March 24, 2026 • 49 mins
It's going to get Smokey this summer, Lucy gets her "Cake," Creighton fans don't seem to think the sky is falling, ICE thins airport lines by murdering people or whatever Hakeem Jeffries thinks is happening, and much more today!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
City of Omaha celebrates America Free Concert and Fireworks Show Friday,
June twenty sixth at Memorial Park, Omaha, and once again
we hear on News Radio eleven ten KFAB are honored
to be a part of it, and we'll see you
from the stage as we welcome Cake and then Smokey Robinson.
(00:43):
I've just had nothing but Smoky songs in my head
since the announcement yesterday, and outside of that, I've also
been thinking Lucy's gonna get cake, one of the running
gags on this show, which is rooted in so much
truth that Lucy always wants cake.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
You've got cake coming.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
I'll take cake anyway.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
We posted this online yesterday asked Lucy chabmin right be decorated.
Craig Evans is here, Jim Ross too, I'm Scott Vorhees.
This is news Radio eleven ten KFA b Lucy. In
this instance. Cake is a band that had a string
of alternative rock hits in the nineties.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Oh Grunts, No No.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Cake is a quirky pop funk alt rock band and
they're I'm of all the adjectives used to describe them,
the first one I'd put out there is quirky, and
a lot of people online said it's an interesting pairing
(01:45):
nineties alternative rock band Cake and then Smokey Robinson.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
But you know what, artists have been doing this for
a while. I went and saw you too, that Kanye
West opened for years ago.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Yeah, it's I don't know the guys from Cake. I'm
looking forward to interviewing the lead singer of Cake. But
I know this about the band. I think that they're
really welcoming the opportunity to try and win over a
bunch of fans who are there to see Smokey Robinson.
(02:19):
Now do I think Smokey gives a rip about if
there's just a bunch of people coming to see Cake.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Did?
Speaker 1 (02:25):
They had a bunch of hit songs in that genre,
the Distance, Short Skirt, Long Jacket. They did a cover
of I Will Survive.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Oh and so did everybody on Friday Night, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Sheep go to Heaven, which is one of the longtime
pieces of bumper music. In the Vintage Varheas program, we
even did a cover of the Distance about that Senator
Larry Craig who was tapping his foot in a bathroom
stall at an airport once That was one to the listener.
I don't remember who.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Now.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
This was almost twenty years ago. A listener sent me
an email and said, I wrote some lyrics about this
senator tapping his foot in the bathroom at the airport
to the tune The Distance by Cake.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Do you want to record it? And I said, heck, yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
So I took his first verse, I headed the second verse,
and we'll probably play that after nine o'clock this morning.
Get you all familiar with the tunes. But Smokey Robinson,
if you're not familiar with the tunes tracks of my tears,
I second the emotion. Then you go that's like sixty,
Then you go seventies to cruising eighties one heartbeat? Oh
(03:39):
what was the other song there? I second? No, Oh,
I had it in my head. Now I got all
the rest of his songs in my head. I'll have
to think of it later. Another big hit in the eighties.
But yeah, Smokey Robinson, he's a legend and still got it.
(04:02):
I was looking at some videos of him performing this year.
I'm like, all right, what, Smokey's been doing this for
a while. He still do this, He can still do this.
So this is a free concert and fireworks show. City
of Omaha celebrates America Friday, June twenty sixth, and as
I said, KFA B will say hi to you from
(04:22):
the stage, Lucy, this is cake, quirky, fun pop, funky.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
I wanna girl with the mind like a diamond.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
I wanna girl.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Yeah, it's fun. I like it. They're a fun band.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
They're going to open up this show at Memorial Park
and then Smokey Robinson with I don't know, occasional miracles,
you know what those motown bands. It's like, whoever is
in the band is suddenly like where the Temptations are you?
You're not the original? Oh not the original? And ladies
and gentlemen, please welcome all the pips and you're like
(04:58):
that guy's only twenty seven years old.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
You know.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
That's kind of how how it works in rock.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
That works, well, it's it's it happens at KFAB. You know,
the station's been around for over one hundred years. I
haven't been here that long, but I'm part of kfa B,
a very very small part of KFAB. So yeah, it's
like if you show up and you dance around a
little bit, you're one of the miracles. That's how it works, right.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Does the dancing start?
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Oh, be careful what you ask for. By the way,
that smokey song I was thinking of the big hit
in the eighties was just to see her.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
In the eighties?
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Wasn't that in the eighties? No? No, come on really?
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Uh, if you have looked it up then I.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Haven't for it.
Speaker 7 (05:43):
No.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
I just remember listening to it on the radio in
the eighties and I'm thinking that was an eighties track. Well,
there's no way of looking it up. There's Lucy Chapman,
I'm Scott Voorhees. Jim Rose is just being ignored to
this point in the morning. Jim, here's my question. Could
I dragged you in for double duty? After nine o'clock
yesterday when we got the news about McDermott happy to
(06:04):
help stepping down from his role as head coach of
the Creighton Blue Jays, And the one thing that I've
really not seen a lot of since then on social
media is Creighton fans like ducking their heads and going, well,
the sky has fallen for us, isn't the process of falling?
Speaker 1 (06:21):
It's all over now. I'm not seeing that with Husker fans.
You get a different vibe what's going on with Creighton
fans with the Crayton's fine with this hire. Alan huss
is the former Blue Jay. He was recruited here by
Dana Aldman and spent a number of years as a
high school coach in Indiana and developed an outstanding recruiting reputation.
(06:42):
Then got his first opportunity and took over a mid
major program in North Carolina High Point, which has become
one of the powers of mid majors, and were scaring
the daylights out of the big boys, not only under
Allen but the guy who replaced him there. So Creighton
was very pro active a year ago when they said, look,
(07:03):
that's a head coach, and that head coach is quickly
going to be out of our reach if we don't
reel him in right now. It's the Darren Davrees syndrome.
Darren Davrees was for years seen as the heir apparent
as the coach of Creighton basketball, and then he got
the job from Drake to West Virginia, which put that
on Creighton's level. But when Indiana came after him, that's
(07:24):
it Creyton incing out shoot Indiana for anybody in basketball.
So they thought, all right, if we have to go
into the open market in one year or two years
to find a head coach. It's going to cost us
a lot more. So Max said, look, I think we
can get Alan Husson here now as associate head coach
and coach in waiting, so it's all in the contract,
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no funny business. We'll pay him a lot more than
we'd pay any assistant coach. But in the long run
it'll save us a ton will the the the I
don't know, frustration, the emotion Creighton fans come forth. If
coach McDermott ends up coaching another team next year, well.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
It's not going to be Arizona State. They made a
move yesterday. There was a lot of speculation because Mac
has a place down in Scottsdale, a whisper Rock, very
exclusive conclave country club, and he loves to be down there,
and he loves to play golf down there, and so
you thought, wait a minute, I would suspect now this
is probably it, because he'd have to wait for the
next coaching cycle and that would put him back in
(08:24):
the mix, and he'd have to leave Arizona unless the
Arizona job opens, and then he can drive back and
forth Tucson. But this may be this may be a
sign that Mac has finished coaching, and if so, you're
looking at a bronzing of a statue legacy.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
They're and a lot of reaction to it. Now the
eleven to ten KFAB Certified Transmission Sports Brief Officially, now
you're Jim Rose.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Okay Scott, good morning everybody. He built a basketball skyscraper.
It's hard to top those. Reaction from Greg mcdermot's retirement
from coaching at Creighton was large. Former player and assistant
now head coach at Northern Iowa, Ben Jacobson, there.
Speaker 8 (08:58):
Isn't anybody that treats people and interacts with people and
impacts people the way that Mac does. It's been really,
really meaningful and special for me to be around him
for this long.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
That seems to be the theme. Great coach, better person
leaves the Jays after sixteen seasons and unprecedented success. Never
finished lower than fifth in the Killer Big East Conference
one conference tournament titles, reached the Elite eight of the
NCAA Tournament. With his wife Teresa, produced the best player
in school history, former All American Doug McDermott. Here's Nebraska
(09:35):
coach Fred Hoiberg.
Speaker 9 (09:36):
I loved coaching Doug. He was awesome, and you know
a lot of that is because of his upbringing with
Greg and Teresa. But you know, I certainly wish Mac
all the best. I always gonna be on that golf
course a lot. I'm a little bit envious. I'm to
be honest with you. Hopefully I got a few more
years in this business. But yeah, just really happy for him,
And you know, I really wish he would have got
that final four a couple of years ago. That lasts
(09:58):
one little play away from getting there. But he's had
a hell of a career.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Referencing the twenty twenty three final moments of the regional
final when a dreadful officials call gave San Diego State
foulshots to make the final four in the final seconds,
Huss takes over a mac arrangement, hired him the former
Blue Jay away from High Point University as head coach,
made him coach in waiting here with a timeline which
turned out to be about thirty games. At High Point,
(10:24):
HUSS's teams won fifty six games in just two seasons.
What are they getting? Very respected coaching mind, loyal former
Jay under Dana Altman outstanding recruiter. He was the lead
salesman on Trey, Alexander, Arthur Kaluma, Ryan Nemhart, and Mason Miller,
among others. This is the X factor. Will the university
continue to plow nil funding into the program to be competitive.
(10:48):
If you're not spending seven to eight million a year
for personnel, you're not gonna win. Nobody still playing in
the NCAA tournament is spending less than six million, So
start there. The ching transfer portal started up yesterday. Arizona
State gets former Saint Mary's coach Randy Bennett. Bennett led
the Gaels since two thousand and one, guiding them four
(11:10):
WCC tournament titles and twelve NCAA tournaments. Cincinnati is solving
its head coaching problem. ESPN reports the school has hired
Jared Calhoun for that position. The Ohio native led Utah
State to the second round of the NCAA Tournament before
falling to Arizona. Viewership is way up. The tournament's opening
day games on television dur an average of nine point
(11:32):
eight million viewers across CBSTBSTNT, and True TV. According to Nielsen,
that is the best opening day on record. For the tournament.
