The Happiest DJs in Town!

We're neither "DJs" nor "sarcastically happy," but I decided to title the podcast with a comment that popped up on the air right after a fun round of Jim and I yelling at each other (good naturedly) off the air.  What did we talk about today?  VIP snorkeling, NU's ticket policy, living in a retirement community, Jim's favorite clothing brands (yes, that came up), a visit from Greg Wagner from Game and Parks, and so much more!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I am Scott for He's with you until the KFAB
comment line with Gene Stoth takes over at ten. Jim
Rose is here, Lucy Chapman, Craig Evans, Courtney Donaho. This
is Nebraska's morning news and we wouldn't have it any
other way unless we could have it with more Gary Saddlemire,
in which case we'd have it with as much Saddlemyer
as he wanted. But that's that's not he retired, remember, Okay. Anyway, Hi,

(00:23):
good morning. This is his news radio eleven ten KFAB.
We are now trying to deal with the fact that
the accusation against our FBI director is that he took
a VIP snorkel and there's no amount of tornadic activity
or damaging winds or a fire at Fontinelle Forest, which

(00:44):
by the way, did happen here over the last few days.
We'll get into that a little bit later this morning,
but Jim, the accusation is that Cash Bettel went to
Hawaii last summer, which the FBI said was not a vacation,
and during that time he was told, hey, we aw
sometimes allowed dignitaries to go and do a VIP snorkel

(01:08):
around the uss O USS Arizona, the sunken battleship after
Pearl Harbor and tombs more than nine hundred sailors and marines.
It's not a vacation like, hey, cool, look at this.
It's a very mean it's hollowed ground and it's treated

(01:29):
as such. And apparently Cash Pattel was given the opportunity
to do that as part of being a dignitary the
FBI director there in Hawaii, and he said, well, yes,
I certainly. And now we got people out there losing
their minds. We've got some hump saying that it fits

(01:50):
a pattern of Director Patel getting tangled up in unseemly distractions,
this time at a site commemorating the second deadliest attack
in US history, instead of staying laser focused on keeping
Americans safe. So every time cash Battel takes a shower,

(02:11):
he's not staying laser focused on keeping Americans safe. I
understand sometimes cash Battel sleeps at night, probably not very much.
How in the world can this man sleep at night
when he should be staying laser focused on keeping Americans safe. Well,

(02:31):
he's doing a great job. And you know he's doing
a great job because the left is after him. It's
like the Secretary of Housing in Urban Development yesterday was
you know, berated and badgered by Kirsten Gillibrand, the senator
from New York just because he's a Trump guy. He
works for Trump, he defends Trump's policies. It's the same
way with Cash Battel. But he's been so belligerent with

(02:55):
senators during those hearings on Capitol Hill. You're drunk, You're drunk,
to screw you, you know you suck. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
It's been really actually a great theater to see these
people push back against these Papa senators who are just
looking for TV soundbites.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
They want to stand up and be the bad guy. Uh,
I'm looking out for you by holding these people to account,
these these Trump people, these these Trump pirates, these Trump takers.
There's just one right after anohing Well, Kidish Battel has
been one of those who just simply takes no crap
from any of these these Democrat senators and congress people.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
And Marco Rubio is the other one. Yeah. Cash Battel
somehow got in the locker room after the US men's
hockey team won gold in Milan and was in there,
you know, partying it up and all the rest of
that stuff. So now you got the accusation that, well,
if Cash Battel does anything, it's basically a big party.
You got a marine veteran who talked to the Associated

(03:53):
Press because they obviously found someone to say what they
wanted to hear, which is it's like having a bachelor
party at church. It needs to be treated with the solemnity.
It deserves the accusation that Cash Betel was on his
VIP snorkel of the Arizona there a Pearl Harbor, that
he was in there basically treating it the same way

(04:15):
he treated the US men's hockey team winning gold medal
at the Olympics. He was in there going, hey, it's cool.
It's hard to spray champagne around here in the ocean,
but we're gonna try it. It's a very solemn part
of American history. Been there, no, I have not. It
is very solid. Well you haven't. You haven't taken a
VIP snorkel to it.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
I know, but that boat ride from the shore to
the Memorial is very sobering, and I imagine it's not
very deep. Pearl Harbor is not a very deep Harbor.
It's actually about twenty feet deep, which is one of
the things that Japanese used against us. But that the
hull of that ship is right there, and the memorial
is on top of the ship, and it's still losing oil.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
Sure, I'm talking, you know, eighty years later, still lose
and oil. I imagine. I mean the I've been to
the World Trade Center site. Yeah, me too, and within
a couple of years of nine to eleven. Yeah, so
you know, it's not a place where you go in
there and go, wow, this is cool. Cool yeah.

Speaker 4 (05:15):
Man.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
So but that's what they're accusing cash patelo. So we
have that, and then we have the accusation that President
Trump met with his Chinese counterpart, Zi Zenping, and while
they talked a few hours here and there over the
last couple of days, they both came out with, uh no,
there's some vague pledges, some warm words, and very few specifics,

(05:37):
and how these two world superpowers will get along from
now until the end of time. I guess the media
thought these two guys would meet and they're like, wait
a second, you like Prince I love Prince I think
Purple Range one of the greatest albums of all time. Hey,
what do you are. Let's drop the tariffs and let's
let's buy some Boeing jets and let's tell you what,

(05:58):
let's go destroy Iran to Yeah, what did they think
was gonna happen?

Speaker 2 (06:02):
Let's quick shipping arms? Do I ran through the Caspian
Sea and that kind of thing. Look, these these big
summits are a lot more hat than cattle. What we're
gonna find out over the next six months is whether
any of these things they said they were gonna do
are gonna happen. Are they gonna buy soybeans from the
United States? They're supposed to buy them a long time ago,
and then Joe Biden didn't know China from you know,

(06:24):
crete Nebraska, and so they took advantage of that and
stopped doing They made a promise stop doing that. That
hurt American farmers a lot, a lot of Nebraska farmers.
They say they're going to spend two hundred billion on
Boeing Airline airplane parts that's produced in the United States,
specifically in Washington and Kansas.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
And is that gonna happen? We'll see.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
They said that they're gonna buy oil from US or
at least Trump is saying they will. But there are
no contracts. There's no agreements here. It's all, well, let
me think about it. President G says, I'll think about
buying your oil. So what the President of the United
States is for people to think that a lot of
good stuff happened, and it was better than them not meeting.
It was better than them hating each other or saying

(07:07):
mean things in the media to each other. But the
substance of these summits often are lost in time. You know,
three months later, nobody's going to ask about President Trump's
trip to China. Are we going to see big Chinese
tankers pulled into the Port of Houston or the Port
of Los Angeles. No square in the Old market, right,

(07:28):
We're going to see Tienamu square in the Old market.
But it was better than nothing, And he did say
a President G did say, hey, if you need my
help with Iran, you got it because they can't have
a nuclear weapon. We agree on that one. But there
was a lot of talk about Taiwan, and we didn't
win that argument. Okay, the argument is, don't worry, it's

(07:48):
all fine, We're not going to do anything. But we
just sent nine billion dollars worth of arms. Well, we're
thinking about sending nine billion dollars worth of arms over
to Taiwan to defend them themselves. And China said, mister
President Trump, you keep your nose out of Taiwan. I
don't get we don't. We don't want you anywhere near

(08:09):
the South China Sea. Taiwan is part of the main
is part of China. It's its own little operation over there.
It's only one hundred and twenty miles from our shores.
It's nine five hundred miles from yours. Other than Russia.
Isn't China the biggest country in the world in terms
of population space?

