inspired
by a restaurant, very interesting business here, Lucy. It's right
down the street. Have you eaten a noodle?
Speaker 5 (15:01):
Lali?
Speaker 1 (15:02):
It's okay if your answer is no, I have not yet,
because I don't think they're open for breakfast. I believe
it's just a dinner restaurant. But it's Are you familiar
with this place here in Dundee?
Speaker 4 (15:14):
I mean a little yeah, a little bit.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Well, it's in the Old Marks over there, I think,
and I haven't been there yet either, but I've heard
from people that it's really really good food, and the
story behind it is even better. It's a business that
says we are trying to solve the problem of what
are people going to do when they're released from jail.
(15:39):
I mean, they can't all marry, Lucy, so they have
just seen if you're paying attention, so they have to
get a job. And this business says, well, we'll give
you a job, we'll teach you how to work in
the restaurant industry. And so the restaurant is all staffed
by people who were in prison as recently as Tuesday
in some instances, and they're all like, they take the
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job very seriously. They move up within the business, and
so much so that now some of the people who
have worked there. By the way, the restaurant's called Oodlali
and it's just north of fiftieth and Dodge, about fifty
fiftieth in Underwood. Well, now they're starting a house because
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the other problem is is, all right, we don't have
any place to work. Okay, Well, this place gives people
place to work. If you've served your debt to society,
you paid that debt. Now you need a place to live.
So they bought a house here in the neighborhood as well,
so you can live in the house, you can work
at the restaurant. I mean, you can't all work in radio.
So this is an opportunity as well. Affordable housing six
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hundred dollars a month for rent, and they are making
sure that people pay. That's the other part of it.
No one's given you anything. You're gonna have to work,
you're gonna have to pay, you're gonna have to take
care of the place. Really really impressive organization. I'm gonna
get the director on my show after nine o'clock at
some point here this or next week. I'd like to
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hear more about them and highlight that story. It's the
fourth Thursday in April. I guess this is the day.
It's a national take your kid to work day, And well,
I appreciate that, and I hope if for some reason
you're doing that, great. I don't know that anyone does
that anymore. But even though it is take your kid
to work day, Jim, you don't have to call me daddy.
(17:29):
I kind of like it. You don't have to big Daddy. Oh,
big Daddy just died. I'm sad. Yeah. At Shram Park,
the Sham Educational Center, if you went there as a
kid on a school trip over the last thirty years,
you saw big Daddy, Big snap Daddy, big visit turtle.
This is a big, big snapping turtle, believed to be
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close to one hundred years old. That's pretty fun. You
get your kids a turtle. Here you go, kids, it's
a tortoise, and you realize, oh, this will outlive all
of us and our children and our children's children. Who's
gonna take care of this thing? And don't pet it?
You donate, No, you don't want to pet the big
snap turtle.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
It lived to be one hundred seat, it's draining the
Medicaid and Medicare and social Security system.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
If it made it to one hundred, he was still working.
He was contributing to tourism. People would get pictures with him,
and are they going to stuff Big Daddy now? Oh
I don't. I think they'll probably make a soup out
of him. No, no, no, they got to stuff him and
say this used to be here. No, they'll probably just
get another turtle. So I have had a weird idea.
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You know how when speaking of kids, you know when
your kids get out a toy and they're playing with
it on the floor and then they decide, I'm not
going to play with this toy anymore. Then they'll go
get another toy, and then they play with that and
they say, ah, this has outlived as usefulness. I'm gonna
leave this here and go get another toy. Then you,
as a parent step in and go whoa, whoa, whoa.
Don't get out another toy until you put away the
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stuff you were already playing with. It was one of
the rules of my household yet right Otherwise you just
get junk everywhere. So you got to no, no, no,
don't get something else. Out until you put that away.
Can't we have some sort of similar city planning idea
For those who are saying, all right, we're gonna go okay,
we're gonna keep pushing west, so we're gonna build new
buildings and new offices and all the like. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
(19:21):
You don't get to build new office spaces until we
infill all the offices that are sitting here empty, all
throughout midtown even into West Omaha. Is that a bad idea?
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Well, it's not a bad idea. In fact, it's actually
a state zoning regulation in the state of New Hampshire.
You are not allowed to build anything new until all
of the existing facilities are acupato. It is cut down
on urban sprawl.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
I'm just gonna presume that you're correct in saying that,
because I don't know why you would make that up.
Look it up. I don't have to, I trust you.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Right, you've been burned enough times questioning me on the air.
Finally learned your lesson. Uh No, I'm one hundred percent
behind it. I think it's a great idea. It really
does cut down on urban sprawl, It cuts down on
infrastructure costs.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
You don't have to.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Build as many and then maintain as many roads, everything
from sewers to water mains to roads to street lights.
It cuts down on all of that and it makes
a more cohesive community. I've always believed, and I've been
singing into the wind on this one, that we should
have zoning regulations that require all existing property be either
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occupied or renovated before we permit the building of anything new.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Not only that, but don't you can't start any new
business in Omaha until all the businesses have enough good employees.
You go into some places, now you're just talking nonsense.
There aren't enough people to take care of you. There
aren't enough people to put, you know, clothes on the racks,
and you know, put all the stuff that you you know.
Jim takes like nine things into the dressing room. He
tries them all on, says I don't look good in
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any of these, and just leaves them all laying there
in a big heap. They don't have enoughployees to put
them back on the rack. I do that all the time.
You're at the big home warehouse superstore, you're trying to
ask someone about wrench. You can't find anyone. There's no
employees in any of these places. So you can't start
any new businesses until we get enough good employees at
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the existing businesses. You can't build new office space until
you've used all the office space we already have here
in Omaha. This is what I would do if I
were emperor, if I were in charge of Omaha, I
would do those things and never allow me or my
people to go on Jean Stothard show. That's what I
would do if I were in charge of Omaha.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
I would think you could if you gave it a
little bit of thought. I would think you could come
up with things that are even more impactful than refraining
from appearing on Jean Stothard's radio show.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
I don't know. It's gotten a lot of attention.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
It asks more attention than about anything else we've done
lately around here.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Jean Stothard and the KFAB comment line at ten o'clock
this morning here on Nebraska This Morning News. Zunker's Custom's
inbox open for you Scott at KFA dot com. This
one comes from Dennis and Jim. This is for you,
says Nebraska needs to wake up and smell the coffee.
Alabama's football coach Debor is being paid twelve and a
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half million dollars a year. Matt Rule is only being
paid eight and a half million dollars a year. Alabama's
in the hunt for the national championship every year. Nebraska
is not. Until Nebraska pays Rule a championship level salary,
don't expect him to lead the Huskers to a national championship. Rosie,
what are your thoughts? That's from Dennis Well Dennis, good
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for you. My personal feeling is that Matt Rule is
doing just fine financially. There is lots of incentives for
him to generate lots more money, and there's an escalator
on his contract that will take him past ten and
a half million very soon. But the big thing for
him is the buyout after that little dolly ounce public
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relations dolly ounce with Penn State. How much of it
was ever real It's a good question.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
They burped up another fifteen million and guaranteed money for him,
meaning if he got fired tomorrow, they pay him sixty
five million dollars. So we have to start getting away
from that, and Alabama has done that with this contract.
Greg Burn, who's the athletic director, they're a very smart guy.
He had a very good example. His dad was the
ad here in an Oregon in Texas and m oh,
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that's Bill Burnston. Bill Burns didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Yeah, And.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
You either pay guys do the job, or you pay
guys in retirement. And Alabama has positioned it this way.
We're paying you a lot of money to do this job,
but we're not going to pay you a lot of
money to play golf or do ESPN commentary. And that's
where we need to go in college sports with these
coaches contracts, corporate contracts as well.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Why should there be such a big golden parachute you
take over a business, run it into the ground, and
then leave with sixty five million dollars. By the way,
I looked up how much Kurtz sang Nettie made last
year for Indiana. About half what we paid rule. So
it's not just money Dennis that wins championships. But appreciate
the email you can sent them in as well. Scottikfab
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dot com. This is Nebraska's Morning News with Jim Rose,
Craig Evans, and Lucy Chapman. I'm Scott Borhees welcoming back
to the program from Fox News Radio. Reporter Jonathan Savage here,
this has really taken a lot of turns over the
last few weeks and Iran. It's gone from big explosions
to big threats, to we're gonna have a meeting. If
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you guys don't come to the table, we're gonna have
even more explosions, to all right, we'll just see what
happens and whenever it happens. Are we on Trump time
right now? Jonathan?