The primetime window, headlined by Michigan Howard and North Carolina VCU,
averaged twelve and a half million viewers. Sports his news
on Nebraska's News WEATHERN Traffic station.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
What is it about traffic? I say this all the time.
I love people. I love people. I love talking to people.
I like being at events with a lot of people.
Are I love people until I have to drive amongst you,
and then I hate every single one of you. Occasionally
(12:12):
I'm looking up for my phone texting while driving, and
I'm like, these people can't drive. What is it about
when we all get behind the wheels of our motor
vehicles that makes us want to murder everybody else around us?
That story, Craig just had the I'm reading the story
(12:32):
here from First Alert six News. It started near one
hundred and forty fourth in Harrison when I guess the
first thing that happened. And look, I'm not saying that
the guy who eventually pulled out a gun and apparently
fired a shot through another guy's back windshield that was wrong.
I'm going to take a moral stand right now that
(12:56):
that was the wrong move. But can we focus on
how this started? For just a moment. Now, we're not
all perfect drivers. Sorry, you're not all perfect drivers. But
a man told police he was driving in the area
of one hundred and forty fourth at Harrison Streets when
he realized he was in the wrong turn lane and
(13:18):
then tried to switch lanes. Well, now there was the
issue with the white pickup truck. Now it doesn't exactly
say what probably happened here. Again, we're there, but for
the grace of God, drive iye. But your lack of
(13:39):
proper planning when it comes to lane changing when you
need to turn is not suddenly my problem. And I
see this all the time where someone's like, oh, I'm
supposed to take a right here, and I'm in the
left turning lane. Well, good luck everybody else, and everyone
just koreems and out of the way as this person
is drifting across lanes of traffic, or I suddenly I
(14:00):
need to turn here, or oh that's my that's my
interstate exit. Let me slow way down suddenly so I
can get over here and cross from the left lane
clear over to the right lane. Your emergency is not
my problem. It's probably what the driver of the white
truck was thinking as suddenly now he's taken exception to
the sudden lane change of this other vehicle. Now, what
(14:25):
the driver of the truck should have done was mutter
and just shake his head like I hope he sees
me shaking his head shaking my head at him. I'm
giving you a very disapproving headshake right now, oh you,
and then moved on with his life. This guy couldn't
do that, So now they're jawing at each other. The
(14:47):
man said that the driver of the truck said, quote,
I will put you on a T shirt un quote.
So many connotations on this one. Wow, I'm gonna be famous,
you mean, like Spuds Mackenzie, Like, what do you mean,
I'm gonna put you on a T shirt? As in
(15:08):
he was born on this date and died on this date.
Our ip. This guy who cut me off in traffic
and I and he said, I've got a gun.
Speaker 6 (15:19):
Guys.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Guy then now makes the second wrong move the other
wrong turn. That first one was a literal wrong turn
in traffic. The other one was telling him, well, go get.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
It, then.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Go get it, Yeah, go get your gun. Then all right,
I got a gun. Well let's see, big guy. This
was also the wrong move. Guy is he allowed to
tell police like, hey, he told me to go get it.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
He goes back to his truck, gets the gun. Guy
looks up. He's like, oh, we're doing this. The guy
is uh. I don't know if he's driving off as
fast as possible, but video surveillance in the area of
a food mart shows him go back to his car
grab what appears to be a black gun sized object
(16:12):
pointed at the back of the man's car, and then
suddenly his back windshield breaks.
Speaker 10 (16:19):
Pretty safe to say was a gun. It seems logical,
but it could have been a bb gun right, And
police are like, I wonder who this guy is. Oh,
maybe it's the guy who owns the lawn and landscape
business that's largely printed on the side of his truck.
So police went and got him and he made a
(16:39):
full confession.
Speaker 7 (16:42):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Yeah, you can't. You can't do anything wrong when you're
out there on the streets. You can't. If you miss
a turn, then catch the next one. I know, I
watched a guy yesterday. I saw you black truck pickup truck. Yeah,
I saw you going southbound on one hundred and sixty
(17:04):
eighth and turning left on that green or that red
arrow and almost hitting the car that was trying to
turn right.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Wait color? What color was the truck?
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Black pickup?
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Oh? Just whatn't me?
Speaker 1 (17:17):
My wife came home and just telling a story. She
was still all huffing puffy. She was ready to kill
some girl in traffic who was just deciding, like I
want to be in your back seat, but also drive
my car and then finally go flying around her. My
wife's like, I'm going over the speed limit. And then
she goes flying around me and I look over at
her and she flips me off.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Like.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
My wife's like, this girl looks like she's twenty years old.
I wanted to take her over my knee. I had
a few people send me the story and say, Scott,
you're going to talk about this. Let's see the headline.
Quadruple amputee corn hole champion. I'm already in drupel amputee
(18:01):
cornhole champion accused of shooting man to death in road
rage incident. Well, I have a lot of questions, Which
which question do you have?
Speaker 2 (18:13):
First know?
Speaker 1 (18:14):
I have the I have a compilation of what I've
determined to be the best answers, and some of them
just really aren't answers at this point, like, all right,
I know that people who are differently abled have a incredible,
incredible skill set.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
What was it? What would you just say? Differently different
differently abled? What the hell is that?
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Well, where have you been managed every single day? Indeed,
differently abled or differently able? I didn't realize I was
co hosting a show with the male version of Donna Schalela.
I know she was the queen mother of political correctness
when she was running the interivers. What are you going
to do?
Speaker 1 (18:53):
You might refer to this guy as stumpy, what do
you mean to just disabled?
Speaker 2 (18:57):
I know, but this guy so we know what's going on.
But see, the idea is is that I can drive
my car. I have hands and feet. This guy also
has the ability to different means to drive a vehicle.
He's got prosthetics, and I know that's the thing. I
don't know exactly. I have seen some pictures of him
(19:18):
with prosthetics for legs. I imagine that helps with driving
the car, but I haven't seen anything on his arms,
which are basically only go to almost the shoulder. I've
seen him do some incredible corn holing. He's able to
take the bag in his.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Limbs his upper torso limbs and fling it through the
air like if you picked up a corn hole bag
a bean bag with your elbows and then you try
to toss it several feet away at the hole in
the corn hole board. That's not easy to do. This
guy is a champ be at it. But see then
(20:02):
he's been accused of fatally shooting a guy during an
argument in a road range incident. I don't know who
was driving, says, There's no sign anyone else was involved,
nor has anyone detailed how this guy drives or fire's
weapons without arms or legs James bun But there are
(20:23):
some videos that appear to show him shooting rifles and handguns,
so I don't know how he's able to do that
while also driving a car. That car, he's a professional
corn hole player in the American corn Hole League. It's
been a quadruple amputees since contracting a serious blood infection
(20:44):
when he was only ten months old. A few years ago.
The American corn Hoole League said he's a shining example
of our slogan. Anyone can play, anyone can win, anyone
can kill a guy, even if you don't have arms
and legs.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
They deserved it. Amputee corn hoole player. Maybe he did.
That'll be the uh you should be his defensive term.
Speaker 6 (21:07):
Or no.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
We have a lot of people who catch this radio program,
variety of walks of life, backgrounds, stories to tell in
Maybe you tell me about this group. I immediately, and
I hope this doesn't make me sound like I'm looking
(21:29):
for a hate group to join, because I'm not. Some
of you will say, I listen to you guys on
that radio station, you're already part of one. Hey, calm down,
Ernie Chambers. There is a group called Patriot Front. We
know about them here in Omaha now because one of
them decided to hang a banner on the ninety sixth
(21:52):
Street bridge over I eighty by where Kellogg's is leaving
or left Kellogg's gone around. I don't know over in
that vicinity. I don't live over there anymore. I don't
smell the smell of cornflakes, as Kelo has already gone,
as I think they're still on their way out. It's
(22:12):
the long goodbye for Kellogg's. But that's going to be
a hell of a spirit Halloween. Pardon my language.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
So someone went.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Up to the ninety sixth Street bridge over I eighty
and had hung a big sheet. Well, I wonder where
they found one of those, a big white sheet, and
it was about I had a website on there and
it set America First directed people to a website connected
with the group called Patriot Front. All right, America First,
(22:42):
Patriot Front. That sounds like a good group of Yeah. Well,
the Southern Poverty Law Center, an organization that apparently is
dedicated to one thing, and one thing only to identify
hate groups. This could also be groups with whom they
disagree politically, has decided this organization is a white nationalist
(23:04):
hate group. Now maybe they are, maybe they're not.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Like I said, I'm not looking for a hate group
to join. I am leary though. When the Southern Poverty
Law Center or other people come out and go, oh,
that's a hate group, that's domestic terrorists, thank you, President Biden.
Because according to some people, Jim, if you voted for Trump,
you are part of a white nationalist hate group. They
(23:29):
said that all those Proud Boys, Proud Boys, they're all
white nationalists hate groups. Well, I talked to their member
who is not a white guy. I talked to their leader,
I should say a few years back, and I met
some of the local guys, and I don't know what
they do outside of what I saw them do. What
I saw them do was donate a bunch of food
(23:50):
in a food drive to charity for the kids. And
they didn't say make sure this only goes to the
white kids. They didn't say that, So I don't I
don't know what this organization's all about. I just don't
know how this Southern Poverty Law Center. Are people still
in poverty in the South. I would think that this
organization might be dedicated to providing I don't know, law
(24:13):
for people who can't afford it, But I don't know
that they do that. They just go, oh, a conservative group, racist,
all right, if anyone needs this, we'll be in here
looking at other groups. Any but this they held. They
put a banner over there and let's see here. KMTV
three News Now talked with someone who says, oh, yeah,
(24:34):
I know about this group. Uh, they're trying to make
a big splash. But we took a look at their
presence here in the Omaha area and found it not
to be a very large group. It might just be
unkind named Dwayne. I don't know, but they of course
had a big, you know, news story and said, if
(24:55):
you see hate messaging like this, now, who whoa.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Whoa WOA whoa?