Speaker 4 (08:27):
Well?

Speaker 2 (08:27):
No, well Russia or space. Yeah, you got Russia, then
then it's not if India. I think India is up there.

Speaker 1 (08:34):
Well in terms of population, but not size. China's huge.

Speaker 4 (08:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (08:37):
Then they look at Taiwan and go, what are you
guys doing? What do you mean you don't want to
be part of China. We we can come attack you
at any time, can take you. America said, you better not,
and we've had that standoff for decades. I don't know
why they thought anything would change yesterday.

Speaker 2 (08:51):
But she made a point, and this has been widely reported,
even by Trump approved media, that she made the point.

Speaker 1 (08:59):
Just see you, President Trump.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
You know, all of the toasts and the niceties and
the hugs, that's all fine, but Taiwan is ours. And
when we decide to do something with Taiwan, we're gonna
do it, and you need to stay.

Speaker 1 (09:12):
Out of it. I can't imagine that if World War
three broke out because of that tiny island off off
of Hong Kong. What it's got a bigger stock market
than Japan and from the and the UK. Yeah, I
don't need that, all right, eleven ten kfab certified transmission
Sports brief. Now here's Jim Rose. Okay, Scott.

Speaker 2 (09:32):
It's a very big weekend of sports around here. Let's
start with Nebraska softball. They are one of the very
best teams in the country. They've played the toughest schedule
in the country. They're a top four national seed, and
they open their drive to the national championship tonight at
five point thirty against the University of South Dakota Coyotes
Go Toronto. Revel of Nebraska has everything coming together for

(09:53):
her right now, but she knows it's one game at
a time, I know a.

Speaker 4 (09:56):
Lot more than I did a few days ago. You know,
South Dakota they're hot at the right time, and they've
got a picture that is just really gritty and comes
at you. And you know, she throws hard. She's in
the upper sixties. She throws as hard as almost anybody
we faced this year. She also has a great change up.
They also have I think six Nebraska kids on their team,

(10:16):
and it's going to mean a lot for them to
be here. And you know, they found ways to beat
a very good Omaha team not once, but twice a
week ago.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
She's talking about Madison Evans, the right handed pitcher from
Sioux Falls. South Dakota has won ten of its last
to sixteen. But Nebraska is easy to love. Not only
do they play great softball, but there are eleven Nebraska
kids on that roster. So it'll be an exciting time
at Bowling Stadium down there in Lincoln for the next
couple of days. The Nebraska baseball team got a nice

(10:45):
victory over Minnesota yesterday twelve to seven. We told you
on this program Minnesota does not have much of a bullpen,
and it showed. They led four to one and the
sixth inning, but after the sixth inning it was eight
to four. Nebraska scored seven and the six four more
in the seventh had fifteen hits in The Huskers take
Game one against the Gophers up there in that final
regular season series of the year. Creighton Blue Jays have

(11:08):
purpose this weekend against Xavier. They have to win this series,
and they got the opener yesterday five to two, so
they are now actually in the green zone for the
Big East Conference Tournament. By a couple of games. Things
are looking good for them to get into at least
the Big East Conference Tournament. State high school baseball championships
begin in Omaha this morning at Tall Anderson Field over

(11:30):
at U and O and Werner Park West Side versus
Millard South at nine am at Werner Park and then
Millard North and Prep and then over Tall Anderson Field.
It starts with East and Grand Island and then Lincoln
Southwest versus Papio South. State soccer boys action yesterday and
Class B Gretna beats Pius two to one, Elkhorn North
over Ron Colly won nothing, Skyler beats Cut three to

(11:53):
two in Lexington two Bennington one, So it's semifinal day
for Class a you've gotten in the girls racket today
down at Morrison Stadium, Lincoln Southwest versus Elkhorn, South Carnee
versus Marion. And in the boys action it's Papio South
versus Lincoln Southwest and the West Side Warriors against the
Omaha South High Packers at State Soccer Semifinal Friday. In

(12:17):
Class A Boys and Girls. Major League Baseball, the Royals
lose again the White Sox six to two. They sweep
that series Seattle eight to three over Houston. National League
winners were A Los Angeles, the Cubs, Brewers, Reds, and Pirates,
and Inner League play was the Mets and Twins, Cards
and Phillies getting wins Omaha seven to six over Toledo.
At the PGA Championships at the Swankie Anaridomik Country Club

(12:41):
in Philadelphia, you got six guys at three underparts a
tough golf course. You got six guys at three under par.
That's the first round lead. Among them Scottie Scheffler and
Martin Kaimer, who many people wondered, are you still around?
And then you had Ryan Vermier of Happy Hollow.

Speaker 1 (12:57):
It was tough.

Speaker 2 (12:58):
He double bogie the first hole in fits at a
seventy seventies, tied for one hundred and forty second.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
But he's not alone.

Speaker 2 (13:04):
Bryce and d Chabeau had this is six over and
Victor Hovlin four over. Max Homa four over. So may
not make the cut, but a whole bunch of other
big names may not make the cut either. Sports His
News on Nebraska's News, weather and Traffic station.

Speaker 1 (13:19):
Jim Rose, Lucy Chapman, I am Scott Voorh He's Courtney
Donaho as well. Here we are basking the glory. That's
mostly from Lucy's perspective.

Speaker 5 (13:30):
Do you know, we don't know what you're drinking.

Speaker 1 (13:31):
Do you know what Jim Rose just not enough? Do
you know what Jim Rose just told me. He's very excited.
He's looking over the Omaha world Harold and says, hey,
there's an ll bean coming to West Omaha. That's all
I wear. I only wear this, and I wear that.
I didn't realize, Jim, that you had a style like
I only wear this or that, I'm very loyal.

