Storms / 'Skers / Schlitz

And a lot of other s that doesn't start with S.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Nebraska's news, weather and traffic station. And we've
been doing a lot of weather the last few days
here on news Radio eleven ten KFAB with Lucy Chapman,
Craig Evans, Jim Rose, Courtney Donahoe, I'm Scott Voorhees. Well
we uh, it's not like you didn't know it was coming.

(00:21):
We told you for several days. We're looking at storms
Friday night, Saturday night, Monday night, and here we are
Monday night. Monday night might be more like late Monday afternoon.
We're looking at a time starting after about four o'clock
today that if you've got Little League baseball, soccer cookouts, cookouts,

(00:44):
you know that Monday evening cookout do people generally go, Hey,
it's Monday, We're going to get together for a cookout,
aren't we.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
I think you should cook out every single night.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
Yeah, might want to cook in, yeah tonight. I yeah.
Whatever you may have going on after school and after
school is just about a term where like this entire
school year is behind us. Omaha public schools are out
this here in a few days.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
They're still in.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
Yeah, they're still in. It's not Memorial Day yet that
we've still got This is the week before Memorial Day,
and Omaha Public schools have a few more days for
most of those kid lets across the area. I don't
know about the other school districts. I don't have kids
that I know of in the other school districts, but
I believe the last day for OPUS is Wednesday. But

(01:38):
if you're looking to say, like, all right, great, we're
gonna have a we're gonna we're gonna head out and
we're gonna do some fun stuff on this Memorial Day weekend,
it's gonna be hot like it was last weekend. Not yet,
it's not. Maybe maybe by Sunday we might get back
into the eighties. Here we are on Monday morning talking

(02:00):
about the temperature on Sunday afternoon. It could be snowing
by Sunday afternoon. I mean, we don't know. We're just
gonna take a one day at a time. But it
is gonna be a cooler week and we do have
the chance of rain and thunderstorms in that same pattern
this coming weekend that we saw this last weekend. Now,
don't cancel any of your plans at this point. We

(02:21):
got a pretty big event coming up on Friday evening,
at Memorial Park, the giant two football fields, giant American
flag that if it's raining out there, I'll be out
there trying to deal with that thing myself. I'll be
out there, be me and Bill Williams. You take one

(02:43):
end and i'll take the other. I'm just gonna run
down this way, and we're gonna have to use all
of our wingspan and strength to make sure that thing
doesn't hit the ground. That's this Friday night. Of course,
we'd love to have you there and assist with that
patriotic productions dot Org. I'm sure you'll hear lots of
messages about it this week, but.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
I don't think you could say that enough that this
is the weekend for Memorial Day because it's so early.
I yeah, it's May is Memorial Day. Yes, that's really early. Well, yeah,
I thought it was next weekend late May.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
Well, it's the last I know. It's Monday in May.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
I know, but that's really early.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
You know what, Lucy, I'll see if I can move it,
thank you, if I can do anything. If I can
do anything about that, Why do you want it later?

Speaker 2 (03:34):
Because I thought, well, I don't have anything going on
this weekend. But I've got a ton of stuff next weekend,
and I thought that was because of Memorial Day.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
Well, let's just take it one thing at a time. Okay,
Late this afternoon, we're looking at another round of storms.
Now hopefully we don't have tornadoes spinning up. We're still
waiting for daylight here this morning to see kind of
what happened. We had probable potential maybe small tornadoes, Thank goodness,

(04:10):
last night around Gretna, Platt Smith and then Glenwood. Now
looking here at all of our news partners and social
media channels, thankfully, it doesn't look like anyone lost their
homes in any of that. Like what we saw over
the weekend north of Grand Island, there was a pretty

(04:30):
sizable tornado north of Grand Island in the thriving metropolis
of Saint Library. Is that how you pronounced that? Gym
labor Livery, Saint Livery, just north of Grand Island. Two
or three homes lost in that one. Yeah, Palmer got
hit pretty hard. Yeah in Saint Paul. If you were
in that area, that was a rough rough night for you.

(04:54):
But yeah, it's a community of about two hundred and
sixty some odd people from in Howard County, and it's
unincorre operated. But yeah, that's tragic for them. But thankfully
it appears as though nobody was killed and there weren't
too many serious injuries. I didn't hear about any injuries
in that one. I was looking over a storm chaser

(05:15):
report of what was going on in that area. Now,
the good news for them is the target they're looking
at tonight for worst weather is out of that central
Nebraska range and unfortunately is looking again at Fairbury, Beatrice,
Nebraska city that swath as well. That's for some of

(05:35):
the worst weather warnings this evening. But Omaha is also
in a high risk for severe weather this late this
afternoon into this evening. We'll be on for you here
on eleven ten KFA. Be Lucy, I will expect you
to answer that question, how was your weekend?

Speaker 2 (05:57):
It was okay, RESTful, yet some window screens replaced.

Speaker 1 (06:02):
And wow, that's fantastic work there. In case you're not
familiar with the running joke, that's not at all funny
me asking Lucy Chapman how her weekend was. And a
Monday morning is always the biggest dark cloud of sadness.
It is not, and not just our life, but in
everyone's life who listens to it. It is not mostly

(06:25):
how your weekend was. You had two and a half
days and you you changed some window screens.

