March 20, 2026 • 56 mins
I hope you like basketball! It's certainly not the ONLY thing we talked about today (there was that enthralling conversation with Lucy about watering the lawn), but it came up a lot!
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Not anymore. Yesterday there was very risky but successful monkey
from back extraction surgery and the recipients of the surgery
courtesy of doctor Price Sandford, doctor Sam Houberg, doctor rank Mast,
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doctor Burke buked In gel and Uh of course doctor
head doctor chief of surgery there at the University of
Nebraska Lincoln, doctor Fred Hoiberg successful monkey from back extraction surgery,
Go be Red. That was not just a win for
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this Nebraska basketball team. That was a win for Lucy
helped me out with the names here. I know they're
right off the tip of your tongue. Let's see I
want That's a win for rich King. That's a win
for Dave Hoppin. That's a win for Eric Piatkowski. That's
a win for Toron Loeu. That's a win for Eric Strickland.
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That's a win for Cookie Belcher. Cookie Belcher, was this
the Chili Cookoff. That's a win for Clifford Scales. That's
a win for oh case I, Tom Naga. That's a
win for all these Nebraska basketball players and teams who
fell just short and put Nebraska in the category of
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being the only major school in a Big Division one
conference not to have won a March Madness tournament game
until yesterday. So people are like, all right, calm down, Huskers.
So you curb stomped Troy. Well, let's take a look here. Duke,
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the number one seed was down eleven at the sixteenth
seed Sienna Saints. These I think Siena was up by
something like eighteen nineteen points at one point in the
second half. Duke had to rally to beat those guys. Eleven.
VCU was down by about the same amount. I actually
went outside last night in the second half of that
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North Carolina game. I'm like, all right, the tar Heels
have this one, and came back in to see what
was going on in the second half some of the
other games, and I looked at the score as like, well,
are we going to overtime? Carolina loses to eleven VCU. Now,
VCU is a solid basketball program. High Point beats Wisconsin.
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That's a twelve over a five. So yeah, so Nebraska
beat Troy a four over a thirteen. Well, you're supposed to.
That's not how it works in March Madness. There is
no supposed to. Yeah, some some teams get it done.
And last night, I'll give you a full recap in sports.
But if you're just waking up and saying, all right,
so who won the games last night? Any upsets last night? No,
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Illinois went over one hundred points against Pennsylvania, Houston Big
over Idaho, Gonzaga beats Kenesas State, and you call it
an upset. Saint Louis over Georgia, it's a nine over
and eight. But you get into those mid seed games,
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anything can happen. But one hundred and two points by
Saint Louis the Billickins over Georgia, that's there is an upset.
So yeah, Nebraska beat Troy. But we also we finally
got one back on history. We washed the taste out
of our mouth from years of frustrating football seasons, a
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volleyball season that was just high stepping doing the like
the Roger Craig high knees stepping towards another national championship
that got derailed in the postseason, and a Nebraska basketball
program that for years had never won a March Madness
game until yesterday. That's a win for all those players,
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and it's a win for all of those fans who
have been for generations going down to the Devanni Center
and now Pinnacle Bank Arena and cheering for the Big
Red and every single year frustratingly coming up short. That
was fun yesterday, and to see how much it meant
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to the Hoibergs head coach Fred and the son Sam.
That's something you can't get an nil and transfers and
all that. That's special. That's us, that's the Big Red.
It's clear. I don't want to talk about anything else
this morning, so we're just gonna replay the game coming up.
Oh wait, we don't have the rights to replay the game.
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How about highlights? Coming up in sports brief after traffic,
weather and a news update.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Next, man in Alaska is facing charges for bank robbery.
He's accused of walking into a bank with a note
reading I have a weapon and that weapon is the
power and authority of Jesus Christ. Empty the drawer into
an envelope, do not set off the alarm. Police say
that he asked arresting officers if he'd be getting any
of the stolen money back. I'm Craig Evans. More news
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at the bottom of the hour at news Radio eleven ten.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
King phebe I have a weapon and it's the power
of Jesus Christ. Put the money in the bag. Wow,
thank you Craig Evans for that one. That was a
good story. Look on Lucy's face suggests that she didn't
hear it. We'll see. We got to have Craig do
that again later. That was a great story. That's a
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terrible story, but it was funny and it caused me
to talk about something other than Nebraska basketball for a
very split second. Lucy Chapman, Craig Evans there, I'm Scott Voorhees.
This is News Radio eleven ten kfab in Nebraska's morning News.
Just when you thought things couldn't get any better. Ninety
eight percent containment is what they're calling the big fire
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out there across five counties in Nebraska, the Moral Fire
that had spread across a big swath of Arthur and
then Grant, Garden, Keith, and certainly Moral counties. Ninety eight
percent containment on that fire. They told you a few
days ago that this was going to spread beyond the
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five hundred thousand some acres up towards closer to six fifty,
which it did. But they said, we've got containment at
that point, and then we start beating it back. Conditions
improved the winds died down. Excellent. We've got three other
fires going. How we're doing there. Eighty percent containment on
the what it had been the one hundred and twenty
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eight thousand acre Cottonwood fire. That's the one oh just
west of Cozad and Gothenburg in that area. Let's go
up north to the Road two oh three fire near Halsey.
Eighty percent containment on the thirty five thousand acre fire
Road two oh three, and then north to just west
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southwest of Valentine. Sixty percent containment on the Anderson Bridge
fire seventeen four hundred acres. Great job by the crews
out there getting that all under control ninety eight percent,
when just a few days ago it was more like
eighteen percent on the big fire out there. That is
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some dedicated effort and finally some cooperation from mother nature.
Let's do sports free here at six twenty one. Jim
Rose out for a few days. I'm Scott Vorhees, I'll
handle this. Fred Hoiberg knew something was special right before
tip off we went out.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
For the anthem. I we had a little monitoring in
the coaches room, kind of see it filling in, filling
in when I'm out for the anthem. I got goosebumps,
and I got a little emotional just seeing how the
fans showed up for us, and they were a huge
factor in that thing. When we got went on a run,
it was it was deafening in there, and just really
thankful that we could share this moment with our unbelievable fans.
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And I promise you we're gonna keep fighting and keep swinging.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
That's your coach. Here's his son, Sam Hoiberg talking to
the guys before the game.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
That was one of the things I've been saying all
week to our guys is that you know, you know
you're playing in a dream moment right now, but we
have to focus on this game and get this win
because it can get out of hand quick. But you know,
with about five minutes left, I think we're up by
thirty and went to a time out. That's when you
start looking up at the crowd and seeing their reactions,
and yeah, it was a special feeling, you know, to
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kind of cherish that.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Kfab Husker and Cider Sean Callahan joined us Live yesterday
morning just after nine o'clock from the arena in Oklahoma City,
and I asked Sean, these guys kinda kinda limped into
the bracket, and I wondered if maybe they were just tight,
just tense, just they couldn't stop thinking ahead to we
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gotta get to the bracket and we've got to get
that win. But now that they're there, is it possible
that the anxiety goes away? They stopped playing so tensins
to get back to what they were doing to start
off this season. And I think that's exactly what we
saw yesterday.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
Asked out front, all the try cut off by saying,
flip it's a freaker.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
Extra to Pisce s Corn do right.
Speaker 7 (09:45):
Tell the shoot his four three and a half.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
There's nothing an offensive player in basketball likes hearing more
than other players and coaches on the other team looking
at you and yelling who's got him? Price Sandford coul Miss.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Kara Garcia sends it into Kale Jacobson, who can triple
it out five seconds down to four, three to two.
He pumps his fist down to one and that is it.
It is no longer March sadness for Nebraska in their
one hundred and thirtieth season of basketball and the eighty
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seventh NCAA Tournament. Finally, the Nebraska court Huskers have won.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
A game in the NCAA Tournament.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
Seventy six forty seven. Nebraska, the four seed in the
South Region, leaves no doubt against the thirteen seed Troy.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Sorry Troy, but now it's like, all right, we got it.
And you could tell in the postgame interviews, which we're emotional,
was great. Husker Nation loved it. I did too. But
now it's like, all right, we got that done. We're
kind of open expecting thinking that this would happen. We
got to play another game tomorrow. Who we playing?
Speaker 5 (11:04):
Tanner Ashmark left signed against DJ Richards step back three
on the way here is pure Tyler Tanner is electrifying.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Vanderbilt is up next. There they beat McNeese State seventy
eight sixty eight. There were plenty of upsets in the
first full day of the NCAA Men's basketball Tournament, including
not a great day for the Big Ten. Ohio State
lost and Soda Wisconsin.
Speaker 7 (11:29):
Rody is looking he'll throw the baseball pass into the
front board. It is andersp good Bye Anderson and the
Panthers have reached their highest points. The high point Panthers
stunt Wisconsin eighty three eighty two and a high point
will move to the second.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Round as a twelve over five for high Point. The
Panthers beat the Badgers as you heard there eighty three
eighty two. A number eleven Texas that had to play
a play in game to take on BYU beat BYU
that same region than VCU. The eleven seed knocked off
number six North Carolina eighty two seventy eight in overtime.
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You can call it an upset Texas A and M
over a seventh seed Saint Mary. It's a ten over
a seven, but A and M moves on sixty three
fifty no problem over Saint Mary's duke had a problem
with Sienna, but they were victorious in the late games
last night. A big role for Illinois and Gonzaga as
well as Houston. And it was in a bit of
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an upset Saint Louis over Georgia. That's a nine over
and eight, but one hundred and two points by the
Billickins over the Bulldogs. There Saint Louis moves on. That's
out of Buffalo, and that's sports brief now at six
twenty five. Scott atkfab dot com and the Zonker's custom
was inbox. Greg emailed at two thirty nine am morning, Greg,
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this is what he either woke up thinking or I
don't know if he was just heading off to bed
at this point, but Greg said the subject line is
Trump foot in mouth Again. Greg says, why couldn't President
Trump just end his response to the Japanese reporter with
this statement about maintaining the element of surprise and leave
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it at that. Why do you have to mention Pearl Harbor?
Then he turns it on me, says, I expect you
will just attribute it to Trump being Trump. What else
would you call it? If this is what Donald Trump
always does, he takes it too far? Did I love?
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Do I think Pearl Harbor is fodder for comedy? I don't.
Many Americans don't do. I understand what he was saying,
and saying it right there to the Prime minister who
had nothing to do with it. This woman I didn't
even know. I don't know if her parents were alive
when Pearl Harbor happened. So you're sitting there with the
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Prime Minister of Japan, Takachi, and here's how it sounded
that people were saying, well, why didn't you tell, like Japan,
for example, what you were going to do in Iran
before you did it.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
Well, one thing, you don't want to signal too much.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
You know when we go in, we went in very
hard and we didn't tell anybody about it.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Because we wanted surprise.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
Who knows better about surprise than Japan?
Speaker 8 (14:29):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor?
Speaker 7 (14:32):
Okay? Right?
Speaker 1 (14:35):
The Prime Minister looked like if she could be transported
to Neptune, she would take that one white ticket. At
that point, she had nothing to do with it.
Speaker 8 (14:46):
No, but I understand what he was doing.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Oh, I understand what he was doing. And he's Look,
that's who he is on the that is who he
is on the bad side of that, Lucy. It's people
look at it and go, is he making fun of
what happened at Pearl Harbor?
