May 14, 2026 • 50 mins
Today, we give you a bit more election fallout, an invitation to this Saturday's noon dedication of the USS Omaha Memorial, updates on President Trump in China, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, and welcome to this edition of Nebraska's Morning
News here on news Radio eleven ten KFAB. And according
to national media, right here in the blue dot, we've
got Jim Rose right there, Lucy Chapman, Craig Evans. Seems
like the blue dot has come up quite a bit
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here in national media talking about how Denise Powell is
still I guess projected to be the winner of Cavanaugh,
of the numerous Democrats who are trying to get that
nomination to take on with Nowt Brinker Harding in November.
In Nebraska's second congressional district. It's it came down to
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John Cavanaugh and Denise Powell. Powell's got enough of a
lead that many media outlets are saying, yep, she won,
and she seems to be acting like she won. But
John Cavanaugh says, oh no, we got to make sure
every single vote is counted here. So I thought we
were supposed to accept the election results. I thought it
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was a bad taste, bad form, and something only Trump
does when we don't accept the election results. But she's
certainly seeming like she's moving ahead towards November. I don't
know if that means she's still ticked off, like she
said in her ads using different language. If a couple
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of other races here that are too close to call
the story from k e TV News Watch seven, Jim,
if you paid any attention to what happened here Among
the Democrats who wanted to be the next Douglas County
Attorney in on sat Don Kline, the former Democrat now Republican,
there was someone who worked in his office that went
to him and said, I now I work with you
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and for you here in the office, but I'm going
to try and unseat you in your position as my
boss in the upcoming election. I hope that means we
can still be colleagues. And Don Klein apparently said, no,
that's that's the most ridiculous thing I ever heard. You're fired,
And then she had the nerve to be like, what
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do you mean I'm fired? I mean if you go
into the boss's office and say I don't think that
you're doing a great job. Now, I'm gonna keep working
in here with you, but in the meantime I will
be using every free moment I have to try and
get you out of your job. How long would you
expect that you would be in that job not long.
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That's poor form. But you I don't blame her for running,
but if you think that you're gonna be able to
keep your job by going to your boss saying I'm
gonna do everything I can to try and get you
out of here. Now, I'll see you tomorrow at work.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Yeah, hey, that's not gonna work that way. Give her
a hug when you get home for me. Mikaela Danner,
senior attorney in the Prosecutor's Office. She did have a
lead of about fourteen hundred votes over the former Douglas
County Deputy Attorney Amy Jacobson.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Jacobson's the one that went to don Klin and said
I'm try and take you out here, And it looks
like Mikaela Danner is She's up about three points. It's
not a lot of votes, No, not a lot of
people voted on Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
No, only a total of about fifty thousand I think
total votes in that race.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Here's the main thing you need to know.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Neither one of them would be good for crime prevention
in this community if they were to topple don Klin.
So so everybody understands these two are liberals, These two.
But are They haven't declared that they would defund the police,
but you can probably smell it around them. These people
are anti ice. These people are we need to treat
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criminals with a little more respect, and we need to
make sure that you know, we aren't putting people in
jail just because they're black, or just because they're Hispanic,
or just because they're poor and all that kind of stuff.
It's that national narrative about crime prevention from the left,
so you've got this will be legitimate. I'll be very
interested to see who funds the winner of this campaign
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in the general election, because this sets up a really,
really pretty picture of how George Sorows had been involved
in a lot of local attorney races throughout the country,
funding people that are on the left side of crime
prevention as a means to sort of socially re engineer
the communities. We'll be paying close attention to who funds
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those that race, whether it's MSS Jacobson or MS Danner
up against Don Klein, who has been an outstanding county
attorney for a long long time. And it's a safer
community because of Don Klein and because of Aaron Hanson
and because of Todd Schmater and because of Gene Stothard.
We don't know about John Ewing yet. He's not been
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in office long enough. But that's what you need to
know about that race.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Well, I think they stopped protesting outside of Don Klein's
house in West Omaha, so that's good. But that race
officially too close to call. It's a three point lead
though for Mikaela Danner. Looks like it'll be Danner versus
Klent for Douglas County Attorney come November. And then the
count of the County Board of Commissioner's District two race
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looks like Jim Cavanaugh. I mean, this is a margin
of about two points, but it's fewer than two hundred
votes in this race. But a high school teacher who's
never run for office before, Whitney Hanson, is leading the
incumbent Douglas County Commissioner Jim Cavanaugh by the about a
two point margin. So that's officially too close to call,
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but they'll both advance to the general election. I believe. No,
it's because that's the Democratic primary. Oh, that's just the primary,
and the Republicans didn't run anyone in district too so
whoever wins this race then seemingly will be the next
Douglas County a board member unless there's a big write
in campaign. Who knows. Most people have no idea that
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there is such thing as a Douglas County board, let
alone who their commissioner is or what they do spoiler alert,
they do a lot of important things. Well, they bow
a lot of money on juvenile justice, spend a lot
of money.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
They spend a lot of money on stuff they probably
shouldn't be spending money on. Meanwhile, the county sheriff's office
gets squeezed. They need people. They need a lot more people.
They need a lot more staff, they need a lot
more sheriff's deputies. What we're not seeing in this county
is because of the stretch of that office, is enough
attention to property crime outside of the city limits. See
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Douglas County is a There's a lot of stuff going
on in Douglas County. We see it in Omaha. We
think gets between six p't eighty and the river. But
there's a lot of stuff going on and they need
more help and property crime otherwise you're going to continue
to see it escalate. I've been fascinated over the last
three four years watching this county board in action. It's
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pretty embarrassing, and it starts with the Juvenile Justice Center
and then moves along to these other bad policy decisions.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Meanwhile, a lot of people are saying how many Kavanaughs
are an elected office around that to one hundred and
sixty three?
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Some would say too many. Uh that we probably need
to you know, call that hurt a little bit. And
maybe after John Kavanaughs, Uh, he'll be term limited in
two years out of the Nebraska unicameral and maybe that'll
be the end of him.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
His sister is finito.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Now, I was talking to some fairly intelligent politicos yesterday,
Scott and they say this, and I hadn't thought about it,
but I think it makes sense. His sister has acted
as if she's unhinged many times, and some believe that
actually did affect his vote. Turnout, that his sister may
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have had a negative draw on him, that she with
her behavior, the tears, the yelling, the screaming, the in
some cases criminal behavior down there with criminal Well, remember
what she did when she was tearing stuff off walls.
Hardly criminal beats It's against the law.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
It wasn't just one yeah, but don't hint around that
she was murdering.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Me, suggesting that she's, you know, be brought up on
a salt and battery charge. But the overall get us
in trouble. This movie theme is that she didn't help
brother John. Brother John, she's she's a pantload, and many
people are pretty thinking that they maybe she might have
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dragged him.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Down a little bit. President is over in China and
President Xi Jinping of China went all out. I'm surprised
they didn't have the Chinese acrobats of Taipei doing the
Trump dance to Ymca over there making it look like, hey,
President Trump is the most important person who's ever been.
(08:39):
Now now that we had a wonderful parade in your honor,
mister President, is such a pleasure to have you here.
You're just the greatest thing that's ever been. And you
know what, taller in person, and look at the size
of those hands. They're great. We need oil, if you
could possibly find it in your heart to open up
the straight of horror moves and get us some more
of that Ventezualan oil that we used to enjoy. We
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used to get our oil from Venezuela and Iran, and
then you cut all that off. Then you tried to
cut out our mineral generation in places like Ukraine and Greenland.
So I remember how we had the big parade there
and told you how great you were. You see what
your fortune cookie said. It said, your fortunes are absolutely
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gold and even better, and we look forward to working
with you in your third term. Mister president, you're just
the it's handsome too, so if we could get some
of that oil. Glenn Beck last night said, I get
real nervous when people treat Trump very very well who
have no reason to, because it's pretty clear to most
people they're just sucking up to them, and Trump's just
soaks it in. He's like, that's great, these people are
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the best. I'm so on, he said. He told Ji Jimping,
it's an honor to be your friend. Now, there is
a difference between what Trump says sometimes and what is
happening behind the scenes and what he's doing. What he's
been doing with China is tariffs, cutting off the oil
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and energy supply and forcing them to be a little
better partners with America and not adversarial. So I don't
think just because Jijenping throws Trump a giant parade, that
Trump's just gonna give away everything like elon right, them
a big check, give him whatever they want gets.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
In trouble in the first place. I Bill Clinton and
George W. Bush give them whatever they want. It'll be
good for American business.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
I don't think there's reason to be concerned if you
look just to what they're saying right now. That's one thing.
But I think Trump is smart enough to realize that
they're trying to suck up and get some stuff out
of America. But they're like. He treats China better than
our partners and allies in Europe because they're more important.
They are more important, and their leaders aren't feckless, elite
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as snobs like some of our so called friends in
Europe who aren't there to help us when we need them.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
I think that he'd like the Chinese to stop shipping
guns to the Caspian Cedo Iran.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
That'd be fine. Sidebar. I'm for the eleven to ten
kfab certified transmission Sports Brief. Jim Row Okay, Scott, good morning, everybody,
Husker stuff today. Troy Dan and athletic director went on
the radio last night, explained his ticket policy for the
postseason softball tournaments and potentially baseball. This way, people who
give the.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Most money get first access to postseason tickets, regardless of
the sport. He has seventeen thousand donors giving between two
hundred and fifty and twenty five thousand dollars a year,
plus suite holders at volleyball and football. They will always
get first crack called at.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
The gold Well.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
He didn't call it the Golden rule, but I do.
He who got the gold makes the rules. In the
case of softball season ticket holders, they were all offered
tickets to the regional, just not necessarily their regular season seats,
maybe burm seats or general admission. If Husker Baseball hosts,
it's a regional, same deal. This is a perk for
being a donor. The baseball team is in Dinky Town,
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the bar district just adjacent to campus at the University
of Minnesota for the weekend. How do you think they
attract fifty thousand students a year to that? Igloo have
a bar district next door. Nebraska and the Gophers play
a series today Tomorrow Saturday. These games matter for both teams.
Minnesota is on the brink of qualifying for the Big
Ten Tournament. They need at least one win against Nebraska
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to get there. It's been hard for sky Yuma nil
wipes them out. The weather is dreadful until the last
one fourth of the season. The athletic department has it
on a shoe string budget. But second year coach Ty
McDevitt is hanging in there, and he's got a decent
pitching staff top three in the Big Ten in ERA
and walks and hits per inning Big League Baseball. The
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White Sox extended their winning streak beat the Royals six
to five in Chicago. Colson Montgomery led the way. He
went three for four with a solo home run in
the bottom of the seventh.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
It might say that we can we can win, and
you know, obviously that's what we're doing right now. And
I think it's just you know, staying consistent with our work,
coming in, you know, and put our head down, do
what we need to do before the game, and then
once the game happens, you know, just going there and competing,
have fun.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
What the deal with the kids of City Royals? They
win five in a row, lose three in a row.