Speaker 2 (06:33):
I enjoy the saddest thing I've ever heard of.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
It's the saddest thing I have ever heard in my life.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
I also discovered lots of new DIY projects I'm gonna
have to take care of. Well, get the paint brushes out.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
My weekend.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
It was your weekend.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
It seems terrible by comparison, I only hung out with
the Star of Princess Bride carry always, and I'm getting
toll in center. You don't have to be invited. Everyone's invited.
The thing for the public. And then on Saturday afternoon,
we had the memorial relaunch of a nuclear submarine right

(07:13):
off Carter Lake along Abbott Drive, and I really wanted
to go take that thing into Carter Lake and blow
up the water ski ramp, but I was denied in
my efforts. But I will. I'll get you water ski
ramp at Carter Lake. I will get you. And I

(07:33):
was never able to do it. Back when I was
young and occasionally with water ski and I always wanted
to take that ramp, but I didn't have the right skis,
and I didn't know anyone who would open the ramp.
You can't just go off the ramp. You're gonna have
water going across it, and there's a there's a little
flap on the top that'll prevent you from going over
the ramp unless someone opens the ramp for you. As

(07:57):
I always wanted to do it. I always wanted to
do Yes, me wanting to jump off a waterski ramp
and you changing three screens in your windows pretty much
the same life. Sorry, I blew up at you, Lucy.
We're gonna make your Monday morning fantastic because if you're
a sports fan, if you're a Husker sports fan, it

(08:18):
was a great weekend. Eleven to ten KFAB Certified Transmission
Sports Brief But Jim Row.

Speaker 3 (08:22):
Okay Scott, good morning everybody. This was the super weekend
for Husker softball.

Speaker 4 (08:26):
I thought today we were rock Shallid.

Speaker 1 (08:28):
Godron to Revel.

Speaker 3 (08:29):
That should be of concern to Oklahoma State, which comes
in here for a super regional this weekend. Revel's pitching
was simply dominant, and the Big Red sweeps through the regional,
capturing the title game by beating Grand Canyon. You one
to nothing helped them to just one hit. Star freshman
Alexis Jensen was almost unhittable.

Speaker 4 (08:48):
She just competed her tail off. You know she did
that in the Big Ten tournament two. The moment didn't
get too big for her that anywhere. They had runners
at first and second with nobody out, and they rolled
over the lineup. I mean, that's a tough start of
their lineup because of how they could put the ball
in play in so many different ways and the speed
that they have. The fact that she got us out

(09:10):
of that without any damage was really I say this
as a big girl moment.

Speaker 3 (09:15):
Then Jordi from the All Americans slammed the door in
the sixth and seventh innings. For the weekend, Husker pitching
allowed all of four hits and one run. The State
High school baseball tournament resumes this morning earlier at nine
not ten am, at Werner Park, Fricky Field, and tal
Anderson Field. They will keep the games moving, hoping to
get them all in before bad weather tonight. State soccer

(09:37):
is in the same boat. They are to play the
girls title games late this afternoon with Pious and Blair
at four point thirty, then Marion and Elcorn South at eight.
When Aaron Rye was four years old, his older brother
hit him with a hockey stick.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
It hurt.

Speaker 3 (09:51):
His mother, hoping Aaron wouldn't be seriously injured, the next
time bought him a set of plastic golf clubs.

Speaker 1 (09:57):
It took. Rye won the PGA.

Speaker 5 (10:00):
Yes today, everybody that we talked about here says man,
Aaron's such a nice guy. He's such a really great dude.
So happy for him. I guess I'm wondering where that
mentality comes from, of just being super kind to everyone
you come across, because it's kind of rare in a
professional athlete.

Speaker 6 (10:16):
I think a lot of that has come from upbringing
my mom, my dad's, my siblings. Golf was always a
very big part of my life from a very young age.
But my mom and my siblings were very fast to
continue to reinforce the importance of just being a good person.

Speaker 3 (10:35):
Okay, well, nine hunder par in a very difficult golf course,
really tough greens. Others barely made par. He kept making
birdies until this weekend. His best finish at a major
was tied for nineteenth at the twenty twenty four US Open.
He's the first Englishman to win the PGA and one
hundred seven years hard to believe given the game was invented.
There Sandy scoreboard. American League Tampa Bay six and the

(10:58):
Marlins three. Toronto rather, yeah, that's an interleague play game.
Toronto for to two over the Tigers. It was Chicago
beating the Cubs. The White Sox beat the Cubs, Minnesota
over Milwaukee, Texas beat Houston. National League Atlanta beat Boston,
Philadelphia over Pittsburgh, San Francisco over the A's, Arizona beat
Colorado and San Diego eight Seattle three. Other games had

(11:20):
the Royals beat the Cards two to nothing, Dodgers over
the Angels ten to one, Mets over the Yankees, Cleveland
beat the Reds, and Baltimore beat Washington, Omaha six, Toledo three.
There were no games scheduled in the NHL playoffs, but
it'll be game seven in the second round series Bequeen
Montreal and Buffalo tonight in Buffalo, and Cleveland gets into
the East Finals. They eliminate Detroit in Game seven of

(11:42):
the East Semifinal best of seven, one twenty five to
ninety four. Sports his News on Nebraska's news, weathern Traffic station.

Speaker 1 (11:50):
Zonker's custom was inboxes open for you. Scott at kfab
dot com got this one late last night as we
were in here doing storm coverage during the most recent
round of weather coming through here. Heath emails and says,
just a note to thank you guys for being here tonight.
If it would have been very easy to let listeners

(12:11):
fend for themselves or watch local TV coverage, but as
someone who was out on the roads, it was comforting
to know that you took the time to leave home
and head to the studio and provide storm coverage. That
is from Heath. He says, blessings on your week. You bet, Heath,
That's what we do here. We got a big team
last night. The team was Terry, Lahea, Patrick Kelly, assisted Hasmichaels,

(12:34):
and me Scott Vorhees, all in various roles at various places.
You heard me and Terry on the radio FI. I
know I was comforted by your voices and I hope
that you are right now.

Speaker 3 (12:44):
Wow, you wouldn't know about right now, but last night
last night, with these massive storms were rolling through there,
did just leave it on eleven?

Speaker 1 (12:51):
That's what we used to say for all those years. Right, Well,
it's nice to get a nice email. Fred took the
time to email and say he's never going to listen
to me again. So well that kind of balances out. Yeah,
I know, I like balance symmetry. It's all good, Fred,
Thank you so much for letting me know. They hate that.
I love you. They hate you. Yeah, man, you have
a great week. And in the talkback Mike.

