The Mind of Moos / Bacon v Trump (Again) / Ricketts wants to SAVE

Our very interesting conversation with former Husker AD Bill Moos starts about 38 minutes into today's podcast, followed by Sen. Pete Ricketts on a variety of topics ahead of the next potential government shutdown.  Before that, we address the latest anti-Trump vote by Rep. Don Bacon, the Epstein files impacting Nebraska/Creighton/Dan Osborn, a response from the Bronze Ex-Girlfriend, and more.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I like the reaction now from people who are in
sensed like they have never seen this before. What Trump
told the Republicans in Congress to do something and Don
Bacon didn't do it. Has this ever happened before? Yes,
it happens quite often. Here's something else that happened quite often.

(00:24):
He would do this over his career, over his terms
in office, including the first Trump administration, and then would
get re elected by the probably by the same people
who email me all the time when this happens. That's it.
I'm done with Ton. Well, he's not running for reelections,

(00:46):
so you can pump the brakes on that. What are
you upset about. Here's what, in all practicality has happened.
Trump said We're doing tariffs against Canada. Canada said no
way a. And then the Congress said we're going to
vote against the President's tariffs on Canada, and they voted.

(01:10):
You had a few Republicans, don Bacon being one of them,
who voted with all the Democrats to vote against the
President's tariffs against Canada, which by the way, are reciprocal tariffs.
Canada tariffs the stuff that we export to them. We

(01:31):
have never done the same to the stuff that they
import to us, and it's not really that big a deal.
I'll give you an example. We get we get a
lot of crude oil from Canada. That's not to say
this oil that's profane and lewde and inappropriate it. You know,

(01:51):
crude oil in terms of the unrefined Well, we're getting
less than we used to.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
We were supposed to get that Trans Canada pipeline was
supposed to pump a whole bunch of the good stuff
down here.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Yes, thanks Jane Cleb and Bold Nebraska. Thank you to
Jane Cleb and Dave Heineman for deep six in that one.
But anyway, we digress. Technically it was going to come
through here and then go to a tanker and go
all over the world. But again, it was one of
my favorite words I get to use, and I always
hope I'm using it correctly. Oil crude oil is a
fungible resource, and therefore the more there is in the world,

(02:22):
the better it is for all involved. Be that as
it may. Since the tariff last year against crude oil
from Canada, gas prices have gone down. So please tell me,
when you're clutching your pearls exactly what the problem has
been anyway back to the timeline. So Trump says, we're

(02:43):
tariffying these things Democrats and a few Republicans Don Bacon,
and then Thomas Massey and then another guy sided with
all the Democrats. And now it goes on to the
Senate where it stands almost zero percent chance of passing,
and even if it's slightly does the President could veto it.
And that's it. So was this symbolic? Was this say, hey,

(03:07):
we gotta you know our partners in Canada, Our partners
in Canada are putting tariffs on our stuff. So what
has been slightly more expensive since the Trump tariffs on Canada?
Some cars, it's the crude oil, some bread and chocolate,
and some lobsters. And I tell you the my monthly

(03:29):
lobster budget. I'm not eating as much lobster as I
used to. I used to be a four packa day
lobster guy, lobsterman, and and I don't I don't have
lobster for breakfast anymore. I don't do it. I can't
afford it because of the Trump tariffs. So yeah, that's

(03:49):
that's what happened here. And the people are like, I
can't believe Bacon did this again. He does it all
the time. We'll get your reaction to this and a
lot more Scott a kfab dot com emails up already
flowing in here. Jim Rose is arguing with Craig Evans
the report there they found a black glove and the

(04:10):
desert's near Tucson. Jim started yelling, turn your mic on
and yell that's what I do.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
Okay, First of all, I've been in that area. Uh huh,
there are gloves. Let me call the tip line. Yeah, gloves, hats,
water bottles, wallets, and you name it. People are dropping
stuff in that these very very popular hiking trails around
her mom's house. But do you really think the guy
that nabbed Nancy Guthrie is going to drop a glove

(04:40):
by the side of the busiest street in Arizona.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
Yeah, Oja left gloves all over the place and then
one artificially caused his hands to swell so they wouldn't work.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
But this is a classic case of the media frenzy
around This story has grown way way out of proportion.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
How about this.

Speaker 2 (04:59):
Police have found a glove that looks similar to the
one that the guy on the camera on Missus Guthrie's
front porch was wearing. But a lot of stuff gets
dropped in that part of the country. Yes, and maybe
this is a connection.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
Maybe not.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
Now the best pack getting bought by a Walmart that
seems to me a much better lead than that glove.
But the gloves seem interesting. It's not a normal looking glove,
especially for Tucson. Why would someone summertime a glove other
than for some landscaping guardian stuff like that. But that
glove didn't even look like something you would use for that.

(05:36):
I don't know what kind of glove that happen with
the media. If it's one that's like it, then that's interesting,
isn't it. That's can different? You know, Scott, the media
has so invested in this story now they have to
one up each other. You got live reports throughout the
day from in front of Missus Guthrie's house. We have
six hundred thousand people disappear every year. Are there a

(05:56):
thousand people a thousand man hunt armada out there looking
for all of them? Do we have Fox News going
live multiple times from their house to no?

Speaker 1 (06:09):
No?

Speaker 2 (06:09):
And I get the fact that this is a celebrities
family member, although you know. I mean, she's the co
anchor of the Today Show. It's not like she's the
president of the United States. But this is part of
the media culture that bothers me deeply because we now
have to invent things to turn this into a bigger story.
When you're interviewing the editor of TMZ and asking this

(06:31):
guy about criminal behavior and criminal investigations and FBI collection
of evidence. Really this is now the source the editor
of TMZ, TMC celebrity gossip site. They got the ransom
note he got a ransom. The question is is the
media doing this and then leading.

Speaker 1 (06:50):
To the public curiosity or is the natural public curiosity,
which can't fully all focus on every little thing all
the time. Not to say that a disappearance of someone
on someplace else's a little thing, certainly not to them.
But every once in a while we all kind of
coalesce around a story, and a lot of it's true
crime based, and there's always crime. Sometimes we just decide

(07:12):
we're going to focus on one for a while, and
due to that curiosity, the media then puts in the effort.
I think that there's something tragically beautiful about the number
of people who are praying and hoping sure not only
for Savannah Guthrie's mom, but for all people. Then you
get the spillover effairs for all the people. I would

(07:34):
certainly hope, So I hope. So all right, thank you
for that to see I told you to turn your
mic on and yelling you and I didn't start ever
a disappoint now KFAB Certified Transmission Sports Brief. But Jim
ro Hie Scott coome morning, everybody.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
If you think the Creighton basketball season could get any worse,
sure it could. To Paul seventy two, Jay's seventy one
Blue Demons, which had not beaten Craton in eleven years,
got or done. Jays didn't score over the last two
thirty six and where it just embarrassingly bad on defense
gave up. Did you see it last night? Twenty second
chance points? DePaul scored forty six in the paint. Four

(08:13):
losses in five games, but at least the game wasn't
at home. Bad losses on the road are one thing,
but at home can be fatal. And so it goes
for our friends in the little Apple Manhattan, Kansas. The
once prideful program has gone off the cliff, blown out
at home by Cincinnati last night ninety one sixty two.
Coach Jerome Tang has had it.

