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Speaker 1 (00:00):
That's Lucy Chapman. Jim Rose is here. That's Craig Evans too.
My name is Scott Vorhees, and this is News Radio
eleven ten kfab. Thank you so much for being with
us here this morning. Let's see here. It was just
about ten hours ago on this radio station you heard
a speech that started like this.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Eleven months ago, I inherited a mess, and I'm fixing it.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
This was then about an eighteen minute speech by President
Trump that was, according to those in the media who
were reporting on this, a very partisan speech. Usually a
presidential address to the nation is not so blatantly partisan
as what we heard from the president last night, calling
out President Biden for destroying the country the high inflation
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that's blamed on Biden. Is that fair criticism he was,
To be honest, President Biden was asleep for most of
his time in office. I don't know if it's fair
to blame him for the inflation. He's calling out Democrats
and all the rest of this stuff. And the media
was somehow shocked by this. Now. I don't know if
they've been paying any attention to the past eleven months
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or so when the president has been in office. This
time or the four years, the previous time, or anything
he has said anywhere in that interim period. But that's
that's what we have. That is the president of the
United States. So he went on to talk about basically
trying to deliver a message to the American people. Jim
(01:32):
that said, I know that the polls show that you
don't feel that the economy's going very well, but it is,
and you're wrong for thinking that it's not. That was
his speech last night.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Well, there was some of that. It wasn't as bad
as some of the gas lighting that Joe Biden did
to the American people. And he said, oh, that border
is secure, They ain't nobody coming across that border, right.
That one that was reminiscent of Bagdad Bob, you know,
standing in front of the media saying the American troops
are not here as they walked past him, you know,
and said I'm square better.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Let's not forget President Biden standing there in a dark
red lid thing called half the country domestic terrorist. That
was a fun speech.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
But this this speech last night, it was disappointing because
it was an angry speech. It wasn't a reassuring confidence speech.
It was I'm sick and tired of you people saying
I'm not doing anything. I'm sick and tired of you
people saying nothing's happened. Let me tell you what's happened.
So he's pointing his finger at us and yelling into
this microphone. He sounded like an angry old man, but
he did have good information. He said, Now, let me
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explain to you why your wages are up. He had grafts,
because when inflation is at nine percent and your wages
stay the same, you lose money. But when we bring
inflation down to three percent, which we have it might
be two point five today, when the CPI comes out
for November, then your wage and actually purchasing power goes up.
So he's right about that. And he, you know, he's
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rattling off all this stuff that he did. Specifically closing
the border. He said, the reason that we have a
housing crunch in this country is because seven million people
came a the border and start taking up houses, especially
low income houses.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
And he's right about that.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
And we've had at least two and a half to
three million self deportations, and we've run out another six
hundred thousand of these illegals just in one year.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
That's pretty good work.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
But the problem with the president, Scott and you and
I remember this because we watched the campaign. He promised
during the campaign, I'll bring down your prizes on day one.
I will allude I will win this war between the
Ukraine and Russia on day one. I'll do this on
you over promise. You cannot deliver. He did get a big,
(03:37):
beautiful bill passed. There will be a lot of stuff
in there that would be good for business, a lot
of stuff in there that's good for the average taxpayer.
These Trump Funds for Kids is a really good idea.
But here's the challenge Donald Trump and nobody in government
understands because they don't communicate very well that the guy
living in Millard number and Millard, the Millard District of Omaha, Nebraska,
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used to be its own town.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
It's not anymore. Yeah, good safe.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
He's got a five hundred thousand dollar house. He's got
a two hundred and fifty thousand dollars mortgage at probably
five percent on this Okay, he's paying over three thousand
dollars a month in principle and interest escrow because his
homeowners insurance is probably three hundred dollars a month, and
he's got probably a nine to ten thousand dollars property
tax bill. So the utilities, the insurance, the principle, and
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interest makes him worried because that's a lot of money.
When your average take home pay in the state of
Nebraska's sixty nine thousand dollars, that's what you bring home
on an annual basis. The problem is they aren't addressing
the root causes of affordability and how to bring ease
to the American public's monthly bills. He's right about everything
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he's saying, and I think next year will be a
big year for American business because you'll start to see
some of this investment turn into bricks and mortar. But
the average person and the polls show it. They can't
all be wrong. The polls show people are worried about
paying their monthly bills.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
There are a couple of things that I think you
and the media missed, and what the President said last night,
Thank goodness, I am here to point those out. The
President's message I think can be anything in the world.
He can point out, Hey, the price of this is down,
price of gas is down. Yeah, the numbers related to
employment are a little bit all over the place. But
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that's because Elon Musk went and some kid named Big
NRDS went in there and cut all these government jobs.
And now they're being added by the private sector, which
is the way it's supposed to be in this country.
And our America is doing reciprocal tariffs against the nations
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who did the exact same thing to us. Why is
it a problem when we do it? He could say
all this stuff, which is, by the way, what he
did last night, and you got half the people in
America who don't believe any of it because of the
man who's saying it. When you've got the concer assumer
confidence numbers, when the the media and the experts are
going out there talking to people, going how do you
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feel the economy is going? It doesn't matter how the
economy is going. It matters whether or not last November,
previous November year ago. It matters whether or not they
voted for Donald J. Trump. If they did, the overwhelming
majority of them feel the economy is going okay, it
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could be better, but they feel it's all right. If
they didn't, President Trump could tell them to that. Today
is Thursday and They wouldn't believe it. They said it's
Friday Eve and that the president's a liar and a
war criminal. It doesn't it doesn't matter what the economy
is doing.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
I don't know if that's true. All the dependents. I
think Independence, Yeah, the MAGA crowd is hood on board.
Who are the independence at this point? Where are these people?
Independence of the people who don't declare themselves politically engaged
in until election day? Now they go, Okay, who's the
best candidate for me?
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Right now?
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Independence pold will say, we're disappointed. It's because he over
promised during the campaign. That's the problem.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
The thing that you were pointing out a moment ago
related to stuff like property tax and all the rest.
This isn't stuff that the president of the United States has.
This is their schools, this is your city, this is
your county.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Well, you give him a house, a plane, a car,
We get multiple houses. He gets a butler for all
of that. He gets blamed for property taxes in Omaha.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Can you imagine being President Trump's butler, walk around with
you know, several diet cokes and your holster and some
Kentucky Fried chicken. Here you go. He's only got one tie.
Congratulations to We consider her one of our own. She's
in the kfab family tree. We have a new Douglas
County election commissioner, Lucy, do we we do? Can you
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tell me who the previous one was or the one
before that? Okay, well his name was Brian Cruz.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Yeah, couldn't I told you that?
Speaker 1 (08:01):
And as I always told Brian, he's got a great job.
He had maybe the best job in the world as
the county election commissioner. I presume his job every day
was coming in in April in an off year election,
coming into the office going all right, what's everyone working
on today? Well, we got that election coming up next November. Great,
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stay on it. I'm gonna go get some lunch. You know.
Like what was his job throughout the entire year now?
Right election time? Making sure all the polling places were
staffed and all the rest of that stuff. I imagine there's
there's some work involved in that. But like if he
came into the office today, we don't have a city
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election in the spring. We got a midterm. I mean
there's a primary I suppose in May whenever, And so
what's he doing comes in the office today and He's like,
how's everything going there? Boys? How are we doing? We're
just waiting for primary election. Great, we're gonna do the
thing where we make the ballots available and people go
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and fill in the ballots, then we count the ballots.
That's right, boss, Hey, all right, And I tell you what,
what a crack team we have here? Well, I got
some Christmas shopping to do. I'll see you guys a
little bit. What does the election commissioner do every day
other than like a week before election day? Well, he
decided that was too strenuous for him, and so he quit.
(09:28):
He wanted to go back to the private sector, which
his Do you know what his job was before he
was election commissioner?
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Well, if I didn't know what he does now, I
probably don't know what he did before.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
What was it? Well, do you want to take a
guess what was he What was he doing that he
decided to be election commissioner? And now I'm not one
hundred percent suries going back to this. I think as
I talked to him the other day, and by the way,
I really like Brian Cruz, really really good man. I'm
just goofing with him.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
But Rollerskate Rink manager.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Wow, for someone who claimed not to know him that,
that's not even close to his job. He was in
the funeral business.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Yeah, I wouldn't guess that at a roller rink. At
a roller rink, all right.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Well, a lot of times when skaters shoot the duck
at a roller rink or they do like the backwards skate.
