This Podcast is ICE Cold

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's try and get through this together, shall we. Good morning,
It's seven minutes past six o'clock and you've got Nebraska's
morning news, news Radio eleven ten KFAB our cast this morning.
Let me show you around. There's Lucy Chapman right there.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Hi, Lucy, Good morning morning.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
Jim Rose is here, Hi, Jim, rock and roll, sex,
drugs and rock and roll. Here we are, and we
have Forney Donaho there, Chris Turner in for Craig Evans.
My name is Scott Vorhees. We are News Radio eleven
ten KFAB. So the weather is cold, and it's so

(00:40):
cold that the protest that was scheduled for kids to
walk out of school today, is that still on because
most of the schools are all canceled.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
I'm sure they're still going to do it.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
Oh, I'm sure. I'd like to see how those conversations went,
sometimes between student and other students, and I wonder how
many of them are between teacher and student. Let's see
our teachers in our local schools actively trying to get
kids to leave the class, and I certainly they'd want
a lot of these kids to leave. But our teachers

(01:17):
allowed to rally the social justice warriors that are America's
ninth graders and say you've got to skip class. We
have a problem with grades, We have a problem with attendance.
Our teachers out there encouraging kids to walk out of class. Now,
how does that work? The country is in trouble. Things
have never been this bad, and we've got to let

(01:40):
people know. How are we gonna let people know? Well,
we're gonna during fourth period math class, we're all gonna
get up and leave. How long are we gonna leave? Well,
what time is lunch? We want to We don't want
to pizza day. We got to get in there for lunch.
So we're gonna leave for I don't know, an hour
or something like that. Then we'll come back and have lunch,
and we might walk walk out early at the end

(02:01):
of the day. I don't want to go to eighth period.
So now that school has been called off because of
the cold weather, is it now the situation where like, hey,
are we still going to have that protest today? It's
really cold out. I thought you said that the nation
was in jeopardy, like we had to let people know. Well,
maybe we can just do that, like with a TikTok

(02:22):
video or something, maybe we do it next week. So
schools are mostly closed today. I think it's really funny
also that you look at Do you remember, ever, Lucy,
when we were kids back in the nineteen odts that

(02:44):
they called off school because it was cold. It took
a lot to call school.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
I'm not saying it never happened, rarely happened, but I
really don't remember ever being called out for just for cold.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
Yeah, we'd get snow day, but back in the old
timy times, we actually had to have an active foot
of snow on the ground or falling that had yet
to been plowed before they call off school.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
I remember walking to school in grade school, walking trudging through.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
Snow, so yeah, that was super fun.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
Yeah, it wasn't awful.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
And then for the kids in the neighborhood it was like, well,
it's it's too dangerous to go to school because of
all that snow. What are you guys gonna do today?
We're going to the school so we can play snow
football in the field. They're out front of the school,
which is it would go sledding or sledding around the
hill out back right. Oh man, My elementary school, Bloomfield
Elementary Home of the Mighty Mighty Bobcats. Ralston Public Schools

(03:40):
maybe the best snow sledding hill in all of town.
And I took my kids there a few years back.
They were still pretty little so they could know. It
wasn't borned up, but there that place, that hill used
to be full. You were you would sledding was like bowling.
You're going down the hill and knock down your friends

(04:01):
who are trying to come back up the hill after
sledding down it, and you're actively trying to like sled
into them and knock them down, which was super fun
and uh snow bowling except for the snow bowling, and
then it was kind of fun for us too because
you see your buddy coming at you and you try
and bob and weave and jump out of the way.
And we went to that hill and it was a
perfect sledding day, good amount of snow, nice temperatures. There

(04:23):
were like two other kids out there. We had the
best hill.

Speaker 3 (04:28):
The best school hill in Lincoln was at Southeast High
School on the south edge, so whenever school was out,
we just hustled over there and went crazy down the hill.
And I think now they've got all sorts of buildings
and stuff around there, you can't do it. And then
there was a really good one here in Omaha where
we used to live in Fashionable West Omaha by Katlan Elementary.

Speaker 1 (04:48):
School, Fashionable West Omaha, Fashionable west Omaha.

Speaker 3 (04:51):
And they put a bunch of trees up there because
kids were going down the hill and getting injured. Okay,
well I don't know how they were getting injured. It's
called snow sled. Well, now there's a bunch of trees there,
you can't go down. They planted a bunch of trees.
Keep kids from doing it. What the kids do, whatever
we can to keep kids from actually being outside and
breathing air.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
We would still be sledding. We would just hit the trees. Sure,
just hit the trees. Fine. We didn't have a lot
we could run into. Maybe you slide down the other
side of the hill and you that would put the
like the monkey bars of the swing set in play.
But it really wasn't that dangerous. So we had to
create our own danger on this hill by building ramps. Yeah,
we did that. You try the ram, try and get Airborde.

Speaker 3 (05:29):
Were Frant's climber, Yeah, the ski jumper, and then of
course the Memorial Park sledding ended a few years ago
when somebody got injured and ensued the city. I'm sorry,
personal responsibility. Oh I see, So it's the city's fault
that you went sledding and got injured. So here's half
a million dollars or a million dollars and now nobody
can sled at Memorial Park.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
Yeah, too tragedy. So to review in in like twenty
twenty six. Can't do it anymore. We don't have snow.
But twenty twenty six school is called off because it's cold.
Nineteen eighty. Hey, kids, there's a tornado outside. Go to
the coat room and put a book over your heads.
That's that's how it was, all right.