Speaker 3 (13:14):
From a Central Nebraska girl, it's pronounced Saint Libori and
they're famous for their watermelons.

Speaker 1 (13:20):
See, there's two things I didn't know. Saint Lebori just
north of Grand Island where saw one report said two,
another one said three. We'll call it two and a
half homes that were taken out by a fairly sizable
tornado in that part of Howard County, Central Nebraska, last night.
Saint Lobori. I need to know why they're famous for

(13:42):
their water melons. I didn't realize Nebraska grew water melons.
But I'm not that. I'm not that up on Central
Nebraska agg practices either. Palmer, Nebraska is the home of
Pinnacle Bank Relands. The Dinsdales came.

Speaker 3 (13:56):
They grew up in a house without any running water,
as Roy used to like to say, And to all
of the Dinsdales out there, you know Sid is here
in town and his family, great family. That's a scary,
scary h that was a scary spot to be in
two about four thirty five o'clock last night, actually earlier
in the afternoon, and Saint Paul, all those little communities

(14:17):
north of Grand Island around Highway to eighty one, they
were in the path of some very very severe weather.
And but we knew it was coming. We had talked
about it on Thursday, Friday, Saturday. So hopefully folks were precautious,
and I'm sure they were. We had some nasty stuff
around here for a while and power is still out

(14:37):
to a lot of customers and that's very very inconvenient,
but hopefully no major damage. This is that time of year.
It's been happening, well ever since well the first Lakota
and Oglala Indian tribes were Roman plains and this time
of year, this is what happens.

Speaker 1 (14:54):
We were on for them too. Yes it's not me,
if you've heard this one. The President is telling Iran
the clock is ticking. He said that in a social
media post last night, also in an interview with Axios,
said the clock is ticking. They better get moving fast.
They're not gonna have anything left stone Age.

Speaker 3 (15:12):
We're gonna bomb them, We're gonna destroy and they got
nothing left here.

Speaker 1 (15:15):
And look, I appreciate the president's transparency. I know what
he's going for. I think there are a lot of people, though,
who are probably thinking, haven't we heard this for the
last four weeks in a row, You guys better hurry,
is not gonna last very long. And then we hear
like they got no leaders, they've got no infrastructure, they

(15:36):
got no radar, they got no navy. But okay, so
why is this still continuing to go on? And that's
what I wonder if whoever it is that's running Ai,
whether there's an Iatola that's left, whether there's some sort
of revolutionary guard member who said I'm the captain now,

(15:58):
or whether it's chat GP, whatever it is that we're
dealing with in Ai or in Iran. Maybe the ai Atola,
it's some thirteen year old kid in Springfield who's messing
with the president saying that he's in charge of Iran.
I don't know, but I don't think that the President

(16:18):
continuing to make threats is going to change whatever they
think they're going for. And maybe because every time they
hold out one more week and the President points out
this is not going to end well for them, they
can't you know. Then there's more people here in America
that are suddenly like, I don't like the President threatening Iran.

(16:38):
I like Iran. I think they're good people. I don't
know why Trump is doing this to them. So they're
just holding out and trying to win the public relations
battle right now, and trying to win the public relations
battle in America against President Trump is pretty easy based
on how how much some people can't stand this president.

(17:01):
The haunt of virus is more popular in America with
some people. If President Trump came out and said, well,
we've ended the Haunt of virus, there would be about
half of the people in America say, well, that was
a bad move. I like the haunt of virus. I
don't know what Trump's problem is with the Haunt of virus.
I like it a lot more than I like you. Yeah,
that's so they seem to be just kind of holding

(17:24):
on and no one knows who they are. We haven't
heard anyone in Iran like stand there in front of
a camera and say anything. I honestly think we're dealing
with the ai Ahtola. I don't know that what we're
dealing with. Oh, time to start bombing again. Forget about that.

Speaker 3 (17:37):
Now that he's back from China, this first cup of
coffee this morning should be with the generals to say,
all right, let's start with the power plants and then
get to the bridges. I want this power plant gone
by dinner tonight. I want those bridges out by breakfast
tomorrow morning. We're looking once again at Bridge Day. Yeah,
remember that a few weeks ago. Tuesday is gonna be
Bridge Day. Yeah, it's gonna be power plant Day on Monday.

Speaker 1 (17:59):
We've got Lucy Chapman, Craig Evans, Jim Rose, Courtney Donahoe.
I'm Scott Vorhees. Scott atkfab dot com. You can email,
or you can send a message with your own voice
via the talkback mic that is our free iHeartRadio app,
which of course allows you to take kfab with you
anywhere you go. And please do this summer, because Lucy

(18:21):
never takes any time off, so the only way she's
getting out of town is if you take eleven to
ten Kfab with you and get Omaha Timesaver traffic updates
from Mount Everest or wherever you go during the summer vacation.
So take us with you and then once in a
while send us a message via the talkback mic. That
little microphone icon icon right there on your screen.

Speaker 2 (18:42):
How does that give me a day off?

Speaker 1 (18:45):
It doesn't, but it allows you virtually to experience other places.
If people say, Lucy, I was listening to you while
I was watching I was there at the Great Wall
of China. See thanks Thanks mister president, thanks for checking
in on your diplomatic mission to China. Love Kfabe. Speaking

(19:09):
of Mount Everest, by the way, just had the sherpa
who's been up to the world's highest peak now thirty
two times, extending his own record with a successful assent yesterday.
According to Nepal's Department or Tourism. Everest Man He's born

(19:32):
in the same Himalayan village is Tenzing Norgay, one of
the most famous sherpas of all time. This guy's name
is Cammi rita Sherpa. Do they just call them sherpas
that become part of the name, or is his name
actually Sherpa. If you come out and your name Sherpa, Like,
what are you going to do for your life? You're

(19:53):
here at the base of Mount Everest and your name
is Sherpa. You want to help people carry their stuff? No,
I want to be a like you. Anyway. This guy's
fifty six years old, and I love the idea that
there are people right now business tycoons, adventurous people who
trained and spent every last dime get into the point

(20:16):
where they go somewhere up Mount Everest, hopefully to the
summit if the weather conditions cooperate. Try not to catch
their death up there somewhere, because they'll just leave you
there like, hey, well we'll get you later when you
know the trail's open and we can you know, take
an ATV up. There's nothing like that if you if

(20:37):
you go up there and catch your death, that's where
you are green boots and there are people who I
don't know what that means.