Speaker 1 (08:34):
Like I'm like pissed and did this uh this? Yeah,
this is six. The loss in a row means something
to war case.

Speaker 3 (08:47):
They uniform means something to put on this purple man
are like everything this university's about and all that it's
been about.

Speaker 1 (08:54):
Why I love this place? Man Like they didn't. They
don't love this place, so they don't deserve to be here.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
One in ten in the Big Two, well, the students
have taken to wearing paper bags over their heads. There
is no better example of how NIL ruins the culture
of a sports program. Thank State and dare I say
Creighton this year?

Speaker 1 (09:13):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
In addition to the loss to Purdue, Nebraska basketball lost
its cool the other night. Well somebody did. The university
and Lincoln police are investigating an incident produced staffers as
somebody chucked a beer at the Boiler's bench in the
last seconds of overtime. Video of it has been seen
on social media two hundred and sixty five thousand times.
If they find the guy problem for that guy. Husker

(09:35):
football and non Husker football at the NFL Draft combine
Deshaun Singleton and Emma Johnson, who starred for the team
last season, have been invited, as have some guys Husker
football ignored in the recruiting process, like Cole Payton, the
best all around athlete at Westside High School in the
last twenty five years. He went to North Dakota State
and he got invited to the combine, as did Logan

(09:58):
Jones from over there in Council Bluffs. He was only
the center of the year, but not good enough to
play for Nebraska football. Let's visit for a second about
the Olympics, because at two o'clock today we got Jake
Ginzel from you and O, who might be the best
scoring forward in the NHL this year, is going to
play for Team USA as the men's hockey season begins
at the Olympics. Sports His News on Nebraska's News Weather

(10:19):
in Traffic station. We're in one of those moods this morning.

Speaker 1 (10:22):
Yeah you are, geez.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
After watching the Creighton game last night, I'm in a
really bad mood.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
Let me quote my friend Jim Rose, why don't you
calm down over there?

Speaker 2 (10:30):
I need to calm down because I was getting really
pissed watching the Creighton game last night.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
You and Tang need to watch him. Okay, my daughter's
a k State student went to the game the other day.
My condolence, How was the game? She goes, Oh, we
got killed, but they had baby races at halftime and
that was fun about the dance and grannies. It's a
live podcast every morning. Here, I'm Scott Vorhees, Lucy Chapman,
Craig Evans there, Jim Rose is here. This is News
Radio eleven ten kfa B, Nebraska's morning news in boxes.

(10:58):
Open Zunker's Cusston Woods in Box. Scott at kfab dot com.
Sometimes I feel in reading these emails like Will ferrells
Alex Trebek and Saturday Night Lives, Celebrity Jeopardy in talking
to Daryl Hammond Sean Connery. The email from Richard says,
Don Bacon is one of the few Republicans that still

(11:21):
has Republican values. He's not going to cover up for
a pedophile president like the rest of them. Okay, Richard,
thank you for the email. The topic is Tariff's not
the Epstein. But that is Richard's favorite phrase, and I

(11:42):
imagine he loves hearing me read it on the radio.
Probably a lot more than I love reading it. Terry,
who says he's emailing from San Francisco Light aka Lincoln, Nebraska,
says Scott Don Bacon is definitely living up to being
a Democrat. He always has been in his final time
as the stain on Nebraska. Sad that we didn't learn

(12:08):
our lesson from other carpetbaggers who had been elected. Bob
Kerrey is a prime example. Bob Carrey was a Democrat.
I helpe Rosie doesn't try to whitewash Don Bacon's career
like he does for Ben Nelson and Bob Kerrey.

Speaker 2 (12:24):
Ask Ben Nelson how much he likes me, Well, he's
still grinding that axe now thirteen years later.

Speaker 1 (12:33):
Yeah, I'm sorry, seventeen years later. That was a long
time ago. I always enjoyed a good relationship with the
former governor and senator. As I understand it, though, it
was the when he said that he wasn't going to
vote for Obamacare and then the Cornhusker kickback cost him
to vote for Obamacare. I believe it was as it

(12:53):
got back to me the bit we did called ben Okio,
that wasn't me. That was me? Okay, that wasn't only
that he was not real thrilled with that, But I
have seen him since then and we yeah, I like
the guy. I liked the guy. But that was a
horrible vote. But I like the guy.

Speaker 2 (13:12):
Look, I had a lot of respect for him as governor,
and I voted for him when he ran for the
United States Senate a couple times. And I can assure
you that we were aghast at what was happening in DC.
And if you go back to those days, there was
a really, really, really uncomfortable process for him that he

(13:36):
could have addressed early on. And that is when Ram Emmanuel,
who was the chief of staff for President Obama, came calling.
He says, here's the deal, rom you go get Republican votes.
In your mind, you don't get Republican votes. I ain't
on board. This has to be bipartisan. In other words,
he has to channel a little bit of John McCain.
If we're going to take twenty percent of the American

(13:59):
economy and turn it up side down by putting together
what is essentially an assault on health insurance which will
drive everybody's rates through the roof, which has happened, taxes
and taxes, and spend trillions of dollars on this plan.
You better get Republican support because I'm not going to
take all the blame for this. Now this meeting is over,
Go get Chuck Grassley, Go get a couple of other Republicans,

(14:20):
and I'm on board. And I remember Chuck Grassley was
on your program, and he was on a lot of
programs saying there are things in this bill Republicans can
live with. Okay, goodbye, but the Democrats and the White
House won't listen to us. So Ben Nelson could have
saved himself, could have saved his political career. He could
have run for reelection in twenty twelve and probably won

(14:41):
if he had just made it clear early, not late
in the process, but early. And Bob Carey was on
this program and said the same thing. The problem mistake
that Ben made was being the last one. He should
have been the first one. I'm not going to be
on board, President Obama unless you get at least three
Republican votes.

Speaker 1 (14:57):
Let's come back to twenty twenty six year, what do
you make of Congress in Bacon's vote here, which is
just symbolic, this is not going to pass the Senate.
Even if it does, the President can veto it and
keep right on with the reciprocal tariffs against Canada, which
is what the issue is here today.

Speaker 2 (15:11):
Well, Don Bacon has had an issue with President Trump
from the beginning. I don't think he has a lot
of respect for President Trump. He has been on this
program and said, Don Bacon hasn't said. I don't think
he's a likable guy. I don't like him. I think
he's mean. I don't like the things he says. Don
Bacon is a career military man. He has worked in

(15:31):
the public sector his entire life. He's a general in
the United States Air Force. So he understands the function
and the role of government and likes the structure in place,
wants to tweak it around the edges. Donald Trump throws grenades,
he blows things up and to institutional and many would
say deep state Republicans, and some could accurately accuse Don

(15:53):
Bacon of being one of those. The Trump thing is
a nightmare because he's disrupting. He is, He's gone through
the place with a chainsaw, and institutional and establishment Republicans
like Don Bacon don't like that. He's also an internationalist.
He says, we can't insult our allies and Donald Trump

(16:14):
does that again.

Speaker 1 (16:15):
This is a military man.

Speaker 2 (16:16):
This is a guy who believes in NATO and believes
in the sanctity of NATO. He doesn't believe we should
be upsetting NATO partners at every turn.