Speaker 3 (06:08):
It was great during cold days because we have this
lake near my neighborhood in Lncoln called Lake Street Lake,
and we we'd go ice skating out there. I'm in
the wintertime you were outside on a day like today,
the place would be overrun with ice skaters.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
Yeah, the frostbite possibilities and conditions like this, are you
frost sure, of course they do it. So we're looking
at when we're at you know, twenty five to thirty
below zero Windshill. That's fifteen to twenty minutes before frostbite competition.
You're fine, Yeah, it's so. I'm not saying like these
kids should be never been cold before. I am saying

(06:43):
that it used to be that our moms would just
drive it to school all these days rather than walk.
But I know times have changed. I love the Council Bluffs,
as Chris Turner just reported, he's in for Craig Evans today.
He's back on Monday. But Chris just reported that Council
Bluffs is not doing like, hey, you guys aren't getting
the day off. We've got education to impart here today.
So it's a remote learning day for fellow parents of kids.

(07:10):
Have your kids ever finished one of those remote learning
days and at the end of the day they were like,
oh my gosh, what an amazing day of school that was.
I learned so much? Did you guys know you want
to hear my time stables? I can do EIDs, I
can do the eights, And you're like, that's great. You're
a senior in high school. You should probably be able
to do that. But here's everything my kids would tell

(07:35):
me about their remote learning days when they did that.
A lot during COVID, like, how was school today? Well,
they already emailed us the night before and said, don't
even worry about first period. So I slept in until
about nine and then got up and the teacher basically
just took attendance and said we had free period the
rest of the day. So I just basically closed the

(07:55):
laptop and went back to bed for a little bit.
And then in the after noon they said, you guys
read the assignment we gave, but most of us weren't
even there at that point, so they said, you know,
don't worry about it. And that was school and that's
what your property taxes are paying for.

Speaker 2 (08:14):
Lucy Chapman, why do you start my Friday off like this?
I was in a pretty good mood.

Speaker 1 (08:21):
Hey, this this is These are the kids who are
going to take care of us with me. Now I'm depressed.
When we're old and gray, here's another new bit of
news for you. We're already old and gray, and you
know this is this is space. This is as sunny
as I can get. We're all on social media right,
whether it's it's Facebook or Instagram, MySpace. A lot of

(08:45):
you probably still just loving MySpace. Who you got in
your top eight places on MySpace. You got a lot
of bands asking a friend of them on MySpace? Sorry,
what year is it? Two thousand and four? You know,
TikTok has now approved. President Trump got TikTok approved. That's good.
All that China had to give up was Greenland, So

(09:06):
we got TikTok. Anyway, when you're on social media, what
do you guys do when you run across my favorite
post here recently, which is this new fake moral high
ground that one of your friends or acquaintances, family members
or whatever is now taking, And it's like, look, I

(09:27):
don't usually like to get political on here, you know me.
I'm usually posting pictures of sweaters I crochet for my hamster,
little Harvey.

Speaker 2 (09:37):
Oh I'm friends with that personoeah.

Speaker 1 (09:38):
Oh no, yeah, it's a great follow. Yeah. He's a
nice man and younger than you think. I know, you're thinking,
like this is someone seventy years no, seventeen, you wouldn't
believe it. But so I don't like to get political
on here, but I am just so mad at what
I'm seeing going on in this country. Got a little
Peter Griffin in there. I'll tell you where really grinds

(10:01):
my gears. I don't know what I'm doing right now,
but uh morning, and then you got this. Then then
you got the fake moral high grind. That's fine. You know,
people turn on the news and they look at this
and go, well this, I thought yesterday was bad and
then today happened and I can't believe it, and I
got to tell somebody, right, But then it's that fake

(10:22):
moral high ground of So if you are okay with
people being murdered in the street, children being murdered in
the street just for peacefully protesting our government, then unfriend me.
You just unfriend me right now. I don't I'm not
keeping itally how many friends I have? Oh, yes you are.

(10:45):
Every fifteen minutes you're going on there and refreshing that page.
I lose anybody, I gain anybody? Are people asking me
to run for Congress? You know what? What is this
fake moral high I don't know what to do with this,
because the now proposition is there, if you are okay
with American children being slaughtered in the streets for peacefully

(11:06):
protesting the government, then unfriendly, Well yeah, I'm on board.
I am not okay with that. Also, that's not happening.
So I'm do I unfriend you because you are a
maniac and a liar? Or do we stay friends because

(11:26):
you didn't say it? And if you think I'm lying
about this, then unfriend me right now? Do you ever
think like I gotta I gotta get in there, I
can't resist, I gotta comment on that. Then you think, what, why?
What am I gonna do start an argument with this person?
How I barely know.

Speaker 2 (11:45):
I don't get in there, just like you said, I
don't get in there and make any comments. But it
does show me one thing When I see posts like that.
This is somebody who has absolutely no desire to do
any research, literally any research, to read anything other than
inflammatory posts.

Speaker 1 (12:03):
I know. But then you see someone like that and
you think, well, that person's gone. I don't know if
there's no any saving that person. But then you think
he or she has a lot of friends, some of
them are friends of mine, don't I have an obligation
to at least because sometimes you can just by question.

(12:25):
It used to be you could question someone like, do
you can you believe that Trump just went out there
and strangled some five year old kid in Minneapolis just
for protesting the government, and he wasn't even protesting. He
just was swinging a lunchbox around. And you know, like
I you could question, like, I'm sorry, can you point
me to your news source that backs up what you

(12:46):
just said? Now by asking them questions, now you're being argumentative.
Did hit a right? Can you cite the evidence that
anything that you just alleged happened actually happened? Hey, well,
I didn't realize that you're one of those racist mega
Neanderthals that just as okay with the Gestapo going in
people's homes, bashing people's faces with baseball bats every single night.