Speaker 8 (15:07):
And you can't take it out?
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Well, you can listen to that and you can take
it that way. I get it. I understand that. You
can also look at it from the standpoint of it
was a successful military operation by Japan. And all these
decades later, and for several decades, for our lifetimes, America
and Japan have had from a diplomatic standpoint, a very
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good relationship. Now you talk to some of the greatest generation,
they're still those wounds run deep. Completely understand that. So
you'll still hear. Here we be talking to an old guy,
you know, one of these whether they were in World
War Two or just kind of maybe we're growing up
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pretty young, but maybe teenagers at that time, and suddenly
they just out of nowhere to just throw out a
slur for the Japanese people, and you're like, WHOA, hang
on there, Hank, you know I it's look, you get it, Yes,
you get it. But you also realize, all right, from
a diplomatic standpoint, the fact that they could do Pearl
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Harbor against us and we could drop bombs on them
and within our lifetimes have a really good diplomatic working
partnership relationship between these nations is actually a pretty beautiful thing.
And Trump is pretty upset because Japan was one of
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those who when he said, look, all you nations need
to help us out. We got to get these tankers
through the straight to horror moves here, and Japan was
one of those who said, I don't know if we
can do that. And so he's gonna go, he's gonna
go Trump, He's gonna hit below the belt, and so
provided the opportunity to do so, he took a I
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don't even know if that's taking a shot at Japan,
and it's just pointing out you.
Speaker 6 (17:00):
No one called.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
America, no one called our troops that day of Pearl
Harbor and said, hey, heads up, we're flying in. It's
the element of surprise. That's why we did what we
did in Iran. That's why we are continuing to take
out their leaders there. One of the Iranian leaders yesterday
or call them what you will, made some statement like
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we're going to beat back the Great Satan and then
he was a skid mark about fifteen minutes later. So
it's the element of surprise on all of this.
Speaker 8 (17:32):
Many how many countries are in NATO that are supporting us,
have pledged their support, and how many have pledged no support.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
You've either had like France, Germany, Germany's been tippid, and
then a few others, and then beyond that you had
Japan and South Korea there like we didn't start all
this Canada immediately, like we didn't want this to begin with, Like, okay,
we know bit.
Speaker 8 (18:00):
Why don't we just take our money and go home
leave NATO.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Well, that's what the president's saying. The president can't tell
the president he can't do something. He'll do it, but
you have. It has to be an act of Congress
to withdraw from NATO. Withdraw funds from NATO, I know.
Speaker 8 (18:17):
If we're paying them lying share of this to support NATO,
and it is an organization to for countries to help
each other each other.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
I'm not arguing with you.
Speaker 8 (18:26):
Then why aren't we leaving?
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Well maybe we will, but as of right now, that's
not happening. People have been urging those who are heading
to the airport, or even if you're not flying out,
just head on down to the airport, find a TSA
agent and say, here you go. I know you're working
without a regular paycheck. I made you a bunt cake.
Speaker 8 (18:48):
Oh it's a cake. I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
I'm sure that they think that's a very nice thing.
I don't know if if you've, if anyone's ever been
to the airport, where are the TSA agents supposed to
put all of these baked goods? I made you a
tuna casserole. Okay, I've still got seven hours left on
this shift probably longer because the guy who's supposed to
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come in after me is probably not going to show
up today because a lot of TSA agents have not
been showing up in Houston. Lucy, where's my story about
the TSA in Houston? That's the worst airport for TSA
agents saying do I get a paycheck today?
Speaker 6 (19:35):
No?
Speaker 1 (19:38):
I don't feel very good, and then they're not coming
to work. More than forty percent I found it, by
the way, No, thanks to you. More than forty percent
of TSA officers at Houston's Hobby Airport skipped work. That
was on Tuesday, thirty six percent in New Orleans, thirty
four percent in Atlanta. Like I'm not getting paid. I've
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got it. I have to make money. And then they're saying, well,
what travelers are bringing you a sandwich? I don't have
where am I supposed to put all this? Here's a
whole sack of groceries. I brought you a whole sack
of groceries. And you're looking at this going I can't
use any of this. I have a gluten intolerance. There's
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milk in here. I got I got six and a
half hours left on my shift. There's there's no mini
fridge around here where I can put this. This milk
is going to go bad. Where am I supposed to
put all this stuff? We don't have a lot of room.
If people are just like when you stop by when
you're traveling out, bring them something here you go. It's
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a shirt, it's a sweater.
Speaker 8 (20:44):
What when you are starting a new job, you it's
going to take a couple of weeks three some two
three four weeks to get your first paycheck. Yeah, so
why would you You're you're gonna wait for a paycheck anyway?
Why would you leave?
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Yeah? I don't know.
Speaker 8 (21:02):
I don't either.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Well, I mean there are some people who can trade
services for money, cash on the spot. See, you're automatically
taking see I'm thinking about landscaping, work, a bad haircut, something.
Speaker 8 (21:18):
Okay, all right, all right, all right, all right.
Speaker 6 (21:21):
So they see you're you're taking it in a very
different way.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
But that too. Though. The last time I went to
the airport, the airports, I didn't see any TSA agents
that would make more than five dollars ten dollars tops
for any of that haircuts. Yes, who's Nebraska play next
in the tournament? When do we play Oh, it's tomorrow
night seven forty five against Vanderbilt.
Speaker 8 (21:46):
Okay, what is.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
The mascot of Vanderbilt? It is the Commodores.
Speaker 8 (21:59):
Oh, there you go.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
She's a brick house. She's mighty mighty. He's letting the
traffic all hang out here on news radio eleven KFAB.
Speaker 8 (22:11):
And you chose that song.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Yeah, Like I said, night Shift one of my favorite songs. Also,
I just quickly looking at the list here and I
was like, well, three times a lady, I want brick
houses all played out. I decided to go night Shift.
Speaker 8 (22:25):
I support your choice.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Thank you. It's a great song. The they're talking about
a because a lot of people went to sports bars
yesterday to watch sports ball. There was a lot of it.
Speaker 8 (22:37):
On Is there more than basketball?
Speaker 1 (22:41):
You had Nebraska baseball one again yesterday, that's eleven in
a row. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (22:46):
We got a couple of hockey games left.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Yeah, the the vals Bar Championship in Innisbrook, a copper
Head course in Tampa on the PGA tour. But most
of us were watching basketball yesterday. Lucy, I think there's
a pre eve in your future where we don't do
sports updates here on the Nebraska's Morning News program and instead, well,
because young people aren't interested, they don't want Are you
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going to flap the pages in your face into your
microphone so that we can all hear it on the radio?
Speaker 8 (23:18):
You could hear that, Yes, I stop, it didn't sound
like that. I have headphones on too.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
You know, is it that hot in the Total Traffic Center?
Speaker 8 (23:28):
It's warm.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Yeah, it's a hot Total Traffic Center. It's like a
regular Total Traffic center, except with Lucy in there. Hr,
I'll me see it ten. No, the young people they're
not as interested in the sports stuff unless they can
gamble on it. But you know, sports gambling that's so
nineteen sixties. We need something else on which we can gamble.
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They call it the poly market, and there it's a
prediction platform and they're opening up I think sports bar screens,
food drink specials, maybe a karaoke night. But it's not
about watching sports. It's about just seeing what's happening and
then betting on it. The all these new polymarket apps
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and websites and everything have popped up here. It's I
don't know how else to describe it other than it's
deadpool except about everything. You know Deadpool, right, Yeah, not
just the movies, but also it's you know, I think
that that who Diane Keaton is going to die in
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twenty twenty five, and then so you have that, and
then if she dies, you're like, hey, all right, I win.
Never mind the fact that we just lost Diane Keaton
last year. You know, someone's like, that's that's the twenty
five dollars I got it paid off. Except it's like
that for everything. I think there'll be an accident at
ninety some and then people are like, let's see here,
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if I bet a bunch of money, they'll be an
accident over here. And if I get in the accident,
is that enough to cover my deductible? And it's and
you think this is stupid, Yes, you're right, and people
are doing it like crazy. And there was a whole
betting market on whether or not an Iranian missile would
fall in Israel. There was a news report that said
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that there was a missile that came down a massive
explosion in Israel, just outside Jerusalem. This is a report
on Tuesday, March tenth. Well, immediately people start emailing the reporter.
They track them down online and they're emailing the reporter going,
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you need to revise your report. Other reports are saying
that it wasn't a missile that fell, It was a
fragment from an Israeli interceptor that fell and caused some damage,
not the missile itself. And the reporter says, well, I'll
look into it, and they're like, no, if you don't
change this, I will find you and I will kill you.
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You know why, because of all the bets as to
whether or when an Iranian missile would fall and hit
and cause damage in Israel, and so suddenly it was
very important whether it was a part of an Iranian
missile or a fragment from an Israeli interceptor. And this
reporter was getting death threats because it suddenly made a
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difference in the polymarket.
Speaker 8 (26:34):
We're just living in a movie, aren't we.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
If you're hooked on gambling, suddenly the ability to basically
do what number am I thinking of? For Nope? It
was six? Ah, shoot, let's try again. That's what we're doing.
Speaker 8 (26:50):
Right, With a little bit of a caveat on that,
because you can be just as addicted to gambling as
you would gamble on absolutely anything. But if that is
not available to you, if there isn't a platform that's
available to you to bet on that. Then, so what
you're addicted to it? What are you gonna do? Now?
(27:11):
You can't do anything about it, But now you now
have a stage, You now have a platform to bet
on that kind of stuff. Is this just well known
to people? I mean this is the first I'm hearing
about it. Can anybody just go and find something to
bet on?
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Yeah? It's basically did you ever watch the TV show Ed? No?
Oh my gosh, what a great show, and a lot
of people missed it, but it doesn't replay anywhere and
it's hard to find. But there were two longtime best
friends that would always and every episode of be Hey
Ed ten bucks if you go over and tell that
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you know something like that. So it's just a series
of bets between friends and they just hand each other
the ten dollars back for doing stupid stuff or deciding
not to do it. It's that except on your app.
Speaker 8 (27:58):
So there is an app for every kid.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Oh yeah, for everything. No, it's just something on which
to lose money.
Speaker 8 (28:08):
It's the time of year when mother nature can't decide
between flip flops or frostbite.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
Happy Spring from news Radio eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
It's all right to get started a couple hours early, right,
Spring doesn't officially get here until nine forty six. You
can't even do it on the quarter hour. Who decided that?
By the way, when does spring and the moon? When
does spring start? It starts on Friday, March twentieth this year. Yeah,
what time? About a quarter to ten? It doesn't start
(28:41):
at midnight that day. No, that's that's the dumbest thing
I've ever heard. Does it start at sunrise? Why would
it do that? Does it start when you don't know
whether it's breakfast time or lunch?
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Nine six Central time, that's when spring starts and summer
starts at twelve oh four eighty two degrees today ninety
tomorrow seven thirty six. Now Here on Nebraska's Morning News,
I'm Scott Vorhees. I tell time on the radio. Lucy
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Chapman's right there. She talks about traffic. Craig Evans is
your news guy. Jim Rose is out till Monday, and
we combine to form Nebraska's Morning News. I do have
hey if you like stories about weather and things that
are obvious. My favorite story of the day is courtesy
of KMTV three News Now the headline, and Lucy, I
(29:40):
didn't see this coming. Tell me what you think the
rest of this story is about. Here's the headline.