Speaker 1 (16:24):
Well, he's voted with Democrats several times and then continues
to be re elected. He says, it's a purple district.
This is what you got to do to survive here
in Nebraska. See he's not strong, well, right, but one
of these he's not running for reelection. I guess brinker
Harding now is the real only Republican here to go
on to the general election in November? Then what has

(16:45):
to do the same thing where he occasionally votes with
all the Democrats. I don't know that brinker Harding is
that guy, which then begs the question can he get elected?
Let's talk about the November election as we get a
little closer to November, though, gotta be hard Scott at
kfab dot com. Willis says, it looks like that glove
in the Guthrie case is a nitral glove, the same

(17:05):
ones that mechanics, cooks and carpenters use those generally. You
might be right here it looks like a weird boxing
glove to me. But those nitrol gloves are big enough
that they go over another glove, usually when you're working
with chemicals or something that's incredibly hot or whatever. So

(17:27):
if that's the case, and let's say indeed they found
the glove there in the trails there near Guthrie's house
in Tucson, then it's not going to have any DNA
evidence on it, probably unless it's right against the skin,
which would be unusual for that type of glove. Now,
now here's the response from the President of the United
States on truth social against Don Bacon and the other

(17:49):
Republicans that voted against his tariffs reciprocal tariffs against Canada.
Resident says, any Republican in the House or the Senate
that votes against tariffs will seriously suffer the consequences come
election time, and that includes primaries. Our trade deficit has

(18:09):
been reduced by seventy eight percent. The Dow Jones has
just hit fifty thousand points, the S and P seven thousand,
all numbers that were considered impossible just one year ago.
In addition, tariffs have given us great national security because
the mere mention of the word has countries agreeing to
our strongest wishes. Tariffs have given US economic and national security,

(18:31):
and no Republican should be responsible for destroying this privileged privilege,
Signed President Donald J. Trump. As you know, Nebraska's second
district representative Don Bacon is not running for reelection, so
that he doesn't care about that. I don't think he
cared anyway about the president's primary challenge. Chris emails and

(18:54):
says Donald Trump was elected partially because he isn't a
DC insider. The system is obviously broken already, and it's
been time to take a different approach. Good Ridden's Bacon,
You and your ilk have run this country into the ground.
There's no more trimming around the edges. As Jim just mentioned,
he can go hang out with another corn Husker, Backstabb

(19:16):
or Ben Nelson. As far as I'm concerned, they've both
shown their true colors and care more about DC and
big government than Nebraskans. Okay, yeah, we've been receiving these
emails for a decade. Don Bacon has gotten reelected every time.
It's a part of it is the district.

Speaker 2 (19:33):
There's a lot of Republicans in one chunk of that
district in particular Saunders County, Sarpia and some Saunders County. Look,
Don Bacon is a good guy. Don Bacon is a
practical politician. He's not a flamethrower. He works across the aisle.
He tries to move legislation across the goal line. But
he's also been on the public dole his entire life.

(19:55):
He's a government employee. He's he's served our country in
the United States. I'm a military. Don't phrase it as
a welfared RICI. He's been on the public trumph. He's
been down, like he's having welfare in the public trough,
which is fine. That's the career he chose. And now
he's in general and it's all good. But he's also
a big national defense guy, and that means you spend

(20:17):
money on national defense.

Speaker 1 (20:18):
Bacon's tariff vote goes to the Senate. Will Pete Ricketts
support it? He'll talk with this like the present eight
thirty five Fox and KFAB news updates next Brendon President
and London like him either.

Speaker 2 (20:30):
Okay, everybody calm down, Lucy please interrupt anytime you want.

Speaker 1 (20:34):
No problem. I'll do that, I do anyway. It was
me pausing and realizing the gravity of the the powers
I just gave you here on this program, and I'm
not taking it back. I will use them only for good.
You trying to get a word in edgewise on this
program has got to be like being Scott Jennings on CNN.
We've got Senator Pete Ricketts joining us at eight thirty

(20:57):
five to talk about, amongst other things, things the Save Act.
This is the latest push by the President to do
something that never happens in this country, try and make
sure that only legal citizens are voting in elections. Well,
that never happens. So how do you know, because we
it never happens. Have you checked. We don't need to
check why because it never happens. It actually happens quite

(21:20):
a bit, not a not a ton, but we don't
know unless we check. I mean it, it happens enough
that we need to do something. That's what the President says.
That's what they're voting on with the Save Act. To
make sure that you got an ID. Then you use
the ID to vote, use the ID to do something,

(21:43):
open a bank account, get on an airplane, get into
a nightclub, buy alcohol or cigarettes. You use an ID
for so many things. We can't use an ID to vote,
one of the most important things we have to do
as citizens in this country. So Scott Jennings yesterday was
on CNN talking with the panel there, and I apologize,
I don't know the name of the woman he's talking to.

(22:05):
She's black, and I'm saying that because that's the nature
of this conversation. She starts it off, is.

Speaker 3 (22:11):
Actually championing a bill that actually would take voting rights
away from a lot of black people.

Speaker 4 (22:16):
What voting rights is he taking away from black voters?

Speaker 3 (22:19):
Oh, if we look at let's say back, that's exactly
what we're talking about. That is actually going to continue
to disenfranchise overwhelmingly a lot of people of color.

Speaker 4 (22:27):
No, Jim said Elliott.

Speaker 3 (22:29):
I am talking about it. It's the way that you're
putting new poll taxes on this when you're making techol
tax that's what we can call them. Now. The reality
is you're layering what is a constitutional right for the
American people and making it harder for people to vote
in this country, and it's going to Disenfrancis Black.

Speaker 4 (22:46):
Voters concern you that you're making all these claims. You've
yet to lay out how it's hurting anyone. But seventy
six percent of black voters think we should show an
ID to vote, eighty percent of Hispanic voters, eighty three
percent of the American people. Are you saying that black
voters them?

Speaker 1 (23:03):
I mean, so he's trying to ask them. You know,
the voters are saying, we can handle it. We're not
as dumb as you think we are. We can handle this,
and we think it's a good idea to show an
ID when we go vote. It's not a big deal
we have IDs. There are apparently people in this country

(23:27):
who think, well, if you're a person of statistical minority
demographic in this country, you can't get an ID in
this country. What year are we talking about? Who are
we talking about? This is?

Speaker 2 (23:37):
This is really it's almost infuriating because let me ask you,
this guy, you're a smart guy.

Speaker 1 (23:43):
Thank your degree from the University of Nebraska. Carney. How
I love that.

Speaker 2 (23:48):
How this this doesn't equate if you are poor and detached,
which apparently these lefties are the ones standing up for.
If you're poor and detached, you apply for Medicaid, you
apply for food stamps, you apply for welfare. Right if
you're down on your luck, and you need a little ADC,

(24:08):
or you need a phone, or you need about anything else.

Speaker 1 (24:11):
Your utility bills paid.

Speaker 2 (24:12):
You go apply for this stuff and there's lots of
social safety net for you.

Speaker 1 (24:16):
How are they able to do that?

Speaker 2 (24:17):
How are they able to do that without an ID?
In order to get that stuff, you have to produce identification.

Speaker 1 (24:27):
But Jim married women who changed their name. They won't
be able to vote.