(13:10):
Like I again, I don't think that's happening. Can you
cite me? They they don't want to be forced to
back up what they just said. There's no there's no
room there for a rational conversation. But some people try.
I'll go to the comments and say, all right, how's

(13:31):
this going? And that's exactly how it looks like that's
not happening. Oh, you're just out there lying for the
Why don't you just unfriend me? I don't, okay, So
in that example, so now you've said if you agree
with this, then just unfriend me. Okay. So now like

(13:51):
three people unfriend you. That doesn't mean that they throw
themselves into the bay. They still exist, they have voting right.
You probably see them at work. Those people still exist.
You've accomplished nothing other than I guess, tidying up your
friends list on Facebook. But way to take this outrageous

(14:14):
faux moral high ground. It is entertaining for the rest
of us. Scott at kfab dot com and the Zonker's
custom was inbox Chris says, why would you want to
be friends with someone who is that low information ignorant?
I would unfriend them immediately. Well, some of the people
post this stuff for people that I'm actually proud to

(14:37):
call friends. I don't want to surround myself with people
who believe only the way I do. Incredibly boring. Also,
can you imagine what institution would have to be formed
to have a bunch of people who think exactly the
way I do and we're all just walking around and go, hey,
you're right, No, you're right, now, we're all right, Eah,
you're right, that's all right. Crazy town. I like. I

(15:01):
like talking to people who are, in some cases just
maybe a little bit wacky. That's fine. My go to
as always, I don't care for whom you vote. I
care how you treat people who vote differently than you. Now,
some of these people I think are ready to start

(15:21):
throwing molotov cocktails at Trump supporters right now, But I
don't know. I'm kind of curious to see whether there
is a all right, I had a chance to lie
down for a few years. I put a cold compress
on my head, and now I feel better. I haven't
changed any of my opinions, but I realized that shouting
them at the void didn't seem to get anything done

(15:42):
other than make me bitter and angry all the time.
So maybe I don't do that. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (15:50):
I like it when you scream at me. Well, then
I can turn around and laugh at you.

Speaker 1 (15:56):
I can tell you that I'm really glad I got
that on record. You said that, Okay, like I I
for some reason, I'm on the email distribution list Lucy
for the A C l U. Now listen to this.
Listen to this phrase, says dear ACLU supporter, dear Generic open.
You know they've got ways that they can say, here's

(16:17):
the name on the email, and we can at least
put uh hi, it's it's Dedre Shiffling, chief political and
Advocacy officer at the ACLU. Bah blah blah blah Trump
blah blah blab Trump, He says, See, going into the
second year of Donald Trump's presidency, I want to remind you,
when this administration comes for our communities, they have to
get past all of us. WHOA, what does that mean?

(16:42):
What does that mean? Do they go on to explain, Well,
I think that they want money, Well yeah, what yeah,
donate now, big blue donate now button on there. But
what what does that mean? What are we telling people
when Trump comes after our communities? They have to get
past all all of us. Okay, I just grab all

(17:02):
my weapons or whatever and flags and signs and just
go out there and stand in front of law enforcement
doing their jobs. Is that what I'm supposed to do,
because that's what people are doing.

Speaker 2 (17:14):
Well, don't forget your pink hat.

Speaker 1 (17:16):
Gotta get my pink hat on. Did any sign you
taken any protest over the years, they all still apply.
Just take them all out there. The Nebraska National Guards
going to d C. We got two hundred guardsmen going
to d C just kind of make sure DC is okay.
And people are like we don't need the National Guard there.
There's no crime in DC. Yeah, you know why, because
there's currently about twenty six hundred National Guard troops in

(17:38):
Washington from around the country, and now it's Nebraska's turn.
So Governor Pillen sending them all out there on this
frigid morning here on news radio eleven ten kfab How
cold is it out there? It's but cold out here,
and I'm fresh out of beer. Yeah, that's a problem.
Those are two big problems right there. Now. He could

(18:00):
also stay there and I kind of dropped this nugget
quickly a moment ago during a sports update, but I'll
return to it now. Douglas County Sheriff's Office is opening
up their foyer. I've been to the Douglas County Sheriff's Office.
I don't remember walking into a grand foyer going am

(18:23):
I at the Hilton? I don't remember that. I think
they've got something that could probably more accurately be described
as a vestibule, a decent vestibule. But it's warmer than
it is outside. So they're saying, look, if your only

(18:43):
options are to try and sleep outside and freeze to death,
then consider as an option this makeshift shelter in the
foyer at the Douglas County Sheriff's Office. Sheriff Hansen provided
some sleeping pet food out there, not for the people.

(19:03):
Loucy got a look on her face like he's feeding
the people dog food. No, he knows that a barrier
to going into the shelters is the shelters won't let
you bring your pets in there. You're like, I gotta
go inside because the water around my goldfish is going
to freeze. And they're like, you can't bring a goldfish
in here. What if it attacks someone? So what do

(19:23):
you do? Your option is just to go out in
the street and freeze to death, and we can't have that.
So he's got pet food. You can bring your pets,
he says, Look, we're not going to have dogs and
cats running through the offices of the Douglas County Sheriff's
Office the ninth or the nine to one to one
call center. Well, they might, they might not be well trained,

(19:44):
they might be a little skittish, you know, So we're
not going to have that. And uh, you know, but
if you got well behaved pets out there, put some
dog and cat food out there, you can sleep in
the foyer, and he says about, by the way, this
isn't Hotel Hanson. This is emergency situation only here and

(20:05):
if you really really need it, a deputy can pick
you up and transport you to the foyer. Now you're thinking,
how many people are gonna do this? Also? Where is
the Douglas County Sheriff's Office. Isn't it in West Omaha? Yes,
it's one hundred and fifty six and Maple. Well, there's
no homeless people out there. Two people stayed in there

(20:27):
on Wednesday night. Wednesday night wasn't even all that cold.
And I imagine since this story here from KMTV three
News Now and I saw the Facebook post as well
from the sheriff, that there might be some more people
to go out there, and they say, we're stock in
the place with snacks. Don't tell my son that we

(20:47):
live down the street from the Douglas County Sheriff's Office.
He'll go in there for the snacks. What do you
guys got school skittles? He'll be putting an order in
stock with snow as, toothbrushes, toothpaste, and water, dog and
cat food, sleeping bags if you need it now, this

(21:10):
is in the foyer. You can't go sleep in Sheriff
Hansen's office, but hey, this is all better than nothing
free cable. Now, there's no TV in there. I don't
know how. The WiFi is probably spotty, but if you can.