Speaker 8 (29:46):
Oh, I thought you wanted me to tell you at
that point.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
No, I'm gonna tell you the headline, right, you tell
me what they're going to talk about. Next headline is
another spring, another likely doubt. Doubt, Let me try that again.
I'm sorry, this is why I can't do TV. Another spring,
another likely drought for Nebraska and Iowa. Here's how to
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prepare your lawns. And then there's a story. What do
you think their big tip.
Speaker 8 (30:17):
Is stop fertilizing?
Speaker 1 (30:21):
No? Umm, maybe all right, maybe people need this story.
Speaker 8 (30:26):
But if I'm judging, well, obviously stop watering.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Right, So let's see here a likely drought for Nebraska
and Iowa. You say, stop watering? Yes, all right, this
is why we should probably have rehearsal for the news.
Do you want your lawn to die?
Speaker 4 (30:45):
No?
Speaker 1 (30:45):
See, the rest of us are yelling at the radio
right now. So let's let's try this from my vantage point.
Another spring, another likely drought for Nebraska and Iowa. Here's
how to prepare your lawn. The story that No, the
story does suggest This is a lot hard, and I
thought it'd be that. If you want to battle the
lack of moisture for your lawn, what you're supposed to
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do is water it.
Speaker 8 (31:11):
How come, aren't you wasting water?
Speaker 1 (31:17):
See?
Speaker 8 (31:18):
I thought, aren't you wasting water by watering.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Ladies and gentlemen. I apologize for what's happening right now.
I don't get it myself.
Speaker 8 (31:29):
I what don't you get a boy?
Speaker 1 (31:33):
There's so much right now?
Speaker 8 (31:36):
Do I I think I'm making sense. I think that do.
Speaker 6 (31:40):
You want your lawn to grow?
Speaker 8 (31:41):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Does your lawn need water for it to grow in
a drought condition where it doesn't rain? Is Mother nature
going to provide that water? All right?
Speaker 6 (31:51):
So you need to provide the water. You should water
the lawn.
Speaker 8 (31:54):
I'm not stupid. I get all that I'm saying to you.
If we have a drought, I'm saying you, if we
have a drought, you don't want to waste water. That's
why you can't.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
No, no, no, no, no, all right, Okay, all right, I
see what you're saying.
Speaker 8 (32:08):
Okay, but we have plenty of water. Well, then it's
your drought.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Drought conditions are her to see of the rain When
we run low on water. They'll tell you about.
Speaker 8 (32:22):
Water conservation, fire thing.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Wow, I'm gonna start this whole segment over and we're
going to talk about something else, anything else. Hey, good morning,
not basketball spring Today. At nine forty six, I'm Scott Vorhees.
There's Lucy Chapman right now. There are people wondering should
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I believe Lucy when she tells me about how traffic
is tied up over here at construction because I don't
think if you showed her, if if you had two
pictures and one was her rear end and the other
one was her elbow, I don't know that she could
tell the difference.
Speaker 8 (33:01):
You said you understood what I was talking about.
Speaker 6 (33:04):
You said, I know because I have to work with you.
Speaker 8 (33:07):
No, you said, Okay, I get it.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Craig helped a brother out. He's just gonna hide in
the newsroom right now.
Speaker 8 (33:15):
You don't need Craig. We live on.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Yes late new segment, A whole new segment I do
have can.
Speaker 8 (33:26):
Make me look stupid, and don't I don't appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
You're right, this is my fault. Scott at KFA B
dot com and the soncer's custom was in box. Colleen
says Scott, you and Lucy are the best old married
couple to listen to in the morning. Hey you hear
that we beat Todd and Tyler. He says that. Yeah, sorry, guys.
He says that last bit was definitely not informative, but
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it was entertaining. Wait a minute, and made for great radio. Hey,
we'll take it. And our good friend Allie says. My
head officially hurts after the back and forth with Lucy. Oh,
my sweet goodness, have a great weekend. Yeah, this is
how we do it. Montel Jordan was singing about us.
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Here's another water story for you, Lucy.
Speaker 8 (34:16):
Oh good this one.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
I think I think you're gonna nail this one. Okay,
you remember our good friends at the Holiday Inn downtown.
Speaker 8 (34:26):
Yeah, a few weeks ago, well.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
A few weeks before. A few weeks ago, the health
department came in there and said, we have concerns about
the safety of guests swimming in your swimming pool, and
we think you ought to shut it down. And the
manager said thanks for letting us know, and then did
not shut down the pool. Why Well, I think because
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this manager of this hotel downtown has been complaining for
months to the city about the homeless population and the
lack of response from the city in dealing with the
homeless population. They're showing up, they're threatening to fight staff members,
they're defecating in flower pots, they're trying to live in
the lobby. They're making life miserable for my employees and customers.
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I can't run a business like this, and the city
is unresponsive. So then the city showed Well, the city
sends the county health director out there or someone from
the health department says, yeah, you you're the guy complaining, right, yeah,
your pool should be shut down, and he says no.
And then and then they send the TV out there
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to talk with the management because the health Department's like, hey,
we told these this hotel to shut down their pool.
They didn't shut down their pool. Kids are in their
swimming Moms are like, what is their problem with the pool?
The one you can smell from thirteenth Street. Yeah, but
that's the same for any hotel pool, not this one.
So they send the TV in there, and a staff
member at the Holiday Inn took a glass of wall
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or took a glass dipped it in the swimming pool
and said, our water is so safe. I would drink
it and then took a generous sip from the cup
for the TV station. And I've been bothering the manager
since then, saying, at least tell me this employee got
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a raise or she's not dead. Yeah. This this pool water,
you know, the one that's been marinating in kids urea
and feet.
Speaker 8 (36:30):
Stop.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
This is so clean. I'd drink it. Stop, she's alive.
I don't know whether she got a raise. Well after
that they decided, all right, fine, we'll shut down the
swimming pool. Yesterday, the Douglas County Health Department announced the
reopening of the Holiday Inn downtowns happened, swimming pool and
water pork with they drank, They drank the water and
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it was fine.
Speaker 8 (36:52):
No, something happened. Why did they change reverse course on
this and say okay open.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
They passed inspection, the reapplied for its permit, and they
reopened it. They said, the hotel is insuring a safe
and I love this word, compliant environment. Thank you so
much for being here with us. We love being here
with you. This is the place where we get together
to laugh, cry and get through the day together. We
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watch basketball, we talk about the news. We're blinded by
Lucy Chamans, Aura, it all happens here. This is Nebraska's
morning news news Radio eleven ten kfab Craig Evans here
as well. I'm Scott Vorhees. If you missed the maybe
the best news of the day, and like what Nebraska won.
We know, actually if I can find something that's worth
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cheering about more than that ninety eight percent containment on
the six hundred and forty three thousand plus acre Moral
fire out there that had been covering parts of Moral Counties, Garden, Grant,
Arthur and Keith Counties in the Penhandles sand Hills of Nebraska.
Just a few days ago it was only eighteen percent,
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but they said it's a it's a huge area that
doesn't have a lot of roads, so it's going to
spread before we're able to beat it back. That's what
they said. They needed the weather to improve. It did.
Winds died down, and if you're going to be out
there fighting fires, this is the time to do it.
And they've been doing a great job and it went
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quickly from eighteen percent now ninety eight percent containment. So
does oh, does that mean it's out No, it means
it's it's contained. So now they're starting the process of
not just getting that fire under control and eventually out.
But as we talked yesterday in this hour to the
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president of the Nebraska Cattle Minutes about trying to feed
all of the cattle and the horses, and also the people,
I mean, their homes are gone too, got to rebuild
fence and says there's a lot of putting stuff back
together out there in the sand hills, but Nebraska's are
stepping up. If you want to consider what you can do,
there are a lot of organizations doing something. Nebraska Cattleman
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dot org is the website to learn more. I even
have another news story unrelated to the Big Red that's
worth cheering about as well. Even if you're a fan
of Lincoln High School, you got to cheer about this
one on Lincoln High School, on Lincoln, Nebraska, No. Lincoln
High in Rhode Island, kid named Colin Dorgan for Blackstone
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Valley High School. They were playing Lincoln High in a
hockey game the other day and Colin Dorgan scored a
goal that tied up the game, put it into four
overtime periods before his teammate Jackson Boys netted the winning
goal and Blackstone Valley gets the win and the championship
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in that area of Providence, Rhode Island. Why does this
matter to any Why is this news? What? Scott, did
you hit your head?
Speaker 3 (40:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (40:09):
Maybe I was asking that.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Colin Dorgan, his daddy, who dressed as a woman and
identified as a woman, showed up in whatever identity that
day in a fog of violence, mental illness, and evil.
And he's the guy who shot this kid's mom, brother,
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and grandpa, killing all three of them, wounding two others
in just a few weeks ago. Up in Providence, Rhode Island.
They're playing a was it a hockey game or a practice?
I think it was a game. And this guy comes
in there and starts shooting. Well, his son, who survived,
still playing on this hockey team, and thought, well, what
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am I going to do? Curl up in the fetal
position and not play hockey? No one would blame him
if he did. He kept skating and led his team
to a championship win. Even parents for the opposing team
were crying tears of joy for this kid and his
hockey family, as well as that community Blackstone Valley High School.
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I didn't know they'd ever be on my radar, or
that I would care about. A hockey championship in Rhode Island.
That's a great one. Congratulations, that's a D two boys
state championship for Blackstone Valley Providence, Rhode Island. We voted
down any attempt to try and close the budget shortfall
in Nebraska. There's some conversation about medical marijuana at the
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unicameral today. That's what we talk about here in Nebraska,
you know, budget and pot. In Olympia, Washington, though Olympia,
the town city, the village of Olympia, Washington state capital,
just became the first in the state of Washington. I
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don't know how many other places anywhere, but I'll tell
you what they did. They're barring discrimination against people in
polyamorous relationships. Where you are I married, I guess to
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multiple people. Some people might say that's big of me.
Others might say it's a non traditional family arrangement. Polyamory
is perfectly natural, is it.
Speaker 8 (42:41):
You can't get married, though you can be together, but
I don't think you can get married. That's sick.
Speaker 1 (42:48):
I don't know. I know that. I think I speak
for a lot of guys when I say I don't
know that I'd need a lot of wives. This week's
just in chorus saying are you going to watch basketball
all day and night? Yeah, it's March madness. But they
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said that they would help these people designate next of
ken from their chosen family. That can be someone that
you're in a relationship with. It might be your buddy Frank,
it could be anybody. An activist says, Chosen families take
on a lot of different forms. Polyamory isn't just about
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having relations with multiple people. It's about what your community
looks like and having relations with multiple people. All right,
they didn't say that last part, but yeah, Olympia Washington,
you want to be in a polyamorous relationship, I think
it's probably a bit more difficult than just moving to
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Olympia Washington. First, I think you have to be the
kind of cult leader that could convince multiple women to
marry you and be okay with that.
Speaker 3 (44:02):
There.
Speaker 1 (44:02):
I know the old joke. Probably a lot of women
are like I wouldn't mind having two or three more
of me around here to do all the things I
don't want to do, like you. But if they all
say that, I just say that.