Speaker 2 (20:45):
That's that's one of the markers. A guy that's wearing
green boots that's been there for years dead. Oh geez,
really yeah, it's it's very morbid.

Speaker 1 (20:55):
Well so am I. So I got to learn more
about that. But I just I love the idea that
they're there's somewhere right now. There is a guy in
New York City, thirty four years old, slick back hair,
and he's talking about like, Hey, I'm gonna I'm going
to guide this company to the summit here in quarter

(21:16):
two because I don't know if you know this about me,
And they're like, here we go. But I've been to
the summit of Mount Everest. I brave the elements. I
went there.

Speaker 3 (21:27):
I didn't think I could make it, but I made
it and I did. And you know, so there are
people out there who their whole identity and life is
wrapped into the And then there's this guy who just
goes up there because it's Tuesday.

Speaker 1 (21:40):
Are we going to the Where are we going? The
top of Mount Everest?

Speaker 7 (21:43):
All?

Speaker 8 (21:43):
Right?

Speaker 1 (21:43):
Which side do you want to go up? You want
to go up the easy side of the hard side. Here,
I'll carry all your bags. Here we go, follow me,
Come on, let's go.

Speaker 2 (21:49):
What that guy's done his whole life.

Speaker 1 (21:50):
I know he just does it.

Speaker 2 (21:51):
This is just his world.

Speaker 1 (21:53):
He does it all the time.

Speaker 2 (21:54):
If you get trained for that, and you and paid
for that, you're how expensive that is?

Speaker 1 (21:59):
No?

Speaker 2 (22:00):
Oh, it's you have to be very wealthy or get
a sponsor. But if you've done that, I'm sorry, but
I would probably kind of brag on myself too. That's
a big deal. Yeah, but I would never do.

Speaker 1 (22:14):
You have to try and casually work it into conversation.
You can't just lead with it, Lucy.

Speaker 2 (22:20):
Not everybody who's climbed Mount Everest and made it down
a lot.

Speaker 1 (22:23):
Yeah, Lucy, I'll send you to Mount Efforts just so
I want to hear you work it into your Time
Saver traffic updates. So for you cars heading westbound on
Dodge approaching ninety at this pretty sharp incline. Not unlike
what I experienced. We have traffic.

Speaker 2 (22:44):
From the A one United Heating, Air and Electrical Time
Saver Traffic Center plat View Road is still very slow
from about fifty sevenths to forty seventh in both directions.
Also watch for traffic signals malfunctioning one hundred and forty
fourth in Maple and also at the North free Way
seventy five at Sorenson and Idy eastbound at thirteenth Street.
You've got a pothole that's causing some delays. Not anything

(23:08):
like the gaping ice crevices I had to navigate when
I climbed Mount Everest.

Speaker 1 (23:12):
That's a shameless, absolutely shameless. Now you're just gonna make
up stuff and add it to your traffic. I love that.
Thank you, Lucy. Sorry, welcome the official clothes.

Speaker 2 (23:27):
That's a look at your roads, Lucy Chapman, Jim.

Speaker 1 (23:30):
It is my assertion that part of the reason why
so many Nebraskans love this Nebraska softball team is because
Jordi from aka Jordi Ball. But I watched her for
a little bit on Saturday. She should change her name
to Jeordie Strike. She was just mowing down members of

(23:52):
the Grand Canyon softball team. It was absolutely insane. But
I think a big reason why so many people love
this team is because of her in the stand she
has taken politically. There are a lot of athletes and
people say, I don't know why they're just shut up
and pitch. But I'm sure obviously not everyone appreciates what

(24:13):
Jordie has done. But she stood up for conservative causes,
and I admit that makes me watch her with a
little bit more interest, not just because she's really really good,
but because she's an outstanding young woman and you want
to talk about being ostracized. Step up as a conservative

(24:33):
on a college campus or a high school campus. These days,
you are definitely in the minority and it is not
going to be a smooth sale for you among some
of your peers.

Speaker 3 (24:43):
Well, it's less acute at Nebraska than say Columbia or UCLA,
but at your point is well taken.

Speaker 1 (24:49):
Tell that to the girl that set up the Turning
Point USA table suggests it's invisible. But from is a
wonderful person. She is the very best softball player the
state is ever produced, and that gives her the platform,
and then she has listened to because of that.

Speaker 3 (25:05):
But she's a Christian. She's a really, really great gal.
I met her at an FCA event a year or
so ago. I'd never met her before, but I thought
and I sat next to Bergen Riley and was equally
impressed by her too. The volleyball all American. But there
are eleven Nebraska kids on this roster. And I've been
saying this for fifty years, and it gets lost in

(25:28):
translation when we get new football coaches in here who
walk past Nebraska kids all the time, and I go,
you know, everybody thinks it's the wins okay, and the
wins are a factor, but it's how Nebraska wins and
with whom that's the magic. And the teams that have

(25:49):
been overpopulated by Nebraska kids or kids that behave like
they're Nebraska and see Sam Hoiberg and whatnot, those are
the teams that capture Nebraska's heart. And that's not to
say that we can't win with imports, because some of
the greatest players we've ever had have been imports, My Grozier,
Tommy Frazier, Mike Brown, all the others. But a warning

(26:12):
to anybody who comes in here, you start with the
Nebraska kids, and if it's a borderline case recruiting, wise
take them. Yeah okay, because what happens is you don't
and then they go to another school in the Big
Ten and kick our You know what's this, It happens
all the time. Ask it's the NOA offense principle. Yeah,

(26:32):
we don't need that. Here's my request.