Speaker 2 (25:00):
What did the signs say?
Speaker 1 (25:01):
America first directed people to a website. I would not
recommend trying to go to the website while driving. You
love those billboards that have a lot of writing on them,
including some fairly small print for a billboard. As you're driving,
You're like, oh, I might be interested in that, but
I'm driving. I'm going eighty seven miles per hour in
(25:22):
rush hour traffic on the Interstate. I can't look at
that and figure out how to put the website in.
Try and scan a QR codel. I'm hanging out the
window while driving.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Wall Drug's got it right.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Yeah, seventeen thousand billboards telling you that Wall Drug is
coming up. You like jackalopes, don't miss Wall Drug.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Ice, cold water, that's right. Fuck it out back.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
There's one car dealership in Missouri that for a while
there had I don't know, fifty billboards and on each
one was just one word, come see our cars at Like,
I don't know if I'm gonna I had to get
off the exit there. I didn't know how the story ended.
I just I drove miles out of my way just
(26:08):
because I wanted to find out the ending. Turns out
they've got a bunch of cars.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
That was the ending of that one. They say, if
you see hate messaging like this document, it an alert
law enforcement. What a CoP's gonna do.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Let's say, let's say there's guy out there wearing a
full KKK uniform with a sign that says white power,
and he's just standing there. Tell the hello, authorities, do something.
What are they gonna do? What are they gonna do?
Speaker 3 (26:41):
If he's not causing any problems, There's not much they
can do.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Yeah, I'm someone will do something, but that's not for
the government to step in there and stop.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
See.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
That's that first Amendment and it's not always pretty. We
proved that over and over again on this radio station.
And that's just your calls to the KFAB comment line.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Here's the least is from KFAB Radio News.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
The founder of Boystown is one step closer to becoming
a saint the Archdiocese of Omaha first, but Father Flanagan
for consideration for sainthood in twenty twelve, I'm Craig Evans
Poor News at the bottom of the hour at news
radio eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Every time we have the story about Father flanagain, I
just think about that movie Boys Town. I'm Father Flanagan.
Speaker 8 (27:23):
I saw your brother Joe just a little while ago.
Speaker 7 (27:25):
We had a long talk about you, Whitey.
Speaker 5 (27:28):
Joe wants you to come to Boys Town with me.
If you think you're gonna make a plow jockey out
of me, you got another thing coming.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
That's right. No one's going to make a plowed jockey
out of Whitey? Is that its name? What's Whitey? What's
what's a plowed jockey? What's where you you? You push
a plow around and you plant things? You're in Nebraska.
I think that's a plow puller. A plowed jockey would
be writing it.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Yeah, well, the uh, this would be someone who is manning, ah,
the plow. It's uh, that's the boy is from someplace
other than Nebraska, doesn't know and how he figures everyone
comes out here and they just start manning to plow well,
and they thinking make a plow jackieaut of me.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Uh. You know, people just don't talk like that anymore.
You're not gonna I got plowed jack oad of me.
You're not gonna put me in the cave like you
did me. Brother. This is a way way overdue. I
think now I'm not really on top of the paradigm
to sainthood in the Catholic Church, but it seems to
me that this is something that should have happened a
hell of a long time ago. We've had people.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
If you're trying to influence the Pope, maybe that language
is not going to Probably he's.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
A good old Yankee doodle dandy, maybe that'll help. But
Pope Leo the fourteenth now apparently has pushed Father Flannag
into within one step of becoming a saint. And if
you've ever been in charge of a lot of young boys,
that is canonization material unto itself. And he ran boys
Town for years and turned it into it an American institution.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
So Pope Leo's looking at Father Flannagin, any gym teacher
at Creighton Prep, just anyone, no, no, no, who's got
to go to the junior highs Creighton Prep, Junior high
anyone who's in charge of at any basketball coach with
a punch of sixth grade boys on there.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Or a Division one men's basketball coach. Now in the
NIL era, it's the same difference. You're right.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
I coached a few of my son's basketball teams and
they were really little, and finally I just decided, like,
all right, here's the defense. We're gonna run you two.
Since you won't do anything I tell you to, You're
just gonna go wherever the ball is. I want you too,
just to follow the ball anyway. And we had such
a we called the defense Swarm Swarm. It was about
(29:41):
these two kids, wherever the ball is, you chase it.
And then I got everyone else kind of hanging back
and position over here because they were actually listening and
did what they were told, and it was actually a
pretty good defense. Well, you're right, boys, it's hard will
be boys. I think I just came up with that term. Yeah,
it's a lot harder now than it was before. He's
been dead for nineteen forty seven. I think I think
(30:04):
he's buried out there. If you have it's a beautiful
campus and they have some.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Just if you just gestured to our parking lot way
out west, and they have a wonderful museum there. If
you've never visited the boys Town it's really cool. In fact,
I think that the Oscar is there. I think Spencer
Tracy donated the oscar to Boystown for the movie. But
now they've moved to the verifying miracle stage and Father
Guido Sarducci stage. If they can verify a miracle or two,
(30:31):
then Father Flanagan is in and he's officially a saint.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
And if you look back at how he almost single
handedly got Boystown to where it was then and still
is today, that's a miracle in and of itself and.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
What he did to build it. And it's such a
difficult time.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
It's funny how just a couple of years ago, when
Biden was president, the media said, oh, you can't trust
anything out of Iran. But now that Trump is president,
Iran is telling the truth and the Ereka is lying
about what's going on in Iran. It's the same thing
here with ICE. Everyone's been wringing their hands and saying,
look at these long lines at the airport. Can't somebody
do something. President Trump said, we got some people here.
(31:13):
We have ICE fully funded, despite the fact that Democrats
are continuing to keep the government partially shut down over
ICE to defund ICE, which are not a defunded group.
They are fully funded, and so since they're working and
getting paychecks, let's let them go in there and help
out the TSA. These guys are good at security, and
they can man a post and check your passport or
(31:34):
driver's license or whatever, and you can get through there.
And people are losing their minds. Everyone's going to be
dragged off of flights by Ice and separated from their
families and shot and killed on the plane.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
I couldn't believe Hakeem Jeffries. This is the Democrat Party
leader of the United States House of Representatives, and he
went before a live microphone and predicted that people standing
in the TEASA line on the flight from Sheboygan to
Denver are gonna get shot by Ice agents. Oh yeah,
(32:07):
They're gonna be killed standing in line at the airport
by an Ice agent, fully masked Ice agent. We're out
of judicial warrant. If they don't like it, then vote
to reopen the government and pay the TSA agents who
been working without paychecks for over five weeks. Insanity.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Love being a part of this. Thank you so much
for hanging out with us on news radio eleven to
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Speaker 2 (32:50):
Hey, good morning.
Speaker 5 (32:51):
You know what, Scott, My head is going to continue
to explode as long as he's left wing loon. He's
keep saying that ICE has no training in airports. Says
no training. ICE stands for Immigration and Customs Enforcement customs right,
that's every international airport.
Speaker 7 (33:08):
I'm quite sure ICE can.
Speaker 5 (33:09):
Handle taking IDs and making sure nobody goes through a door.
It's in the name Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Good lord,
my head's gonna continually flow, all.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Right, Hold it together, Hold it together, Yes, please send
your message via the talkback mike, especially if you're as
fired up as that guy still looking here, Jim at
what was going on with air traffic control when that
Air Canada jet hit a fire truck crossing across the
runway at LaGuardia Airport Sunday night, And as it turns out,
(33:45):
it had to do with one of the age old
things that people have dealt with in offices, and we've
encountered here at the radio station from time to time.
They were playing that game what's that smell?
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Right?
Speaker 1 (33:58):
There was another play a United flight that was radioing
with air traffic control and so we think we need
to land. Their flight attendants were feeling sick. There was
a weird smell on the plane. They didn't know where
it was coming from. A frequency mentioned a sewer smell
in the area, and so as soon as that plane
(34:19):
was landing, they were sending crews out there to get
the stairs up and get people off that flight as
quickly as possible based on whatever it was that smell was.
So that flight's coming in over here, air traffic Control
was sending these trucks, including the fire the first responders
across the runway and this is when the wires got
crossed and people weren't talking to each other. Just about
(34:44):
a minute before the Air Canada crash on Runway four,
the same controller was relaying updates about the odor incident,
and at the same time, a different controller appeared to
clear a Port Authority firetruck to cross the runway where
the Air Canada plane was just landing and was coming
(35:04):
in and that's when they started quickly yelling stop truck,
one stop.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
A pilot.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
A controller told a frontier pilot that we were dealing
with an emergency earlier and said on frequency, quote, I
messed up, unquote. Their National Transportation Safety Board's got an
investigation underway. It's amazing that the guys in that fire
truck were killed. About forty passengers and crew from the plane,
plus both officers on board the fire truck were taken
(35:36):
to the hospital with injuries, but most have been released
as of today.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
They might have gotten out they saw the plane coming
and well got out of the fire truck. Is front
seat generally more equipped to handle a collision than this airplane. Yeah, well,
if you look at the fire truck, I don't think
it's usable. No, it's not you. I'm not saying they
drove away, but it's amazing. Factory five. I will say this,
(36:01):
and we don't know who this person is, but that
pat COO controller who said I screwed up represents a
stark change from what we get today, and that is
lack of accountability. Nobody's saying this one's on me now.
Coaches can say that when they have guaranteed contracts. They go, well,
(36:22):
this one's on me. I have to coach better. Well
that's hollow because you've got a bunch of guaranteed money
coming your way. And who cares. This guy probably doesn't.