Speaker 5 (44:14):
No.
Speaker 1 (44:15):
If they all say that, though, then all right, Now,
here's the eleven ten KFAB Certified Transmission Sports Brief. I know,
I hear it my inboxes open scott a kfab dot com.
There are a lot of people like Lucy, going, it's
just a basketball game. Why can't you Husker fans act
like you've been here before? And I know we came
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in as the four seed. We beat Troy, not exactly
a basketball powerhouse. And yeah, it's time to act like
we've been here. So let's all just calm down a
little bit about what happened yesterday? Am I right?
Speaker 5 (44:52):
Finally the Nebraska corn Huskers have won a game in
the NCAA Tournament. Seventy six forty seven.
Speaker 1 (45:02):
No big deal, Lucy, what day is it?
Speaker 8 (45:06):
It's Friday?
Speaker 6 (45:07):
Knockoff now and take the next two days off? I
was it?
Speaker 1 (45:10):
Hello?
Speaker 2 (45:10):
Test one too? One two three four five one two
one two three four five?
Speaker 1 (45:14):
Who are these people?
Speaker 2 (45:15):
These fricking people?
Speaker 6 (45:16):
And why are they here?
Speaker 8 (45:17):
Good morning, honey, I need you pancakes for breakfast.
Speaker 1 (45:20):
Oh guess what day it is? Now?
Speaker 4 (45:24):
I can say, oh.
Speaker 6 (45:27):
I got one hundred dollars walking in my BEDTI home.
Speaker 1 (45:31):
I know, world, I'll say.
Speaker 3 (45:32):
Everybody's burning he I do my boggeting and do my skin.
Speaker 1 (45:38):
Come mon in morning, I'll be brown cocking. I see
find that Friday.
Speaker 5 (45:43):
I'm freeing here.
Speaker 8 (45:45):
I've done my motor running for a brown again.
Speaker 9 (45:48):
Find that Fay. I'm out of.
Speaker 6 (45:51):
Your thumb buring dollar.
Speaker 1 (45:54):
Time.
Speaker 7 (45:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (46:00):
What over there?
Speaker 1 (46:03):
How about that for me?
Speaker 8 (46:04):
I'm a man. A little girl needs her daddy.
Speaker 1 (46:06):
What's up? I don't really have to believe in this stuff?
Do I?
Speaker 9 (46:09):
Like?
Speaker 1 (46:09):
Guta shut up? Tell that guy a shut up? I mean,
I'm gonna be hurting my head in the bis June
the imy.
Speaker 9 (46:16):
Wondering if I never said time wow Wednesday and a
thirty armies slowly tunedy Friday, I'll be in my own up.
Speaker 6 (46:26):
Find that Friday.
Speaker 5 (46:28):
I'm free again.
Speaker 3 (46:29):
I got my mother running again.
Speaker 9 (46:32):
All right, it's find time control forget the works, should
do it? I got my running bow lady.
Speaker 5 (46:47):
Find anybody got time for getting work?
Speaker 8 (46:52):
If John from that satisfy you, or should I do
a better job?
Speaker 1 (47:00):
Thank you to Gary and Jim and Lucy and Rush
Limbaugh and Rodney Dangerfield, Bo Polini, Mike Gundhy and everyone else.
Oh yeah, and George Jones involved in that one I'm
Scott Voorhees here on Nebraska's morning news news radio eleven
ten KFAB in the Zonker's custom was inbox a Scott
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at kfab dot com. Darlene says, Scott, don't let anyone
steal your joy over the wind. I love your enthusiasm. Well,
heck yeah, I think sweet. I don't know which is
my favorite it It fluctuates depending on whichever four day
stretch we're in at the time. But I love I
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love Christmas, I love Easter, fourth of July. I love
all that stuff. But is it usually four solid days
of NonStop, big smile on your face should be, but
not always a lot of times you're trying to work
and get stuff done, so you can take a day
day and a half couple of days off. But March Madness,
the first four days of the March Madness basketball tournament
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right up there with the four days of the Master's
golf tournament. And I gotta wait like three weeks for
that and watch and watch basketball the whole time.
Speaker 8 (48:15):
I anime purposely so excited.
Speaker 1 (48:18):
I don't know, I I'm very happy. I don't know
if I mentioned this. I think this is the most
wonderful time of the year. Andy Williams is full of crud.
Pardon my language.
Speaker 8 (48:29):
Maybe this is what he was talking about. It just
stole it for Christmas.
Speaker 1 (48:34):
He does seem to talk about winter conditions and Christmasy stuff.
But look, Andy was a golfer. He was a guest
on our program years ago. We mostly talked about America
and golf. I talk about that with a lot of guests. Hey,
Janine Garoffalo, welcome to the program, you golfer. My friend
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Aaron is so full of it, he says, his perfect
bracket is still intact. Oh bowl, how many do you
fill out? You liar? One bracket? All these guys like
I'm gonna use AI and I'm gonna have AI couldn't
have gotten you this far. There there are let's see
here of the the official platforms where people fill out brackets.
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You got ESBN, CBS, Yahoo, Those are the big ones.
And as of this morning, after day one of March Madness,
out of thirty six million total brackets submitted, over ninety
nine percent of the entries are busted. Fourteen thousand ish
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perfect brackets still remain after day one. By the time
we get to the final four they'll all be gone.
No one has ever submitted a verified, accurate bracket for
the entire March tournament. Some I don't know. I would
say that we would never see one in our lifetimes,
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but that's only because I know a big comment's gonna
kill us pretty soon. But even if that doesn't happen
and we live thousands of years, the odds of filling
out a perfect bracket one in one hundred twenty billion.
Speaker 8 (50:25):
Who do you have going all the way to the
So you're.
Speaker 6 (50:27):
Saying there's a chance I don't fill one out?
Speaker 8 (50:30):
Oh you don't.
Speaker 1 (50:30):
I used to. You know why I did because Vicky
in our office was real adamant about everyone's gotta fill
out of bracket five dollars five dollars if I fell
out of bracket, Like Vicky calmed down, you gotta fail
out a bracket. I fine. You know, she was in
charge of a lot of stuff. I didn't want to
upset her, so I filled out a bracket. But anytime
I'd ever fill out a bracket, I would have like
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this year, I'd have Nebraska going all the way and winning.
It is that gonna happen? Heck, yeah it is. You
know previous years Creighton. Uh there was a time there
when my my buddy was playing for oh geez, South
Northern which school there was some small school in Alabama
and they made the tournament. So I had to fill
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it out and I had them going all the way.
Uh geez.
Speaker 6 (51:17):
I can't remember what school that was. Now, it was
a while ago. How long ago was it?
Speaker 1 (51:22):
And I was in high school thirty years oh okay
more than thirty years, so it's been a while. I
don't filling out. I don't want to watch a high
point over Wisconsin and think, oh no, my bracket. I
just want to enjoy the basketball and just take it
all in South Alabama. That was the school that, oh
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about twenty five or so years ago made March Madness.
I had them going all the way because my buddy
played for them. Here's Greg Wagner, Doom Boomas, Greenboy Boomas
and with the Couto swear the Countrey ball from Nebraska
game in parts. He is here and a week ago
he was here. So we were talking about snow and
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ice and sub zero wind chills and now in ninety
degrees plus tomorrow that's over one hundred degree feels like
temperature difference here for the Omaha Metro. My sinuses are
going to pack up and leave town. But this is better.
I like this weather better. What can we do this weekend?
Speaker 6 (52:23):
Oh my gosh, there's a lot going on, a lot
of fishing locally. We've got real good success at the
Two Rivers Trout Lake. We have stock trout for Sarpee
Counians now in Lake Hellic in Papillion and also in
Kramer Park Lake in Bellevue, Lewisville. Lake Number one A
has got some fish in it as well, and so
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does Grettona cross It. We put trout in the Grettona
Crossing Pond. Grettona Crossing Pond. Yeah, I'll bind the Nebraska
cross Yeah.
Speaker 1 (52:53):
I was like, is that something you throw coins into?
And also you can fish a little bit or that?
What about hunting? Well?
Speaker 6 (53:00):
Our archery spring turkey season opens up Wednesday of next week.
Speaker 1 (53:05):
Looks to be a pretty good.
Speaker 6 (53:07):
Day actually in advanced forecast, but turkey numbers seem to
be bumped up a little bit in places. The big
thing we want to tell people is if you're going west, yeah,
all those areas that we own and control at gaming
parks in that seven County area that has experienced the
terrible wildfires obviously are closed off. Don't even attempt to
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access those. And if you've got landowners out there, you
should be offering some help of some sort.
Speaker 1 (53:38):
Yeah, that's why I wanted to close with here. We
had the head of the Nebraska Cattleman on here yesterday
Nebraska Cattleman dot org. They're trying to get everything together,
from money for feed to fencing for our agg producing
friends out there. From a wildlife, from a game and
parks standpoint, I mean, some of these fires are in
some areas where you've got some good tourism up there,
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whether it's whether it's like the some of the hunting.
Speaker 6 (54:04):
Areas Creek Wildlife, Keith County.
Speaker 1 (54:07):
Yeah, later this summer you'll have people out there doing
the tank floats and all that kind of stuff there.
So as you talk with your friends out in the
sand Hills, how's it going out there, They're they're better
containment right now, but there's still a lot of areas
still existence, a.
Speaker 6 (54:21):
Lot of areas impacted. We have wildlife Management areas impacted.
They're closed obviously, and so are the walk in areas
that we have where we have contracts with private landowners
for hunting and fishing access you can walk in. Obviously
those are closed as well. But the big thing is
offer to help where you can. That's that's the main thing.
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Whether it's monetarily or maybe whether if you're like a
contractor maybe is physically. They're going to need help down
the line here too, that's the big thing. And we
have our game in parks people, all of them out
west that have been on the front lines fighting the
fires as well. Yeah, what are you hearing about the
impact at Halsey? I have not heard much from there.
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You know what's interesting I get asked a lot. You know,
what are the impact wildfires on wildlife? Well, the mobile
species move, the elk move, the pronghorn, antelope move, deer move,
the small critters with small home ranges like rabbits obviously
possums and such, they can't move, and they will succumb.
They have succumbed to the fire. It's just that's that's
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kind of how it goes. We have photos of deer, pronghorn,
and elk back in those burned areas looking for green grass.
What about the migration of the sandhill cranes unaffected cranes
are fine. Sand hill crane numbers peaking right now. And
you can go all the way through about the first
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week of April out there between Grand Island and Carney
along the Platte River to see all the sand hill cranes.
So that area fine, no problems, lots of cranes to see.
And on the outdoor bulletin board, Greg, you want a
nice combo thing to do for the weekend, here's something
shram Park State Recreation Area south of Gretna. You could
hike a one point five mile trail with the family,
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not too long, not too far, and then go to
the Outdoor Education Center at Shram Park from Nebraska Game
in Parks. Greg Wagner, thank you very much,
Not anymore. Yesterday there was very risky but successful monkey
from back extraction surgery and the recipients of the surgery
courtesy of doctor Price Sandford, doctor Sam Houberg, doctor rank Mast,
(00:29):
doctor Burke buked In gel and Uh of course doctor
head doctor chief of surgery there at the University of
Nebraska Lincoln, doctor Fred Hoiberg successful monkey from back extraction surgery,
Go be Red. That was not just a win for
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this Nebraska basketball team. That was a win for Lucy
helped me out with the names here. I know they're
right off the tip of your tongue. Let's see I
want That's a win for rich King. That's a win
for Dave Hoppin. That's a win for Eric Piatkowski. That's
a win for Toron Loeu. That's a win for Eric Strickland.