These are all very dangerous activities, and uh, several die.
I remember a lot of like fourth grade skating parties.
They'd play Careless Whisper and you'd either in fourth grade
in fifth grade, the girls were interested in couple skating
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with you, but the boys were not interested in couple
skating with the girls. So you would run away from
the girls when Careless Whisper came on. But then in
sixth grade you're like, where's Rachel? What people that? Okay,
we're on Thursday. That's the first Jim Rose, what are
you talking about? To something I said here on the
program mind thank you? So it's really yeah, what I
(11:02):
was trying to say was that. And then a lot
of people die, and so you have a funeral service
right there at Skateland. They all die, Yeah, and they're
like behind the arcade was the you know, the Morgue
of all the dead people. Didn't you guys ever? Okay,
so Brian Cruz is leaving. So what I was I
think what was the point I was trying to make
is we have a new Douglas County election commissioner and
(11:24):
it's one of KFAB zonned she's in the family tree.
Congratulations to Danielle Jensen. This is someone who's work for Bacon.
And yeah, she's leaving working with Congressman Bacon because Bacon
is leaving working for the people in Nebraskt second District.
Daniel Jensen will then move over from his communications director
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and a senior policy advisor to be the new Douglas
County election commissioner. Danielle Jensen is the daughter of longtime
KFAB newsman Craig Evans. Just seeing if he's paying attention.
Congratulations Craig your daughter. Craig is like, wait what Sorry, No,
it wasn't Craig. Bill Jensen till Jenson. Bill Jensen's daughter,
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Danielle is our new election commissioner. He was always hoping
that she'd find steady work. Well, I just got a text,
Lucy from Douglas County Election Commissioner Brian Cruz now former.
He says, Hey, Scott, thanks for talking about me. Do
you need me to pick up any Christmas presents for
you today while I'm out shopping. I think I probably
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just I think I've probably just been erased from the
Brian Cruz Christmas list. Today is the Norrad Santa Tracker Day,
thus proclaimed by the Governor of Nebraska, Jim Pillen. Now,
why in the world would Governor Jim Pillen of Nebraska
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sign a proclamation recognizing today, Thursday, December eighteenth is Norrad
Santa Tracker Day. Now we know what the nor Ad
Santa Tracker is, right, Every year Christmas Eve has been
the case now for seventy years. Today, nor Ad has
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used satellite imagery to let children and their families everywhere
across the globe know where Chris Kringle was at any
given moment in time. You'd see him going up and
down the longitudes, delivering toys to all the good little
boys and girls, Cole, to people like Lucy who just
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didn't get it done this past year, but hey, there's
always hope for next year. Well, do you know that
that Santa tracka bat bad badibi? Did? Did you know
that no I bet you didn't let me try again.
Did you know that that Santa tracker service from nor
Ad started as a result of Nebraska native Colonel Barney Oldfield,
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who helped start the program him seventy years ago. Old Barney, Yeah,
Old Barney, Colonel Barney Oldfield. He was one of the
first Hollywood pr agents after the war.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
That was Barney's claim to fame. He was a really
powerful guy in Hollywood in the fifties, sixties and seventies.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
And he's a Husker and he was a very very
supportive Husker donor, well, university donor, not necessarily sports, but
he was a huge Husker fan, a really great guy.
And I got to know Barney late in his life.
He was really supportive.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Yeah. He decided we needed a tracking system. So our
defense is, you know, wouldn't shoot Sanna out of the sky. Yeah,
they need to know where he is once he gets
into you know, you get across the international waters and
now you're coming into territorial waters. You know, we had
the opportunity to blow him out of the sky, whether
it was through the old fighter aircraft or later the
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star Wars defense system. And if we had a way
of tracking him, then that wouldn't happen, and so it
was Colonel Oldfield has said, let's track his movements, and
that's why we have the Nora Ad Santa Tracker. He'll
be up and running on Wednesday night, Christmas Eve for
a week away from the big days. Thanks to Barney.
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He was a World War II fighter pilot. Yeah, that's
why Santawaar's red is a respect to the big red.
All right. Last night, presidents of the United States addressed
the nation.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Eleven months ago, I inherited a mess, and I'm fixing it.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
That was the big message last night. It's like, look,
I know that some of the people in the media
say the economy is not doing all that great, but
it's doing fantastic. Why haven't you people figured it out yet.
There's a little bit more from the President's speech last night.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
After years of record setting falling incomes, our policies are
boosting takecom pay at a historic pace. Under Biden, real
wages plummeted by three thousand dollars. Under Trump, the typical
factory worker has seen a wage increase of one thousand,
three hundred dollars. For construction workers, it's one thousand, eight
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hundred dollars for minors. We're bringing back clean, beautiful coal
is three thousand, three hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
And for the first time.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
In years, wages are rising much faster than inflation.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Remember that wages. Just look at it.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Wages are going up much faster than inflation.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
So this is a president of the United States whose
detractors will tell you he only cares about millionaires and billionaires.
And he just spent a moment there talking about how
wages are going up in these very blue collar jobs,
and everything he said there is accurate. It doesn't resonate
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with a lot of the American people because most people
don't do those jobs, and almost no one wants to
do those jobs right, and so they'll and then again
his detractor, we'll just tell you all he cares about
is millionaires and billionaires, and all that. He didn't care
about the little guy. He does care that, he does
care about the working class. This is why he does
so well among that voting population. What do you call
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the Trump accounts? Those are for billionaire. Sure, he's sending
out checks one seven hundred and seventy six dollars seventeen
seventy six to members of the military. They're going out.
Should be in your mailbox by Christmas. If you're a
member of the military. It's a nice thing for them.
In the family. He says, Hey, we got to do
these warrior dividends. Is he's sending these checks out? So
(17:32):
I don't know, other than the fact that they just
hate the guy and everything that he does. Why some
people would say all he cares about is fat cat
Wall Street rich friends.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Well, I think it's more dynamic than that. I think
that he has a propensity to irritate people. Of course,
it's like the truth social post about Rob Reiner.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
That's an example of.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Okay, you know what, I'm distracted from Trump's behavior as
president to Trump's behavior as a toddler in one social
media post. So that's an impact. The media, obviously is
never going to give a Republican president to break. The
mainstream media in this country is not journalism. It's propaganda
for the left, and it's never not going to be
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So you just deal with that on a day to
day basis. Now there are people who are out there
advocating for him. The Wall Street Journal gives them a
good twist. Fox news. Obviously most of talk radio is conservative,
so it's not like there's nobody, but you know, his
style and his tactics are bully tactics, Scott, and that's
that was I think on Parade last night. Everything he
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said was true. Factually you could quantify that is factually
true or at least very close to factually true. But
it was the style, it was the temper, it was
you know, it's okay, I'm mad that you guys don't
believe me. I'm mad that the polls don't show me
with a ninety five percent approval rating. So I'm going
to point my finger, yell at you for eighteen minutes
and just educate you dummies about what's happening in the country.
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That was the theme. He should have been sitting behind
the desk in the Oval office and he should have
been very quietly saying, guys, look, I probably over promised
a little bit burned during the campaign, but let me
lay it out for you. You know, and if he does that,
it's an entirely different response. There's no way he's going
to do it.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
And I also I disagree that there'd be a different
response because everything comes down to whether or not you
voted for that man as president. If you didn't, nothing
he says, or the way he says it is going
to pacify you. I just firmly believe that. But he's
not on the ballot in the midterms. He's always on
the ballot, Yes he is. Oh, the specter is on
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the ballot. It might be time now, Lucy, for Grandma
to get Venmo this holiday season especially.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
Doesn't get run over by a reindeer.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Well, that could always happen that, you know. People criticize
that song. But who sang that song, Doctor Elmo. He's
a doctor. That's true. By the way, Doctor Elmo did
Grandma got run off over by a reindeer. And I
don't know about you, but I believe in science. I
listen to doctors. Now, Grandma might need to get Venmo
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to send you eleven dollars for Christmas, because if you
live around Buccaneer Bay Plattsmith area, just off that seventy
five highway that Lucy says, no one's moving up and
down at any time at the day or night on.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
I don't think I ever said that.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Well, I've thought it. Yeah, I hear it a lot.
I'm always thinking as you say, the Kennedy Freeway is
backed up past Chandler. Then I hear Chandler from friends
going could I be any more packed up? But you
get past all that and down in Plattsmouth Buccaneer Bay,
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that's where people down there, and there's a whole neighborhood
app what's the neighborhood app thing? I don't know if
it's on Facebook, but yeah, next door where they're talking
about how all the residents down there mailing out these
Christmas cards and gift cards. And people can usually tell,
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you know, if they're pilfering your mailbox.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
How can you tell?