Speaker 2 (24:42):
It does appear that way. President Trump telling Fox News
that there's no time pressure on this. A White House
official initially told Fox News yesterday the President Trump had
extended the ceasefire for three to five days. President Trump
says that that is false. It's not true. There's no rush.
He just said, who want a good deal for the
American people. A little bit more insight, I think comes
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from some of the other words the President is using,
as is the Press Secretary Caroline Levitt saying that they're
waiting for a round to come back with a unified
proposal or a unified message. I think what we can
read into that is that there is concern that the
Iranian government is divided, is fractured, that doesn't have real
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genuine leadership or a sense of exactly what they want
to achieve out of this.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Meanwhile, Congress here is looking at enacting the nineteen seventy
three War Powers Resolution Act to curtail whatever the President
might do in Congress after sixty days, and that timeframe
is coming up here. They've had some votes on it.
I don't know that they'll be able to do anything,
but it does speak to the level of a timetable.
(25:50):
As Congress is talking about this, the president's saying, yeah,
we'll just do this. When we do it, we got
cargo ships getting shot at in the strait of horror
moves right.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Well, well, yeah, indeed. And remember President Trump said this
thing would be a four to six week long conflict
multiple times. He has said that it's very nearly over that.
He said last week that a peace deale was about
to be signed, that everything had been agreed. But that
has not turned out to be the case any of
these aspects. And at the moment now he's saying things
(26:22):
that are open ended. It would appear until at least
Iran gets back around the table. But Iran is not
showing any sign of getting back round the table. It
is defiant. It is seizing ships trying to leave the
Straight of Hormus. It is continuing to control that aspect
of the global economy, even though an American blockade is
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said by the White House to be costing Iran five
hundred million dollars a day. Iran is trying to send
out the message that it will not link first.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Meanwhile, you've had some of these ships getting shot at
back what's left after the Iranian military And I thought
it was very telling this week when the President said, well,
they're not American or Israeli ships, so they're not really
our problem. Basically daring Great Britain, for example, to come
to the table and help out with this, That's what
I got from that.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
What do you think, Yeah, perhaps that is the case.
He has said on previous occasions that he would like
other countries to help out, especially when it comes to
the Strait of horrm MoES. There are European countries who
are putting together a task force, with military meetings taking
place this week to talk about how to fully reopen
(27:38):
the Strait of Horror moves. But they're only going to
get involved once the situation changes and the hot war
comes to an end. They are very concerned about this
in Europe. In fact, the European Union is considering forcing
countries to hold stockpiles of jet fuel because there are
great concerns about shortages as a result of the US
(27:59):
Israeli fit the rot.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Jonathan Savage, great reporting as always, Thank you very much
for the time this morning. Thanks from Fox News Radio
here on news Radio eleven ten kfab. Meanwhile, we still
don't know who we're dealing with when it comes to Iran.
I heard Clay Travis yesterday here on eleven ten kfab
say that, you know, no one has heard from this
Ayatola's son, the other Ayatola Komany who Rumors were that
(28:26):
he was gay, and Clay was calling him the Gayatola
on the radio yesterday. And then I saw the Babylon
b headline, the satirical news website said the gay Ayatola
won't talk to Vice President jad Vance until he puts
on this cute little sailor outfit. So, I mean, this
is this is who's in charge in Iran. The people
(28:49):
that are in charge in Iran are the ones who
have the guns. It's kind of the way it works
in every country. So if you really want to get
to the bottom of who gets to decide what happens
over there, find the one who has control over the
army and who has control over the guns, because it's
illegal for individual Iranians to own a gun. And every time,
you know, people wail and whine about the Second Amendment
(29:10):
in this country, all you need to do is look
at some of these really truly restricted societies, these really
truly iron fisted dictatorial countries, and the biggest reason they
get away with what they get away with is because
the individuals have no means to defend themselves. When Trump
told other nations in Europe, for example, the hey, we're
(29:34):
your cargo ships are getting through because of our action.
You need to help, and they're like, yeah, maybe not,
maybe we will, we'll see, and they didn't do anything.
Iran starts shooting at UK cargo ships and they went
to the President and said, what do you think about that?
He goes, well, it wasn't one of ours. What do
we care? Yeah, why do we care? Yeah? So he's
really daring. I think he wants some of these ships
(29:55):
to get either taken over, shot at, blown up. Whatever
it's uh, it is, it is puzzling, you know.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
NATO is a puzzling operation these days, and I think
a lot of Americans are learning exactly what the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization actually is now. The president of the
North Atlantic Treaty Organization has been very supportive of President Trump.
He has publicly appeared on American media and across the world.
He speaks multiple languages, saying we have to back up
(30:25):
the United States on this because if Iran gets a
nuclear weapon, we're a lot closer for their ballistic missiles
than the United States is. And we are free democracies here.
So you would think that one or two NATO countries
would step up and say, we really need to get
behind the United States here. And they aren't doing it.
(30:47):
And I'm not sure why. Doesn't matter why, but Trump
is reacting exactly the way he should. Well, we don't
care about your problems, you didn't care about ours, and
we still keep paying most of the bills for you.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Guys. Don't like it.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
What do we care if you guys get swallowed up
by Soviet Russia. I guess we'll just deal with Soviet Russia.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
President is up and truthing today. His posts on truth
social just a couple here in the last few minutes.
One of them is passing along the words of a
guy who says, if there are two factions in Iran,
one that doesn't want a deal and one that does,
(31:27):
let's kill the ones who don't want to deal. President
thought he would pass that along, and then in his
words said, I have ordered the United States Navy to
shoot and kill any boat small boats, though they may
be their naval ships, are all one hundred and fifty
nine of them at the bottom of the sea. That's
(31:48):
putting mines in the water of the Strait of Hormuz.
There is to be no hesitation. Additionally, our mind sweepers
are clearing the strait right now. I'm here by ordering
that activity to continue you, but at a tripled up level.
Thank you for your attention to this matter. President Donald J. Trump.
He has ordered our navy to shoot and kill the boats.
(32:12):
What about the people on them? And you kill the
people on them, just the boats. So that's the latest
here from the President in the Strait of Hormuz, which
remains my favorite U two song. Here in Nebraska, we
had some people responding to that, which we talked about yesterday,
which is a very interesting way We got to this point.
(32:33):
It's where Nebraska had passed a law saying we have
to provide in state tuition for people who are in
this country illegally and provide them the opportunity to be
able to take out student loans to go to our
colleges with in state tuition. Now, if your kid comes
here from Missouri, you're not going to get in state tuition.
But if your kid comes here illegally from Al Salvador,
(32:54):
why right this way? And so the governor and the
Attorney general tried to show this down. They were rebuffed.
So then the Department of Justice comes in there and
threatens a lawsuit against Nebraska. So it kind of looks
like Pillin and Hilders were saying, come on, doj take
a look what's going on here. Now. A few state
editors in Nebraska tried to shut this down in this
(33:16):
last session, and just like everything else they tried to
do in this last legislative session, nothing got done. Bob
Anderson of Omaha said, you're now giving taxpayer lawful taxpayer
benefits to people not here lawfully, and that's just fundamentally wrong.
We do have some pushback, though, some of the regents said,
(33:37):
you know, we got to obviously figure out what's going
on here. Someone from a group called Inclusive Communities told
k ETV News Watch seven. Quote, these young, hard working
students complete degrees and workforce credentials while waiting, often for
many years, for a backlog, punitive and increasingly hostile immigration
(33:58):
system to decide their future. Quote, well, with all due respect,
that's not our problem. When we face increasingly higher tuition
rates and room and board rates to send our kids
to any college, particularly Jim Nebraska universities, and those costs
are going up, you wonder how many of those costs
(34:18):
are going up for those who are sending their kids
to college or the taxpayers who are filling in these
student loans. If we are pushing illegal immigrants who really
then can't get a job in America, we're pushing them
into college, We're giving them student loans that they can't
pay back. Who's on the hook for those Nebraska taxpayers.