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That's a win for Cookie Belcher. Cookie Belcher, was this
the Chili Cookoff. That's a win for Clifford Scales. That's
a win for oh case I, Tom Naga. That's a
win for all these Nebraska basketball players and teams who
fell just short and put Nebraska in the category of
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being the only major school in a Big Division one
conference not to have won a March Madness tournament game
until yesterday. So people are like, all right, calm down, Huskers.
So you curb stomped Troy. Well, let's take a look here. Duke,
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the number one seed was down eleven at the sixteenth
seed Sienna Saints. These I think Siena was up by
something like eighteen nineteen points at one point in the
second half. Duke had to rally to beat those guys. Eleven.
VCU was down by about the same amount. I actually
went outside last night in the second half of that
(02:48):
North Carolina game. I'm like, all right, the tar Heels
have this one, and came back in to see what
was going on in the second half some of the
other games, and I looked at the score as like, well,
are we going to overtime? Carolina loses to eleven VCU. Now,
VCU is a solid basketball program. High Point beats Wisconsin.
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That's a twelve over a five. So yeah, so Nebraska
beat Troy a four over a thirteen. Well, you're supposed to.
That's not how it works in March Madness. There is
no supposed to. Yeah, some some teams get it done.
And last night, I'll give you a full recap in sports.
But if you're just waking up and saying, all right,
so who won the games last night? Any upsets last night? No,
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Illinois went over one hundred points against Pennsylvania, Houston Big
over Idaho, Gonzaga beats Kenesas State, and you call it
an upset. Saint Louis over Georgia, it's a nine over
and eight. But you get into those mid seed games,
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anything can happen. But one hundred and two points by
Saint Louis the Billickins over Georgia, that's there is an upset.
So yeah, Nebraska beat Troy. But we also we finally
got one back on history. We washed the taste out
of our mouth from years of frustrating football seasons, a
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volleyball season that was just high stepping doing the like
the Roger Craig high knees stepping towards another national championship
that got derailed in the postseason, and a Nebraska basketball
program that for years had never won a March Madness
game until yesterday. That's a win for all those players,
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and it's a win for all of those fans who
have been for generations going down to the Devanni Center
and now Pinnacle Bank Arena and cheering for the Big
Red and every single year frustratingly coming up short. That
was fun yesterday, and to see how much it meant
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to the Hoibergs head coach Fred and the son Sam.
That's something you can't get an nil and transfers and
all that. That's special. That's us, that's the Big Red.
It's clear. I don't want to talk about anything else
this morning, so we're just gonna replay the game coming up.
Oh wait, we don't have the rights to replay the game.
(05:18):
How about highlights? Coming up in sports brief after traffic,
weather and a news update.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Next, man in Alaska is facing charges for bank robbery.
He's accused of walking into a bank with a note
reading I have a weapon and that weapon is the
power and authority of Jesus Christ. Empty the drawer into
an envelope, do not set off the alarm. Police say
that he asked arresting officers if he'd be getting any
of the stolen money back. I'm Craig Evans. More news
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at the bottom of the hour at news Radio eleven ten.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
King phebe I have a weapon and it's the power
of Jesus Christ. Put the money in the bag. Wow,
thank you Craig Evans for that one. That was a
good story. Look on Lucy's face suggests that she didn't
hear it. We'll see. We got to have Craig do
that again later. That was a great story. That's a
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terrible story, but it was funny and it caused me
to talk about something other than Nebraska basketball for a
very split second. Lucy Chapman, Craig Evans there, I'm Scott Voorhees.
This is News Radio eleven ten kfab in Nebraska's morning News.
Just when you thought things couldn't get any better. Ninety
eight percent containment is what they're calling the big fire
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out there across five counties in Nebraska, the Moral Fire
that had spread across a big swath of Arthur and
then Grant, Garden, Keith, and certainly Moral counties. Ninety eight
percent containment on that fire. They told you a few
days ago that this was going to spread beyond the
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five hundred thousand some acres up towards closer to six fifty,
which it did. But they said, we've got containment at
that point, and then we start beating it back. Conditions
improved the winds died down. Excellent. We've got three other
fires going. How we're doing there. Eighty percent containment on
the what it had been the one hundred and twenty
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eight thousand acre Cottonwood fire. That's the one oh just
west of Cozad and Gothenburg in that area. Let's go
up north to the Road two oh three fire near Halsey.
Eighty percent containment on the thirty five thousand acre fire
Road two oh three, and then north to just west
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southwest of Valentine. Sixty percent containment on the Anderson Bridge
fire seventeen four hundred acres. Great job by the crews
out there getting that all under control ninety eight percent,
when just a few days ago it was more like
eighteen percent on the big fire out there. That is
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some dedicated effort and finally some cooperation from mother nature.
Let's do sports free here at six twenty one. Jim
Rose out for a few days. I'm Scott Vorhees, I'll
handle this. Fred Hoiberg knew something was special right before
tip off we went out.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
For the anthem. I we had a little monitoring in
the coaches room, kind of see it filling in, filling
in when I'm out for the anthem. I got goosebumps,
and I got a little emotional just seeing how the
fans showed up for us, and they were a huge
factor in that thing. When we got went on a run,
it was it was deafening in there, and just really
thankful that we could share this moment with our unbelievable fans.
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And I promise you we're gonna keep fighting and keep swinging.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
That's your coach. Here's his son, Sam Hoiberg talking to
the guys before the game.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
That was one of the things I've been saying all
week to our guys is that you know, you know
you're playing in a dream moment right now, but we
have to focus on this game and get this win
because it can get out of hand quick. But you know,
with about five minutes left, I think we're up by
thirty and went to a time out. That's when you
start looking up at the crowd and seeing their reactions,
and yeah, it was a special feeling, you know, to
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kind of cherish that.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Kfab Husker and Cider Sean Callahan joined us Live yesterday
morning just after nine o'clock from the arena in Oklahoma City,
and I asked Sean, these guys kinda kinda limped into
the bracket, and I wondered if maybe they were just tight,
just tense, just they couldn't stop thinking ahead to we
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gotta get to the bracket and we've got to get
that win. But now that they're there, is it possible
that the anxiety goes away? They stopped playing so tensins
to get back to what they were doing to start
off this season. And I think that's exactly what we
saw yesterday.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
Asked out front, all the try cut off by saying,
flip it's a freaker.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
Extra to Pisce s Corn do right.
Speaker 7 (09:45):
Tell the shoot his four three and a half.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
There's nothing an offensive player in basketball likes hearing more
than other players and coaches on the other team looking
at you and yelling who's got him? Price Sandford coul Miss.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Kara Garcia sends it into Kale Jacobson, who can triple
it out five seconds down to four, three to two.
He pumps his fist down to one and that is it.
It is no longer March sadness for Nebraska in their
one hundred and thirtieth season of basketball and the eighty
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seventh NCAA Tournament. Finally, the Nebraska court Huskers have won.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
A game in the NCAA Tournament.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
Seventy six forty seven. Nebraska, the four seed in the
South Region, leaves no doubt against the thirteen seed Troy.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Sorry Troy, but now it's like, all right, we got it.
And you could tell in the postgame interviews, which we're emotional,
was great. Husker Nation loved it. I did too. But
now it's like, all right, we got that done. We're
kind of open expecting thinking that this would happen. We
got to play another game tomorrow. Who we playing?
Speaker 5 (11:04):
Tanner Ashmark left signed against DJ Richards step back three
on the way here is pure Tyler Tanner is electrifying.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Vanderbilt is up next. There they beat McNeese State seventy
eight sixty eight. There were plenty of upsets in the
first full day of the NCAA Men's basketball Tournament, including
not a great day for the Big Ten. Ohio State
lost and Soda Wisconsin.
Speaker 7 (11:29):
Rody is looking he'll throw the baseball pass into the
front board. It is andersp good Bye Anderson and the
Panthers have reached their highest points. The high point Panthers
stunt Wisconsin eighty three eighty two and a high point
will move to the second.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Round as a twelve over five for high Point. The
Panthers beat the Badgers as you heard there eighty three
eighty two. A number eleven Texas that had to play
a play in game to take on BYU beat BYU
that same region than VCU. The eleven seed knocked off
number six North Carolina eighty two seventy eight in overtime.
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You can call it an upset Texas A and M
over a seventh seed Saint Mary. It's a ten over
a seven, but A and M moves on sixty three
fifty no problem over Saint Mary's duke had a problem
with Sienna, but they were victorious in the late games
last night. A big role for Illinois and Gonzaga as
well as Houston. And it was in a bit of
(12:29):
an upset Saint Louis over Georgia. That's a nine over
and eight, but one hundred and two points by the
Billickins over the Bulldogs. There Saint Louis moves on. That's
out of Buffalo, and that's sports brief now at six
twenty five. Scott atkfab dot com and the Zonker's custom
was inbox. Greg emailed at two thirty nine am morning, Greg,
(12:53):
this is what he either woke up thinking or I
don't know if he was just heading off to bed
at this point, but Greg said the subject line is
Trump foot in mouth Again. Greg says, why couldn't President
Trump just end his response to the Japanese reporter with
this statement about maintaining the element of surprise and leave
(13:16):
it at that. Why do you have to mention Pearl Harbor?
Then he turns it on me, says, I expect you
will just attribute it to Trump being Trump. What else
would you call it? If this is what Donald Trump
always does, he takes it too far? Did I love?
(13:38):
Do I think Pearl Harbor is fodder for comedy? I don't.
Many Americans don't do. I understand what he was saying,
and saying it right there to the Prime minister who
had nothing to do with it. This woman I didn't
even know. I don't know if her parents were alive
when Pearl Harbor happened. So you're sitting there with the
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Prime Minister of Japan, Takachi, and here's how it sounded
that people were saying, well, why didn't you tell, like Japan,
for example, what you were going to do in Iran
before you did it.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
Well, one thing, you don't want to signal too much.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
You know when we go in, we went in very
hard and we didn't tell anybody about it.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Because we wanted surprise.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
Who knows better about surprise than Japan?
Speaker 8 (14:29):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor?
Speaker 7 (14:32):
Okay? Right?
Speaker 1 (14:35):
The Prime Minister looked like if she could be transported
to Neptune, she would take that one white ticket. At
that point, she had nothing to do with it.
Speaker 8 (14:46):
No, but I understand what he was doing.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Oh, I understand what he was doing. And he's Look,
that's who he is on the that is who he
is on the bad side of that, Lucy. It's people
look at it and go, is he making fun of
what happened at Pearl Harbor?
Speaker 8 (15:07):
And you can't take it out?