Speaker 2 (24:33):
This argument, this argument ultimately is really going to damage
the Democrats brand. You talked about it. Seventy six percent
of Democrats want this. Seventy six percent of Black Americans,
of Hispanic Americans of minorities want this. Probably seventy five
percent of poor people want this. The only people who
don't want this are Chuck Schumer, Hakem Jeffries, and these

(24:56):
lefties on CNN and MSNBC. But the country. He believes
that if you're gonna vote, you gotta be legitimate. You
just can't be a guy.

Speaker 1 (25:04):
Rickets wants this. He'll join us at eight thirty five
at eight o five this morning. You want to hear this.
Bill Moose, former athletic director tell All book. He joins
us at eight o five this morning here on Nebraska's
Morning News. I think we all had the same reaction
when we heard that news about the fire at that
very popular burger joint in Bellevue. What are we gonna

(25:24):
do with us? Stella's he come on and open it
back up, open up a food truck outside the place
that charred remains.

Speaker 2 (25:36):
I saw some of the images from this fire there
on the waterfront and Stella two things that are juxtaposition.

Speaker 1 (25:42):
Streetcar end desire. But you were close, same actor. But yeah,
they had a fire out there. Doesn't look like it's
going to be closed for years to come, but it
was serious enough that you're not gonna be able to
get over there for lunch today.

Speaker 2 (25:55):
Well, and I'm not sure what I'm gonna eat at
Jonesy's Taco House anymore. They can't get any from Omaha Steaks,
So what's going to be in the tacos?

Speaker 1 (26:02):
About one hundred local restaurants, we're using Omaha Steaks as
a vendor for their meat, and Omaha Steaks just quickly
announced the other day, Yeah, We're we're not gonna do
direct to restaurant sales anymore. We're just gonna be all
online retails, mail order. Steak and so forth. You can
still get your steak from us, but you have to
order it as part of the upcoming Sweetheart package. We

(26:23):
also have a Father's Day special coming up and you
order it that And these vendors are like, okay, but
meat price has gone up. Beef price has gone up,
and anytime we start up new with a vendor, there's
gonna be a delay in getting that which we need
and it's going to cost more. What about us? And
Omaha Steaks said, sorry, you're out. They that's their decision

(26:48):
that they made. I think it's an interesting decision. If
there were so many restaurants who were buying, it's not
like Omaha Steaks was donating it.

Speaker 2 (26:57):
It seems like there was a lot of business then
was coming in, beef was going out.

Speaker 1 (27:02):
I don't know why that suddenly is no longer an
attractive transaction.

Speaker 2 (27:06):
Well, the new owners of Omaha Steaks think, hey, this
is a better there's a better revenue stream somewhere else.
Let's focus on this thing and not worry about delivering
beef wholesale beef to various restaurants around town. When you
spend as much money on Omaha Steaks as they did,
they can make any decision they want. But the bottom
line is a lot of restaurants are going okay, hold on.

(27:27):
But that said, Nebraska is number two in the country
in beef production, so you think there's somebody out there
that can help them out.

Speaker 1 (27:34):
Now, beef levels are incredibly low. We're having to import
beef into Nebraska. Think about that, we're having to import
beef into Nebraska. I drought, sickness, costs, There's so many
reasons why this happened. Hopefully can turn around quickly. And
then Trump says, we're bringing it in from Venezuela, and

(27:57):
I don't know that. I want to be eat of
Venezuelan beef. I'll try it, and how is it? And
I don't want that plastic stuff either. Plastics you know,
you tree huggers out there that think we ought to
be making plastic beef. I don't want any part of that.
Who says we need plastic beef. We only know that
artificial beef they tried to foist on us. Jim Pillen
sit up and there said, no, we're growing the real

(28:18):
thing here. Yeah, well it's not plastic, soulless. I don't
want soulless beef. I want to see the cow. I
want to name the cow that I'm gonna eat later. Wow,
all right, are we not going to talk about the
Super Bowl commercial that featured Mike Tyson going Maha working
with the Trump administration RFK Junior to promote healthy eating?

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How many calories are in Evander Holyfield's ear Mike Tyson
talking about healthy eating. I want to harken back to
something that happened on yesterday's radio program when during Sports Update,
Jim Rose unveiled not only some details about the Winter Olympics,

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but also his stunning ability to be able to translate
Norwegian and doing the story. We'll go back to the
tape and here's yesterday's a sports brief here on KF
A B because we have an update today, but here's
how it sounded yesterday.

Speaker 2 (29:14):
The moment of the day at the Olympics comes courtesy
of a Norwegian skier named Stuur Holme lag Red. After
winning bronze in the twenty kilometer biathlon, he appeared before
Norway TV and admitted cheating on his girlfriend. Here is
Stuart purging his bilge and I am happy to translate.

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It seemed like the right thing to do at the time.
She came to my hovel wearing only a fur hatten
ski boots holding a plate of groadlocks.

Speaker 1 (29:47):
What was I supposed to do? I'm a guy.

Speaker 2 (29:51):
She begged me to treat her like a frolic through
the fjords. Trust me, man, you wouldn't have walked away either.

Speaker 1 (29:58):
So there there's yesterday this sports update. I don't know
that the TV stations had that last night. That's something
you can only get on kfab, but listen anyway. So, Jim,
we didn't even realize you spoke Norwegian. You have yet
to tell us what grovlocks are. We have an update
to that story though.

Speaker 2 (30:17):
It's not a dish that you're gonna want to have
every day, But if you're Norwegian, it's sort of like
donuts in this country.

Speaker 1 (30:25):
You just you just can't put it down. Oh really, okay,
well I try that. Well, it was his partaking of
a dish that got him to the point where he
won bronze. He says, I apologize to my girlfriend for
cheating on her, and that's what all that was about. Well,
they've tracked down the girlfriend former girlfriend. She still wants
to remain anonymous, and she said to some Norwegian news outlet,

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she said, it's hard to forgive, even after a declaration
of love in front of the whole world. I did
not chew to be put in this position and it
hurts to have to be in it. We have had
contact and he is aware of my opinions on this
does not sound like his laying bare his soul and

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his shortcomings before the world. Is going to work to
get his ex girlfriend back by Valentine's Day. He's also saying, look, sorry,
I regret. I deeply regret bringing up my personal life
at the Games. I'm not quite myself these days. Jim
should be translating us. It's hard to believe, right. He

(31:37):
also is apologizing, and this is something I hadn't thought of.
He won the bronze at this event. The guy who
won gold, I don't even know what the event was,
the twenty kilometer of biathlon, all right, that's a big event.
The guy who won bron gold in that is his teammate,
fellow Norwegians, Johan Olavboten.

Speaker 2 (32:00):
He say his name, I think so no on all
of ya.

Speaker 1 (32:05):
He's apologizing on every Norwegian Norseman. Sounds like that, Just
so you know I didn't come up with the I
didn't name him, you know, so he says, I'm sorry
if I ruined your day. Yeah, that's a pretty good deal.
You you you now, you're representing your country in the Olympics.
You have been training your whole life for this, and
you've been looking up to your one chance in four

(32:26):
years to be able to do this. You win the gold,
and you've been completely overshadowed by this guy down down
the podium with the brons, going, I'm sorry, I cheated
onto my gird a friend. I've been a body. I
couldn't help it. And you're up there going she won gold.