Speaker 1 (21:11):
It looks like a card, it's got a kid's name
on there. It says, you know, to Caden or Braden
or Jaden or Leyden or you know, one of those things,
and it's got cursive handwriting that's from a grandma to
a grandchild. And there's probably money in there. So someone
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is alleged to be bucketing those cards because all these
people are saying, like, I sent cards to my grandkids
had fifty dollars bills inside fifty dollars. That's what Mike said.
He sent two cards. Each one had a fifty dollars
bill inside. And then another guy says, I sent card
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to my grandson twenty dollars in and he never got it. Well,
that might be a lie. Your grandson might be trying
to scam you. Oh, I didn't get any card with money.
Maybe if you send another one, Well I didn't get
that one either. You know what, it's a business model.
And here's fourteen Facebook posts from residents around Buccaneer Bay
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who say that their holiday cards never made it to
their destination. And they say, well, we put them in
This is the story here from WOWT First Alert six News.
I don't know if anyone else will find this funny,
but it says we put them in their mailbox. So
that raises a red flag.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
All right, see what you did there.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Because when you put outgoing mail in the mailbox, you
have to literally raise a red flag. Come on, mail office, humor.
This is great. So what are they thinking. Are they
think someone's like coming out in the dead and knight
digging around through the mailboxes trying to find all this stuff. Well,
either that or they're saying maybe someone at the post
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office is pocketing these cards. Some grinch at the post
office might be stealing these cards, gift cards, cards with
cash inside. That does happen. There was a situation like
that when I was a kid where someone who lived
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in the neighborhood also as a mail carrier, was accused
of stealing like birthday Christmas cards with cash inside. And
so that became kind of a dark joke between my
friends and me when we were kids, going, Man, I'm
short on cash. I'm going to go over to so
and so's house and get my money from my birthday card.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
You actually said those words. Yes, even though even if
you didn't do it, you said you were going to
do it.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Yeah, it was still said we do that. I gotta
get some McDonald's money. I could go over to so
AND's hou's house. I know he's got a check or
some cash from my grandma, like nine dollars check. So
the buccaneer Bay Mail goes through the Plattsmith Post Office
and they say, we take this very seriously. We're investigating
the allegations vigorously and the authorities have been contacted. So
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this might be the year the grandma needs to get
venmo and then someone can through the other way, steal
that money through some sort of online hack or something.
Yesterday at nine o'clock, we talked with a business owner
in that midtown heading up towards Blackstone area thirty first,
thirty second and Farnham about all the street construction that
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is making life absolutely not just, I mean miserable. Is
one thing they're not going to be able to survive,
he says, because of all the street construction, which was
supposed to be moving on to the next phase by now,
but it keeps getting pushed and pushed in months down
the road, so they're not sure when it's going to end.
People can't get to the businesses. It's hard to even
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find a place to park around there and walk because
a lot of the sidewalks are gone. People have noticed this.
You try to go from Blackstone to Midtown to downtown
and you can find that on the Vintage Vorheas podcast
link Scott Vorheas page at kfab dot com. And I
just got an email from another one of the owners
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down there of a restaurant. This is in Midtown. It's
Joshua Martinez Apamas Kitchen in Midtown. He says, thanks for
having Dan on. We talked to Dan from Smoking Oak yesterday.
He says, our business is right next to his, and
he's one hundred percent correct. Talking to other business owners
in the area, most are down thirty to forty percent.
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It's been estimated that sixty to seventy percent of all
the retail and restaurants will close by the end of
the streetcar project. None of us are looking to twenty
twenty eight, when the car will be completed. Our focus
is how can we be open next month. It's that
dire We appreciate the microphone, you bet, Josh, I hope
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this works out, he says. I asked Dan with smoke
and oak, because like, do you want the city to
pay to keep you open during this time? He said,
unless they want us all to fail, someone has to
do something. Those are costs they don't talk about. Yeah,
that's the reality of that situation for all these business owners,
their employees, their vendors, the tax face everything all right, Christmas.
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I love the Muppets. Lucy Chapman not a muppet, but
a bit of an animal timesaver, traffic animal. She's right
over there.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
I like listening to this because no matter how hard
you try, Yeah, you can never bring back that magical
feeling of Christmas you had as a kid, So this helps,
You're not going to get it back.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
I'm going to sort of disagree with you on that,
and I'll tell you why. By the way, I'm Scott Vorhees,
Craig Evans, Jim Rose here, and we're all here on
Nebraska's news, weather and traffic station. Thanks for hanging out
with us on news radio eleven ten KFAB. Just in
case you were wondering, Scott, what is it that you
do when you're not at the radio station for minutes
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at a time. Last night I was asked, I was
invited to put on a Grinch costume and hang out
for the Grinch Miss Buffet at beautiful oak Hills Country Club,
my beloved Oak Hills Country Club. And first of all,
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the infuriating part, even though I was wearing a full
Grinch costume with a full Grinch mask, you couldn't see
my face. It is infuriating how many of the people
I know there immediately recognized me. Apparently my soul now
had an outward embodiment that was easy to recognize, and
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people knew it was me, but the kids didn't. And
even though the first kid that walked through the door
saw me and started crying and hiding behind her mother.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
It's kind of what I do.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
And I didn't even have the mask on. That was
the no. So it started off a little rocky for sure,
But by the end of the night, because I asked them, like,
what do you want me, as the Grinch to do?
Do you want me to just stand there and wave?
Do you want me to talk? They say, oh, yeah, talk,
do whatever you want? Like, can I mock these kids
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and their parents? Hey, we know whatever you think the
Grinch might do. And so basically the Grinch was just
going around as kids were eating macaroni and cheese. I
just walk up behind him to get down next to
him and go, you're gonna eat all that? Can I
have some? You know? That's fun? And of course I
had a bag full of gifts and they'd reach in there,
say take anything you want, and they'd reach for one,
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not that one, you know, which that's another fun thing.
So it was a great time. And by the end
of the night we had like seventy or eighty kids
in there, and all of them are coming up and
given the Grinch a hug, and we're posing for pictures
and they're showing me their little Grinch tattoos. Of course,
I told them that's never going to come off the
rest of their lives. Many of them probably believe me,
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and they'll be disappointed when it does come off. They
had their Grinch shirts on. They love the Grinch, asking
me where my dog Max was, and I say, if yeah,
I don't know, he's around here somewhere. If you see him,
you gotta tell me. We got a busy night. We
got to take those gifts up to the top of
Mount Crumpet. So just watching Christmas through their eyes, these
kids were basically eating a diet of macaroni and cheese
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and marshmallows, and so by the end of the night,
they're just running around and screaming and spinning and out
of their minds with Christmas joy, and they're hugging me
as the Grinch, and it was just so much fun.
I get in my car afterwards and it's on a
Christmas station and I hear Reeva McIntyre, Trisha Yearwood, and
(30:05):
Kelly Clarkson singing Silent Night, and I lost it because
I felt what you just said, you can't feel anymore.
I felt that joy of Christmas the same way I
did when I was a kid.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
Don't misunderstand me. You can feel the joy of Christmas.
I absolutely have the joy of Christmas because of what
it all truly means. What I'm talking about is that
happiness of getting together with when you have a big family,
getting together with all of the family and all of
the fun and the laughter. I mean, that's the kind
of stuff that you cannot get back once it's gone.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
What I heard you say was you don't like kids,
you don't want them to be happy, and you did
I miss I think you missed it. All right, Well,
I'll go back and listen to it if I was wrong.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
Though, you don't like kids and you don't want them
to be happy under any conditions.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
I know.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
I think kids should still get that experience. I think
that they should be around family like that. But once
you lose it, it's gone.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
You're right, it does. It changes. But hopefully on whatever
level you can connect with how beautiful this Christmas season is.
I certainly hope that you can do that.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
Oh I'm connected?