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Well, you can listen to that and you can take
it that way. I get it. I understand that. You
can also look at it from the standpoint of it
was a successful military operation by Japan. And all these
decades later, and for several decades, for our lifetimes, America
and Japan have had from a diplomatic standpoint, a very
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good relationship. Now you talk to some of the greatest generation,
they're still those wounds run deep. Completely understand that. So
you'll still hear. Here we be talking to an old guy,
you know, one of these whether they were in World
War Two or just kind of maybe we're growing up
(15:52):
pretty young, but maybe teenagers at that time, and suddenly
they just out of nowhere to just throw out a
slur for the Japanese people, and you're like, WHOA, hang
on there, Hank, you know I it's look, you get it, Yes,
you get it. But you also realize, all right, from
a diplomatic standpoint, the fact that they could do Pearl
(16:14):
Harbor against us and we could drop bombs on them
and within our lifetimes have a really good diplomatic working
partnership relationship between these nations is actually a pretty beautiful thing.
And Trump is pretty upset because Japan was one of
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those who when he said, look, all you nations need
to help us out. We got to get these tankers
through the straight to horror moves here, and Japan was
one of those who said, I don't know if we
can do that. And so he's gonna go, he's gonna
go Trump, He's gonna hit below the belt, and so
provided the opportunity to do so, he took a I
(16:55):
don't even know if that's taking a shot at Japan,
and it's just pointing out you.
Speaker 6 (17:00):
No one called.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
America, no one called our troops that day of Pearl
Harbor and said, hey, heads up, we're flying in. It's
the element of surprise. That's why we did what we
did in Iran. That's why we are continuing to take
out their leaders there. One of the Iranian leaders yesterday
or call them what you will, made some statement like
(17:23):
we're going to beat back the Great Satan and then
he was a skid mark about fifteen minutes later. So
it's the element of surprise on all of this.
Speaker 8 (17:32):
Many how many countries are in NATO that are supporting us,
have pledged their support, and how many have pledged no support.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
You've either had like France, Germany, Germany's been tippid, and
then a few others, and then beyond that you had
Japan and South Korea there like we didn't start all
this Canada immediately, like we didn't want this to begin with, Like, okay,
we know bit.
Speaker 8 (18:00):
Why don't we just take our money and go home
leave NATO.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Well, that's what the president's saying. The president can't tell
the president he can't do something. He'll do it, but
you have. It has to be an act of Congress
to withdraw from NATO. Withdraw funds from NATO, I know.
Speaker 8 (18:17):
If we're paying them lying share of this to support NATO,
and it is an organization to for countries to help
each other each other.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
I'm not arguing with you.
Speaker 8 (18:26):
Then why aren't we leaving?
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Well maybe we will, but as of right now, that's
not happening. People have been urging those who are heading
to the airport, or even if you're not flying out,
just head on down to the airport, find a TSA
agent and say, here you go. I know you're working
without a regular paycheck. I made you a bunt cake.
Speaker 8 (18:48):
Oh it's a cake. I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
I'm sure that they think that's a very nice thing.
I don't know if if you've, if anyone's ever been
to the airport, where are the TSA agents supposed to
put all of these baked goods? I made you a
tuna casserole. Okay, I've still got seven hours left on
this shift probably longer because the guy who's supposed to
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come in after me is probably not going to show
up today because a lot of TSA agents have not
been showing up in Houston. Lucy, where's my story about
the TSA in Houston? That's the worst airport for TSA
agents saying do I get a paycheck today?
Speaker 6 (19:35):
No?
Speaker 1 (19:38):
I don't feel very good, and then they're not coming
to work. More than forty percent I found it, by
the way, No, thanks to you. More than forty percent
of TSA officers at Houston's Hobby Airport skipped work. That
was on Tuesday, thirty six percent in New Orleans, thirty
four percent in Atlanta. Like I'm not getting paid. I've
(20:01):
got it. I have to make money. And then they're saying, well,
what travelers are bringing you a sandwich? I don't have
where am I supposed to put all this? Here's a
whole sack of groceries. I brought you a whole sack
of groceries. And you're looking at this going I can't
use any of this. I have a gluten intolerance. There's
(20:22):
milk in here. I got I got six and a
half hours left on my shift. There's there's no mini
fridge around here where I can put this. This milk
is going to go bad. Where am I supposed to
put all this stuff? We don't have a lot of room.
If people are just like when you stop by when
you're traveling out, bring them something here you go. It's
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a shirt, it's a sweater.
Speaker 8 (20:44):
What when you are starting a new job, you it's
going to take a couple of weeks three some two
three four weeks to get your first paycheck. Yeah, so
why would you You're you're gonna wait for a paycheck anyway?
Why would you leave?
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Yeah? I don't know.
Speaker 8 (21:02):
I don't either.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Well, I mean there are some people who can trade
services for money, cash on the spot. See, you're automatically
taking see I'm thinking about landscaping, work, a bad haircut, something.
Speaker 8 (21:18):
Okay, all right, all right, all right, all right.
Speaker 6 (21:21):
So they see you're you're taking it in a very
different way.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
But that too. Though. The last time I went to
the airport, the airports, I didn't see any TSA agents
that would make more than five dollars ten dollars tops
for any of that haircuts. Yes, who's Nebraska play next
in the tournament? When do we play Oh, it's tomorrow
night seven forty five against Vanderbilt.
Speaker 8 (21:46):
Okay, what is.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
The mascot of Vanderbilt? It is the Commodores.
Speaker 8 (21:59):
Oh, there you go.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
She's a brick house. She's mighty mighty. He's letting the
traffic all hang out here on news radio eleven KFAB.
Speaker 8 (22:11):
And you chose that song.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Yeah, Like I said, night Shift one of my favorite songs. Also,
I just quickly looking at the list here and I
was like, well, three times a lady, I want brick
houses all played out. I decided to go night Shift.
Speaker 8 (22:25):
I support your choice.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Thank you. It's a great song. The they're talking about
a because a lot of people went to sports bars
yesterday to watch sports ball. There was a lot of it.
Speaker 8 (22:37):
On Is there more than basketball?
Speaker 1 (22:41):
You had Nebraska baseball one again yesterday, that's eleven in
a row. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (22:46):
We got a couple of hockey games left.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Yeah, the the vals Bar Championship in Innisbrook, a copper
Head course in Tampa on the PGA tour. But most
of us were watching basketball yesterday. Lucy, I think there's
a pre eve in your future where we don't do
sports updates here on the Nebraska's Morning News program and instead, well,
because young people aren't interested, they don't want Are you
(23:12):
going to flap the pages in your face into your
microphone so that we can all hear it on the radio?
Speaker 8 (23:18):
You could hear that, Yes, I stop, it didn't sound
like that. I have headphones on too.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
You know, is it that hot in the Total Traffic Center?
Speaker 8 (23:28):
It's warm.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Yeah, it's a hot Total Traffic Center. It's like a
regular Total Traffic center, except with Lucy in there. Hr,
I'll me see it ten. No, the young people they're
not as interested in the sports stuff unless they can
gamble on it. But you know, sports gambling that's so
nineteen sixties. We need something else on which we can gamble.
(23:52):
They call it the poly market, and there it's a
prediction platform and they're opening up I think sports bar screens,
food drink specials, maybe a karaoke night. But it's not
about watching sports. It's about just seeing what's happening and
then betting on it. The all these new polymarket apps
(24:17):
and websites and everything have popped up here. It's I
don't know how else to describe it other than it's
deadpool except about everything. You know Deadpool, right, Yeah, not
just the movies, but also it's you know, I think
that that who Diane Keaton is going to die in
(24:41):
twenty twenty five, and then so you have that, and
then if she dies, you're like, hey, all right, I win.
Never mind the fact that we just lost Diane Keaton
last year. You know, someone's like, that's that's the twenty
five dollars I got it paid off. Except it's like
that for everything. I think there'll be an accident at
ninety some and then people are like, let's see here,
(25:03):
if I bet a bunch of money, they'll be an
accident over here. And if I get in the accident,
is that enough to cover my deductible? And it's and
you think this is stupid, Yes, you're right, and people
are doing it like crazy. And there was a whole
betting market on whether or not an Iranian missile would
fall in Israel. There was a news report that said
(25:27):
that there was a missile that came down a massive
explosion in Israel, just outside Jerusalem. This is a report
on Tuesday, March tenth. Well, immediately people start emailing the reporter.
They track them down online and they're emailing the reporter going,
(25:47):
you need to revise your report. Other reports are saying
that it wasn't a missile that fell, It was a
fragment from an Israeli interceptor that fell and caused some damage,
not the missile itself. And the reporter says, well, I'll
look into it, and they're like, no, if you don't
change this, I will find you and I will kill you.
(26:09):
You know why, because of all the bets as to
whether or when an Iranian missile would fall and hit
and cause damage in Israel, and so suddenly it was
very important whether it was a part of an Iranian
missile or a fragment from an Israeli interceptor. And this
reporter was getting death threats because it suddenly made a
(26:31):
difference in the polymarket.
Speaker 8 (26:34):
We're just living in a movie, aren't we.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
If you're hooked on gambling, suddenly the ability to basically
do what number am I thinking of? For Nope? It
was six? Ah, shoot, let's try again. That's what we're doing.
Speaker 8 (26:50):
Right, With a little bit of a caveat on that,
because you can be just as addicted to gambling as
you would gamble on absolutely anything. But if that is
not available to you, if there isn't a platform that's
available to you to bet on that. Then, so what
you're addicted to it? What are you gonna do? Now?
(27:11):
You can't do anything about it, But now you now
have a stage, You now have a platform to bet
on that kind of stuff. Is this just well known
to people? I mean this is the first I'm hearing
about it. Can anybody just go and find something to
bet on?
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Yeah? It's basically did you ever watch the TV show Ed? No?
Oh my gosh, what a great show, and a lot
of people missed it, but it doesn't replay anywhere and
it's hard to find. But there were two longtime best
friends that would always and every episode of be Hey
Ed ten bucks if you go over and tell that
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you know something like that. So it's just a series
of bets between friends and they just hand each other
the ten dollars back for doing stupid stuff or deciding
not to do it. It's that except on your app.
Speaker 8 (27:58):
So there is an app for every kid.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Oh yeah, for everything. No, it's just something on which
to lose money.
Speaker 8 (28:08):
It's the time of year when mother nature can't decide
between flip flops or frostbite.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
Happy Spring from news Radio eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
It's all right to get started a couple hours early, right,
Spring doesn't officially get here until nine forty six. You
can't even do it on the quarter hour. Who decided that?
By the way, when does spring and the moon? When
does spring start? It starts on Friday, March twentieth this year. Yeah,
what time? About a quarter to ten? It doesn't start
(28:41):
at midnight that day. No, that's that's the dumbest thing
I've ever heard. Does it start at sunrise? Why would
it do that? Does it start when you don't know
whether it's breakfast time or lunch?
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Nine six Central time, that's when spring starts and summer
starts at twelve oh four eighty two degrees today ninety
tomorrow seven thirty six. Now Here on Nebraska's Morning News,
I'm Scott Vorhees. I tell time on the radio. Lucy
(29:14):
Chapman's right there. She talks about traffic. Craig Evans is
your news guy. Jim Rose is out till Monday, and
we combine to form Nebraska's Morning News. I do have
hey if you like stories about weather and things that
are obvious. My favorite story of the day is courtesy
of KMTV three News Now the headline, and Lucy, I
(29:40):
didn't see this coming. Tell me what you think the
rest of this story is about. Here's the headline.