(32:47):
She was matting just a fur hat. I'm holding a
gold medal.

Speaker 2 (32:50):
Right, you got a gold medal, right, Actually the medal
then broke, the strap broke and it fell.

Speaker 1 (32:54):
Down on the medals. But still it's a it's a
gold medal, and no one cares.

Speaker 2 (33:00):
No nobody cares who won the gold, you know what
won the bronze.

Speaker 1 (33:04):
And then out in himself. I think what he needs
to do is if he's single, well the ex girlfriend's single, time, uh,
time to hook up with that ex girlfriend. That'll be
the way that you not only get the gold, but
you show the bronze medalist. I am better than you
in every single way. I don't care for countrymen. This

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is coming down to dudes. That's what he needs to do.
I'm here all day for further love and romance advice.
I am the ultimate love daddy Willis, who's providing a
lot of definitions for us today. Thank you for looking
up things that I could but don't, says Gravelocks is
thinly sliced salt cured salmon, often add sugar and citric

(33:48):
fruit to the brine. It's served on bagels, crackers, and
Evander Holyfield's ears. Thank you, Willis. Sounds delicious. The Daily
Nebraskan yesterday revealed something else in the Epstein files that
has a local tie Lucy. Here's the story. Jeffrey Epstein

(34:11):
was dating a girl named Karina, and she was applying
to various dental schools, and in January of twenty twelve
was emailing saying, Jeffrey, here are all the schools on
my list, and I'm wondering which ones to apply to.
Should I apply to all of them? I have to
pay a fee for every application. He said, Hey, don't
worry about the money, baby, Jeffrey's got you taken care

(34:35):
of the money is no problem. What's the list? And
she gave a list, and on that list of potential
dental schools that included this is only about ten schools
Creighton and the University of Nebraska. Jeffrey Epstein took a
look at the list and said, of the schools on there,

(34:55):
only Temple would be a good school. The other ones
are quote mainly black students or not good places. Well,
there's a lot of schools on here. And now people
are looking at this going what Epstein was racist? Well,
I don't think he was a very good guy at all.
I had my doubts before, but now I'm I'm sure

(35:18):
of it. He was a bad guy. Hard to make
that leap, isn't it. Come on, how about these people?
I'm surprised by that. How about these.

Speaker 2 (35:29):
People that want to move the Bear Stadium to Davenport, Iowa.

Speaker 1 (35:33):
We've now moved on to a different topic, which is fine.
I think that's all I had there. But yeah, I
didn't know that Creighton and University Nebraska came up in
Epstein's life, but it did. He he did not I
are were a bad place or is it black students.
I don't know. I guess I can't ask him.

Speaker 5 (35:50):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (35:50):
Yeah, this is not going anywhere in Iowa. There's some
legislators who said, maybe we can get the Chicago Bears
in the Quad Cities. Let's see, the Chicago metro area
is nine million people. That's about twenty times larger than
the population of the Quad Cities. This is also the

(36:12):
same legislature in Iowa who also said, you know what
we should do is annex some of Minnesota's southern counties
that didn't happen. On Republican state representative recently suggested that
Iowa could get some of Illinois's western counties that didn't happen.

(36:34):
And now they're saying maybe we'll get the Chicago Bears Iowa.
Are you so insecure that you can't just enjoy what's
yours there in Iowa without trying to take from Minnesota
or Illinois, specifically the NFL football team from Chicago. They're
not going to let the Chicago Bears go anywhere.

Speaker 2 (36:53):
This is I was wondering if Rod Yate somehow is
involved in this. Yeah, they might go to Gretna, Yeah,
but they're not going to Iowa. I mean, let's have
the Bears come to Gretna. If they're going to go
to Iowa, heck, just Gretna because it's a short flight
from Chicago to Lincoln or Chicago to Omaha. We can
set up some special deals for Bears fans. If you're

(37:14):
gonna come here, we'll give you stay two nights. We'll
give you one night free, Rody get You'll get a
you know, two for one coupon at the concession stand.
So why not let's just spend two billion dollars in
build a football stadium for the Bears and Gretna.

Speaker 1 (37:26):
Rod's the guy out there at Nebraska crossing Gretna. He's
also been trying to bring in professional hockey, volleyball. There's
a lot of stuff there. He used future sales tax.
He's going to bring the Chicago Bears, but they're going
to be a volleyball team. Hey, money talks. This is
News Radio eleven ten KFA be Big Red Radio Scott
for he is here with Jim Rose, Lucy Chapman, Craig Evans. Now,

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it's not very often that we would look at the
author of a book called the Crab Creek Chronicles and go.
We got to get that guy on the radio. This
is some scintillating stuff here, but when he is, among
other things, the former athletic director at the University of
Nebraska and said some stuff here in his book that
has people across Nebraska talking. We welcome Bill Moose back

(38:09):
here to eleven ten kfab mister Moose, Good morning.

Speaker 5 (38:14):
Good morning guys. Good to hear your voices and be
back with you on the radio after more than five years.

Speaker 1 (38:22):
It's been a while, Bill.

Speaker 2 (38:24):
Your tenure here was marked by quite a bit of change,
the hiring of Scott Frost and Fred Hoiberg and Will
Bolt as the head baseball coach, plus the COVID nineteen episode,
which was really damaging.

Speaker 1 (38:35):
To a lot of college programs.

Speaker 2 (38:37):
But let's talk a little bit about your arrival here
and then what happened, because in your book it's pretty
clear that something happened between the time that Hank Bounds,
then President and Chancellor Ronnie Green, hired you and then
soured on you less than well frankly, before the start
of the football season.

Speaker 1 (38:55):
The following football season.

Speaker 2 (38:57):
Which would have been twenty eighteen, what happened between you
and those two guys who seem so happy to have
you in the beginning.

Speaker 5 (39:08):
Well, that's that's a long answer and somewhat unresolved. But
I addressed it in my book, and and it was
unfortunate in my opinion, because some of the things really
didn't need to happen. What you've got to remember is

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my predecessor, Sean I coursed a very good administrator and
a great guy was was let go early in the
football season. Now that that is not usually the case,
and certainly I don't believe in coaches being fired during
the season. I don't think anything ever positive comes out

(39:55):
of that. But it was clear to me as I
watched all of that happening that they were positioning Nebraska
to hire an athletic director that could make the choice
of a new football coach either immediately or at the

(40:16):
end of the year. That that only made sense to me.
And I actually was one of five sitting BCS athletic
directors that was interviewed for that position, and actually very
thrilled both my wife and Kendra that we got it

(40:36):
and we hit the ground running. Jarsh I started. I
didn't have time really to observe and assess the department
of over three hundred and fifty employees. I knew I
was there, and I had to assess and make some
decisions on the football program. So that's what I went

(40:57):
right to work doing, and both Ronnie and Hank were
involved in the interview process. That's a little awkward to
begin with because I've always felt having more than one
boss means there's no boss. And I kind of determined

(41:19):
right off the bat, sitting in that room in Dallas,
Texas in October, that Hank Bounds carried the hammer. He
was in charge, and that made it awkward from the beginning, because.