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Oh yeah, no, one's more connected.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Well. The latest thing that some of the activists are
losing their ever loving minds over would be Governor Pillin
not just him doing this, but also doctor Oz in
the Trump administration, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare
and Medicaid Services. He was with Governor Pillin yesterday and
Lincoln where they became where Nebraska we became the first
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state in America to pursue Medicaid work requirements. Now, this
is mandated by the Better Business Bureau. This is what's
caused Douglas County's board, as we had for you yesterday morning,
this is what has caused their board to look at
the General Assistance Fund and their director giving out assistance
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for years and years and years, sometimes ten years or
more to so called able bodied adults who can work
but don't. Why would they They're still getting assistance to
pay the rent or whatever their bills are. Well, the
idea here is that able bodied adults between nineteen and
(32:26):
sixty four. We're not talking about your great great grandmother here. Well,
I got an oxygen tank. I can't. Well you got
an oxygen tank. You could probably sit there and answer
the phone. You know, it's not like, you know, you
take a nice tall glass to shut the hell up.
You know, we're not doing Ben Stiller in atpy Gilmour here.
It's able bodied adults nineteen to sixty four in Medicaid
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expansion are required, and they're not talking about you. If
you've decided like why retired early, I'm fine those who
are on Medicaid and now in the Medicaid expansion, you're
nineteen sixty four, you're required to work eighty hours a week,
no a month, eighty hours a month, or be in school,
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or be enrolled in an approved work program, or participate
in community service or some combination of those that shows
that you are contributing to society and paying off that
which has been provided for you from the taxpayer. When
we're talking about Medicaid expansion.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
That's still not good enough. What Isn't you have to
if you can, you've got to find a job. Yeah,
you can't. You should be donating your time to volunteerism
outside of work. Okay, that's what you do. You take
care of things at home and then you give up
your time. But the idea that you can get out
of having to work and will pay for you because
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you're helping out at the Salvation Army, you should do
that out of the goodness of your heart, not as
a lifestyle.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
I don't disagree, but it's better than sitting around doing
nothing getting paid for it, which is what's happening now.
And people are like, well, this is mean. Wait, wait,
why why is it mean? Wonder why China's kicking our ass? Yeah?
Is that part of sports free? We were talking throughout
the morning here. President spoke last night, and of course
there are people who say, well, you say in the
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economy is good, but you know there's not for me.
You're talking about the stock market being up. They didn't
meaning for me? Okay, why why is that my problem? Well,
the Dow is up three hundred and fifty points right now.
I don't know what it's going to do the rest
of the day. If I did, i'd probably make a
bunch of money in the stock market, and i'd still
do this radio show. But in addition to that, make
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a bunch of money. I don't know what it's gonna
do throughout the day here, but I know that no
matter what it does when it goes up. There are
people who say that it doesn't mean anything for them,
that they don't care if the stock market is up,
and they don't care if the President's saying, well that
people who work in blue collar jobs are are doing
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better that their their salaries are up over a thousand points.
They don't care. The military is getting these warrior dividends
of one thousand, seven hundred and seventy six dollars in
the next week, or two seventeen seventy six paid out
to every member of our military. People don't care because
well it me all right. So what you're saying is
(35:17):
all I have to do is just sit here. I
only had to do is sit here with my mouth
wide open, and the government must come to me with
its teat, its taxpayer funded teat, and then therefore feed
and take care of me. I'm not going to go
out and work any of these jobs. I'm not going
to be in the military. I don't think the stock
market applies to me. So what the president says, it
didn't mean anything for me. Boy, there's a bunch of
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cry babies in this country. You need to calm down.
I might be one of them, but not in that regard.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
The issue with any political construct is the man in
charge of the woman in charge gets blamed for good
things and bad things.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
Oh come on, when is a woman ever in charge?
Speaker 3 (35:56):
And in this case, the midterm elections are coming our
way here in less than a year, and the president
is not on the ballot, at least not directly. Now,
he may be implied on the ballot because he's the president.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
He wants his stuff done.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
But if the Republican Party, which has been in charge
now the White House, the Senate, not entirely they don't
have a sixty vote margin in the United States Senate,
but the White House and Congress, and largely the Supreme
Court too, if people don't feel like we're going in
the right direction, or if they don't feel like the
president's promises have been kept, and it's not anything about
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what he says or what the media reports, because the
media might report a very biased angle on everything that
Trump does. Right, But when you go to the grocery
store or when you go to put gas in your car,
and that's actually a poor example because gas prices are down.
But you look at your utility bill, or you look
at your property tax bill, or you look at the
homeowner's insurance pot. But more than that, the healthcare costs
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not just what you're paying in insurance, but you're a
deductible his way up there, which means that you get
a massive bill for something because your kid injured an
ankle in an pick up basketball game. Those are the
kinds of things that say I got to have somebody different.
It may not be fair, it may be completely inaccurate
and actually not even sane.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
But that's how it works here. So the president is
going to.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
Have to prove through real every day first of the
month bill paying that it's getting better for you and
you and you and you, and if it's not, he
gets blamed.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
He can't. He's going to get blamed anyway he could.
I mean, everyone could be doing so fantastically. Their salaries
could be double, the stock market could be tripled, every
one of their kids is on the honor roll, and
they would still blame President Trump because the sun came up.
Which is why I don't believe these people that when
they say, well, consumer confidence is down, that's because they
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hate Trump. They don't want Trump to have anything positive
going for him, and so therefore when someone says how's
the economy going for you, these people lie and say
the economy is terrible because Trump, And then they'll go
spend a ton of money Christmas shopping and going out
to eat at fancy restaurants and blowing money in the
latest tech and whatever else. The economy's going fine for them.
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They just think that Trump is the worst, and so
therefore they're going to lie and say that the economy's bad.
I don't disagree that he's not going to get a
fair shake. But the Republicans and the Republican orthodoxy will
credit and be and benefit from a better economy. The
thing about the stock market, Scott and a lot of
us are in it. A lot of us are not.
Speaker 3 (38:32):
Six out of ten Americans are not in the stock market.
They have nothing. They have no four oh one K,
no Ira, no five twenty nine plan, nothing. I mean
they stuff it in the in their mattress they don't
have any or they put it in a past book
savings account. The truth of the matter is the stock
market is not a good indicator of where the economy is.
It's a good indicator of where your fourah one K
(38:53):
plan is. But right now, essentially the stock market is
hanging on five stocks, okay, one of which Oracle, one
of which is Navidi. It's an AI driven market. Right now,
the government is spending three hundred and eight billion dollars
on chips, and private investment in AI is six hundred
and eighty billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
Which leads me to what Bernie Sanders said yesterday, Tommy
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, he said yesterday me, well, he is,
he said he is a communist. He says he wants
to regulate AI and he wants to hit the brakes
on any new AI data centers, these massive facilities that
(39:31):
power systems like chat, GPT and allow your kids and
grandkids to do their homework. Uh, Bernie Bert Yes, Bernie
Sanders says, we need to stop all of this stuff. Now,
there might be some legitimacy in some of this, like
do we have the energy grid to support some stuff?
What happens if all these jobs are eliminated? That's fine,
(39:52):
But coming from Bernie Sanders, Senator, I would like for
you to explain AI to me. Hell from you all,
even take an explanation or some semblance of eye from
Bernie Sanders, some level of intelligence for once from Bernie Sanders.
So I'm not sure that I'm gonna believe Bernie Sanders,
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who doesn't understand anything about any of this, talking about
do we need to shut down any new AI.
Speaker 3 (40:19):
Downs well, I think he understands things. He's just politically
ideologically opposed to them. He knows what a data center
is and he knows what it does. I agree with
Bernie to this extent. Data centers don't help the local economy.
They don't employ very many people. They take a lot
of land out of production, if it was farmland. They
take a tremendous amount of energy energy that we really
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don't have the capacity to replace, especially with an ongoing
green movement in this country to eliminate fossil fuels. Now
that's been slowed down by the Trump administration, but it's
still there. I say, sure, you bet. You can build
a data center here. We have them in Sarpeye County.
Ask Sarpy County residents. What are they doing for you
except using a lot of energy. You can build one,
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but you have to have your own power source because
it'll employ no people. There are very, very very few employees. Now,
it's great for the guy who sold the land, it's
great for the Trenton maggot who brokeer the sale, and
it's great for the guy that built it. But after
it's built, that's it. They need to make certain they
have their own independent power source. While you're trying to
slap food out of Trenton's mouth, why A, you're trying
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to take Trend's Trend's got lots on his plate.
That's Lucy Chapman. Jim Rose is here. That's Craig Evans too.