Speaker 2 (13:53):
I wear Colhon shoes, I wear Peter Malar and Llban clothes,
and I wear Hathaway shirts.

Speaker 1 (13:59):
And that's it. And you're not getting paid to run
these I mean endorse these countries.

Speaker 2 (14:03):
No, okay, not countries companies. Yes, Llbport Maine. That's you're
that's very nice. You were trying to run these companies,
got good reputations into the ground. I've been to that
store in Freeport, Maine. I was in Heaven.

Speaker 1 (14:17):
Did they say, Oh, it's Jim Jim Rose, a guy
who wears only our.

Speaker 2 (14:22):
C They said, Jim Rose Sports Day in America. Welcome
to Freeport, Maine.

Speaker 1 (14:26):
Lucy, do you have particular brands that like, I only wear.

Speaker 5 (14:31):
These whatever's on the racket? Goodwill?

Speaker 2 (14:38):
Come on, now, you've got better stuff than that. Actually,
there's really good stuff at Goodwill. Listening to a comedian
the drop their clothes off again, I can't remember who
had this bit, but he said, like, I have these
these suits, and every once in a while I need
to get them dry clean. But it's so expensive to
get stuff dry clean, so I just take them to
good Will and donate them and they clean them up,

(15:00):
them back on the rag by them and it's like
three dollars and I buy them back and they're all cleaned.

Speaker 5 (15:04):
I don't think they cleaned them though, No.

Speaker 1 (15:05):
Yeah, they do. They do, they humigator, they do lounder.
The clothes, Goodwill clothes all have the same scent.

Speaker 2 (15:13):
Yes, you're right, you people that are really uh cultured
and and what I would considered prestigious in Europe. Are
you talking to us, Yes, I'm talking to you.

Speaker 1 (15:24):
You'll remember this.

Speaker 2 (15:25):
I used to wear suits when I worked the first
radio station I worked at.

Speaker 1 (15:29):
You had to know that, well, I used to. And
I didn't work with you in Salina. Yeah, well you
should have. It would have been good for you.

Speaker 2 (15:36):
A fine community right there at the confluence of I
seventy and I thirty five. But I used to wear
Corbin suits and I had to go all the way
to Wichita to get them. They didn't have them, Wow
and Corby and then was swallowed up by a couple
other companies. But I used to have to wear suits.
I mean I had suits. I on air, guy wearing
a suit, and that was.

Speaker 5 (15:56):
Only the internet had been invented.

Speaker 1 (15:58):
That was the dress code back in those days.

Speaker 2 (16:00):
And you urbane esteemed types, you culture gentlemen out there
will appreciate that.

Speaker 1 (16:05):
See for me, I do have a store. If we're
gonna mention stores and not get paid for it, My
store right now is Sierra Sierra Trading, because I just
I like going in there. All the other department stores
are fine, but you go into some of the department
stores and you're looking for a particular, you know, type
of shirt or pants or whatever, and you got to

(16:25):
go by style and then you got to go by designer.
And I don't need all that. I just go into
Sierra and it's like, what sized pants are you? I'm
like a thirty five and they say, okay, here's all
the size thirty five pants. And it's suit pants, it's khakis,
it's golf pants, it's shorts, it's sweatpants. It's like, here's

(16:46):
everything that fits you. Now, what size shirt are you? Well,
it kind of depends on the like it's up somewhere
between a large and extra large. Here they are tuxedo shirts,
golf shirts. You have taxedars, yeah, mess jerseys, it's swimsuit
you know tops, It's all right here, here's everything that
fits you. What if you want some shoes, what size?

(17:07):
There at thirteen dress shoes. Here's the basketball shoes, golf shoes.

Speaker 5 (17:13):
Yeah, what used to do this?

Speaker 1 (17:15):
It's here's everything that fits you. Like I didn't even
I wasn't even shopping for this, but here it is,
and it's on sale to fits and it's all right there.
I don't have to go over to different designers and
departments are nothing. It's my favorite. It's the laziest way
to shop. And that's exactly what I want at this
point in my life. And I'm also wearing a suit today.
How do I look? I'll be wearing a suit tonight. Actually,

(17:37):
I'll tell you what we're doing just a minute. You
typically have been You typically have been easy to spot.
It's modern fraternity house. That's Scott. Oh, that's Scott Vorhees
over there looking good. I like a popped collar, and
I've been told by all the guys at the fraternity
that it looks dope. Yeah, tonight, if you got to

(18:00):
take it for this event, I'll see you there. Can't wait.
If you're interested in going. There are still just a
couple of seats down on the floor, and then some
in the back of the Holland Center. It's the screening
of what I've described as one of the most perfect

(18:21):
movies of all time, The Princess Bride. My name is
Enhigo Montoya. You kill my father.

Speaker 2 (18:31):
Prepared to die.

Speaker 1 (18:32):
And then a special presentation by one of the stars
of the film. Carry Always is back in Omaha. I'll
be on stage with him doing the Q and A
and talking with you in the audience and making sure
that you get your Princess bride questions answered and hear
all the great stories from Carrie Always. Would be a
pleasure to be on stage with him again to celebrate

(18:52):
one of the greatest movies of all time. We did
this few years ago, but here just a few months ago,
the director of that film, Rob Reiner, of course, died
and he and Carry Always were great friends. It's gonna
be a heartfelt tribute to Rob Reiner this evening, and
if you got a ticket, I'll see you there. Now

(19:13):
it's time for the eleven to ten KFAB certified transmission
Sports Free Husker Buzz Edition with Sean Callahan and Jim Row.

Speaker 2 (19:20):
We have to have Sean Callahan on his toes year around,
so he gets no break during the summer. He has
to appear on this program on a Friday. Get us
updated on what's happening down there. First of all, Seano
a lot of controversy and people are not happy with
the Athletic Department over this ticket policy. It involves allowing
donors to football games, the big money people to get

(19:41):
access to postseason tickets for other sports, and a lot
of softball season ticket holders got kicked out of their
seats for somebody else to buy the seats and sell them.
Is the university cracking down on these donors that then
turn around and simply sell the tickets.

Speaker 3 (20:00):
The scan ticket information on the side if a ticket sells,
like on a seat geek or stuff hub, they get
that information, so they do know that. But you know,
Bowling Stadium is an interesting dynamic himself because there's not
a lot of reserve seats. Most of the season tickets
are general mission, and you know, this thing has gone

(20:21):
back and forth. Listening to Tyler Kai on his interview
this last week, he said that every season ticket older
got an opportunity to get a ticket, so nobody was
shut out of the process. They might have been shut
out of getting one of the say one thousand.

Speaker 2 (20:36):
There's like a thousand, yeah, twelve, there's twelve hundred share
back seats.