Can't follow this bunch. American League Baltimore seven and the
Yankees nothing. The Guardians defeated the Angels four to two.
Toronto Beatapa Bay in Houston over the Mariners. National League
Dodgers four, Giant Zip Padres three, Milwaukee one, Braves beat
the Cubs. Colorado and the Nats win games. Inter league
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played the A six, the Cardinals two, Texas six, Arizona five,
Miami beat the Twins, The Mets beat the Tigers. The
Red Sox over Philadelphia, Omaha three to two over Toledo.
Somebody needs to get a muzzle on Husker quarterback Anthony Colandria.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Oh, here's some taste you wives, cool buzz and five.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
New Husker quarterback who has yet to take a snap
in a Big ten game, popped off yesterday, said i
didn't come here just to win eight games. I'm here
to win a national title. Easy there, Spartacus. Before we
talk about Ohio State, Indiana, Oregon, and Michigan, let's beat
Illinois and Iowa State. Soccer Class B girls yesterday, Pious
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nine Pious scored nine on Scotis. Did Scotis have a goaltender?
Nine to two? Pious wins that one Elcorn five and
Carney Catholic nothing, Blair Bears over Gretdna East three to one,
and Scott two to nothing over Norris. You got Class
B boys today and then the semifinals start up tomorrow.
Sports his news on Nebraska's News weathern traffic station.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Here in Omaha. The bar that gets the most attention,
and I don't know if that means that they're packed
every night. I'm sure they're doing quite well. I hope
they are. Is the barbershop in Blackstone. Not sure if
you've been following the arguments and lawsuits and then counter
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lawsuits related to this bar. It's a bar. The owner,
who is a longtime local media member, Mike de Jacomo
and a heck of a great American, started this up
a speakeasy in honor of his father, who I guess
was a barber. So they put a barber pole out
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there and they called it the Barbershop Blackstone. They don't
cut hair in there. You can't go in there for
a shave and a haircut, even if you have two bits. Well,
the barbershop Collective Big Barber Shop filed a lawsuit and
said you can't use the barber pole and you can't
call it a barber shop unless it is a licensed barbershop.
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And the owner of the bar said, that's only if
we are doing barbering things in here, as I told
you we are not. We'll serve you a cocktail, we
will not cut your hair. And they said nope. Lawsuit,
And so he's filed a counter lawsuit and this week
fought back with a temporary name. Lucy. The name of
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this bar is now the censored Shop.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Well that fits. What's the poll look like?
Speaker 1 (16:08):
They're hiding the pole to avoid any fines or as
Mike Dajakam Hotels First Alert six News, we're hiding the
poll and changing the name to avoid any fines or
jail time.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Because people were mistaking this for a barbershop.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
They say that state law prohibits any entity from displaying
a barber pole or using the image of a barber
pole and its advertising unless the entity is licensed to
provide and offer barbering services.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
How old is that law? Because they used to use
barber poles for other things, some kind of notification. If
I am remembering correctly something, I'll look that up.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Well, I don't know if I'm remembering this from history
or from Saturday Night Live. But the barber with the
barber pole used to be kind of a medical designation.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Maybe that's what I'm thinking.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Steve Martin is Theodoric of York. Hey, who's the barber here?
Looks like you need a good bleeding? One of my
favorite all time SNL bits.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
But's if it's a law that's from eighteen fifty whatever,
maybe it needs to be looked at before we need
to be harassing small businesses.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
It comes from a time when a lot of American
men needed barbershops in a regular basis because their mustaches
were so thick and plentiful at the end. Yeah, they
would go to the barbershop three four times a day
just to hack away at that stash. This is when
men had more testosterone then some of you do. Now.
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Not me, I'm teeming with it. Just look at me.
Just don't look at me. I get why they have
the fight here, because you can't say, oh, yeah, I'm
a licensed barber if you're not a licensed barber. Right.
But I would think that even in those instances, let
the market decide. If I go, oh this is this
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must be a really good place. They got the barber
pole it's called the barber shop. And I go in
there and I get a haircut and it looks like,
you know, some cat took you know, a bunch of
wax at my head with a flobie. Then I'd say, well,
I am not going to give you my money, and
I'm not going to come back here, and I might
tell oh, my friends, not the gum here. You know,
that's how it would work. But this isn't a barber shop,
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it's a bar Are there really people that are like, Hey,
I came in here, I saw the barber pole, and
I came in here expecting to get a haircut. And
not only am I disillusioned now by the use of
the pole, I'm gonna sue you. I'm gonna sit here
and demand that someone cut my hair. It's kind of dumb.
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I think that Mike, though, is on some level enjoying
some of this, because if you're a bar or restaurant owner,
any attention is good attention. Yeah, So.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
I hope.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
I hope on some level good you can drink in
an actual bar rather than at work. I hope on
some level he's enjoying some of this. Mike's a great dude,
so if you want to go by the censored shop
right now, it's the barber shop without barbering or nor
does it currently have a barber pole because he doesn't
want to go to jail. Is their jails are full
around here. Not with the juvenile delinquents. We don't do
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anything about that, but with the people who are allegedly
offering barbering services. That's the ridiculousness of our community. We
got more people in biocontainment units with hantavirus than the
juvenile Justice Center, than the teeming juvenile justice problem that
doesn't actually get locked up in the juvenile Justice Center.
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That's a nice building. Yeah, by the way, they don't
have the haunt of virus down there. I'll give you
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Speaker 5 (20:10):
Good morning you guys. I'm just wondering why it's okay
to name a entertainment ven you a health center, but
you can't name a bar a barbershop. Just curious.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
That's an excellent question, especially since there was some confusion
this week when they brought all those patients over suspected
of maybe being a haunt of virus victims, and they
brought them here to Omaha, but rather than take them
to the biocontainment unit, they took them to Chi Health
Center because it says CCHI Health Center right there on
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the side of the entertainment venue downtown. And they infected
everyone at the Wringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey circus.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
You've got to be making this up. Is there still
a Ringing Brothers circus?
Speaker 1 (20:56):
That's the part of the story I'm making up. I
figured I would throw something out there that doesn't currently
exist anymore. Okay, oh no, you can't have a circus anymore.
It's mean for.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
Who the animals.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
The animals loved the circle. They don't, Yeah, they did.
I talked to them, My friend Doolittle and I would
talk to the animals, and they said, we love being
a part of this. The elephant's natural habitat is in
a circle with a with various people writing on its back.
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That happens in nature.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
I think you should go watch Dumbo.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Tigers and elephants in nature, all right, here's the actual
story here about the biocontainment unit. There was one individual
they were really watching. This is the American doctor who
was he's now describing that he tested mildly positive for
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the hauntavirus, just a slight case of the deadly haunt
of virus.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
And this is what kind of a doctor.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
This is a doctor of medicine, not a doctor of
j or dre This is doctor Stephen Kornfeld, an American
cancer doctor. Said I had a mildly positive haunt of
virus test, but that's been downgraded since his subsequent tests
came back negative. And now he's medically cleared to go
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out of the bio containment unit into the quarantine ward.
What's the difference, Probably not a whole heck of a lot.
But he says he feels one hundred percent fine, and
he's the Yes, he's among the fifteen or so passengers
under observation here in Omaha in the quarantine unit, says
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he feels great. Another passenger here in from the cruise
ship now in Nebraska, says that he'll spend forty two
days at the quarantine unit. Described his room to the
Associated Press like it's a nice hotel suite. He said,
it's a very nice room. He's I got my own bathroom, refrigerator,
smart TV. I've even got my own exercise bike. I
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already ordered a mattress pad, new pillows. I think for now,
my plan is to take it one day at a time,
and that's the best.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
I can do.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
Who is paying for this?
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Well, with all the things he's getting there, I'm guessing NFM.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
I don't know if nfm's paying for it, but I'm
sure this is federally.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Well, yeah, I don't know who's paying well, I mean,
if the idea is we don't want a virus to spread,
are you gonna get right? Are you gonna be like,
I don't know, I don't want to pay for this,
let them out, let's just roll the DIC. I didn't
say that, all right, Well, I'd imagine that, just like
anything else, it's some level of their health insurance is
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probably paying for this. Forty two days forty.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Two days health insurance company. You're going to go with
a no one.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Yeah, you're right, they don't. They don't want you in
a hospital for forty two hours seconds for anything. They
don't want you to walk through the door I got
attacked by a shark. All right, we'll have you in
here for I don't know. I think this is a
routine outpatient procedure, like there, my leg is gone. You
can You'll be fine.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
Would you can say that a mild attack.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
It's a mild shark attack. Here with Lucy Chapman, Craig Evans,
Jim Rose. This is Nebraska's morning News News Radio eleven
to ten kfab Jim, what's wrong with me that I
can't get into being excited about the World Cup? It
seems like everyone's excited about the World Cup, well partly.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Because you're gonna need a financial advisor to afford tickets.
That's the first thing that has people turned off.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Now I can't. I can't I can afford tickets to
go to the Super Bowl. I don't think so. But
I'm not going to spend the money to get the
tickets to go to the Super Bowl. But I still
watch the Super Bowl because it's on TV. The World
Cup will be on TV.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Be there the Super Bowl as a cultural event in
our country, the World Cup is not. It's not regularly
played here. It's not every year. We can't follow the
teams because many of them are foreign teams. I think
there is a lot of excitement for the World Cup.
I think there's a lot of buzz about it among
soccer fans. I still believe that in this country, despite
fifty years of trying just to be back the opposite,
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it's still a subsport in this country from a spectator
point of view. Now, about every kid who ever walked
up right plays soccer at some point in their lives.
It becomes a great form of exercise for little kids
and for young children, and they play and run around
and some of them become really good soccer players, but
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most of them do not, and then they don't become
necessarily big spectators of the sport. They gravitate toward football, basketball, baseball.
So I still think it's a subsport popularity wise in
this country, but worldwide it's massively popular because they don't.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Have Major League Baseball, the NBA or the NFL in Europe. Yeah. Well,
when my daughter was a little kid, she played in soccer,
like all kids should play soccer. It's a great sport
for little kids. And their coach tell you what brilliant mind.