My name is Scott Vorhees, and this is News Radio
eleven ten kfab. Thank you so much for being with
us here this morning. Let's see here. It was just
about ten hours ago on this radio station you heard
a speech that started like this.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Eleven months ago, I inherited a mess, and I'm fixing it.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
This was then about an eighteen minute speech by President
Trump that was, according to those in the media who
were reporting on this, a very partisan speech. Usually a
presidential address to the nation is not so blatantly partisan
as what we heard from the president last night, calling
out President Biden for destroying the country the high inflation
(00:46):
that's blamed on Biden. Is that fair criticism he was,
To be honest, President Biden was asleep for most of
his time in office. I don't know if it's fair
to blame him for the inflation. He's calling out Democrats
and all the rest of this stuff. And the media
was somehow shocked by this. Now. I don't know if
they've been paying any attention to the past eleven months
(01:10):
or so when the president has been in office. This
time or the four years, the previous time, or anything
he has said anywhere in that interim period. But that's
that's what we have. That is the president of the
United States. So he went on to talk about basically
trying to deliver a message to the American people. Jim
(01:32):
that said, I know that the polls show that you
don't feel that the economy's going very well, but it is,
and you're wrong for thinking that it's not. That was
his speech last night.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Well, there was some of that. It wasn't as bad
as some of the gas lighting that Joe Biden did
to the American people. And he said, oh, that border
is secure, They ain't nobody coming across that border, right.
That one that was reminiscent of Bagdad Bob, you know,
standing in front of the media saying the American troops
are not here as they walked past him, you know,
and said I'm square better.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Let's not forget President Biden standing there in a dark
red lid thing called half the country domestic terrorist. That
was a fun speech.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
But this this speech last night, it was disappointing because
it was an angry speech. It wasn't a reassuring confidence speech.
It was I'm sick and tired of you people saying
I'm not doing anything. I'm sick and tired of you
people saying nothing's happened. Let me tell you what's happened.
So he's pointing his finger at us and yelling into
this microphone. He sounded like an angry old man, but
he did have good information. He said, Now, let me
(02:30):
explain to you why your wages are up. He had grafts,
because when inflation is at nine percent and your wages
stay the same, you lose money. But when we bring
inflation down to three percent, which we have it might
be two point five today, when the CPI comes out
for November, then your wage and actually purchasing power goes up.
So he's right about that. And he, you know, he's
(02:51):
rattling off all this stuff that he did. Specifically closing
the border. He said, the reason that we have a
housing crunch in this country is because seven million people
came a the border and start taking up houses, especially
low income houses.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
And he's right about that.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
And we've had at least two and a half to
three million self deportations, and we've run out another six
hundred thousand of these illegals just in one year.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
That's pretty good work.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
But the problem with the president, Scott and you and
I remember this because we watched the campaign. He promised
during the campaign, I'll bring down your prizes on day one.
I will allude I will win this war between the
Ukraine and Russia on day one. I'll do this on
you over promise. You cannot deliver. He did get a big,
(03:37):
beautiful bill passed. There will be a lot of stuff
in there that would be good for business, a lot
of stuff in there that's good for the average taxpayer.
These Trump Funds for Kids is a really good idea.
But here's the challenge Donald Trump and nobody in government
understands because they don't communicate very well that the guy
living in Millard number and Millard, the Millard District of Omaha, Nebraska,
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used to be its own town.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
It's not anymore. Yeah, good safe.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
He's got a five hundred thousand dollar house. He's got
a two hundred and fifty thousand dollars mortgage at probably
five percent on this Okay, he's paying over three thousand
dollars a month in principle and interest escrow because his
homeowners insurance is probably three hundred dollars a month, and
he's got probably a nine to ten thousand dollars property
tax bill. So the utilities, the insurance, the principle, and
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interest makes him worried because that's a lot of money.
When your average take home pay in the state of
Nebraska's sixty nine thousand dollars, that's what you bring home
on an annual basis. The problem is they aren't addressing
the root causes of affordability and how to bring ease
to the American public's monthly bills. He's right about everything
(04:46):
he's saying, and I think next year will be a
big year for American business because you'll start to see
some of this investment turn into bricks and mortar. But
the average person and the polls show it. They can't
all be wrong. The polls show people are worried about
paying their monthly bills.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
There are a couple of things that I think you
and the media missed, and what the President said last night,
Thank goodness, I am here to point those out. The
President's message I think can be anything in the world.
He can point out, Hey, the price of this is down,
price of gas is down. Yeah, the numbers related to
employment are a little bit all over the place. But
(05:24):
that's because Elon Musk went and some kid named Big
NRDS went in there and cut all these government jobs.
And now they're being added by the private sector, which
is the way it's supposed to be in this country.
And our America is doing reciprocal tariffs against the nations
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who did the exact same thing to us. Why is
it a problem when we do it? He could say
all this stuff, which is, by the way, what he
did last night, and you got half the people in
America who don't believe any of it because of the
man who's saying it. When you've got the concer assumer
confidence numbers, when the the media and the experts are
going out there talking to people, going how do you
(06:05):
feel the economy is going? It doesn't matter how the
economy is going. It matters whether or not last November,
previous November year ago. It matters whether or not they
voted for Donald J. Trump. If they did, the overwhelming
majority of them feel the economy is going okay, it
(06:26):
could be better, but they feel it's all right. If
they didn't, President Trump could tell them to that. Today
is Thursday and They wouldn't believe it. They said it's
Friday Eve and that the president's a liar and a
war criminal. It doesn't it doesn't matter what the economy
is doing.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
I don't know if that's true. All the dependents. I
think Independence, Yeah, the MAGA crowd is hood on board.
Who are the independence at this point? Where are these people?
Independence of the people who don't declare themselves politically engaged
in until election day? Now they go, Okay, who's the
best candidate for me?
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Right now?
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Independence pold will say, we're disappointed. It's because he over
promised during the campaign. That's the problem.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
The thing that you were pointing out a moment ago
related to stuff like property tax and all the rest.
This isn't stuff that the president of the United States has.
This is their schools, this is your city, this is
your county.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Well, you give him a house, a plane, a car,
We get multiple houses. He gets a butler for all
of that. He gets blamed for property taxes in Omaha.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Can you imagine being President Trump's butler, walk around with
you know, several diet cokes and your holster and some
Kentucky Fried chicken. Here you go. He's only got one tie.
Congratulations to We consider her one of our own. She's
in the kfab family tree. We have a new Douglas
County election commissioner, Lucy, do we we do? Can you
(07:52):
tell me who the previous one was or the one
before that? Okay, well his name was Brian Cruz.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Yeah, couldn't I told you that?
Speaker 1 (08:01):
And as I always told Brian, he's got a great job.
He had maybe the best job in the world as
the county election commissioner. I presume his job every day
was coming in in April in an off year election,
coming into the office going all right, what's everyone working
on today? Well, we got that election coming up next November. Great,
(08:23):
stay on it. I'm gonna go get some lunch. You know.
Like what was his job throughout the entire year now?
Right election time? Making sure all the polling places were
staffed and all the rest of that stuff. I imagine there's
there's some work involved in that. But like if he
came into the office today, we don't have a city
(08:44):
election in the spring. We got a midterm. I mean
there's a primary I suppose in May whenever, And so
what's he doing comes in the office today and He's like,
how's everything going there? Boys? How are we doing? We're
just waiting for primary election. Great, we're gonna do the
thing where we make the ballots available and people go
(09:05):
and fill in the ballots, then we count the ballots.
That's right, boss, Hey, all right, And I tell you what,
what a crack team we have here? Well, I got
some Christmas shopping to do. I'll see you guys a
little bit. What does the election commissioner do every day
other than like a week before election day? Well, he
decided that was too strenuous for him, and so he quit.
(09:28):
He wanted to go back to the private sector, which
his Do you know what his job was before he
was election commissioner?
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Well, if I didn't know what he does now, I
probably don't know what he did before.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
What was it? Well, do you want to take a
guess what was he What was he doing that he
decided to be election commissioner? And now I'm not one
hundred percent suries going back to this. I think as
I talked to him the other day, and by the way,
I really like Brian Cruz, really really good man. I'm
just goofing with him.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
But Rollerskate Rink manager.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Wow, for someone who claimed not to know him that,
that's not even close to his job. He was in
the funeral business.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Yeah, I wouldn't guess that at a roller rink. At
a roller rink, all right.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Well, a lot of times when skaters shoot the duck
at a roller rink or they do like the backwards skate.
These are all very dangerous activities, and uh, several die.
I remember a lot of like fourth grade skating parties.