Speaker 1 (41:33):
Well, that is his title. Bill. I'm sorry to interrupt here.
We don't have the luxury of long answers this morning.
We do have a few things we want to ask
you about. I mean, when we have stuff like the
situation you're describing. And we asked Governor Jim Pillen, former regent,
yesterday on the program about whether or not the regents
were too involved in the hiring and firing the coaches.

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And regarding the basketball coach, Jim Pillen said.

Speaker 6 (41:56):
Dana's Bennett Nebraska. He's left Nebraska twice. He left and
went Hog Suey for two days and came back and
I said, and then Dana has gone to Oregon. We
needed to make sure the next coach is committed to
our program, committed to Nebraska.

Speaker 1 (42:13):
Is that just undue pressure from the regents? He said,
he wanted Hoiberg over Altman. Was that wrong of the
regents to stick their necks out like that?

Speaker 5 (42:24):
Oh, they can do what they want to in Nebraska.
Is an interesting situation because the regents are elected. Typically
they are appointed by the governor. But when you're elected
and you have a constituency, you can not get elected
the next time around. And hey, you know, I always

(42:46):
liked Jim Pillon. He and Ronnie were the ones came
up and flew my wife and I down to be
announced as the AD. I like Jim's passion. We got
along great. But you know, I started to be told
what I should be doing and what I had to
do as an athletic director in twenty eight years as

(43:08):
a D one athletic director, I'd never seen that before. And,
like I said a moment ago, and I'm sorry for
going too long, I didn't know who my boss was,
and my coaches didn't know who their boss was.

Speaker 2 (43:20):
Well, it's been a problem at Nebraska quite candidly, Bill,
for about fifty years where you get way too much
involvement by people that are not associated with the athletic program.
That goes all the way back to when Clifford Harden
left Nebraska had become Secretary of Agriculture in the nineteen sixties.

Speaker 1 (43:35):
We're talking here with not only the author of a
book that's out now called The Crab Creek Chronicles From
the wheat Fields to the Ballfields and beyond, of course,
as the former athletic director at the University of Nebraska,
Bill Moose. You can get the book at Bill Moose
dot comos and Bill Moose rejoins us here on Nebraska's

(43:57):
Morning News.

Speaker 2 (43:57):
So Bill, let's talk about hiring coaches. The Scott Frost
thing was probably as challenging as it gets because your
instincts said he wasn't ready, but the inert pressure to
hire him would have caused the building to collapse if
you had not. Was there any opportunity for you to
talk to regents and the university administration about your misgivings

(44:19):
about Scott Frost?

Speaker 5 (44:24):
Well, I had some misgivings, you know. The frenzy was
so crazy and let me preface my answer by saying,
I really liked Scott Frost, and Scott Frost should have
been the head coach at the University of Nebraska, but
not at that time. It was unfair to him and

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was unfair to Nebraska. And the recent history proves that.

Speaker 1 (44:54):
That sounds like twenty twenty high sight.

Speaker 2 (44:56):
Yeah, but why did he take the job? I mean,
if he had misgivings too, he later lamented.

Speaker 5 (45:03):
I think he took the job because I convinced him
that I was going to change things and times were
going to get back to more like they used to be,
and I had every reason to believe that at that time.
You got to realize I hired Scott Frost just sixty
days or so after I arrived and everybody was still

(45:27):
giving me the honeymoon. That was absolutely incredible, and I
felt good as the path we were going, and I
was on my way, and I thought I was going
to make the decision, and in the end I did.
But Tom should tell and one great writer and I
read him every day, said himself that Bill Moose did
not hire Scott Frost, He'd get fired.

Speaker 1 (45:49):
True, And you.

Speaker 5 (45:51):
Guys remember that the guy was undefeated. I went on
to a thirteen and o season at UCF, had paid
his dues and ironically learned a lot of his coaching
style from Chip Kelly, who I had started his kitchen
table a few weeks earlier. So but at the same

(46:12):
and you know, Scott went on and finished sixth in
the nation, was the coach of the Year, beat Auburn
and the peach Ball. Hey, if I didn't hire him,
both Tennessee and Florida were on his front step. Yeah,
and how would that go over for Bill Moose? I
was in a tough situation, but I felt I could
mentor him, guys and I and that we could get

(46:33):
things off on the right track. And it just didn't
work out that way.

Speaker 1 (46:37):
Let's talk about basketball.

Speaker 2 (46:39):
There's that clandestine meeting during the Iowa game when the
decision was made to run to Miles and you floated
the name of Dana Aldman. There was in any mediarya
that you knew who was close to Dana, and Dan
of course from Wilburn, Nebraska. He was vetoed by Jim
Pillan and we just heard the comment who was up
region at the time. He said, we didn't think he
was loyal. What about Tehran Lou. Did you ever consider

(47:03):
interviewing Tehran Lou for this job? He'd only won an
NBA World Championship with the Clippers and a Husker.

Speaker 5 (47:10):
No, I did not. I didn't really know him. I
was very impressed with with Fred Hoiberg, partially because of
where he'd come from, you know, Iowa State, the whole
Big twelve deal, and also his experience in the NBA

(47:32):
recruiting wise, you can get into living rooms when you've
got that on your resume. And he was a quality individual.
And I write in my book very likely i'd hired
Fred anyway, and I'm glad I did. But when I
was told that I couldn't even approach Dana Altman, I

(47:52):
was appalled by that and continue to be you know,
who's running the zoo and and I didn't know it
was Ronnie or it was Hank or it was Jim Pellan.
I didn't know. And you can't operate in operation, you know,
I was one hundred and fifty million dollars a year
operation there where people were wondering, who's my boss? And

(48:17):
I was wondering that as well.

Speaker 1 (48:19):
Well, you've had a chance to reflect on it. Here
is there someone within the University of Nebraska system who's
actively trying to ruin the athletic department at Nebraska. Was
there then, yeah, there is there now.

Speaker 5 (48:35):
No. I just think there was some self serving people.
You got to remember Ronnie Green had been a chancellor
for one year. Hank Bounds had never been a university president. Okay,
I had been a Division one AD for twenty five
plus years. So of the three positions, the one who

(48:56):
had had a resume and some experience was their athletic director.
Let him do the job. They didn't let Sean do
his job. They didn't let they let they let Tom
Osborne do it because you know, he's a saint there.
But you know, they kept stepping on their own toes

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and because of it, and the move to the Big Ten,
and I'd write about that wasn't wasn't always favorable by
the fans and former players and everybody else. It was
some tough sledding and it still is. It isn't resolved yet.

Speaker 1 (49:33):
Bill. One more thing before we let you go, Actually
two more things, unless you ask. I want to ask
one of the criticisms that's come from people that you
worked with at Nebraska, some that are still there and
some that are not. Is that you were very very absent,
that they weren't sure where you were, That you had
surrounded yourself with a cadre of gatekeepers that kept the

(49:55):
average employee from getting to you, that you'd be gone
for weeks at a time or and whatnot, and no
one was sure where you were. And this contributed to
a question about your leadership. So that you say, what, well,
and I want to jump in here because my questions
along the same lines. And I'll say that, like a
lot of Nebraska's bill, I saw you out socially at events,
places where you were just hanging out with friends. I

(50:17):
saw you have a beverage. I never saw it become
a problem. There were those within the leadership that approached
you and wondered if perhaps it was a problem. So
this all kind of speaks to the same thing. What
did all of these accusations and questions do to you
and your family personally?