Speaker 1 (26:35):
Can we hear from Jordi during the eleven to ten
KFAB certified Transmission sports brief Just for you, big guy. Thanks.

Speaker 3 (26:41):
If you're gonna beat Nebraska softball, you're gonna need a
nuclear bat ask Louisville, South Dakota and Grand Canyon combine,
those three other teams in the regional managed all of
four hits and one run.

Speaker 1 (26:52):
That's it.

Speaker 3 (26:53):
GCU in the title game one hit, the Huskers capture
the regional one to nothing. Big Ten Freshmen of the
Yearlinexus Jensen was a wall. GCU barely put the ball
and play against her for five innings. But as the
franchise Jordi from tells it, this ain't no typical freshman.

Speaker 8 (27:09):
Just in the way she even prepares for teams and
dives into film. Just the conversations that we're having before
the game even starts on how she wants to attack them.
That's a big piece of the game you don't really
have to think about until you get to college, so
it can be a lot to take in. But she
has just taken it all in and taking it in
and run with it. And she's getting so much smarter
of a pitcher as well. We all knew she had
the physical ability, but to just see her brain grow

(27:29):
in the strategic part of the game, it's really cool.

Speaker 3 (27:31):
Prom came in to handle the sixth and seventh innings,
sets up a first ever Super Regional in Lincoln for
huskersoft Ball from says, We'll enjoy that.

Speaker 8 (27:39):
Everybody's just so excited. It's a blessing to wrap up
a high emotion weekend like this and be able to
wake up in our own beds tomorrow morning and have
a whole week at home and not have to get
ready to travel and all we have to do is prepare.

Speaker 2 (27:50):
So it's huge.

Speaker 8 (27:51):
We're excited. Boland was incredible this weekend, such a fun
atmosphere to play in, So we're just thankful for our
fans for that, and we're thankful to be able to
do it. Another weekend.

Speaker 1 (28:01):
Tough test though.

Speaker 3 (28:02):
Oklahoma State, which has been to six at supers in
the last eight years and won five of them, will
bring a very potent offense to town. They scored thirty
four runs in their three regional win three regional wins,
one hundred and fourteen outages right now across OPPD We've
got just pockets in a neighborhood around Hanscombe Park and

(28:24):
then in South Omaha as well, So they're working on
getting everyone reconnected here this morning. But I wonder how
many of these these individuals who are out their reconnecting
power lines and doing all that stuff, or like, why
would we do this today when there's just a chance
that everyone's going to lose power again tonight. I don't

(28:45):
know that they have that kind of attitude when out
there doing their job. It's kind of like when I
was a kid, Hey Mom, why do I have to
make my bed? I'm just gonna getep back an tonight anyway,
because the OPPD people care, Unlike you, they do care
and they want to get people's power back on. And
even though it's not going to be hot today, a
lot of people haven't had power all night and that's disconcerting,

(29:07):
frustrating and a little worried something. So that's why they're
working on and knowing they may be right back at
it tonight.

Speaker 1 (29:13):
Well, I certainly hope. So I will say that we
were doing the coverage here last night, and thanks again
to Terry Lahy, Patrick, Kelly Hassmichaels for assisting. I was
in here with these pros last night, and I know
I felt a lot safer with you guys on the air. Yeah. See,
the sarcasm apparently is a two waist, but I did

(29:34):
think that it was kind of funny. Terry Lahy was
doing the update about the severe weather moving into area,
and the National Weather Service actually had this in their
posting because they'll say, you know, if you're at Werner Park,
you want to seek shelter. And there was a soccer
game there at Warner Park last night, and they specifically

(29:54):
also pointed out the Sinko de Mayo festival wrapping up
in South Omaha last night. And it took everything in
my power not to say the Cinco de Mayo festival.
It's May seventeenth yesterday. How long is the Cinco de

(30:14):
Mayo festival? But it turns out they did have a
whole another weekend of the Sinko to Mayo festival.

Speaker 2 (30:22):
I'm still celebrating Christmas, So what's the problem.

Speaker 1 (30:24):
I yeah, I guess the Sinko to Mayo is now
a season. I don't know enough Spanish to be able
to talk about what, you know, the seventeenth of May
might be, but apparently it's just why not just call
it Mayo? You could be sponsored by Hellman's. I'll pause

(30:47):
and let that soak in. No, no, no, Well, there
were thousands of people throughout the weekend on South twenty
fourth Street, South Omaha for music for food, for fun,
and the he said it's more than one hundred years old.
The annual Sinko de Mayo Festival returned to South twenty
fourth Street this weekend, and this year's theme was Familia,

(31:11):
which means family, Lucy, I can do that Spanish for you.
One hundred and fifty vendors, one hundred thousand people out there,
great stuff, and I imagine I would think that the
timing of when you get people there might be a
little odd if you're telling people, yes, the Sinko to
Myo festival, Oh shoot, I missed it. No, it's tonight,
but wait, yesterday was the seventeenth of May. So anyway,

(31:35):
I think they had everything all wrapped up in people
to shelter before you had the strong winds and the
rains come through there last night. I think it's done.
I don't know if there is any particular festival tonight,
but if you go down on South twenty fourth Street,
South Omaha any night of the week, I'm glad that
you see people out there celebrating, because for a while

(31:55):
there last year there were certain alleged community leaders telling
those businesses in South Omaha you better not open up
show a solidarity with our brothers and sisters being deported
by Ice. You got to stay closed and make sure
that everyone knows, like, hey, we can't open these businesses

(32:16):
because you know, Ice might come in here and grab
everyone inside this Takorea and throw them all in Uganda
or whatever. And none of that was at all true.
That wasn't how it was happening. And there were well,
Uganda was one of the President's places. He's like, we
got to deal with Uganda. We're sending people over there.
It's either there. I'm a cook. And there were people

(32:39):
who were business owners were saying, but I want to
open my business. I've got people in the community. I
want to serve. I need to make money as a
business owner. My employees need a place to work. And
there were alleged community leaders saying you better not. The
surest way to get shunned by people in this community
is for you to open your business and provide commerce.
So apparently that kind of strong arming which you used

(33:03):
to see in the New York City mob, apparently that
kind of strong arming was done, at least for this weekend.
I'm glad to see that there's are hard working, good people.
They're in the legal business owners and employees of these businesses,
and the fact that they weren't allowed to do their
thing was shameful.