(34:38):
American taxpayers are on the hook for this stuff. And
the rates keep going up because they were not getting
as much money coming in. This is a lose lose situation.
I feel bad for these kids that wanted a brighter future.
It's not their fault in some instances that their parents
brought them here illegally, but as part of the whole
process of trying to fix everything. In the meantime, our
(34:59):
taxpayer can't be shoveling money at this problem that we created.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
It's a complex problem that involves not just the cost
of higher education and the ethical notion that we will
provide people here illegally with benefits that our tax payers
are funding, but we also have to employ this workforce
development issue. We have to have more people in Nebraska
working here.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Scott. It's a huge problem.
Speaker 4 (35:26):
You might have read in flat Water Free Press most
recently a very dour story about the trajectory of the
state economically, about the number of jobs that have been lost,
the brain drained from here. And we simply don't have
enough people, or we need more people, significantly more people
working here that are not only here working and filling
(35:47):
jobs and ensuring that these companies are successful, but that
are also paying taxes, income taxes, buying things in sales taxes.
So to suggest we just can't keep doing it it
seems very appropriate. But it's a multi layered problem, and
what's the answer. The answer is we have to have
legal immigration. There has to be a commitment by the
(36:08):
federal government to provide very, very strong and very rigid
legal immigration policies and procedures that will allow companies to
bring in X number of individuals to work in their businesses, factories, farms,
whatever it may be. They are never going to be citizens,
They cannot vote. They do not enjoy the benefits that
(36:31):
come with this, other than the opportunity to work here.
Many of them don't go through the University of Nebraska system.
Do you hear what happened in Lexington after that plant closed,
with unemployment from three percent in Dawson County to sixteen percent, devastating.
This is not what we need to be importing and
relying on here in Nebraska or any place in the Midwest.
Lucy Chapman is potentially trying to signal me, do we
(36:54):
have a No. I thought you were talking to me.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
No, no, never, No. What do you want to talk about, Lucy?
I think sorry? I was going to go to this though.
In the talkback mic here on Craig's story out of Virginia.
Speaker 5 (37:10):
Hey, good morning. I'd like to send a message out
to all the left wing looney to nutballs that are
trying to destroy our country?
Speaker 4 (37:16):
How do you like it?
Speaker 5 (37:18):
About time a judge pulled his head out of his
rectum and put a stop to this nonsense in Virginia.
Did you see how it was worded to promort fairness?
Vote for this fairness. It's got to be fair. Give
me a break. It should have been stopped dead in
this traction. I'm glad it is. So how do you
like it, Dems when a judge does the right thing
this time and stops what you want to do?
Speaker 1 (37:38):
God bless Thank you for that message via the talkback mic.
Anywhere you are in our free iHeartRadio app, you can
touch that little microphone button and you can rant and
rave and maybe hear your voice here on news radio
eleven to ten KFAB. I don't know if technically it
was a judge who made the decision. I think there
are a lot of groups that started filing lawsuit injunctions
(37:59):
to what Virginia it did. It had been a six'
five split in terms Of democrats being elected out Of
virginia to THE Us, congress and now it's going to
be if all things remain, equal ten to. One that's
a disenfranchising of. Voters at least that's what these groups.
SAID a judge, said, yeah we're going to put an
(38:20):
injunction on, this stop it until we have a chance
to give it a. Hearing but it's the vote of the,
people and everyone knows the vote of the people can't
be held up by. Courts unless It's nebraska and medical,
marijuana then it will be until the end of. Time
Utah Valley, university and now wait a, second Isn't Utah?
Valley is that Where Charlie kurr he was, killed was.
(38:41):
Killed so they were going to have a commencement speaker
to a non fiction author known As America's Government, teacher
a woman Named sharon. McMahon and then some resurface social
media posts came up there and see, Here, well this
(39:03):
is very. Strange there's some resurface social media posts in
which she both Mourned Charlie kirk's assassination but also criticized
some of his past remarks as being bigoted and all
the rest of this. Stuff so those are the ones
that infuriated many Of kirk's. Supporters so she wasn't cheering his,
death but she was choosing his murder to point. Out,
(39:27):
well here's some things that he, said which some people
take as, so, wait are you saying that it's okay
to go and kill the? Guy? Then so she was,
invited it seems now she has been. Uninvited that commencement
invitation has been rescinded By Utah Valley. University you think
(39:48):
that maybe they would, check you, know what their commencement
speaker thought About Charlie kirk on social, media since that's
where he.
Speaker 4 (39:55):
DIED i don't like it when colleges and university sanitize guest.
SPEAKER i believe if there is a place on the
Planet earth where you should have a diversity of thought
and exchange of, opinion it should be a college. Campus
And Charlie kirk would be the first one to defend that.
Position Charlie kirk engaged in. Debate he would challenge people's.
(40:16):
Thinking he would, say this is WHAT i, believe this
is WHAT i know to be, true this is WHAT
i believe in my.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
Faith what say?
Speaker 4 (40:24):
You and they would come up and they would have
half baked opinions that were not really, thoughtful that hadn't
really been rooted in actual, facts and he would challenge
them on.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
It and that's one of the.
Speaker 4 (40:36):
Reasons so, many so many more kids were signing up
For Turning point on campuses because they had a. Revelation they, go, well,
OKAY i don't know WHY i think like, that only
because my professors or my high school, teachers they sort
of just kept telling me the same, thing and SO
i started to believe, it or MAYBE i have liberal.
Parents and Then charlie would, say but this is WHAT i,
(40:58):
believe and this is what you should know about The,
bible this is what you should know, about you, know educate, government,
yeah smaller. Government and many of them would. Convert they'd,
say huh. WOW i never was ever given that option
WHEN i was, ten, twelve, sixteen or. Eighteen they get
on a college campus and things.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
Change.
Speaker 4 (41:19):
NOW i just believe that when you start sanitizing and
you start creating an atmosphere of, well you have to
be a certain, way or you have to believe a certain,
thing and you can't ever have a diverse. Opinion that's
not healthy for the diffusion of liberal culture which comes
about from college. CAMPUSES i remember When Bill ayers was
(41:40):
invited to speak at The university Of. Nebraska oh, yeah
so this is one of our favorite domestic. Terrorists he
and his crazy Wife Bernadine dorn Were bernadette dor were Avowed.
Bernadine they were avowed terrorists who sought for a long
time as a part of The Weather, underground which was a,
very very infamous domestic terrorist group of the nineteen sixties and.
(42:03):
Seventies they wanted to blow up buildings and kill. People
and Then Bill airs got. Older Bill air still stayed a,
liberal but he became a professor at The university Of
chicago in social work or social. Politics he was invited
To lincoln and my good Friend Dave heineman did the
very best he could to Keep Bill airs from coming To.
Lincoln now you can, Say, bill you're a bad, guy
(42:25):
and you have bad thoughts and your approach to the
world is. Bad challenge him on, That, okay step forward
to the microphone and, say do you really believe it's
healthy for police officers to be blown up by domestic?
Terrorists Because Bill airs and his Wife Ms dorn did
rather than not have him there to be, CHALLENGED.
Speaker 1 (42:47):
I believe that it was a bad. Move Harvey.
Speaker 4 (42:50):
Perman i'm not a big fan Of, harvey mostly because
of what he did to. Sports for, ALL i know
he was a really good, chancellor but he was not
good for. Supports he Invited Bill, airs but then he
came Because heinemann made a big deal about. It hynaman
should have stayed out of, it should have, said this
is The university Of. Nebraska it's a place where diversity
of thought should be, encouraged and we may, violently vehemently,
disagree but that's when you challenge.
Speaker 1 (43:10):
Them i'm glad to go back to the archives. Here
two thousand and eight is When Bill ayers was invited
then uninvited to go speak TO, unl which caused us
to Welcome Bill ayers to The university Of nebraska with
a version of the Fight song in his. Honor, jeez.
Speaker 2 (43:34):
That's.
Speaker 1 (43:34):
Bad one. More oh, yeah big ones coming, here mushroom cloud,
(43:55):
there And hbob just went off of the student. Union.
Yeah i'm also seeing here the. Archives we had several
OTHER unl speakers they were, promoting among Them Genghis, Khan Lizzie,
Borden vlad The, impaler And Ted. GAZINSKI i, MEAN i
recognize that that some of these people are, extreme AND
i recognize that if it were up to, me they
had been locked up for the rest of their.