Speaker 3 (21:21):
Get the password, if you can get the Wi Fi password,
you could probably stream your favorite TV shows.

Speaker 1 (21:26):
America's mayor one. That's the password for the Wi Fi
there Sheriff's office. So how is the How is that
cold impacting the rest of the country, especially flights? Welcoming
back our news radio eleven ten kfab national correspondent Rory
O'Neil to the program. We got ice and cold to
talk about here. Since Chris just reported on the ICE

(21:49):
protests in Minneapolis, let's start with Ice. What's the latest
up there in Minnesota?

Speaker 4 (21:53):
Rory, Well, we had Vice President Vance on the ground
there yesterday essentially saying that the administration would be deterred
by these protesters, that the ICE enforcement operation that started
a few weeks ago and has so far resulted in
thousands of arrests will continue. So the VP was there
to listen to some of those ICE members find out

(22:14):
to get a better idea of what's happening on the ground.
And then there are two sort of conflicting stories. You
have the anti ICE protesters getting arrested for interrupting a
church service that happened last Sunday, and even on the
left saying, boy, that's going too far to interrupt the service.
They are those three are at least facing federal charges.

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And then on the other side, even supporters of these
immigration operations say it's a bridge too far when this
five year old boy was taken and has now been
sent from Minnesota to Texas, perhaps to be deported back
to their native Ecuador.

Speaker 1 (22:49):
Yeah, I'm glad you brought that up here. What more
can you give us about the story because officials up
there saying he was used as bait. Department of Homeland
Security says no ICE did not target a child. The
boy's father abandoned that kid. What are we supposed to do?

Speaker 4 (23:08):
Yeah, and here's the thing. I wish I could tell
you what happened there, because boy, we are getting very
conflicting reports. We've heard from the family's attorneys, even some
school board members there saying, look, I was there, we
saw this. We were willing to take the boy. His
mom didn't want to come out of the house because
she was afraid she'd get picked up as well, and
then conflicting stories about whether or not the dad would

(23:30):
try to run from the scene. Yeah, we really don't
have a clear picture of exactly what happened. Very different
version of events out there.

Speaker 1 (23:38):
And people on one side will not believe the people
on the other side. I'm trying to take a look
at what happened here. But yeah, if you have someone
who's an Ecuadorian national in the country illegally who flees, well,
I thought the problem was we don't separate families. So
now the family gets to stay together and they're going
back to Ecuador potentially, So we'll have to try and
keep an eye on that. One twenty one right now,

(24:01):
that's the air temperature in Minneapolis that might freeze out
the protest. But we're looking at snow and wind and
cold and ice, layers of ice impacting areas of the
country that don't traditionally get that kind of weather. What's
this going to do to travel and also the strain
on the energy grid across the not just central part

(24:23):
of America, but Texas over to Florida. Ry.

Speaker 4 (24:26):
Yeah, we heard from the Texas governor yesterday saying their
grid has improved significantly, become much sturdier in the five
years since they had that last big ice storm, and tragically,
so many people died because of blackouts that happened all
across Texas. So the governor there is much more confident
in their energy infrastructure. But the real issue is that,
as you brought up, we're getting ice in places that

(24:48):
don't normally get ice, and even if they do, typically
it's gone in a matter of hours. But in this case,
we're getting this blast of cold weather behind it. So
the ice and snow that will accumulate, they're not going anywhere.
So places that don't have I mean I mean cities
and states that don't have plows and icing trucks and
rock salt like they are going to be stuck with

(25:09):
this ice for a while. So it could be a
very dangerous situation in places that aren't used to it.
Tennessee shreport Louisiana all the way through the Carolinas, and
one description I thought was amazing. They're expecting more than
a foot of snow to be on the ground from
Oklahoma City through Boston by the time Monday rolls.

Speaker 1 (25:28):
Around that is a major winter storm, polar vortex. Indeed,
Rory great reporting is always always good to have as
part of the program. Here, thanks guy, I talk to
you soon, all right. That is News Radio eleven to
ten KFAB national correspondent Rory O'Neill here on Nebraska's Morning News.
Chris Turner is in for Craig Evans. Craig's back on Monday,

(25:49):
maybe because sometimes what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.
And I guarantee you if Craig Evans is in Vegas
right now, then something's happening in Vegas. Jappens right there.
Jim Rose too, I am Scott Vorhees. This is News
Radio eleven ten KFAB.

Speaker 2 (26:06):
Beyond that, though, I mean, he may not be able
to get back because if this storm causes that many
back ups and delays and cancelations.

Speaker 1 (26:15):
Vegas is not in the path of destruction, no.

Speaker 2 (26:18):
But if it has to transfer in one of Denver,
I don't think.

Speaker 1 (26:23):
I mean, we got direct flights from Vegas to Omaha
every fifteen minutes, don't we.

Speaker 2 (26:29):
Well, I wouldn't know.

Speaker 1 (26:31):
I ain't never been to Vegas, but I've gambled up
my life it's a great lyric from Ryan Adams. But
right now it is cold in Vegas twenty two degrees.

Speaker 2 (26:42):
What in the that is?

Speaker 1 (26:46):
That's just oh, that's a ripoff, right, Yeah, you know what.
I didn't think about that. So Craig, he's part of
some board. I don't know what board, what nonprofit. I
think it's a group that helped unwed mothers get their start.
And so they're meeting in Vegas. It's a legitimate nonprofit organization.

(27:09):
And yeah, I ripped that line off from I think
that was a Steve Martin joke. But so they're in Vegas,
it's late January, and they think, man, it's great, we're
gonna go have this. You know, we'll be sitting in
seminars all day in classrooms for the haha. I'm kidding,
We're gonna go crazy, going crazy. Today the high temperature
is thirty four degrees, but tomorrow a chance of snow

(27:30):
and twenty two degrees in Las Vegas. That if you
can't plan a trip to Vegas in late January. Now,
I know it's not like at the Tropic of Capricorn
or anything like that. And I don't know enough about
my latitude or longitude to actually remember where that is.