This guy's probably a W two guy, and he just
ended his career as an air traffic controller. But it
maybe open himself up to liability, very possibility, very possible,
or certainly the government is they're gonna be They're gonna
(36:44):
be lawsuits and settlements because this was a federal agency. Well,
they said, the rumor that there was only one controller
working at La Guardia is not at all true. Not true,
not at all. It's one of the busiest airports in
the world. It is.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Most attorneys will know you if there is an accident
in any kind of issue anywhere. Never admit I screwed up, right, And.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
This guy did. He said, look I did. I told
this the rady of the fire truck and said go
ahead and cross the runway. And I didn't realize Wait
a minute, hold on, here comes this flight from Canada.
It's tragic. What's a miracle, Scott, is that more people
weren't either killed or seriously injured. And that story of
the flight attendant who was strapped into her jump seat.
(37:28):
It was essentially it was catapulted out of the plane
and she only suffered minor injuries is a miracle. And
that you mentioned that the two firemen in the fire
truck they got out with just minor injuries. I don't
know if it was mine. Well, they're not fatal injuries
at this point. But I was encouraged by that individual
(37:50):
who said, this one's on me. I'm the one that
gave the fire truck the order to go ahead and
cross the runway at eleven o'clock at night in one
of the busiest airports in the in the country, with
some of the shortest runways in the country.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
Yeah, and you just driving anywhere, you're looking both ways.
These guys are looking up. There's a plane coming. It's crazy,
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Speaker 2 (39:46):
Thank you very much for.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
Being here with us on Nebraska's Morning News with Lucy Chapman,
Craig Evans, who I believe will be dueting with Smokey
Robinson on his classic hit Cruising from the stage at
Memorial Park this summer. That's gonna be a great time
here will We're honored to be a part of it.
On News Radio eleven ten kfa B, the City of
(40:07):
Omaha celebrates America Concert Free Concert Fireworks show Friday, June
twenty sixth, Memorial Park featuring Smokey Robinson and your opening act,
the nineties rockers Cake and Eclectic Show. It's gonna be
a great night. We'll see you there. This is news
Radio eleven ten kfa B. Welcoming back to the program.
Now are our national correspondent Rory O'Neill. Rory, what's your
(40:30):
favorite Smokey Robinson song?
Speaker 6 (40:33):
Oh? Too many? I'm thinking of song.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
Okay, let's go cake. Then, what's your favorite what's your
favorite Cake song?
Speaker 6 (40:42):
I was trying to think of the name of the song.
Is I gotta figure out the name.
Speaker 2 (40:47):
That's a short skirt, long jacket.
Speaker 6 (40:49):
It is there, it is.
Speaker 1 (40:51):
That's a yeah, fantastic being. Yeah, that's a that's a fun,
fun band. That's a I've never seen them live. If
I can't wait for the show. Come on over to
Omaha this summer. LROI come hang out with us.
Speaker 7 (41:04):
Sounds fun and eclectic is a good word to describe
that mix.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
Yeah, Well, who wouldn't think that cake would open up
for Smokey Robinson?
Speaker 7 (41:11):
This right tracks, There you go.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
There're fantastic work there. You and Google get along.
Speaker 6 (41:17):
Great.
Speaker 1 (41:17):
Let's take a look here at a very very soft
job market. Here we are in late March. We've got
college graduates not even two months away in many instances,
and they get their diplomas and they say, all right,
time to get that great job. Not exactly a real
good entry level job market right now in America right No.
Speaker 7 (41:41):
The worst entry level job market in thirty seven years.
Speaker 6 (41:46):
It's that bad. The jobs just are going away.
Speaker 7 (41:49):
A lot of companies, remember just a few years back,
coming out of COVID, there was this whole people weren't
leaving jobs or the companies couldn't find enough work. And
right now it's like they want to shed them, but
they realize how much work it took to hire them
in the first place. So they're sort of trying to
keep one foot on both sides of this equation. So
(42:11):
we're not seeing a lot of layoffs, but not a
lot of big hires either. The only real sector that's
seeing job growth is in healthcare or in social programs.
Other than that, there aren't a lot of opportunities for
that young professional.
Speaker 1 (42:25):
Well, there are still opportunities for things like nursing care,
those in assisted living centers, teaching. The problem is is
a lot of younger people get into those jobs and go,
I had no idea it was going to be this hard,
I quit.
Speaker 6 (42:39):
Right, or that the pay was that low.
Speaker 7 (42:41):
That's another problem with those kinds of jobs. And yeah,
it's a difficult career choice for the young people. And
you know that we're being We're encouraging more and more
of them to say, look, you don't have to go
to college.
Speaker 6 (42:53):
You can have.
Speaker 7 (42:54):
A very good career as a plumber, electrician, pipefitter. You know,
we saw in the past last year there were slightly
better employment opportunities for the people in the skilled trades,
even more so than college in twenty twenty five. So
it's interesting how the marketplace is changing, and it really
is showing that. Look, there's been a big topsy turpy
(43:15):
revolution in the labor force since COVID, and things haven't
settled out yet, and the head of the Big Anthropic Company,
which is a big AI company, said he thinks AI
is going to wipe out half of all entry level
white collar jobs in just the next five years, not
like twenty seventy three. We're talking the next five years.
(43:37):
He thinks half of white collar entry level jobs will
be gone.
Speaker 1 (43:42):
To add insult to that job injury, a lot of
these white collar workers are actually working on the AI
that will replace them, and they know that, like, here's
your job. You've got to develop the program and set
all this up so that this AI program can replace you.
And it turns out not a lot of people are
sticking around for that. They're like, let someone else do it.
(44:03):
I'll go find something else to do. But unless you
can find one of these jobs that AI can't do
faster and for less money, then you're going to be out.
So you got a lot of people right now who
are pushing numbers around on a spreadsheet or you know,
collating you know, law documents and things like that. The
next thing that they're going to be doing is responding
(44:24):
to phone calls of people saying there's a bunch of
raccoons nesting in my attic somebody do something well right now,
Look finance and information services. Those are those computer coding
jobs we told you all to trained for ten years ago. Whoops,
Because they are now in financial and information services, they're
losing about nine thousand jobs a month, and they have
(44:46):
been since twenty twenty three. You know, but pre COVID
they were adding forty four thousand jobs a month. I
mean that's an incredible swing.
Speaker 7 (44:56):
And now this generation, this graduating generation, really being put
in the crosshairs here trying to figure out how what
kind of career they can follow.
Speaker 1 (45:04):
The speaking of technology, I want to get one minute
here with you as we're talking with KFAB National correspondent
Rory O'Neil. One of my son's buddies the other day
was wearing those those glasses where you can just start
running video on whatever it is that you see from
your vantage point. This is if you've got teenage kids
(45:24):
wearing these things and I know what they're looking at,
then there's a lot of proliferation of these meta glasses
and privacy concerns right.
Speaker 7 (45:36):
Right there are only about three or four hundred bucks,
depending on the pair and the model that you get,
But these are really the first sort of these online
glasses that are catching on. You know, they're not as
clunky as some of the older models. You'd barely know
that there's actually a camera built into them. There is
a little red light that comes on, but even that,
there's a workaround for that. Even but you know where
these cameras are used, how they're used, what happens to
(45:58):
the data is it probably who's making money off it?
All those are sort of unanswered questions out there, Like
you said, a teenage boy with a pair of these,
we'll look out at the water park or you know,
down by the river, about what he's looking at, and
then where that video goes and what can be done
with it and turn it into even uglier videos.
Speaker 6 (46:17):
That are out there.
Speaker 7 (46:18):
And then it's they're in the locker rooms or at
the gym, what happens there? And then they're going to
add this face recognition technology, so that just using these glasses,
if you look at someone, it scans their face as oh,
I recognize them from their Instagram profile.
Speaker 6 (46:34):
It's Susie Jones.
Speaker 7 (46:35):
So now you know everything about Susie Jones, her Facebook
page or Instagram page. You get a whole profile of
her just by looking at a person through a window,
and that's some creepy stuff.
Speaker 1 (46:45):
It's a brave, perverted new world. Rory, thank you for
chronicling it for us this morning.
Speaker 6 (46:52):
I'm your guys.
Speaker 2 (46:53):
We'll talk to you later. We trust you.
Speaker 1 (46:56):
That's Rory O'Neill eleven kfab National correspondent here on Nebraska's
morning news story from the Wall Street Journal, talking about,
as we just did with Rory O'Neill, the shrinking job market,
especially entry level jobs.
Speaker 2 (47:09):
For college grads.
Speaker 1 (47:11):
You can go out and get some minimum wage job
someplace that an average fifteen year old can get. But
if you're a college graduate and you've got student loans
to pay back.
Speaker 2 (47:20):
That's a whole.
Speaker 1 (47:22):
Different set of demands. Where are you going to work?
If you look at the mall and go, well, here's
a whole bunch of different shops, retail service, and there's
lots of different things, not so much for the first time.
According to the Wall Street Journal, businesses that sell services,
not products account for the majority of new retail leasing
(47:46):
in the United States. Whereas you would go to a mall,
for example, and say I'm going to buy a purse
over here and some shoes over there, now you go
to the mall, and I'm going to go to the
spa over here, the over here bars and restaurants. It's
more service oriented, and a lot of these big places
(48:06):
are being taken up with some of these climbing gyms
and trampoline parks and everything else. And the kids and
just run around like crazed over caffeinated hanyaks, and the
parents sit there and stare at that and go, thank goodness,
I got the next hour and a half off, and
the kids spent a small fortune of kids run everywhere.
But what are we going to do with all of
(48:28):
this office space, all this retail space. Is you start
driving around some corridors, even here in Omaha, and you've
got a lot of this bay is open or this
whole building is open. They can't all be spirit Halloween.
Speaker 2 (48:43):
Well, in many cases they're thinking of somehow converting them
into multi family housing. But visiting with real estate guys
as I have, that's a little more difficult than it
looks because a building that was built for an office
does not have a bathroom every five fears. It doesn't
have an HVAC system that can be easily installed like
(49:05):
three A flour so In many cases, unless the building
goes to practically nothing for sale, you'd be better to
tear it down and start over. Depending on where it is, well, you.