Speaker 4 (44:16):
Lives but we can't be doing this for our young.
People we aren't challenging our young people enough to have
a diversity of.
Speaker 1 (44:24):
Thought but who is someone who could be allowed to
speak on any college campus in today's, climate where every
single young person is so offended by? Everything what speaker
would be universally beloved and listen to and they would
not offend, anybody not a single one. Body AND i
don't think that's a bad.
Speaker 4 (44:42):
Thing because As Charlie kirk did before he, died and
this is What Turning POINT usa, did he challenged people's. Thinking,
well just turn the. Tables if a liberal comes up
and starts spouting, bubble challenge, them be, thoughtful be, factual
be committed and, convicted and challenged.
Speaker 1 (45:02):
Them BUT i don't Mind Utah valley Where kirk was.
Assassinated not that it was their, fault, certainly BUT i
don't mind them disinviting a. Speaker whopriate made some careless
comments in the wake of his death to point out
LIKE i didn't like, him.
Speaker 4 (45:19):
Well that that was probably, inappropriate that was. Thoughtless they
shouldn't have killed. Him but look at all these horrible
things he. Said it's if you know he deserved, it you,
know which was hinted at by the hard.
Speaker 1 (45:28):
Left don't do that and not that her commencement, speak
which would be About Charlie kirk at, all but especially this,
year it's kind of. Hard since this is what that
student body At Utah Valley university went, through it would
be hard not to bring up one of the biggest
things that will ever happen in the history of that,
campus which happened this past year to this graduating. Class
(45:51):
someone should bring that. Up well you with.
Speaker 4 (45:54):
Hope and and and here's the other. Thing if you
don't like the way people live their life lives or
the way that they follow their pathway of, life.
Speaker 1 (46:04):
Don't go what's. Graduation don't gotta go
This is Nebraska's morning news. Thank you very much for
being here with us. Jim Rose has sports brief in
just a few minutes. Craig Evans with updates four times
an hour. Lucy Chapman, who is, by the way, the
namesake of this song which is called A Girl Like
You by the smithereens the Timesaver, traffic and whatever she
wants to do. I'm Scott Vorhees and I just get
(00:21):
a chance to bask in the glory of all this
here on news radio eleven ten kfab Lucy, Can you
take all this glory? How is it? It's pretty good
from this side of the glass?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Ye?
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Good? You know I'll take it. Yeah, take you where
I can get it. Did you know that this country
had so many horrible racists? Yes, well tell somebody about it.
We don't need them. Are you familiar with these Sadistic
Souls motorcycle club? Are they causing traffic problems in Omaha? No?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
But it's my favorite motorcycle.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Club, the Sadistic Soul's motor Wasn't that the club that
Pee Wee Herman infiltrate rated in Heey's Big Adventure? I
think so?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Wait, are you talking about I don't know other sadistic
there's like a club.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
No, I don't like those guys.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
There might be more than one. Well, according to the
Department of Justice, the Southern Poverty Law Center was making
payments and over the last decade. These decades, these payments
totaled about three million dollars to several members of groups
that they had labeled as far right groups. The accusation
(01:32):
essentially is that the Southern Poverty Law Center that the
media goes running to whenever they want to find out
whether some group is a hate group, the Southern Poverty
Law Center says, this group's a hate group. Because you know,
the CBS News for example, ABC can't come out and
say this group which is a hate group. They can't
say that, So they have the Southern Poverty Law Center
(01:53):
say that, and they're all too happy to do so. Well,
they were paying these groups to continue to be hate group,
whether they were or they weren't, They would pay them.
They propped them up, like, hey, how's everything going. You
guys need anything, because for example, after Charlottesville that twenty
seventeen Unite the Right protest, where one leader received about
(02:15):
two hundred and seventy thousand dollars from the Southern Poverty
Law Center to go be a part of the hate
group side of that mess in Charlottesville, Virginia. After that
moment where the media says, oh my gosh, look at
all these hate groups, the Southern Poverty Law Center said,
we are dedicated as we've always been to fighting these groups.
(02:36):
Donate here, And they received one of their biggest paydays
in the few days after that event. And they thought,
you know, the more that the American people think that
they are horrible, racist hate groups out there, the better
it is for us. Let's make sure that these groups
have everything they need to have protests and clean up
roadways and try and recruit people whatever. And so they
(02:59):
were paying the groups because the more the people think, why,
oh my gosh, the KKK they're everywhere, the more money
would come into the Southern Poverty Law Center. And then
you have to wonder, well, how much of this is real,
how much of it is genuine, or how much of
it is like right here in Omaha. Every once in
a while, you know these little free library kiosks you'll
(03:22):
see in some neighborhoods, Well, every once in a while,
the media will come out there and say someone had
a copy of Hitler's book Mind comp in one of
these free libraries for kids. First of all, the kids
don't give a rip about your free libraries. They're not.
They don't care as like I, Hey mom, I'm gonna
(03:42):
go out and find a book to read at the fruit.
They they don't do that. Yes, they do know they don't.
And so someone planted that book in there to make
people in the neighborhood think, oh, there's a racist in
this neighborhood. You've got to wonder how much of this
stuff is genuine wind and how much of it is
Jesse Smollett, how much of it is a total hoax,
(04:04):
how much of it is bought and paid for by
this group that the media always turns to to find
out who the hate groups are. Well, it turns out
you want to find out who the hate groups are,
find out who The Southern Poverty Law Center is right
in checks to that's negative, it's non negative. It's alleged
by the Department of Justice.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Actually they have a lot of evidence.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Yes they do it. Now. The eleven to ten kfab
Certified Transmission Sports Brief. Here's Jim Row.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Very good Sky Good morning, everybody. Big day for college
football players. No, the transfer portal is not open again.
It's draft Day, actually, the first of three days of
drafting guys by your favorite team. Number one pick belongs
to the Las Vegas Raiders. Everybody needs quarterback and the
Raiders are no different. So Fernando Mendoza, the national title winning,
(04:49):
loves his mom, Heisman Trophy winning quarterback at Indiana is
the man, but as of last week, he wasn't even
sure if he'd be in Pittsburgh for the draft to
hear his name called.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Itit'sburg is a a great opportunity, and it's a great venue,
and I'm really excited to see all the guys. Are
most of the guys walk across the stage on Thursday
night to be a dream for a lot of guys. However,
my mom really wanted to do it at home instead
of my parents. It's a lot easier for us, especially
with the family situation and have to hop on a
(05:20):
plane the next morning anyways, and for that travel, it'd
be a lot easier to stay at home.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Who this guy, They don't make him like this anymore.
I'm going to be home with mom, his mom and
his parents are going to be there. He said, I
love that guy, I really do. I hope he's a
genuine I hope he's not a big phony.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
No.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Husker's likely taken until day three, but you Iowa people
might have somebody today. Definitely some of those linemen tomorrow.
Nick Saban, who knows what talent looks like, says the
number one player in this draft, Caleb Downs the safety
of Ohio State Baseball. The Kansas City Royals resumed losing
eight to six. Baltimore takes the series. Alonso and my
(06:00):
hit home runs off of Royal pitching. In the American League,
Houston two to nothing over the Guardians. It was the
Angels over the Blue Jays seven to three, Seattle five,
Oakland four. Did you see this highlight? Starting pitcher for
the Mariners, Logan Gilbert, catches a line drive in his
jersey in the first inning. Carlos Cortes hit one off
(06:22):
of the bat. It went one hundred and eight miles
an hour, and it lodged in between two of the
buttons on Gilbert's jersey. He ultimately got the out, but
he was visibly shaken when the one hundred and eight
mile an hour liner went into his shirt didn't injure him.
Seattle won the ballgame five fours Detroit over Milwaukee, and
(06:42):
the Yankees beat Boston. National League winners from Miami and Atlanta,
the Mets, Cubs, Rockies, and Giants in IT League play
Dbacks eleven, White Sox, seven Pirates, eight Texas for Tampa Bay,
six Cincinnati one. The Creighton Uno game at Taal Anderson
Field last night lots of offense fifteen to ten.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
The Jays get the win.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Five home runs hitting this game by Creighton, two each
from deaders in Van Tyker. UNO's team era is six
point one seven. That means the coach, Evan Porter, might
have to make a roster move on his coaching staff
by the end of this season or certainly before next season.