Speaker 8 (29:46):
Oh, I thought you wanted me to tell you at
that point.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
No, I'm gonna tell you the headline, right, you tell
me what they're going to talk about. Next headline is
another spring, another likely doubt. Doubt, Let me try that again.
I'm sorry, this is why I can't do TV. Another spring,
another likely drought for Nebraska and Iowa. Here's how to
(30:11):
prepare your lawns. And then there's a story. What do
you think their big tip.
Speaker 8 (30:17):
Is stop fertilizing?
Speaker 1 (30:21):
No? Umm, maybe all right, maybe people need this story.
Speaker 8 (30:26):
But if I'm judging, well, obviously stop watering.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Right, So let's see here a likely drought for Nebraska
and Iowa. You say, stop watering? Yes, all right, this
is why we should probably have rehearsal for the news.
Do you want your lawn to die?
Speaker 4 (30:45):
No?
Speaker 1 (30:45):
See, the rest of us are yelling at the radio
right now. So let's let's try this from my vantage point.
Another spring, another likely drought for Nebraska and Iowa. Here's
how to prepare your lawn. The story that No, the
story does suggest This is a lot hard, and I
thought it'd be that. If you want to battle the
lack of moisture for your lawn, what you're supposed to
(31:06):
do is water it.
Speaker 8 (31:11):
How come, aren't you wasting water?
Speaker 1 (31:17):
See?
Speaker 8 (31:18):
I thought, aren't you wasting water by watering.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Ladies and gentlemen. I apologize for what's happening right now.
I don't get it myself.
Speaker 8 (31:29):
I what don't you get a boy?
Speaker 1 (31:33):
There's so much right now?
Speaker 8 (31:36):
Do I I think I'm making sense. I think that do.
Speaker 6 (31:40):
You want your lawn to grow?
Speaker 8 (31:41):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Does your lawn need water for it to grow in
a drought condition where it doesn't rain? Is Mother nature
going to provide that water? All right?
Speaker 6 (31:51):
So you need to provide the water. You should water
the lawn.
Speaker 8 (31:54):
I'm not stupid. I get all that I'm saying to you.
If we have a drought, I'm saying you, if we
have a drought, you don't want to waste water. That's
why you can't.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
No, no, no, no, no, all right, Okay, all right, I
see what you're saying.
Speaker 8 (32:08):
Okay, but we have plenty of water. Well, then it's
your drought.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Drought conditions are her to see of the rain When
we run low on water. They'll tell you about.
Speaker 8 (32:22):
Water conservation, fire thing.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Wow, I'm gonna start this whole segment over and we're
going to talk about something else, anything else. Hey, good morning,
not basketball spring Today. At nine forty six, I'm Scott Vorhees.
There's Lucy Chapman right now. There are people wondering should
(32:47):
I believe Lucy when she tells me about how traffic
is tied up over here at construction because I don't
think if you showed her, if if you had two
pictures and one was her rear end and the other
one was her elbow, I don't know that she could
tell the difference.
Speaker 8 (33:01):
You said you understood what I was talking about.
Speaker 6 (33:04):
You said, I know because I have to work with you.
Speaker 8 (33:07):
No, you said, Okay, I get it.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Craig helped a brother out. He's just gonna hide in
the newsroom right now.
Speaker 8 (33:15):
You don't need Craig. We live on.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Yes late new segment, A whole new segment I do
have can.
Speaker 8 (33:26):
Make me look stupid, and don't I don't appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
You're right, this is my fault. Scott at KFA B
dot com and the soncer's custom was in box. Colleen
says Scott, you and Lucy are the best old married
couple to listen to in the morning. Hey you hear
that we beat Todd and Tyler. He says that. Yeah, sorry, guys.
He says that last bit was definitely not informative, but
(33:52):
it was entertaining. Wait a minute, and made for great radio. Hey,
we'll take it. And our good friend Allie says. My
head officially hurts after the back and forth with Lucy. Oh,
my sweet goodness, have a great weekend. Yeah, this is
how we do it. Montel Jordan was singing about us.
(34:14):
Here's another water story for you, Lucy.
Speaker 8 (34:16):
Oh good this one.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
I think I think you're gonna nail this one. Okay,
you remember our good friends at the Holiday Inn downtown.
Speaker 8 (34:26):
Yeah, a few weeks ago, well.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
A few weeks before. A few weeks ago, the health
department came in there and said, we have concerns about
the safety of guests swimming in your swimming pool, and
we think you ought to shut it down. And the
manager said thanks for letting us know, and then did
not shut down the pool. Why Well, I think because
(34:51):
this manager of this hotel downtown has been complaining for
months to the city about the homeless population and the
lack of response from the city in dealing with the
homeless population. They're showing up, they're threatening to fight staff members,
they're defecating in flower pots, they're trying to live in
the lobby. They're making life miserable for my employees and customers.
(35:14):
I can't run a business like this, and the city
is unresponsive. So then the city showed Well, the city
sends the county health director out there or someone from
the health department says, yeah, you you're the guy complaining, right, yeah,
your pool should be shut down, and he says no.
And then and then they send the TV out there
(35:37):
to talk with the management because the health Department's like, hey,
we told these this hotel to shut down their pool.
They didn't shut down their pool. Kids are in their
swimming Moms are like, what is their problem with the pool?
The one you can smell from thirteenth Street. Yeah, but
that's the same for any hotel pool, not this one.
So they send the TV in there, and a staff
member at the Holiday Inn took a glass of wall
(36:00):
or took a glass dipped it in the swimming pool
and said, our water is so safe. I would drink
it and then took a generous sip from the cup
for the TV station. And I've been bothering the manager
since then, saying, at least tell me this employee got
(36:20):
a raise or she's not dead. Yeah. This this pool water,
you know, the one that's been marinating in kids urea
and feet.
Speaker 8 (36:30):
Stop.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
This is so clean. I'd drink it. Stop, she's alive.
I don't know whether she got a raise. Well after
that they decided, all right, fine, we'll shut down the
swimming pool. Yesterday, the Douglas County Health Department announced the
reopening of the Holiday Inn downtowns happened, swimming pool and
water pork with they drank, They drank the water and
(36:52):
it was fine.
Speaker 8 (36:52):
No, something happened. Why did they change reverse course on
this and say okay open.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
They passed inspection, the reapplied for its permit, and they
reopened it. They said, the hotel is insuring a safe
and I love this word, compliant environment. Thank you so
much for being here with us. We love being here
with you. This is the place where we get together
to laugh, cry and get through the day together. We
(37:19):
watch basketball, we talk about the news. We're blinded by
Lucy Chamans, Aura, it all happens here. This is Nebraska's
morning news news Radio eleven ten kfab Craig Evans here
as well. I'm Scott Vorhees. If you missed the maybe
the best news of the day, and like what Nebraska won.
We know, actually if I can find something that's worth
(37:42):
cheering about more than that ninety eight percent containment on
the six hundred and forty three thousand plus acre Moral
fire out there that had been covering parts of Moral Counties, Garden, Grant,
Arthur and Keith Counties in the Penhandles sand Hills of Nebraska.
Just a few days ago it was only eighteen percent,
(38:04):
but they said it's a it's a huge area that
doesn't have a lot of roads, so it's going to
spread before we're able to beat it back. That's what
they said. They needed the weather to improve. It did.
Winds died down, and if you're going to be out
there fighting fires, this is the time to do it.
And they've been doing a great job and it went
(38:26):
quickly from eighteen percent now ninety eight percent containment. So
does oh, does that mean it's out No, it means
it's it's contained. So now they're starting the process of
not just getting that fire under control and eventually out.
But as we talked yesterday in this hour to the
(38:48):
president of the Nebraska Cattle Minutes about trying to feed
all of the cattle and the horses, and also the people,
I mean, their homes are gone too, got to rebuild
fence and says there's a lot of putting stuff back
together out there in the sand hills, but Nebraska's are
stepping up. If you want to consider what you can do,
there are a lot of organizations doing something. Nebraska Cattleman
(39:12):
dot org is the website to learn more. I even
have another news story unrelated to the Big Red that's
worth cheering about as well. Even if you're a fan
of Lincoln High School, you got to cheer about this
one on Lincoln High School, on Lincoln, Nebraska, No. Lincoln
High in Rhode Island, kid named Colin Dorgan for Blackstone
(39:37):
Valley High School. They were playing Lincoln High in a
hockey game the other day and Colin Dorgan scored a
goal that tied up the game, put it into four
overtime periods before his teammate Jackson Boys netted the winning
goal and Blackstone Valley gets the win and the championship
(40:00):
in that area of Providence, Rhode Island. Why does this
matter to any Why is this news? What? Scott, did
you hit your head?
Speaker 3 (40:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (40:09):
Maybe I was asking that.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Colin Dorgan, his daddy, who dressed as a woman and
identified as a woman, showed up in whatever identity that
day in a fog of violence, mental illness, and evil.
And he's the guy who shot this kid's mom, brother,
(40:36):
and grandpa, killing all three of them, wounding two others
in just a few weeks ago. Up in Providence, Rhode Island.
They're playing a was it a hockey game or a practice?
I think it was a game. And this guy comes
in there and starts shooting. Well, his son, who survived,
still playing on this hockey team, and thought, well, what
(41:01):
am I going to do? Curl up in the fetal
position and not play hockey? No one would blame him
if he did. He kept skating and led his team
to a championship win. Even parents for the opposing team
were crying tears of joy for this kid and his
hockey family, as well as that community Blackstone Valley High School.
(41:22):
I didn't know they'd ever be on my radar, or
that I would care about. A hockey championship in Rhode Island.
That's a great one. Congratulations, that's a D two boys
state championship for Blackstone Valley Providence, Rhode Island. We voted
down any attempt to try and close the budget shortfall
in Nebraska. There's some conversation about medical marijuana at the
(41:46):
unicameral today. That's what we talk about here in Nebraska,
you know, budget and pot. In Olympia, Washington, though Olympia,
the town city, the village of Olympia, Washington state capital,
just became the first in the state of Washington. I
(42:09):
don't know how many other places anywhere, but I'll tell
you what they did. They're barring discrimination against people in
polyamorous relationships. Where you are I married, I guess to
(42:29):
multiple people. Some people might say that's big of me.
Others might say it's a non traditional family arrangement. Polyamory
is perfectly natural, is it.
Speaker 8 (42:41):
You can't get married, though you can be together, but
I don't think you can get married. That's sick.
Speaker 1 (42:48):
I don't know. I know that. I think I speak
for a lot of guys when I say I don't
know that I'd need a lot of wives. This week's
just in chorus saying are you going to watch basketball
all day and night? Yeah, it's March madness. But they
(43:10):
said that they would help these people designate next of
ken from their chosen family. That can be someone that
you're in a relationship with. It might be your buddy Frank,
it could be anybody. An activist says, Chosen families take
on a lot of different forms. Polyamory isn't just about
(43:31):
having relations with multiple people. It's about what your community
looks like and having relations with multiple people. All right,
they didn't say that last part, but yeah, Olympia Washington,
you want to be in a polyamorous relationship, I think
it's probably a bit more difficult than just moving to
(43:52):
Olympia Washington. First, I think you have to be the
kind of cult leader that could convince multiple women to
marry you and be okay with that.
Speaker 3 (44:02):
There.