They'd play Careless Whisper and you'd either in fourth grade
in fifth grade, the girls were interested in couple skating
(10:37):
with you, but the boys were not interested in couple
skating with the girls. So you would run away from
the girls when Careless Whisper came on. But then in
sixth grade you're like, where's Rachel? What people that? Okay,
we're on Thursday. That's the first Jim Rose, what are
you talking about? To something I said here on the
program mind thank you? So it's really yeah, what I
(11:02):
was trying to say was that. And then a lot
of people die, and so you have a funeral service
right there at Skateland. They all die, Yeah, and they're
like behind the arcade was the you know, the Morgue
of all the dead people. Didn't you guys ever? Okay,
so Brian Cruz is leaving. So what I was I
think what was the point I was trying to make
is we have a new Douglas County election commissioner and
(11:24):
it's one of KFAB zonned she's in the family tree.
Congratulations to Danielle Jensen. This is someone who's work for Bacon.
And yeah, she's leaving working with Congressman Bacon because Bacon
is leaving working for the people in Nebraskt second District.
Daniel Jensen will then move over from his communications director
(11:44):
and a senior policy advisor to be the new Douglas
County election commissioner. Danielle Jensen is the daughter of longtime
KFAB newsman Craig Evans. Just seeing if he's paying attention.
Congratulations Craig your daughter. Craig is like, wait what Sorry, No,
it wasn't Craig. Bill Jensen till Jenson. Bill Jensen's daughter,
(12:07):
Danielle is our new election commissioner. He was always hoping
that she'd find steady work. Well, I just got a text,
Lucy from Douglas County Election Commissioner Brian Cruz now former.
He says, Hey, Scott, thanks for talking about me. Do
you need me to pick up any Christmas presents for
you today while I'm out shopping. I think I probably
(12:27):
just I think I've probably just been erased from the
Brian Cruz Christmas list. Today is the Norrad Santa Tracker Day,
thus proclaimed by the Governor of Nebraska, Jim Pillen. Now,
why in the world would Governor Jim Pillen of Nebraska
(12:49):
sign a proclamation recognizing today, Thursday, December eighteenth is Norrad
Santa Tracker Day. Now we know what the nor Ad
Santa Tracker is, right, Every year Christmas Eve has been
the case now for seventy years. Today, nor Ad has
(13:12):
used satellite imagery to let children and their families everywhere
across the globe know where Chris Kringle was at any
given moment in time. You'd see him going up and
down the longitudes, delivering toys to all the good little
boys and girls, Cole, to people like Lucy who just
(13:34):
didn't get it done this past year, but hey, there's
always hope for next year. Well, do you know that
that Santa tracka bat bad badibi? Did? Did you know
that no I bet you didn't let me try again.
Did you know that that Santa tracker service from nor
Ad started as a result of Nebraska native Colonel Barney Oldfield,
(13:58):
who helped start the program him seventy years ago. Old Barney, Yeah,
Old Barney, Colonel Barney Oldfield. He was one of the
first Hollywood pr agents after the war.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
That was Barney's claim to fame. He was a really
powerful guy in Hollywood in the fifties, sixties and seventies.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
And he's a Husker and he was a very very
supportive Husker donor, well, university donor, not necessarily sports, but
he was a huge Husker fan, a really great guy.
And I got to know Barney late in his life.
He was really supportive.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Yeah. He decided we needed a tracking system. So our
defense is, you know, wouldn't shoot Sanna out of the sky. Yeah,
they need to know where he is once he gets
into you know, you get across the international waters and
now you're coming into territorial waters. You know, we had
the opportunity to blow him out of the sky, whether
it was through the old fighter aircraft or later the
(14:56):
star Wars defense system. And if we had a way
of tracking him, then that wouldn't happen, and so it
was Colonel Oldfield has said, let's track his movements, and
that's why we have the Nora Ad Santa Tracker. He'll
be up and running on Wednesday night, Christmas Eve for
a week away from the big days. Thanks to Barney.
(15:18):
He was a World War II fighter pilot. Yeah, that's
why Santawaar's red is a respect to the big red.
All right. Last night, presidents of the United States addressed
the nation.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Eleven months ago, I inherited a mess, and I'm fixing it.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
That was the big message last night. It's like, look,
I know that some of the people in the media
say the economy is not doing all that great, but
it's doing fantastic. Why haven't you people figured it out yet.
There's a little bit more from the President's speech last night.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
After years of record setting falling incomes, our policies are
boosting takecom pay at a historic pace. Under Biden, real
wages plummeted by three thousand dollars. Under Trump, the typical
factory worker has seen a wage increase of one thousand,
three hundred dollars. For construction workers, it's one thousand, eight
(16:09):
hundred dollars for minors. We're bringing back clean, beautiful coal
is three thousand, three hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
And for the first time.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
In years, wages are rising much faster than inflation.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Remember that wages. Just look at it.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Wages are going up much faster than inflation.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
So this is a president of the United States whose
detractors will tell you he only cares about millionaires and billionaires.
And he just spent a moment there talking about how
wages are going up in these very blue collar jobs,
and everything he said there is accurate. It doesn't resonate
(16:50):
with a lot of the American people because most people
don't do those jobs, and almost no one wants to
do those jobs right, and so they'll and then again
his detractor, we'll just tell you all he cares about
is millionaires and billionaires, and all that. He didn't care
about the little guy. He does care that, he does
care about the working class. This is why he does
so well among that voting population. What do you call
(17:12):
the Trump accounts? Those are for billionaire. Sure, he's sending
out checks one seven hundred and seventy six dollars seventeen
seventy six to members of the military. They're going out.
Should be in your mailbox by Christmas. If you're a
member of the military. It's a nice thing for them.
In the family. He says, Hey, we got to do
these warrior dividends. Is he's sending these checks out? So
(17:32):
I don't know, other than the fact that they just
hate the guy and everything that he does. Why some
people would say all he cares about is fat cat
Wall Street rich friends.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Well, I think it's more dynamic than that. I think
that he has a propensity to irritate people. Of course,
it's like the truth social post about Rob Reiner.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
That's an example of.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Okay, you know what, I'm distracted from Trump's behavior as
president to Trump's behavior as a toddler in one social
media post. So that's an impact. The media, obviously is
never going to give a Republican president to break. The
mainstream media in this country is not journalism. It's propaganda
for the left, and it's never not going to be
(18:15):
So you just deal with that on a day to
day basis. Now there are people who are out there
advocating for him. The Wall Street Journal gives them a
good twist. Fox news. Obviously most of talk radio is conservative,
so it's not like there's nobody, but you know, his
style and his tactics are bully tactics, Scott, and that's
that was I think on Parade last night. Everything he
(18:35):
said was true. Factually you could quantify that is factually
true or at least very close to factually true. But
it was the style, it was the temper, it was
you know, it's okay, I'm mad that you guys don't
believe me. I'm mad that the polls don't show me
with a ninety five percent approval rating. So I'm going
to point my finger, yell at you for eighteen minutes
and just educate you dummies about what's happening in the country.
(18:59):
That was the theme. He should have been sitting behind
the desk in the Oval office and he should have
been very quietly saying, guys, look, I probably over promised
a little bit burned during the campaign, but let me
lay it out for you. You know, and if he does that,
it's an entirely different response. There's no way he's going
to do it.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
And I also I disagree that there'd be a different
response because everything comes down to whether or not you
voted for that man as president. If you didn't, nothing
he says, or the way he says it is going
to pacify you. I just firmly believe that. But he's
not on the ballot in the midterms. He's always on
the ballot, Yes he is. Oh, the specter is on
(19:36):
the ballot. It might be time now, Lucy, for Grandma
to get Venmo this holiday season especially.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
Doesn't get run over by a reindeer.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Well, that could always happen that, you know. People criticize
that song. But who sang that song, Doctor Elmo. He's
a doctor. That's true. By the way, Doctor Elmo did
Grandma got run off over by a reindeer. And I
don't know about you, but I believe in science. I
listen to doctors. Now, Grandma might need to get Venmo
(20:08):
to send you eleven dollars for Christmas, because if you
live around Buccaneer Bay Plattsmith area, just off that seventy
five highway that Lucy says, no one's moving up and
down at any time at the day or night on.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
I don't think I ever said that.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Well, I've thought it. Yeah, I hear it a lot.
I'm always thinking as you say, the Kennedy Freeway is
backed up past Chandler. Then I hear Chandler from friends
going could I be any more packed up? But you
get past all that and down in Plattsmouth Buccaneer Bay,
(20:46):
that's where people down there, and there's a whole neighborhood
app what's the neighborhood app thing? I don't know if
it's on Facebook, but yeah, next door where they're talking
about how all the residents down there mailing out these
Christmas cards and gift cards. And people can usually tell,
(21:07):
you know, if they're pilfering your mailbox.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
How can you tell?