Speaker 3 (33:23):
Well it was, and I'm not sure how effective it
was because and I'm not a member of the Latino community.
I don't have a lot of Hispanic family members. But
I have learned this just watching them in action. All
of my life. I've never seen a collection of harder
working people, more family oriented people, more community oriented people

(33:43):
than these people, and they have. I don't know how
often you've driven down twenty fourth Street in South Omaha, Lelely.
A lot of us get into a routine where we
drive on the same roads to the same place all
the time, and unless we're over there, we don't notice
that is a thriving business district. If you go from
I eighty and on twenty fourth Streets south all the

(34:04):
way through what used to be known as South Omaha,
and to this day is still from a neighborhood standpoint, No,
it used to be its own community.

Speaker 1 (34:10):
Now it's the neighborhood.

Speaker 3 (34:12):
It is one of the thriving business districts in this community,
good businesses, outstanding successful stories of people who are largely
here legally whose families got here legally, And I just
don't know how much they subscribe to that Democrat orthodoxy,
to be honest with you, Scott, the Hispanic vote for
President Trump was pretty dramatic in twenty twenty four. It's

(34:33):
a conservative community. These people believe in moms and dads
and kids all in the same house. They believe in God,
they believe in the nuclear family, and they are unbelievably
supportive of each other. So you might have a leader
say you need to do this, and they're going to
kind of give them the smile and a collective middle
finger without actually showing them the middle finger.

Speaker 1 (34:54):
Even a lot of people in the country illegally want
the door shut after them because they know what they're
fleeing from and they don't want to come behind them. Right.
One of the bigger complaints I've heard about our free
iHeart radio app, and we offer everyone their money back
if they have complaints about our free iHeart Radio app
is depending on where you are and the location settings

(35:18):
in your phone. As they interplay with the app, you
will hear different commercials, words from our sponsors, public service announcements,
and the like on your phone. Then maybe if you
were listening over the air on eleven ten AM. One
of the biggest defenders that I've heard about is a

(35:40):
jingle for a company called one eight hundred Cars for Kids. Lucy,
are you at all familiar with this?

Speaker 2 (35:50):
I am.

Speaker 1 (35:51):
It's a jaunty little number.

Speaker 2 (35:54):
Is a jaunty little numbers.

Speaker 1 (35:55):
Sung by some kids drives me nuts. Of course, we
love partnering with Sheepgate. We really appreciate anyone looking to
donate a vehicle to benefit others. Sheepgate is right here
in the Metro and they only use the annoying sound
of my voice and Jim Rose's voice for that. We
don't generally sing about Sheepgate. But the one eight hundred

(36:19):
Cars for Kids tune has just been banned by a
judge in California. And it's not because it's annoying. It
has to do with what they're saying. Well, we don't
know that they haven't identified exactly where all their donations
are going, or who's on their board and all the
rest of this stuff. So in the meantime they're not
allowed to advertise. And there are people in California who

(36:42):
are rejoicing at what a great move I don't know
if they're still allowed to hit you between the Medulla
Blongata and the Cerebellum anywhere you are with our free
Heart radio app. But a judge in Range County, California said,
that's enough of that jingle and the organization right now

(37:08):
thought if some of you have taken a hammer to
your phone because you've heard that from time to time
on iHeartRadio, this would be a time to put your
phone back together and get us back here on eleven
ten kfab and our free iHeartRadio app. Oh, speaking of
fixing things, I realized yesterday that my son's front bumper

(37:32):
on the passenger side was pretty loose. Now. It was
loose when we bought this used car last year, and
so the dealer said, oh, we can put a clip
on that. Well, put a clip on it that didn't
hold very long, So now it's loose again. And my
wife and son were gone for the day, so Dad
stepped in and fixed it by putting a screw through

(37:54):
the bumper of the car into the plastic frame on
the other side. And it's holding great. And my wife
came home and I said, hey, son, maybe you notice
he's like I did notice that and thanks for not
telling me about it. More so I fixed it. My
wife said, how'd you fix it? And I showed her

(38:16):
and she's like, you put a screw into this car.
It's like fixed. It was either going to be that
or duct tape. And you can't see the screw unless
you're looking right at it. So there, I fixed it.
I'm thinking about starting on my own autobody. How long
was the screw. It's not very long. It's a it's
a short one. So you just found a place to
drive that screw. And there was a little notch there

(38:39):
and I think that there was well, this is where
the clip went on on the other side. So I'm
telling you that bumper's not moving.

Speaker 2 (38:48):
You're gonna do well on the Apocalypse.

Speaker 1 (38:50):
You just invalidated the insurance. This is a the car
is so old. I don't remember what year it is.
You have insurance on the driving, Yeah, we got insurance
on the gard he's driving it. You have liability insurance.
You don't have collision insurance. Yeah, we've got it for
a while there until it gets to be's too stupid. Hey,
we're already spending a billion dollars on car insurance with

(39:12):
two teenage drivers. What's a billion three right? Right?

Speaker 3 (39:15):
We got cold and fingers and with the where we
go out like Us the cover of the Rolling Stone.