He was a Kenyan guy with a thick accent. Who
would holler at these little girls aged about four three
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things during the entire game. He would just be there
the sidelines going okay, now go go not kick kick
run now kick get in front. Go Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
A Lexis played soccer and she had a great time
and the highlight was the juice box after the game.
It's part of the American you know, cultural experience.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
But everyone got to play soccer as a kid. Everyone's
getting wildly whipped into a frenzy over the World Cup.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
I'll there's a lot of buzz about it because the
United States has a chance to advance along and win
the thing.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
And of course we're hosting it this year.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Yeah, so we're going to have the championships at the Meadowlands.
Kansas City is going to host a whole bunch of
matches at Arrowhead Stadium. It'll be very very popular Economically,
it's huge for the country because so many people are
coming from overseas and they're going to be here in hotels,
renting cars, eating in restaurants for weeks.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
I was down in Kansas City a couple of weeks ago,
and they're at the Power and Light District downtown KC.
They've already got a World Cup kind of a pop
up store already there. You can go and buy all
your stuff and get ready for it. I feel like
I'm the only one in America. Well maybe me and
Chris Baker is not legendarily not a soccer now. I
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feel like we're the only ones not interested in the
World Cup and emails and wants to know why kfab
never reports on the WNBA.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
The WNBA is a very little popularity in this country.
It has a cult following of a few million people
and that's it. But it's not a mainstream sport. And
if you're really interested, the folks who are really interested
in the WNBA can get that information in five or
six different sources.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
We're not a sports station. We use sports as news.
I thought sports was news on.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
It it is, so what we do is treat sports information
like news. Now there are sports stations and I don't
think they're even talking about the WNBA.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
But like, for.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Example, in Nebraska softball, Husker softball is popular right now
because they've had a great season.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
They have an All American.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
They have a Heisman Trophy winner for softball named Jordie
from her name was Jordi ball at Papio. She could
literally lead Nebraska to a national title in a very
competitive sport, which is softball and not like a you know,
sort of a fringe Olympic sport like you know, water
polo or rifle or equestrian. So it's very popular now,
but when the season is over that a lot of
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Husker fans are going to go back to being interested
in football.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Right. No, no, And it is sad that you know,
there are certainly people who are into the WNBA, and
for most of us, the only reason that we pay
attention to it is every once in a while when
someone tries to murder Caitlin Clark during the third quarter,
or people are throwing sex toys onto the court during
the game. Both of these things have happened during the WNBA.
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And I hope you and the storm and the fever
and the goofy multicolored balls are enjoying the basketballs are
enjoying the WNBA.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
I can tell you right now with this audience, what's
happening in suburban Philadelphia today is of much greater importance
than the WNBA PGA championship.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Part of with Omaha's on Ryan. For me, he's in
it playing today. Lucy Chapman is giving the traffic cameras
a dirty look right now? Is it that bad out there?
Which part the traffic part?
Speaker 4 (29:54):
I thought you meant the construction part.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
That's part of the traffic part.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
I think, well, it certainly can be. Actually, it's not
Wednesday traffic. It's Thursday traffic. Scott.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
When people stay home.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
When people stay home, it's a little lighter.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Yeah, like a fool, I came to work today. I
wanted to hear Jim Rows sports brief in person. I
mean I can listen to it on the radio, but
to be right here and see it in action magic.
And also if I'm here, I can push buttons, like
when you send us a message with your own voice
via the talkback mic that comes into the Zonker's custom
was inbox. We're talking about this bar in Blackstone near
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the med Center here in Omaha Midtown that calls itself
the Barbershop. Well, it's not a barber shop. It doesn't
purport to be a barber shop. It's a bar. And
the joke is the bar bur shop. It's a bar.
They don't do haircuts, they do cocktails. So you could
see where some people be confused. We talked about how
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the CHI Health Center downtown is not a health center,
it is an entertainment venue sponsored by Chi Health Center.
Apparently this confusion goes beyond Omaha.
Speaker 6 (31:05):
I went over to the Playhouse in Council Bluffs. I
was really looking forward to a theatrical experience and boy
with eyeshot, you know, I mean, after my wife saw
the credit card statement, I really had to explain.
Speaker 7 (31:20):
I thought I was.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Going to see a theatrical show.
Speaker 6 (31:23):
I was expecting to see a bunch of Thespians. I'm
blown away. It's just mind boggling on they should see too.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Yeah, yeah, the Omaha Community Playhouse is different than the Playhouse.
I imagine more than one couple has been confused. We
were here to see our town. Yeah, that's not a
lot more than that what it is. Yeah, he went
there expecting to see thespians. Nunciation is key. We're so
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excited to be a part of a really cool event
from my hometown this Saturday afternoon. You've probably already seen
it there on Abbot Drive at Levi Carter Park across
from Eppley Airfield. It is the uss Omaha Memorial and
one of the committee members who's been very influential with
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trying to get this done for several years, joins us. Now,
Jay Armstrong, Welcome to eleven to ten kfab.
Speaker 7 (32:22):
Thank you, Scott. I'm glad to be here.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
First of all, tell me about the uss Omaha.
Speaker 7 (32:28):
This is not an antique. This is a Los Angeles
Class fast attack nuclear submarine, or it was. There were
over fifty of this Hall model seventy eight built and
to this day there are still I think twenty two
or three in active service. So this is not World
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War II or some old thing that is not viable,
but this model remains viable today.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
This is the kind of nuclear power to tack submarine like.
And I know you've heard this movie used a lot
in connection with this, The movie The Hunt for Red
October is a great example of the type of submarine
that this is and was. It was in service from
nineteen seventy six to nineteen ninety five. So what are
we doing Saturday afternoon and how can people be a
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part of this?
Speaker 7 (33:21):
Well, gosh, show up. First of all, I don't think
you'll be unhappy that you did. Number one. The weather's
going to be great, and it looks like we couldn't
have picked a better day. So it's a good day
to be out there, and they show up there, let's
get to the basics. There's going to be free food
and soft drinks and stuff, but the sale is fact.
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We're just putting the finishing touches on it today. And
one of the things that I listened to a couple
of your other interviews, one of the things that you
said was, gee, you wish we could get in the thing,
which you know day, well, we can't get any look
at Well that's not true. Oh what we What we did? Actually, uh,
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Jeff Green did this. We had this one large opening
in the back that we did not have a plate for. Uh.
And so Jeff and Larry Keith, who is by the way,
mine guy, had been instrumental in working on this thing
with Jeff and I. Larry Keith and Jeff fabricated a door.
It's on hinges and it's bolded shut, but remove us bolts.
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We can open it up and you can get inside
this thing and it's it's I think it's a unique
deal our display because I've been to others and I
don't think there's any others in the country that you
can do that.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Are we gonna be able to do that on Saturday
for this memorial launch?
Speaker 7 (34:48):
Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (34:49):
All right, I gotta get in this thing. I gotta
I gotta pretend like I'm I like Baldwin for this event.
Talking here with Jay Armstrong, part of the uss Omaha committee.
The event is the Special Memorial Relaunch of the uss
Omaha SSN six ninety two. It's coming up this Saturday
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at noon Levi Carter Park right there across from Eppley Airfield.
As Jay mentioned, we're gonna have food. Sergeant Pepper's Cafe,
Italian Saddle Creek will provide some light or derves, Chesterman
Coca Cola with complimentary water and soft drinks. All the
details at Ussomaha Memorial dot org. And Jay, we got
some special guests there as well, former and current sub
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mariners in local military, including we're hoping people who actually
served on the uss Omaha and I'll have a chance
it's part of the presentation that starts at noon to
maybe hopefully do a little bit of Q and A
with them and the audience about what it was like
to serve on a nuclear submarine like the uss Omaha.
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It's going to be a very special event. And as
Jay said, show up. This is cool for Omaha, and
you've been working on this for well over a decade
to try and make this happen. It's only a couple
of days away. Now. We'll see you Saturday at noon
at Levi Carter Park for the special memorial relaunch of
the USS Omaha SSN six ninety two nuclear submarine right
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here in Omaha. Coming home here, Jay, thank you very
much for what you've been doing to provide this special
event and memorial right here in my hometown. Thanks for
telling us about it here on Nebraska's Morning News.
Speaker 7 (36:25):
Thanks for interviewing me, Scott. We look forward to Saturday.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
All right, looking forward to it. I'll get a chance
to be out there as well. Hope to see you
there too. News Radio eleven to ten KFAB and the
Zonker's custom was inbox. A couple of emails here of
a political standpoint sent to Scott atkfab dot com. Tom
On Dan Osborne, the independent senate candidate, says I thought
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he wasn't a Democrat. Why would the Democrat who won
the primary for US Senate in Nebraska on Tuesday? Why
would the Democrat that won step aside, because tom.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
So, the Democrat Party is an embarrassment. That's why I'd
phrase it this way.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
The Democrats know that there was zero chance that that
Democratic candidate could win. At least they feel like they've
got a ghost of a chance to get someone like
Dan Osborne independent. He said, I don't particularly like everything
the Democrats stand for now. He has gotten a lot
of money from some deep pocket Democrats over the years,
(37:31):
and there's always the question like, well with whom or
would you caucus should you win? Dan I don't think
that they would pay to get him into the US
Senate and then not let him caucus with the Democrats.
But you know, Dan Osborne's his own man. We'll see
as far as money goes. Kathleen emails and says, look
into the amount of outside funds that Denise Powell got
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five and a half million dollars. Jean Stotht summarized this
no name well by saying, I've never heard of this woman.
That's from Kathleen, who says this would be a good
topic for a Rosie to Genozi at some point.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
This is what the theme of this entire campaign is
going to be. To our detriment, and that is and
brinker Harding started it yesterday afternoon, her rivals in the
Democrat primary, referred to as dark money. Denise and brinker
Harding made a big deal out of it, started it
on social media yesterday.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
Do people care?
Speaker 2 (38:28):
I think some do, but more people are interested in
What are you going to do about the cost of
my health care? What are you going to do about
the cost of the higher education? What are you going
to do about the cost of my property casualty insurance?
What are you going to do about the fact that
kids are coming out of school and haven't learned anything.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
They're not going to talk about any about any of
that stuff. What are you going to do about deficits?
Speaker 2 (38:50):
We have right now more debt in this country than
we have an annual GDP. Okay, we generate eight thirty
five billion a year, we owe thirty or trillion. We
owe thirty seven trillion. What are you gonna do about that?
Nobody is gonna ask, and they're not going to talk
about any of those things. What are you gonna do
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about this, this, this, and this with your problems?
Speaker 1 (39:13):
Instead?