(27:51):
I don't remember that's north or south. I just popped
into my head. So it's actually pretty cold in Vegas
here for the next couple of weeks. I'm looking at
the high temperatures. It struggles to get to like the
mid forties from most of the next week. Why what
are you supposed to do? I guess you just sit
in a casino all day? Are they open twenty four

(28:13):
hours a day? Yes, Scott, everything everything in Vegas is
open twenty four a day. Where do you have to
go to find warmth? Right now? I got my little
Let's see how everything's going around there. What's happening in
Phoenix right now? If we need to hop a flight today, Yeah,
it's seventy degrees in Phoenix today, or as they'll stay

(28:36):
down there, it's freezing. It's fifty five degrees right now
in Phoenix. And I guarantee there's someone snow burning down
there in Phoenix texting with their family up here in
Omaha as they're like, yeah, it's really cold here. Yeah
here too, it's only fifty five. You know what, No one.

Speaker 2 (28:55):
Likes you until they want to come visit.

Speaker 1 (28:58):
Yeah, you want to know why people don't visit you
most of the time, comments like that, no one wants
to hear that from you. So I guess you can
go to Vegan Vegue. You go to Vegan, you go
to Phoenix or that area between Phoenix and Vegas known
as Vegan Nicks. If you go to Dallas, you've got
ice and snow and cold down there, as Rory O'Neil reported,

(29:22):
a lot of these areas around the country. Who don't
I mean, they don't have the stuff to put down
on the roads to deal with any ice or snow
that gets on there. They don't have snowplows in Dallas. Why.
I was in Oklahoma City one time years ago. They
got like one sixteenth of an inch of ice, and

(29:43):
you would have thought that a bomb went off in
that city. People are sliding off the road. People are like,
never leave your house again. It's terrible. I hope you
have enough supplies to survive in your house for the
next three hours until it melts this afternoon. Like you,
people didn't know what to do do with themselves. They
don't have the ability to deal with that on the roads.

(30:05):
But we remember what happened when Texas had that ice
storm and the really really cold temperatures a few years
ago in the winter, and that had ramifications up here
in Omaha, and we had some businesses and homes that
were like, look, we might need to do rolling brownouts
to be able to conserve energy. Like, you can't do

(30:29):
that here. It's twenty five below wind chill here. Yeah,
well it's only twenty above in Texas and that's really
cold for them. But they're not gonna Why do we
have to deal with this? Are the data centers down
there shutting down? No, No, we have to people or
need their Amazon stuff. So and Facebook and Google's got
to operate. I mean, we're not going to shut that
stuff off. But your house, your pipes might freeze. But

(30:51):
it's all for the good of the environment. So, as
Rory reported, they seemingly have prepared better for conditions like
this across the Southwest power pool of energy customers and
here in the oppd area that's us. So we'll see

(31:13):
Scott at kfab dot com. Zonker's custom woods inbox. Adam says,
good morning, it's colder than a witch's upper Torso what
are the kids leering today? Yeah, with no school, they
could probably revert back to spelling learning without the end.

(31:35):
But Adam says, what are they learing? They're learning their
leering weakness. But don't worry. When they get out in
the field, we'll fix them. That's from Adam. Adam's out
there fixing kids. I'll call the police. Don't worry. I'll
handle this. Speaking of kids. Talked about this about a
half an hour ago with Rory. I'll give you a

(31:56):
bit more of the story here. It was in Minneapoli,
and the anti ICE protesters say that agents saw a
five year old kid walking home from school, probably skipping
and whistling and getting ready to help old ladies across
the street, you know, and take on the world. Five
year old kid, and Ice said, hey, little kid, come on,

(32:19):
get in the van. We got candy. Here's what we're
gonna have you do. Go up to the door of
that house and ask to be let inside, and then
we can see who's in there, and we can go
in there and get them and we can send them
all to L. Salvador. You want to do that, kid,
I don't want to do Come on, kid, it's your
American duty.

Speaker 5 (32:35):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (32:36):
My mom said, nah.

Speaker 1 (32:37):
To come on. Kid, do it. We're gonna just throw
your dad in jail. And then that's what happened. According
to the anti ICE protesters, Department of Homeland Security says,
all right, ICE did not target a child. We had
a kid and his dad walking home from school. The

(32:58):
father is on the lift. ICE operations targeted this Ecuadorian
national in the country illegally. Yeah, he has got a
pending asylum case. Dozen't everybody right now, But we were
interested in the dad. The dad took off. The dad flees.
Did he say, come on, son, let's go. Nope, he

(33:19):
saw ICE agents went that way. Kid stood there. Dad
of the Year abandons his kid there in the street,
and ICE is like, what are we supposed to do?
Just say, all right, kid, well good luck, pat him
on the back of the head, ruffle his hair. How
are you a little scamp?

Speaker 5 (33:39):
Now?

Speaker 1 (33:39):
Can run along home? I don't know where home is.
My dad's going. Hey, well you figure it out. Time
to grow up, young man. You don't know where home is.
I don't know. They took the kid into custody as well,
so they said, well, we didn't target the kid. See
they're going into school and they grabbed this kid. No,
not what happened. Okay, let's to quote Jim Rose. Everybody

(34:04):
calmed down, as Chris just reported. Got a guy here
at Ulysses is his name, but it's it's spelled differently.
You don't hear a lot of young people named Ulysses anymore.
This one is a eu l i Sis thirty five
year old guy named Ulysses, and he'll be in jail

(34:26):
until he's about forty. Now it's Nebraska, so they might
let him out this morning. I don't know. But he
is in jail out of Grand Island because he thought
it'd be a great idea to first of all, spray
paint the words kill ice on the Immigration and Customs
Enforcement building. And then he made himself a Molotov cocktail,