Speaker 3 (20:41):
And that's probably where the rub is where some people
that had a reserve seat had to maybe move to
GA but uh, you know you're gonna have thirty five
hundred people. There are probably this weekend four thousand people
at these games, and probably only twenty five thirty percent
of the ballparkers reserve seating. So it kind of reminds you,
almost jim of the old buck beltzer Field days when
they host some of those regionals early on when there

(21:01):
were no reserve seats in the place.

Speaker 1 (21:03):
Yeah, it's a frustration. Yeah, you're right.

Speaker 2 (21:06):
If you were a season ticket holder for softball, you
got access to a ticket for this regional, but it
wasn't in the seat that you bought during the regular season.
And if the Husker football team hosts a regional, which
is a football team at the Huscar baseball team hosts
a regional, which is distinctly possible, they're up to thirteenth
in the RPI, same thing's going to happen. All those

(21:27):
people at Hawk's Field might lose their seat to a
football donor. Is this pretty common across college sports where
for these lesser attendance sports teams events they give postseason
access to the big donors to football and men's basketball.

Speaker 3 (21:45):
It's hard to say, but I think it is, and
it's been so long since we've hosted anything of this caliber,
and we have baseball possibly coming here too, And you
have to remember, a big chunk of your stadium has
to be blocked off for the teams when you host
an NCAA event, so they're you know, there's hundreds and
hundreds of those reserve seats that go to the visiting teams,

(22:08):
and those those would be season tickets too, so it
you know, those people automatically would have been booted too.
So it's it's it's a hard situation to win. It's
a good problem to have because you have so many fans.
But yeah, if you've got a guy that you know
they're building these new locker room facilities that are I
think five and a half six million dollars for baseball
and about the same for softball. If you've got somebody

(22:30):
that lives out of state that's donated money to build
these facilities and they want to go to the regional
it's hard to say, you guys can't go because you
live in Dallas. I'm sorry, but so yeah, I don't
end me the Athletic Department because you just get hammered
on social media, obviously by some of the comments and whatnot.
But I think when the games start up today, everybody

(22:52):
will think about this ticketing process.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
Sure, all right, what is an update on the CSN ruling?

Speaker 1 (22:59):
Now?

Speaker 2 (23:00):
The next phase of the legal battle involves whether or
not the actual entity, which in this case is playfly
Sports that provided the money for the nil players the
deals that got rejected. They're in court, not from Nebraska's
not soon, but they're getting a class action hearing regarding

(23:22):
the the entity itself and whether this is a third
party advertising agency that is eligible to do deals with
players or if it's an actual part of the university.

Speaker 1 (23:33):
What's the latest on that? When are we going to
know more?

Speaker 3 (23:36):
Well, they have to resubmit all the deals, and you know,
its seat us saying hey, we're submitting a deal for
three hundred and sixty thousand dollars and this player is
going to earn the money with playfly by doing marketing
appearances on podcasts and autographs and YadA, YadA YadA. You've
got to be these deals have to be more specific.
You have to say, all right, we have twelve brands.

(23:58):
These specific brands are going to pay thirty thousand dollars
each and they're going to work with a guy on this.
I mean, that's really it's just a technicality. I mean,
Nebraska is doing what everyone else is doing. But I
just think their language wasn't specific enough on you know,
how the money, what they were going to be doing
for the money, and obviously was the warehousing format, which

(24:20):
you can't do. And the CSC can change, they can
change these rules on how they operate at any given moment.
I mean, there's such a new organization, you know, it's
not out of question that when Nebraska comprised this idea.
You know, the CSC guidelines continue to continue to change,
and so Nebraska has to keep up with this, get

(24:40):
this thing figured out. The CSC had made it has
made it clear they want these guys to get paid.
They said, just resubmit your deals. They don't want this
thing to blow up. They don't want the Attorney General
to get involved and and and and causing huge things.
So you hope that everybody can get this figured out.
But yeah, it's been quite a battle, a lot of
legal billable hours on both sides of this thing to

(25:01):
get it all hashed out.

Speaker 2 (25:02):
All right, John, I'll enjoy the weekend, the softball weekend
down there and uh, hopefully Husker Baseball will generate a
lot of excitement come next week when the Big Ten
Tournament comes to Omaha.

Speaker 1 (25:14):
So great to have you with us here on Nebraska's
morning news news radio eleven to ten KFAB, home of
the happiest DJs on any radio station ever. If you
could just hear some of the conversations that happened just
before the microphones come on and say, hey, good morning,
good day. Have you win it well?

Speaker 2 (25:33):
Yesterday yesterday they rose right there. They were shooting videos
for Steve Lundy, who was one of our co workers
here at radio Mall. Yeah, he's I think he does
this show on one on three of the other radio stations.
We don't listen to them, and neither do you.

Speaker 4 (25:47):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (25:48):
Anyway, they were shooting videos because he's going into the
Hall of Fame this year and uh, you know, how
hard is it to spin records? Apparently it's more difficult
than I think. But wow, he's going in and he's
a good guy. We have fun and these people were
saying all these nice things about him. And it was
right adjacent to my office, so of course I had
to mess with the videos by walking in front of

(26:12):
the camera with a sign that said Lundy sucks. Yeah,
And the question is going to be whether they keep
that in the videos.

Speaker 1 (26:19):
Maybe I was doing mine and you loudly slammed your
door shut when you heard me speaking kindly about anyone
besides you, and then somebody else got there and I go,
Londy sucks. Yeah. See if that got in, we we
wish him the best. As long as his cohort Gina
doesn't get in, then it's still it's a viable hall

(26:39):
of fame.

Speaker 2 (26:40):
It will teach them to not shoot videos in close
proximity to where I am unless the video is about me.

Speaker 1 (26:48):
We're still not sure that anyone actually allowed you to
have that corner office. It's giving me twice. It just
seems like you just moved in. Now.

Speaker 2 (26:56):
This is my second tour in there. I've been in there.
This is my second time.

Speaker 5 (27:00):
When you get kicked out.

Speaker 1 (27:01):
The first was kicked out.

Speaker 2 (27:02):
The first time they brought in a suit and they
had to have the office in the suit was gone
in a year.

Speaker 1 (27:08):
I got a question for you guys. That's Lucy Chapman
right there. Courtney just did a report there about the
villages in Florida. Huge sprawling retirement and it's a retirement town.
And whether it's a retirement town, resort, or a community
or a building, do you see you and your spouse

(27:31):
moving into assisted like retirement living, whether I mean, obviously,
if you need round.

Speaker 5 (27:37):
Let's take all the assistants I can get.