Speaker 1 (49:17):
Get one of those big old like you know, Target
sized department stores. The only people could live in there.
Frank Whaley and Jennifer Connolly, there's your eighties movie reference
for this segment of the radio program.
City of Omaha celebrates America Free Concert and Fireworks Show Friday,
June twenty sixth at Memorial Park, Omaha, and once again
we hear on News Radio eleven ten KFAB are honored
to be a part of it, and we'll see you
from the stage as we welcome Cake and then Smokey Robinson.
(00:43):
I've just had nothing but Smoky songs in my head
since the announcement yesterday, and outside of that, I've also
been thinking Lucy's gonna get cake, one of the running
gags on this show, which is rooted in so much
truth that Lucy always wants cake.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
You've got cake coming.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
I'll take cake anyway.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
We posted this online yesterday asked Lucy chabmin right be decorated.
Craig Evans is here, Jim Ross too, I'm Scott Vorhees.
This is news Radio eleven ten KFA b Lucy. In
this instance. Cake is a band that had a string
of alternative rock hits in the nineties.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Oh Grunts, No No.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Cake is a quirky pop funk alt rock band and
they're I'm of all the adjectives used to describe them,
the first one I'd put out there is quirky, and
a lot of people online said it's an interesting pairing
(01:45):
nineties alternative rock band Cake and then Smokey Robinson.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
But you know what, artists have been doing this for
a while. I went and saw you too, that Kanye
West opened for years ago.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Yeah, it's I don't know the guys from Cake. I'm
looking forward to interviewing the lead singer of Cake. But
I know this about the band. I think that they're
really welcoming the opportunity to try and win over a
bunch of fans who are there to see Smokey Robinson.
(02:19):
Now do I think Smokey gives a rip about if
there's just a bunch of people coming to see Cake.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Did?
Speaker 1 (02:25):
They had a bunch of hit songs in that genre,
the Distance, Short Skirt, Long Jacket. They did a cover
of I Will Survive.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Oh and so did everybody on Friday Night, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Sheep go to Heaven, which is one of the longtime
pieces of bumper music. In the Vintage Varheas program, we
even did a cover of the Distance about that Senator
Larry Craig who was tapping his foot in a bathroom
stall at an airport once That was one to the listener.
I don't remember who.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Now.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
This was almost twenty years ago. A listener sent me
an email and said, I wrote some lyrics about this
senator tapping his foot in the bathroom at the airport
to the tune The Distance by Cake.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Do you want to record it? And I said, heck, yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
So I took his first verse, I headed the second verse,
and we'll probably play that after nine o'clock this morning.
Get you all familiar with the tunes. But Smokey Robinson,
if you're not familiar with the tunes tracks of my tears,
I second the emotion. Then you go that's like sixty,
Then you go seventies to cruising eighties one heartbeat? Oh
(03:39):
what was the other song there? I second? No, Oh,
I had it in my head. Now I got all
the rest of his songs in my head. I'll have
to think of it later. Another big hit in the eighties.
But yeah, Smokey Robinson, he's a legend and still got it.
(04:02):
I was looking at some videos of him performing this year.
I'm like, all right, what, Smokey's been doing this for
a while. He still do this, He can still do this.
So this is a free concert and fireworks show. City
of Omaha celebrates America Friday, June twenty sixth, and as
I said, KFA B will say hi to you from
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the stage, Lucy, this is cake, quirky, fun pop, funky.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
I wanna girl with the mind like a diamond.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
I wanna girl.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Yeah, it's fun. I like it. They're a fun band.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
They're going to open up this show at Memorial Park
and then Smokey Robinson with I don't know, occasional miracles,
you know what those motown bands. It's like, whoever is
in the band is suddenly like where the Temptations are you?
You're not the original? Oh not the original? And ladies
and gentlemen, please welcome all the pips and you're like
(04:58):
that guy's only twenty seven years old.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
You know.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
That's kind of how how it works in rock.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
That works, well, it's it's it happens at KFAB. You know,
the station's been around for over one hundred years. I
haven't been here that long, but I'm part of kfa B,
a very very small part of KFAB. So yeah, it's
like if you show up and you dance around a
little bit, you're one of the miracles. That's how it works, right.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Does the dancing start?
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Oh, be careful what you ask for. By the way,
that smokey song I was thinking of the big hit
in the eighties was just to see her.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
In the eighties?
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Wasn't that in the eighties? No? No, come on really?
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Uh, if you have looked it up then I.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Haven't for it.
Speaker 7 (05:43):
No.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
I just remember listening to it on the radio in
the eighties and I'm thinking that was an eighties track. Well,
there's no way of looking it up. There's Lucy Chapman,
I'm Scott Voorhees. Jim Rose is just being ignored to
this point in the morning. Jim, here's my question. Could
I dragged you in for double duty? After nine o'clock
yesterday when we got the news about McDermott happy to
(06:04):
help stepping down from his role as head coach of
the Creighton Blue Jays, And the one thing that I've
really not seen a lot of since then on social
media is Creighton fans like ducking their heads and going, well,
the sky has fallen for us, isn't the process of falling?
Speaker 1 (06:21):
It's all over now. I'm not seeing that with Husker fans.
You get a different vibe what's going on with Creighton
fans with the Crayton's fine with this hire. Alan huss
is the former Blue Jay. He was recruited here by
Dana Aldman and spent a number of years as a
high school coach in Indiana and developed an outstanding recruiting reputation.
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Then got his first opportunity and took over a mid
major program in North Carolina High Point, which has become
one of the powers of mid majors, and were scaring
the daylights out of the big boys, not only under
Allen but the guy who replaced him there. So Creighton
was very pro active a year ago when they said, look,
(07:03):
that's a head coach, and that head coach is quickly
going to be out of our reach if we don't
reel him in right now. It's the Darren Davrees syndrome.
Darren Davrees was for years seen as the heir apparent
as the coach of Creighton basketball, and then he got
the job from Drake to West Virginia, which put that
on Creighton's level. But when Indiana came after him, that's
(07:24):
it Creyton incing out shoot Indiana for anybody in basketball.
So they thought, all right, if we have to go
into the open market in one year or two years
to find a head coach. It's going to cost us
a lot more. So Max said, look, I think we
can get Alan Husson here now as associate head coach
and coach in waiting, so it's all in the contract,
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no funny business. We'll pay him a lot more than
we'd pay any assistant coach. But in the long run
it'll save us a ton will the the the I
don't know, frustration, the emotion Creighton fans come forth. If
coach McDermott ends up coaching another team next year, well.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
It's not going to be Arizona State. They made a
move yesterday. There was a lot of speculation because Mac
has a place down in Scottsdale, a whisper Rock, very
exclusive conclave country club, and he loves to be down there,
and he loves to play golf down there, and so
you thought, wait a minute, I would suspect now this
is probably it, because he'd have to wait for the
next coaching cycle and that would put him back in
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the mix, and he'd have to leave Arizona unless the
Arizona job opens, and then he can drive back and
forth Tucson. But this may be this may be a
sign that Mac has finished coaching, and if so, you're
looking at a bronzing of a statue legacy.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
They're and a lot of reaction to it. Now the
eleven to ten KFAB Certified Transmission Sports Brief Officially, now
you're Jim Rose.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Okay Scott, good morning everybody. He built a basketball skyscraper.
It's hard to top those. Reaction from Greg mcdermot's retirement
from coaching at Creighton was large. Former player and assistant
now head coach at Northern Iowa, Ben Jacobson, there.
Speaker 8 (08:58):
Isn't anybody that treats people and interacts with people and
impacts people the way that Mac does. It's been really,
really meaningful and special for me to be around him
for this long.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
That seems to be the theme. Great coach, better person
leaves the Jays after sixteen seasons and unprecedented success. Never
finished lower than fifth in the Killer Big East Conference
one conference tournament titles, reached the Elite eight of the
NCAA Tournament. With his wife Teresa, produced the best player
in school history, former All American Doug McDermott. Here's Nebraska
(09:35):
coach Fred Hoiberg.
Speaker 9 (09:36):
I loved coaching Doug. He was awesome, and you know
a lot of that is because of his upbringing with
Greg and Teresa. But you know, I certainly wish Mac
all the best. I always gonna be on that golf
course a lot. I'm a little bit envious. I'm to
be honest with you. Hopefully I got a few more
years in this business. But yeah, just really happy for him,
And you know, I really wish he would have got
that final four a couple of years ago. That lasts
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one little play away from getting there. But he's had
a hell of a career.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Referencing the twenty twenty three final moments of the regional
final when a dreadful officials call gave San Diego State
foulshots to make the final four in the final seconds,
Huss takes over a mac arrangement, hired him the former
Blue Jay away from High Point University as head coach,
made him coach in waiting here with a timeline which
turned out to be about thirty games. At High Point,
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HUSS's teams won fifty six games in just two seasons.
What are they getting? Very respected coaching mind, loyal former
Jay under Dana Altman outstanding recruiter. He was the lead
salesman on Trey, Alexander, Arthur Kaluma, Ryan Nemhart, and Mason Miller,
among others. This is the X factor. Will the university
continue to plow nil funding into the program to be competitive.
(10:48):
If you're not spending seven to eight million a year
for personnel, you're not gonna win. Nobody still playing in
the NCAA tournament is spending less than six million, So
start there. The ching transfer portal started up yesterday. Arizona
State gets former Saint Mary's coach Randy Bennett. Bennett led
the Gaels since two thousand and one, guiding them four
(11:10):
WCC tournament titles and twelve NCAA tournaments. Cincinnati is solving
its head coaching problem. ESPN reports the school has hired
Jared Calhoun for that position. The Ohio native led Utah
State to the second round of the NCAA Tournament before
falling to Arizona. Viewership is way up. The tournament's opening
day games on television dur an average of nine point
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eight million viewers across CBSTBSTNT, and True TV. According to Nielsen,
that is the best opening day on record. For the tournament.