(34:51):
lit it, threw it at the building, but it didn't work.
A Molotov cocktail is gas, essentially in a bottle. And then, kids,
you don't have school today, gather around the radio. Let
me teach let Uncle Scotty teach you how to make
a Molotov cocktail. All right, Well, the rest of us

(35:11):
know how to do this, right. It's it's fairly simple,
I think. And you've got basically an accelerant and fire,
and this guy still couldn't make that work. It's two
ingredients and he missed. So he's going to spend five
years behind bars for that activity and then supervised reliefs

(35:32):
for a few years. In my favorite part. After prison,
he's going to have to pay over him one million
dollars in restitution. Good luck getting that money. I'm sure
that he doesn't have a million dollars in the bank.
Or maybe maybe I'm wrong, maybe he's got tons of money.
I don't know. The guy in Minneapolis, Twin City school

(35:54):
districts are saying their absentee rates are as high as
forty percent. In areas, kids aren't going to school because
they're afraid of ice.

Speaker 3 (36:03):
Parents aren't letting them go to stay're not letting them
because they're afraid of ice.

Speaker 1 (36:07):
Well, here's someone with one of the school districts up
there that says that ice agents have been quote circling
our schools, following our buses, coming into our parking lots,
and taking our children unquote just not happening. But Jim,
you're not there. How do you know? I saw on
Facebook a lot of people here in Omaha think that's
exactly what's happening up there.

Speaker 3 (36:28):
I don't think a lot of people in Omaha are
spending enough time actually looking into it. But this is
also a place. Just remember what we're talking about here,
This is a place that burned down a sizable chunk
of Minneapolis four years ago.

Speaker 1 (36:41):
Just burned it down. Well, a lot of business owners killed,
a man.

Speaker 3 (36:45):
Up, somebody got killed in a tragic copp related death.
And so let's go ahead and burn down a nice,
fair chunk.

Speaker 1 (36:55):
Of the community. Just burn it to the ground.

Speaker 3 (36:58):
And now today and maybe through the weekend, the fine
people of Minnesota have decided that they will wreck their
own livelihoods. They have launched a statewide protest by locking
their doors to their businesses. Now, at last report, and
granted I may be behind the times, at last report,

(37:20):
you own a business for profit so that you can
support your lives and the lives of the people around you,
not just yourself, but all of the employees.

Speaker 1 (37:30):
That's not how it works anymore.

Speaker 3 (37:31):
So what person, a sane person, what person in complete
control of their faculties will voluntarily torpedo their own livelihoods.
It reminds me of the famous Thomas Payne line, and
that is arguing with a person who renounces reason is
it's like administering medicine to the dead. You can't talk

(37:53):
to them about this. You can't explain to them what
they're doing and what the ramifications are of what they're doing.
And remember a conversation I had with the late Bob Boozer,
who was one of my favorite people in the world,
who not only a great athlete, was a great person
and a great community servant, and he made friends with
everybody that he ever met. He said, what person in
their right mind destroys your own business, your own home,

(38:16):
your own school, your own church, your own neighborhood. And
this was in the wake of the riots in North
Omaha back in the nineteen sixties. You can protest what happened,
and we know what lit the fuse for that episode,
but the insanity that comes from destroying your own neighborhood
is inexplicable, and it has literally hamstrung that part of

(38:37):
our community economically for sixty years.

Speaker 1 (38:41):
What if you're an employee who wants to come to
work today and your boss like, nope, social justice for
your own good and the good of our community, you
can't work today. But if I don't work today, I
don't get paid, that's right. And if I don't get paid,
I can't pay the rent. Well, that's I need to work.

Speaker 3 (38:56):
Yeah, to protest law enforcement, you'd get paid hourly, but
not today.

Speaker 1 (39:02):
Ice is coming into school, parking lots and taking our children,
says some school representative up there. So you can't come
to work. And then if you shut down the businesses
and you urge people just boycott the business, we're gonna
we're gonna drain this community of its resources to do
business if they won't listen to it. So you either

(39:22):
if you need something, if you need to go shopping,
you need to go anywhere from High Ve to Low's
to doctor Johnson. You're just gonna buy that yesterday or tomorrow.
I don't need to know what you're buying at doctor John's,
but you're just gonna buy it yesterday or tomorrow. So
how much money are they actually losing? Well, this is a.

Speaker 3 (39:40):
Tragedy and it makes you wonder at some point, it
makes you wonder what the long term ramifications of these
these episodes in Minnesota will be. And there can be
no other explanation other than it's going to cause a
mass migration out of that state. It's going to hamstring
everything they have from an economic, government, social, and cultural standpoint.

(40:05):
It's like California. People are leaving California. They're leaving California
because of the behavior of the leadership there. Now, where
is the mayor of Minneapolis. Where is the buffoon governor
of Minnesota saying, don't close down your businesses. You can
protest peacefully. In fact, we encourage you to do it.
But why would you do this to yourself?

Speaker 1 (40:25):
Yeah, the number of criminals that they're detaining there, and
the protesters who are trying to fight members of Ice
and all that. Governor Wall says it is a campaign
of retribution because Trump doesn't like Tim Walls and that's why.

Speaker 3 (40:39):
And at last report what you do to yourself in
Minnesota will have no impact on the president of the
United States. Now, in Des Moines, that former superintendent there
was in court yesterday and pled guilty to federal immigration charges.
This is the guy who says, you know, I should
be the superintendent of schools here in Des Moines. I

(41:00):
have an incredible track record of justice and equity and education.
Look at these credentials and they say, wow, you're great,
You're the best thing we've ever seen. Then he gets
in there and he's not in the country legally. His
education degrees completely falsified. So then when federal officials decided

(41:23):
to go have a chat with him, he fled in
a district vehicle with guns and a knife and was
hiding in a wooded area. He pled guilty to federal
immigration charges. But if they don't send him to El Salvador,
he could probably become the next superintendent of schools in

(41:43):
Minneapolis and then in Kansas. And thank you to esteemed
listener Stu for passing this along. A bill introduced this
week in the Kansas House of Representatives would require all
children in Kansas. Now, remember Governor pill And here in
Nebraska said we want you to be able to read
by the time you go on to fourth grade. If

(42:05):
you can't read at the end of third grade, you're
doing third grade again and again and again until you
can read. In Kansas, this is a bill that would
require all children to be potty trained by the time
they get to kindergarten.