Speaker 7 (50:34):
All?

Speaker 5 (50:35):
Right? All address said very boldly here And actually I
did three hundred and ten public appearances all in Nebraska
in my first twenty months on the job. And as
you guys know, it's a big state, and you got
to get in the car and drive. I loved it.
One of the issues when I was being interviewed is

(50:57):
that my predecessor pretty much was bunkered in his office.
And I've made it known that I'm a external guy.
I have been all my life. Yeah, I'm a storyteller,
and yea, I'll have beer and a cup of coffee
or whatever. But I'm from a one horse town. I
love those people. I love the people of Nebraska. Patriarchy,

(51:18):
philanthropy can fiercely loyal, and I was out amongst them.
And I told Ronnie and Hank when I was being interviewed,
I go, I'm gonna be with the people. They need
to see their athletic director. And the other thing, guys,
do you all know I will always make myself available
to the media, And I did. I mean, I've got
tubs full of papers and columns by some of the

(51:42):
great journalists and you guys.

Speaker 1 (51:43):
You know as well, some of the great journalists, and
you guys, yeah, nice, It's true.

Speaker 2 (51:49):
Seriously, I've been around Nebraska athletics for the last fifty years.
We've never had a more public athletic director than Bill mos.

Speaker 1 (51:57):
That is true.

Speaker 2 (51:58):
Even Bill Byrne, who had to do a lot of
heavy lifting to save the place. And we really he
made a lot of public appearances. But Bill, it's nice
talking to you. All is well for you, and you
know this is this has gotten Nebraska's thinking about how
we do things around here, and for that you're probably
you're probably appreciated more.

Speaker 1 (52:15):
Thank you very much, Bill, and you bet And now.

Speaker 5 (52:18):
I say one thing to Jim. Hey, Jim, you know,
I salute what you and Jerry Murta have done with
and continue to do with Nebraska greats. I always supported that,
and God bless you guys. We can't leave our players
and athletes on the curb when they're suffering. And you've

(52:38):
done a great job there. I appreciate you, guys.

Speaker 1 (52:40):
Thank you, Bill, appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (52:42):
And yeah, we've served a lot of former athletes in need,
especially specifically health needs, and thanks to the cooperation of
all of our members schools, that continues.

Speaker 1 (52:50):
To be DEDO. All right, guys, thank you very much.
Bill Moose. Right there, Bill Moose dot com. The book
is Crab Creek Chronicles. It's our former athletic director here
on eleven ten kab Now welcoming back to the program.
Nebraska Senator Pete Rickotts here to Big Red Radio. Senator,
good morning, Good morning, Scott.

Speaker 5 (53:08):
It's all you.

Speaker 7 (53:10):
You just need to stay on the radio now, just
keep going up.

Speaker 2 (53:12):
Yeah, before we get to policy on Capitol Hill, did
you have anything to do with the hiring of Scott
Frost or Fred Hoiberg? Oh boy, did you intervene in
that whole episode as governor of Nebraska and the hiring
of coaches and athletic directors.

Speaker 7 (53:27):
No, I was not involved in any of that. That's
all university functions.

Speaker 2 (53:30):
That's one of the reasons you're the beloved former governor
of Nebraska.

Speaker 1 (53:33):
We are huskish doctor Bill Moose here about his book
in Nebraska. So a little spill over here. We are
looking at the possibility tomorrow night of another government shutdown.
It has to do with funding ice, Department of Homeland Security,
and this latest thing we just talked about here with
you the other day, Senator, and that is the Save Act.

(53:53):
Is the government going to shut down? And what are
we doing to possibly stave that off.

Speaker 7 (54:00):
Well, let's be clear that we funded eleven of the
twelve appropriations bills, so ninety six percent of government is funded.
What the Democrats are holding up. The Homeland Security bill
is over the ICE funding.

Speaker 5 (54:12):
Now.

Speaker 7 (54:12):
The ironic part is ICE is funded for the next
three years because of what we passed in the reconciliation
bill last year, so they really can't get at the agency.
The most mad at.

Speaker 1 (54:22):
Is the media going to report that. The media won't
report that. They keeps talking to Chuck Schumer says, we
got to shut down ICE and all this stuff. Yeah,
the big bill if bill handled that.

Speaker 7 (54:32):
Yeah, So Chuck is really kind of lying to his
constituents there where he's saying that because it's like, hey,
you can't. You're not going to take funding away from
ICE or Customers and Border Protection, but you will stop
to say the Coast Guard from getting paid and from TSA,
and you made us up FEMA payments after the big
snowstorm on the East coasts. So it's actually gonna have
some very real effects here if it goes on too long.

(54:56):
The White House gave an offer to the Democrats last night.
My understanding is the Democrats have not responded to that yet,
but they may have. I just may have missed it.
So what we will be doing is we're going to
vote on the Department of Homeland Security build this afternoon,
get a Democrats a chance to keep it funded. If
they vote that down, then we'll do is offer to

(55:17):
do a short term spending extension and see if the
Democrats will go for that. And if they don't that
then they obviously you know, if you look at some
of the paychecks and stuff like that, you know people
are still going to get paid from work. They've already
done so this it really won't have an impact until March.
But you know, this is the kind of thing that

(55:39):
if the Democrats can be reasonable on some of the
things they want, I think there's common ground to find
some compromise working with the administration. But you know they've
got they've got to be reasonable.

Speaker 2 (55:49):
Well, this Save Act is numerically very much in your favor.
Seventy of Democrats believe you should have a valid idea
to vote. Seventy of minorities believe you should have a
valid ID to vote. If you say it's a it's
an attack on poor people, you have to have a
valid ID to apply for Medicaid and SNAP benefits. At

(56:12):
what point are you guys going to be able to
use this as a weapon against these guys.

Speaker 7 (56:18):
I'll arguement's against the Save Act, as you point out,
are really just false.

Speaker 4 (56:21):
Right.

Speaker 7 (56:22):
You know, everybody said, oh, if you have voter ID
is voter suppression, but if you look at the states
like Georgia that pass voter ID, voter participation actually went
up in the following election. Voter ID actually just strengthens
voter integrity, It makes people feel better about it. And frankly,
nobody should want non citizens voting in our elections. I
can't believe the Democrats think that that's that's a winning

(56:43):
issue to say, well, we want to make sure that
we're not cutting out the non citisens for voting. They're
not supposed to vote, so and you obviously, you know
in Nebraska we've got voter ID on the ballot at
bat like what sixty five thirty five, So this is
something that a lot of states have already. It's just
common sense. And frankly, the Democrats required idea to get
into the National Convention, so they clearly think ideas are

(57:06):
kind of important.

Speaker 1 (57:07):
The director, sorry, the director of public policy here for
Civic Nebraska spoke out against this, and they said that
the data would be kept in chilling ways by the
government and if you've if since the last time you
registered to vote, if you've been married since then, if
you change your name for any reason, if you've adjusted

(57:28):
your immigration status, you would be flagged. Is the Save
Act there to flag dangerous Americans who've done crazy things
like gotten married to prevent them from voting?

Speaker 7 (57:38):
Senator absolutely not. And I like that what he just
said about, like change your immigration stats. What do you
mean you were trying to vote when you wor Yeah,
and now you are a citizen and so you've changed,
so we're going to flag you for that? Yeah, yeah,
Like yes, I mean like if surely so, if you
were not assistant you've tried to vote, that's a problem.