NBA playoff winners in Game two Detroit over Orlando. Oklahoma
(07:24):
City defeated Phoenix in Game two of that series. Galen
de Borr of Millbanks, South Dakota does not have money problems.
The head coach of Alabama football just signed a contract
extension to keep coaching the Tide. The deal for him
is now through twenty thirty three at twelve point five
million dollars a year. But Greg Burn, athletic director, the
(07:44):
son of former Husker athletic director Bill Burn, restructured his buyout.
He says, we'll pay you to coach, but we're not
paying you to play golf. His buyout is only ten
million dollars, and that shrinks by two million a year
until the end of the contract. Matt rules buyout is
sixty five million, and Deboa has twenty wins over ranked
teams since twenty twenty one. Rule has two wins over
(08:08):
ranked teams in his entire career sports his news on
Nebraska's News Weather in traffic station. It's called negotiating tactics.
Some are better at it than others. You accuse me
of being negative.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
I have tremendous respect for people who have experiences beyond
my wildest dreams, people who have lived long before I mean,
they had whole lives before I was even born, which
is an increasingly longer time ago. Lucy, did I tell you,
by the way, that I got in with a really
(08:41):
good group of dudes who were on a golf trip.
There were seven guys, one guy to drop out. I
became the eighth guy in this group, and these guys
were all at the age where their kids were little
to preschoolers and so forth, and my kids are high
school and now in college, and so I kind of
felt like close enough. I was able to hang with
(09:01):
these guys and it was a good time until one
of them called me, sir, still bugging me, I can
see that. Yeah, that happened on Sunday. Still I stung,
stung a little bit.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
I get mad when somebody says, yes, ma'am, ma'am, ma'am.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Yeah. But ma'am, if it's a high school kid that
says that, says something like that, it's like, all right,
well that's just a measure of respect, and that's fine.
But these guys were They weren't that much younger than me.
At least that was my assessment. Their assessment was radically different. Sir. Anyway,
(09:42):
I have respect from my elders, and anytime one of
them says, look look here, son, look here, junior, let
me tell you how it is. You know, I listen,
I am all ears. Why then did you sense that
I was setting up some dominoes here?
Speaker 4 (10:04):
You usually are yes?
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Why then? In Nebraska, our seniors lose more money per
scam than seniors in any other state in America. It
is probably a little bit of Nebraska. Nice mm hm,
whether it's that call at four o'clock in the morning, Grandma,
(10:28):
what seth? You know, like I need you to go
to the bank and take out all your money and
why are transferred? I'm stuck in a Turkish prison. Okay,
I'm on my way. Even though people have told seniors
and everyone, don't fall for this stuff, don't click on
stuff that you don't know what it is. This story
here from First Alert six News talks about Joyce and Jim.
(10:51):
They fell victim to a scam about a year ago.
Scammer said that, hey, Joyce, you need to withdraw nine
thousand dollars from your bank because if not, your husband's
going to be arrested. And unless we pay this money.
And apparently, and this doesn't say much for Jim, not
Jim Rose, but the Jim in the story, because Joyce
(11:13):
gets the call from some scammers says, yeah, your husband's
in big trouble. We're gonna take him away. He'll spend
a lot of time in jail unless you pay me
nine thousand dollars right now. And I don't know what
it says about this guy, Jim but she believed the
scammers probably asked her husband, are you in trouble with
the law? No, I swear I'm not well this guy
(11:33):
on the phone, and so the scammer gave directions to
a crypto ATM told her to convert the money into crypto,
send it to his digital wallet. They're like, okay, So
Joyce and Jim run down there, follow his instructions, and
then they the money's gone. Yeah, but it's Jim and jail.
Maybe it worked, and they say, look, we didn't know
(11:57):
what we were doing. He sounded so real, so genuine,
and so far. Look, you can't have it both ways, seniors,
my friends, you can't have it. But you can't say
people need to come to us and learn about what's
really happening in this country. We know more, we've been
more of we've experienced so much. And then the next
time someone sends, you know, one of those Facebook things
(12:18):
you know, what type of tree are you? And you
start clicking on stuff, and next thing you know, you're
sending crypto to some guy in Guatemala at three o'clock
in the morning, and you say, well, I fell victim
to a scam. I didn't know I thought. You can't
have it both ways. Which is it going to be?
Either you're with it and need to be respected, or
you're old and frail and mentally fragile and no one
(12:40):
should be able to trust you with money? Which is it?
And I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, I'm fine.
It's the rest of these old people that can't be trusted.
They're the ones throwing off the curb. Well, Nebraska, Nebraska
and ice. Our seniors are getting taken by scammers more
than seniors in any other state. Eight. And I can
(13:02):
teach you how to overcome that. Just send me money
to the radio station, uh, crypto cash wire transfers, Kate,
Lucy you'll take it. And Cake, I'll teach you how
to overcome this. But you've got to send me a
lot of money to do it. How much it depends
(13:24):
on you know, Cake money, crypto, Kate, crypto, all of
you do.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
I have to send it to you.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
And Walmart cards, Walmart cards, yes, how about Valentino's cards?
Will you take those? I'll always take pizza from Valentinos,
all right, but you know, just be be careful. And
I don't know how many times people have been told
and it's not obviously just seniors as other people as well.
(13:51):
But the story here from First Alert six News to
seniors quick clicking and just basically do what my father
in law does. He just doesn't answer the phone.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Yeah, I instructed my late mother to stop answering the phone.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Just stop answering the phone.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
You know, Mom, When you answer the phone, you are vulnerable.
People will say, hey, we've got this for you. Just
ninety nine point nine percent of the time it's BS. Sure,
So unless you know you recognize the person on your phone,
don't answer it. Let it go to voicemail.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Sure. If you don't know who it is, then ignore it,
with the exception being when you play the cash contest
starting at eight oh five this morning and later that hour,
you get a call from a number you don't recognize,
go ahead and answer it. If it's someone from my
Heart Radio one thousand dollars, you can trust them because
they're going to give you money. They're not going to
ask you for money, they're going to give it to you.
You can do that in your first chance to put
(14:43):
a grand in your hands at eight oh five this morning,
right here on news radio eleven ten KFAB right here
in beautiful Dundee, USA. We're getting a home now inspired
by a restaurant, very interesting business here, Lucy. It's right
down the street. Have you eaten a noodle?
Speaker 5 (15:01):
Lali?
Speaker 1 (15:02):
It's okay if your answer is no, I have not yet,
because I don't think they're open for breakfast. I believe
it's just a dinner restaurant. But it's Are you familiar
with this place here in Dundee?
Speaker 4 (15:14):
I mean a little yeah, a little bit.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Well, it's in the Old Marks over there, I think,
and I haven't been there yet either, but I've heard
from people that it's really really good food, and the
story behind it is even better. It's a business that
says we are trying to solve the problem of what
are people going to do when they're released from jail.
(15:39):
I mean, they can't all marry, Lucy, so they have
just seen if you're paying attention, so they have to
get a job. And this business says, well, we'll give
you a job, we'll teach you how to work in
the restaurant industry. And so the restaurant is all staffed
by people who were in prison as recently as Tuesday
in some instances, and they're all like, they take the
(16:03):
job very seriously. They move up within the business, and
so much so that now some of the people who
have worked there. By the way, the restaurant's called Oodlali
and it's just north of fiftieth and Dodge, about fifty
fiftieth in Underwood. Well, now they're starting a house because
(16:23):
the other problem is is, all right, we don't have
any place to work. Okay, Well, this place gives people
place to work. If you've served your debt to society,
you paid that debt. Now you need a place to live.
So they bought a house here in the neighborhood as well,
so you can live in the house, you can work
at the restaurant. I mean, you can't all work in radio.
So this is an opportunity as well. Affordable housing six
(16:46):
hundred dollars a month for rent, and they are making
sure that people pay. That's the other part of it.
No one's given you anything. You're gonna have to work,
you're gonna have to pay, you're gonna have to take
care of the place. Really really impressive organization. I'm gonna
get the director on my show after nine o'clock at
some point here this or next week. I'd like to
(17:06):
hear more about them and highlight that story. It's the
fourth Thursday in April. I guess this is the day.