Speaker 1 (27:38):
See, That's what I'm wondering, if you need round the
clock medical care. I think a lot of people are
very glad to have it in terms of assisted living,
that kind of level of care. Some people, though, just
like I don't want to moan anymore. I don't if
I have to rake another leaf, I'm going to lose
my mind. I don't want to go up and downstairs,
and so I just want to live in a community
where a lot of this stuff is done and we

(27:59):
got activity and people who are like minded, and it's great.
So do you see yourself doing that? Are you gonna
be one of those that makes your In the case
of me and Jim Rose, makes our kids nervous by
staying in the house way too long and our kids
are always wandering like, are we gonna burn the house
down and start crashing into stuff just on our way
out of the garage? Are we gonna be one of

(28:21):
those old guys that tries to back out of the garage,
puts it in forward and puts it in drive and
then just plows right through the family room. So what
do you see yourself doing here? In for what is
for me and Lucy several years from now and Jim
sometime later this year. What do you think just seeing
if you're paying attention.

Speaker 5 (28:42):
I'm gonna live in a van down by the river.
That's what I'm gonna do. It's much cheaper.

Speaker 1 (28:47):
Haven't you given this any thought? I think about it constantly, cause.

Speaker 5 (28:51):
I got you to an early grade.

Speaker 4 (28:53):
No.

Speaker 1 (28:54):
I go visit a family member and I see happy
people when some of these assisted living community and they're
they're playing games, and they got activities and their socialization,
and you know, you got some people who are really active.
Some people were you know, you always got that one
person sitting there with that look on their face and
you're like, you know, and you know, but you got

(29:16):
all of that there, and I like it. I like
the community. I like everyone being together.

Speaker 5 (29:21):
What about those people who just cruise they just live
on a cruise ship.

Speaker 1 (29:26):
Oh, I thought you were talking about that. I also
know some people that do live at the villages, and
the stories I hear about the debauchery.

Speaker 2 (29:35):
That goes on coming and yeah, sometimes the walk of
shame really late at night, which for them is like
eight fifteen pm.

Speaker 1 (29:44):
And they're not really sure what they did. They just
know that they did it.

Speaker 5 (29:48):
And they're using a lot of tennis balls for.

Speaker 2 (29:51):
Those a lot of Again, I drove past one of
the facilities in Omaha the other day, and I think,
do I want to live in one of those?

Speaker 1 (30:01):
You know, maybe maybe just not. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (30:04):
If I can't be productive, if I can't do something
productive every day, it's time to shut her down.

Speaker 1 (30:12):
I got to find a way to just exit stage left.

Speaker 2 (30:15):
I just I don't know that I could be okay
just waking up in the morning and not doing anything
at some point.

Speaker 1 (30:21):
At some point, though, that opportunity does present itself where
you decide, yeah, I could go into a quieter, gentler,
more retirement type of style of living. Are you gonna
stay in your home too long and make your kids nervous?
Or do you go into an assisted living well one
of those communities.

Speaker 2 (30:38):
It's a huge problem, you know, just a dovetail on
the conversation We have a massive problem in our country
right now. We are under facility for these extended living
stays or these assisted living stays, independent living. We don't
have enough beds for this coming tsunami of people. Because

(30:58):
the way it's been working is for the baby boomers
and the oldest ones they're eighty, and the youngest ones
they're in their early sixties, Well, you can usually stay
in your house. I mean it's not completely, but for
the most part, the numbers will bear out that once
you retire, whether it's sixty five to seventy or whatever
it is, you can probably stay in your house pretty
independently until you're in your early eighties.

Speaker 1 (31:20):
That's when you're thinking, Okay, what's next.

Speaker 2 (31:22):
Can I handle all this responsibility, the maintenance, and then
you move into like independent living. Sure, well if it's
not medically based, but if it's just a preference asking
for your.

Speaker 1 (31:33):
Pres challenge the question.

Speaker 2 (31:34):
I think the challenge is I'd rather stay at home,
but we got to have them. We've got to enhance
that in home medical care industry in our country, and
it's starting to kind of bubble up here and there,
but it needs to really turbo charge, especially in places
outside of Phoenix and Florida.

Speaker 1 (31:51):
You're gonna just live in your office here at the
Remas station. It's a good one. Old man Rosie's still here.
Try and just throw them a granola bard. He moved
to bed in there. Here's a piece of news that
Lucy discovered and said, hey, you should mention this. Forget
about the IEDs and the strait of horror moves for
a moment. You gotta worry about the IEDs. The improvised

(32:12):
explosive devices in the Converse Reservoir dam. Where's that? That's
in the Alabama Gulf Coast, Mobile, Alabama, where my daughter
is going in a few days. I didn't know they
had mine? Know that in the water? Yeah? I thought

(32:33):
you sent that to me because I told you my
daughter's heading down to the Redneck Riviera with a bunch
of friends in Florabama that area, and apparently this I
can't wait to tell her mom my wife. Two different
putinon kidding, we can't wait to tell my wife. Oh yeah,
the place that our daughter's going with all of our friends.

(32:54):
Lucy says that they've got exploding minds in the water.

Speaker 5 (32:57):
See, I've just sent you the store. I'm surprised. So
this is the first you've heard of this?

Speaker 1 (33:03):
Yeah, can't you. Haven't you ever heard the phrase ignorance
is bliss.

Speaker 5 (33:06):
Well, yes, it's a phrase I live by many times.

Speaker 1 (33:10):
But so they're trying to figure out who put the
ied in the water there. I can't imagine it was
the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, and they're like, all right, we're
gonna go after America. We're going to target the cargo ships,
especially the oil tankers, and the Strait of Horror moves
any military we have there, and also mobile Alabama.

Speaker 2 (33:31):
As long as they don't mind Lake McConaughey, I'm good.

Speaker 5 (33:35):
I just I don't think this is a laughing matter.

Speaker 1 (33:38):
It is as long as it's not in Carter Lake,
as long as they don't mind Carter Lake, Lake Maniwa
or Lake Maniwaw. So great to have you with us here.
This is Nebraska This Morning News with Lucy Chapman, Craig Evans,
Courtney Donaho, the incomparable Jim Rose, I am the quite
comparable Scott Boarhees. I've been ripping off from people I've
enjoyed in this medium for my entire career, which is

(34:00):
still even after all these decades fledgling at best. Great
to have you with us on news radio eleven ten KFAB.
Sorry for that personal stark self assessment. What is it
that investors are not seen today that they saw yesterday?
It kind of feels like it's the same day. Well,
Trump and Jizhinping didn't come away married as a gay couple.

(34:22):
I mean, what is it that people wanted to see here?