Speaker 1 (39:23):
I don't know if this guy ever ended up on
the cover of the Rolling Stone, but lead singer of
this band, Doctor Hook, Dennis La Courier has died Cover
of the Rolling passed away the weekend at the age
of seventy six kidney disease. They had the hits with

(39:45):
a song called when You're in Love with the Beautiful
Woman Sylvia's Mother. But it was this hit song in
the seventies. This can't be right right, I'm looking here
over the details on this song.

Speaker 3 (40:03):
You know who's credited as the composer of this track?
RINGO star Shelle Silverstein. Kind of has that feel to it.
Shelle Silverstein. Do you when I say Shell Silverstein, do
you know who I'm talking about?

Speaker 1 (40:18):
Really? Wow? So I'm when I was growing up there
as a kid in the eighties reading Shelle Silverstein's books
of the short stories, poetry sketchings, The Light in the Attic,
and Where the Sidewalk Ends Where Those were some of

(40:39):
the most sought after books you could check out at
the library. Oh your mother and I are just happy
that you read some Thanks Dad. But yeah, I guess
he wrote the song the cover of The Rolling Stoner,
at least the words for it. Anyway, that was a
hook that was a hit for Doctor Hook and Doctor
Hook himself. Dennis Lacier has died. If you're sad that news,

(41:01):
then you're really gonna be said by this news. The
beer that made Milwaukee famous is being retired, Schlitz, perhaps
brewing slit production of Schlitz. This thing's been around for
one hundred and seventy seven years. It is Monday, and
my week's already ruined. I know. I wonder if this

(41:21):
is a marketing deal where they say, well, we're gonna
end Schlitz, and then people are like, no, you can't end,
and they say, all right, thanks to popular demand, we're
bringing back Schlitz. I'm surprised that Schlitz isn't more popular.
I would think that with some of your more discount
beer offerings like Natty Light and Keystone Light, having fun

(41:44):
ad campaigns and being the official beer of people who
aren't old enough to be drinking, I mean college kids,
he would think that there'd be room for Schlitz.

Speaker 2 (41:54):
We won't get Joe Dirt to now.

Speaker 1 (41:56):
Is he a drinker of schlitz? I forget what he drank.

Speaker 2 (42:00):
Shouldn't he be Joe Dirt?

Speaker 1 (42:03):
You're trying to tell me you don't have any schlitz
at the fireworks stand.

Speaker 2 (42:10):
So see, you know what I'm talking about?

Speaker 1 (42:12):
Well, I know the movie. Yeah, I don't remember whether
or not he was drinking schlitz. But the final bat
pre Orders for the final batch of new Schlitz can
be made soon on the PAPS website. They're gonna brew
an eighty barrel batch of schlitz this weekend, using specifications

(42:35):
from a recipe from nineteen forty eight, a recipe just
like Grandma used to make. The President says last week that, hey,
when you were thinking about what to do in Iran,
did you think about the Americans paying more for gas,
paying more for food? An, the inflation, all that stuff.
He was asked about it on Friday by Brett Bear

(42:57):
of Fox News, and the President said, no, not even
a little bit. And then NBC goes running over to him,
Are you really serious, mister President? You didn't think about
inflation and people paying more for gas and everything, and
not even a little bit, he goes, it's a perfect statement.
I'd make it again now. From his standpoint, the idea was,

(43:20):
we can't let Iran have a nuclear weapon. If Iran
gets a nuclear weapon, we have to take them at
their word that they're going to kill us, and so
we don't want them to kill us, so we have
to stop them from making a nuclear weapon. If that
has a little bit of a pinch at the pump
for a short term, then that's I guess how it

(43:42):
has to be. But he said it's only going to
be short term, No big deal, don't worry, it's going
to be great. Meanwhile, no Republican thinks they're going to
be re elected in November, but the time now between
now and the midterms might as well be eighty seven
trillion years. Well, I would really.

Speaker 3 (43:58):
Hope that the American voter, and some of them are
more informed than others. I would hope that the American voter,
and part of this is going to be on the
onus of Republican candidates, because a midterm is a local election.
We don't vote for the senators in Arizona or Iowa,
and Iowan's due, but we don't in Nebraska. We don't
vote for who's running for House in Pennsylvania's fifteenth so

(44:20):
it's all local. But I would hope that the American
voter would look at the reality of just how dangerous
a terrorist sponsored country or a terrorist sponsoring country is
with a nuclear weapon and a ballistic missile system that's
capable of delivering it to within a thousand miles of

(44:42):
its launch point. If we think gas prices are high,
now wait until a suitcase nowke goes off in a
PEPSI machine at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv. Then
we've got an issue that will not soon be resolved.
This president has done a bad job. Republicans have done
a bad job of explaining why we're there. They can

(45:04):
say it, but they aren't explaining it. Well, no, they
don't start explaining. Brinker Harding needs to explain this is
why I support the war in Iran. Okay, yeah, he does.
He's now breaking at being a member of Congress. There's
a real good chance he's going to lose because he's
a Republican. He needs to explain this is why I'm
one hundred percent supportive of why we are in Iran

(45:25):
doing what we're doing.

Speaker 1 (45:26):
In Iran. But Denise Powell doesn't need to explain why
she's against being upset.

Speaker 3 (45:31):
But again, the party in power loses midterms most of
the time.

Speaker 1 (45:35):
Eleven to ten kfab National correspondent Rory O'Neill is demanding
to jump in on this conversation because as energy prices
go up here, as will food costs in America's farmers
are already dealing with very very slim margins, Rory, right,
they are.

Speaker 7 (45:53):
We know that the prices out there for things like
soybeans have dropped considerably, so it's difficult for farmers to
turn a profit in the first place. China has been
sending mixed signals about whether or not it will follow
through on some of these promised purchases. But really what's
starting to you know, now that the whole country is
in planting season, we've seen the diesel costs are really

(46:14):
going to be cost prohibitive because the price is up
sixty percent from where it was a year ago. And
as you guys know, diesel gets into everything, and it's
very inflation when we see.