The primetime window, headlined by Michigan Howard and North Carolina VCU,
averaged twelve and a half million viewers. Sports his news
on Nebraska's News WEATHERN Traffic station.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
What is it about traffic? I say this all the time.
I love people. I love people. I love talking to people.
I like being at events with a lot of people.
Are I love people until I have to drive amongst you,
and then I hate every single one of you. Occasionally
(12:12):
I'm looking up for my phone texting while driving, and
I'm like, these people can't drive. What is it about
when we all get behind the wheels of our motor
vehicles that makes us want to murder everybody else around us?
That story, Craig just had the I'm reading the story
(12:32):
here from First Alert six News. It started near one
hundred and forty fourth in Harrison when I guess the
first thing that happened. And look, I'm not saying that
the guy who eventually pulled out a gun and apparently
fired a shot through another guy's back windshield that was wrong.
I'm going to take a moral stand right now that
(12:56):
that was the wrong move. But can we focus on
how this started? For just a moment. Now, we're not
all perfect drivers. Sorry, you're not all perfect drivers. But
a man told police he was driving in the area
of one hundred and forty fourth at Harrison Streets when
he realized he was in the wrong turn lane and
(13:18):
then tried to switch lanes. Well, now there was the
issue with the white pickup truck. Now it doesn't exactly
say what probably happened here. Again, we're there, but for
the grace of God, drive iye. But your lack of
(13:39):
proper planning when it comes to lane changing when you
need to turn is not suddenly my problem. And I
see this all the time where someone's like, oh, I'm
supposed to take a right here, and I'm in the
left turning lane. Well, good luck everybody else, and everyone
just koreems and out of the way as this person
is drifting across lanes of traffic, or I suddenly I
(14:00):
need to turn here, or oh that's my that's my
interstate exit. Let me slow way down suddenly so I
can get over here and cross from the left lane
clear over to the right lane. Your emergency is not
my problem. It's probably what the driver of the white
truck was thinking as suddenly now he's taken exception to
the sudden lane change of this other vehicle. Now, what
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the driver of the truck should have done was mutter
and just shake his head like I hope he sees
me shaking his head shaking my head at him. I'm
giving you a very disapproving headshake right now, oh you,
and then moved on with his life. This guy couldn't
do that, So now they're jawing at each other. The
(14:47):
man said that the driver of the truck said, quote,
I will put you on a T shirt un quote.
So many connotations on this one. Wow, I'm gonna be famous,
you mean, like Spuds Mackenzie, Like, what do you mean,
I'm gonna put you on a T shirt? As in
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he was born on this date and died on this date.
Our ip. This guy who cut me off in traffic
and I and he said, I've got a gun.
Speaker 6 (15:19):
Guys.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Guy then now makes the second wrong move the other
wrong turn. That first one was a literal wrong turn
in traffic. The other one was telling him, well, go get.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
It, then.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Go get it, Yeah, go get your gun. Then all right,
I got a gun. Well let's see, big guy. This
was also the wrong move. Guy is he allowed to
tell police like, hey, he told me to go get it.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
He goes back to his truck, gets the gun. Guy
looks up. He's like, oh, we're doing this. The guy
is uh. I don't know if he's driving off as
fast as possible, but video surveillance in the area of
a food mart shows him go back to his car
grab what appears to be a black gun sized object
(16:12):
pointed at the back of the man's car, and then
suddenly his back windshield breaks.
Speaker 10 (16:19):
Pretty safe to say was a gun. It seems logical,
but it could have been a bb gun right, And
police are like, I wonder who this guy is. Oh,
maybe it's the guy who owns the lawn and landscape
business that's largely printed on the side of his truck.
So police went and got him and he made a
(16:39):
full confession.
Speaker 7 (16:42):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Yeah, you can't. You can't do anything wrong when you're
out there on the streets. You can't. If you miss
a turn, then catch the next one. I know, I
watched a guy yesterday. I saw you black truck pickup truck. Yeah,
I saw you going southbound on one hundred and sixty
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eighth and turning left on that green or that red
arrow and almost hitting the car that was trying to
turn right.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Wait color? What color was the truck?
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Black pickup?
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Oh? Just whatn't me?
Speaker 1 (17:17):
My wife came home and just telling a story. She
was still all huffing puffy. She was ready to kill
some girl in traffic who was just deciding, like I
want to be in your back seat, but also drive
my car and then finally go flying around her. My
wife's like, I'm going over the speed limit. And then
she goes flying around me and I look over at
her and she flips me off.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Like.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
My wife's like, this girl looks like she's twenty years old.
I wanted to take her over my knee. I had
a few people send me the story and say, Scott,
you're going to talk about this. Let's see the headline.
Quadruple amputee corn hole champion. I'm already in drupel amputee
(18:01):
cornhole champion accused of shooting man to death in road
rage incident. Well, I have a lot of questions, Which
which question do you have?
Speaker 2 (18:13):
First know?
Speaker 1 (18:14):
I have the I have a compilation of what I've
determined to be the best answers, and some of them
just really aren't answers at this point, like, all right,
I know that people who are differently abled have a incredible,
incredible skill set.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
What was it? What would you just say? Differently different
differently abled? What the hell is that?
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Well, where have you been managed every single day? Indeed,
differently abled or differently able? I didn't realize I was
co hosting a show with the male version of Donna Schalela.
I know she was the queen mother of political correctness
when she was running the interivers. What are you going
to do?
Speaker 1 (18:53):
You might refer to this guy as stumpy, what do
you mean to just disabled?
Speaker 2 (18:57):
I know, but this guy so we know what's going on.
But see, the idea is is that I can drive
my car. I have hands and feet. This guy also
has the ability to different means to drive a vehicle.
He's got prosthetics, and I know that's the thing. I
don't know exactly. I have seen some pictures of him
(19:18):
with prosthetics for legs. I imagine that helps with driving
the car, but I haven't seen anything on his arms,
which are basically only go to almost the shoulder. I've
seen him do some incredible corn holing. He's able to
take the bag in his.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Limbs his upper torso limbs and fling it through the
air like if you picked up a corn hole bag
a bean bag with your elbows and then you try
to toss it several feet away at the hole in
the corn hole board. That's not easy to do. This
guy is a champ be at it. But see then
(20:02):
he's been accused of fatally shooting a guy during an
argument in a road range incident. I don't know who
was driving, says, There's no sign anyone else was involved,
nor has anyone detailed how this guy drives or fire's
weapons without arms or legs James bun But there are
(20:23):
some videos that appear to show him shooting rifles and handguns,
so I don't know how he's able to do that
while also driving a car. That car, he's a professional
corn hole player in the American corn Hole League. It's
been a quadruple amputees since contracting a serious blood infection
(20:44):
when he was only ten months old. A few years ago.
The American corn Hoole League said he's a shining example
of our slogan. Anyone can play, anyone can win, anyone
can kill a guy, even if you don't have arms
and legs.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
They deserved it. Amputee corn hoole player. Maybe he did.
That'll be the uh you should be his defensive term.
Speaker 6 (21:07):
Or no.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
We have a lot of people who catch this radio program,
variety of walks of life, backgrounds, stories to tell in
Maybe you tell me about this group. I immediately, and
I hope this doesn't make me sound like I'm looking
(21:29):
for a hate group to join, because I'm not. Some
of you will say, I listen to you guys on
that radio station, you're already part of one. Hey, calm down,
Ernie Chambers. There is a group called Patriot Front. We
know about them here in Omaha now because one of
them decided to hang a banner on the ninety sixth
(21:52):
Street bridge over I eighty by where Kellogg's is leaving
or left Kellogg's gone around. I don't know over in
that vicinity. I don't live over there anymore. I don't
smell the smell of cornflakes, as Kelo has already gone,
as I think they're still on their way out. It's
(22:12):
the long goodbye for Kellogg's. But that's going to be
a hell of a spirit Halloween. Pardon my language.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
So someone went.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Up to the ninety sixth Street bridge over I eighty
and had hung a big sheet. Well, I wonder where
they found one of those, a big white sheet, and
it was about I had a website on there and
it set America First directed people to a website connected
with the group called Patriot Front. All right, America First,
(22:42):
Patriot Front. That sounds like a good group of Yeah. Well,
the Southern Poverty Law Center, an organization that apparently is
dedicated to one thing, and one thing only to identify
hate groups. This could also be groups with whom they
disagree politically, has decided this organization is a white nationalist
(23:04):
hate group. Now maybe they are, maybe they're not.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Like I said, I'm not looking for a hate group
to join. I am leary though. When the Southern Poverty
Law Center or other people come out and go, oh,
that's a hate group, that's domestic terrorists, thank you, President Biden.
Because according to some people, Jim, if you voted for Trump,
you are part of a white nationalist hate group. They
(23:29):
said that all those Proud Boys, Proud Boys, they're all
white nationalists hate groups. Well, I talked to their member
who is not a white guy. I talked to their leader,
I should say a few years back, and I met
some of the local guys, and I don't know what
they do outside of what I saw them do. What
I saw them do was donate a bunch of food
(23:50):
in a food drive to charity for the kids. And
they didn't say make sure this only goes to the
white kids. They didn't say that, So I don't I
don't know what this organization's all about. I just don't
know how this Southern Poverty Law Center. Are people still
in poverty in the South. I would think that this
organization might be dedicated to providing I don't know, law
(24:13):
for people who can't afford it, But I don't know
that they do that. They just go, oh, a conservative group, racist,
all right, if anyone needs this, we'll be in here
looking at other groups. Any but this they held. They
put a banner over there and let's see here. KMTV
three News Now talked with someone who says, oh, yeah,
(24:34):
I know about this group. Uh, they're trying to make
a big splash. But we took a look at their
presence here in the Omaha area and found it not
to be a very large group. It might just be
unkind named Dwayne. I don't know, but they of course
had a big, you know, news story and said, if
(24:55):
you see hate messaging like this, now, who whoa.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Whoa WOA whoa?
Speaker 2 (25:00):
What did the signs say?