Speaker 2 (34:25):
They put too much emphasis on these summits. The real
work is the underlings. These are the people that sit
down across the table when no TV cameras are on
and they hash out stuff. This is for the cameras,
This is for g politically, This is for Trump politically.
Now it's better than them yelling at each other through
the media, which is what's been going on between the

(34:47):
United States and Iran and between Ukraine and Russia. But
the proof is going to be Scott and what happens
in the next six months. Will the Chinese make good
on this pledge to a buy the soybeans that they
should have been buying five years ago? Will they make
good on this pledge to buy two hundred billion dollars
worth of Boeing aircraft parts and aircraft planes. Will they

(35:10):
make good on opening up their markets for Tesla's and
for Nvidia chips and some of these other important industries
that the United States has mastered over the last ten years.
That room full of our executives represented more GDP than
the country of China itself.

Speaker 1 (35:28):
Yeah, we brought about a dozen big American executives, Elon
Musk being one of them. Did he bring the chainsaw?
Not sure? But we brought these guys and apparently the
only one that got a deal. This feels like one
of those like career nights. Hey, interested in a job
in engineering? You want to be got to work for Cisco? Yeah,
you want to be a baseball pitcher? Come talk to

(35:49):
this guy. So we bring over these guys and they're
over there, you know, doing their pitches to the Chinese leaders, like, hey,
how would you like to make a great deal here
on some computer chips? Like we're China, we have all
the chips you need to make a deal on. Well,
and only Boeing got a deal signed apparently, Well and
the soybeans. But that happened years ago.

Speaker 2 (36:09):
Well it did, but it was either enhanced or it
was it was ratified or.

Speaker 1 (36:13):
Completed we sent over big soybean to deal with the guys.
Is that Jim Pillen.

Speaker 2 (36:18):
Jim Pillen, He's not a soybean guy. He raises his pigs,
not not crops. But this is a This is an
important thing for Nebraska, obviously, because we grow a lot
of them here, not just in Nebraska, but across the Midwest.
We grow a lot of soybeans. And I didn't know
this until I've seen it in a story on the
Wall Street Journal. Apparently soybeans are critical to Chinese cuisine

(36:40):
over there, and that's something that they've sort of sacrificed
over the last few years because, you know, he didn't
want to He didn't want to do a deal with
Joe Biden, and he wanted to do a deal with
the United States. But there are other things to keep
in mind. This is still a iron fisted, brutal, dictatorial
communist country. They don't care about people's human rights. It's

(37:03):
a polluted community there. The smog finally lifted. I don't
know if you saw the pictures, but there was a
lot of smog en Beijing.

Speaker 1 (37:10):
It looked like they cleaned it up, that they had
everyone wearing masks.

Speaker 2 (37:13):
They also have a huge problem in population growth there. Here,
we grow about one point nine kids per couple growth
there they grow less than one.

Speaker 1 (37:26):
That's because they keep killing all that girl. They may
happen policy.

Speaker 2 (37:32):
Years ago that we're going to really curtail the number
of Chinese citizens because we can't clothe them, house them,
give them health care, educate them, or feed them. So
about thirty forty years ago they instituted this one child policy,
and that has really put in trouble future generations of

(37:52):
productive Chinese workers. And we're in the same boat. There
was a thing in this country called zero population growth
back in the nineteen seventies. This was a liberal notion
of all of the hippies and the flower children, who
made it clear, we can't keep having people because we're
overpopulating the planet. Conveniently forgetting that those are the people
that are going to be paying into social Security in

(38:14):
about the year nineteen ninety five, two thousand, two thousand
and five, twenty ten, So we it was a very
short lived issue, but it was something this country propagated
back in the early seventies.

Speaker 1 (38:25):
Now here's the part of the show where Lucy says
she's glad she doesn't have kids. Thanks Lucy. Hey man,
I didn't do it, I said earlier, I don't want
World War three to break out because of a tiny
island off of Hong Kong, and I stand by that.
I also get that it's really not about Taiwan. It's
not like China needs the room. Turns out Russia is

(38:51):
the largest land mass on the planet, and then well
behind that and all bunched up there within a fraction
of square mind within each other is Canada, America and
China and so China they have the room, they have
plenty of room, but they just look at Taiwan and say, yeah,
but we want that too, and Taiwan says, but we didn't.

(39:12):
We didn't want to be part of China, Like, well,
it doesn't work that way. Do you have your own
military you think you can beat us? And so America
steps in and says, hey, if Taiwan wants independence from Yukamis,
well we'll support them in that. If you attack them,
we'll attack you. And we've had this standoff here for

(39:34):
years and it really isn't about Taiwan. It's about these
two world superpowers just staring each other down and seeing
daring the other one to blink now, thankfully, whether it's
even before all the parades and the pageant trees surrounding
President Trump going over to Beijing and being welcomed, and
these two leaders sitting down with one another and trying

(39:56):
to say like, all right, yeah, we don't care about
Iran either, do we? Okay, great, So how do we
resolve this so you can get your oil and we
can get out of there, and and we can have
some sort of partnership there with Iran. So they're working
on stuff like that's some good signs coming out of
the summit. Of course, they each got to flex their
muscles a little bit over Taiwan. China cannot be seen

(40:18):
as weak by allowing some breakoff area of China to
do whatever they want, so they've got to make their comments.
And America, of course, can't be perceived as weak because
we decades ago stood up and said don't touch Taiwan.
Otherwise they're gonna have a problem with America. And so
these guys, all they gotta do is just act like

(40:39):
they're the biggest toughest guy there in the yard. And
as long as they both kind of do a wink wink,
nudge nudge like, hey, you better not do that. Were
you gonna do that? Now we weren't gonna do that. Okay,
Well then you can say tell us not to do it,
and we'll tell you, hey, you better not do it,
and we can all, you know, point our fingers. But
as long as we're not, we're not really gonna start
World War three over Taiwan. You know. So as long

(41:01):
as we have that dynamic, it plays well for China.
Doesn't look great for America because you have dumb Americans
like me going, what the heck is Taiwan? Don't they
just make like Chinese fingercuffs? Who cares? It's about something
bigger than that. It's a huge economy. I don't want
World War three to break out over Taiwan. But it's

(41:21):
bigger than Taiwan. It's one of the biggest economies in
the world. Taiwan.

Speaker 2 (41:25):
This is twenty three million people on an island one
hundred and twenty miles off the coast of China. They
are the world's number one ship maker. It's owned by
the Chinese Communist Party, but it operates as sort of
an independent McDonald's franchise.

Speaker 1 (41:39):
You know.

Speaker 2 (41:39):
It says to you know the mothership. You know, here's
the money you're gonna get every month, leave us alone.
And so far they have. But the United States strategically
must have Taiwan continue to be what it is because
it produces things that we need in everything from cell
phones to GPS, to satellites to home security systems.