Speaker 1 (46:24):
A spike like this, Yeah, and we're looking here at
the inflation rate going way up here. That's all because
of gas prices, diesel gas prices, and all the rest
of it. So what are I mean? We have to eat,
so we just end up not spending money on something else.
I would imagine it's not like American farmers need to

(46:44):
be that desperate. We still need to eat, right, well.

Speaker 7 (46:48):
Right, and then you just you know, you change what
you're shopping for in the supermarket. You know, maybe it's
not Ribby's take anymore. Maybe you're lucky if it's ground
shocked or the occasional roast you know where you switched
to chicken which is cheaper again, or you know, find
other products along the way in order or hey, it's
time for another spaghetti, knight mac and cheese in order

(47:11):
to keep the kids full.

Speaker 1 (47:12):
Yeah. Also, we're looking at another thread here, and it
doesn't look like this is a nation that's clamoring to
have a nuclear weapon and wipe us off the face
of the earth. But we got an eye on Cuba,
don't we.

Speaker 7 (47:24):
Yeah. An interesting story by Axios this weekend. It found
that Cuba has about three hundred military grade drones in
its arsenal, and maybe they've been practicing what it might
be like if they had to strike the Guantanamo Bay
Naval based US naval base in Cuba, or maybe even
launch a strike into Florida, which is only about ninety

(47:45):
miles away. So you know, Cuba has said that these
are defensive. We have no intention of launching a strike.
But all this comes as Cuba is being choked of oil.
The oil it used to get from Venezuela has been
turned off right now, so is all their power generation. Essentially,
the island is in a blackout state and has been

(48:06):
almost round the clock for the past couple of weeks
as they are running out of oil. Now, the other
headline to watch this week, the Justice Department is expected
to indict Raul Castro, Fidel's old brother. And why is
that important? Well, if he's indicted, that would be very
much like the Maduro situation in Venezuela, where the US
military works to take them out for Justice Department reasons,

(48:29):
not because we're launching a military invasion.

Speaker 1 (48:32):
Always something, Rory, thank you for covering it. Thanks guys.
It's eleven ten kfab National correspondent Rory O'Neill here on
Nebraska's Morning News. They are so dumb right now in Havana.
They all they need to tell Trump is, hey, we
think you're a great leader, and would you put a
casino hotel in golf course here in Havana. He would

(48:52):
open things up. It'd be great they do. They wouldn't
They would be swimming in money. People would be swimming
back from Florida back to Cuba to deal with all
the money that they'd have down there. All they have
to do is suck up President Trump and not be
exactly what they've always been since Castro took over. It
has been a.

Speaker 3 (49:10):
Puppet of the Soviet Union since the mid fifties. And
you know he was propped up by Fidel Castro. And and
of course Castro got a lot of mileage out of
the Bay.

Speaker 1 (49:18):
Of Pigs invasion.

Speaker 3 (49:19):
See look what those ugly Americans ninety miles away are
trying to do to us. They're trying to invade our country.

Speaker 1 (49:24):
Screw you.

Speaker 3 (49:25):
And by the way, bring in a few missiles here
from Russia and we'll make sure everybody knows who we are.
It was our fifty first state for a long time,
scott After World War Two, this was the haven for
vacationing rich Americans on the East coast. They would zip
down to Havana, and we owned all the hotels, we
owned all the businesses, we owned all of the levers

(49:47):
of industry down there, and it was a wonderful place
to visit in the winter time. And then, you know,
the locals said, we're getting screwed over by these Americans.
So up rose Fidel Castro and his communist militants and revolutionaries.
And then we said, okay, all right, we're done.

Speaker 1 (50:05):
Well.

Speaker 3 (50:05):
They're still driving cars from the nineteen fifties down there,
at least the ones that haven't broken down or sitting
on the side of the road. It is a country
that has moved forward about five feet since nineteen fifty five,
and it's completely unnecessary. Rob email says, Jim's right about elections.
So the late Speaker of the House, Tip O'Neil, used

(50:25):
to say, number one, all politics is local, and number two,
pore me another double.

Speaker 1 (50:30):
That's from Rob. Thank you for that email, Scott atkfab
dot com. I'm gonna read this email verbatim sent to
Scott at kfab dot com. John says went to first
Stormchaser game with six, eight and ten year old grandsons.
We had a blast that had to be Craig Evans
on PA fantastic, Scott and kfab were great during storm

(50:53):
and Papio had part of my tree fall. Boom boom.
You cats are great. Thanks John, appreciate that email. Very entertaining,
as is Craig Evans. We love hearing his voice anywhere,
whether it's the news updates or yes he is the
PA announcer at Winner Park during the storm Chaser games.
I guess the storm Chasers were playing yesterday. The soccer

(51:16):
was They moved those down to Morrison now. The Union
Omaha soccers at Morrison at Great Now.

Speaker 3 (51:24):
They don't play Winner Park because the Kansas City Royals
did not want one of their seven million dollar first
round draft choices tripping over a seam in the field
because it sets up for a soccer game on the
next road trip.

Speaker 1 (51:35):
We don't need that. And then Doug says, my generation
ruined the bar and the beer industry with all of
our foo foo beers. Don't blame me. I don't drink
beer very much. That's so, I guess I did ruin
the beer and the bar.

Speaker 3 (51:51):
I'm still a good old American beer guy. I don't
drink the good stuff. I drink the old stuff. I've
still got plenty of Hams beer in my freaking refree.
Know you do not, Yes, I do. Know you don't
want to see it. You'll fight you right, You'll get
into the studio and share some. I'll take a picture
of it and show you tomorrow. I've got a bunch
of Hams beer in there from the land of sky
Blue Waters. They Gary Sademy missed the news they're going

(52:18):
to stop brewing Schlitz beer.

Speaker 1 (52:21):
I still think it's a marketing scam. They say, Oh no,
people are upset. The Schlitz is going away, all right,
brand new Schlitz, Schlitz two point zero or what new
new Schlitz like new coke.