Speaker 2 (39:13):
What we're gonna get out of these two people and
their surrogates and their proxies and their funders for the
next six months.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
Is this She's.
Speaker 2 (39:21):
Getting bad money from bad people. He's getting many from
bad people.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
Who cares? Who cares? Who cares? Nobody cares, But that's
what they're gonna do. No one's ever heard of her,
but she's struck a chord with those who go and
vote in a Democratic primary, who right now are largely
frustrated and angry. She's said, I'm frustrated and angry too.
You got elected.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
What are you gonna do about crime? What are you
gonna do about illegal immigrants? What are you gonna do
about X Y? And what are you gonna do about medicare?
What are you gonna do about Social Security?
Speaker 1 (39:47):
Love to hear those real, honest answers to those questions.
Greg Emails says, why register to vote if you're not
going to vote, Come on, people, there's no excuse. We've
talked about that a lot over the years. Lucy Chapman,
Craig Evans, Jim rows, he don'aho here on Nebraska's Morning News. Jim,
why do you think that is? People register to vote?
It's time to go vote. About seventy five percent of
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voters don't go vote in a primary election, and it's
more than half of them on an election day.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
Well, part of it is that independents are not allowed
to vote in a primary, so.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
You can still vote. They're just not a lot to
vote on.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
We have a growing population of independence and they wait
until we get down.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
To the final two. That's bull. Well, that's the way
it is, whether you like it or not. They're not
who who is still an independent in this era of Trump?
Speaker 2 (40:36):
We got twenty seven percent of the voters in Douglas
County are independent.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
They're not. They're just too cowardly to admit they're one
thing or the other. That's a no one is independent
right now.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
Editorial opinion by Scott Borhies, which is usually my purview.
But ah, you know, I think in some cases they're
not inspired by candidates. In some cases they think, ah,
I'll worry about it when we get to the general election.
That really it's only the diehards that vote in primaries.
I don't know that that's necessarily true, but in the
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case of Omaha City elections, the general election is only
a month or so later. Here we have basically now
a quiet period through the summer. These guys are going
to go dark. You're gonna see ads, you're gonna see
negative social media posts. They're probably gonna do some grassroots things,
but you won't see much of them until probably after
Labor Day, and then they'll crank up and do a
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lot more. They'll be in parades and they'll they'll go
walking through various malls and whatnot, depending on how organized
their campaign is, especially if it's confined to say, like
CD two in the case of Jim Pillin or Pete
Ricketts or Dan Osbourne, they got to go across the state.
Speaker 1 (41:44):
But you'll see him at.
Speaker 2 (41:45):
The high profile events like Cattleman's Ball and Cozad which
is the first week in June. They'll probably be out
there for that. Certainly they'll be at the state Fair
in Grand Island. But why don't people vote in primaries?
May not think that their vote counts that much, with
which I think is not true, especially with them with
the district legislative district races.
Speaker 1 (42:06):
So it probably varies from guy to guy, but.
Speaker 2 (42:10):
Unless it's competitive, and in the case of the GOP,
and we saw this with a tremendously low voter turnout
yesterday among GOP voters. You didn't have any competition in
the high profile races. He had a lot of competition
and a lot of races, but not for Senate, not
for governor, not for state auditor, not for Attorney general,
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and not for CD two.
Speaker 1 (42:31):
You're right, it was an embarrassingly low voter turnout yesterday,
since yesterday was Wednesday. But on Tuesdays we voted, it
was pretty low then too. It took a couple of years,
but the media is now admitting that Joe Biden spent
a lot of time in a bunker with his wife,
not knowing what was going on in the real world.
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And when I say the media, the British media which
is now saying that Great Britain is facing its own
Joe Biden moment as their Prime Minister. Keir Starmer a
little different in terms of age and knowing where he
is in any given moment, but he's rejecting calls to quit,
and he's defiantly daring his challengers to go ahead and
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use the process for challenging their leader Joe Biden. Before
he eventually stepped down, I was saying, hey, you want
to mount your own campaign, challenge me at the convention
they said, Keir Starmer is becoming Joe Biden. He's basically
in a bunker with his wife saying it's all gonna
be fine now. I think Prime Minister Starmer can carry
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on a little bit of a conversation better than President
Biden was often able to do.
Speaker 2 (43:41):
Oh, the best way to get something done if if
it holds near and dear to you that you.
Speaker 1 (43:48):
Like to be able to.
Speaker 6 (43:50):
Anyway.
Speaker 5 (43:54):
I'm we're ready to get.
Speaker 2 (43:55):
A lot done. Yeah, sure are. You know the hardest
job in the world was during the Joe Biden years.
The person that goes on there and has to translate
for the death you know, I mean, there's they just
shrug their shoulders.
Speaker 7 (44:08):
You know.
Speaker 2 (44:08):
He gets into one of his little word circuses there
and she just shrugs her shoulders. I don't know what
he just said.
Speaker 1 (44:14):
And then then they go tell the sign language interpreter,
don't worry, Kamala Harris is coming down. They're like, that
doesn't get any better. That doesn't help me. How do
I do dog face pony soldier in sign language with
President Biden. Here's Joe Biden.
Speaker 2 (44:31):
The interpreter just raises their shoulders, shrugs their shoulders, shakes
their heads.
Speaker 1 (44:35):
I don't know. On the other side of the aisle,
here's another politician having a bad day, Ran Paul, because
of the alleged actions of his adult son. His son
is thirty three years old and apparently the son of
Kentucky Senator Ran Paul, was in a bar. He found
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a guy in a bar and on leashed a ten
minute loud rant where he declared he hates Jews, he
hates gays, he doesn't care if they die. And he said,
if Thomas Massey loses the upcoming Kentucky primary, us trying
to steal Iran's land for the Jews. It's anti American Jews.
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So he said, you gotta watch more Tucker Carlson. Then
he's just started flipping everyone off and stumbling out, knocked
over a barstool. He said, now, quote, I had too
much to drink and said some things that don't represent
who I really am. Are you sure that was him
or Grandpa? It was William Paul, thirty three year old
son of Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky. I who's the
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son of Ron Paul, the congressman from Texas.
Speaker 2 (45:46):
Grandson of Ron Paul. Pretty much pretty much sure that
the world was going to come to an end.
Speaker 1 (45:50):
Why. I know, we many of us have had maybe
a bit too much to drink, had a little loose lip.
But I don't remember ever being drunk or hearing about
me being drunk and saying things that weren't somewhere inside
of me. You know, maybe I finally had the courage
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to go and you know, either tell some girl I
thought she was beautiful or some guy I thought he
was a jerk. You know, that was all inside of me.
You can't come out and unleash a tirade saying you
hope all the gays and Jews die and then say, hey,
I that wasn't man a little too much to drink.
That doesn't happen because you have too much to drink.
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That might help. It's called liquid courage. Yeah it doesn't.
It doesn't. You know, the liquid courage doesn't put those
thoughts in there. It just releases the thoughts that are
already in there. Yeah, but Scott, you don't understand. Children
of politicians are immune. Look at Hunter Biden. Yes, we
don't have to worry about the kids. We just worry
about the ones that were elected presidents in China, and
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he's just I know that it's it's such a lazy stereotype.
But when you see the present and standing there amongst
all the Chinese dignitaries who are greeting him, he towers
above them. He's got to feel like he's a like
he's a giant in that land. And you know he
loves it. He loves being taller than people. Just imagine
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if Baron was there. Yeah, Baron Trump is taller than Yeah,
he's nine two. He's at least nine to two. Is
Hoiberg talked to him? He got any game? Think of
the nil opportunities. Glenn Beck last night here on eleven
ten kfab said he gets very nervous when China is
nice to Trump because Trump loves making people happy who
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are nice to them. And so Trump's over there saying
you're a great leader about Xi chiampign Sometimes people don't
like me saying it, but I say it anyway because
it's true, as an honor to be with you, as
an honor to be your friend. There are people just going,
what is he gonna do? I think that you can.
It was hilarious this morning. I think you can calm
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down though. On ovations, that Trump's gonna give away everything
to China. He's been cutting them off from energy, oil minerals,
He's been cutting them off at every turn tariffs. So yeah,
I don't think Trump and he says one thing, but
he's killing China right now with kindness and a smile
on his face. What do you say this morning?
Speaker 2 (48:18):
He's you know, they're exchanging toasts this morning, and you know,
Zgping had this very officious statement about, you know, the
importance of cooperating and the greatness that the United States
and the China, the Chinese people in the US citizens
can share for the rest of the world. And Trump
gets up there and says, these two countries, you know,
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they alle a lot to each other. You know, in
China it's blue jeans and basketball, and in our country
it's Chinese food. You you pretty much just cut the
nation of China down to cashew chicken at PF changs.
Speaker 1 (48:53):
Is that what we're talking about, mister Pratt, I do
I do love Chinese food.
Speaker 2 (49:00):
I think there's a little more you can say about
the Chinese culture than just Mugu guipan or kung paal.
Speaker 1 (49:07):
I suppose there's something to be said for all of
the electronics that we use in our life, which has
most of its origins in China. We want to thank
you for that. I like my sweet and sour smartphone. Yeah,
very much, thank you for that. China. This is the
Babylon Bee said that the President wanted to go over
there and meet with General Chow. Yeah, General Child's Chicken.
Speaker 2 (49:30):
You know this is this is actually very good for
the It's good for the world to have us being
nice to each other.
Speaker 1 (49:36):
This is this in Russia.
Speaker 2 (49:37):
These would be the three superpowers in the world today,
and it's nice to get along with them. Whether or
not they mean any of this, who knows. And when
they close the doors and they start having serious meetings,
does the tone change And the answer is probably yes.
Speaker 1 (49:50):
You know where this comes from.
Speaker 2 (49:51):
Now, they've been they've been funding Iranian rebels against us.
They're they're giving them weapons to the Caspian Sea. The
President will prefer that to not happen. He knows that
a bunch of oil comes to China through the Straits
of Horror moves, but not right now. He's hoping they
buy American oil. But that doesn't solve the problem. This
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is just a very very tense time between two countries
that economically want to dominate the world. The president of
the United States is not going to continue to allow
them to screw us over which has been happening for
twenty five years.
Speaker 1 (50:25):
The criticism is just because it's Trump. If he goes
to war with them, he's wrong. If he makes peace
with them, he's wrong. There's no winning
Good morning, and welcome to this edition of Nebraska's Morning
News here on news Radio eleven ten KFAB. And according
to national media, right here in the blue dot, we've
got Jim Rose right there, Lucy Chapman, Craig Evans. Seems
like the blue dot has come up quite a bit
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here in national media talking about how Denise Powell is
still I guess projected to be the winner of Cavanaugh,
of the numerous Democrats who are trying to get that
nomination to take on with Nowt Brinker Harding in November.