Speaker 1 (42:00):
If there's nothing magic about Taiwan, it's not Wakanda. Can
America or China make some of this stuff? And their
mainland Nebraska and Nebraska.

Speaker 2 (42:08):
I think the country would like to start doing that,
and that's why they're opening up these chip factories in
Arizona and Ohio. So they opened on up here Exad.
We don't really have the workers for it. Anywhere you go.

Speaker 1 (42:20):
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Speaker 6 (42:28):
I'll never buy another ticket to a Husker event or
a licensed hat or shirt University Nebraska and go you
know what to itself. All there after is dollars, dollars, dollars.

Speaker 1 (42:46):
All right, Let me approach this as the dumb guy
that I sometimes pretend to be on the radio. I'm
actually incredibly intelligent and very worldly. But all whatever you say,
lower my iq I have here and try and ask
some questions because you've been hitting on this throughout the week.
Jim Rose, If I'm a season ticket holder to Nebraska softball, yes,

(43:10):
does that include the postseason? No? Okay, so what is
the complaint? Look, I understand the people who've been supporting
the team the entire year. These are not your bandwagon jumping. Hey,
these guys are pretty good. Let's go see them. So
I would love for them to be able to get
the opportunity to buy tickets. But are they not? Are

(43:31):
they not afforded the opportunity to buy tickets?

Speaker 2 (43:34):
It's called the right thing Scott. The university is making
no extra money by providing opportunities for football donors to
get softball tickets. They're going to pay the same price
that everybody pays. This is the price for game pass
to watch the games. This is about what's the right
thing to do. The right thing to do is to

(43:55):
treat your fans with loyalty, love and respect, and that
includes giving the softball folks the chance. This is the world,
according to Rosie, the softball fans the chance to buy
their season tickets for the postseason. If you're sitting in
Section five, Row four, seats one and two, you should
have the right to buy those for the postseason because

(44:16):
you paid for season tickets and you went to the
games when they weren't very attractive, when it was cold outside,
when the team wasn't in the top five. Then it's
the same principle for Nebraska volleyball fans, and it's the
same principal for Nebraska baseball fans. If the Huskers host
a regional for baseball, which is looking probable. If that happens,
then the folks who bought the season tickets to see

(44:38):
the Wayne game and the Carney game and whatever games
were midweek during March when it wasn't very good are
all of those terrible Big Ten series. Because the Big
Ten is crap this year except for the top three teams,
they should have the right to buy the same seats
for the postseason, but not at the same price. Well,
the price would be the same for everybody, whether you're

(44:59):
a football donor or not. You're paying the same price
because that price is set for the tournament. But if
you're a season ticket holder, and you'll say you or
maybe you're not. I just go buy a ticket to
watch an early season exhibition game. It's a different Husker
softball team and Carney, you know, I don't expect to
be able to buy that same ticket at the same price. No,
once they reached the postseason and interest.

Speaker 1 (45:20):
This way up.

Speaker 2 (45:21):
But you should if you're a season ticket holder, because
that means you made the commitment to the program. What
percentage of seats available for any given Nebraska softball game
are held by season ticket holder?

Speaker 1 (45:34):
I don't know. I'd gotta be less than forty. I
don't know.

Speaker 2 (45:40):
Very popular. I think they are now. They know before
this season, they were very popular when you had Jordi ball.
When she came back, a lot of maltrauma peaked, and
that was two years ago. I think there was a
big uptick in season ticket sales for Nebraska softball. They
only have about twelve hundred fixed reserve seats. The rest
of them are burm seats or general admission seats, which

(46:02):
is a good way to engineer stadium because frankly, they
aren't going to draw huge crowds, so you want to
have burm seating sort of festival seating if you will
and that's the largest percentage of space at Boland Stadium.
But to me, to me, it's about what's the right
thing to do. Okay, the right thing to do is
to treat your fans with respect, and that means giving

(46:25):
them the opportunity to purchase their season ticket seats for
the postseason. Now, the reason they're doing it is because
they don't want people to give.

Speaker 1 (46:35):
Money just for a certain sport.

Speaker 2 (46:37):
I mean, there's an overarching emphasis here that we want
you to support Husker sports. That's why they call it
the Husker Athletic Fund. And I worked there for four
years in the Husker Athletic Fund. They want you to
give to the program and then let us distribute those
disperse those funds if you will, to areas of need.
But that's not how it works here. A long time ago,

(47:00):
oh way way back, when Bob Devanny was here, we
made it a transaction.

Speaker 1 (47:04):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (47:05):
We made giving to Husker Athletics not philanthropic, but transactive.
If you give me this much money, I'll give you this.
And it really started when they built the new press
box in the old press box back in nineteen sixty seven.
If you give us a bunch of money right now,
so I can build this press box and not have
to go into debt. I'll give you seats on the
fifty yard line for the rest of your life and

(47:27):
you won't have to pay anything extra for him. There
was some of that for a long long time. We
should never have been in the business of transactive giving.

Speaker 1 (47:37):
But we are. You can't unring the bell. Like the suites.

Speaker 2 (47:40):
When they built the suites back in twenty nineteen ninety nine,
they had to in order to get it built. They
had to commit to those who were willing to lease
the suite.

Speaker 1 (47:51):
We've got a memorial stadium project and nil to fund.
Of course, money is going to talk louder than anything else.
But I completely agree with you. The softball season ticket
holders should have first right to buy what I'm sure
will be inflated ticket prices. Sure to be able to
watch their team, and I hope they're able to get
those tickets. Lucy. They had a fire at Fontinel Forest

(48:15):
this week.

Speaker 5 (48:16):
I think I saw something about that.

Speaker 1 (48:17):
Yeah, it burned like thirty acres. They've got a bazillion
more left. It didn't like shut down Fontenel Forest. A
few of the trails as you get close to the
river are impacted. I love Fontinel Forest. I hate the
idea of a single leaf even dying over there. It
I know it bothers me. I just curl up every autumn,

(48:39):
but like the leaves doom. But they're trying to figure out, like, well,
we think the fire was human ignited, and they're trying
to figure out why that would be and they think
maybe it was a cigarette. But yeah, so let's see.
You start at the main entrance there Fontinel Forest and
hike all the way on a hot day, all the

(49:01):
way to the river, which is a long hike, and
you're like, you know what, I'm winded, I'm hot, I've
been out here exercising. I'm just gonna smoke while I'm
doing I don't think that that's likely. I think it's
more likely that it is a continuation of the problem
we see all over town, including I think Jim Rose
almost hit a homeless person in the street with his

(49:23):
car on Dodge yesterday. That was very scary stuf almost
coming off of the ILQ coming around to the Q
Street to exit off of I eighty, there was one
in traffic. The homeless population in this community is all
over the place, and I imagine Lucy urban camping aka
homeless in Fontinel Forest was probably to blame here.