Speaker 1 (25:01):
America first directed people to a website. I would not
recommend trying to go to the website while driving. You
love those billboards that have a lot of writing on them,
including some fairly small print for a billboard. As you're driving,
You're like, oh, I might be interested in that, but
I'm driving. I'm going eighty seven miles per hour in
(25:22):
rush hour traffic on the Interstate. I can't look at
that and figure out how to put the website in.
Try and scan a QR codel. I'm hanging out the
window while driving.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Wall Drug's got it right.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Yeah, seventeen thousand billboards telling you that Wall Drug is
coming up. You like jackalopes, don't miss Wall Drug.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Ice, cold water, that's right. Fuck it out back.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
There's one car dealership in Missouri that for a while
there had I don't know, fifty billboards and on each
one was just one word, come see our cars at Like,
I don't know if I'm gonna I had to get
off the exit there. I didn't know how the story ended.
I just I drove miles out of my way just
(26:08):
because I wanted to find out the ending. Turns out
they've got a bunch of cars.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
That was the ending of that one. They say, if
you see hate messaging like this document, it an alert
law enforcement. What a CoP's gonna do.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Let's say, let's say there's guy out there wearing a
full KKK uniform with a sign that says white power,
and he's just standing there. Tell the hello, authorities, do something.
What are they gonna do? What are they gonna do?
Speaker 3 (26:41):
If he's not causing any problems, There's not much they
can do.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Yeah, I'm someone will do something, but that's not for
the government to step in there and stop.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
See.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
That's that first Amendment and it's not always pretty. We
proved that over and over again on this radio station.
And that's just your calls to the KFAB comment line.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Here's the least is from KFAB Radio News.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
The founder of Boystown is one step closer to becoming
a saint the Archdiocese of Omaha first, but Father Flanagan
for consideration for sainthood in twenty twelve, I'm Craig Evans
Poor News at the bottom of the hour at news
radio eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Every time we have the story about Father flanagain, I
just think about that movie Boys Town. I'm Father Flanagan.
Speaker 8 (27:23):
I saw your brother Joe just a little while ago.
Speaker 7 (27:25):
We had a long talk about you, Whitey.
Speaker 5 (27:28):
Joe wants you to come to Boys Town with me.
If you think you're gonna make a plow jockey out
of me, you got another thing coming.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
That's right. No one's going to make a plowed jockey
out of Whitey? Is that its name? What's Whitey? What's
what's a plowed jockey? What's where you you? You push
a plow around and you plant things? You're in Nebraska.
I think that's a plow puller. A plowed jockey would
be writing it.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Yeah, well, the uh, this would be someone who is manning, ah,
the plow. It's uh, that's the boy is from someplace
other than Nebraska, doesn't know and how he figures everyone
comes out here and they just start manning to plow well,
and they thinking make a plow jackieaut of me.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Uh. You know, people just don't talk like that anymore.
You're not gonna I got plowed jack oad of me.
You're not gonna put me in the cave like you
did me. Brother. This is a way way overdue. I
think now I'm not really on top of the paradigm
to sainthood in the Catholic Church, but it seems to
me that this is something that should have happened a
hell of a long time ago. We've had people.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
If you're trying to influence the Pope, maybe that language
is not going to Probably he's.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
A good old Yankee doodle dandy, maybe that'll help. But
Pope Leo the fourteenth now apparently has pushed Father Flannag
into within one step of becoming a saint. And if
you've ever been in charge of a lot of young boys,
that is canonization material unto itself. And he ran boys
Town for years and turned it into it an American institution.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
So Pope Leo's looking at Father Flannagin, any gym teacher
at Creighton Prep, just anyone, no, no, no, who's got
to go to the junior highs Creighton Prep, Junior high
anyone who's in charge of at any basketball coach with
a punch of sixth grade boys on there.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Or a Division one men's basketball coach. Now in the
NIL era, it's the same difference. You're right.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
I coached a few of my son's basketball teams and
they were really little, and finally I just decided, like,
all right, here's the defense. We're gonna run you two.
Since you won't do anything I tell you to, You're
just gonna go wherever the ball is. I want you too,
just to follow the ball anyway. And we had such
a we called the defense Swarm Swarm. It was about
(29:41):
these two kids, wherever the ball is, you chase it.
And then I got everyone else kind of hanging back
and position over here because they were actually listening and
did what they were told, and it was actually a
pretty good defense. Well, you're right, boys, it's hard will
be boys. I think I just came up with that term. Yeah,
it's a lot harder now than it was before. He's
been dead for nineteen forty seven. I think I think
(30:04):
he's buried out there. If you have it's a beautiful
campus and they have some.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Just if you just gestured to our parking lot way
out west, and they have a wonderful museum there. If
you've never visited the boys Town it's really cool. In fact,
I think that the Oscar is there. I think Spencer
Tracy donated the oscar to Boystown for the movie. But
now they've moved to the verifying miracle stage and Father
Guido Sarducci stage. If they can verify a miracle or two,
(30:31):
then Father Flanagan is in and he's officially a saint.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
And if you look back at how he almost single
handedly got Boystown to where it was then and still
is today, that's a miracle in and of itself and.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
What he did to build it. And it's such a
difficult time.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
It's funny how just a couple of years ago, when
Biden was president, the media said, oh, you can't trust
anything out of Iran. But now that Trump is president,
Iran is telling the truth and the Ereka is lying
about what's going on in Iran. It's the same thing
here with ICE. Everyone's been wringing their hands and saying,
look at these long lines at the airport. Can't somebody
do something. President Trump said, we got some people here.
(31:13):
We have ICE fully funded, despite the fact that Democrats
are continuing to keep the government partially shut down over
ICE to defund ICE, which are not a defunded group.
They are fully funded, and so since they're working and
getting paychecks, let's let them go in there and help
out the TSA. These guys are good at security, and
they can man a post and check your passport or
(31:34):
driver's license or whatever, and you can get through there.
And people are losing their minds. Everyone's going to be
dragged off of flights by Ice and separated from their
families and shot and killed on the plane.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
I couldn't believe Hakeem Jeffries. This is the Democrat Party
leader of the United States House of Representatives, and he
went before a live microphone and predicted that people standing
in the TEASA line on the flight from Sheboygan to
Denver are gonna get shot by Ice agents. Oh yeah,
(32:07):
They're gonna be killed standing in line at the airport
by an Ice agent, fully masked Ice agent. We're out
of judicial warrant. If they don't like it, then vote
to reopen the government and pay the TSA agents who
been working without paychecks for over five weeks. Insanity.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Love being a part of this. Thank you so much
for hanging out with us on news radio eleven to
ten kfab Whether you're listening, talking back to your radio,
emailing us via Scott atkfab dot com in the Zonkers
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Speaker 2 (32:50):
Hey, good morning.
Speaker 5 (32:51):
You know what, Scott, My head is going to continue
to explode as long as he's left wing loon. He's
keep saying that ICE has no training in airports. Says
no training. ICE stands for Immigration and Customs Enforcement customs right,
that's every international airport.
Speaker 7 (33:08):
I'm quite sure ICE can.
Speaker 5 (33:09):
Handle taking IDs and making sure nobody goes through a door.
It's in the name Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Good lord,
my head's gonna continually flow, all.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Right, Hold it together, Hold it together, Yes, please send
your message via the talkback mike, especially if you're as
fired up as that guy still looking here, Jim at
what was going on with air traffic control when that
Air Canada jet hit a fire truck crossing across the
runway at LaGuardia Airport Sunday night, And as it turns out,
(33:45):
it had to do with one of the age old
things that people have dealt with in offices, and we've
encountered here at the radio station from time to time.
They were playing that game what's that smell?
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Right?
Speaker 1 (33:58):
There was another play a United flight that was radioing
with air traffic control and so we think we need
to land. Their flight attendants were feeling sick. There was
a weird smell on the plane. They didn't know where
it was coming from. A frequency mentioned a sewer smell
in the area, and so as soon as that plane
(34:19):
was landing, they were sending crews out there to get
the stairs up and get people off that flight as
quickly as possible based on whatever it was that smell was.
So that flight's coming in over here, air traffic Control
was sending these trucks, including the fire the first responders
across the runway and this is when the wires got
crossed and people weren't talking to each other. Just about
(34:44):
a minute before the Air Canada crash on Runway four,
the same controller was relaying updates about the odor incident,
and at the same time, a different controller appeared to
clear a Port Authority firetruck to cross the runway where
the Air Canada plane was just landing and was coming
(35:04):
in and that's when they started quickly yelling stop truck,
one stop.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
A pilot.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
A controller told a frontier pilot that we were dealing
with an emergency earlier and said on frequency, quote, I
messed up, unquote. Their National Transportation Safety Board's got an
investigation underway. It's amazing that the guys in that fire
truck were killed. About forty passengers and crew from the plane,
plus both officers on board the fire truck were taken
(35:36):
to the hospital with injuries, but most have been released
as of today.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
They might have gotten out they saw the plane coming
and well got out of the fire truck. Is front
seat generally more equipped to handle a collision than this airplane. Yeah, well,
if you look at the fire truck, I don't think
it's usable. No, it's not you. I'm not saying they
drove away, but it's amazing. Factory five. I will say this,
(36:01):
and we don't know who this person is, but that
pat COO controller who said I screwed up represents a
stark change from what we get today, and that is
lack of accountability. Nobody's saying this one's on me now.
Coaches can say that when they have guaranteed contracts. They go, well,
(36:22):
this one's on me. I have to coach better. Well
that's hollow because you've got a bunch of guaranteed money
coming your way. And who cares. This guy probably doesn't.
This guy's probably a W two guy, and he just
ended his career as an air traffic controller. But it
maybe open himself up to liability, very possibility, very possible,
or certainly the government is they're gonna be They're gonna
(36:44):
be lawsuits and settlements because this was a federal agency. Well,
they said, the rumor that there was only one controller
working at La Guardia is not at all true. Not true,
not at all. It's one of the busiest airports in
the world. It is.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Most attorneys will know you if there is an accident
in any kind of issue anywhere. Never admit I screwed up, right, And.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
This guy did. He said, look I did. I told
this the rady of the fire truck and said go
ahead and cross the runway. And I didn't realize Wait
a minute, hold on, here comes this flight from Canada.