Speaker 1 (44:02):
I know the old joke. Probably a lot of women
are like I wouldn't mind having two or three more
of me around here to do all the things I
don't want to do, like you. But if they all
say that, I just say that.
Speaker 5 (44:14):
No.
Speaker 1 (44:15):
If they all say that, though, then all right, Now,
here's the eleven ten KFAB Certified Transmission Sports Brief. I know,
I hear it my inboxes open scott a kfab dot com.
There are a lot of people like Lucy, going, it's
just a basketball game. Why can't you Husker fans act
like you've been here before? And I know we came
(44:37):
in as the four seed. We beat Troy, not exactly
a basketball powerhouse. And yeah, it's time to act like
we've been here. So let's all just calm down a
little bit about what happened yesterday? Am I right?
Speaker 5 (44:52):
Finally the Nebraska corn Huskers have won a game in
the NCAA Tournament. Seventy six forty seven.
Speaker 1 (45:02):
No big deal, Lucy, what day is it?
Speaker 8 (45:06):
It's Friday?
Speaker 6 (45:07):
Knockoff now and take the next two days off? I
was it?
Speaker 1 (45:10):
Hello?
Speaker 2 (45:10):
Test one too? One two three four five one two
one two three four five?
Speaker 1 (45:14):
Who are these people?
Speaker 2 (45:15):
These fricking people?
Speaker 6 (45:16):
And why are they here?
Speaker 8 (45:17):
Good morning, honey, I need you pancakes for breakfast.
Speaker 1 (45:20):
Oh guess what day it is? Now?
Speaker 4 (45:24):
I can say, oh.
Speaker 6 (45:27):
I got one hundred dollars walking in my BEDTI home.
Speaker 1 (45:31):
I know, world, I'll say.
Speaker 3 (45:32):
Everybody's burning he I do my boggeting and do my skin.
Speaker 1 (45:38):
Come mon in morning, I'll be brown cocking. I see
find that Friday.
Speaker 5 (45:43):
I'm freeing here.
Speaker 8 (45:45):
I've done my motor running for a brown again.
Speaker 9 (45:48):
Find that Fay. I'm out of.
Speaker 6 (45:51):
Your thumb buring dollar.
Speaker 1 (45:54):
Time.
Speaker 7 (45:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (46:00):
What over there?
Speaker 1 (46:03):
How about that for me?
Speaker 8 (46:04):
I'm a man. A little girl needs her daddy.
Speaker 1 (46:06):
What's up? I don't really have to believe in this stuff?
Do I?
Speaker 9 (46:09):
Like?
Speaker 1 (46:09):
Guta shut up? Tell that guy a shut up? I mean,
I'm gonna be hurting my head in the bis June
the imy.
Speaker 9 (46:16):
Wondering if I never said time wow Wednesday and a
thirty armies slowly tunedy Friday, I'll be in my own up.
Speaker 6 (46:26):
Find that Friday.
Speaker 5 (46:28):
I'm free again.
Speaker 3 (46:29):
I got my mother running again.
Speaker 9 (46:32):
All right, it's find time control forget the works, should
do it? I got my running bow lady.
Speaker 5 (46:47):
Find anybody got time for getting work?
Speaker 8 (46:52):
If John from that satisfy you, or should I do
a better job?
Speaker 1 (47:00):
Thank you to Gary and Jim and Lucy and Rush
Limbaugh and Rodney Dangerfield, Bo Polini, Mike Gundhy and everyone else.
Oh yeah, and George Jones involved in that one I'm
Scott Voorhees here on Nebraska's morning news news radio eleven
ten KFAB in the Zonker's custom was inbox a Scott
(47:21):
at kfab dot com. Darlene says, Scott, don't let anyone
steal your joy over the wind. I love your enthusiasm. Well,
heck yeah, I think sweet. I don't know which is
my favorite it It fluctuates depending on whichever four day
stretch we're in at the time. But I love I
(47:44):
love Christmas, I love Easter, fourth of July. I love
all that stuff. But is it usually four solid days
of NonStop, big smile on your face should be, but
not always a lot of times you're trying to work
and get stuff done, so you can take a day
day and a half couple of days off. But March Madness,
the first four days of the March Madness basketball tournament
(48:06):
right up there with the four days of the Master's
golf tournament. And I gotta wait like three weeks for
that and watch and watch basketball the whole time.
Speaker 8 (48:15):
I anime purposely so excited.
Speaker 1 (48:18):
I don't know, I I'm very happy. I don't know
if I mentioned this. I think this is the most
wonderful time of the year. Andy Williams is full of crud.
Pardon my language.
Speaker 8 (48:29):
Maybe this is what he was talking about. It just
stole it for Christmas.
Speaker 1 (48:34):
He does seem to talk about winter conditions and Christmasy stuff.
But look, Andy was a golfer. He was a guest
on our program years ago. We mostly talked about America
and golf. I talk about that with a lot of guests. Hey,
Janine Garoffalo, welcome to the program, you golfer. My friend
(48:56):
Aaron is so full of it, he says, his perfect
bracket is still intact. Oh bowl, how many do you
fill out? You liar? One bracket? All these guys like
I'm gonna use AI and I'm gonna have AI couldn't
have gotten you this far. There there are let's see
here of the the official platforms where people fill out brackets.
(49:22):
You got ESBN, CBS, Yahoo, Those are the big ones.
And as of this morning, after day one of March Madness,
out of thirty six million total brackets submitted, over ninety
nine percent of the entries are busted. Fourteen thousand ish
(49:46):
perfect brackets still remain after day one. By the time
we get to the final four they'll all be gone.
No one has ever submitted a verified, accurate bracket for
the entire March tournament. Some I don't know. I would
say that we would never see one in our lifetimes,
(50:07):
but that's only because I know a big comment's gonna
kill us pretty soon. But even if that doesn't happen
and we live thousands of years, the odds of filling
out a perfect bracket one in one hundred twenty billion.
Speaker 8 (50:25):
Who do you have going all the way to the
So you're.
Speaker 6 (50:27):
Saying there's a chance I don't fill one out?
Speaker 8 (50:30):
Oh you don't.
Speaker 1 (50:30):
I used to. You know why I did because Vicky
in our office was real adamant about everyone's gotta fill
out of bracket five dollars five dollars if I fell
out of bracket, Like Vicky calmed down, you gotta fail
out a bracket. I fine. You know, she was in
charge of a lot of stuff. I didn't want to
upset her, so I filled out a bracket. But anytime
I'd ever fill out a bracket, I would have like
(50:51):
this year, I'd have Nebraska going all the way and winning.
It is that gonna happen? Heck, yeah it is. You
know previous years Creighton. Uh there was a time there
when my my buddy was playing for oh geez, South
Northern which school there was some small school in Alabama
and they made the tournament. So I had to fill
(51:13):
it out and I had them going all the way.
Uh geez.
Speaker 6 (51:17):
I can't remember what school that was. Now, it was
a while ago. How long ago was it?
Speaker 1 (51:22):
And I was in high school thirty years oh okay
more than thirty years, so it's been a while. I
don't filling out. I don't want to watch a high
point over Wisconsin and think, oh no, my bracket. I
just want to enjoy the basketball and just take it
all in South Alabama. That was the school that, oh
(51:42):
about twenty five or so years ago made March Madness.
I had them going all the way because my buddy
played for them. Here's Greg Wagner, Doom Boomas, Greenboy Boomas
and with the Couto swear the Countrey ball from Nebraska
game in parts. He is here and a week ago
he was here. So we were talking about snow and
(52:03):
ice and sub zero wind chills and now in ninety
degrees plus tomorrow that's over one hundred degree feels like
temperature difference here for the Omaha Metro. My sinuses are
going to pack up and leave town. But this is better.
I like this weather better. What can we do this weekend?
Speaker 6 (52:23):
Oh my gosh, there's a lot going on, a lot
of fishing locally. We've got real good success at the
Two Rivers Trout Lake. We have stock trout for Sarpee
Counians now in Lake Hellic in Papillion and also in
Kramer Park Lake in Bellevue, Lewisville. Lake Number one A
has got some fish in it as well, and so
(52:44):
does Grettona cross It. We put trout in the Grettona
Crossing Pond. Grettona Crossing Pond. Yeah, I'll bind the Nebraska
cross Yeah.
Speaker 1 (52:53):
I was like, is that something you throw coins into?
And also you can fish a little bit or that?
What about hunting? Well?
Speaker 6 (53:00):
Our archery spring turkey season opens up Wednesday of next week.
Speaker 1 (53:05):
Looks to be a pretty good.
Speaker 6 (53:07):
Day actually in advanced forecast, but turkey numbers seem to
be bumped up a little bit in places. The big
thing we want to tell people is if you're going west, yeah,
all those areas that we own and control at gaming
parks in that seven County area that has experienced the
terrible wildfires obviously are closed off. Don't even attempt to
(53:32):
access those. And if you've got landowners out there, you
should be offering some help of some sort.
Speaker 1 (53:38):
Yeah, that's why I wanted to close with here. We
had the head of the Nebraska Cattleman on here yesterday
Nebraska Cattleman dot org. They're trying to get everything together,
from money for feed to fencing for our agg producing
friends out there. From a wildlife, from a game and
parks standpoint, I mean, some of these fires are in
some areas where you've got some good tourism up there,
(54:00):
whether it's whether it's like the some of the hunting.
Speaker 6 (54:04):
Areas Creek Wildlife, Keith County.
Speaker 1 (54:07):
Yeah, later this summer you'll have people out there doing
the tank floats and all that kind of stuff there.
So as you talk with your friends out in the
sand Hills, how's it going out there, They're they're better
containment right now, but there's still a lot of areas
still existence, a.
Speaker 6 (54:21):
Lot of areas impacted. We have wildlife Management areas impacted.
They're closed obviously, and so are the walk in areas
that we have where we have contracts with private landowners
for hunting and fishing access you can walk in. Obviously
those are closed as well. But the big thing is
offer to help where you can. That's that's the main thing.
(54:42):
Whether it's monetarily or maybe whether if you're like a
contractor maybe is physically. They're going to need help down
the line here too, that's the big thing. And we
have our game in parks people, all of them out
west that have been on the front lines fighting the
fires as well. Yeah, what are you hearing about the
impact at Halsey? I have not heard much from there.
(55:06):
You know what's interesting I get asked a lot. You know,
what are the impact wildfires on wildlife? Well, the mobile
species move, the elk move, the pronghorn, antelope move, deer move,
the small critters with small home ranges like rabbits obviously
possums and such, they can't move, and they will succumb.
They have succumbed to the fire. It's just that's that's
(55:29):
kind of how it goes. We have photos of deer, pronghorn,
and elk back in those burned areas looking for green grass.
What about the migration of the sandhill cranes unaffected cranes
are fine. Sand hill crane numbers peaking right now. And
you can go all the way through about the first
(55:49):
week of April out there between Grand Island and Carney
along the Platte River to see all the sand hill cranes.
So that area fine, no problems, lots of cranes to see.
And on the outdoor bulletin board, Greg, you want a
nice combo thing to do for the weekend, here's something
shram Park State Recreation Area south of Gretna. You could
hike a one point five mile trail with the family,
(56:12):
not too long, not too far, and then go to
the Outdoor Education Center at Shram Park from Nebraska Game
in Parks. Greg Wagner, thank you very much,
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