It's a national take your kid to work day, And well,
I appreciate that, and I hope if for some reason
you're doing that, great. I don't know that anyone does
that anymore. But even though it is take your kid
to work day, Jim, you don't have to call me daddy.
(17:29):
I kind of like it. You don't have to big Daddy. Oh,
big Daddy just died. I'm sad. Yeah. At Shram Park,
the Sham Educational Center, if you went there as a
kid on a school trip over the last thirty years,
you saw big Daddy, Big snap Daddy, big visit turtle.
This is a big, big snapping turtle, believed to be
(17:52):
close to one hundred years old. That's pretty fun. You
get your kids a turtle. Here you go, kids, it's
a tortoise, and you realize, oh, this will outlive all
of us and our children and our children's children. Who's
gonna take care of this thing? And don't pet it?
You donate, No, you don't want to pet the big
snap turtle.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
It lived to be one hundred seat, it's draining the
Medicaid and Medicare and social Security system.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
If it made it to one hundred, he was still working.
He was contributing to tourism. People would get pictures with him,
and are they going to stuff Big Daddy now? Oh
I don't. I think they'll probably make a soup out
of him. No, no, no, they got to stuff him and
say this used to be here. No, they'll probably just
get another turtle. So I have had a weird idea.
(18:36):
You know how when speaking of kids, you know when
your kids get out a toy and they're playing with
it on the floor and then they decide, I'm not
going to play with this toy anymore. Then they'll go
get another toy, and then they play with that and
they say, ah, this has outlived as usefulness. I'm gonna
leave this here and go get another toy. Then you,
as a parent step in and go whoa, whoa, whoa.
Don't get out another toy until you put away the
(18:59):
stuff you were already playing with. It was one of
the rules of my household yet right Otherwise you just
get junk everywhere. So you got to no, no, no,
don't get something else. Out until you put that away.
Can't we have some sort of similar city planning idea
For those who are saying, all right, we're gonna go okay,
we're gonna keep pushing west, so we're gonna build new
buildings and new offices and all the like. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
(19:21):
You don't get to build new office spaces until we
infill all the offices that are sitting here empty, all
throughout midtown even into West Omaha. Is that a bad idea?
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Well, it's not a bad idea. In fact, it's actually
a state zoning regulation in the state of New Hampshire.
You are not allowed to build anything new until all
of the existing facilities are acupato. It is cut down
on urban sprawl.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
I'm just gonna presume that you're correct in saying that,
because I don't know why you would make that up.
Look it up. I don't have to, I trust you.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Right, you've been burned enough times questioning me on the air.
Finally learned your lesson. Uh No, I'm one hundred percent
behind it. I think it's a great idea. It really
does cut down on urban sprawl, It cuts down on
infrastructure costs.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
You don't have to.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Build as many and then maintain as many roads, everything
from sewers to water mains to roads to street lights.
It cuts down on all of that and it makes
a more cohesive community. I've always believed, and I've been
singing into the wind on this one, that we should
have zoning regulations that require all existing property be either
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occupied or renovated before we permit the building of anything new.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Not only that, but don't you can't start any new
business in Omaha until all the businesses have enough good employees.
You go into some places, now you're just talking nonsense.
There aren't enough people to take care of you. There
aren't enough people to put, you know, clothes on the racks,
and you know, put all the stuff that you you know.
Jim takes like nine things into the dressing room. He
tries them all on, says I don't look good in
(20:54):
any of these, and just leaves them all laying there
in a big heap. They don't have enoughployees to put
them back on the rack. I do that all the time.
You're at the big home warehouse superstore, you're trying to
ask someone about wrench. You can't find anyone. There's no
employees in any of these places. So you can't start
any new businesses until we get enough good employees at
(21:15):
the existing businesses. You can't build new office space until
you've used all the office space we already have here
in Omaha. This is what I would do if I
were emperor, if I were in charge of Omaha, I
would do those things and never allow me or my
people to go on Jean Stothard show. That's what I
would do if I were in charge of Omaha.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
I would think you could if you gave it a
little bit of thought. I would think you could come
up with things that are even more impactful than refraining
from appearing on Jean Stothard's radio show.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
I don't know. It's gotten a lot of attention.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
It asks more attention than about anything else we've done
lately around here.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Jean Stothard and the KFAB comment line at ten o'clock
this morning here on Nebraska This Morning News. Zunker's Custom's
inbox open for you Scott at KFA dot com. This
one comes from Dennis and Jim. This is for you,
says Nebraska needs to wake up and smell the coffee.
Alabama's football coach Debor is being paid twelve and a
(22:12):
half million dollars a year. Matt Rule is only being
paid eight and a half million dollars a year. Alabama's
in the hunt for the national championship every year. Nebraska
is not. Until Nebraska pays Rule a championship level salary,
don't expect him to lead the Huskers to a national championship. Rosie,
what are your thoughts? That's from Dennis Well Dennis, good
(22:34):
for you. My personal feeling is that Matt Rule is
doing just fine financially. There is lots of incentives for
him to generate lots more money, and there's an escalator
on his contract that will take him past ten and
a half million very soon. But the big thing for
him is the buyout after that little dolly ounce public
(22:55):
relations dolly ounce with Penn State. How much of it
was ever real It's a good question.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
They burped up another fifteen million and guaranteed money for him,
meaning if he got fired tomorrow, they pay him sixty
five million dollars. So we have to start getting away
from that, and Alabama has done that with this contract.
Greg Burn, who's the athletic director, they're a very smart guy.
He had a very good example. His dad was the
ad here in an Oregon in Texas and m oh,
(23:21):
that's Bill Burnston. Bill Burns didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Yeah, And.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
You either pay guys do the job, or you pay
guys in retirement. And Alabama has positioned it this way.
We're paying you a lot of money to do this job,
but we're not going to pay you a lot of
money to play golf or do ESPN commentary. And that's
where we need to go in college sports with these
coaches contracts, corporate contracts as well.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Why should there be such a big golden parachute you
take over a business, run it into the ground, and
then leave with sixty five million dollars. By the way,
I looked up how much Kurtz sang Nettie made last
year for Indiana. About half what we paid rule. So
it's not just money Dennis that wins championships. But appreciate
the email you can sent them in as well. Scottikfab
(24:10):
dot com. This is Nebraska's Morning News with Jim Rose,
Craig Evans, and Lucy Chapman. I'm Scott Borhees welcoming back
to the program from Fox News Radio. Reporter Jonathan Savage here,
this has really taken a lot of turns over the
last few weeks and Iran. It's gone from big explosions
to big threats, to we're gonna have a meeting. If
(24:31):
you guys don't come to the table, we're gonna have
even more explosions, to all right, we'll just see what
happens and whenever it happens. Are we on Trump time
right now? Jonathan?
Speaker 2 (24:42):
It does appear that way. President Trump telling Fox News
that there's no time pressure on this. A White House
official initially told Fox News yesterday the President Trump had
extended the ceasefire for three to five days. President Trump
says that that is false. It's not true. There's no rush.
He just said, who want a good deal for the
American people. A little bit more insight, I think comes
(25:04):
from some of the other words the President is using,
as is the Press Secretary Caroline Levitt saying that they're
waiting for a round to come back with a unified
proposal or a unified message. I think what we can
read into that is that there is concern that the
Iranian government is divided, is fractured, that doesn't have real
(25:24):
genuine leadership or a sense of exactly what they want
to achieve out of this.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Meanwhile, Congress here is looking at enacting the nineteen seventy
three War Powers Resolution Act to curtail whatever the President
might do in Congress after sixty days, and that timeframe
is coming up here. They've had some votes on it.
I don't know that they'll be able to do anything,
but it does speak to the level of a timetable.
(25:50):
As Congress is talking about this, the president's saying, yeah,
we'll just do this. When we do it, we got
cargo ships getting shot at in the strait of horror
moves right.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Well, well, yeah, indeed. And remember President Trump said this
thing would be a four to six week long conflict
multiple times. He has said that it's very nearly over that.