Speaker 1 (42:23):
You mean they're not.

Speaker 3 (42:23):
Now, you mean to tell me your kid is still
wearing a diaper at age five.

Speaker 1 (42:28):
I would love to hear the stories of so many
kids getting too kindergarten and you're just going like, dude,
we do I just go here and like no, no,
there's just that's not happening. Just a trail, you know,
like when a dog starts to go and you're like no,
and you pick it up and you're taking it outside,
and then you just got a trail of whizzing its

(42:50):
way out there. There kindergarten teachers doing this with kids.
I don't go here, and the kids are getting sprayed,
there's no right, and the kindergartener isn't potty trained. Come on,
all right, if you're a kindergartener or a kindergarten.

Speaker 3 (43:04):
Teacher or you know, you know one and they tell
you this, email us or go on go on kfab
dot com and and what go into that mic and
tell us about this.

Speaker 1 (43:16):
Talk about bart radio.

Speaker 3 (43:17):
And tell us about that and say, yeah, man, I'm
a kindergarten teacher at x y Z school and I
got kids that are in diapers.

Speaker 1 (43:23):
Scott at kfab dot com. Let's go through a bit
of the Zonker's custom woods inbox here. Let's see here.
CM says, I love global warming. I want more of it.
Thank you for that. I am fluent and sarcasm. Appreciate that.
Email Jim had said, if you've got problems in your

(43:44):
schools where you're a teacher, like kindergarten first grade students,
and you got kids in there wearing diapers, not potty
trained by the time they get to kindergarten, because in Kansas,
there's a bill in the state House of Representatives in
Kansas to mandate that your kid be potty trained by
the time they get to kindergarten. And I said, is
this happening so much that the teachers were like, well,

(44:06):
someone do something. We got to pass a law here.
And of course there are exemptions for kids with you know,
issues and disabilities and you know things like that. But yeah,
I got these emails. Ej says, My sister is a
kindergarten teacher, tells me that she deals with this every year.
Are you kiddings? Indeed? True? What are parents doing? This?

(44:30):
Email Unsigned says, Yet we got kindergarten students who come
to school in diaper.

Speaker 3 (44:35):
So the love of God, this is this is unacceptable.
If you can't put in the eighteen years, don't do
the fifteen minutes it's that simple. Okay, put on a
slicker and let's just not make the mistake of having
a kid with your incapacity to care for it.

Speaker 1 (44:53):
Well, see that was my problem. I took your advice
and I got kids anyway. And my wife said, I
don't know why you wear that raincoat. Yeah, you guys,
your guys are gonna pierce. I take every armor, I
take it. No, I take everything. Literally. I honestly had
a rain slicker.

Speaker 3 (45:13):
Look like it's it's one of the it's one of
the tasks associated with parenting that no one looks forward
to or relishes, but it's part of the requirement. And
I remember when Jackson was getting ready to go into preschool,
they made it clear, this child is potty trainer.

Speaker 1 (45:31):
We will not admit him.

Speaker 3 (45:33):
And so we spent one really, really dastardly weekend in January.
Uh and it's dude, today, you're gonna wear the big
boy pants. And we had about four or five episodes
and I'm going, are you kidding me? But by the
end of the weekend, he was rocking and rolling, he
was ready to go. He wasn't crapping his pants anymore.

(45:55):
Because it's not pleasant if somebody's changing you. You know
you you might as well do it till you're eighteen.
But if nobody's changing you, you got to walk around
in it.

Speaker 1 (46:04):
And suddenly they go hmm.

Speaker 3 (46:06):
Even a two and a half year old's going, I
don't know about this experience.

Speaker 1 (46:10):
How do I fix this? That seems like a million
years ago and yesterday for so many times. I'll never
forget that weekend.

Speaker 3 (46:17):
I'm going of all the things in my life as
a parent, that is the one thing I'm never going
to forget, the weekend we potty trade our kids.

Speaker 4 (46:24):
Now here's the part of the show where Lucy says
she's glad she doesn't have kids.

Speaker 1 (46:28):
Yeah, you missed out on that there, Lucy. But don't worry.
I'm sure if you wanted to potty train some kids,
we'd have listeners drop them off here at the building.

Speaker 2 (46:37):
I heard a little bit of it.

Speaker 3 (46:39):
I'm here, okay, and disposing here's the other thing people
for I mean, you look at my mom and dad's generation.
They didn't have disposable diapers, so they had to clean
those freaking diapers. So it was incumbent upon them to
get the kid potty train as possible.

Speaker 1 (46:54):
I got a few more emails here. Mike says, why
aren't Omaha area teachers at least made to report to
work today? Too cold for the adults. Here's another paid
day off by the taxpayers. I want a credit to
my property taxes. That's from Mike, sent to Scott at
kfab dot com. Marla says, how come your news guy
is not including Papellion Lavista schools at the list of closings. Well,

(47:18):
I guess Chris is not here in Omaha. He's not
from here. He's providing us our newscast from a remote location.
I didn't know that. Yeah, he's a great guy. He's
not in the hall. He's not that far away. We
have resources all over the place and we do communicate
quite a bit. But he's not from here. And I'm
just telling you he probably blew my mind. He probably
doesn't know how to pronounce it. So that's that's why. Sorry, No,

(47:40):
what offense attended now, Joe says Scott. Just prior to
the seven twenty Sports Brief, Jim Rose reported Fernando Mendoza
does not have a girlfriend and was not gay. The
question is is he willing to learn? And there's your
eighties movie reference for this segment of the radio program.
This is where Lucy wonders, if that's from Jaws. You

(48:03):
got that one.