Speaker 1 (21:11):
It looks like a card, it's got a kid's name
on there. It says, you know, to Caden or Braden
or Jaden or Leyden or you know, one of those things,
and it's got cursive handwriting that's from a grandma to
a grandchild. And there's probably money in there. So someone
(21:31):
is alleged to be bucketing those cards because all these
people are saying, like, I sent cards to my grandkids
had fifty dollars bills inside fifty dollars. That's what Mike said.
He sent two cards. Each one had a fifty dollars
bill inside. And then another guy says, I sent card
(21:53):
to my grandson twenty dollars in and he never got it. Well,
that might be a lie. Your grandson might be trying
to scam you. Oh, I didn't get any card with money.
Maybe if you send another one, Well I didn't get
that one either. You know what, it's a business model.
And here's fourteen Facebook posts from residents around Buccaneer Bay
(22:15):
who say that their holiday cards never made it to
their destination. And they say, well, we put them in
This is the story here from WOWT First Alert six News.
I don't know if anyone else will find this funny,
but it says we put them in their mailbox. So
that raises a red flag.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
All right, see what you did there.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Because when you put outgoing mail in the mailbox, you
have to literally raise a red flag. Come on, mail office, humor.
This is great. So what are they thinking. Are they
think someone's like coming out in the dead and knight
digging around through the mailboxes trying to find all this stuff. Well,
either that or they're saying maybe someone at the post
(23:01):
office is pocketing these cards. Some grinch at the post
office might be stealing these cards, gift cards, cards with
cash inside. That does happen. There was a situation like
that when I was a kid where someone who lived
(23:23):
in the neighborhood also as a mail carrier, was accused
of stealing like birthday Christmas cards with cash inside. And
so that became kind of a dark joke between my
friends and me when we were kids, going, Man, I'm
short on cash. I'm going to go over to so
and so's house and get my money from my birthday card.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
You actually said those words. Yes, even though even if
you didn't do it, you said you were going to
do it.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Yeah, it was still said we do that. I gotta
get some McDonald's money. I could go over to so
AND's hou's house. I know he's got a check or
some cash from my grandma, like nine dollars check. So
the buccaneer Bay Mail goes through the Plattsmith Post Office
and they say, we take this very seriously. We're investigating
the allegations vigorously and the authorities have been contacted. So
(24:12):
this might be the year the grandma needs to get
venmo and then someone can through the other way, steal
that money through some sort of online hack or something.
Yesterday at nine o'clock, we talked with a business owner
in that midtown heading up towards Blackstone area thirty first,
thirty second and Farnham about all the street construction that
(24:35):
is making life absolutely not just, I mean miserable. Is
one thing they're not going to be able to survive,
he says, because of all the street construction, which was
supposed to be moving on to the next phase by now,
but it keeps getting pushed and pushed in months down
the road, so they're not sure when it's going to end.
People can't get to the businesses. It's hard to even
(24:58):
find a place to park around there and walk because
a lot of the sidewalks are gone. People have noticed this.
You try to go from Blackstone to Midtown to downtown
and you can find that on the Vintage Vorheas podcast
link Scott Vorheas page at kfab dot com. And I
just got an email from another one of the owners
(25:20):
down there of a restaurant. This is in Midtown. It's
Joshua Martinez Apamas Kitchen in Midtown. He says, thanks for
having Dan on. We talked to Dan from Smoking Oak yesterday.
He says, our business is right next to his, and
he's one hundred percent correct. Talking to other business owners
in the area, most are down thirty to forty percent.
(25:43):
It's been estimated that sixty to seventy percent of all
the retail and restaurants will close by the end of
the streetcar project. None of us are looking to twenty
twenty eight, when the car will be completed. Our focus
is how can we be open next month. It's that
dire We appreciate the microphone, you bet, Josh, I hope
(26:06):
this works out, he says. I asked Dan with smoke
and oak, because like, do you want the city to
pay to keep you open during this time? He said,
unless they want us all to fail, someone has to
do something. Those are costs they don't talk about. Yeah,
that's the reality of that situation for all these business owners,
their employees, their vendors, the tax face everything all right, Christmas.
(26:32):
I love the Muppets. Lucy Chapman not a muppet, but
a bit of an animal timesaver, traffic animal. She's right
over there.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
I like listening to this because no matter how hard
you try, Yeah, you can never bring back that magical
feeling of Christmas you had as a kid, So this helps,
You're not going to get it back.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
I'm going to sort of disagree with you on that,
and I'll tell you why. By the way, I'm Scott Vorhees,
Craig Evans, Jim Rose here, and we're all here on
Nebraska's news, weather and traffic station. Thanks for hanging out
with us on news radio eleven ten KFAB. Just in
case you were wondering, Scott, what is it that you
do when you're not at the radio station for minutes
(27:19):
at a time. Last night I was asked, I was
invited to put on a Grinch costume and hang out
for the Grinch Miss Buffet at beautiful oak Hills Country Club,
my beloved Oak Hills Country Club. And first of all,
(27:40):
the infuriating part, even though I was wearing a full
Grinch costume with a full Grinch mask, you couldn't see
my face. It is infuriating how many of the people
I know there immediately recognized me. Apparently my soul now
had an outward embodiment that was easy to recognize, and
(28:01):
people knew it was me, but the kids didn't. And
even though the first kid that walked through the door
saw me and started crying and hiding behind her mother.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
It's kind of what I do.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
And I didn't even have the mask on. That was
the no. So it started off a little rocky for sure,
But by the end of the night, because I asked them, like,
what do you want me, as the Grinch to do?
Do you want me to just stand there and wave?
Do you want me to talk? They say, oh, yeah, talk,
do whatever you want? Like, can I mock these kids
(28:35):
and their parents? Hey, we know whatever you think the
Grinch might do. And so basically the Grinch was just
going around as kids were eating macaroni and cheese. I
just walk up behind him to get down next to
him and go, you're gonna eat all that? Can I
have some? You know? That's fun? And of course I
had a bag full of gifts and they'd reach in there,
say take anything you want, and they'd reach for one,
(28:57):
not that one, you know, which that's another fun thing.
So it was a great time. And by the end
of the night we had like seventy or eighty kids
in there, and all of them are coming up and
given the Grinch a hug, and we're posing for pictures
and they're showing me their little Grinch tattoos. Of course,
I told them that's never going to come off the
rest of their lives. Many of them probably believe me,
(29:19):
and they'll be disappointed when it does come off. They
had their Grinch shirts on. They love the Grinch, asking
me where my dog Max was, and I say, if yeah,
I don't know, he's around here somewhere. If you see him,
you gotta tell me. We got a busy night. We
got to take those gifts up to the top of
Mount Crumpet. So just watching Christmas through their eyes, these
kids were basically eating a diet of macaroni and cheese
(29:42):
and marshmallows, and so by the end of the night,
they're just running around and screaming and spinning and out
of their minds with Christmas joy, and they're hugging me
as the Grinch, and it was just so much fun.
I get in my car afterwards and it's on a
Christmas station and I hear Reeva McIntyre, Trisha Yearwood, and
(30:05):
Kelly Clarkson singing Silent Night, and I lost it because
I felt what you just said, you can't feel anymore.
I felt that joy of Christmas the same way I
did when I was a kid.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
Don't misunderstand me. You can feel the joy of Christmas.
I absolutely have the joy of Christmas because of what
it all truly means. What I'm talking about is that
happiness of getting together with when you have a big family,
getting together with all of the family and all of
the fun and the laughter. I mean, that's the kind
of stuff that you cannot get back once it's gone.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
What I heard you say was you don't like kids,
you don't want them to be happy, and you did
I miss I think you missed it. All right, Well,
I'll go back and listen to it if I was wrong.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
Though, you don't like kids and you don't want them
to be happy under any conditions.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
I know.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
I think kids should still get that experience. I think
that they should be around family like that. But once
you lose it, it's gone.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
You're right, it does. It changes. But hopefully on whatever
level you can connect with how beautiful this Christmas season is.
I certainly hope that you can do that.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
Oh I'm connected?