In Nebraska's second congressional district. It's it came down to
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John Cavanaugh and Denise Powell. Powell's got enough of a
lead that many media outlets are saying, yep, she won,
and she seems to be acting like she won. But
John Cavanaugh says, oh no, we got to make sure
every single vote is counted here. So I thought we
were supposed to accept the election results. I thought it
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was a bad taste, bad form, and something only Trump
does when we don't accept the election results. But she's
certainly seeming like she's moving ahead towards November. I don't
know if that means she's still ticked off, like she
said in her ads using different language. If a couple
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of other races here that are too close to call
the story from k e TV News Watch seven, Jim,
if you paid any attention to what happened here Among
the Democrats who wanted to be the next Douglas County
Attorney in on sat Don Kline, the former Democrat now Republican,
there was someone who worked in his office that went
to him and said, I now I work with you
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and for you here in the office, but I'm going
to try and unseat you in your position as my
boss in the upcoming election. I hope that means we
can still be colleagues. And Don Klein apparently said, no,
that's that's the most ridiculous thing I ever heard. You're fired,
And then she had the nerve to be like, what
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do you mean I'm fired? I mean if you go
into the boss's office and say I don't think that
you're doing a great job. Now, I'm gonna keep working
in here with you, but in the meantime I will
be using every free moment I have to try and
get you out of your job. How long would you
expect that you would be in that job not long.
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That's poor form. But you I don't blame her for running,
but if you think that you're gonna be able to
keep your job by going to your boss saying I'm
gonna do everything I can to try and get you
out of here. Now, I'll see you tomorrow at work.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Yeah, hey, that's not gonna work that way. Give her
a hug when you get home for me. Mikaela Danner,
senior attorney in the Prosecutor's Office. She did have a
lead of about fourteen hundred votes over the former Douglas
County Deputy Attorney Amy Jacobson.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Jacobson's the one that went to don Klin and said
I'm try and take you out here, And it looks
like Mikaela Danner is She's up about three points. It's
not a lot of votes, No, not a lot of
people voted on Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
No, only a total of about fifty thousand I think
total votes in that race.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Here's the main thing you need to know.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Neither one of them would be good for crime prevention
in this community if they were to topple don Klin.
So so everybody understands these two are liberals, These two.
But are They haven't declared that they would defund the police,
but you can probably smell it around them. These people
are anti ice. These people are we need to treat
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criminals with a little more respect, and we need to
make sure that you know, we aren't putting people in
jail just because they're black, or just because they're Hispanic,
or just because they're poor and all that kind of stuff.
It's that national narrative about crime prevention from the left,
so you've got this will be legitimate. I'll be very
interested to see who funds the winner of this campaign
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in the general election, because this sets up a really,
really pretty picture of how George Sorows had been involved
in a lot of local attorney races throughout the country,
funding people that are on the left side of crime
prevention as a means to sort of socially re engineer
the communities. We'll be paying close attention to who funds
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those that race, whether it's MSS Jacobson or MS Danner
up against Don Klein, who has been an outstanding county
attorney for a long long time. And it's a safer
community because of Don Klein and because of Aaron Hanson
and because of Todd Schmater and because of Gene Stothard.
We don't know about John Ewing yet. He's not been
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in office long enough. But that's what you need to
know about that race.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Well, I think they stopped protesting outside of Don Klein's
house in West Omaha, so that's good. But that race
officially too close to call. It's a three point lead
though for Mikaela Danner. Looks like it'll be Danner versus
Klent for Douglas County Attorney come November. And then the
count of the County Board of Commissioner's District two race
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looks like Jim Cavanaugh. I mean, this is a margin
of about two points, but it's fewer than two hundred
votes in this race. But a high school teacher who's
never run for office before, Whitney Hanson, is leading the
incumbent Douglas County Commissioner Jim Cavanaugh by the about a
two point margin. So that's officially too close to call,
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but they'll both advance to the general election. I believe. No,
it's because that's the Democratic primary. Oh, that's just the primary,
and the Republicans didn't run anyone in district too so
whoever wins this race then seemingly will be the next
Douglas County a board member unless there's a big write
in campaign. Who knows. Most people have no idea that
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there is such thing as a Douglas County board, let
alone who their commissioner is or what they do spoiler alert,
they do a lot of important things. Well, they bow
a lot of money on juvenile justice, spend a lot
of money.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
They spend a lot of money on stuff they probably
shouldn't be spending money on. Meanwhile, the county sheriff's office
gets squeezed. They need people. They need a lot more people.
They need a lot more staff, they need a lot
more sheriff's deputies. What we're not seeing in this county
is because of the stretch of that office, is enough
attention to property crime outside of the city limits. See
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Douglas County is a There's a lot of stuff going
on in Douglas County. We see it in Omaha. We
think gets between six p't eighty and the river. But
there's a lot of stuff going on and they need
more help and property crime otherwise you're going to continue
to see it escalate. I've been fascinated over the last
three four years watching this county board in action. It's
(06:47):
pretty embarrassing, and it starts with the Juvenile Justice Center
and then moves along to these other bad policy decisions.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Meanwhile, a lot of people are saying how many Kavanaughs
are an elected office around that to one hundred and
sixty three?
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Some would say too many. Uh that we probably need
to you know, call that hurt a little bit. And
maybe after John Kavanaughs, Uh, he'll be term limited in
two years out of the Nebraska unicameral and maybe that'll
be the end of him.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
His sister is finito.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Now, I was talking to some fairly intelligent politicos yesterday,
Scott and they say this, and I hadn't thought about it,
but I think it makes sense. His sister has acted
as if she's unhinged many times, and some believe that
actually did affect his vote. Turnout, that his sister may
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have had a negative draw on him, that she with
her behavior, the tears, the yelling, the screaming, the in
some cases criminal behavior down there with criminal Well, remember
what she did when she was tearing stuff off walls.
Hardly criminal beats It's against the law.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
It wasn't just one yeah, but don't hint around that
she was murdering.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Me, suggesting that she's, you know, be brought up on
a salt and battery charge. But the overall get us
in trouble. This movie theme is that she didn't help
brother John. Brother John, she's she's a pantload, and many
people are pretty thinking that they maybe she might have
(08:17):
dragged him.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Down a little bit. President is over in China and
President Xi Jinping of China went all out. I'm surprised
they didn't have the Chinese acrobats of Taipei doing the
Trump dance to Ymca over there making it look like, hey,
President Trump is the most important person who's ever been.
(08:39):
Now now that we had a wonderful parade in your honor,
mister President, is such a pleasure to have you here.
You're just the greatest thing that's ever been. And you
know what, taller in person, and look at the size
of those hands. They're great. We need oil, if you
could possibly find it in your heart to open up
the straight of horror moves and get us some more
of that Ventezualan oil that we used to enjoy. We
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used to get our oil from Venezuela and Iran, and
then you cut all that off. Then you tried to
cut out our mineral generation in places like Ukraine and Greenland.
So I remember how we had the big parade there
and told you how great you were. You see what
your fortune cookie said. It said, your fortunes are absolutely
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gold and even better, and we look forward to working
with you in your third term. Mister president, you're just
the it's handsome too, so if we could get some
of that oil. Glenn Beck last night said, I get
real nervous when people treat Trump very very well who
have no reason to, because it's pretty clear to most
people they're just sucking up to them, and Trump's just
soaks it in. He's like, that's great, these people are
(09:48):
the best. I'm so on, he said. He told Ji Jimping,
it's an honor to be your friend. Now, there is
a difference between what Trump says sometimes and what is
happening behind the scenes and what he's doing. What he's
been doing with China is tariffs, cutting off the oil
(10:09):
and energy supply and forcing them to be a little
better partners with America and not adversarial. So I don't
think just because Jijenping throws Trump a giant parade, that
Trump's just gonna give away everything like elon right, them
a big check, give him whatever they want gets.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
In trouble in the first place. I Bill Clinton and
George W. Bush give them whatever they want. It'll be
good for American business.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
I don't think there's reason to be concerned if you
look just to what they're saying right now. That's one thing.
But I think Trump is smart enough to realize that
they're trying to suck up and get some stuff out
of America. But they're like. He treats China better than
our partners and allies in Europe because they're more important.
They are more important, and their leaders aren't feckless, elite
(11:00):
as snobs like some of our so called friends in
Europe who aren't there to help us when we need them.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
I think that he'd like the Chinese to stop shipping
guns to the Caspian Cedo Iran.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
That'd be fine. Sidebar. I'm for the eleven to ten
kfab certified transmission Sports Brief. Jim Row Okay, Scott, good morning, everybody,
Husker stuff today. Troy Dan and athletic director went on
the radio last night, explained his ticket policy for the
postseason softball tournaments and potentially baseball. This way, people who
give the.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Most money get first access to postseason tickets, regardless of
the sport. He has seventeen thousand donors giving between two
hundred and fifty and twenty five thousand dollars a year,
plus suite holders at volleyball and football. They will always
get first crack called at.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
The gold Well.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
He didn't call it the Golden rule, but I do.
He who got the gold makes the rules. In the
case of softball season ticket holders, they were all offered
tickets to the regional, just not necessarily their regular season seats,
maybe burm seats or general admission. If Husker Baseball hosts,
it's a regional, same deal. This is a perk for
being a donor. The baseball team is in Dinky Town,
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the bar district just adjacent to campus at the University
of Minnesota for the weekend. How do you think they
attract fifty thousand students a year to that? Igloo have
a bar district next door. Nebraska and the Gophers play
a series today Tomorrow Saturday. These games matter for both teams.
Minnesota is on the brink of qualifying for the Big
Ten Tournament. They need at least one win against Nebraska
(12:27):
to get there. It's been hard for sky Yuma nil
wipes them out. The weather is dreadful until the last
one fourth of the season. The athletic department has it
on a shoe string budget. But second year coach Ty
McDevitt is hanging in there, and he's got a decent
pitching staff top three in the Big Ten in ERA
and walks and hits per inning Big League Baseball. The
(12:48):
White Sox extended their winning streak beat the Royals six
to five in Chicago. Colson Montgomery led the way. He
went three for four with a solo home run in
the bottom of the seventh.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
It might say that we can we can win, and
you know, obviously that's what we're doing right now. And
I think it's just you know, staying consistent with our work,
coming in, you know, and put our head down, do
what we need to do before the game, and then
once the game happens, you know, just going there and competing,
have fun.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
What the deal with the kids of City Royals? They
win five in a row, lose three in a row.