(58:00):
But now if you are a citizen, if you went
you had a green card, you went through the process,
you've got Now you're a citizen. Yes, now you can
register a vote, right, I mean, that's that's the whole thing.
And you just have to provide documentary proof of that,
which is going to be true for you, Like if
you want to go, if you became a citizen, you
want to get US passport, You're gonna have to provide
proof of proofs of your citizenship for that too. So

(58:20):
this is none of these things are particularly controversial. You
have to do them in regular life. For so many
other things that we do. You got to prevent present
a real id to be able to get onto an airplane.

Speaker 5 (58:33):
Right.

Speaker 7 (58:34):
Well, you got ideas on so many things for everything.

Speaker 2 (58:37):
Senator Pete Rickets is with us on eleven ten kfab Okay,
So this is a this is an election year. Midterm
elections are really important this year because we know if
the House goes blue, all they're going to do is
launch impeachment proceedings against the president. Uh, you're running for
re election. Seemingly every two years, Pete Ricketts is running
for reelection or election to developing.

Speaker 7 (58:59):
I'm just I'm just a all empathy from my house.

Speaker 2 (59:01):
Now there you go, your real servant. The truth is affordability.
Maybe a term that is irritating to Republicans these days, Pete.
But if you go across Nebraska, if you sit in
front of people in Lincoln or Omaha, Grand Island, or
North Platte, they're going to say, Senator Ricketts, my healthcare
costs are too high, my health insurance is too high,

(59:23):
my property taxes are too high. Now I know you're
not responsible for property taxes, but I still got to
pay them every month.

Speaker 1 (59:29):
What are you going to do?

Speaker 2 (59:31):
What can you do to say and legitimately deliver to
Nebraskans who may be wanting a change because the promises
aren't kept about making life more affordable around here in
the next six months.

Speaker 7 (59:44):
Yeah, there's no doubt. When I talked to Nebraskans, it's
still no fun to go to the grocery store. You know,
the forty year high inflation we had at er Biden
is you know, it's sticky, right, This is We're in
this situation because of Biden and his terrible policies, the
reckless spending that drove inflation to the forty year high.
And we have seen some relief, right, So gas hit

(01:00:04):
a national average of four seventy three. The national average
is now down to two point eighty. So you know,
I just filled up the last time. I was a
high fee for two thirty nine, So we are seeing
some progress there. Rep prices are coming down because people
who are in the country illegally are either being deported
or self deporting, so that's taking some pressure off of rents.

(01:00:25):
So we're seeing some progress in those things. And of
course the Working family tax cuts, people are going to
start getting refund checks back. They're going to be bigger.
TVs news reports are gonna be an average of one
thousand dollars more on your refund checks, So you should
check that out. Less is going to be taken out
and withholding from your checks at least that's what the
Treasury is recommending to reduce that withholding, so people get

(01:00:48):
keep more of their paycheck. You know, we've got we
passed the working family tax sets and no tax on
tips and no tax on overtime. We have that additional
a bill for seniors to take a deduction of six
thousand dollars, so eighty eight percent of seniors won't pay
federal income tax and their Social Security you may recall

(01:01:08):
what I was governor, We exempted soci Security from Nebraska
state income taxes. So the working family taxes do a
lot to put more money back into the pockets of folks.
And you know, with regard to healthcare, I mean that's
something that is continue to go up because of the
sale Obabacare policies. Republicans are work seeing with Democrats to say, hey,

(01:01:29):
let's stop giving money to insurance companies. Let's give it
to people. Let's let them make a decision. We set
this up actually in the Working Family Tax cut last
year for people on obabmacare to have hsas, so we
could put money in those if the Democrats would go
along with that, so that people could then make some
choices about how they wanted to spend that money, rather

(01:01:50):
than just giving to insurance companies, which again we give
insurance companies thirty billion dollars every year, and all we
see is that they just take the premiums up and
up and up. So for public are working to make
life more affordable, and we need to just continue to
get out there and look for new ways to be
able to do that.

Speaker 1 (01:02:07):
Senator, we're running late already here. If this is the
one word answer I think it is, I'll take it.
Don Bacon and Democrats voted to send the tariff on
Canada goods to now the Senate here against the potential
veto by the President. Is this going to go anywhere
in the Senate.

Speaker 7 (01:02:26):
I will not be voting to undo the President's tariffs. Obviously,
I'm going to encourage my fellow Republicans to stick with
the President on this, as he's negotiating to try and
get us better trade deals. So that's that's where I'm
going to be working on this. Got it, So I
don't expect.

Speaker 1 (01:02:41):
To go anywhere, but appreciate it.

Speaker 7 (01:02:44):
I think we need to we need to back to
President while he's doing these negotiations.

Speaker 1 (01:02:47):
Senator, thank you very much as always for the time.
Thank you very much for being with us.

Speaker 5 (01:02:51):
My pleasure.

Speaker 7 (01:02:52):
You guys have a go one.

Speaker 1 (01:02:53):
Thanks a lot for being with us here. On Nebraska's
morning news news radio eleven kfab just talked with Senator
Pete Ray gets of course, the campaign trying to re
elect the senator here in Nebraska very interested in the
story from Politico yesterday that shows that his opponent here,
the Independent Senate candidate Dan Osborne, had to cancel a

(01:03:14):
Washington d C. Fundraiser. It was going to be co
hosted by a Democratic mega donor named Dana Chasin. This
is a consultant who worked as a policy advisor to
Hillary Clinton in her presidential campaign, worked for Democratic Senators
Tester and Montana Johnson of South Dakota. But Dana's name

(01:03:35):
appears in an email written by an attorney who told
the Justice Department that her client had been sexually abused
by not Dana Chasin, but another guy, an associate of Epstein's,
who was then was flown to New York City on
a private plane owned by aforementioned Democratic mega donor, Dana Chasin.

(01:03:56):
So the allegation against Chasin is only an association and
there's no definitive link there. But the Osborne campaign said,
we canceled the fundraiser. We don't want anything to do
even tangentially with anyone associated with the Epstein stuff. And
because he gave us some money here in the twenty

(01:04:17):
twenty four campaign against Fisher, we've donated that amount rather
paltry three three hundred dollars to a group whose mission
it is to end child abuse in sex trafficking. I
think with the Epstein link, Jim, there's not much there
in the story, but the independent tag that Dan Osborne's
trying to carry around. Once again, this is another East

(01:04:39):
Coast Democratic mega donor who's worked with Hillary Clinton. Please
tell me again how independent you are and not at
all a Democrat. It's a factor for him.

Speaker 2 (01:04:49):
And the other thing is, and we interviewed him on
the air the other day, you should have run for
governor because there you have to be a part of
a political party to be on a committee assignment and
to get your legislation pass in the Senate. Why you
think you, as an independent from Nebraska can make a
difference in the United States Senate is pure fantasy. Now,
if you want to make a difference in Nebraska, you

(01:05:10):
should be run for governor or mayor of a community
or the state legislature where there's only forty nine of
them and it's independent. But I think you know, Dan's
got a compelling story. But when you peel back the layers,
it looks a lot like a Democrat being supported as
a branded independent