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Oh yeah, no, one's more connected.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Well. The latest thing that some of the activists are
losing their ever loving minds over would be Governor Pillin
not just him doing this, but also doctor Oz in
the Trump administration, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare
and Medicaid Services. He was with Governor Pillin yesterday and
Lincoln where they became where Nebraska we became the first
(31:44):
state in America to pursue Medicaid work requirements. Now, this
is mandated by the Better Business Bureau. This is what's
caused Douglas County's board, as we had for you yesterday morning,
this is what has caused their board to look at
the General Assistance Fund and their director giving out assistance
(32:05):
for years and years and years, sometimes ten years or
more to so called able bodied adults who can work
but don't. Why would they They're still getting assistance to
pay the rent or whatever their bills are. Well, the
idea here is that able bodied adults between nineteen and
(32:26):
sixty four. We're not talking about your great great grandmother here. Well,
I got an oxygen tank. I can't. Well you got
an oxygen tank. You could probably sit there and answer
the phone. You know, it's not like, you know, you
take a nice tall glass to shut the hell up.
You know, we're not doing Ben Stiller in atpy Gilmour here.
It's able bodied adults nineteen to sixty four in Medicaid
(32:49):
expansion are required, and they're not talking about you. If
you've decided like why retired early, I'm fine those who
are on Medicaid and now in the Medicaid expansion, you're
nineteen sixty four, you're required to work eighty hours a week,
no a month, eighty hours a month, or be in school,
(33:10):
or be enrolled in an approved work program, or participate
in community service or some combination of those that shows
that you are contributing to society and paying off that
which has been provided for you from the taxpayer. When
we're talking about Medicaid expansion.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
That's still not good enough. What Isn't you have to
if you can, you've got to find a job. Yeah,
you can't. You should be donating your time to volunteerism
outside of work. Okay, that's what you do. You take
care of things at home and then you give up
your time. But the idea that you can get out
of having to work and will pay for you because
(33:49):
you're helping out at the Salvation Army, you should do
that out of the goodness of your heart, not as
a lifestyle.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
I don't disagree, but it's better than sitting around doing
nothing getting paid for it, which is what's happening now.
And people are like, well, this is mean. Wait, wait,
why why is it mean? Wonder why China's kicking our ass? Yeah?
Is that part of sports free? We were talking throughout
the morning here. President spoke last night, and of course
there are people who say, well, you say in the
(34:15):
economy is good, but you know there's not for me.
You're talking about the stock market being up. They didn't
meaning for me? Okay, why why is that my problem? Well,
the Dow is up three hundred and fifty points right now.
I don't know what it's going to do the rest
of the day. If I did, i'd probably make a
bunch of money in the stock market, and i'd still
do this radio show. But in addition to that, make
(34:36):
a bunch of money. I don't know what it's gonna
do throughout the day here, but I know that no
matter what it does when it goes up. There are
people who say that it doesn't mean anything for them,
that they don't care if the stock market is up,
and they don't care if the President's saying, well that
people who work in blue collar jobs are are doing
(34:56):
better that their their salaries are up over a thousand points.
They don't care. The military is getting these warrior dividends
of one thousand, seven hundred and seventy six dollars in
the next week, or two seventeen seventy six paid out
to every member of our military. People don't care because
well it me all right. So what you're saying is
(35:17):
all I have to do is just sit here. I
only had to do is sit here with my mouth
wide open, and the government must come to me with
its teat, its taxpayer funded teat, and then therefore feed
and take care of me. I'm not going to go
out and work any of these jobs. I'm not going
to be in the military. I don't think the stock
market applies to me. So what the president says, it
didn't mean anything for me. Boy, there's a bunch of
(35:39):
cry babies in this country. You need to calm down.
I might be one of them, but not in that regard.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
The issue with any political construct is the man in
charge of the woman in charge gets blamed for good
things and bad things.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
Oh come on, when is a woman ever in charge?
Speaker 3 (35:56):
And in this case, the midterm elections are coming our
way here in less than a year, and the president
is not on the ballot, at least not directly. Now,
he may be implied on the ballot because he's the president.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
He wants his stuff done.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
But if the Republican Party, which has been in charge
now the White House, the Senate, not entirely they don't
have a sixty vote margin in the United States Senate,
but the White House and Congress, and largely the Supreme
Court too, if people don't feel like we're going in
the right direction, or if they don't feel like the
president's promises have been kept, and it's not anything about
(36:34):
what he says or what the media reports, because the
media might report a very biased angle on everything that
Trump does. Right, But when you go to the grocery
store or when you go to put gas in your car,
and that's actually a poor example because gas prices are down.
But you look at your utility bill, or you look
at your property tax bill, or you look at the
homeowner's insurance pot. But more than that, the healthcare costs
(36:58):
not just what you're paying in insurance, but you're a
deductible his way up there, which means that you get
a massive bill for something because your kid injured an
ankle in an pick up basketball game. Those are the
kinds of things that say I got to have somebody different.
It may not be fair, it may be completely inaccurate
and actually not even sane.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
But that's how it works here. So the president is
going to.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
Have to prove through real every day first of the
month bill paying that it's getting better for you and
you and you and you, and if it's not, he
gets blamed.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
He can't. He's going to get blamed anyway he could.
I mean, everyone could be doing so fantastically. Their salaries
could be double, the stock market could be tripled, every
one of their kids is on the honor roll, and
they would still blame President Trump because the sun came up.
Which is why I don't believe these people that when
they say, well, consumer confidence is down, that's because they
(37:51):
hate Trump. They don't want Trump to have anything positive
going for him, and so therefore when someone says how's
the economy going for you, these people lie and say
the economy is terrible because Trump, And then they'll go
spend a ton of money Christmas shopping and going out
to eat at fancy restaurants and blowing money in the
latest tech and whatever else. The economy's going fine for them.
(38:14):
They just think that Trump is the worst, and so
therefore they're going to lie and say that the economy's bad.
I don't disagree that he's not going to get a
fair shake. But the Republicans and the Republican orthodoxy will
credit and be and benefit from a better economy. The
thing about the stock market, Scott and a lot of
us are in it. A lot of us are not.
Speaker 3 (38:32):
Six out of ten Americans are not in the stock market.
They have nothing. They have no four oh one K,
no Ira, no five twenty nine plan, nothing. I mean
they stuff it in the in their mattress they don't
have any or they put it in a past book
savings account. The truth of the matter is the stock
market is not a good indicator of where the economy is.
It's a good indicator of where your fourah one K
(38:53):
plan is. But right now, essentially the stock market is
hanging on five stocks, okay, one of which Oracle, one
of which is Navidi. It's an AI driven market. Right now,
the government is spending three hundred and eight billion dollars
on chips, and private investment in AI is six hundred
and eighty billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
Which leads me to what Bernie Sanders said yesterday, Tommy
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, he said yesterday me, well, he is,
he said he is a communist. He says he wants
to regulate AI and he wants to hit the brakes
on any new AI data centers, these massive facilities that
(39:31):
power systems like chat, GPT and allow your kids and
grandkids to do their homework. Uh, Bernie Bert Yes, Bernie
Sanders says, we need to stop all of this stuff. Now,
there might be some legitimacy in some of this, like
do we have the energy grid to support some stuff?
What happens if all these jobs are eliminated? That's fine,
(39:52):
But coming from Bernie Sanders, Senator, I would like for
you to explain AI to me. Hell from you all,
even take an explanation or some semblance of eye from
Bernie Sanders, some level of intelligence for once from Bernie Sanders.
So I'm not sure that I'm gonna believe Bernie Sanders,
(40:13):
who doesn't understand anything about any of this, talking about
do we need to shut down any new AI.
Speaker 3 (40:19):
Downs well, I think he understands things. He's just politically
ideologically opposed to them. He knows what a data center
is and he knows what it does. I agree with
Bernie to this extent. Data centers don't help the local economy.
They don't employ very many people. They take a lot
of land out of production, if it was farmland. They
take a tremendous amount of energy energy that we really
(40:43):
don't have the capacity to replace, especially with an ongoing
green movement in this country to eliminate fossil fuels. Now
that's been slowed down by the Trump administration, but it's
still there. I say, sure, you bet. You can build
a data center here. We have them in Sarpeye County.
Ask Sarpy County residents. What are they doing for you
except using a lot of energy. You can build one,
(41:05):
but you have to have your own power source because
it'll employ no people. There are very, very very few employees. Now,
it's great for the guy who sold the land, it's
great for the Trenton maggot who brokeer the sale, and
it's great for the guy that built it. But after
it's built, that's it. They need to make certain they
have their own independent power source. While you're trying to
slap food out of Trenton's mouth, why A, you're trying
(41:25):
to take Trend's Trend's got lots on his plate.
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