Can't follow this bunch. American League Baltimore seven and the
Yankees nothing. The Guardians defeated the Angels four to two.
Toronto Beatapa Bay in Houston over the Mariners. National League
Dodgers four, Giant Zip Padres three, Milwaukee one, Braves beat
the Cubs. Colorado and the Nats win games. Inter league
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played the A six, the Cardinals two, Texas six, Arizona five,
Miami beat the Twins, The Mets beat the Tigers. The
Red Sox over Philadelphia, Omaha three to two over Toledo.
Somebody needs to get a muzzle on Husker quarterback Anthony Colandria.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Oh, here's some taste you wives, cool buzz and five.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
New Husker quarterback who has yet to take a snap
in a Big ten game, popped off yesterday, said i
didn't come here just to win eight games. I'm here
to win a national title. Easy there, Spartacus. Before we
talk about Ohio State, Indiana, Oregon, and Michigan, let's beat
Illinois and Iowa State. Soccer Class B girls yesterday, Pious
(14:12):
nine Pious scored nine on Scotis. Did Scotis have a goaltender?
Nine to two? Pious wins that one Elcorn five and
Carney Catholic nothing, Blair Bears over Gretdna East three to one,
and Scott two to nothing over Norris. You got Class
B boys today and then the semifinals start up tomorrow.
Sports his news on Nebraska's News weathern traffic station.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Here in Omaha. The bar that gets the most attention,
and I don't know if that means that they're packed
every night. I'm sure they're doing quite well. I hope
they are. Is the barbershop in Blackstone. Not sure if
you've been following the arguments and lawsuits and then counter
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lawsuits related to this bar. It's a bar. The owner,
who is a longtime local media member, Mike de Jacomo
and a heck of a great American, started this up
a speakeasy in honor of his father, who I guess
was a barber. So they put a barber pole out
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there and they called it the Barbershop Blackstone. They don't
cut hair in there. You can't go in there for
a shave and a haircut, even if you have two bits. Well,
the barbershop Collective Big Barber Shop filed a lawsuit and
said you can't use the barber pole and you can't
call it a barber shop unless it is a licensed barbershop.
(15:37):
And the owner of the bar said, that's only if
we are doing barbering things in here, as I told
you we are not. We'll serve you a cocktail, we
will not cut your hair. And they said nope. Lawsuit,
And so he's filed a counter lawsuit and this week
fought back with a temporary name. Lucy. The name of
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this bar is now the censored Shop.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Well that fits. What's the poll look like?
Speaker 1 (16:08):
They're hiding the pole to avoid any fines or as
Mike Dajakam Hotels First Alert six News, we're hiding the
poll and changing the name to avoid any fines or
jail time.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Because people were mistaking this for a barbershop.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
They say that state law prohibits any entity from displaying
a barber pole or using the image of a barber
pole and its advertising unless the entity is licensed to
provide and offer barbering services.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
How old is that law? Because they used to use
barber poles for other things, some kind of notification. If
I am remembering correctly something, I'll look that up.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Well, I don't know if I'm remembering this from history
or from Saturday Night Live. But the barber with the
barber pole used to be kind of a medical designation.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Maybe that's what I'm thinking.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Steve Martin is Theodoric of York. Hey, who's the barber here?
Looks like you need a good bleeding? One of my
favorite all time SNL bits.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
But's if it's a law that's from eighteen fifty whatever,
maybe it needs to be looked at before we need
to be harassing small businesses.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
It comes from a time when a lot of American
men needed barbershops in a regular basis because their mustaches
were so thick and plentiful at the end. Yeah, they
would go to the barbershop three four times a day
just to hack away at that stash. This is when
men had more testosterone then some of you do. Now.
(17:48):
Not me, I'm teeming with it. Just look at me.
Just don't look at me. I get why they have
the fight here, because you can't say, oh, yeah, I'm
a licensed barber if you're not a licensed barber. Right.
But I would think that even in those instances, let
the market decide. If I go, oh this is this
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must be a really good place. They got the barber
pole it's called the barber shop. And I go in
there and I get a haircut and it looks like,
you know, some cat took you know, a bunch of
wax at my head with a flobie. Then I'd say, well,
I am not going to give you my money, and
I'm not going to come back here, and I might
tell oh, my friends, not the gum here. You know,
that's how it would work. But this isn't a barber shop,
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it's a bar Are there really people that are like, Hey,
I came in here, I saw the barber pole, and
I came in here expecting to get a haircut. And
not only am I disillusioned now by the use of
the pole, I'm gonna sue you. I'm gonna sit here
and demand that someone cut my hair. It's kind of dumb.
(18:55):
I think that Mike, though, is on some level enjoying
some of this, because if you're a bar or restaurant owner,
any attention is good attention. Yeah, So.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
I hope.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
I hope on some level good you can drink in
an actual bar rather than at work. I hope on
some level he's enjoying some of this. Mike's a great dude,
so if you want to go by the censored shop
right now, it's the barber shop without barbering or nor
does it currently have a barber pole because he doesn't
want to go to jail. Is their jails are full
around here. Not with the juvenile delinquents. We don't do
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anything about that, but with the people who are allegedly
offering barbering services. That's the ridiculousness of our community. We
got more people in biocontainment units with hantavirus than the
juvenile Justice Center, than the teeming juvenile justice problem that
doesn't actually get locked up in the juvenile Justice Center.
(19:53):
That's a nice building. Yeah, by the way, they don't
have the haunt of virus down there. I'll give you
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Speaker 5 (20:10):
Good morning you guys. I'm just wondering why it's okay
to name a entertainment ven you a health center, but
you can't name a bar a barbershop. Just curious.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
That's an excellent question, especially since there was some confusion
this week when they brought all those patients over suspected
of maybe being a haunt of virus victims, and they
brought them here to Omaha, but rather than take them
to the biocontainment unit, they took them to Chi Health
Center because it says CCHI Health Center right there on
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the side of the entertainment venue downtown. And they infected
everyone at the Wringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey circus.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
You've got to be making this up. Is there still
a Ringing Brothers circus?
Speaker 1 (20:56):
That's the part of the story I'm making up. I
figured I would throw something out there that doesn't currently
exist anymore. Okay, oh no, you can't have a circus anymore.
It's mean for.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
Who the animals.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
The animals loved the circle. They don't, Yeah, they did.
I talked to them, My friend Doolittle and I would
talk to the animals, and they said, we love being
a part of this. The elephant's natural habitat is in
a circle with a with various people writing on its back.
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That happens in nature.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
I think you should go watch Dumbo.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Tigers and elephants in nature, all right, here's the actual
story here about the biocontainment unit. There was one individual
they were really watching. This is the American doctor who
was he's now describing that he tested mildly positive for
(21:59):
the hauntavirus, just a slight case of the deadly haunt
of virus.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
And this is what kind of a doctor.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
This is a doctor of medicine, not a doctor of
j or dre This is doctor Stephen Kornfeld, an American
cancer doctor. Said I had a mildly positive haunt of
virus test, but that's been downgraded since his subsequent tests
came back negative. And now he's medically cleared to go
(22:28):
out of the bio containment unit into the quarantine ward.
What's the difference, Probably not a whole heck of a lot.
But he says he feels one hundred percent fine, and
he's the Yes, he's among the fifteen or so passengers
under observation here in Omaha in the quarantine unit, says
(22:50):
he feels great. Another passenger here in from the cruise
ship now in Nebraska, says that he'll spend forty two
days at the quarantine unit. Described his room to the
Associated Press like it's a nice hotel suite. He said,
it's a very nice room. He's I got my own bathroom, refrigerator,
smart TV. I've even got my own exercise bike. I
(23:12):
already ordered a mattress pad, new pillows. I think for now,
my plan is to take it one day at a time,
and that's the best.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
I can do.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
Who is paying for this?
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Well, with all the things he's getting there, I'm guessing NFM.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
I don't know if nfm's paying for it, but I'm
sure this is federally.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Well, yeah, I don't know who's paying well, I mean,
if the idea is we don't want a virus to spread,
are you gonna get right? Are you gonna be like,
I don't know, I don't want to pay for this,
let them out, let's just roll the DIC. I didn't
say that, all right, Well, I'd imagine that, just like
anything else, it's some level of their health insurance is
(23:53):
probably paying for this. Forty two days forty.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Two days health insurance company. You're going to go with
a no one.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Yeah, you're right, they don't. They don't want you in
a hospital for forty two hours seconds for anything. They
don't want you to walk through the door I got
attacked by a shark. All right, we'll have you in
here for I don't know. I think this is a
routine outpatient procedure, like there, my leg is gone. You
can You'll be fine.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
Would you can say that a mild attack.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
It's a mild shark attack. Here with Lucy Chapman, Craig Evans,
Jim Rose. This is Nebraska's morning News News Radio eleven
to ten kfab Jim, what's wrong with me that I
can't get into being excited about the World Cup? It
seems like everyone's excited about the World Cup, well partly.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Because you're gonna need a financial advisor to afford tickets.
That's the first thing that has people turned off.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Now I can't. I can't I can afford tickets to
go to the Super Bowl. I don't think so. But
I'm not going to spend the money to get the
tickets to go to the Super Bowl. But I still
watch the Super Bowl because it's on TV. The World
Cup will be on TV.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Be there the Super Bowl as a cultural event in
our country, the World Cup is not. It's not regularly
played here. It's not every year. We can't follow the
teams because many of them are foreign teams. I think
there is a lot of excitement for the World Cup.
I think there's a lot of buzz about it among
soccer fans. I still believe that in this country, despite
fifty years of trying just to be back the opposite,
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it's still a subsport in this country from a spectator
point of view. Now, about every kid who ever walked
up right plays soccer at some point in their lives.
It becomes a great form of exercise for little kids
and for young children, and they play and run around
and some of them become really good soccer players, but
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most of them do not, and then they don't become
necessarily big spectators of the sport. They gravitate toward football, basketball, baseball.
So I still think it's a subsport popularity wise in
this country, but worldwide it's massively popular because they don't.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Have Major League Baseball, the NBA or the NFL in Europe. Yeah. Well,
when my daughter was a little kid, she played in soccer,
like all kids should play soccer. It's a great sport
for little kids. And their coach tell you what brilliant mind.
He was a Kenyan guy with a thick accent. Who
would holler at these little girls aged about four three
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things during the entire game. He would just be there
the sidelines going okay, now go go not kick kick
run now kick get in front. Go Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
A Lexis played soccer and she had a great time
and the highlight was the juice box after the game.