Speaker 2 (49:47):
Well, this guy that I saw on about forty third
in Dodge yesterday, he was in a wheelchair and here
he was talking to a guy, but his wheelchair was
out in the lane traffic on Dodge on Dodge moving
east at a very busy time of day, and it
slowed traffic down and people were swerving to miss him. Uh,

(50:10):
and that was very, very frightening. I don't know why
the person he was talking to did not move him
into the parking lane. Maybe he tried and the guy
wouldn't let him. But the dude looked pretty troubled. Hey, Jim,
what day is it? It's Friday the fifteenth, you bet
it is.

Speaker 1 (50:25):
Knock off now and take the next two days off.

Speaker 4 (50:27):
How is it?

Speaker 1 (50:27):
Hello?

Speaker 2 (50:28):
Jest one two one two three four five one two
one two three four five?

Speaker 1 (50:31):
Who are these people? These fricking people? Why are they here?

Speaker 5 (50:34):
Good morning, honey, I made you pancakes for breakfast.

Speaker 1 (50:38):
So guess what day it is? Now?

Speaker 3 (50:41):
I can say.

Speaker 6 (50:44):
I got one hundred.

Speaker 1 (50:45):
Dollars walking into my bag home. I know, well, I'll
say that.

Speaker 7 (50:50):
Bobby's burning.

Speaker 3 (50:52):
Through my bogging in.

Speaker 4 (50:54):
And do mysk him. Come on the morning, I'll be browning.

Speaker 2 (50:58):
I see Friday free again.

Speaker 1 (51:02):
I've done my motor running for a bow it again.

Speaker 5 (51:06):
It's find that I'm.

Speaker 1 (51:08):
Out of your throw forgetting the organising the time.

Speaker 4 (51:13):
Yeah, pulling a child held over?

Speaker 1 (51:20):
How about that for me?

Speaker 2 (51:21):
I'm a man.

Speaker 5 (51:22):
A little girl needs her daddy.

Speaker 1 (51:24):
What's up?

Speaker 2 (51:24):
I don't really have to believe in this stuff?

Speaker 1 (51:26):
Do ill like I got a shut up? Tell I
got a shut monny. I'm gonna be hurting in my
head in.

Speaker 5 (51:32):
The ice June the i'my wondering if I never.

Speaker 7 (51:35):
Said Wednesday and a thirsty homie slowly tunedy Friday.

Speaker 1 (51:40):
I'll be in and up my moner up.

Speaker 3 (51:44):
Find that tday free again.

Speaker 2 (51:47):
I got my mother running again.

Speaker 5 (51:50):
All right, it's find.

Speaker 1 (51:51):
Time out of control. Forget the organising the time.

Speaker 5 (52:00):
We did do it? Everybody get.

Speaker 1 (52:12):
That soundisfy you or should I do a better job.

Speaker 3 (52:16):
There? Now?

Speaker 1 (52:17):
I'm satisfied, Thank you, Gary Sadelemeyer and George Jones and
everything else we got piled into that. Every single weekend,
it's a great time to get out and enjoy Nebraska's game.
In parks. That's why every single Friday we have Greg
Wagner here with the cut green boy, don't Loomis and
with a cut cree boy swear the country ball. That's

(52:38):
about the dumbest thing you could do is mess with
Greg Wagner. He is our favorite country boy and joined
us now on news radio eleven ten kf ab Free
fishing this weekend, Greg, here we go.

Speaker 7 (52:49):
It's tomorrow Saturday, free fishing and State Park entry Day.
I kind of bill it as our open house of
sorts of the Great outdoors, So no fishing permissional park
permits tomorrow. In Nebraska. It's open to residence a non
residents statewide midnight to midnight. Got a lot of special
events going on. Come on out and see us.

Speaker 1 (53:09):
And where can you find the schedule and details on
all that that would be at our game in.

Speaker 7 (53:13):
Park's website Outdoor Nebraska dot gov. I will be at
Fremont State Lake number sixteen. Signs will point you in
the right direction when you get out there to Fremont
Lakes and we're giving away free fishing rods to kids
and veterans.

Speaker 1 (53:27):
We have hot dogs and Sloppy Joe's and more awesome
bait and we'll put you on the water.

Speaker 7 (53:33):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (53:35):
Can you use the sloppy Joe's as bait That would
be tough cat, but you could use chunks of hot dogs.
Oh sure. So if you are going to do some
fishing this weekend, what do you recommend? Wow, you know
we're at.

Speaker 7 (53:48):
The level best time of the year to catch fish
and Jim and I were just talking about that.

Speaker 1 (53:53):
But use a night crawler.

Speaker 7 (53:56):
Use use worms.

Speaker 1 (53:57):
You can dig them in the garden.

Speaker 7 (53:58):
If you want to use night crawlers, you can go
after anything from bluegill and crappie with the kids, bass
or biting as well. We have most fish that are
either pre spawn, they're in their spawn or post spawn.
So everything is kind of going crazy. The warm weather
is going to help matters, even though a water temps
or a little chilly.

Speaker 1 (54:19):
What about wild turkey not the drink in my imagination,
we have more turkey just wandering around Omaha. This lot
of town turkeys. So if you're out of town, what
do you do for hunting turkey?

Speaker 7 (54:30):
Well, the spring wild turkey hunting season continues, gets tougher
this time of year, get a lot of foliage out
there and Tom's are just kind of getting towards the
end of their breeding cycle. Hens are nesting, but still
have that going till the end of the month. And
I would say hunt eleven to two. It's going to

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be a little warm out there, no question. Be in
the shade, be in the woods, and that's a nice
time to see a lot of wandering big gobblers.

Speaker 1 (55:01):
What's going on in our state parks not just this weekend,
but over Memorial Day?

Speaker 7 (55:05):
Here we go the big Memorial Day weekend right around
the corner, and uh, you know, people asking about campsites.
Normally is a big camping weekend, depending on the weather.
But half our camp sites and our park system are reservable.
The other half frist come preserve upon arrival. The only
exception to that is Lake McConaughey, Lake Ogalala, where it's

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all advanced reservations, and just give us a call, call
your favorite or preferred state park to see how best
it would be to acquire a campsite there.

Speaker 1 (55:36):
And the biggest on the outdoor bulletin board, Greg, leave.

Speaker 7 (55:39):
Those wild babies alone. We're talking about baby wildlife. A
lot of young squirrels, rabbits and everything even though you
cannot see her, mom is nearby.

Speaker 1 (55:49):
There's a mom nearby, all right. That's good advice. Greg Wagner,
Game of Parks, thank you very much,