He said last week that a peace deale was about
to be signed, that everything had been agreed. But that
has not turned out to be the case any of
these aspects. And at the moment now he's saying things
(26:22):
that are open ended. It would appear until at least
Iran gets back around the table. But Iran is not
showing any sign of getting back round the table. It
is defiant. It is seizing ships trying to leave the
Straight of Hormus. It is continuing to control that aspect
of the global economy, even though an American blockade is
(26:45):
said by the White House to be costing Iran five
hundred million dollars a day. Iran is trying to send
out the message that it will not link first.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Meanwhile, you've had some of these ships getting shot at
back what's left after the Iranian military And I thought
it was very telling this week when the President said, well,
they're not American or Israeli ships, so they're not really
our problem. Basically daring Great Britain, for example, to come
to the table and help out with this, That's what
I got from that.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
What do you think, Yeah, perhaps that is the case.
He has said on previous occasions that he would like
other countries to help out, especially when it comes to
the Strait of horrm MoES. There are European countries who
are putting together a task force, with military meetings taking
place this week to talk about how to fully reopen
(27:38):
the Strait of Horror moves. But they're only going to
get involved once the situation changes and the hot war
comes to an end. They are very concerned about this
in Europe. In fact, the European Union is considering forcing
countries to hold stockpiles of jet fuel because there are
great concerns about shortages as a result of the US
(27:59):
Israeli fit the rot.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Jonathan Savage, great reporting as always, Thank you very much
for the time this morning. Thanks from Fox News Radio
here on news Radio eleven ten kfab. Meanwhile, we still
don't know who we're dealing with when it comes to Iran.
I heard Clay Travis yesterday here on eleven ten kfab
say that, you know, no one has heard from this
Ayatola's son, the other Ayatola Komany who Rumors were that
(28:26):
he was gay, and Clay was calling him the Gayatola
on the radio yesterday. And then I saw the Babylon
b headline, the satirical news website said the gay Ayatola
won't talk to Vice President jad Vance until he puts
on this cute little sailor outfit. So, I mean, this
is this is who's in charge in Iran. The people
(28:49):
that are in charge in Iran are the ones who
have the guns. It's kind of the way it works
in every country. So if you really want to get
to the bottom of who gets to decide what happens
over there, find the one who has control over the
army and who has control over the guns, because it's
illegal for individual Iranians to own a gun. And every time,
you know, people wail and whine about the Second Amendment
(29:10):
in this country, all you need to do is look
at some of these really truly restricted societies, these really
truly iron fisted dictatorial countries, and the biggest reason they
get away with what they get away with is because
the individuals have no means to defend themselves. When Trump
told other nations in Europe, for example, the hey, we're
(29:34):
your cargo ships are getting through because of our action.
You need to help, and they're like, yeah, maybe not,
maybe we will, we'll see, and they didn't do anything.
Iran starts shooting at UK cargo ships and they went
to the President and said, what do you think about that?
He goes, well, it wasn't one of ours. What do
we care? Yeah, why do we care? Yeah? So he's
really daring. I think he wants some of these ships
(29:55):
to get either taken over, shot at, blown up. Whatever
it's uh, it is, it is puzzling, you know.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
NATO is a puzzling operation these days, and I think
a lot of Americans are learning exactly what the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization actually is now. The president of the
North Atlantic Treaty Organization has been very supportive of President Trump.
He has publicly appeared on American media and across the world.
He speaks multiple languages, saying we have to back up
(30:25):
the United States on this because if Iran gets a
nuclear weapon, we're a lot closer for their ballistic missiles
than the United States is. And we are free democracies here.
So you would think that one or two NATO countries
would step up and say, we really need to get
behind the United States here. And they aren't doing it.
(30:47):
And I'm not sure why. Doesn't matter why, but Trump
is reacting exactly the way he should. Well, we don't
care about your problems, you didn't care about ours, and
we still keep paying most of the bills for you.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Guys. Don't like it.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
What do we care if you guys get swallowed up
by Soviet Russia. I guess we'll just deal with Soviet Russia.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
President is up and truthing today. His posts on truth
social just a couple here in the last few minutes.
One of them is passing along the words of a
guy who says, if there are two factions in Iran,
one that doesn't want a deal and one that does,
(31:27):
let's kill the ones who don't want to deal. President
thought he would pass that along, and then in his
words said, I have ordered the United States Navy to
shoot and kill any boat small boats, though they may
be their naval ships, are all one hundred and fifty
nine of them at the bottom of the sea. That's
(31:48):
putting mines in the water of the Strait of Hormuz.
There is to be no hesitation. Additionally, our mind sweepers
are clearing the strait right now. I'm here by ordering
that activity to continue you, but at a tripled up level.
Thank you for your attention to this matter. President Donald J. Trump.
He has ordered our navy to shoot and kill the boats.
(32:12):
What about the people on them? And you kill the
people on them, just the boats. So that's the latest
here from the President in the Strait of Hormuz, which
remains my favorite U two song. Here in Nebraska, we
had some people responding to that, which we talked about yesterday,
which is a very interesting way We got to this point.
(32:33):
It's where Nebraska had passed a law saying we have
to provide in state tuition for people who are in
this country illegally and provide them the opportunity to be
able to take out student loans to go to our
colleges with in state tuition. Now, if your kid comes
here from Missouri, you're not going to get in state tuition.
But if your kid comes here illegally from Al Salvador,
(32:54):
why right this way? And so the governor and the
Attorney general tried to show this down. They were rebuffed.
So then the Department of Justice comes in there and
threatens a lawsuit against Nebraska. So it kind of looks
like Pillin and Hilders were saying, come on, doj take
a look what's going on here. Now. A few state
editors in Nebraska tried to shut this down in this
(33:16):
last session, and just like everything else they tried to
do in this last legislative session, nothing got done. Bob
Anderson of Omaha said, you're now giving taxpayer lawful taxpayer
benefits to people not here lawfully, and that's just fundamentally wrong.
We do have some pushback, though, some of the regents said,
(33:37):
you know, we got to obviously figure out what's going
on here. Someone from a group called Inclusive Communities told
k ETV News Watch seven. Quote, these young, hard working
students complete degrees and workforce credentials while waiting, often for
many years, for a backlog, punitive and increasingly hostile immigration
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system to decide their future. Quote, well, with all due respect,
that's not our problem. When we face increasingly higher tuition
rates and room and board rates to send our kids
to any college, particularly Jim Nebraska universities, and those costs
are going up, you wonder how many of those costs
(34:18):
are going up for those who are sending their kids
to college or the taxpayers who are filling in these
student loans. If we are pushing illegal immigrants who really
then can't get a job in America, we're pushing them
into college, We're giving them student loans that they can't
pay back. Who's on the hook for those Nebraska taxpayers.
(34:38):
American taxpayers are on the hook for this stuff. And
the rates keep going up because they were not getting
as much money coming in. This is a lose lose situation.
I feel bad for these kids that wanted a brighter future.
It's not their fault in some instances that their parents
brought them here illegally, but as part of the whole
process of trying to fix everything. In the meantime, our
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taxpayer can't be shoveling money at this problem that we created.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
It's a complex problem that involves not just the cost
of higher education and the ethical notion that we will
provide people here illegally with benefits that our tax payers
are funding, but we also have to employ this workforce
development issue. We have to have more people in Nebraska
working here.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Scott. It's a huge problem.
Speaker 4 (35:26):
You might have read in flat Water Free Press most
recently a very dour story about the trajectory of the
state economically, about the number of jobs that have been lost,
the brain drained from here. And we simply don't have
enough people, or we need more people, significantly more people
working here that are not only here working and filling
(35:47):
jobs and ensuring that these companies are successful, but that
are also paying taxes, income taxes, buying things in sales taxes.
So to suggest we just can't keep doing it it
seems very appropriate. But it's a multi layered problem, and
what's the answer. The answer is we have to have
legal immigration. There has to be a commitment by the
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federal government to provide very, very strong and very rigid
legal immigration policies and procedures that will allow companies to
bring in X number of individuals to work in their businesses, factories, farms,
whatever it may be. They are never going to be citizens,
They cannot vote. They do not enjoy the benefits that
(36:31):
come with this, other than the opportunity to work here.
Many of them don't go through the University of Nebraska system.
Do you hear what happened in Lexington after that plant closed,
with unemployment from three percent in Dawson County to sixteen percent, devastating.
This is not what we need to be importing and
relying on here in Nebraska or any place in the Midwest.