It's tragic. What's a miracle, Scott, is that more people
weren't either killed or seriously injured. And that story of
the flight attendant who was strapped into her jump seat.
(37:28):
It was essentially it was catapulted out of the plane
and she only suffered minor injuries is a miracle. And
that you mentioned that the two firemen in the fire
truck they got out with just minor injuries. I don't
know if it was mine. Well, they're not fatal injuries
at this point. But I was encouraged by that individual
(37:50):
who said, this one's on me. I'm the one that
gave the fire truck the order to go ahead and
cross the runway at eleven o'clock at night in one
of the busiest airports in the in the country, with
some of the shortest runways in the country.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
Yeah, and you just driving anywhere, you're looking both ways.
These guys are looking up. There's a plane coming. It's crazy,
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Thank you very much for.
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Being here with us on Nebraska's Morning News with Lucy Chapman,
Craig Evans, who I believe will be dueting with Smokey
Robinson on his classic hit Cruising from the stage at
Memorial Park this summer. That's gonna be a great time
here will We're honored to be a part of it.
On News Radio eleven ten kfa B, the City of
(40:07):
Omaha celebrates America Concert Free Concert Fireworks show Friday, June
twenty sixth, Memorial Park featuring Smokey Robinson and your opening act,
the nineties rockers Cake and Eclectic Show. It's gonna be
a great night. We'll see you there. This is news
Radio eleven ten kfa B. Welcoming back to the program.
Now are our national correspondent Rory O'Neill. Rory, what's your
(40:30):
favorite Smokey Robinson song?
Speaker 6 (40:33):
Oh? Too many? I'm thinking of song.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
Okay, let's go cake. Then, what's your favorite what's your
favorite Cake song?
Speaker 6 (40:42):
I was trying to think of the name of the song.
Is I gotta figure out the name.
Speaker 2 (40:47):
That's a short skirt, long jacket.
Speaker 6 (40:49):
It is there, it is.
Speaker 1 (40:51):
That's a yeah, fantastic being. Yeah, that's a that's a fun,
fun band. That's a I've never seen them live. If
I can't wait for the show. Come on over to
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Speaker 7 (41:04):
Sounds fun and eclectic is a good word to describe
that mix.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
Yeah, Well, who wouldn't think that cake would open up
for Smokey Robinson?
Speaker 7 (41:11):
This right tracks, There you go.
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Speaker 6 (41:17):
Great.
Speaker 1 (41:17):
Let's take a look here at a very very soft
job market. Here we are in late March. We've got
college graduates not even two months away in many instances,
and they get their diplomas and they say, all right,
time to get that great job. Not exactly a real
good entry level job market right now in America right No.
Speaker 7 (41:41):
The worst entry level job market in thirty seven years.
Speaker 6 (41:46):
It's that bad. The jobs just are going away.
Speaker 7 (41:49):
A lot of companies, remember just a few years back,
coming out of COVID, there was this whole people weren't
leaving jobs or the companies couldn't find enough work. And
right now it's like they want to shed them, but
they realize how much work it took to hire them
in the first place. So they're sort of trying to
keep one foot on both sides of this equation. So
(42:11):
we're not seeing a lot of layoffs, but not a
lot of big hires either. The only real sector that's
seeing job growth is in healthcare or in social programs.
Other than that, there aren't a lot of opportunities for
that young professional.
Speaker 1 (42:25):
Well, there are still opportunities for things like nursing care,
those in assisted living centers, teaching. The problem is is
a lot of younger people get into those jobs and go,
I had no idea it was going to be this hard,
I quit.
Speaker 6 (42:39):
Right, or that the pay was that low.
Speaker 7 (42:41):
That's another problem with those kinds of jobs. And yeah,
it's a difficult career choice for the young people. And
you know that we're being We're encouraging more and more
of them to say, look, you don't have to go
to college.
Speaker 6 (42:53):
You can have.
Speaker 7 (42:54):
A very good career as a plumber, electrician, pipefitter. You know,
we saw in the past last year there were slightly
better employment opportunities for the people in the skilled trades,
even more so than college in twenty twenty five. So
it's interesting how the marketplace is changing, and it really
is showing that. Look, there's been a big topsy turpy
(43:15):
revolution in the labor force since COVID, and things haven't
settled out yet, and the head of the Big Anthropic Company,
which is a big AI company, said he thinks AI
is going to wipe out half of all entry level
white collar jobs in just the next five years, not
like twenty seventy three. We're talking the next five years.
(43:37):
He thinks half of white collar entry level jobs will
be gone.
Speaker 1 (43:42):
To add insult to that job injury, a lot of
these white collar workers are actually working on the AI
that will replace them, and they know that, like, here's
your job. You've got to develop the program and set
all this up so that this AI program can replace you.
And it turns out not a lot of people are
sticking around for that. They're like, let someone else do it.
(44:03):
I'll go find something else to do. But unless you
can find one of these jobs that AI can't do
faster and for less money, then you're going to be out.
So you got a lot of people right now who
are pushing numbers around on a spreadsheet or you know,
collating you know, law documents and things like that. The
next thing that they're going to be doing is responding
(44:24):
to phone calls of people saying there's a bunch of
raccoons nesting in my attic somebody do something well right now,
Look finance and information services. Those are those computer coding
jobs we told you all to trained for ten years ago. Whoops,
Because they are now in financial and information services, they're
losing about nine thousand jobs a month, and they have
(44:46):
been since twenty twenty three. You know, but pre COVID
they were adding forty four thousand jobs a month. I
mean that's an incredible swing.
Speaker 7 (44:56):
And now this generation, this graduating generation, really being put
in the crosshairs here trying to figure out how what
kind of career they can follow.
Speaker 1 (45:04):
The speaking of technology, I want to get one minute
here with you as we're talking with KFAB National correspondent
Rory O'Neil. One of my son's buddies the other day
was wearing those those glasses where you can just start
running video on whatever it is that you see from
your vantage point. This is if you've got teenage kids
(45:24):
wearing these things and I know what they're looking at,
then there's a lot of proliferation of these meta glasses
and privacy concerns right.
Speaker 7 (45:36):
Right there are only about three or four hundred bucks,
depending on the pair and the model that you get,
But these are really the first sort of these online
glasses that are catching on. You know, they're not as
clunky as some of the older models. You'd barely know
that there's actually a camera built into them. There is
a little red light that comes on, but even that,
there's a workaround for that. Even but you know where
these cameras are used, how they're used, what happens to
(45:58):
the data is it probably who's making money off it?
All those are sort of unanswered questions out there, Like
you said, a teenage boy with a pair of these,
we'll look out at the water park or you know,
down by the river, about what he's looking at, and
then where that video goes and what can be done
with it and turn it into even uglier videos.
Speaker 6 (46:17):
That are out there.
Speaker 7 (46:18):
And then it's they're in the locker rooms or at
the gym, what happens there? And then they're going to
add this face recognition technology, so that just using these glasses,
if you look at someone, it scans their face as oh,
I recognize them from their Instagram profile.
Speaker 6 (46:34):
It's Susie Jones.
Speaker 7 (46:35):
So now you know everything about Susie Jones, her Facebook
page or Instagram page. You get a whole profile of
her just by looking at a person through a window,
and that's some creepy stuff.
Speaker 1 (46:45):
It's a brave, perverted new world. Rory, thank you for
chronicling it for us this morning.
Speaker 6 (46:52):
I'm your guys.
Speaker 2 (46:53):
We'll talk to you later. We trust you.
Speaker 1 (46:56):
That's Rory O'Neill eleven kfab National correspondent here on Nebraska's
morning news story from the Wall Street Journal, talking about,
as we just did with Rory O'Neill, the shrinking job market,
especially entry level jobs.
Speaker 2 (47:09):
For college grads.
Speaker 1 (47:11):
You can go out and get some minimum wage job
someplace that an average fifteen year old can get. But
if you're a college graduate and you've got student loans
to pay back.
Speaker 2 (47:20):
That's a whole.
Speaker 1 (47:22):
Different set of demands. Where are you going to work?
If you look at the mall and go, well, here's
a whole bunch of different shops, retail service, and there's
lots of different things, not so much for the first time.
According to the Wall Street Journal, businesses that sell services,
not products account for the majority of new retail leasing
(47:46):
in the United States. Whereas you would go to a mall,
for example, and say I'm going to buy a purse
over here and some shoes over there, now you go
to the mall, and I'm going to go to the
spa over here, the over here bars and restaurants. It's
more service oriented, and a lot of these big places
(48:06):
are being taken up with some of these climbing gyms
and trampoline parks and everything else. And the kids and
just run around like crazed over caffeinated hanyaks, and the
parents sit there and stare at that and go, thank goodness,
I got the next hour and a half off, and
the kids spent a small fortune of kids run everywhere.
But what are we going to do with all of
(48:28):
this office space, all this retail space. Is you start
driving around some corridors, even here in Omaha, and you've
got a lot of this bay is open or this
whole building is open. They can't all be spirit Halloween.
Speaker 2 (48:43):
Well, in many cases they're thinking of somehow converting them
into multi family housing. But visiting with real estate guys
as I have, that's a little more difficult than it
looks because a building that was built for an office
does not have a bathroom every five fears. It doesn't
have an HVAC system that can be easily installed like
(49:05):
three A flour so In many cases, unless the building
goes to practically nothing for sale, you'd be better to
tear it down and start over. Depending on where it is, well, you.
Speaker 1 (49:17):
Get one of those big old like you know, Target
sized department stores. The only people could live in there.
Frank Whaley and Jennifer Connolly, there's your eighties movie reference
for this segment of the radio program.
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