Speaker 2 (48:04):
No, that's from Fletch.

Speaker 1 (48:05):
No, you're in at least ballpark there. That's from Stripes.
Jaws was in the seventies.

Speaker 2 (48:11):
But we're love Stripes. I just rewatched it recently.

Speaker 1 (48:14):
That's the now. We're not homosexual, but we're willing to learn.
God bless Harold Ramers and let's see here. One more
email regarding sports. Karen emails Scott a kfab dot com.
It says, it saddens me that the reputation of Millard
South has been sullied by the ridiculousness of the NSAA.

(48:38):
This is the governing board of school athletics across Nebraska.
Last weekend, eight amazing people were inducted into the Millard
South Hall of Fame. It's too bad such things aren't
considered as newsworthy. Love you guys, Love you too, Karen.
Thank you very much for the email. It's not Millard
South's fault. If the rules were such that they couldn't
do all this stuff. We're gonna pipeline of players not

(49:01):
just coming from around the learning district here in the
Omaha metro but Chicago and Texas by way of that
a University of Nebraska.

Speaker 3 (49:09):
It is not the fault of Millard South. Millard South
is just functioning in the system. This is an NSAA issue,
and we've delivered lots and lots of options that they
could consider to fix this, and they can't do it,
or won't do it, refuse to do it. It's too
big an organization. You have spread power out into too
many directions, which means nothing really impactful ever happens or changes.

Speaker 1 (49:31):
But this is the system. Now.

Speaker 3 (49:33):
Not every school system allows for as unfettered transferring as
say the learning community, and not every school system in
the metro area provides for that because we have multiples,
you know. But so long as some districts can do
it and others can't, it cries out for legislation.

Speaker 1 (49:51):
They've got to do something.

Speaker 3 (49:52):
They have to do something now. In this case, these
two guys are coming in from a different place. They're
not transferring from Central or Elkcoorn North or West or
Burke or Brian or wherever. They're coming in from a
different community, in which case, again you have to establish
a domicile to allow a kid to drive in from Lincoln.

Speaker 1 (50:11):
What if he gets into a car accident. Here's a
question for you.

Speaker 3 (50:14):
Let's say Trey Taylor is running late and he gets
behind the wheel of his nil issued Denali. He's zipping
down the interstate and he spends that thing out, injures himself,
injures a couple other people. Who's liable for that that
he is is the driver. He's got to be insured.
I promise you there's a lawyer in town who's going
to sue somebody flous what's he doing driving back and forth.

(50:35):
It's a school He's a mandated school event. So the
Millard Public Schools very likely could be liable for that.
All goes, he's required to go to Millard Public Schools.

Speaker 1 (50:44):
I know two things. Number One, Karen, if they didn't
induct Devin Rawlins into the Millard South Hall of Fame yet,
that's a miscarriage of justice. And two, we got Greg
Wagner standing by ahead of the Rosie de Genozi next
to Read Booms and with a country boat with the
country and he's here from Nebraska game in Parks. It

(51:06):
is Greg Wagner here on news Radio eleven ten KFA
be our favorite country boys. So if you're out pheasant
hunting this weekend, how far does a bullet fly before
it freezes midday? It's a good question, thank you, but
it'll still go oh yeah, all right, still do its thing. Well.
People be out there ice fishing and pheasant hunting in Okay.

(51:29):
Frost fishing crowd is cheering by frost Biden fifteen to
twenty for not protected. But what would we recommend here
in terms of well, staying safe and having fun.

Speaker 5 (51:38):
I tell people you go outdoors when you can safely
go outdoors regarding you, so for some stay home, sharpen
your spring fishing hooks, load your reels with new line,
go through your spring turkey hunting gear. It depends on you. Now,
if you're into the ice fishing crowd, you're the hardcore

(52:00):
or your tier, and you're going we're gonna get ice.
Ice is forming rapidly. We have ice fishing some going
on right now. Our condition is still variable, but boy,
as the hours pass here with these extremely cold temps,
more ice forming. By the end of the weekend, we'll
have fairly widespread ice. But we still have, you know,

(52:20):
dangerous spots on all these lakes with springs and creek
channels and everything else, so you're just gonna.

Speaker 1 (52:26):
Have to heed safety tips.

Speaker 5 (52:29):
We give you takes at least four inches of good
solid clear lake ice to support one person.

Speaker 1 (52:34):
That'll support the heaviest of folks. All right, and just
went up, Why are you looking at me? All right,
I'm not looking at you. Hunting tips for this weekend.
You know, I would give it a break.

Speaker 5 (52:44):
And take advantage of when we get a break probably
next week. If you can take a week day off,
wait for temperatures to get above freezing, then go.

Speaker 1 (52:55):
All right. So if we wanted to do something indoors
in our state parks, we have some some items that
are on the event calendars, right.

Speaker 5 (53:03):
Yeah, we sure do you know Mahoney State Park great
place to be. The indoor playground like the old Discovery
Zone Scott that you might remember, yes us great, Yeah,
and we have the climbing walls indoors there. Snack barrow
be open there you go.

Speaker 1 (53:18):
You could do that.

Speaker 5 (53:19):
At Mahoney State Park shram Park State Recreation Area. We
have our Nature Education Center. You can see all the
fish and they have interactive things to do regarding nature.
They're inside with live critters and everything, so you've.

Speaker 1 (53:33):
Got that as well.

Speaker 5 (53:34):
And on the outdoor bulletin board, Greg, well, we still
have a lot of Canada geese and bald eagles in
the area. They're using the rivers and reservoirs where we
have open water. And leave your trail cameras up deer hunters.
As we have a progression into February soon here, dear
bucks will be shedding their antlers.

Speaker 1 (53:53):
From Nebraska game in parks. That's Greg wagt you