Lucy Chapman is potentially trying to signal me, do we
(36:54):
have a No. I thought you were talking to me.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
No, no, never, No. What do you want to talk about, Lucy?
I think sorry? I was going to go to this though.
In the talkback mic here on Craig's story out of Virginia.
Speaker 5 (37:10):
Hey, good morning. I'd like to send a message out
to all the left wing looney to nutballs that are
trying to destroy our country?
Speaker 4 (37:16):
How do you like it?
Speaker 5 (37:18):
About time a judge pulled his head out of his
rectum and put a stop to this nonsense in Virginia.
Did you see how it was worded to promort fairness?
Vote for this fairness. It's got to be fair. Give
me a break. It should have been stopped dead in
this traction. I'm glad it is. So how do you
like it, Dems when a judge does the right thing
this time and stops what you want to do?
Speaker 1 (37:38):
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eleven to ten KFAB. I don't know if technically it
was a judge who made the decision. I think there
are a lot of groups that started filing lawsuit injunctions
(37:59):
to what Virginia it did. It had been a six'
five split in terms Of democrats being elected out Of
virginia to THE Us, congress and now it's going to
be if all things remain, equal ten to. One that's
a disenfranchising of. Voters at least that's what these groups.
SAID a judge, said, yeah we're going to put an
(38:20):
injunction on, this stop it until we have a chance
to give it a. Hearing but it's the vote of the,
people and everyone knows the vote of the people can't
be held up by. Courts unless It's nebraska and medical,
marijuana then it will be until the end of. Time
Utah Valley, university and now wait a, second Isn't Utah?
Valley is that Where Charlie kurr he was, killed was.
(38:41):
Killed so they were going to have a commencement speaker
to a non fiction author known As America's Government, teacher
a woman Named sharon. McMahon and then some resurface social
media posts came up there and see, Here, well this
(39:03):
is very. Strange there's some resurface social media posts in
which she both Mourned Charlie kirk's assassination but also criticized
some of his past remarks as being bigoted and all
the rest of this. Stuff so those are the ones
that infuriated many Of kirk's. Supporters so she wasn't cheering his,
death but she was choosing his murder to point. Out,
(39:27):
well here's some things that he, said which some people
take as, so, wait are you saying that it's okay
to go and kill the? Guy? Then so she was,
invited it seems now she has been. Uninvited that commencement
invitation has been rescinded By Utah Valley. University you think
(39:48):
that maybe they would, check you, know what their commencement
speaker thought About Charlie kirk on social, media since that's
where he.
Speaker 4 (39:55):
DIED i don't like it when colleges and university sanitize guest.
SPEAKER i believe if there is a place on the
Planet earth where you should have a diversity of thought
and exchange of, opinion it should be a college. Campus
And Charlie kirk would be the first one to defend that.
Position Charlie kirk engaged in. Debate he would challenge people's.
(40:16):
Thinking he would, say this is WHAT i, believe this
is WHAT i know to be, true this is WHAT
i believe in my.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
Faith what say?
Speaker 4 (40:24):
You and they would come up and they would have
half baked opinions that were not really, thoughtful that hadn't
really been rooted in actual, facts and he would challenge
them on.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
It and that's one of the.
Speaker 4 (40:36):
Reasons so, many so many more kids were signing up
For Turning point on campuses because they had a. Revelation they, go, well,
OKAY i don't know WHY i think like, that only
because my professors or my high school, teachers they sort
of just kept telling me the same, thing and SO
i started to believe, it or MAYBE i have liberal.
Parents and Then charlie would, say but this is WHAT i,
(40:58):
believe and this is what you should know about The,
bible this is what you should know, about you, know educate, government,
yeah smaller. Government and many of them would. Convert they'd,
say huh. WOW i never was ever given that option
WHEN i was, ten, twelve, sixteen or. Eighteen they get
on a college campus and things.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
Change.
Speaker 4 (41:19):
NOW i just believe that when you start sanitizing and
you start creating an atmosphere of, well you have to
be a certain, way or you have to believe a certain,
thing and you can't ever have a diverse. Opinion that's
not healthy for the diffusion of liberal culture which comes
about from college. CAMPUSES i remember When Bill ayers was
(41:40):
invited to speak at The university Of. Nebraska oh, yeah
so this is one of our favorite domestic. Terrorists he
and his crazy Wife Bernadine dorn Were bernadette dor were Avowed.
Bernadine they were avowed terrorists who sought for a long
time as a part of The Weather, underground which was a,
very very infamous domestic terrorist group of the nineteen sixties and.
(42:03):
Seventies they wanted to blow up buildings and kill. People
and Then Bill airs got. Older Bill air still stayed a,
liberal but he became a professor at The university Of
chicago in social work or social. Politics he was invited
To lincoln and my good Friend Dave heineman did the
very best he could to Keep Bill airs from coming To.
Lincoln now you can, Say, bill you're a bad, guy
(42:25):
and you have bad thoughts and your approach to the
world is. Bad challenge him on, That, okay step forward
to the microphone and, say do you really believe it's
healthy for police officers to be blown up by domestic?
Terrorists Because Bill airs and his Wife Ms dorn did
rather than not have him there to be, CHALLENGED.
Speaker 1 (42:47):
I believe that it was a bad. Move Harvey.
Speaker 4 (42:50):
Perman i'm not a big fan Of, harvey mostly because
of what he did to. Sports for, ALL i know
he was a really good, chancellor but he was not
good for. Supports he Invited Bill, airs but then he
came Because heinemann made a big deal about. It hynaman
should have stayed out of, it should have, said this
is The university Of. Nebraska it's a place where diversity
of thought should be, encouraged and we may, violently vehemently,
disagree but that's when you challenge.
Speaker 1 (43:10):
Them i'm glad to go back to the archives. Here
two thousand and eight is When Bill ayers was invited
then uninvited to go speak TO, unl which caused us
to Welcome Bill ayers to The university Of nebraska with
a version of the Fight song in his. Honor, jeez.
Speaker 2 (43:34):
That's.
Speaker 1 (43:34):
Bad one. More oh, yeah big ones coming, here mushroom cloud,
(43:55):
there And hbob just went off of the student. Union.
Yeah i'm also seeing here the. Archives we had several
OTHER unl speakers they were, promoting among Them Genghis, Khan Lizzie,
Borden vlad The, impaler And Ted. GAZINSKI i, MEAN i
recognize that that some of these people are, extreme AND
i recognize that if it were up to, me they
had been locked up for the rest of their.
Speaker 4 (44:16):
Lives but we can't be doing this for our young.
People we aren't challenging our young people enough to have
a diversity of.
Speaker 1 (44:24):
Thought but who is someone who could be allowed to
speak on any college campus in today's, climate where every
single young person is so offended by? Everything what speaker
would be universally beloved and listen to and they would
not offend, anybody not a single one. Body AND i
don't think that's a bad.
Speaker 4 (44:42):
Thing because As Charlie kirk did before he, died and
this is What Turning POINT usa, did he challenged people's. Thinking,
well just turn the. Tables if a liberal comes up
and starts spouting, bubble challenge, them be, thoughtful be, factual
be committed and, convicted and challenged.
Speaker 1 (45:02):
Them BUT i don't Mind Utah valley Where kirk was.
Assassinated not that it was their, fault, certainly BUT i
don't mind them disinviting a. Speaker whopriate made some careless
comments in the wake of his death to point out
LIKE i didn't like, him.
Speaker 4 (45:19):
Well that that was probably, inappropriate that was. Thoughtless they
shouldn't have killed. Him but look at all these horrible
things he. Said it's if you know he deserved, it you,
know which was hinted at by the hard.
Speaker 1 (45:28):
Left don't do that and not that her commencement, speak
which would be About Charlie kirk at, all but especially this,
year it's kind of. Hard since this is what that
student body At Utah Valley university went, through it would
be hard not to bring up one of the biggest
things that will ever happen in the history of that,
campus which happened this past year to this graduating. Class
(45:51):
someone should bring that. Up well you with.
Speaker 4 (45:54):
Hope and and and here's the other. Thing if you
don't like the way people live their life lives or
the way that they follow their pathway of, life.
Speaker 1 (46:04):
Don't go what's. Graduation don't gotta go
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