It's part of the American you know, cultural experience.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
But everyone got to play soccer as a kid. Everyone's
getting wildly whipped into a frenzy over the World Cup.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
I'll there's a lot of buzz about it because the
United States has a chance to advance along and win
the thing.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
And of course we're hosting it this year.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Yeah, so we're going to have the championships at the Meadowlands.
Kansas City is going to host a whole bunch of
matches at Arrowhead Stadium. It'll be very very popular Economically,
it's huge for the country because so many people are
coming from overseas and they're going to be here in hotels,
renting cars, eating in restaurants for weeks.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
I was down in Kansas City a couple of weeks ago,
and they're at the Power and Light District downtown KC.
They've already got a World Cup kind of a pop
up store already there. You can go and buy all
your stuff and get ready for it. I feel like
I'm the only one in America. Well maybe me and
Chris Baker is not legendarily not a soccer now. I
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feel like we're the only ones not interested in the
World Cup and emails and wants to know why kfab
never reports on the WNBA.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
The WNBA is a very little popularity in this country.
It has a cult following of a few million people
and that's it. But it's not a mainstream sport. And
if you're really interested, the folks who are really interested
in the WNBA can get that information in five or
six different sources.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
We're not a sports station. We use sports as news.
I thought sports was news on.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
It it is, so what we do is treat sports information
like news. Now there are sports stations and I don't
think they're even talking about the WNBA.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
But like, for.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Example, in Nebraska softball, Husker softball is popular right now
because they've had a great season.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
They have an All American.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
They have a Heisman Trophy winner for softball named Jordie
from her name was Jordi ball at Papio. She could
literally lead Nebraska to a national title in a very
competitive sport, which is softball and not like a you know,
sort of a fringe Olympic sport like you know, water
polo or rifle or equestrian. So it's very popular now,
but when the season is over that a lot of
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Husker fans are going to go back to being interested
in football.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Right. No, no, And it is sad that you know,
there are certainly people who are into the WNBA, and
for most of us, the only reason that we pay
attention to it is every once in a while when
someone tries to murder Caitlin Clark during the third quarter,
or people are throwing sex toys onto the court during
the game. Both of these things have happened during the WNBA.
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And I hope you and the storm and the fever
and the goofy multicolored balls are enjoying the basketballs are
enjoying the WNBA.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
I can tell you right now with this audience, what's
happening in suburban Philadelphia today is of much greater importance
than the WNBA PGA championship.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Part of with Omaha's on Ryan. For me, he's in
it playing today. Lucy Chapman is giving the traffic cameras
a dirty look right now? Is it that bad out there?
Which part the traffic part?
Speaker 4 (29:54):
I thought you meant the construction part.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
That's part of the traffic part.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
I think, well, it certainly can be. Actually, it's not
Wednesday traffic. It's Thursday traffic. Scott.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
When people stay home.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
When people stay home, it's a little lighter.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Yeah, like a fool, I came to work today. I
wanted to hear Jim Rows sports brief in person. I
mean I can listen to it on the radio, but
to be right here and see it in action magic.
And also if I'm here, I can push buttons, like
when you send us a message with your own voice
via the talkback mic that comes into the Zonker's custom
was inbox. We're talking about this bar in Blackstone near
(30:32):
the med Center here in Omaha Midtown that calls itself
the Barbershop. Well, it's not a barber shop. It doesn't
purport to be a barber shop. It's a bar. And
the joke is the bar bur shop. It's a bar.
They don't do haircuts, they do cocktails. So you could
see where some people be confused. We talked about how
(30:53):
the CHI Health Center downtown is not a health center,
it is an entertainment venue sponsored by Chi Health Center.
Apparently this confusion goes beyond Omaha.
Speaker 6 (31:05):
I went over to the Playhouse in Council Bluffs. I
was really looking forward to a theatrical experience and boy
with eyeshot, you know, I mean, after my wife saw
the credit card statement, I really had to explain.
Speaker 7 (31:20):
I thought I was.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Going to see a theatrical show.
Speaker 6 (31:23):
I was expecting to see a bunch of Thespians. I'm
blown away. It's just mind boggling on they should see too.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Yeah, yeah, the Omaha Community Playhouse is different than the Playhouse.
I imagine more than one couple has been confused. We
were here to see our town. Yeah, that's not a
lot more than that what it is. Yeah, he went
there expecting to see thespians. Nunciation is key. We're so
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excited to be a part of a really cool event
from my hometown this Saturday afternoon. You've probably already seen
it there on Abbot Drive at Levi Carter Park across
from Eppley Airfield. It is the uss Omaha Memorial and
one of the committee members who's been very influential with
(32:15):
trying to get this done for several years, joins us. Now,
Jay Armstrong, Welcome to eleven to ten kfab.
Speaker 7 (32:22):
Thank you, Scott. I'm glad to be here.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
First of all, tell me about the uss Omaha.
Speaker 7 (32:28):
This is not an antique. This is a Los Angeles
Class fast attack nuclear submarine, or it was. There were
over fifty of this Hall model seventy eight built and
to this day there are still I think twenty two
or three in active service. So this is not World
(32:48):
War II or some old thing that is not viable,
but this model remains viable today.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
This is the kind of nuclear power to tack submarine like.
And I know you've heard this movie used a lot
in connection with this, The movie The Hunt for Red
October is a great example of the type of submarine
that this is and was. It was in service from
nineteen seventy six to nineteen ninety five. So what are
we doing Saturday afternoon and how can people be a
(33:18):
part of this?
Speaker 7 (33:21):
Well, gosh, show up. First of all, I don't think
you'll be unhappy that you did. Number one. The weather's
going to be great, and it looks like we couldn't
have picked a better day. So it's a good day
to be out there, and they show up there, let's
get to the basics. There's going to be free food
and soft drinks and stuff, but the sale is fact.
(33:45):
We're just putting the finishing touches on it today. And
one of the things that I listened to a couple
of your other interviews, one of the things that you
said was, gee, you wish we could get in the thing,
which you know day, well, we can't get any look
at Well that's not true. Oh what we What we did? Actually, uh,
(34:07):
Jeff Green did this. We had this one large opening
in the back that we did not have a plate for. Uh.
And so Jeff and Larry Keith, who is by the way,
mine guy, had been instrumental in working on this thing
with Jeff and I. Larry Keith and Jeff fabricated a door.
It's on hinges and it's bolded shut, but remove us bolts.
(34:31):
We can open it up and you can get inside
this thing and it's it's I think it's a unique
deal our display because I've been to others and I
don't think there's any others in the country that you
can do that.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Are we gonna be able to do that on Saturday
for this memorial launch?
Speaker 7 (34:48):
Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (34:49):
All right, I gotta get in this thing. I gotta
I gotta pretend like I'm I like Baldwin for this event.
Talking here with Jay Armstrong, part of the uss Omaha committee.
The event is the Special Memorial Relaunch of the uss
Omaha SSN six ninety two. It's coming up this Saturday
(35:09):
at noon Levi Carter Park right there across from Eppley Airfield.
As Jay mentioned, we're gonna have food. Sergeant Pepper's Cafe,
Italian Saddle Creek will provide some light or derves, Chesterman
Coca Cola with complimentary water and soft drinks. All the
details at Ussomaha Memorial dot org. And Jay, we got
some special guests there as well, former and current sub
(35:31):
mariners in local military, including we're hoping people who actually
served on the uss Omaha and I'll have a chance
it's part of the presentation that starts at noon to
maybe hopefully do a little bit of Q and A
with them and the audience about what it was like
to serve on a nuclear submarine like the uss Omaha.
(35:51):
It's going to be a very special event. And as
Jay said, show up. This is cool for Omaha, and
you've been working on this for well over a decade
to try and make this happen. It's only a couple
of days away. Now. We'll see you Saturday at noon
at Levi Carter Park for the special memorial relaunch of
the USS Omaha SSN six ninety two nuclear submarine right
(36:13):
here in Omaha. Coming home here, Jay, thank you very
much for what you've been doing to provide this special
event and memorial right here in my hometown. Thanks for
telling us about it here on Nebraska's Morning News.
Speaker 7 (36:25):
Thanks for interviewing me, Scott. We look forward to Saturday.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
All right, looking forward to it. I'll get a chance
to be out there as well. Hope to see you
there too. News Radio eleven to ten KFAB and the
Zonker's custom was inbox. A couple of emails here of
a political standpoint sent to Scott atkfab dot com. Tom
On Dan Osborne, the independent senate candidate, says I thought
(36:49):
he wasn't a Democrat. Why would the Democrat who won
the primary for US Senate in Nebraska on Tuesday? Why
would the Democrat that won step aside, because tom.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
So, the Democrat Party is an embarrassment. That's why I'd
phrase it this way.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
The Democrats know that there was zero chance that that
Democratic candidate could win. At least they feel like they've
got a ghost of a chance to get someone like
Dan Osborne independent. He said, I don't particularly like everything
the Democrats stand for now. He has gotten a lot
of money from some deep pocket Democrats over the years,
(37:31):
and there's always the question like, well with whom or
would you caucus should you win? Dan I don't think
that they would pay to get him into the US
Senate and then not let him caucus with the Democrats.
But you know, Dan Osborne's his own man. We'll see
as far as money goes. Kathleen emails and says, look
into the amount of outside funds that Denise Powell got
(37:55):
five and a half million dollars. Jean Stotht summarized this
no name well by saying, I've never heard of this woman.
That's from Kathleen, who says this would be a good
topic for a Rosie to Genozi at some point.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
This is what the theme of this entire campaign is
going to be. To our detriment, and that is and
brinker Harding started it yesterday afternoon, her rivals in the
Democrat primary, referred to as dark money. Denise and brinker
Harding made a big deal out of it, started it
on social media yesterday.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
Do people care?
Speaker 2 (38:28):
I think some do, but more people are interested in
What are you going to do about the cost of
my health care? What are you going to do about
the cost of the higher education? What are you going
to do about the cost of my property casualty insurance?
What are you going to do about the fact that
kids are coming out of school and haven't learned anything.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
They're not going to talk about any about any of
that stuff. What are you going to do about deficits?
Speaker 2 (38:50):
We have right now more debt in this country than
we have an annual GDP. Okay, we generate eight thirty
five billion a year, we owe thirty or trillion. We
owe thirty seven trillion. What are you gonna do about that?
Nobody is gonna ask, and they're not going to talk
about any of those things. What are you gonna do
(39:11):
about this, this, this, and this with your problems?
Speaker 1 (39:13):
Instead?
Speaker 2 (39:13):
What we're gonna get out of these two people and
their surrogates and their proxies and their funders for the
next six months.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
Is this She's.
Speaker 2 (39:21):
Getting bad money from bad people. He's getting many from
bad people.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
Who cares? Who cares? Who cares? Nobody cares, But that's
what they're gonna do. No one's ever heard of her,
but she's struck a chord with those who go and
vote in a Democratic primary, who right now are largely
frustrated and angry. She's said, I'm frustrated and angry too.
You got elected.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
What are you gonna do about crime? What are you
gonna do about illegal immigrants? What are you gonna do
about X Y? And what are you gonna do about medicare?
What are you gonna do about Social Security?
Speaker 1 (39:47):
Love to hear those real, honest answers to those questions.
Greg Emails says, why register to vote if you're not
going to vote, Come on, people, there's no excuse. We've
talked about that a lot over the years. Lucy Chapman,
Craig Evans, Jim rows, he don'aho here on Nebraska's Morning News. Jim,
why do you think that is? People register to vote?
It's time to go vote. About seventy five percent of
(40:11):
voters don't go vote in a primary election, and it's
more than half of them on an election day.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
Well, part of it is that independents are not allowed
to vote in a primary, so.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
You can still vote. They're just not a lot to
vote on.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
We have a growing population of independence and they wait
until we get down.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
To the final two. That's bull. Well, that's the way
it is, whether you like it or not. They're not
who who is still an independent in this era of Trump?
Speaker 2 (40:36):
We got twenty seven percent of the voters in Douglas
County are independent.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
They're not. They're just too cowardly to admit they're one
thing or the other. That's a no one is independent
right now.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
Editorial opinion by Scott Borhies, which is usually my purview.
But ah, you know, I think in some cases they're
not inspired by candidates. In some cases they think, ah,
I'll worry about it when we get to the general election.
That really it's only the diehards that vote in primaries.
I don't know that that's necessarily true, but in the
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case of Omaha City elections, the general election is only
a month or so later. Here we have basically now
a quiet period through the summer. These guys are going
to go dark. You're gonna see ads, you're gonna see
negative social media posts. They're probably gonna do some grassroots things,
but you won't see much of them until probably after
Labor Day, and then they'll crank up and do a
(41:27):
lot more. They'll be in parades and they'll they'll go
walking through various malls and whatnot, depending on how organized
their campaign is, especially if it's confined to say, like
CD two in the case of Jim Pillin or Pete
Ricketts or Dan Osbourne, they got to go across the state.
Speaker 1 (41:44):
But you'll see him at.
Speaker 2 (41:45):
The high profile events like Cattleman's Ball and Cozad which
is the first week in June. They'll probably be out
there for that. Certainly they'll be at the state Fair
in Grand Island. But why don't people vote in primaries?
May not think that their vote counts that much, with
which I think is not true, especially with them with
the district legislative district races.
Speaker 1 (42:06):
So it probably varies from guy to guy, but.
Speaker 2 (42:10):
Unless it's competitive, and in the case of the GOP,
and we saw this with a tremendously low voter turnout
yesterday among GOP voters. You didn't have any competition in
the high profile races. He had a lot of competition
and a lot of races, but not for Senate, not
for governor, not for state auditor, not for Attorney general,
(42:30):
and not for CD two.
Speaker 1 (42:31):
You're right, it was an embarrassingly low voter turnout yesterday,
since yesterday was Wednesday. But on Tuesdays we voted, it
was pretty low then too. It took a couple of years,
but the media is now admitting that Joe Biden spent
a lot of time in a bunker with his wife,
not knowing what was going on in the real world.
(42:52):
And when I say the media, the British media which
is now saying that Great Britain is facing its own
Joe Biden moment as their Prime Minister. Keir Starmer a
little different in terms of age and knowing where he
is in any given moment, but he's rejecting calls to quit,
and he's defiantly daring his challengers to go ahead and
(43:15):
use the process for challenging their leader Joe Biden. Before
he eventually stepped down, I was saying, hey, you want
to mount your own campaign, challenge me at the convention
they said, Keir Starmer is becoming Joe Biden. He's basically
in a bunker with his wife saying it's all gonna
be fine now. I think Prime Minister Starmer can carry
(43:37):
on a little bit of a conversation better than President
Biden was often able to do.
Speaker 2 (43:41):
Oh, the best way to get something done if if
it holds near and dear to you that you.
Speaker 1 (43:48):
Like to be able to.
Speaker 6 (43:50):
Anyway.
Speaker 5 (43:54):
I'm we're ready to get.
Speaker 2 (43:55):
A lot done. Yeah, sure are. You know the hardest
job in the world was during the Joe Biden years.
The person that goes on there and has to translate
for the death you know, I mean, there's they just
shrug their shoulders.
Speaker 7 (44:08):
You know.
Speaker 2 (44:08):
He gets into one of his little word circuses there
and she just shrugs her shoulders. I don't know what
he just said.
Speaker 1 (44:14):
And then then they go tell the sign language interpreter,
don't worry, Kamala Harris is coming down. They're like, that
doesn't get any better. That doesn't help me. How do
I do dog face pony soldier in sign language with
President Biden. Here's Joe Biden.
Speaker 2 (44:31):
The interpreter just raises their shoulders, shrugs their shoulders, shakes
their heads.
Speaker 1 (44:35):
I don't know. On the other side of the aisle,
here's another politician having a bad day, Ran Paul, because
of the alleged actions of his adult son. His son
is thirty three years old and apparently the son of
Kentucky Senator Ran Paul, was in a bar. He found
(44:58):
a guy in a bar and on leashed a ten
minute loud rant where he declared he hates Jews, he
hates gays, he doesn't care if they die. And he said,
if Thomas Massey loses the upcoming Kentucky primary, us trying
to steal Iran's land for the Jews. It's anti American Jews.
(45:19):
So he said, you gotta watch more Tucker Carlson. Then
he's just started flipping everyone off and stumbling out, knocked
over a barstool. He said, now, quote, I had too
much to drink and said some things that don't represent
who I really am. Are you sure that was him
or Grandpa? It was William Paul, thirty three year old
son of Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky. I who's the
(45:43):
son of Ron Paul, the congressman from Texas.
Speaker 2 (45:46):
Grandson of Ron Paul. Pretty much pretty much sure that
the world was going to come to an end.
Speaker 1 (45:50):
Why. I know, we many of us have had maybe
a bit too much to drink, had a little loose lip.
But I don't remember ever being drunk or hearing about
me being drunk and saying things that weren't somewhere inside
of me. You know, maybe I finally had the courage
(46:12):
to go and you know, either tell some girl I
thought she was beautiful or some guy I thought he
was a jerk. You know, that was all inside of me.
You can't come out and unleash a tirade saying you
hope all the gays and Jews die and then say, hey,
I that wasn't man a little too much to drink.
That doesn't happen because you have too much to drink.
(46:33):
That might help. It's called liquid courage. Yeah it doesn't.
It doesn't. You know, the liquid courage doesn't put those
thoughts in there. It just releases the thoughts that are
already in there. Yeah, but Scott, you don't understand. Children
of politicians are immune. Look at Hunter Biden. Yes, we
don't have to worry about the kids. We just worry
about the ones that were elected presidents in China, and
(46:54):
he's just I know that it's it's such a lazy stereotype.
But when you see the present and standing there amongst
all the Chinese dignitaries who are greeting him, he towers
above them. He's got to feel like he's a like
he's a giant in that land. And you know he
loves it. He loves being taller than people. Just imagine
(47:15):
if Baron was there. Yeah, Baron Trump is taller than Yeah,
he's nine two. He's at least nine to two. Is
Hoiberg talked to him? He got any game? Think of
the nil opportunities. Glenn Beck last night here on eleven
ten kfab said he gets very nervous when China is
nice to Trump because Trump loves making people happy who
(47:37):
are nice to them. And so Trump's over there saying
you're a great leader about Xi chiampign Sometimes people don't
like me saying it, but I say it anyway because
it's true, as an honor to be with you, as
an honor to be your friend. There are people just going,
what is he gonna do? I think that you can.
It was hilarious this morning. I think you can calm
(47:59):
down though. On ovations, that Trump's gonna give away everything
to China. He's been cutting them off from energy, oil minerals,
He's been cutting them off at every turn tariffs. So yeah,
I don't think Trump and he says one thing, but
he's killing China right now with kindness and a smile
on his face. What do you say this morning?
Speaker 2 (48:18):
He's you know, they're exchanging toasts this morning, and you know,
Zgping had this very officious statement about, you know, the
importance of cooperating and the greatness that the United States
and the China, the Chinese people in the US citizens
can share for the rest of the world. And Trump
gets up there and says, these two countries, you know,
(48:38):
they alle a lot to each other. You know, in
China it's blue jeans and basketball, and in our country
it's Chinese food. You you pretty much just cut the
nation of China down to cashew chicken at PF changs.
Speaker 1 (48:53):
Is that what we're talking about, mister Pratt, I do
I do love Chinese food.
Speaker 2 (49:00):
I think there's a little more you can say about
the Chinese culture than just Mugu guipan or kung paal.
Speaker 1 (49:07):
I suppose there's something to be said for all of
the electronics that we use in our life, which has
most of its origins in China. We want to thank
you for that. I like my sweet and sour smartphone. Yeah,
very much, thank you for that. China. This is the
Babylon Bee said that the President wanted to go over
there and meet with General Chow. Yeah, General Child's Chicken.
Speaker 2 (49:30):
You know this is this is actually very good for
the It's good for the world to have us being
nice to each other.
Speaker 1 (49:36):
This is this in Russia.
Speaker 2 (49:37):
These would be the three superpowers in the world today,
and it's nice to get along with them. Whether or
not they mean any of this, who knows. And when
they close the doors and they start having serious meetings,
does the tone change And the answer is probably yes.
Speaker 1 (49:50):
You know where this comes from.
Speaker 2 (49:51):
Now, they've been they've been funding Iranian rebels against us.
They're they're giving them weapons to the Caspian Sea. The
President will prefer that to not happen. He knows that
a bunch of oil comes to China through the Straits
of Horror moves, but not right now. He's hoping they
buy American oil. But that doesn't solve the problem. This
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is just a very very tense time between two countries
that economically want to dominate the world. The president of
the United States is not going to continue to allow
them to screw us over which has been happening for
twenty five years.
Speaker 1 (50:25):
The criticism is just because it's Trump. If he goes
to war with them, he's wrong. If he makes peace
with them, he's wrong. There's no winning
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